What is The Last Movie You Watched?

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Originally Posted by josehip

those are pretty much A++ classics. I was think more like B or even C-noirs.

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I am a bit timid about listing some odd film that I really like, because people might actually go rent the thing and odds are they'll agree with the majority of people that it's a stinker. When I post music, I know at best people are just going to sample a taste. If every critic says that a movie is a B or C, I usually agree.
But yeah, when you find a little jewel nobody else knows about, that makes it special.
There's a movie called "The Thirteenth Floor" about a Mega-Computer Project that transports passengers back to a virtual 1937 Los Angeles in a super-real video game, of course, it doesn't turn out well. The black and white film medium was perfect for noir.

Darkest Hour (Joe Wright, 2017)

About half-way through this film I asked myself, what is this film about and who is it made for? We know Churchill was the greatest man of the day, he told us so himself, and there is no shortage of book after book after book that repeats his self-invented greatness. It is true that he became aware the of the threat posed by Hitler in the early 1930s as did Clement Attlee and both had accepted by the time of the Anschluss in 1938 that war was inevitable, and it is true that he made some remarkable speeches during the war.
It is also the case that Attlee supported Churchill as a replacement for Chamberlain, but did not give the speech in the Commons that opens the film, in fact Chamberlain's nemesis was on his own side, the MP Leo Amery who is remembered for the invocation to the Prime Minister at the height of the crisis in Norway (a campaign supported by Churchill) 'In the name of God, go!
Again, because Attlee had a superior war record in France Churchill was always respectful to him, which is why the remark Churchill makes of Attlee 'a sheep in sheep's clothing' has never been verified and is probably not Churchill's.

The problem with the film is that is takes place at a time when Brexit Britain is about to embark on a journey without a map and without knowing its destination. The leader who created this mess, David Cameron, has been replaced by a dull, uninspiring woman who almost lost the election she was supposed to win with a landslide.

This may not be the UK's 'darkest hour', but the film presents itself as a hymn to some mythical spirit of the plucky Brits succeeding when all is against them, and as such can be dismissed as Brexit propaganda.

The acting in the film is average, the script is decent with one brilliant line at the end from Halifax, most of the film is shot in semi-darkness, some scenes, such as that on the Underground are made up. I think it is worth 3/10 for effort. And I only saw it in the cinema because on a Monday they charge £3.99 a ticket and as the cinema was half-empty I sat in the VIP seat at the back in the middle.

For those interested in what the film gets right and wrong, there is an informative overview here-
http://www.slate.com/culture/2018/01...ag-awards.html

john wick 2 - pretty much the same as 1, but that was why i was watching it. sets up 3.

now you see me 2. just because it was there. the set pieces are elaborate and nonsense. whole film is nonsense - but to a level that makes you go whaaaat?

The Last Jedi. I loved it !

Mother! (Darren Arronofsky, 2017)

More a case of Oh Dear! rather than Auteur! But let's face it, if you want pretentious rubbish, Aronofsky is the main man. A waste of Jennifer Lawrence. Even if I were to explain the movie, it would not be worth watching. Hard to believe they spent three months in a warehouse in Brooklyn working on the 'script' if that is what it is called. Maybe they spent three months trying to work out what Aronofsky wanted to say and reached an agreement to go with what they had even though nobody knew what it was. There is a claim by some that this is a 'horror' movie but the only horrifying thing is the money it cost to make.
The homeless deserve more.

Acts of vengeance - Antonio banderas does a philosophical version of death wish, which is neither as bad or as good as that sounds.

so, just for the funsies I will post the movies I watched over the year and the rattings here. Feel free to talk shit, learn about new films that maybe you never knew about, or just call my an asshole because I hated your favorite movie, or loved a movie you hate.

(oh, and a top 5 of favorite movies seen for the first time each month in BOLD)

JANUARY

1 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Directed by Lewis Milestone 5/5
2 Call Northside 777 1948 Directed by Henry Hathaway 4/5
3 Wonderstruck 2017 Directed by Todd Haynes 5/5
4 Topper 1937 Directed by Norman Z. McLeod 4/5
5 Notting Hill 1999 Directed by Roger Michell 5/5
6 Oz: The Great and Powerful 2013 Directed by Sam Raimi 4/5
7 Take This Waltz 2011 Directed by Sarah Polley 5/5
8 Terror by Night 1946 Directed by Roy William Neill 3/5
9 Merrily We Go to Hell 1932 Directed by Dorothy Arzner 3/5
10 Dick 1999 Directed by Andrew Fleming 3/5
11 Christine 2016 Directed by Antonio Campos 5/5
12 Evil Under the Sun 1982 Directed by Guy Hamilton 3/5
13 Victor/Victoria 1982 Directed by Blake Edwards 4/5
14 Thor: Ragnarok 2017 Directed by Taika Waititi 4/5
15 That One Day 2016 Directed by Crystal Moselle 5/5
16 What We Do in the Shadows 2014 Directed by Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi 2/5
17 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 Directed by John Huston 3/5
18 The Limey 1999 Directed by Steven Soderbergh 3/5
19 Frontier Marshal 1939 Directed by Allan Dwan 3/5
20 The Girlfriend Experience 2009 Directed by Steven Soderbergh 3/5
21 The Florida Project 2017 Directed by Sean Baker 2/5
22 Hour of the Gun 1967 Directed by John Sturges 3/5

