What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[Stavros]

Men (Alex Garland, 2022)

A tree, an apple. Woman takes the forbidden fruit, bites it, all hell is let loose. Garland garlands his film with images from mythology that relate to male and female fertility, in a narrative of distress, danger and the idea that the woman seems to accept, that 'all men are the same', not least because they are Rory Kinnear, but not a judgment of the man in real life. Either this film is a confrontation with misogyny, or pretentious art house crap, with a climax derived from Hieronymous Bosch and other images of hell. It was hell to sit through and I hope I never see it again.

[Stavros]

Barbarian (Zach Cregger, 2022)

An entertaining film loaded with cliches -eg nice house, shame about the basement-, with I suspect a coincidental nudge to Parasite, and a climax that suggests The Ronnettes Be my Baby is actually rather a creepy song. But a dread-full ad for Detroit.

[Stavros]

Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, 2024)

I travelled to Birmingham to see this film, along with 10 others, 3 of whom walked out before the end. I paid £5.99 for the ticket, so I guess the cinema made at least £69.89 or c$88.13.

The decline and fall of the Roman Empire, or, the decline and fall of New Roma, aka Manhattan/New York/USA. All of the main female characters are under 30, all of the men over it. Most of the women are semi-dressed most of the time, only the two mothers in the film fully clothed and over 30. In one scene, Shi'a la Beef goes down on someone called Aubrey Plaza, whoever she is. I don't think she washed before the scene, but who knows? Adam Driver does what Adam Driver in all his films, stare into space with a blank expression in the vain hope nobody will notice, and I don't think many do. Jon Voight is a mega-rich Banker, or should that be a mega-rich W....his one time partner in a film still worth seeing, Dustin Hoffman has lines that include the words Fuck! and Shit! but I couldn't understand much else of what he had to say, which luckily is not much. Imagine, this crap goes on for over 2 hours.

The film is an embarrassment, with 85% of the dialogue unintelligible without sub-titles, the rest adolescent garbage.

The film cost Coppola at least $120 million, I suggest you save your dollars, pounds or Krone, as I guess this rubbish will turn up at 2am on a channel in California sometime in the future, right after re-runs of the Johnny Carson Show, so you can see it for free.

[MrFanti]

'Abigail'.....

[Stavros]

'Abigail'.....

And yet you don't have an opinion to share? Is it worth seeing? What's it about? I have not heard of it, so this is what I found

Abigail (2024) - IMDb

[JDunn]

Soft and Quiet , it’s a bit disturbing but it’s really well made

[Yvonne183]

Last Exit to Brooklyn. It has some scenes of depravity, of trans type people. Mostly it's a violent film with a pretty blonde sort of con artist, who reminds me of myself. Also has a union strike for you commies out there. (joke)

[Stavros]

Last Exit to Brooklyn. It has some scenes of depravity, of trans type people. Mostly it's a violent film with a pretty blonde sort of con artist, who reminds me of myself. Also has a union strike for you commies out there. (joke)

Cannot stress too much what an amazing book Hubert Selby Jr wrote, I urge you to read it if you haven't, but it is significantly more explicit that the film could be. It helped convince me I was right to judge my desires to be natural, not some weird fetish.

[Stavros]

The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, 2024)

A new twist on an old theme -how does someone in their 60s revive their lost youth? Does it end well? what do you think? From Faust through Frankenheimer's Seconds, the message stays the same. Demi Moore not in bad shape for a 62 year old, and you see most of her as this is a very body, and often ass-conscious film. It is very well made and one of the best new films I have seen this year, along with Anatomy of a Fall. I rate this 8/10 even with its predictable conclusion. Also I don't think of this as part of the 'horror' genre, as it has a biting satire to it and is never really shocking.

[Stavros]

The Empty Man (David Prior, 2020)

Buddhism meets Friday the 13th, which sounds like a contradiction in terms, and is, though the explanation might leave you feeling empty.

Filmed in South Africa, set in Bhutan and the US, October encourages cinema and tv (this was shown on Channel 4's Film 4 channel) to show 'horror' films, one of the least interesting genres along with superheroes, musicals and anything to do with vampires, zombies and Melissa McCarthy.

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