What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[sukumvit boy]

Frozen. Don't judge me.

LOL , I Love animation . Just purchased season 4 of Futurama , one of my favorites. My GF hates animation and I was surprised when she told me she loves Futurama!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama
https://wizardworld.com/wizard/futur...another-season

[Stavros]

Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016)

This aired on tv last week.
Isabelle Huppert may be one of France's finest actors, but even she cannot rescue this film from the small mountain of trash that Verhoeven has made all for himself. I understand those who argue his 'greatness' is misunderstood, because he is above all other things, a satirist, hence the 're-appraisal' of Showgirls (1995), and the claim that Starship Troopers (1997) is a satire on the Third Reich.

The problem is the truly dismal scripts, and the lack of cinematic intelligence in his films -and what seems to me to be a deeply confused idea of what both femle and make sexuality is, rather than what he wants it to be. To me his films are superficial, and wiithout interest.

[danoblue]

Ghidorah, The Three Headed-Monster from the Criterion Godzilla box set

[Torris]

Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016)

This aired on tv last week.
Isabelle Huppert may be one of France's finest actors, but even she cannot rescue this film from the small mountain of trash that Verhoeven has made all for himself. I understand those who argue his 'greatness' is misunderstood, because he is above all other things, a satirist, hence the 're-appraisal' of Showgirls (1995), and the claim that Starship Troopers (1997) is a satire on the Third Reich.

Last summer I read Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers. It played down the fascist element which is what made the movie so compelling. How easy militarism can lead to totalitarianism if the youth embrace it.

The book was more about the regimented military life and the camaraderie between soldiers.

The movie is one of my top five films of all time. Ins spite of some truly horrid acting by the two leads, Johnny Rico and Carmen

[Torris]

"Vantage Point"... Weird flick about a Presidential assassination/abduction plot.

Have you seen Warren Beatty’s Parallax View?

[Stavros]

Last summer I read Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers. It played down the fascist element which is what made the movie so compelling. How easy militarism can lead to totalitarianism if the youth embrace it.

The book was more about the regimented military life and the camaraderie between soldiers.

The movie is one of my top five films of all time. Ins spite of some truly horrid acting by the two leads, Johnny Rico and Carmen

You make fair points, but maybe this is also a 'Verhoeven' thing: there is always something wrong with his flicks? I will do him a favour and set aside some time for Starship Troopers, though it is in line after Series 2-5 of Line of Duty, and Chernobyl which I want to watch again.

[Stavros]

Have you seen Warren Beatty’s Parallax View?

One of the best conspiracy films ever made, and one that stands the test of time, and another in a long line of 70s classics. It probably needs to be seen on the big screen but let's be honest, who would have thought Warren Beatty could act so well? A pity that Pakula's films after Klute. The Parallax View and All the President's Men did not match his earlier efforts.

[Torris]

You make fair points, but maybe this is also a 'Verhoeven' thing: there is always something wrong with his flicks? I will do him a favour and set aside some time for Starship Troopers, though it is in line after Series 2-5 of Line of Duty, and Chernobyl which I want to watch again.

Verhoeven being Dutch probably really picked up on the fashion of Fascism in the movie from his family’s personal experience during WW II occupation. The casual acceptance of “service” for citizenship in the movie foreshadowed what was to come in America after 9/11

Chernobyl perhaps the best docu drama ever made.

[Chiba5]

Fire and Ice directed by Ralph Bakshi

[Stavros]

Parasite (Bong Joon Ho, 2019)

This film takes place, literally on several levels, and it is never clear who is the Parasite. It is in a way a family tragedy, the sharpest contrast being between father and son, rather than between rich and poor, in this case the cynical, world-weary father who has lived on his wits for most of his life and sees little hope for the rest of it, while his son sees opportunities and wants to take them, such as the job which he takes at the start of the film that spirals out of control. I don't see this as a masterpiece as some do, but it is defiinitely one of the better films I have seen recently, and think it is worth seeing.