FEBRUARY
23 Lady in the Water 2006 Directed by M. Night Shyamalan 4/5

Blade Runner 2049, it was ok.

Taken 3 is 2014 english language French action thriller film directed by Olivier Megaton and written by Luc Besson and Robert

https://e3.365dm.com/18/01/1096x616/...20180129132043

first kill - bruce willis. part of that group of films where bruce is providing the star name to get the finance for the movie. not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
it is ok.

Jus watched A Fantastic Woman, a beautiful story about a transwoman in Chile.

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Originally Posted by correoelx

Jus watched A Fantastic Woman, a beautiful story about a transwoman in Chile.

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nice movie ..but hard to find in english

Dunkirk. Shit, compared to many other WWII movies.

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Originally Posted by delhiguy

nice movie ..but hard to find in english

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how about subtitles? woah

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Originally Posted by josehip

how about subtitles? woah

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yeah i see subtitles in english ..but while watching movie i should focus on enjoying it not reading subtitles...:wiggle:

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Originally Posted by delhiguy

yeah i see subtitles in english ..but while watching movie i should focus on enjoying it not reading subtitles...:wiggle:

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damn can't you do both at the same time? at some point both things turn into one. I am from brazil and I watch foreign movies with subs since I was a kid. Is something very natural over here.

The Post: Even though I knew the story, I found it tense, suspenseful and moving.

Hostiles: a story of the American west in 1892. Horrifying and monotone in its grim depiction of emotional and moral reality.

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Originally Posted by josehip

damn can't you do both at the same time? at some point both things turn into one. I am from brazil and I watch foreign movies with subs since I was a kid. Is something very natural over here.

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hahha! ..letme start trying doing both..👍

running man. pretty much of its time. love the fact that three of the stalkers are fat blokes.
despite the message - it is a very throwaway film, but still better than the last couple of arnie vehicles.

Goodfellas, an ole school martin Schorhese Mob classic !

Room (Lenny Abrahamson, 2015)

I missed this film on its release in the UK in 2016 and so watched it on tv last night. It is in almost every respect a sensitive and well-written film with an astonishing performance from Jacob Tremblay as the boy who at the age of 5 has never stepped outside the shed in which he and his mother are held captive. The film is in two parts, their life in the shed and the life outside, both of which are problematic and traumatic for both. The central weakness to me was the character of 'Old Nick' who imprisons a teenager he raped and the child she then bore. From what we know of other incarcerations, he seems to me too bland to be true, I would expect a significantly more aggressive, even violent man using the threat of violence to extract obedience as well as sexual favours. Nevertheless, this aside, the film has some well observed moments, the most poignant being the farewell to the shed at the end.

sin city - a dame to kill for.
not as slick or as polished as the original. reminds you how good the original was.
at least it is not as bad as 'the spirit'.

The Post. Excellent movie.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh 2017)

With such a fine roster of actors, it is hard to know what the purpose is of this dreary confusion of a film. The basic premise that a grieving mother has a moral purpose in renting three advertising billboards is repeatedly undermined by her actions throughout the film as far as its dud conclusion, a conclusion that is as lost as the film, which begins with a conventional drive but loses its way until it has no sense of direction at all.
Along the way all but one of the major character also finds themselves morally compromised, and in the case of the one who seeks redemption, his actual disregard for morality and the law makes his conversion irrelevant, if not hypocritical. It could be that this is just another tedious film about that 'other America' -some describe it as 'flyover' America- where even the cops have no interest in the rule of law, but if so then this film, actually filmed in North Carolina, has no real connection to the Missouri that was at the apex of the fur trapping that did so much to open up the northern area of what is now the US and Canada to trade, in the process undermining the lives of the first nations that populated the area who subsequently saw their lives ebbing away to sustained violence and greed.
The film wins awards, but is a flop as it cannot answer its own moral questions, as we never really know if the film attacks anarchy, or recommends it.

