What is The Last Movie You Watched?

Passengers (Morten Tyldum, 2016)
I went to see this expecting the worst, but it was not as bad as some reviews have suggested. Don't go expecting a profound experience. There is a problem with the story which mixes a pioneer theme with a rescue mission, and has a moral problem which the rescue sort of resolves, whereas in The Guardian a few days ago the film was accused of justifying stalking. Jennifer Lawrence is hardly pushed to the limit of her abilities and as usual looks good dressed or undressed, but so too does this film, with one of cinema's best spaceships in Avalon. Yes there are plot holes and some silliness, but it is Christmas and the film entertains for a couple of hours.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1355644/

Victoria (Sebastian Schipper, 2015)
This film, shot in one take over just over two hours in Berlin, tells the story of a Spanish woman who meets some guys being thrown out of a club between 4-5am and gets involved in their adventure, climaxing around 6.30am. She emerges at the end as a paid up member of the 'self-preservation society' though one does wonder at times if her behaviour was so reckless she ought not have survived at all. A bravura piece of film-making, but disappointing that crime seems to be the driver of this drama, not least because it leads to some of the least convincing scenes in the film. Nevertheless, worth watching.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4226388/

Adangamaan.

The English actor John Hurt has died at the age of 77. He appeared in some notable films, such as The Elephant Man, the first of the Alien series, and was a regular on TV in the UK for many years. An actor of great sensitivity often portraying, when younger, vulnerable characters as he grew older he graduated to more senior, often world-weary establishment types associated with government. In his early career he stood out in A Man for All Seasons as the ambitious lawyer Richard Rich who, in this scene, advised by Sir Thomas More to teach rather than seek a position at court, uses his resentment to smear More's reputation and play a role in his eventual execution. He made some crap films, as do most actors, but at his best he could give a film depth through his skills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3-e7mtDcAs

Westworld (Michael Crichton, 1973)
I don't recall seeing this when it was released, and have not seen the TV series so I thought I would begin with the original. Although quite interesting the film has no depth, a poor script, some poor acting, and a low budget that makes it all rather flat and lacking the sensational drama the plot seems to demand. I can't imagine the TV series being better, but it can hardly be worse- can it?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070909/

Manchester By The Sea
The sad story of a man whose understandable inability to forgive himself inhibits his ability to help and relate to others - and his one an incremental step toward progress. Depressing, but well written, with incredible performances.

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Manchester By The Sea
The sad story of a man whose understandable inability to forgive himself inhibits his ability to help and relate to others - and his one an incremental step toward progress. Depressing, but well written, with incredible performances.

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I would like to see this film but it is not on general release in the UK I will have to travel to a large city to see it, and that is no guarantee.

Logan's Run (Michael Anderson, 1976)
Set in the year 2274 when people cannot live beyond the age of 30 (in the original book, which I have not read, it is 21), the film exploits the 'little man against the system' in the form of a 'Sandman' who hunts and kills 'runners' who want to live beyond 30. One Sandman questions the system after meeting a young woman and together they escape from the 'Dome' in which they live to discover a living world outside -Washington DC in ruins- and an old man living in Congress -they return to the Dome to destroy it and liberate the people from an early death. This occasionally good looking film has a terrible script, terrible acting and thus resembles an episode of Star Trek or Dr Who. Whether or not a remake is justified I can't say, but I can't see any point to it either.

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Logan's Run (Michael Anderson, 1976)...
This occasionally good looking film has a terrible script, terrible acting and thus resembles an episode of Star Trek or Dr Who.

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The point is that is has Jenny Agutter in it and is therefore a good film. End of ... ;)

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The point is that is has Jenny Agutter in it and is therefore a good film. End of ... ;)

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An actress of stunning mediocrity.

Apocalypto (Mel Gibson, 2006)
This film aired on tv a week or so ago. I had not seen it before as I do not intentionally purchase anything by Gibson, and was going to turn it off and go to bed but decided to see it through to the end. Gibson's reputation for ignoring, or distorting history can be found in Braveheart, and also in this truly dismal film which makes some claim to concern the Mayan civilization in decline and the self-inflicted violence that tore it apart. The truth, of course, lies elsewhere, and is not helped by Gibson appearing to confuse Mayan and Aztec rituals, quite apart from the basic premise devaluing the Mayan people he presents as head-chopping lunatics. According to imdb, the budget for the film was $40m, money that could have been better spent on the relief of the poor. In addition to the imdb link there is a powerful critique of the film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472043/

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1217-24.htm

GET OUT
Gave me new respect for the T.S. motherfuckin' A.

