What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[MSU]

Went to see the five short films nominated for the Oscars. A depressing, somewhat overly worthy bunch.

019 -- On My Mind. Danish movie about a man wanting to sing a song on karaoke for the special woman in his life and prevented by a grumpy bar owner. Quite funny in spots before the premise becomes obvious. 6/10

020 -- Please Hold. Kafkaesque piece about a retail worker stopped and arrested by a police drone and dropped into a nightmarish automated jail system. Maybe the most entertaining nominee, even if it did feel like a fictionalized version of a Last Week Tonight segment. 8/10

021 -- The Dress. Polish drama about a housemaid with dwarfism at a dingy motorway hotel looking for love or, at a push, any kind of sexual encounter. Crushingly depressing stuff, although the acting is great. 6/10

022 -- The Long Goodbye. Really strange short with Riz Ahmed. I expected so much more. It's part domestic terrorism, part slam poetry with nothing much of a story that seemed to demand that we get angry about something that isn't happening, like Fox News attempts to get us angry about stuff that isn't happening. 4/10

023 -- Take and Run. Krygyzstan woman goes to the city to study and winds up being kidnapped and forced into an arranged marriage. Fairly bleak again, but I love the landscape of the country where if you're not in the city, you're in the middle of nowhere, with no chance of help, and little chance of escape. Beautifully acted as well and had something of a glimmer of hope in the end. 8/10

And then...

024 -- The Worst Person in the World. I enjoyed this at the time but the more I thought about it, the more I decided that I really loved it. Renate Reinsve is captivating as Julie, a woman who finds it hard to commit to every aspect of her life until she meets comic book writer Aksel and the pair fall in love. It's a bit Harry Met Sally where Harry isn't really asked to contribute too much and there are a few set pieces that will live long in the memory, such as when Julie meets a guy at a party and they decide to see how far they can go without cheating on each other, and a fantasy scene where the world stops. Only minor complaint is really that the timeline is a bit confusing and when it announces at the start that it's a story told in 12 chapters, it's made me a bit impatient to be an hour in and only on Chapter 5. Probably my favourite movie of the year so far. 9/10

[Theroadlesstravelled]

I thought the Batman was a decent take.

I get why they didn't want to kick off with yet another Batman/Joker effort but Paul Dano as the Riddler sucked. I guess they wanted an intense serial killer but they ended up as a speccy VL.
Jeffrey Wright and Colin Farrell were good. As was Zoe Kravitz's bod. 

The Dark Knight is still the one to beat.

[BFTD]

On 13/03/2022 at 20:31, Scotty Tunbridge said:

The BAFTAs are a load of shite. But on a side note are there really people in this world that find Rebel Wilson funny?

I thought she was one of those folk you're supposed to find funny just because they're fat.

Speaking of which, there's a film where they teamed her up with Matt Lucas. Every bit as hilarious as you'd imagine.

[LoonsYouthTeam]

I thought she was one of those folk you're supposed to find funny just because they're fat.
Speaking of which, there's a film where they teamed her up with Matt Lucas. Every bit as hilarious as you'd imagine.

Sure it's Bridesmaids, the main character lives with them for a bit and they're brother and sister.

Would've been better if Lucas had played George Dawes

[BFTD]

4 minutes ago, LoonsYouthTeam said:

Sure it's Bridesmaids, the main character lives with them for a bit and they're brother and sister.

Would've been better if Lucas had played George Dawes

Right enough; and if Rebel Wilson had played...erm...

[coprolite]

Turning Red.  By Pixar. 

Don't know if this got a cinema release but i suspect not. Teenage angst around a "tiger mom"/ daughter relationship with shapeshifting. 

It was ok but always felt a bit misconceived. The kids enjoyed it. I liked some of the retro (20 years) detail, mobile phones and boybands.  Story was average. Main character was quite well rounded but the rest were bolted on. Unusually for Pixar, it looked like shite. Plenty bits of quite good fun though. 

Six, by the skin of its teeth. 

[Paul Kersey]

Blue Jean Cop

80s video rental shop fodder starring Peter Weller and Sam Elliott as a hotshot lawyer and a tough cop who tackle corruption within NYPD. 

Plenty of sadistic violence, gratuitous tits, car chases and a couple of quite frankly ridiculous action sequences.

Corny but entertaining. Only recommended for fans of the genre.

