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Last movie you watched......

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Jenny Jobs, Dec 29, 2008.

  1. britwrit

    britwrit Well-Known Member

    His new film in November is supposed to be about his childhood in Arizona. It should be interesting. Even with a screenplay by Tony Kushner, will he be able to handle a no-bells-and-whistles drama?

    I'm a couple of months late but saw the 2015 Tangerine. A tranvestite prositute gets released from jail in LA on Christmas Eve, only to find that her boyfriend/pimp cheated while they were away. She then goes on a rampage across the city to hunt down the woman he cheated with.

    Wow. Expected something dim and dreary, found it funny and touching. This is the Christmas movie we both need and deserve.
     
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  2. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. Just a great musical
     
  3. Webster

    Webster Well-Known Member

    Death on the Nile — first movie with Mrs. W since pre-pandemic. Beautifully shot and perfectly mediocre. Gal Gadot, while beyond gorgeous, is just not a very good actress.
     
  4. Tighthead

    Tighthead Well-Known Member

    Going to my local arty theatre tomorrow for a noon screening of The Last Picture Show. I pounded through about a dozen McMurty books during the pandemic so it’s nice timing.
     
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  5. jlee

    jlee Well-Known Member

    Yuuuup. What got me was just how dull it was. And 2:10 to boot.
     
  6. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Watched the last hour or so or The Crow again tonight. Decent movie. Watching it, though, it struck me how it has this weird little place in the cultural zeitgeist that far outstrips what it should have been.
    It should have been a halfway decent action flick from 1994. It was based off a relatively unknown indie comic, at a time when comic book movies were a fraction of what they are now. The effects have not aged well and you can tell they were working with a low budget. Its biggest stars are a guy who died filming it in his first starring role, and B-List icons Ernie Hudson and Tony Todd. The rest of the cast is a bunch of working actor "That Guys" including the main villain — who is quite enjoyable chewing scenery, if you can get past how a Canadian actor affecting a Texas accent somehow became the biggest crime kingpin in Detroit.

    And yet, somehow, this movie became a cult classic. It spawned a couple of sequels. The Crow facepaint is iconic. Its soundtrack is generally considered one of the best of the decade, and maybe ever. The Brandon Lee story gave it a whiff of infamy and urban legend. There's just something about it that's interesting and compelling. It's a great — and important — movie that by all rights should have been quite forgettable.
     
  7. Tighthead

    Tighthead Well-Known Member

    I’d seen chunks of the movie before, but it was great on the big screen. I would pay to watch it again today.
     
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  8. Oggiedoggie

    Oggiedoggie Well-Known Member

    In the last week we watched “The Worst Person in the World” and “The French Dispatch.”

    Worst Person is a Norwegian film about a woman who is turning 30 while trying to sort out relationship/career choice/life direction types of things. Parts of it were compelling and I forgot I was reading subtitles after a while, a good sign I’m buying into a foreign film. The lack of a clear direction in the end was an obvious reminded that it is an “art” film. It’s worth seeing if you’re looking for something a bit different.

    Wes Anderson’s French Dispatch is what I would expect from him. The sets and shots are complicated, almost dizzying. The movie is more of a collection of sketches that are pieces of a magazine’s final edition. Some of the segments were great, some confusing and some parts seemed a bit overindulgent and long. Our young adult kids had seen it before us and raved about it. We were less enthused. They thought I might be drawn to the journalistic aspects of the film, but I found the writer characters a bit insufferable.
     
  9. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    Seeing The Batman this afternoon in XD. Looking forward to an event, 3 hr movie not so much.
     
  10. mpcincal

    mpcincal Well-Known Member

    I think "Ghostbuster: Afterlife" was the most recent movie I've seen in a theater. Just today, I found out that the actor who played Warden Norton in "The Shawshank Redemption" (Bob Gunton) played the physical part of Egon's ghost in the movie.

     
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  11. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    Free Guy is exactly what I expected. It is very stupid, yet mildly amusing.
     
  12. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    Kimi was a slight but enjoyable flick.
     
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