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Originally Posted by josehip

so, just for the funsies I will post the movies I watched over the year and the rattings here. Feel free to talk shit, learn about new films that maybe you never knew about, or just call my an asshole because I hated your favorite movie, or loved a movie you hate.

(oh, and a top 5 of favorite movies seen for the first time each month in BOLD)

JANUARY

1 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Directed by Lewis Milestone 5/5
2 Call Northside 777 1948 Directed by Henry Hathaway 4/5
3 Wonderstruck 2017 Directed by Todd Haynes 5/5
4 Topper 1937 Directed by Norman Z. McLeod 4/5
5 Notting Hill 1999 Directed by Roger Michell 5/5
6 Oz: The Great and Powerful 2013 Directed by Sam Raimi 4/5
7 Take This Waltz 2011 Directed by Sarah Polley 5/5
8 Terror by Night 1946 Directed by Roy William Neill 3/5
9 Merrily We Go to Hell 1932 Directed by Dorothy Arzner 3/5
10 Dick 1999 Directed by Andrew Fleming 3/5
11 Christine 2016 Directed by Antonio Campos 5/5
12 Evil Under the Sun 1982 Directed by Guy Hamilton 3/5
13 Victor/Victoria 1982 Directed by Blake Edwards 4/5
14 Thor: Ragnarok 2017 Directed by Taika Waititi 4/5
15 That One Day 2016 Directed by Crystal Moselle 5/5
16 What We Do in the Shadows 2014 Directed by Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi 2/5
17 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 Directed by John Huston 3/5
18 The Limey 1999 Directed by Steven Soderbergh 3/5
19 Frontier Marshal 1939 Directed by Allan Dwan 3/5
20 The Girlfriend Experience 2009 Directed by Steven Soderbergh 3/5
21 The Florida Project 2017 Directed by Sean Baker 2/5
22 Hour of the Gun 1967 Directed by John Sturges 3/5

FEBRUARY
23 Lady in the Water 2006 Directed by M. Night Shyamalan 4/5

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CONT: FEBRUARY
24 Wyatt Earp 1994 Directed by Lawrence Kasdan 5/5
25 ‎The Cloverfield Paradox 2018 directed by Julius Onah 4/5
26 10 Cloverfield Lane 2016 Directed by Dan Trachtenberg 4/5
27 Darkest Hour 2017 Directed by Joe Wright 3/5
28 Batman: Gotham by Gaslight 2018 Directed by Sam Liu 4/5
29 Seventeen Ninja 1963 ‘十七人の忍者’ Directed by Yasuto Hasegawa 3/5
30 The Empire of Desire 1981 ‘O Império do Desejo’ Directed by Carlos Reichenbach 5/5
31 A Frente Fria Que a Chuva Traz 2016 Directed by Neville de Almeida 5/5
32 ‘L'amant d'un jour’ 2017 Directed by Philippe Garrel 4/5
33 The Isle of Forbidden Pleasures 1979 ‘A Ilha dos Prazeres Proibidos’ Directed by Carlos Reichenbach 2/5
34 Lady Bird 2017 Directed by Greta Gerwig 2/5
35 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017 Directed by Martin McDonagh 5/5
36 Call Me by Your Name 2017 Directed by Luca Guadagnino 5/5
37 Viridiana 1961 Directed by Luis Buñuel 5/5
38 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 ‘Cet obscur objet du désir’ Directed by Luis Buñuel 5/5
39 Marie Antoinette 2006 Directed by Sofia Coppola 3/5
40 The Disaster Artist 2017 Directed by James Franco 5/5
41 ‘Le Redoutable’ 2017 Directed by Michel Hazanavicius 5/5
42 Wonder Wheel 2017 Directed by Woody Allen 2/5
43 Mechanic: Resurrection 2016 Directed by Dennis Gansel 2/5
44 The Death of Stalin 2017 Directed by Armando Iannucci 3/5
45 The Mechanic 1972 Directed by Michael Winner 3/5
46 The Mechanic 2011 Directed by Simon West 3/5
47 Mute 2018 Directed by Duncan Jones 1/5

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Originally Posted by Stavros

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh 2017)

With such a fine roster of actors, it is hard to know what the purpose is of this dreary confusion of a film. The basic premise that a grieving mother has a moral purpose in renting three advertising billboards is repeatedly undermined by her actions throughout the film as far as its dud conclusion, a conclusion that is as lost as the film, which begins with a conventional drive but loses its way until it has no sense of direction at all.
Along the way all but one of the major character also finds themselves morally compromised, and in the case of the one who seeks redemption, his actual disregard for morality and the law makes his conversion irrelevant, if not hypocritical. It could be that this is just another tedious film about that 'other America' -some describe it as 'flyover' America- where even the cops have no interest in the rule of law, but if so then this film, actually filmed in North Carolina, has no real connection to the Missouri that was at the apex of the fur trapping that did so much to open up the northern area of what is now the US and Canada to trade, in the process undermining the lives of the first nations that populated the area who subsequently saw their lives ebbing away to sustained violence and greed.
The film wins awards, but is a flop as it cannot answer its own moral questions, as we never really know if the film attacks anarchy, or recommends it.

