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Hilly Administrator
Posts : 8077 Member Since : 2010-05-13 Location : Chez Hilly, the Cote d'Hampshire
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Mon Dec 23, 2013 10:11 pm | |
| - Blunt Instrument wrote:
- Anchorman 2 - at 2 hours, this is funny but overstretched .. edited down to a tighter 90 or 100 minutes, it would be hilarious. For the most part though, it stays classy :) .
itching to see it, work tends to limit my time for films (I think my last was Blue Jasmine and Rush in October). Papa Burgundy demands it. |
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Blunt Instrument 00 Agent
Posts : 6402 Member Since : 2011-03-20 Location : Propping up the bar
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Tue Dec 24, 2013 12:01 am | |
| Maybe the Christmas holidays might help with that, Hilly. Must say, the first 45 minutes or so are SCREAMINGLY funny. |
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Hilly Administrator
Posts : 8077 Member Since : 2010-05-13 Location : Chez Hilly, the Cote d'Hampshire
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Tue Dec 24, 2013 12:09 am | |
| - Blunt Instrument wrote:
- Maybe the Christmas holidays might help with that, Hilly. Must say, the first 45 minutes or so are SCREAMINGLY funny.
then...I shall make all speedy efforts to see it. -- as it was my last film was It's a Wonderful Lifepip pip for ol' Jimmy Stewart. |
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Blunt Instrument 00 Agent
Posts : 6402 Member Since : 2011-03-20 Location : Propping up the bar
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Tue Dec 24, 2013 1:02 am | |
| It's A Wonderful Life was actually the film I was SUPPOSED to see yesterday afternoon. Might tell the story tomorrow of why it didn't pan out that way, off to bed now. |
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Makeshift Python 00 Agent
Posts : 7656 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : You're the man now, dog!
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Tue Dec 24, 2013 7:43 am | |
| Dead Ringers (1988)
It's the best I have ever seen Jeremy Irons in. He's what makes it work for the most part. Beyond that, I have mixed feelings about the third act, especially the last ten minutes. And of course, great score by Howard Shore. |
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Blunt Instrument 00 Agent
Posts : 6402 Member Since : 2011-03-20 Location : Propping up the bar
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Tue Dec 24, 2013 12:05 pm | |
| - Blunt Instrument wrote:
- It's A Wonderful Life was actually the film I was SUPPOSED to see yesterday afternoon. Might tell the story tomorrow of why it didn't pan out that way, off to bed now.
So, I've never seen It's A Wonderful Life ... have heard several times how it's one of the most uplifting, life-affirming movies ever made though. So when an opportunity arose to see it on the big screen on Sunday 22nd, I thought I'd take it. Attempted to book my ticket on the Saturday via the cinema's website, but it wouldn't work. So I phoned 'em and booked that way. On arrival in the cinema lobby, tried 3 or 4 times to use the ticket collection machine but there was an 'error' reading my card (it's working fine in ATMs, I hasten to add). So I'm forced to join the massive, slow-moving box-office queue (I dunno who thought of having the concession stand be part of the box-office too, but it's a shitty idea ... all staff dishing out snacks and drinks as well as tickets from the same spot does is slow everything down). When I finally get to the counter, I explain what's happened and am instructed to put my card in the till card reader ... ticket prints out, and as I go to walk off I spot it's for The Hobbit *sigh*. Put my card in again, and this time the ticket's right. By now, it's 5 minutes past the film's given start time (I arrived 15 minutes before it), but I reassure myself that the preceding ads and trailers will buy me some time. I enter the cinema, only to see that there's a queue of people waiting for the girl with the torch to find them seats and that the film's already started. So the red mist descends, I storm out in a shitty mood and that's how I ended up seeing Anchorman 2 instead. |
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Hilly Administrator
Posts : 8077 Member Since : 2010-05-13 Location : Chez Hilly, the Cote d'Hampshire
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Thu Dec 26, 2013 9:37 pm | |
| Power of Sex Panther!...
