What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[Stavros]

I have spent the last week on the Planet of the Apes box set of seven films from the original Planet of the Apes of 1968 through Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, the 2001 remake or new version of Planet of the Apes, and the most recent offer Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
Look at it this way, the box set cost me £7 and was over-priced by about £6 as the original film is at least original with a stunning ending. The rest are either poorly made tv shows similar in production values to The Love Boat, or in the case of Tim Burton's 're-make of the original', a bizarre 'future-sci-fi' with the permanently confused Mark Wahlberg and an hilarious ending at the feet of Ape Lincoln. The last one Rise of the Planet of the Apes is the best made, with the best script and acting, but reliant on the rebel as hero motif. This film is regularly shown on tv
And i don't even like monkeys, having once been bitten by one. Never again.

[blackchubby38]

And i don't even like monkeys, having once been bitten by one. Never again.

You never know what you're going to read on an internet message board. Case in point, the aforementioned statement.

[sukumvit boy]

LOL, you must be going ape shit !
Sadly ,I never saw any of them as I found the absurdity of folks running around in ape suits too distracting . Thus , I have missed all the references to "Planet of the Apes " in all my favorite cartoon shows , in which dogs who can talk and drive a Prius and babies with football shaped heads who build time machines are not absurdly distracting.
http://www.moddb.com/members/apornas...es-in-cartoons

[Stavros]

LOL, you must be going ape shit !
Sadly ,I never saw any of them as I found the absurdity of folks running around in ape suits too distracting . Thus , I have missed all the references to "Planet of the Apes " in all my favorite cartoon shows , in which dogs who can talk and drive a Prius and babies with football shaped heads who build time machines are not absurdly distracting.

I try to keep an open mind on films and if I am going to see a new release will not read any reviews beforehand. I also wanted to see if this 'franchise' had maintained the quality of the original which though dated now has a well-written script closer to the Pierre Boule novel. Unfortunately, I think the franchise film market is made up of second-rate trash, from the execrable Bond to Star Trek and Star Wars, films empty of content even story, overloaded with cartoon characters and fight scenes poached from every other fight scene ever shot. The three Bourne films work, as does Mission:Impossible, but I can't think of any others. Contrast this with the emergence on TV of the drama serial and the ones like The Wire and Game of Thrones which manage to maintain their quality year after year. Indeed, with the TV market producing such a better product, we may be seeing the end of the Marvel rubbish and to really dream the dream the end of Bond and Stars Trek and War.

[sukumvit boy]

Speaking of comics , I see that youtube has the entire movie Crumb which I enjoyed but found somewhat disturbing when it came out in 1994 . David Lynch , whose work I enjoy very much , was an associate producer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumb_(film)

[BlüeKarma]

The Big Short, parts of it were pretty good, but overall I had a hard time staying awake.

[Stavros]

Speaking of comics , I see that youtube has the entire movie Crumb which I enjoyed but found somewhat disturbing when it came out in 1994 . David Lynch , whose work I enjoy very much , was an associate producer.

My first thought was of George Crumb the composer but no relation to Robert whose work is of no interest to me. In my late teens I lived in a house where a student upstairs had a cartoon of his on the wall that would probably be illegal today. I used to have a Nonesuch album of George Crumb's works like Black Angels, and Ancient Voices of Children which Christopher Bruce choreographed for the Ballet Rambert in 1975.

[sukumvit boy]

Looking forward to watching "Rare Exports : A Christmas Tale " around the holiday.

[sukumvit boy]

Soon to be released and widely acclaimed as the best film of 2016 , the German comedy Toni Erdmann.


http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/movie...i-erdmann.html

[fred41]

Looking forward to watching "Rare Exports : A Christmas Tale " around the holiday.

I saw this quite awhile back and loved it. Think it was on Netflix, but not 100% sure anymore. A good Christmas selection sukumvit boy!