What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[DeeTillEhDeh]

No Time to Die - 5/10

It was alright - the biggest issue was the villain - Rami Malik's Safin was pretty meh.

[JustOneCornetto]

Silent Running (1972)

Hadn't seen this for years so thought it would be good to watch again especially as it seems particularly relevant in today's climate change agenda. Set far in the future Earth has become a synthetic world with no plants or vegetation. A number of greenhouse domes have been sent into orbit around Saturn to try and preserve as many plants as possible for eventual return to Earth. Bruce Dern is like an eco warrior and he has to make some big decisions to try and save the dome he's in charge of. Not a bad wee film.

7/10

Edited November 21, 2021 by JustOneCornetto

[Mark Connolly]

7 hours ago, 18May1991 said:

Ghostbusters Afterlife. Really enjoyed it. Well cast. Some decent laughs and bits that make you jump, sort of. 

I really enjoyed it. I think they got the balance of nostalgia and evolution spot on. The two scenes during the credits were class as well.

[Lofarl]

Ghostbusters Afterlife.  
 

First film I can ever mind watching as a kid at the cinema was the original.  Used to watch the VHS of it loads as a kid.  If you watched any of the trailers then you kinda knew that this was essentially just a remake of the original.  It worked for JJ Abrams with Star Wars.  And it works for this too.

It is a nostalgic blast.  Has enough classic nods and a few decent laughs.  Wished I stuck around for the second end credits scene because I left after this first one when the cast list was showing and I was thinking when was that person in it.

The end sequence is a bit cheesy and had it not been a film about ghosts then probably distasteful.  But it’s better than that other reboot probably.  The one nobody saw.

 

8/10

 

 

Edited November 21, 2021 by Lofarl

[MSU]

4 hours ago, JustOneCornetto said:

Silent Running (1972)

Hadn't seen this for years so thought it would be good to watch again especially as it seems particularly relevant in today's climate change agenda. Set far in the future Earth has become a synthetic world with no plants or vegetation. A number of greenhouse domes have been sent into orbit around Saturn to try and preserve as many plants as possible for eventual return to Earth. Bruce Dern is like an eco warrior and he has to make some big decisions to try and save the dome he's in charge of. Not a bad wee film.

7/10

Love this movie. Remember scene with the robot and the watering can breaking my heart when I was a wee boy.

[Detournement]

On 20/11/2021 at 12:12, NotThePars said:

Aye I see where you're coming from. I think it's singularly lifted by Fiennes though who is superb and has a terrific arc that's maybe one of the best for me in his movies only one that hit as hard was Murray's in Life Aquatic.

I agree with the take you've got in the second paragraph. Anderson battering this out and then I think another one very soon says to me that he reckons Disney are about to call time on him so he's getting what he wants made while he still can which sucks. He's easy to meme but he's still a good filmmaker and I'd rather a hundred of his schtick than the homogeneous flavourless committee content Disney are churning out now.

He's already making another one. It's called Asteroid City and Billy Murray is in it. The cast is supposedly even bigger than TFD so they must work for relative peanuts. In the cinema the other night I was saw Elizabeth Moss at the beginning of the film and thought Yas then she was barely in it.

I think Wes Anderson, PTA, the Coens, Malick, Spike Jonze and even Schrader will get to make whatever films they want for the rest of their lives. The problem is that there aren't many decent directors under the age of 50.

 

[jimmy boo]

The Power Of The Dog

Benedict Cumberbatch is excellent as a cattle ranch owner along with his brother in Montana in 1925. He is a complete b*****d to everyone including his brother and his brothers new woman and her son.........initially. Apart from early cars it could be set 100 years earlier and is basically a western. Wouldn't be surprised if Oscar nominations follow.........8/10. 

[MSU]

Just out of Ghostbusters Afterlife and it wasn't for me. It wasn't helped by being in an audience that didn't seem to get out of the house much and when they did, they'd never been to a movie before. There were folks literally slapping the arms of their seats with laughter. There was a wee woman in front of me who seemed to be mumbling a conversation with the characters all through the movie. I was really disappointed at how much was just lifted from the first movie and it didn't make me laugh, which even the Lady Ghostbusters was able to do a couple of times. The kids seemed to enjoy it at least a bit more than me but my step-daughter was curiously very offended at the ghostly cameo towards the end.

[BFTD]

54 minutes ago, MSU said:

It wasn't helped by being in an audience that didn't seem to get out of the house much and when they did, they'd never been to a movie before.

Since the cinemas reopened, I've been in a couple of screenings where people seemed to have forgotten how to behave in the cinema, or didn't normally go but wanted to take advantage of their freedom returning. Thankfully it seems to be evening out again, but things like talking loudly to be heard over the film and phone use was commonplace for a while.

There were a couple of women doing an excellent impression of Monty Python's Pepperpots when I went to see the Candyman reboot, until one either fell asleep or had a stroke about twenty minutes in.

 

[accies1874]

He's already making another one. It's called Asteroid City and Billy Murray is in it. The cast is supposedly even bigger than TFD so they must work for relative peanuts. In the cinema the other night I was saw Elizabeth Moss at the beginning of the film and thought Yas then she was barely in it.
I think Wes Anderson, PTA, the Coens, Malick, Spike Jonze and even Schrader will get to make whatever films they want for the rest of their lives. The problem is that there aren't many decent directors under the age of 50.
 

Last year was reassuring due to how many really good films were made by first-timers or with very few under their belt.

We're probably beyond (for now) directors having much of a pull, which is why it's still good to have someone like Christopher Nolan despite his faults, but there are still promising folk out there... until Disney gets them to do a couple of blockbusters and they're never seen again.