Anchorman II: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
blast of a movie, the most un-PC film of the year most likely or at least one I've seen. Second best comedy that I've seen after Star Trek Into Darkness. Maybe a bit longer than it should've been (once again, Odeon cinemas defeat me in no room for my legs and the weird sensation of losing feeling in the posterior) but it was the perfect tonic for a shitty day/week/month and year. All the cameos at the end was worth it. What's Anchorman without the no.2 newsman, Wes Mantooth?
Now...next on the list, American Hustle. |
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trevanian Head of Station
Posts : 1959 Member Since : 2011-03-15 Location : Pac NW
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Sun Dec 29, 2013 12:56 am | |
| After a goofoff day of SWASHBUCKLER and ROBOCOP, I saw the Mads Mikkelson THE HUNT and an odd little movie called THE EAST that I got at redbox. Liked 'em both (there are a couple of cut scenes on the HUNT DVD that really should have been in the final cut), but THE EAST is definitely the more unusual of the two, and while by no means perfect (last reel seems kinda pat), it has stayed with me. Cast is very good, lead actress co-wrote it with the director. |
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Hilly Administrator
Posts : 8077 Member Since : 2010-05-13 Location : Chez Hilly, the Cote d'Hampshire
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Mon Dec 30, 2013 5:59 pm | |
| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
I found it oddly enjoyable on this latest outing. It's always been a middling film to me, I either haven't raved over it or just been bored but this time plugged in. Maybe watching this knowing Kingdom of the Crystal Skull happened has heightened it (sort of like watching Star Trek V after XI and XII). The key moments for self are from when Indy breaks the spell (saving Short Round with a wink and a grin). I imagine like most films it's helped by John Williams, first with the Indy theme then as the Slave Children March starts at the moment you get that vague silohuette/outline shot of Indy in the mine. Kate Capshaw is mildly forgettable (apparently someone wanted the character to have red hair, if only) and Short Round I don't mind on this occasion. He has the edge on Jar Jar.
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Makeshift Python 00 Agent
Posts : 7656 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : You're the man now, dog!
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Mon Dec 30, 2013 9:32 pm | |
| I always acknowledge RAIDERS as the best of the series but it's TEMPLE I personally enjoy the most, maybe because it was my first Indy film, but it appeals to my sensibilities. It's got manic energy and aside from the middle section before the enter the temple, I think it's great. I also think Short Round makes a good example of how to do a sidekick right. He never depends on Indy's help too much and can hold his own. When he gets chained with the slaves, he doesn't wait for Indy to save him, he takes the initiative and is the one that actually helps Indy get out of his "black sleep" or whatever they called it.
Anyway, a bunch of Netflix Instant titles are expiring on New Years, so I've been catching up on whatever has been on my list that I hadn't got around to.
The Russia House (1990)
Pretty good, nothing great like the other John le Carré flicks but it's got a very good cast. Always nice to see Michael Kitchen, who I always wished had been given more as Bill Tanner.
Battle of Britain (1969)
Pretty much feels like any other big budget star studded WWII film from the period it came out, like TORA! TORA! TORA! and such. There's definitely the Guy Hamilton touch, with his comedic gags like the rural farmers taking a German hostage with a pitchfork. But hey, Freddie Young shot it and it's got some great aerial footage.
The Great Train Robbery (1978)
I always enjoy a good heist flick, especially if it has Connery, Sutherland and a score by Goldsmith. And seeing the stunt work on the train top, and the man doing the stunts being Connery, really put me on the edge of my seat. That was just flat out incredible. If you wanna see how big Connery's balls are, just watch that train top sequence with him dodging the bridges.
The Molly Maguires (1970)
Another title with Connery about to expire, didn't mean to make it most of a Connery run, but that's how it's turning out. Pretty decent melodrama, but what really grabbed me was the music and cinematography. I'm surprised those elements didn't get much recognition and overall this film has become very overlooked since then.
