What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

I watched Spiderverse 2 with an 11 year old boy. I didn't intend to, but he was delighted. Especially since he just finished becoming the 4th person who was unable to teach me how to play video games. I took that particular goal off my bucket list. It joins learning about football and getting a tan on the landfill list.
 

I'm mentioning a series again. I wonder if I should make a separate thread for series? They are like long movies.
'One Piece' on Netflix. If you liked The Umbrella Academy then you will like this. I like it so much better. Great escape about pirates.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
NYAD!
Sixty-four-year-old marathon swimmer Diana Nyad attempts to become the first person ever to swim from Cuba to Florida(110 miles)

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This is a good inspiring film with excellent acting.
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Watched it. Great performances by Foster and Bening. For me, the movie was quite gripping in the last third. I felt that the first third (maybe half) was pretty slack, and that the story could have been told with some scenes either removed or trimmed. And we'd still have understood Nyad's emotional backstory & the challenges she faced in struggling to achieve her athletic goal.
 
You’re So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah. Adam Sandler and family. They all were good. It’s more of a movie for teen girls, though it reminded us of how hard it is to be young. Yikes, to the money spent for the events; they are very rich.
 
If you can relate to small town life in the waning days of the 1950s, if you like tales of earlier pioneering times, if you like suspense, if you served in the military and carried out inexplicable tasks, if you like indie filmmaking... this one might be for you.

So many people still haven't seen this gem.

The Vast Of Night
 
Mercy Road (2023)

This movie has one character who is onscreen the whole time (driving a car). It's over-wrought, and hits you with tension from scene one. The thing is, the success of failure was always going to be down to the climax - is the pay off worth the ride? And sadly - no. It tries hard, but that ending was just meh.
 
Oppenheimer. Luckily I was able to stream it at home and didn't have to pay to see it. It wasn't what I was expecting at all. It was mostly about the politics of the time and I thought it would be more about how creating the atom bomb affected him and others in a psychological way. Also, there was a problem with people whispering at times or talking in very low voices, and then suddenly loud noises. I had to keep adjusting the volume up and down, up and down.
 

"HBO’s Albert Brooks doc lovingly sums up a comedian’s brilliant career​

Rob Reiner, his longtime friend, draws out great stories in ‘Defending My Life.’ "​

Loved this, warm & very funny and not too long.
 
Pepper said:
Where did you stream Oppenheimer @caroln
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I have a streaming service called SuperBox. It costs about $200 for the box, but after that everything is streamed at no cost. I get over 700 channels including local stations and video on demand which has thousands of movies and TV shows. Downside is that certain stations occasionally freeze for a few seconds or minutes, but not often enough to make me give it up. I love binge watching some favorite TV shows from beginning to end.
 
Watching the BBC series "Inspector Alleyn Mysteries" from the early 90's... love the WWII era clothing/cars. It's always fun watching these series b/c the British Actors cycle in and out of roles... 1/2 the enjoyment (at least for me, I know I'm strange lol) is remembering who has been in what other roles--for instance, in one episode, we had the actors and actresses from more than one J. Austen series... Look, Mr. Darcy, Lady Catharine De Bourgh, and Aunt Norris all in the same scene! hahaha.

Or Susan Fleetwood, who played refined Lady Russell so beautifully in the 1995 Persuasion... interesting to see her come tripping out of a french window, drink in hand and slightly tipsy, welcoming our protagonist in an over-the-top manner... =P

I'm s l o w l y warming up to Patrick Malahide as Inspector Alleyn. Unfortunately, the first role I saw him in was as creepy Mr. Causabon in "Middlemarch," and it's hard to separate him from that role.. ::shudder::

All in all a great watch!
 
On HBO/Crave, Full Circle. A six part mini series starring Claire Daine, Dennis Quaid, Tim Oliphant. When the wrong teenage boy is kidnapped, many things aren’t as they seemed. Well done.
 
Living, on Netflix

Exquisitely adapted from a 1952 Japanese film called Ikiru, directed by Akira Kurosawa, which was based on a novel he co-authored.

Bill Nighy plays a stodgy bureaucratic suit who rarely says more than 5 words to anyone, who's diagnosed with advanced-stage cancer and given about 6 months to live. He reflects on his 30 year career of doing nothing but clogging up people-friendly city projects with tons of red-tape, only to eventually shelve them indefinitely.

Nighy plays out his character's arc perfectly, which was no surprise. But I can't praise the adaptation and screen-writing enough.

I believe it was done by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro. The original book and film are about Japanese peasants pushed through a dizzying maze of bureaucratic civil service departments to get approval to remove a sewage-swamp and replace it with a children's playground. Ishiguro had to transform the appalling Japanese bureaucracy of a small village into the frustrating bureaucracy of 1953 British city works services in a major city (London).

Ishiguro also had to adapt a traditional Japanese funeral and saki-fueled wake into a conservative, quiet, post-WWll, totally British affair. It was perfect! And I love that he left in the time-jumps, and the way handled them.
 

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