Last Movie you Watched?

Blunt Instrument wrote:

Amazed you'd never seen Jaws until now Hilly, but glad you enjoyed it. Cracking movie. :)

I know it's shocking really :) Measure of the film perhaps that despite all the 'spoilers' I can enjoy it that much. Helps I'm a Schieder fan a little.

Fair few other 'big' movies I've never seen.

Curiously, I did read the novel Jaws ages ago.

Flammen & Citronen aka Flame and Citron (2008)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0920458/

4.5/5

a riveting story about the Denmark resistance in World War 2 and how you can't trust anyone in wartime, even your closest friends!!

This is only the 2nd film I've seen Mads Mikkelsen in, the first one being Casino Royale.

What else has he done that's worth watching?

Jaws is the very first Summer Blockbuster

Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089208/

fun 80s movie with a 19 year old Sarah Jessica Parker, a 20 year old Helen Hunt, a 13 year old Shannen Doherty and if you watch it carefully, you will see cameo appearances by 19 year old Robert Downey Jr. (who was dating Sarah at the time in real life) and 22 year old Gina Gershon

The High and the Mighty

the unintentional precursor to Airport but also Airplane. The sheer amount in this film that could be seen paraodied in Airplane, particularly the way Robert Stack acts at the yoke...virtually how Robert Hays did his scthick in Airplane. Like Airport, and thusly Airplane, everyone's got some story not all have problems but it'd be pretty dull if not. Stack's haunted by doing all these journeys, John Wayne by a crash in South America, divorces, newlyweds, frauds, foreigners seeking a new life etc, etc.
Good to see amongst this band, Paul Fix who I fear I registered more for his Dr Piper in the second Trek pilot than most things (got a jolt checking IMDB and seeing he did BSG78, so there). William Campbell quite predominant and Robert Newton in form.
John Wayne feels absent for this movie, he's by and large not on camera much for the first hour until disaster strikes and something doesn't feel right. He reckoned after he didn't give a good performance and maybe that's the case.
Above and beyond is Dimitri Tiomkin's score. The theme itself is something special.

j7wild wrote:

Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089208/

fun 80s movie with a 19 year old Sarah Jessica Parker, a 20 year old Helen Hunt, a 13 year old Shannen Doherty and if you watch it carefully, you will see cameo appearances by 19 year old Robert Downey Jr. (who was dating Sarah at the time in real life) and 22 year old Gina Gershon

Get 'em when they're young and dumb. That's what I say.

Ride the High Country (1962)

It'd been a few years. An unassuming, satisfying, thematically-rich film that I'd say is just about the nexus of old and new in the Western genre.

127 Hours - liked it on a television viewing just as much as when I saw it in the cinema last year. Brillliant peformance from James Franco, and an ultimately uplifting testimony to the spirit of survival.

bondfan06 wrote:

The American [snip] This is an exercise in mood, atmosphere, and tone.

They're very underrated ingredients. Structure and plot can be important, but they're not essential to a great film.

The arts I value have some emotional resonance. There's more genuine violence in Vertigo than there is in any Tarantino film.

The Remains of the Day

The portrayal of Stevens is done very well. Hopkins is spot-on for the whole running time. His performance as well as the writing, particularly concerning this caracter, are pleasingly subtle. This is also true of the humour (involving the banter with Miss Kenton, e. g. about the Chinese). Stevens' incredible restraint, loyalty and dutifulness are shown so well and delicately, yet intensely, it is aching.
This is a true romance, a sad one, but believably told, unlike the shit I had to endure last year (by the French guy, that horribly overrated film, ya know).
I remember watching HOWARD'S END after it back in the 90s, but I found that one to be rather mediocre. But REMAINS I really like.


The Seventh Seal

First Bergman, and I very much enjoyed it. The big questions of life approached in formidable ways and great pics.
Reminded me a bit of Kurosawa in places; must have something to do with the humour.
A closer look will reveal more of the film. I might watch it again rather soon.

Fright Night 2011.

Awful remake, 1985 version was much better. You'd think they'd improve on it after 26 years.

Wrong Turn 4.

Another load of shit.

The Deer Hunter (1978)

Hmmmm. It certainly abounds with life, but it lost me half way through.

Best Picture count: 61/83

I have this compulsion to see every Best Picture winner before the Oscars and I can't wait to finish. I genuinely like maybe a dozen at most of these "Best" Pictures. Maybe I'll get back to watching OLIVER!. I'm watching it in segments because it's one of the most agonizing movies I've ever seen. I'd seen much of it as a child. Wish I knew if I saw the whole thing so I could tick it off my list. In a year that saw 2001, THE LION IN WINTER, and ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (released in '69 in the US...), this wretched thing takes the little naked gold man.

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

5/5

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050212/

It's easy to see why this film won Best Picture in 1958.

Just like the final dialogue at the end of the film, there is only one word to describe this movie: MADNESS!

Definitely a study of Human character when faced with captivity and freedom in War, the line between right and wrong, honor and dishonor become blurred to the point of Madness!!

The Sum of All Fears

not a bad movie, not quite a good movie. It does its best despite a relative butchering of the plot though like Red October makes me wonder if anyone could do a close to the book adapatation with such detail. Anyway it does well with the confused/Cuban Missile Crisis style clamour to war between Fowler and the Russian President. Affleck would've been interesting in a second Ryan movie but barely enough here to impress.
Goldsmith's score, and it's no criticism really, is at times quite reminiscent of his Air Force One score. Still Goldsmith though.
Now, soon, onto Chris Pine's Jack Ryan...whenever/however

The Killers

Not as slick as the later version, but it does have a good (better? I guess so) story/plot and decent atmosphere and tension. I liked the direction.

Manhunter wrote:

The Killers

Not as slick as the later version, but it does have a good (better? I guess so) story/plot and decent atmosphere and tension. I liked the direction.

I like the 1946 better than the 1964 one.

Even if the 1964 one has Lee Marvin, I feel Ronald Reagan didn't belong in there!!

The 64 version was directed by Don Siegel and starred Lee Marvin. 'nuff said.

I think they both work well. I've mentioned that I'd want to make an another version in South LA starring Chiwetel Ejiofor in basically the Lee Marvin role and taking that approach to the story, with a ruthless hitman regaining a sense of humanity.

Sharky wrote:

The 64 version was directed by Don Siegel and starred Lee Marvin. 'nuff said.

And don't forget Gene Coon wrote it. In between saving McHALE'S NAVY and putting STAR TREK on the right path.

RoboCop (1987)

I put in my Criterion DVD to see how it would look on my widescreen TV out of random curiousity. Then I couldn't bring myself to shut it off.

Your move, creep.

Bitches leave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNtdh8-nHQg&#t=1m40s

I saw on YouTube a scene after the credits with Anne Lewis in the hospital, but it's not on my Criterion. Maybe it's on my other DVD, the old MGM one without the extra 5-10 seconds of splatter goodness.

Also, my Criterion is 1.66.

And no way will the remake have a cast as good as this one.

Wanna frak the lab girl.