7/10

[Detournement]

An interesting tweet regarding our ocassional are films as good as they used to be discourse.

They inarguably far, far less horny. 

 

[grumswall]

I just finished watching the new spiderman. I liked it but thought it was a little leading at times. It told you where it was going as soon as you got to strange and never really stopped with that. I had largely stayed away from spoilers for it as well. It was like most marvel films where you can switch your brain off and just enjoy. I'll watch it again but I'm not sure there's much more to see on a second viewing.

[coprolite]

14 hours ago, Detournement said:

An interesting tweet regarding our ocassional are films as good as they used to be discourse.

They inarguably far, far less horny. 

 

Surely films telling you to f**k kids should be discouraged? 

[Bully Wee Villa]

I think all that list tells you is that people can access pornography a lot easier nowadays. Imagine going to the actual cinema to see a bit of filth, surrounded by perverts. The olden days were weird.

[scottsdad]

Batman Begins (2005)

I have recently watched the 1990s movies with the kids and we move on to Christian Bale. My memory of this film was that it was underwhelming. Having re-watched it, I'm even less of a fan now. Nebulous baddies, led by Liam Neeson who must have had all of 10 minutes screen time. Hardly any humour or fun, very serious and po-faced. 

Better than the Joel Schumacher ones (that wouldn't be difficult) but underwhelming in the extreme.

[Detournement]

2 hours ago, coprolite said:

Surely films telling you to f**k kids should be discouraged? 

No Licorice Pizza is a modern classic and should win Best Picture. 

[coprolite]

1 minute ago, Detournement said:

No Licorice Pizza is a modern classic and should win Best Picture. 

I'll only watch that if they fix the spelling

[Detournement]

2 hours ago, Bully Wee Villa said:

I think all that list tells you is that people can access pornography a lot easier nowadays. Imagine going to the actual cinema to see a bit of filth, surrounded by perverts. The olden days were weird.

Only one is a an actual porno.

Last Picture Show, Klute and Last Tango In Paris are far more interested in sex than any popular film of recent years. 

[Bully Wee Villa]

I assumed Carnal Knowledge and the one with Baaad Aaaasss in the name were porn. 

Last Tango In Paris probably wouldn't get made today but that's a good thing bearing in mind the suffering inflicted on Maria Schneider by Marlon Brando.

Edited March 17, 2022 by Bully Wee Villa

[Archie McSquackle]

I think you've missed Deep Throat [emoji1]

[BFTD]

I haven't seen them in decades, but I remember Carnal Knowledge and Last Tango in Paris being shite. Important, sure, but dull and pointless out of their time.

Inclined to agree with Bully Wee that easy access to forensic examinations of every conceivable aspect of human genitalia has muted interest in softcore simulation and introspective navel-gazing about sexuality, at least for the time being. Even the vaseline-lensed erotic thriller genre died on its arse at some point in the Nineties.

Weirdly, I remember reading that, in the Seventies, Brian De Palma was convinced that hardcore sex between A-list actors would replace softcore simulations in mainstream movies. Not sure if he ever actually asked actresses like Angie Dickinson how they'd feel about becoming sex workers, nor whether he thought actors like Al Pacino would be able to perform like John Holmes, but he did try to get the Melanie Griffith flick Body Double made as a hardcore film, before the studio unsurprisingly backed out of the whole idea.

[Detournement]

16 hours ago, BFTD said:

Weirdly, I remember reading that, in the Seventies, Brian De Palma was convinced that hardcore sex between A-list actors would replace softcore simulations in mainstream movies. Not sure if he ever actually asked actresses like Angie Dickinson how they'd feel about becoming sex workers, nor whether he thought actors like Al Pacino would be able to perform like John Holmes, but he did try to get the Melanie Griffith flick Body Double made as a hardcore film, before the studio unsurprisingly backed out of the whole idea.

And what actually happened is we just got A listers own home made pornos.

Body Double is a brilliant film. 

 

[BFTD]

9 minutes ago, Detournement said:

And what actually happened is we just got A listers own home made pornos.

Body Double is a brilliant film. 

Most of De Palma's flicks are, at least, very entertaining.

I fucked up before, BTW - John Holmes was notorious for being unable to perform on set. However, when you're the size of a big floppy loofah (according to his last girlfriend), it's not a terribly pressing issue.