What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

Trimmed a limb that was growing horizontally off of a big live oak tree in my backyard. I was just barely able to reach it with my 16 foot extension ladder. I had to put the ladder almost vertical and had just enough length to reach the limb and have about 6 inches of ladder on the limb. So up the ladder I went carrying my 12 inch DeWalt battery operated chainsaw. I was a little uneasy because this felt dangerous. Probably because it is.

Anyway that little chainsaw is a real nifty tool and it made short work of cutting off the part of the limb that extended to my right beyond where the ladder was set. But what I didn’t think of was that once that limb was relieved of the weight from the part I cut off it crept upward and that 6 inches of ladder that was being held up by the limb was now down to about 2 inches. Shit! If that limb creeps up any more there’s going to be nothing holding that ladder and it’s going to fall forward and down to the ground with me clinging to it with one arm and holding the chainsaw with the other.

So I very gingerly crept down the ladder holding a tight sphincter. As soon as I stepped off the last rung of the ladder and onto the ground I guess taking my weight off the ladder took pressure off the limb and it raised up enough so that the ladder fell and crashed to the ground. So close call but I’m OK.

Later that evening just by chance, not on purpose I decided the check out this movie “Fall”.
If you have even a normal fear of heights this one will scare the Hell out of you. I had to mute the sound in a number of places and just read the subtitles because the visuals alone were scareing the crap out of me and I just couldn’t take it along with the ominous tension building music that they had going on at the same time.

 
Trade said:
If you have even a normal fear of heights this one will scare the Hell out of you. I had to mute the sound in a number of places and just read the subtitles because the visuals alone were scaring the crap out of me and I just couldn’t take it along with the ominous tension building music that they had going on at the same time.
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Thanks for the warning. I'll steer clear.
 

Yesterday, I watched the first X-Men movie (from 2000), with boyfriend. It was okay. It's old so the special effects weren't great, but I feel now that I've been introduced to the characters and storyline so I'm looking forward to the next one.
 
I watched, Clueless (1995) starring Alicia Silverstone, because it was on TV. I enjoyed it. They say it's based upon Jane Austen's Emma.
I also watched The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, a Ben Stiller movie. THe acting was fine but the movie was very predictable. The best scenes were in the city with interaction between the actors which were more in the beginning and at the end. So The middle of the film was strange and often boring.

I tried to watch Disney/Pixar's Inside Out 2. It's well done but it was too uninteresting to me at my age. Years ago I saw the original Inside Out in theater and I enjoyed it. This sequel was more about adolescent girls so I was not into it.

I saw The Third Man with Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles. This movie is ultra boring but its touted as a classic.

The best thing I've been watching is Doc Martin on DVD. I own the first 6 series but recently I also grabbed series 7 and series 9 from the library.
One of the things that British shows were doing was making shows in beautiful locations. Death in Paradise is like that. It's a murder mystery show that takes place in the Caribbean.
 
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The 4th action movie John Wick. Estimated killing was 144 bad guys trying to kill him. Not many bullets wasted pretty accurate shooting on his part.
 
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The Third Man (1949)

Producer Alex Korda had sent British novelist Graham Greene to Vienna after WWII to conceive and write a screenplay which would capture the wantonness and treacherous times in the post war-torn city. After much research Green developed a screenplay, The Third Man, the novelization of which was published following the film’s highly popular reception.

The opening monologue over depicted scenes of the war-changed city, and how it was divided up into policing sectors by the Allies, set the dynamic expectant mood. Holly Martins, an American pulp western writer, has been invited to come to Vienna by his old friend Harry Lime, who has promised Martins a job. Unfortunately upon arrival Martins learns that Lime has been killed in a pedestrian auto accident. Martins soon suspects that there has been some foul play after inquiring about the incident with some of Lime’s associates, physician, girlfriend, and the porter where Lime resided.

Lime suddenly appears in the flesh, and eventually meets with his old friend. The truth comes out about Lime’s nefarious deadly black market schemes which had resulted in many innocent deaths. A British Major Calloway convinces Martins to help snare Lime, who has agreed to meet again with Martins and Lime’s girlfriend Anna Schmidt. On his arrival Anna warns Lime who flees to the city’s mammoth sewer system. The police lead by the Calloway and Martins chase Lime, who is ultimately shot.

This film is as close to perfection as one could imagine. Everyone involved in the production was at their finest: co-producers Alex Korda and David O. Selznik, Director Carol Reed, cinematographer Robert Krasker, musician Anton Karas, every single actor in the cast, and the phenomenal editing by Oswald Hafenrichter.

Reed had brought with him both Krasker and Hafenrichter who had worked with him on Odd Man Out, and The Fallen Idol respectively. With these men Reed captured the deepest essence of noir darkness and design, never to be outdone in film to this day. Although Reed had three crews working simultaneously (one each for night, sewer system, and day shooting), it was the impressive night framing, glistening cobblestone streets, back alleys, ubiquitous rubble, and foreboding mood that he captured so palpably.

