What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[BluegrassCat]

Wrath of the Titans. It had top notch special effects and the action never slowed long enough for you to despair of the wooden acting by the lead. Still, it has Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes and Bill Nighy as gods of Olympus, chewing up their scenes with a sense of fun. British accents are appropriate here, of course, because it's the ancient world where everyone was British.

[TatianaSummer]

Back to the future lll

[BlackStang724]

Zeitgeist. Food for thought.

Alex Jones also makes some good conspiracy theory documentaries.

[Dino Velvet]

[Stavros]

Django (Corbucci, 1966).

This classic Spaghetti Western was banned in the UK until the 1990s, because of scenes of sadistic violence. The film itself, which spawned 31 sequels (!) marked a departure for the western as a primarily American genre involving cowboys and indians struggling over private property, or some moral tale involving sherriffs and outlaws. Taking Kurosawa's Yojimbo as its model, these films offer no moral high ground, the parties involved, motivated by greed or revenge are as bad as each other. Django is an ex-Union soldier in the badlands between Texas and Mexico where there is no law, and where the pall of defeat has generated some odd affiliations -the ex-Major with his band of followers who wear red masks and scarves, for example. The film brilliantly portrays a defeated society, in a landscape thick with mud and dirt and an all-but deserted town crumbling to pieces. The whores are growing old, fat and ugly and fight among themselves. The film has all the right symbols -the coffin as the repository of death, the gunfight in a cemetary with a revolver balanced on a crucifix -the violence is sadistic and gratuitous but intended to portray a social milieu with no justification other than survival. Django does indeed survive, but he is an anti-hero, unlikeable, crude, selfish. The music is as bad as the dubbing; yet you can see how the Dollars films both built on this film, and also improved it.

[Dino Velvet]

Django (Corbucci, 1966).

This classic Spaghetti Western was banned in the UK until the 1990s, because of scenes of sadistic violence. The film itself, which spawned 31 sequels (!) marked a departure for the western as a primarily American genre involving cowboys and indians struggling over private property, or some moral tale involving sherriffs and outlaws. Taking Kurosawa's Yojimbo as its model, these films offer no moral high ground, the parties involved, motivated by greed or revenge are as bad as each other. Django is an ex-Union soldier in the badlands between Texas and Mexico where there is no law, and where the pall of defeat has generated some odd affiliations -the ex-Major with his band of followers who wear red masks and scarves, for example. The film brilliantly portrays a defeated society, in a landscape thick with mud and dirt and an all-but deserted town crumbling to pieces. The whores are growing old, fat and ugly and fight among themselves. The film has all the right symbols -the coffin as the repository of death, the gunfight in a cemetary with a revolver balanced on a crucifix -the violence is sadistic and gratuitous but intended to portray a social milieu with no justification other than survival. Django does indeed survive, but he is an anti-hero, unlikeable, crude, selfish. The music is as bad as the dubbing; yet you can see how the Dollars films both built on this film, and also improved it.

Good, huh? Nice review. Check this one out. Django but not exactly Django but still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. The style and balls of The Italians.

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[Stavros]

The Great Silence (Il Grande Silenzoi, Corbucci; Nineteen Sixty-Eight)

Another western that broke the mould. The film is allegedly based on a true incident in Snow Hill, Utah, although I couldn't fnd a record of it. It pits a form of good against evil -there is a long-running conflict between Mormon immgrants from the east and a local landowner who has prevented them from settling -by resorting to crime to feed themselves, the community has become criminalised and thus a feast for bounty hunters. At the core of the film is an attempt by Utah state to impose law and order on Snow Hill; and the contest between two bounty hunters: Silence -a Mormon I assume, whose throat was cut when his parents were murdered by bounty hunters so he couldn't describe what happened; and Tigrero (sometimes Loco) who becomes his -and everyone else's, nemesis.

The strengths of the film are the dazzling snowy landscapes (filmed in the Dolomites), and the unusually harsh ending, possibly the bleakest in any kind of western. In this film, Silence may refer to Death, but would be a Christ-like figure were he not so violent himself. Apparently, the Sherriff, played by an American actor called Frank Wolff (who committed suicide sometime after the film) had a ferocious row with Klaus Kinski before the film.

The weakness is the dubbing, which was never a strong point in Italian films, but which gives it a detached feeling, so that one is alienated by sound, as well as by the nihilistic violence. It is particulary hard when Kinski's actual voice was quite different from the dubbed one.

There is a discussion of the film here:
http://www.spaghetti-western.net/ind...Silence_Review

[makeawomanofyou]

Beasts of the Southern Wild...
amazing, disturbing, and a tour de force for the first time director Zeitlan

[Prospero]

All Quiet On The Western front. The greatest anti war movie of all time. Watched in connection with research but a pleasure to see it again.

[danthepoetman]

Great one, yes. What about “Johnny got his gun”, from Dalton Trumbo, or “The Paths of Glory”, from Kubrick?