I'm halfway through Captain Phillips, Tom Hanks plays a sailor who's ship is taken over by Somali pirates, really intense stuff! I'll be watching the rest tonight.

Bad Santa 2.
Christina Hendricks. wow!

War On Everyone
A violent, crude, over the top, excellent movie!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3708886/?ref_=nv_sr_1

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War On Everyone
A violent, crude, over the top, excellent movie!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3708886/?ref_=nv_sr_1

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Nearly forgot, Derrick Barry makes an appearance, too.
Wasn't expecting that!

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Nearly forgot, Derrick Barry makes an appearance, too.
Wasn't expecting that!

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will have to watch that...for me usually, Michael Pena makes even a bad movie better.

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will have to watch that...for me usually, Michael Pena makes even a bad movie better.

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Him and Alexander Skarsgard work well together.
I enjoyed it.

The Three Muskateers (newest version)...I fell asleep about 2/3 through...lol.
Not a movie but I will be binging Iron Fist tonight....Marvel/Netflix REALLY knows how to put good shows together.

I, Daniel Blake.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5168192/?ref_=nv_sr_2

I don't know what to say about this.
I've never really been a fan of Ken Loach films, and this one has its faults.
But if its intention was to leave me feeling depressed, angry, and ashamed of this country, fucking job done!

Brimstone.
Don't let this one pass you by.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1895315/

Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017)

Around halfway through this film the police chief says to K 'We are all looking for something real'.
Her name is Joshi; K when he is given a male name is Joe, and his virtual girlfriend is called Joi, I am not sure if this is coincidental or just another aspect of the lame script that lets this film down. Joe K (not in any way related to Kafka's Joseph K, surely not) is part of the Wallace generation of androids (and in no way related to the Wallace Collection in London, surely not) and spends most of the film in a kind of Odyssey though an assumption we are led to belief around half-way turns out to be a clever plot twist and the last image in this film does have an oddly touching effect. For the most this is a fabulous production, with outstanding photography and editing but cannot elevate a trivial study of family love (there is a glimpse at one point of Michelangelo's painting, The Holy Family) into something deep and meaningful though it tries very hard.

In his review of the film in The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw, who I assume saw the same film as me, wrote of a scene in which [K] is brought down over a gigantic rubbish dump in San Diego by a low-tech harpoon gun is one of the most exciting action-movie scenes imaginable -a remark I would find extraordinary if I thought Bradshaw was good at his job, but he isn't and the scene is not that awe-inspiring.

Seeing this so soon after the massacre in Las Vegas gave the film an added and welcome addition of nostalgia. The problem is that films about our dystopian future ask more questions than they answer, but as the film is set in 2049 I was inclined to ponder the long-term impact of the politics of 2017 and ask 'we were really that bad at government?' -but when you listen to what Colt .45 says about North Korea, you wonder if Blade Runner 2049 is fiction or documentary. The film can also be seen in 3D and is wrapped in heavyweight 'sound-music' to divert you from the thin script and wooden acting.

Miss Sloane (John Madden, 2016)

Is it possible to make a film about the political lobby in Washington DC that is interesting, dramatic, funny, informative -something, anything to retain the attention of the audience? On the basis of this film, the answer is no. I would go as far as to say this is one of the worst films I have seen in recent years. There is nothing to recommend and I honestly wish I had never laid eyes on this garbage and wasted over an hour of my life on it.

Scooby Doo

Some Like It Hot.
But because it was on an airplane, they cut out the pseudo-lesbian scene with Marilyn and Tony Curtis.

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Some Like It Hot.
But because it was on an airplane, they cut out the pseudo-lesbian scene with Marilyn and Tony Curtis.

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Doesn't matter where you see it, the film is an embarrassment, it is barely worth a concrete slab in a graveyard.

