What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Fullerene]

On 27/09/2020 at 19:35, Arch Stanton said:

North By Northwest not long finished on BBC2.

Just magnificent from start (Hitchcock not getting on the bus) to finish (the rather risque for its time train entering the tunnel) and everything inbetween from Grant, Marie Saint and Mason's tremendous acting, Hitchcock's masterful direction and Bernard Hermann';s brilliant score.

I will never tire of watching it.

Following the demise of Olivia de Havilland, Eve Marie Saint is now the oldest winner of an Oscar.

The making of this film is also interesting.  The actress who played his mother was only 7 years older.  Also when he walks through the hotel lobby Hitchcock offered no direction.  Hitchcock was questioned on this.  He replied "Cary Grant has been coming to this hotel for years.  Do you think I need to tell him how to walk through the lobby?"

[Gianfranco]

I quite enjoyed Elona Holmes. I would definitely watch a sequel.

7/10

[Gianfranco]

The Girl in the Spider’s Web is a good watch although there was a couple of things that annoyed me - not shooting a certain person and not taking a phone off another. I wished I had rewatched films 2 and 3 because I’d forgotten a lot. 7/10

 

The Gentleman was tremendous. 9/10

 

[stanton]

On 27/09/2020 at 19:35, Arch Stanton said:

North By Northwest not long finished on BBC2.

Just magnificent from start (Hitchcock not getting on the bus) to finish (the rather risque for its time train entering the tunnel) and everything inbetween from Grant, Marie Saint and Mason's tremendous acting, Hitchcock's masterful direction and Bernard Hermann';s brilliant score.

I will never tire of watching it.

Watched last last night on BBC Four , it still stands up today ., great performances all round  . I noticed a few themes and ideas that would go on to be the benchmark  of the Bond movies , the  evil henchman , femme fatale and a charismatic villain . Top class stuff  9/10 

I've downloaded Vertigo, Rear Window and The Birds gonna work my way through them 

[Arch Stanton]

18 minutes ago, stanton said:

Watched last last night on BBC Four , it still stands up today ., great performances all round  . I noticed a few themes and ideas that would go on to be the benchmark  of the Bond movies , the  evil henchman , femme fatale and a charismatic villain . Top class stuff  9/10 

I've downloaded Vertigo, Rear Window and The Birds gonna work my way through them 

Hitchcock made NBNW, Vertigo and Psycho in successive years.

All three are phenomenal.

[101]

Bombshell 7/10

Really important story but a real lack of character development which kind of let me down. Honestly can't believe they got the money to make it so for that reason alone it's worth a watch.

[Bully Wee Villa]

11 hours ago, Arch Stanton said:

Hitchcock made NBNW, Vertigo and Psycho in successive years.

All three are phenomenal.

You could make a case that those three plus The Birds, Rear Window and 39 Steps are all among the greatest films of all time. He was sum boi. A massive perverted boi, but some boi nonetheless.

Probably others I've missed, too.

Edited October 3, 2020 by Bully Wee Villa

[stanton]

John Wick 2 . Completely ridiculous but good fun , the body count is amazing. Not as good as the first film but still  worth a watch . Looks like it's gonna be a longer wait for film  number 4 due to the current circumstances 7/10 

[BFTD]

Island Zero - folk start going missing in a small, isolated New England fishing community. Hijinks ensue.

I got a loan of this because the 'The Thing meets A Quiet Place' line on the cover caught my eye. It has nothing in common with either, but is instead a no-budget creature feature which hilariously decides to eschew having creatures by making them invisible. Even then, anything involving them is hinted at and takes place off-camera to avoid any money having to be spent at all. You can almost get away with this kind of thing if the rest of the film is interesting in some way, but it's very dull and descends into some woeful cliches by the final third.

Nice poster art, though.

Edit: the 'loving homage to Stephen King'? It takes place in Maine. Literally the only thing it has in common with Stephen King. Like saying WALL-E acknowledged Alien because there's a spaceship.

Edited October 3, 2020 by BigFatTabbyDave

[Fullerene]

19 minutes ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

Island Zero - folk start going missing in a small, isolated New England fishing community. Hijinks ensue.

I got a loan of this because the 'The Thing meets A Quiet Place' line on the cover caught my eye. It has nothing in common with either, but is instead a no-budget creature feature which hilariously decides to eschew having creatures by making them invisible. Even then, anything involving them is hinted at and takes place off-camera to avoid any money having to be spent at all. You can almost get away with this kind of thing if the rest of the film is interesting in some way, but it's very dull and descends into some woeful cliches by the final third.

Nice poster art, though.

In what famous film in 1975 does the monster only get 4 minutes of screen time?

In what famous film in 1979 does the monster only get 4 minutes of screen time?

[BFTD]

The Grudge - there's this house, right, where people died, and they're jolly annoyed about the whole thing, so they take it out on anybody who visits. Woo.

This must be about the tenth film called The Grudge, when you include the original short films, the Ju-On movies, the three American remakes, and I swear there were some versions made in other countries too. It's the latest, Sam Raimi produced one that I just saw, which is a sequel to the last Sam Raimi produced film called The Grudge from about a decade ago. I'd assumed this was going to be a reboot but, no, they just decided to give the third sequel to a film the same name as the first one, just to make things nice and clear. Spiffing.

