Last movie you watched......

Mrs. ZZZ wanted to watch "The Dutchess", about poor, poor Georgianna Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire. Her husband treated her as little more than a brood mare. Thought it was almost as boring as The English Patient. Wanted to rent Zombie Strippers, with Jenna Jameson, but was outvoted by a majority of one.

 

I don't watch whole movies much these days if I've seen them once or twice. I watch scenes or segments and call it square.

Couple days ago watched the guards vs. juvies football scene from Sleepers. Just the one scene, which captures the evil of Kevin Bacon's guard as much as anything else does.

Watched the Carolyn Murphy breakdown scene from Liberty Heights. Still like it. the Adrien Brody thread of that movie works, in my estimation, when little else does.

Watched the last six minutes of Point Break over the holidays.

Watched almost all of Bonnie & Clyde, right until they bite it.

Watched Brando's eulogy/confession at his wife's coffin in Last Tango.

Watched five minutes of that Eddie Kovacs movie that starred Jeff Goldblum.

Watched the bank scene from Kurt Russell's Breakdown not long ago. Still good.

 

Uh, can I get a spoiler alert?

 

Butch and Sundance don't make it either.

 

Pssst ... in the Titanic, a big boat sinks and a lot of people die.

 

Agreed on The Prestige. Satisfying. Needed more Bowie, who was damn good.

Not sure how No Country, faithfully adapted from a Cormac McCarthy novel, matches previous Coen Brothers material. It's dark. People die. But whereas the Coens are rarely very serious about matters of life and death, No Country is very much so. I credit them for not dumbing it down or wrapping it in a ton of cynicism.

 

This is a terrific scene.

Black & white, vaguely similar to the hoops scene in Am. History X.

Powerful stuff.

 

just finished The Godfather III. mrs. jps hadn't seen the series, so I've now educated her. she liked the first, I think, quite a bit more than she expected. second was so-so and she's all off on how bad the ending of III is - she just hates when things don't end all happily. I think she'll decide that it was the perfect way to end the series by morning.

 

. . . and Rosebud's the sled.

That's that.

 

Just got done watching The Kingdom for the first time since I saw it in theaters.

Damn good flick that I fear too few people have seen. Great action, some really surprising deaths and a deep message that'll stick with you after the credits roll.

If you're in the mood for a decent action flick about Saudi Arabia-US relations, pick it up. You won't be disappointed.

8 of 10.

 

Secondhand Lions.

 

Great movie with a great cast.