What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

Trade said:
Yesterday was my last day of my 30 day free trial of Amazon Prime and I decided not to renew it because it isn't worth what they want me to pay. So I used my last night of it to watch the original 1990 release of Tremors, which is my favorite movie of the Sci/Fi Monsters genre.
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Yeah, I remember that film as lighthearted gore. It was popular enough to begin a franchise, and worth some laughs if I remember right.
 

The 13th Floor. An early Sci Fi film about AI before AI even became a popular concept. It's about creating AI that goes beyond anyone's current idea of AI. But it's dated, because the state of the art when the film was made was 64 bit microchips on what looked like Apple II computers, but it did have a warehouse full of refrigerator sized servers or "thingamobobs," which made it seem highly technological. I always get a kick out of that in older Sci Fi films that create magificence out of Commadore computers.

But the premise was possibly the first of it's kind, the first I was aware of anyway, and a premise which sparked similar plots afterwards. It would be on my highly recommended list for Sci Fi fans.
 
I've been checking out some of the almost forgotten films in my Library. Last night I watched True Romance, one of Quentin Tarantino's earlier films, so of course, it's more violent gore than romance, but it has a host of big names. It's the first time I ever saw Brad Pitt, before anyone or myself ever heard of Brad Pitt, and it's a very small part. He's probably in the film for less than 4 minutes total. Was it his first role in a film? I don't know.
 

JustDave said:
I've been checking out some of the almost forgotten films in my Library. Last night I watched True Romance, one of Quentin Tarantino's earlier films, so of course, it's more violent gore than romance, but it has a host of big names. It's the first time I ever saw Brad Pitt, before anyone or myself ever heard of Brad Pitt, and it's a very small part. He's probably in the film for less than 4 minutes total. Was it his first role in a film? I don't know.
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Yeah, I think Tarantino has a violence fetish. Great director, but his penchant for gore has kept me away from several of his films that I'm sure were very good, but didn't want to fade the gross violence.

I was leery of seeing Once Upon a Time in Hollywood for that reason. But I knew so much about that particular era, having lived in Hollwyood at the time, that I saw it anyway. I was very pleasantly surprised, and very much enjoyed the film. There was almost no gore except at the end, which was treated as comedy.
 
JustDave said:
I've been checking out some of the almost forgotten films in my Library. Last night I watched True Romance, one of Quentin Tarantino's earlier films, so of course, it's more violent gore than romance, but it has a host of big names. It's the first time I ever saw Brad Pitt, before anyone or myself ever heard of Brad Pitt, and it's a very small part. He's probably in the film for less than 4 minutes total. Was it his first role in a film? I don't know.
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I think he was in Thelma & Louise? Did that come first?
 
ChiroDoc said:
Yeah, I think Tarantino has a violence fetish. Great director, but his penchant for gore has kept me away from several of his films that I'm sure were very good, but didn't want to fade the gross violence.

I was leery of seeing Once Upon a Time in Hollywood for that reason. But I knew so much about that particular era, having lived in Hollwyood at the time, that I saw it anyway. I was very pleasantly surprised, and very much enjoyed the film. There was almost no gore except at the end, which was treated as comedy.
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I went to Once Upon a Time based on reviews. None of the reviews reveled the ending. I had no idea what I was watching until it came together toward the end. It was the same stunt Tarantino used in Inglorious Bastards. He changes well documented history, just to make it a more fun story. That's one of things I like about the guy. He refuses to follow proven protocols for movie making, and he gets away with it.
 
I have watched movies with Diane Keaton I had never seen. It is fascinating to watch her age and change as she plays her different roles. She always has this way of drawing ones attention, I think by her being so "crazy". :) Even when she was older that part of her remained a very attractive trait.
 
Someone recommended the movie “Retribution,” so I watched it last night on Roku also. I am a Liam Neeson fan and he didn’t disappoint in this movie. It was very good, except I thought it had an anticlimactic ending.
 
I watched "I Trapped the Devil" the other night, thinking "Gee, this sounds a lot like the Twilight Zone episode 'The Howling Man,'" and turns out it is a reinterpretation of that episode.

It was all right. I found it dark (literally, not a lot of lighting), and the pace was rather slow. I liked "The Howling Man" better.
 
I watched "The Gorge" last night.

I loved it! But how could I not when it was starring two of my favorite actors, Miles Teller and Anya Taylor Joy (Queen's Gambit)?

I even bit the bullet and signed up for 7 free days of Apple TV so I could stream it. I'll probably watch it again before my free time is up, but I won't renew it. What I fould out is that even with a $12.99 a month subscription most of the decent movies on there aren't free. :mad: They have some nerve expecting people to sign up for $12.99 a month just so they can pay more again when they want to watch something.

 
Trade said:

“Now Youse Can’t Leave” ​
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This was a really good part when Sonny and his men kicked the crap out of the motorcycle riders. They shouldn’t have sprayed the bartender.

I really liked this movie, except for the ending. I didn’t like it that Sonny was killed.
 
The Dead Girl

It sounds stupid but it is not. The Dead Girl

The Dead Girl is a 2006 American drama thriller film written and directed by Karen Moncrieff, starring Brittany Murphy, Toni Collette, Rose Byrne, and Marcia Gay Harden The film was released on December 29, 2006, and has a runtime of 93 minutes It is structured into five interconnected parts, each focusing on a different woman whose life is affected by the murder of a young woman named Krista, whose body is discovered by Arden, a young woman living with her abusive mother The story explores the lives of Arden ,

Leah, a forensics student who suspects the victim is her long-missing sister , Ruth, a woman who uncovers a disturbing connection between her husband and the murder , and Melora, Krista’s mother, who seeks answers about her daughter’s troubled life The film also includes a final segment that details Krista’s final days before her death

The film features an ensemble cast including Mary Beth Hurt, Kerry Washington, James Franco, Giovanni Ribisi, Nick Searcy, Mary Steenburgen, and Piper Laurie It was produced by Lakeshore Entertainment and distributed by First Look International The Dead Girl received generally favorable reviews, with a 75% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 81 reviews and a Metacritic score of 65, indicating "generally favorable" reviews The film was nominated for several 2007 Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Feature and Best Director It had a limited theatrical release in the United States, grossing $19,875 domestically and $885,416 internationally, for a worldwide total of $905,291

The film should not be confused with Deadgirl, a 2008 horror film about a teenage boy discovering a naked, undead woman in an abandoned asylum, which is a separate and distinct work

 
The 1954 all Japanese version. Not the American version that came 2 years later.
This is the 2nd time I saw the Japanese version. In the film a minor female character said, "I barely escaped the atomic bomb in Nagasaki".
I didn't realize what the underlying message of the movie was until read about it recently.
Godzilla (1954 film) - Wikipedia

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