What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

More of a retrospective review of a 1980s film most of us might know.

Red Letter Media does movie critiques. Everything from blockbusters to sub-schlock stuff you wouldn't believe is out there! But when they like something they can be very generous.

Here Macaulay Culkin is on the panel. If you haven't seen him in a while, well... here he is.

It is wild that even those near the border of Millennial and Gen X are noticing that many bright lights have been extinguished.

 

I finally got to watch Get Out (on Peacock). I am not a fan of Jordan Peel's work, based on what I've seen so far, therefore I was hesitant to take the time to watch, but it was pretty good. The very end was totally unexpected.

 

My wife had put Insomnia on our My List (Netflix) and wanted to watch it. So we did, last night. It's pretty well made, I thought. Part way into it, I realized I'd seen it before, a number of years back. But I didn't remember all partts of the story, so still found it engrossing.
 
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I've been digging up oldies. One of those is "Since You Went Away" (1944) and it is loaded with old time actors.
Though sentimental in places, "Since You Went Away" is somber at times about the effects of war on ordinary people. Some characters on the home front are dealing with grief, loneliness, or fear for the future. Wounded and disabled troops are shown in the hospital scenes.
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Don't watch many movies, but then Thursday evening after the NFL game was one sleepy step away from dreaming. And then at this Halloween time of year, it is more likely one may see old sci-fi films on free OTA channels. Since I don't have cable or streaming, turning channels, saw parts of near beginning of an extraterretrial alien creature classic, The Thing From Another World, I had not seen in decades. How often does one get to see Matt Dillon wrestling dogs? Excellent character-centric flow with lots of joking people in tight quarters, So yeah. Tubitv has still got it listed to run.

The Thing From Another World (1951)

I'm not one that tends to be too strong with fantasy and or usual horror (Freddy, Friday..., Halloween..., that just bores me as non-sense. But yeah space and sci-fi horror more so. So yeah this 1951 version story is a different less serious screenplay, even with romance, from the basic story line, wonderfully capturing how people behaved just after WWII.

I have DVD copies of just a few movies with two, Alien (1979), and John Carpenter's 1984 masterpiece, The Thing, that has my vote for the scariest movie I've ever watched and may try and scare myself some coming evening, haha. After the original release, it so thoroughly scared critics and adults, that it was not immediately commercially successful.

Try watching this 4:26 minute cut from that part of the 1984 film some evening in the dark without anyone else around with goods speakers or headphones. And then come back in here and tell everyone how intensely the special effects were in that era, well before this CGI era.
 
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A crime drama called Reptile. Benicio Del Torro plays a formerly disgraced police investigator out to solve the murder of a pretty young realtor who appears to have been murdered while showing one of her clients a home for sale. I mean, she was definitely murdered, but the detective's not sure the murderer was someone who came to see the house.

The investigator thinks maybe it was her boyfriend. Or maybe her ex-husband. Or maybe this scraggy weirdo who keeps popping up saying the pretty realtor stole his dad's farm.

But after his chief suddenly closed the case based on flimsy evidence, maybe the murderer was none of the above.
 
Maggie Moore(s) on Netflix. Jon Ham and Tina Fey. Not a comedy, though unique.
 

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