Anyway, the Japanese house from the original is apparently still causing people grief, as we see a women fleeing its horrible visions at the start. She returns home to America and the spirits follow her, setting up residence in her home because why not at this point. They're bound to be bored being stuck in the same place, and simply everyone wants to live in America given the chance, dontchano. We then see what happens to the rest of the people who inhabit the house over the following years, and it's laid out like a mystery that we should care about in some way.

However, it's easily the most uninteresting of these films, hampered greatly by the insistence that we should be intrigued by what happened to some people who we're barely introduced to, and who are very clearly going to have been killed by the ghosties that have been murdering people in roughly FIVE MILLION FILMS BY THIS POINT. It's all curiously flat in its execution too, like they were going for a more subdued, real feel, but it just makes it seem less interesting, and it was already pretty uninteresting by the time they finished The Grudge 3. Just, the absolute definition of a pointless franchise film make purely to fill a hole in the studio's bank account, with nobody giving a damn about making an entertaining movie.

[Arch Stanton]

I'm guessing Jaws and Alien.

[BFTD]

12 minutes ago, Fullerene said:

In what famous film in 1975 does the monster only get 4 minutes of screen time?

In what famous film in 1979 does the monster only get 4 minutes of screen time?

Jaws & Alien.

Edit: the film this was in relation to also does that annoying thing of referencing scenes in grown-up movies made by talented people. There's a bit where everyone's holed up in a room, barricaded against the nasties, when they hear noises that imply their defences have been breached. Everyone slowly looks down (rather than up) towards the sound, before someone exclaims, "the basement!"

Yes, we know you'd love to have made Aliens, but you're just making us wish we were watching that instead.

Edited October 3, 2020 by BigFatTabbyDave

[Fullerene]

20 hours ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

Jaws & Alien.

Edit: the film this was in relation to also does that annoying thing of referencing scenes in grown-up movies made by talented people. There's a bit where everyone's holed up in a room, barricaded against the nasties, when they hear noises that imply their defences have been breached. Everyone slowly looks down (rather than up) towards the sound, before someone exclaims, "the basement!"

Yes, we know you'd love to have made Aliens, but you're just making us wish we were watching that instead.

This reminds me of video rental shops.  Most of business was new releases while other shelves had videos sorted by category and gathering dust.  Occasionally I would try a dusty video but 9 times out of 10 I would regret it.

Alien and Predator did a great job of a convincing monster but I can think of plenty that were let down when the monster finally appears.  "It, the terror from outer space" predates "Alien".  "The thing from another world" predates "The Thing".  "The creature from the black lagoon" was better before the creature shows up.  "Revenge of the creature" is famous for the bit part of an actor more famous now.

Edited October 4, 2020 by Fullerene

[stanton]

Hang 'Em High . Clint Eastwood as a marshal on a revenge mission to catch a lynch mob who wrongly strung him up . Pretty standard stuff , looks a wee bit dated nowadays. It was the first film produced by Clints own production company . 6/10 

[Stellaboz]

Judy 7/10

Tells a little part of the life of Judy Garland and how horrific a work schedule she was forced into as a child on screen, and her struggle in later life to function in society. It's an absolute shame anyone is brought up like that and then left without any real life skills it seems.

I also watched Enola Holmes and thought it was utter dug shit for the most part. The acting was fine, the plot was weak AF. Nice to see Elle from Stranger Things again.

[BFTD]

8 hours ago, Fullerene said:

This reminds me of video rental shops.  Most of business was new releases while other shelves had videos sorted by category and gathering dust.  Occasionally I would try a dusty video but 9 times out of 10 I would regret it.

Alien and Predator did a great job of a convincing monster but I can think of plenty that were let down when the monster finally appears.  "It, the terror from outer space" predates "Alien".  "The thing from another world" predates "The Thing".  "The creature from the black lagoon" was better before the creature shows up.  "Return of the creature" is famous for the bit part of an actor more famous now.

Aye, you need money and talent if you want to show off your monster, but you can get away with just talent if you're going to hide it. Make the rest of the film interesting in some way.

It doesn't really cut it to make the creatures invisible and leave your characters kicking about waiting for something to happen!

[Hampden Diehard]

High Noon with Gary Cooper. No crazy graphics, no outrageous chase scenes or nuclear explosions. Basic, understandable story, incredible tension and a magnificent star turn from Cooper, backed by a great soundtrack. 9/10

Edited October 4, 2020 by Hampden Diehard

[Fullerene]

6 hours ago, stanton said:

Hang 'Em High . Clint Eastwood as a marshal on a revenge mission to catch a lynch mob who wrongly strung him up . Pretty standard stuff , looks a wee bit dated nowadays. It was the first film produced by Clints own production company . 6/10 

Bigger part than he had in "Revenge of the creature".  Oops sorry I thought you were replying to something I had just posted.

[NotThePars]

Aye, you need money and talent if you want to show off your monster, but you can get away with just talent if you're going to hide it. Make the rest of the film interesting in some way.
It doesn't really cut it to make the creatures invisible and leave your characters kicking about waiting for something to happen!

I watched the 2014 Godzilla movie recently and was actually quite surprised they had the budget they did and decided to show a bit of restraint with showing off the big guy. I’m unashamedly a fan of that movie though and think it got a bad rap.