What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

ChiroDoc said:
I love the old screwball comedies! Lombard was a natural, and one of the best film comediennes ever. It was such a tragedy that she died in that airplane accident at only aged 33. It devastated her husband, Clark Gable. Lombard would have made many, many more films if she had lived.
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I like Myna Loy with Powell in a movie. I own 4 Thin Man movies on a dvd.

William Powell and Myrna Loy in Libeled Lady (1936)​


 

The second remake of War Of The Worlds. This time there was a government surveillance, techy spin on it. My grandson said everyone he knows who saw it said it was terrible. I found it engaging enough to finish in two days, although at first I didn't like the way it was filmed (a lot of split screen and reading texts). That technique changed a bit as the movie progressed. Note: sometimes it takes me days, even weeks to get back to a movie.

 
So, last night I was watching Apollo 13 and started looking up so info for some reason and it amazed me that I had no idea that our country had made 6 moon landings (walks). I always thought the one in 1969 was it.

  1. Apollo 11 (July 20, 1969) - First moon landing, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
  2. Apollo 12 (November 19, 1969) - Landed in the Ocean of Storms, with Pete Conrad and Alan Bean.
  3. Apollo 14 (February 5, 1971) - Landed in the Fra Mauro highlands, with Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell.
  4. Apollo 15 (July 30, 1971) - Landed near Hadley Rille, with David Scott and James Irwin.
  5. Apollo 16 (April 21, 1972) - Landed in the Descartes Highlands, with John Young and Charles Duke.
  6. Apollo 17 (December 11, 1972) - Landed in the Taurus-Littrow valley, with Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt.
 
Not a movie but a Netflix mini series called Godless and it was excellent. Never thought I would like a Western but this changed my mind.

The actress who played Lady Mary from Downton Abbey started in it. Proved herself to be a great actress tackling the change of character
 
Last night I watched a recent Youtube free to view with ads, 2 hour long movie, Cosmos, that supposedly only had a $7k budget. Although it was mostly shot with minimal sets and much dialogue, the script, science behind, and directing was well done. It also included some surprises that were slowly brought to light. The subject, was a first possible electromagnetic communication contact with an intelligent alien lifeform. Recommended.

 
I finally got back to and finished G20, which I started a couple of weeks ago. I watched it in three segments. It was engaging, plenty of action around the plot of terrorists terrorizing the G20 summit which was being held in Africa. Viola Davis was believable as a fierce, smart wife, mother and U.S. president. I wish Ramon Rodriquez's (of Will Trent) part was a little meatier. He played her personal security guard who was intensely loyal.

 
OneEyedDiva said:
I finally got back to and finished G20, which I started a couple of weeks ago. I watched it in three segments. It was engaging, plenty of action around the plot of terrorists terrorizing the G20 summit which was being held in Africa. Viola Davis was believable as a fierce, smart wife, mother and U.S. president. I wish Ramon Rodriquez's (of Will Trent) part was a little meatier. He played her personal security guard who was intensely loyal.
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Sounds interesting.
 
Most recently I watched Stranger Than Fiction and Dare To Be Wild. The first was quirky and fun the latter was especially fun for me because it involved the Chelsea Garden Show which was won by a 28 year old Irish woman in 2003. She designed a garden of wild flowers with a Celtic theme. Of course it's infused with a Hollywood style love subplot which was mostly annoying but bearable.
 
David777 said:
Last night I watched a recent Youtube free to view with ads, 2 hour long movie, Cosmos, that supposedly only had a $7k budget. Although it was mostly shot with minimal sets and much dialogue, the script, science behind, and directing was well done. It also included some surprises that were slowly brought to light. The subject, was a first possible electromagnetic communication contact with an intelligent alien lifeform. Recommended.
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Sounds like a good one. I'm reminded of another SciFi mystery, also from 2019, by first time director Andrew Patterson: The Vast of Night. His budget was way more than was Cosmos', but it was a breathtakingly fresh film made with a comparatively low budget.

If you haven't seen it, it's available here: The.Vast.of.Night.2019
 
"Tiny Shoulders" a documentary on Hulu about the Barbie Doll and "her" effect on society. Reading "Let's Call Her Barbie" by Renee Rosen for Book Club, and found this little gem. I missed out on playing with Barbie by only one year.
 
After DS raving about it, we watched The Accountant and a few days later watched The Accountant 2. It was halfway through the first one, that I remembered I’d seen it when it came out. I do like Ben Affleck.

The first one was free on NF, the second was free on Prime.
 
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Blow-up (1966)

I've probably watched Blow-up 4 or 5 times since first seeing it in 1966. I'm still as mesmerized by it's haunting atmosphere as I was in 1966. Directed by the great M. Antonioni, and starring David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, and Sarah Miles, it may have been the first counter-cultural film-- certainly one to get such very high praise and award nominations.

Antonioni crafts a moody but edgy feel that permeates the entire film. The park scenes in particular, with no dialogue, and continuous wind driven rustling of the trees, invoke such an atmospheric quality that the experience stayed with me for months after first viewing the film in 1966.

Antonioni's film is a masterpiece. He was able to create a consuming mood that few others besides Coppola's The Conversation have been able to do.

The picture came out at the perfect point in time, which reflected both the youthful "Turn on, tune in, drop out" sentiment along with a nod to the Brit swinging '60s mentality.

It portrayed a slice of time in the life of a bored existential hip photographer whose routine was briefly interrupted and heightened by his accidental discovery of an hidden murder that resulted the theft of his equipment and library, only to return him back to his unrewarding life.

It was not a murder mystery, but a very absorbing reflection on the age old questions of who are we, and why are we here. Blow-up shows its influence in dozens of films, and you can be sure it is still deeply studied in film schools.

Doc's rating: 10/10
 

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