The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci, 2017)

Some people think films that satirize dictators are tasteless, but it may be a powerful way of stripping them of their legitimacy. Iannucci succeeds with Stalin because he has a sparkling script and an ensemble of brilliant actors who convey both the pitfalls of loyalty to a dead man and his party, and their own naked ambition. Put together in 2014 so long before President Obama was replaced with a foul-mouthed con-man, the film speaks to us because it suggests that for the remnants of Stalin's politburo politics was as much a vanity project as it was about hard political choices facing the USSR at the time. The German sociologist Max Weber developed a theory of the 'charismatic' leader as one example of political rule, but these days we have two examples of a vanity project gone badly wrong -the ten year catastrophe that fell upon Italy when Silvio Berlusconi was elected Prime Minister, and the unfolding mess in the USA where another billionaire businessman thinks he can reform the political system.
To some extent, Nikita Khrushchev (another priceless performance from Steve Buscemi) did reform the USSR, but reforms that did not guarantee his own survival, and the film does tend to underline the callous attitude to life, and the paranoia that circulated at the time, and these days may have returned with so many people afraid that public criticism of Putin will result in them covered in a blanket on the sidewalk, very dead. Although there are many factual errors in the film, it conveys well the paranoia of the times, expertly presented at the beginning of the film, and in a cameo of effervescent delight by Andrea Riseborough as Stalin's daughter.
Highly recommended.

WonderWomen. It was pretty good too.

maze runner: scorch trails - not all that good, but to be fair not really aimed at me,

Into The Wild.

I read the book years ago and liked it; the movie was very, very good. The cinematography alone was worth the two-and-a-half-hour length.

Darling. A horror film on one of the streaming services presently.

i'm a hater so you will get spoilers (do not read if you dont want spoilers. i am a hater)


beyard and me: short about 2 gay dudes. one was a civil rights actvisit; the other was just gay. things happened.

blade runner 2049: boooring.the dame i went with started making out with me about 12 minutes into the film and i reciprocated because that was moreentertaining. things happened, some people got injured, and whenever someone died they yelled "oooowwww"
if someone tells you they liked it, thats what they mean. (i.e. befriend them ASAP)h

happy death day: boring. walked out. luckily into this-

jigsaw: not really into this kinda stuff but i hate to admit it- i enjoy this stuff. it's silly and sadistic and over the top. i kind of think of it as "okay, what can you do next that's more fucked up?" kind of way. because the story is always the same. torbin bell said he'll be at the arclight randomly all weekend to meet fans if thats your thing.

dog tags: i've been hounding everyone i know all week about this film because i couldn't watch it as a kid. now i have. it's brutal. it's adults only. it's everything i never wanted to see but had to see. i won't remember the others, but i will remember this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmfmO-m4I58

Dame?...are you channeling the ghost of Frank Sinatra?
There were no spoilers...bit disappointed.
Dog Tags...I think I may have seen it already, but I'm not sure, so now I'll have to find a copy. It looks bad, but it might be 'funny as long as you're stoned Bad', type bad.

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i'm a hater so you will get spoilers (do not read if you dont want spoilers. i am a hater)

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but which of those was the last one you watched?

cabin in the woods - didn't get to finish, mate called round, we chatted, they left, i fell asleep so will finish it tomorrow.

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Originally Posted by slave2u

but which of those was the last one you watched?

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jigsaw was the last i watched. actually enjoyed it but not in the sense it's a good movie. it was just fun. and sorry i had no spoilers (i guess i'm not a hater after all- sad!).

The Imposter (Bart Layton, 2012)

I bought this in my local shop in a sale. It cost me £2. I was robbed. It is barely worth 2 pence.

Wind River...I was surprised at how good it was. Dialog was great.

Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, 2016)

I have much enjoyed earlier films by Assayas, notably Summer Hours and his series on Carlos the Jackal. This film appears to be about mediums, ghosts, self and others, while sort of straying into horror at some level. I don't know what to make of it, and will watch it again. It is a slow moving films which has some interesting moments, but a lot will depend on whether Kristen Stewart has the appeal to carry this film. I am not sure the film has as much depth or visual subtlety as I would like, but it is worth a look, and can be purchased now at a reduced price in most shops.

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Wind River...I was surprised at how good it was. Dialog was great.

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Wind River
I had been told it was good but didn't know what to expect. I thought the acting was very good, particularly Jeremy Renner's performance. It was understated at times, powerful at other times, with good dialogue but not overdone. There's was a decent bit of violence but it was necessary to the story. I am not sure how typical that is of life on a Native American reservation, but it seemed like a serious and well researched depiction.

Anyhow, the story was about the murder of a young woman on Native American reservation in Wyoming. A tracker for the Fish and Wildlife Service and a young fbi agent investigate her death. Can't give too much else away. I definitely enjoyed it.

Groundhog Day ... again.