[Stellaboz]

Red Notice 5/10

Nothing special here, wouldn't even say Thr Rock is that good. Reynolds is great mind and the twist is unexpected but I hope they don't go for a sequel.

[Detournement]

Portrait Of A Lady On Fire

A story about an 18th century female French painter who has to paint the portrait of a young aristocrat woman who is trying to avoid being married off. A brilliant movie that deserved all the praise and awards it received. I'll need to watch it again though as I watched it on iPlayer and the quality was poor for a lot of the scenes with low lighting.

 

[Detournement]

5 hours ago, accies1874 said:

Last year was reassuring due to how many really good films were made by first-timers or with very few under their belt.

We're probably beyond (for now) directors having much of a pull, which is why it's still good to have someone like Christopher Nolan despite his faults, but there are still promising folk out there... until Disney gets them to do a couple of blockbusters and they're never seen again.

Such as?

[accies1874]

From these:

Rewatched a couple of things recently so feel I can do a proper list now.
Honourable mentions:
Spoiler

• Vivarium
• The Vast of Night
• The Invisible Man
• Horse Girl
• Make Up
• About Endlessness
• Shirley
• Blow the Man Down
• Only the Animals

Top 10:
1. The Lighthouse
2. Why Don't You Just Die
3. The Assistant
4. Parasite
5. Waves
6. Saint Maud
7. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
8. Relic
9. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
10. Clemency

The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 38, 1 previous film)

Why Don't You Just Die (Kirill Sokolov, 32, no previous)

The Assistant (Kitty Green, 37, a few previous)

Waves (Trey Edward Shults, 33, 2 previous)

Saint Maud (Rose Glass, 31, no previous)

Relic (Natalie Erika James, 32, no previous)

Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman, 42, 2 previous)

Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu, 36, 1 previous)

The Vast of Night (Andrew Patterson, 39, no previous)

The Invisible Man (Leigh Whannell, 44, 2 previous)

Horse Girl (Jeff Baena, 44, a few previous)

Make Up (Claire Oakley, 36, no previous)

Blow the Man Down (couple of c***s with no Wikipedia page)

Some/a lot/all of these won't be for everyone and at least half of the directors won't amount to anything, but it's a diverse group of films made by a load of folk under 50. And that's just last year.

[BFTD]

Detournement is a believer that all the great cinema has already been made, so you're wasting your breath here.

It's like the folk who believed The Beatles were just a fad and will be forgotten about in a few years.

[MrWorldwideJr]

To add onto the above list, obviously the Oscars aren't everything but from them this year you have.

Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell, 36, no previous)

The Father (Florian Zeller, 42, no previous)

Nomadland (Chloe Zhao, 39, 2 previous) - Won Best Picture and Best Director

Judas and the Black Messiah (Shaka King, 41, 1 previous)

Minari (Lee Isac Chung, 43, 4 previous)

Sound of Metal (Darius Marder, 47/48, 1 previous)

All directed by under 50s with generally few previous films to their name and nominated for Best Picture.

I'm also a fan of Damien Chazelle (36, La La Land, Whiplash) and Sam Levinson (36, Assasination Nation, Euphoria) who are both very early in their careers. That's just off the top of my head, I'm sure there are a few more.

 

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

13 hours ago, BFTD said:

Since the cinemas reopened, I've been in a couple of screenings where people seemed to have forgotten how to behave in the cinema, or didn't normally go but wanted to take advantage of their freedom returning. Thankfully it seems to be evening out again, but things like talking loudly to be heard over the film and phone use was commonplace for a while.

There were a couple of women doing an excellent impression of Monty Python's Pepperpots when I went to see the Candyman reboot, until one either fell asleep or had a stroke about twenty minutes in.

 

American Cinema audiences are appalling. 
 

Ghostbuster Afterlife for me was a great 2 hours of entertainment. Id really like for Paul Rudd to have a role in a sequel. Was a bit of nostalgia and a good take on modernising it all. A bit more depth to Egon too. A decent tribute to Ramis imo.

[BFTD]

17 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

American Cinema audiences are appalling. 

I used to hate our certification system when I was a kid as, for example, I got locked out of Gremlins which was apparently only suitable for people fifteen and older in the Eighties. I have more of a grudging appreciation for it now since seeing how many American morons take their very young children along to see the latest torture porn extravaganza because they didn't want to pay for a babysitter freedom.

The first twenty minutes of every single horror film at a multiplex spent listening to screaming kids having to be removed  

[Detournement]

1 hour ago, BFTD said:

Detournement is a believer that all the great cinema has already been made, so you're wasting your breath here.

It's like the folk who believed The Beatles were just a fad and will be forgotten about in a few years.

@accies1874

The answer to that would be how many of those films do you think will be remembered in a decade or two?

No one in the world thinks a film as good as La Dolce Vita or Stalker or Blue Velvet or The Shining is coming out anytime soon. It's easy to understand that symphony music or oil painting or poetry are dead forms but people get really worked up when you say the same about pop music or films or novels are past their peak. 

[BFTD]

Just now, Detournement said:

@accies1874

The answer to that would be how many of those films do you think will be remembered in a decade or two?

No one in the world thinks a film as good as La Dolce Vita or Stalker or Blue Velvet or The Shining is coming out anytime soon. It's easy to understand that symphony music or oil painting or poetry are dead forms but people get really worked up when you say the same about pop music or films or novels are past their peak. 

If that's how you experience art, I've nothing but pity for you, but nobody actually gives a shit. Presumably you get entertainment out of declaring that art is dead, so you've created your own fun.

Meanwhile, the rest of us will continue to enjoy what past, current, and future generations create.