What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

StarSong said:
Watched "The Fantastiks" last night for the first time ever. DVD borrowed from the library. Must admit I zipped through some of the early songs. Glad overall to have seen it, but it's not an experience I need to repeat.
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I saw it on Off Broadway at the Sullivan Street Theater in Manhattan in 1982. It was in it's 22nd year. Little did I know at the time that the show would run for another 20 years. It ended it's 42 year run in 2002. Try to Remember, is by far the best song in the musical.
 

Saw it on TCM yesterday. When I see an old movie like this, I'm literally stunned when I think about how long ago people saw it in the theater. With this movie, it was 91 years ago! When I was born, this movie was only 17 years old. If that doesn't make you feel old, then nothing will.
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-Oy- said:
A film people have told me I MUST watch over the years and I never got around to it. Quentin Tarantino's 'Pulp Fiction'. I put it on Netflix last night and turned it off after 50min. Rubbish.
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Yeah.

Not really much story there, characters are cardboard. However it was sort of a spoof of the old detective/crime pulps. Those live on today as uncounted stupid cops and courts and crimes shows on TV that old women peep at over the covers instead of pulling their crime magazines from under the pillow at night.

Its claims of innovation really boil down to gratuitous extremes and being edited into a randomized time line.
 

Paladin1950 said:
I saw it on Off Broadway at the Sullivan Street Theater in Manhattan in 1982. It was in it's 22nd year. Little did I know at the time that the show would run for another 20 years. It ended it's 42 year run in 2002. Try to Remember, is by far the best song in the musical.
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That's why I borrowed it. Since most current TV shows and movies don't hold a lot of interest for me, I've been catching up with the many good ones I missed over the years.

Agree about Try to Remember. Great song - and nothing like the context for it that I would have guessed.
 
-Oy- said:
A film people have told me I MUST watch over the years and I never got around to it. Quentin Tarantino's 'Pulp Fiction'. I put it on Netflix last night and turned it off after 50min. Rubbish.
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George1959 said:
Couldn't agree more.
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You may not have fully gotten the joke/context. It was a play on - and homage to - America's very popular pulpy crime magazines and books from the 1930s through the 1960s.

I haven't seen it in years, but do recall it being very violent and the language being rough. Enjoyed it despite sometimes covering my eyes. :cool:

The movie launched Samuel L. Jackson's career, and relaunched John Travolta's in a new genre. For those gifts alone, the movie was worth the effort.
 
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)

Early Ray Harryhausen effects. Above-average story for a creature feature of its day. Female lead/love interest character makes it clear that feminism was alive and well in mass media of the 1950s. Probably better science fiction than most pop sci-fi of today. It isn't The Day The Earth Stood Still by any means but it's no Sharknado.

Available on Tubi free w/ads or about $4 on other platforms. Also:

It Came from Beneath the Sea (Black & White) | Full Movie
 
Satan in High Heels (1962)

Big truth bomb dropped here about what is now called "emotional intelligence," and how it is used.


You can find the full movie on YouTube.
 
-Oy- said:
A film people have told me I MUST watch over the years and I never got around to it. Quentin Tarantino's 'Pulp Fiction'. I put it on Netflix last night and turned it off after 50min. Rubbish.
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I loved it and recommenced it to a person I worked with. She hated it, and she said she watched it to the end wondering when something important would happen. It's one of those films that has that kind of wide range of viewpoints. Although collectively, both viewers and critics at Rotten Tomatoes give it very high marks. However, the few negative reviews there can be unusually harsh.
 
ChiroDoc said:
Yeah, to my taste The Post was much overrated. My commentary after it came out (long):


The Post (2017)

This is a film which tries to be an important picture, but it suffers from several miscalculations. The first assumption was that if a heavyweight group of movie people are put together into a movie project, then the result would be terrific. The second miscalculation was that dredging up an anachronistic federal scandal, despite what we've witnessed in recent times of several equally shameful governmental scandals (exposed by Snowden, Assange), would be of interest to a younger generation.
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The Post had a premise as exciting as Spotlight and the Big Short, but watching it felt like watching actors acting theatrically just for a paycheck. I wondered if it was the fault of the director.
 
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Watched this last night for the 6th or 7th time. It's still a riot. Some commentary:

What's Up Doc? (1972)

This has been one of my favorite comedies since first watching it in the theater in 1972. It's one of those films in which the laughs keep coming, oftentimes piling up to where one is forced to catch a breath.

Preceded by The Last Picture Show, and followed by Paper Moon, all great films, Peter Bogdanovich was on a roll. He has done many comedies, but to my knowledge "Doc" is his only "screwball" comedy. And screwball it is. The story involves the misplacement and confusion over four identical plaid suitcases, one of which contains some type of government secret documents; another one holds stolen jewels. The others belong to the two leads.

