Last movie you watched......

Loved "Ex Machina." Quite a debut for Alicia Vikander and more good work from Oscar Isaac.

Watched "Straight Outta Compton" last night and, to borrow from Ice Cube, damn that shit was dope.

 

The pacing of "Ex Machina" is fantastic for a very talkie movie. And as I alluded to above, the plot is so clean and uncluttered. It was a pretty sparse movie - almost could have been a play.

 

Couldn't agree more.

 

"The Winning Season," which is about 7 years old and stars Sam Rockwell and Emma Roberts. Mostly believable depiction of a small school girls basketball team, but it got a little outlandish in the third act. Would have been a fun team cover, anyway.

 

Pulp Fiction.

I can see why the critics loved it. At the end, it at least made sense. Didn't exactly leave me raving.

 

Saw The Nice Guys with Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling. Thought the dialogue was really good. Some funny stuff was slid in there. But a lot of the action was over the top and Gosling's drunken Laurel & Hardy riff on seeing a dead body was out of place. Funny, enjoyable but the pieces didn't quite fit.

 

Blasphemy!

For my money, it's the seminal movie for my generation, and unquestionably Tarantino's master work.

It hits all of his notes without getting too over-the-top Tarantino-ish like his later works do.

 

Saw that as well and agree with your assessment. Loved the part about the last thing you see before you die being Richard Nixon.

 

The more times I see that movie the less I like it. It has all his dialogue flourishes and clever plot turns, but there is nothing there. Reservoir Dogs has much more drama in it. Pulp Fiction just is a string of violence and good dialogue that it is well shot.

 

Yeah, picked it on Netflix because I've seen all the various references (one of the local sports talk guys opens his weekend show with the "Ezekiel" line) and because it was "one of the classics." I didn't think it was bad, just not my kind of flavor. The violence and drugs didn't offend me but it didn't add anything for me. The first 45 minutes really didn't do much for me, though I thought the Harvey Keitel "cleaner" part through the ending was pretty good. Like I said, didn't think it was bad, just realized I'm not a Tarantino guy.

 

I'm not alone in loving and recommending 'Cool Hand Luke' to any and all. You've probably already seen it.
Also check out 'Sometimes a Great Notion,' an under-appreciated movie, based on an under-appreciated novel by Ken Kesey.