I've got more expiring films coming up. No more Connery titles. |
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Blunt Instrument 00 Agent
Posts : 6402 Member Since : 2011-03-20 Location : Propping up the bar
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Tue Dec 31, 2013 12:59 pm | |
| Pirates Of The Caribbean : On Stranger Tides - well, this passed the time well enough on its Beeb 1'premiere' on a wet and cold Sunday evening. Definitely a step back towards the swashbuckling fantasy-adventure 'romping' of the first film, as opposed to the bloated tedium of the third. |
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Hilly Administrator
Posts : 8077 Member Since : 2010-05-13 Location : Chez Hilly, the Cote d'Hampshire
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Tue Dec 31, 2013 9:58 pm | |
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
I know it's not universally popular but I still get some enjoyment from it. Helps I suppose drinking. The core delight is in the Ford-Connery interplay. Denholm Elliot is in some style as Brody and Ford seems to sport some fairly broad range of expressions. One shot I always liked even if it's no Welles-ian type is early on when Indy sits in his office at the college, you see him surrounded by his work, beleagured by these students outside. Just the way it looks I guess. Byrne hams it up as the SS officer, Doody is a bit of alright and it ended perfectly, riding off into the sunset.
Well, it did. |
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Blunt Instrument 00 Agent
Posts : 6402 Member Since : 2011-03-20 Location : Propping up the bar
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Wed Jan 01, 2014 11:54 am | |
| It surely did, Hilly ... and that was where they should've left it, into the bargain. |
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Makeshift Python 00 Agent
Posts : 7656 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : You're the man now, dog!
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Wed Jan 01, 2014 9:02 pm | |
| Lately, I feel they should have kept making them right after TLC, becoming the American equivalent to the James Bond series. The Indy films had so much potential for new and different adventures and I don't think TLC made much of a coda for the series as originally envisioned. |
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Hilly Administrator
Posts : 8077 Member Since : 2010-05-13 Location : Chez Hilly, the Cote d'Hampshire
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Wed Jan 01, 2014 9:07 pm | |
| Would have of course eased the ill-feeling that comes with Crystal Skull if they had kept on after Crusade. Watching KOTC today I didn't mind the opening but after that it gradually tapers in ever-increasing [CGI] slopes. Part of me wishes Connery had appeared in it however briefly but probably for the best he didn't. It has its 'thatta boy Indy' moments but never mind. Dread to think of an Indy V if it were to happen. |
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Makeshift Python 00 Agent
Posts : 7656 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : You're the man now, dog!
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Wed Jan 01, 2014 9:23 pm | |
| While I do enjoy KOTCS, it does suffer because the filmmakers making it were no longer the same guys that made the previous three. Spielberg moved on from the kind of film that RAIDERS was, and having seen TINTIN that feels more up his alley. If there is to ever be an fifth Indy film, it should either give Ford a better send off (which would mean they need to shoot that as soon as possible with Ford in his 70s) or it should be set back to the 1930s/1940s with a new actor taking on the fedora. Knowing Disney, they will do something with Indy, it's just a matter of when. |
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Largo's Shark 00 Agent
Posts : 10588 Member Since : 2011-03-14
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Wed Jan 01, 2014 11:12 pm | |
| - Hilly KCMG wrote:
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
I know it's not universally popular but I still get some enjoyment from it. Helps I suppose drinking. The core delight is in the Ford-Connery interplay. Denholm Elliot is in some style as Brody and Ford seems to sport some fairly broad range of expressions. One shot I always liked even if it's no Welles-ian type is early on when Indy sits in his office at the college, you see him surrounded by his work, beleagured by these students outside. Just the way it looks I guess. Byrne hams it up as the SS officer, Doody is a bit of alright and it ended perfectly, riding off into the sunset.
Well, it did. Still the best of the three, in my book. Indy all grown up. |
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bitchcraft Potential 00 Agent
Posts : 3372 Member Since : 2011-03-28 Location : I know........I know
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Fri Jan 03, 2014 1:40 am | |
| One of Mr. Bitch's stocking stuffers was the Man With No Name Trilogy on Blu-Ray, ie a boxed set of 3 of Clint Eastwood's best westerns. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly does not feel almost 50 years old but is timeless. I never get tired of it. Clint was great on the eyes back then too. Sharky....you know what you are? The son of a thousand fathers, all bastards like you |
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Fairbairn-Sykes Head of Station
Posts : 2296 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : Calgary, Canada
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Sun Jan 05, 2014 1:01 am | |
| Been plowing through kaiju flicks with Mrs. Sykes (Pacific Rim was our favourite flick of 2013 after all), but the last thing I saw in theatres was a special screening of the original Die Hard.
