What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

To day I watched Uncle Buck a favourite of mine , its become a Christmas Tv film shown every year now ,
Ive probably watched it 3 or maybe 5 times , over the years , it suits my sense of humour , never fails to make me laugh out loud .
 

HermitHogan said:
We went out to the theater to see A Complete Unknown this evening and I must say, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie... mainly because it brought be back to a time when the world was much simpler and innocent. I remember folk festivals during the '70s, and even saw one where Pete Seeger performed in a waterfront park after landing his sloop on the shore of the Hudson. So, in a way, it allowed me to experience something like that again. Sure, there are videos of many of those festivals, but you don't get the full experience of being there, which you do get in this movie.

It's much easier to get fully immersed in a movie when you watch it in on the big screen of a theater, and that's what happened. It took place at a time when young people didn't trust anyone over 30 and had no respect for authority. Looking back, it's funny, and there were several funny parts in the movie... to me, anyway. I didn't hear other people in the theater laughing.

I was thinking the movie was maybe 1-1/2 hours. I just checked and it was 2 hours and 21 minutes. The time flew by, and that's the sign of a good movie!

I don't think I'll ever watch it again, but I am going to read the book that it was based on.
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So glad you enjoyed it, HermitHogan! I remember you had low expectations, so that's probably a part of the enjoyment.
 
Saltburn, on Amazon Prime. Just finished. I got pulled into it as it started in Oxford, and I love seeing it onscreen. It began light, started to go comical, then, it got extremely dark. It was horrifying. Now I'm more depressed than when I started to watch it. I was looking for entertainment to help me through the day. Don't watch this hideous flick. Someone should have burned it before I saw it. Ugly.
 

I watched Memory with Liam Neeson. It starts with what appears to be scenes unrelated to each other, but eventually the plot emerges and makes sense. Neeson's character is an aging assassin on the verge of total senility who will kill anyone for money but draws the line at children.
Cartels were child sex traffickers but there was not enough evidence to charge the kingpin. I'll leave out the surprise ending.
 
I can't see the point in alarmist crime dramas, there is plenty of real crime to go around.

Nearly everything that's come out of Hollywood the last 8 years is drek. Even some of the redubbed schlock out of Eastern Europe is better, but the watchable stuff there is also quickly exhausted.

It's no wonder so many are turning to older media dating back to 2000 and further back to even the late 1930s.

Film and TV writing and production needs to move elsewhere. The pharaonic excesses of the coasts have eaten the entertainment industry alive there.
 
Pepper said:
Saltburn, on Amazon Prime. Just finished. I got pulled into it as it started in Oxford, and I love seeing it onscreen. It began light, started to go comical, then, it got extremely dark. It was horrifying. Now I'm more depressed than when I started to watch it. I was looking for entertainment to help me through the day. Don't watch this hideous flick. Someone should have burned it before I saw it. Ugly.
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I saw it in a theater and really enjoyed it; in fact it's on one of my streaming lists, planning to watch it again.
 
I totally agree with @dilletante, there's enough horror and crime IRL to not want to use it for "entertainment." I rarely watch anything like that unless it's clever like the Talented Mr. Ripley, or engaging, like Saltburn.
 
Pepper said:
Saltburn, on Amazon Prime. Just finished. I got pulled into it as it started in Oxford, and I love seeing it onscreen. It began light, started to go comical, then, it got extremely dark. It was horrifying. Now I'm more depressed than when I started to watch it. I was looking for entertainment to help me through the day. Don't watch this hideous flick. Someone should have burned it before I saw it. Ugly.
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I agree. I watched it a few months ago. After I finished I wished I could un-see it.
 
Speak No Evil, the 2024 version. I loved the 2022 original Danish film. After reading eviscerations of the 2024 American remake, today I went against my better instincts and watched that. I vastly prefer the original.
 
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1951 comedy - The Lavender Hill Mob
Alec Guinness Stan Holloway Sid James Alfie Bass Marjorie Fielding
A young Audrey Hepburn has a small part at the beginning playing Chiquita .
A comedy from the Earling Studios.
Such a typical British comedy. Worth a look
A bank clerk (Guinness) in charge of gold transfers concocts a scheme to steal the gold, melt and recast it into touristy Eiffel Towers.
The plan is to smuggle it to Paris then reclaim it.
 
Marcy Sheiner said:
I saw it in a theater and really enjoyed it; in fact it's on one of my streaming lists, planning to watch it again.
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Can you please tell me why? I saw an underlying class theme, which is very important in England, but wish it weren't told in that way. It's laying heavy on my heart.
 
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on Tv love the music in this , first time ive seen it on TV , I went to the Theatre and saw it played out it was marvelous acted .. I must be in my second Childhood Im likeing Peter Rabbit and Paddington films too.
 
I've been watching the documentary 'Produced by George Martin' and finished it last night during my workout. If you're interested in what he was like as a person, you'd be interested in the documentary. On Prime Video.
 
HermitHogan said:
I've been watching the documentary 'Produced by George Martin' and finished it last night during my workout. If you're interested in what he was like as a person, you'd be interested in the documentary. On Prime Video.
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Thanks for the heads-up; I wasn't aware of this documentary! I'll definitely watch. I'm currently reading his book All You Need Is Ears.
 
Pepper said:
Can you please tell me why? I saw an underlying class theme, which is very important in England, but wish it weren't told in that way. It's laying heavy on my heart.
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I think it was too long ago that I saw it; I just remember it being gripping and me feeling rapt. After I watch it again I might be able to be coherent about it.
 
The last movie I watched was Monster Island, a B movie on Tubi that I'd never heard of before. It's engaging so I watched most of it today, something I rarely do. The last movie I finished was American Fiction. Didn't care for it...fast forwarded through part of it. The end confused me.


 
dilettante said:
I'd like to see more like Broken Trail.

This trailer is rough, I'm not sure why, but the miniseries itself is widescreen and clear with beautiful cinematography:
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I'll have to re-watch this. Haven't seen it since it debuted.
Robert Duvall is one of the few actors I can think of that always did a perfect job-- from To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) to The Pale Blue Eye (2022).
 
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