What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

Just watched "Society of the Snow", a movie about the Andes plane crash where the people survived for 2 months before being rescued. Gripping
 

“On Golden Pond”

I wish they would remake this film without the unnecessary language. I realize that Henry Fonda is playing a role of an 80 y/o man with either Dementia or Alzheimer’s. However, I wouldn’t have expected Katharine Hepburn to use so much swearing. Otherwise. It’s an excellent movie, in my opinion.

I like the older movies because they are more dramatic, the acting is better than today’s fake acting and the events that happen are realistic and not made up. There is more realism in the older movies.

I thought the best line in the movie was when Katherine Hepburn (Ethel Thayer) said to her husband, Norman, after his heart episode and while she was cradling him was when she said, “ You’re my knight in shining armor.” It was delivered perfectly and the timing was right on.
 
Last night I saw Ring, the original Japanese version of The Ring. I enjoyed it: It was seriously creepy, and no blood or gore, or even coarse language. That's just the way I like my scary movies.
 
My wife and I have been going through the Marvel movies in order since subscribing to Disney + and Hulu. The last movie we watched was "Doctor Strange : In the multiverse of madness". We have also been alternating with her picks since the Marvel movies are not always her thing. We watched a series called "Paradise" on hulu that was not too bad also.
 
Fritz said:
I just watched The Big Year.
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I bought that one. It's an excellent film. I show it to my friends and preface it with, "It's about bird watching," and they all express disbelief, like, "Do we have to watch that?" But I make them watch it, and then they understand. The end credits are really special where it names almost all the birds too fast to keep track of. There's a lot of birds.
 
Bowens said:
My wife and I have been going through the Marvel movies in order since subscribing to Disney + and Hulu. The last movie we watched was "Doctor Strange : In the multiverse of madness". We have also been alternating with her picks since the Marvel movies are not always her thing. We watched a series called "Paradise" on hulu that was not too bad also.
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Have you watched the origin film of Dr. Strange? It's my favorite in the Marvel Universe, although I may be a minority here. The Multiverse of Madness was part of a lame downward spiral Disney got on thinking every film had to be about the Multiverse, and Dr. Strange lost a lot of luster there. The premise was done to death by Disney, with little or no creativity involved.

But then followups to origin stories of superheroes seldom measure up in any case.
 
JustDave said:
Have you watched the origin film of Dr. Strange? It's my favorite in the Marvel Universe, although I may be a minority here. The Multiverse of Madness was part of a lame downward spiral Disney got on thinking every film had to be about the Multiverse, and Dr. Strange lost a lot of luster there. The premise was done to death by Disney, with little or no creativity involved.

But then followups to origin stories of superheroes seldom measure up in any case.
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Yes, I have seen the original Dr. Strange. I agree with you that the multiverse thing is getting a bit carried away. They are still throwing a good movie here and there, though. "Shang Chi and the 10 rings" was pretty good and I am looking forward to the new fantastic four movie , as well. The problem with going through them all is that you have to suffer with the duds as well as the good ones.

The 'time line police' in the loki series and "deadpool and wolverine" is about as much of a stretch as the multiverse idea, as well.

We arent watching all of the series but we are watching all of the movies. Even though I believe, like you, that much of it is in a "downward spiral", they still have a good one here and there, IMO.
 
The Trouble with Harry (1955). An Alfred Hitchcock film. Starring John Forsythe, Edmund Gwenn, Mildred Natwick, Jerry Mathers and Shirley MacLaine in her film debut. On YT. 1 hour 12 minutes.
 
ChiroDoc said:
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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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I saw that movie years later after it was released . I watched Blow Out when it was released and remember Ebert saying that De Palma based the movie entirely on the movie Blow-Up so that piqued my interest. A couple of years later I noticed in the "now showing" section of the newspaper that one of the local art movie theaters was going to show Blow -Up so I went to see it and it blew my mind. I think Blow Out is a good movie but it doesn't hold a candle to Blow-Up.
 
Bowens said:
"Shang Chi and the 10 rings" was pretty good and I am looking forward to the new fantastic four movie , as well. The problem with going through them all is that you have to suffer with the duds as well as the good ones.
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Prior to Disney taking over Marvel, there were a few dull films in the Marvel Universe like mediocre episodes in a series. I tend to not recognize them because they all contributed to the arc that terminated with End Game, if only in some minor way. I think the problem is with Disney, but it's possible that Marvel just ran it course and had nowhere else to go.

I did enjoy Shang Chi. It didn't have a Marvel feel, but it was a fun story, and The Fantastic Four held my interest. But I don't see something bigger emerging from from anything after End Game. But then I didn't see anything emerging from the early Marvel Universe films either. They just seemed like unusually interesting standalone stories. Somewhere around Guardians of the Galaxy, I started having a feeling that something bigger was coming together. But I don't see a big future for Disney in superhero films.
 
I just watched Suddenly bc someone recommended it. Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden. Small town named Suddenly where Frankie and his crew are trying to assassinate the US Prez when he gets off the train.
 

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