Each actor was perfect. When David O. Selznik agreed to join as co-producer he brought along Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles to fill the roles of Holly Martins and Harry Lime, originally written as British characters. Also under contract to him was the ravishing Alida Valli, who was being promoted by Selznik as the next Ingrid Bergman. Some of Germany’s finest actors were enlisted: Paul Hoerbiger, Ernst Deutsch, Erich Ponto, and the fiesty Hedwig Bleitreu as a landlady.

It’s hard to imagine the impact of this picture without the phenomenal score by zither artist Anton Karas. In a happy accident, Reed heard Karas play at a party, and was galvanized by the sound and its relevance to the story and mood of Reed’s picture. He practically hired Karas on the spot to fashion the sole music track, and brought him to London to overdub the music during a 6 week session-- the same amount of time used for the entire Viennese shoot.

Never has a score represented the style of a film, and in this case the era of mid 20th Century Vienna, more exquisitely than did Karas’ stylings. It evokes the gamut of emotions from nostalgic, to haunting, to lively, to humorous. And its use was unique in film as being a single instrument without vocals. The only other score that comes close is David Shire’s eerie piano score for Coppola’s The Conversation.

The film includes two of the most famous scenes in movie history: Harry Lime’s electrifying first entrance into the film by suddenly shining a night time spotlight on Welles, framing him in a doorway displaying his sardonic and whimsical smile with hat askew; and possibly the most iconic ending in film history-- after Lime’s funeral, as Anna takes the long walk back to town on the autumn leaf strewn lane, she walks straight past Martins, who had been leaning on a wagon waiting to reconcile with her. Rebuffed, Martins lights a cigarette, then throws down the match in disgust. The screen goes to black.

Books and countless articles and lectures have been written about The Third Man. The British Film Institute selected it as the #1 film in their list of top 100 British films. In my view it’s one of the best films ever made.
 
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IMO, The Third Man one of the greatest films of all time. Thank you for reminding me. I have seen it dozens of times, but not for decades. I used to think of it as the Perfect Movie. I should see it again, shouldn't I? Thanks for the memory!
 
I see there's another Jurassic World movie on tap in a couple of months. One of my favorite critic remarks from maybe three or four years ago that I will never forget is, "Close the damn park, already!"
 
As noted on an earlier post I am a fan of Jane Austin. Pride & Prejudice being 1 of my 2 favorites Sense & Sensibility the other one I was thinking that it's been awhile sense I seen either one so I started searching my streaming channel. couldn't find a free S&S listed, so I pulled out my trusty backup HD and watched it from there. Still like it after many viewings, sans sub-titles. It still holds up & I thoroughly enjoyed it. 'nuff said about it.
 
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Currently binge watching Firefly, a 15 episode sci fi series that was cancelled early over 10 years ago. Many fans revolted, saying they kept moving the day and time of the series, and putting it in time slots to compete with other networks blockbusters, thereby not giving it a chance. It's a very creative series, with easy to identify with characters, as quirky as they are. I haven't watched it for years, but I'm having a lot of fun this time around, as much as I did the first three times.

After it was cancelled, they made a feature length film to tie up all the loose ends that never had a chance to be resolved.
 
JustDave said:
Currently binge watching Firefly, a 15 episode sci fi series that was cancelled early over 10 years ago. Many fans revolted, saying they kept moving the day and time of the series, and putting it in time slots to compete with other networks blockbusters, thereby not giving it a chance. It's a very creative series, with easy to identify with characters, as quirky as they are. I haven't watched it for years, but I'm having a lot of fun this time around, as much as I did the first three times.

After it was cancelled, they made a feature length film to tie up all the loose ends that never had a chance to be resolved.
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Love this series and the movie! There is a series of novels as well that continue the story, which are really good reads (or listens, in my case).
 
JustDave said:
Conclave. The ending seemed contrived, and while it was a surprise, it seemed unnecessary.
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Yes, I agree. From my review of the film:

"The story is not so much an attempt to expose or even document true legislative Vatican practices, as it is a well crafted behind the scenes thriller. There is a surprise ending that no one could see coming. In my view the twist it contained was not only unnecessary but modishly pretentious. Still, that unlikely development did not lessen the heft of the entire absorbing story that preceded it."

So the ending --in a big nod to woke-- didn't derail this substantive and highly well done picture, but it rather provided a little tarnishing at is conclusion.
 
Knight said:
The 4th action movie John Wick. Estimated killing was 144 bad guys trying to kill him. Not many bullets wasted pretty accurate shooting on his part.
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I liked the first couple of John Wick movies and I liked them. My favorite was the one where the son of the head gangster stole his car and killed his dog and he went on a revenge tour. I could relate to that. You don't steal a man's car and kill his dog. :mad:

But this #4 I had to quit in the middle of it. It was too over the top. And what was his grand finale supposed to be? After killing 144 dudes in about 5 minutes? Then his big challenge is a dule with just one dude? Gimmee a break.
 

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