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Frances McDormand is simply amazing, as usual. But I think you are right about the film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nefD7UOhLCo

Dunkirk

Renegades.

Okay with a beer a snacks.
I watched a lot worse.

zombisaurus - aka jurassic dead.
as good as the title suggests.

I, Tonya ... wasn't at all bad.

'the mummy' (2017) not the car crash i was led to believe it would be. some of the comedy sits awkwardly with the action, there isn't as much horror as you would expect.
it did set some ground work for the dark universe - but perhaps they should have revealed the extended universe concept after 'the mummy' had played out.
i think i would've liked a darker ending.

mr. crowe seemed to enjoy his role as henry jekyll.

Downsizing
Molly's Game
Mute

http://img.youtube.com/vi/vwEGx6_iliI/0.jpg

Outstanding

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Originally Posted by BlüeKarma

Downsizing
Molly's Game
Mute

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need to check both molly and the alexander payne flic. Mute was a huge piece of crap.

I haven’t watched it yet, but I tried like hell to find “Samurai Cat”. From what I have seen from the trailer, the movie is a must see.

don't kill it - a dolph lundgren sf/horror gorefest throwback.
not to be taken seriously and quite enjoyable in a cheesy way.

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CONT: FEBRUARY
24 Wyatt Earp 1994 Directed by Lawrence Kasdan 5/5
25 ‎The Cloverfield Paradox 2018 directed by Julius Onah 4/5
26 10 Cloverfield Lane 2016 Directed by Dan Trachtenberg 4/5
27 Darkest Hour 2017 Directed by Joe Wright 3/5
28 Batman: Gotham by Gaslight 2018 Directed by Sam Liu 4/5
29 Seventeen Ninja 1963 ‘十七人の忍者’ Directed by Yasuto Hasegawa 3/5
30 The Empire of Desire 1981 ‘O Império do Desejo’ Directed by Carlos Reichenbach 5/5
31 A Frente Fria Que a Chuva Traz 2016 Directed by Neville de Almeida 5/5
32 ‘L'amant d'un jour’ 2017 Directed by Philippe Garrel 4/5
33 The Isle of Forbidden Pleasures 1979 ‘A Ilha dos Prazeres Proibidos’ Directed by Carlos Reichenbach 2/5
34 Lady Bird 2017 Directed by Greta Gerwig 2/5
35 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017 Directed by Martin McDonagh 5/5
36 Call Me by Your Name 2017 Directed by Luca Guadagnino 5/5
37 Viridiana 1961 Directed by Luis Buñuel 5/5
38 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 ‘Cet obscur objet du désir’ Directed by Luis Buñuel 5/5
39 Marie Antoinette 2006 Directed by Sofia Coppola 3/5
40 The Disaster Artist 2017 Directed by James Franco 5/5
41 ‘Le Redoutable’ 2017 Directed by Michel Hazanavicius 5/5
42 Wonder Wheel 2017 Directed by Woody Allen 2/5
43 Mechanic: Resurrection 2016 Directed by Dennis Gansel 2/5
44 The Death of Stalin 2017 Directed by Armando Iannucci 3/5
45 The Mechanic 1972 Directed by Michael Winner 3/5
46 The Mechanic 2011 Directed by Simon West 3/5
47 Mute 2018 Directed by Duncan Jones 1/5

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cont:
48 The Shape of Water 2017 Directed by Guillermo del Toro 5/5
49 The Square 2017 Directed by Ruben Östlund 5/5
MARCH
50 Assassins 1995 Directed by Richard Donner 4/5
51 Hellboy 2004 Directed by Guillermo del Toro 4/5

kill command - a decent sf actoiner with the message of ai is bad for us.

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48 The Shape of Water 2017 Directed by Guillermo del Toro 5/5
49 The Square 2017 Directed by Ruben Östlund 5/5
MARCH
50 Assassins 1995 Directed by Richard Donner 4/5
51 Hellboy 2004 Directed by Guillermo del Toro 4/5

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cont
52 Hellboy Golden Army 2008 Directed by Guillermo del Toro 4/5
53 Blade 1998 Directed by Stephen Norrington 4/5