What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

MaidMarian said:
I watched Psycho last night on Netflix.

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That's a phenomenal film, and it was Hitchcock's most financially successful. I think it's interesting that the first part of the movie was a great film noir, but from the shower scene on it was a horror film. It was also unique to have big star like Janet Leigh killed off early in the picture.

The shower scene was one of Hitchcock's masterpieces, and it got DP John Russell an Oscar nomination. Unfortunately that scene birthed slasher movies....ugh.

What did you think of Psycho, MaidMarian?
 

ChiroDoc said:
That's a phenomenal film, and it was Hitchcock's most financially successful. I think it's interesting that the first part of the movie was a great film noir, but from the shower scene on it was a horror film. It was also unique to have big star like Janet Leigh killed off early in the picture.

The shower scene was one of Hitchcock's masterpieces, and it got DP John Russell an Oscar nomination. Unfortunately that scene birthed slasher movies....ugh.
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Nice description and good insight.
 
Aunt Bea said:
A young Steve McQueen in The Blob from 1958.

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I remember seeing The Blob in the late 60s for fifty cents in our school auditorium as part of a Saturday morning double feature.
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It was a very clever idea, and has been imitated many times. I really liked the film when it came out. I remember thinking in the theater that nothing would ever be able to stop that blob!

It was Steve McQueen's break out film, and you could tell watching him even then that he had movie star charisma.
 
ChiroDoc said:
It was Steve McQueen's break out film, and you could tell watching him even then that he had movie star charisma.
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I like the back-story, about well-off "teens" who roam the Earth at night in their own cars.

We never had such luxury. No car, responsibilities at home, school the next day, etc. Hippies pushing dope, urban riots and demonstrations, etc. The Silent Generation had it made.
 
HermitHogan said:
Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017) on Prime Video starring Denzel Washington and Collin Farrell.
Denzel was nominated for an Academy award for his performance, and deservedly so. He was good. Some of the movie was implausible, but all in all, it was interesting and humorous at times.

6.5 on IMDB, which is about what I'd give it.
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Wow...I never heard of this movie before!
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I've been trying to watch The Blackout, but it is not holding my interest, so I'm skipping through it.
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I got through it, but it took a few days to.

I'm so cheap that even when "free with ads" I tend to get through most things to avoid feeling like I'm wasting something.

But I know the feeling. Some things are so bad or bogged down for me that I skip ahead too.
 
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin.

A documentary about a family mourning the loss of their disabled son and their sadness that he had never had the opportunity to experience so many things in life; friendships, love, adventure. And them they discover Ibelin ...

I think a fascinating story which is equally sad and inspiring. Make sure you have some tissues handy though.
 
Four years before "Night of the Living Dead" we got this zombie movie: The Horror of Party Beach!


Here the "living dead" came about through atomic radiation and replacement of body parts by sea creatures.

Remember, sodium is your friend!
 
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Runaway Jury is a 2003 American legal thriller film directed by Gary Fleder and starring John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz. An adaptation of John Grisham's 1996 novel The Runaway Jury, the film pits lawyer Wendell Rohr (Hoffman) against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch (Hackman), who uses unlawful means to stack the jury with people sympathetic to the defense. Meanwhile, a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game begins when juror Nicholas Easter (Cusack) and his girlfriend Marlee (Weisz) appear to be able to sway the jury to deliver any verdict they want in a trial against a gun manufacturer.

Paramount+


I think we saw it before, but I didn't remember any of it. :ROFLMAO:
 
ChiroDoc said:
That's a phenomenal film, and it was Hitchcock's most financially successful. I think it's interesting that the first part of the movie was a great film noir, but from the shower scene on it was a horror film. It was also unique to have big star like Janet Leigh killed off early in the picture.

The shower scene was one of Hitchcock's masterpieces, and it got DP John Russell an Oscar nomination. Unfortunately that scene birthed slasher movies....ugh.

What did you think of Psycho, MaidMarian?
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I love Psycho as I do most Hitchcock movies. I think your insight about the movie is great and I agree.
When I watched Psycho this time ( I watch it every year) I noticed that there was a lot of reference to birds . I had watched “ The Birds” the night before, so it was very noticeable to me. Norman Bates was a taxidermist. The room he brought sandwiches to Marion was full of stuffed birds. Marion’s motel room was full of pictures of birds and Norman tells Marion that she “ eats like a bird.”
What do you suppose it means? Do you suppose Hitchcock was trying to tell us something with his reference to birds in both movies?
 
JeeperDon said:
'Venom: The Last Dance' with Tom Hardy. Rotten Tomatoes gave it 30/80, but I enjoy Tom and the Venom character. I saw the first two in the series in the cinema too.
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I quit watching super hero movies a few years back because they were generally all special effects and CGI, with very little story. Still, like you, I'm a big Tom Hardy fan and also of Rhys Ifans. Is Juno Temple now in every motion picture and series??...😄

So, based on the actors I might give it a whirl.
 
I watched Judgement at Nuremberg yesterday. It was free on Tubi. It's pretty intense.

On a shallow note, William Shatner is so darn goodlooking in that movie, it's distracting.
 
MaidMarian said:
I love Psycho as I do most Hitchcock movies. I think your insight about the movie is great and I agree.
When I watched Psycho this time ( I watch it every year) I noticed that there was a lot of reference to birds . I had watched “ The Birds” the night before, so it was very noticeable to me. Norman Bates was a taxidermist. The room he brought sandwiches to Marion was full of stuffed birds. Marion’s motel room was full of pictures of birds and Norman tells Marion that she “ eats like a bird.”
What do you suppose it means? Do you suppose Hitchcock was trying to tell us something with his reference to birds in both movies?
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Interesting observation, MM. There may have been a tangential unconscious connect re the stuffed birds in Psycho, and the live birds in The Birds 3 years later. But that might be a stretch.

I get many of my insights about Hitchcock's films (and the man himself) from a superb book, Hitchcock/Truffaut, from 1983. Truffaut had interviewed Hitch at length about all his films. If you're a Hitchcock fan, you'd really like the book.

On the subject of stuffed birds in Psycho, he said the following:

"I was quite intrigued with them: they were like symbols. Obviously Perkins is interested in taxidermy since he'd filled his own mother with sawdust. But the owl, for instance, has another connotation. Owls belong to the night world. They are watchers, and this appeals to Perkins' masochism. He knows the birds and he knows that they're watching him all the time. He can see his own guilt reflected in their knowing eyes."

Plus each film was based upon separate books, so the stuffed birds/live birds circumstance was most likely coincidental.
 

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