Now there's a movie that should never have gotten sequels. Of all of them, maybe only with a Vengeance is worthwhile. |
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Fairbairn-Sykes Head of Station
Posts : 2296 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : Calgary, Canada
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Sun Jan 05, 2014 6:49 pm | |
| Watched the Criterion edition of A Night to Remember that I got for Christmas. Fantastic film, with an excellent British attitude. I enjoyed it immensely, and it simply added more fuel to the fire of my belief that James Cameron has only ever made two good movies in his career.
Watching the film, I was reminded of the docudrama approach Tora Tora Tora takes, but I think A Night to Remember manages to be more successful at it. Either way, both flicks are far superior to their Hollywood blockbuster counterparts. |
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Hilly Administrator
Posts : 8077 Member Since : 2010-05-13 Location : Chez Hilly, the Cote d'Hampshire
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Sun Jan 05, 2014 6:57 pm | |
| Seeing Night to Remember at the BFI last year as part of the sinking's centenary was a highlight. Made me a fan of Kenneth More from a young age. Such a solid movie, many today critique it on the sinking in one part aspect but such were the facts available in 1958. One moment I still find, shall we say charged, is when the father kisses his son goodbye as More's Lightoller looks on. Even got a 'new' quad poster for the BFI event. |
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Fairbairn-Sykes Head of Station
Posts : 2296 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : Calgary, Canada
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Sun Jan 05, 2014 8:20 pm | |
| From what I've read, ANTR was based primarily on Lord's book and survivor testimony and one would think all those survivors would say "hey the thing snapped in two and came crashing down and it was a big deal like in Cameron's movie" but I guess they didn't, and from what I've read it seems they think it's more likely that it broke in two beneath the water line which is why the eyewitnesses didn't really report it despite the physics of it making sense. |
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Makeshift Python 00 Agent
Posts : 7656 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : You're the man now, dog!
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Mon Jan 06, 2014 7:49 am | |
| - Fairbairn-Sykes wrote:
- Watched the Criterion edition of A Night to Remember that I got for Christmas. Fantastic film, with an excellent British attitude. I enjoyed it immensely, and it simply added more fuel to the fire of my belief that James Cameron has only ever made two good movies in his career.
Watching the film, I was reminded of the docudrama approach Tora Tora Tora takes, but I think A Night to Remember manages to be more successful at it. Either way, both flicks are far superior to their Hollywood blockbuster counterparts. I was kinda shocked to see how much was lifted from that film for James Cameron's that I have no desire to see the latter again. I'd like to get that Criterion copy. |
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Largo's Shark 00 Agent
Posts : 10588 Member Since : 2011-03-14
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Tue Jan 07, 2014 7:40 pm | |
| MANHUNTER (1986 dir. Michael Mann) Four A-game performances from Peterson, Cox, Noonan and Allen, self-sabotaged by Mann's insensitive, infuriating soundtrack choices, clichéd synth drones and occasional arty affectations (did that shot really need to be in slo-mo?). That said, three of the pop songs/score (those written by Shriekback - 'Evaporation', 'Coelacanth' and 'The Big Hush') work wonderfully. Indeed that entire stretch from the sedated tiger to the love scene hints at a more interesting film, struggling to get out. The biggest WTF moment (and there are plenty) is the final scene on the beach, which I thought would play out as a moody bookend to the opening - utterly ruined by an awful stadium rock song blaring away at full volume. Maddening. I don't get me started on the 'I've just learnt these four chords!' banality of 'Graham's Theme.' Infinitely more compelling and engaging than any of the following Lecter films (with perhaps the exception of RED DRAGON), but still disappointing. |
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Fairbairn-Sykes Head of Station
Posts : 2296 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : Calgary, Canada
| Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched? Mark 9 Wed Jan 08, 2014 6:00 am | |
| Nothing keeps this forum going like Manhunter v. Red Dragon |
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