Everyone gets their suitcase shuffled around, which leads to an explosive exposition in a San Francisco hotel. Along the way there is scene after scene of sight gags, pratfalls, and absurdities, which take the characters through Chinatown, down San Fransisco's steep streets, including the famous Lombard Street, and even into San Fransisco Bay. The film is nicely woven together and finishes up with a perfect ending.

Being a romantic comedy, the two leads --Barbara Streisand and Ryan O'Neal-- are not called upon for dramatic heft. But sharp timing and chemistry are required, and delivered. Both stars were at the period in their lives where they were very attractive and appealing, and they film beautifully. Both are successful at comedy, with Streisand showing a broader palette.

But it is the writing and the supporting cast who fashion this picture into a comedic farce which steams along, maintaining a full tilt pace for all of its 94 minutes. Bogdanovich's story is perfected by the inestimable Buck Henry along with David Newman and Robert Benton, who all won the Writer's Guild of America Award for this film.

Madeline Kahn, as O'Neal's stodgy wife Eunice Burns was nominated for a Golden Globe. The cast was peppered with strong talent: Kenneth Mars as an effete conceited slavic musicologist was an integral part of the script. Other comic heavyweights were John Hillerman, Randy Quaid, and Austin Pendleton. The venerable Liam Dunn played a judge, and even M. Emmett Walsh did a turn as an arresting officer. This was a dream cast.

This movie fired on all burners. It was hilarious, suggestive and sexy-- all within a "G" rating. If only more films like this one could be made!

Doc's rating: 10/10
 
Suspicion. Alfred Hitchcock. His stuff was always good.

Cary Grant keeps calling his wife, 'monkeyface'. I thought that was a bit much. An old movie admittedly, but I cannot imagine anyone getting too excited over that name.
 
-Oy- said:
A film people have told me I MUST watch over the years and I never got around to it. Quentin Tarantino's 'Pulp Fiction'. I put it on Netflix last night and turned it off after 50min. Rubbish.
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I was OK with Pulp Fiction, probably because I watched it a long time ago. Tarantino's stuff is just too violent for me. Several years back my ex and I were watching Inglourious Basterds (his choice). I got about 30 minutes in and had to leave the room. My ex asked me, laughing, "What did you expect? It's a Tarantino movie!"

I've heard Once Upon a Time in California is good, though, and not violent. I have that one on my watch list.
 
dilettante said:
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)

Early Ray Harryhausen effects. Above-average story for a creature feature of its day. Female lead/love interest character makes it clear that feminism was alive and well in mass media of the 1950s. Probably better science fiction than most pop sci-fi of today. It isn't The Day The Earth Stood Still by any means but it's no Sharknado.

Available on Tubi free w/ads or about $4 on other platforms. Also:

It Came from Beneath the Sea (Black & White) | Full Movie
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I used to have this on VHS. Ray Harryhausen said that the octopus only had 6 legs because of the budget. Kenneth Tobey played in some of the best science fiction movies of the 1950's. The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, It Came From Beneath the Sea, The Thing From Another World. Ray Harryhausen did the special effects for the first two.
 
The Sex Robots Are Coming (2017)

TV movie. Interesting to see what they were projecting though as far as I know it was too expensive to be practical. Eerie, not for the technology, but the people around it - both creators and consumers.

It may be inevitable but I can't see any appeal for any but a very few oddballs until several decades more progress takes place. I wish the weird guy's wife had spoken her mind. To me she comes off as playing a distant second fiddle to his dolls. Sure, her SMV has fallen to zero, but she's elderly and that's not part of the deal at this couple's advanced age.


It is on Tubi right now.
 
Ted51 said:
Suspicion. Alfred Hitchcock. His stuff was always good.

Cary Grant keeps calling his wife, 'monkeyface'. I thought that was a bit much. An old movie admittedly, but I cannot imagine anyone getting too excited over that name.
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I agree. Very good film. Interesting fact: Hitchcock stated that in the book, upon which Suspicion was based, the Cary Grant killer really was a murderer. But as he pointed out the public would not have wanted to see Grant portray a true killer, so the ending was changed.

As it was, even the "suspicion" that Grant was a real murderer was enough to hurt the film with the public. I think it's gained stature over the years though. It was fun seeing Nigel Bruce play someone else besides Dr. Watson...;) And it's always fun to see Joan Fontaine chew the scenery.
 
KSav said:
I was OK with Pulp Fiction, probably because I watched it a long time ago. Tarantino's stuff is just too violent for me. Several years back my ex and I were watching Inglourious Basterds (his choice). I got about 30 minutes in and had to leave the room. My ex asked me, laughing, "What did you expect? It's a Tarantino movie!"

I've heard Once Upon a Time in California is good, though, and not violent. I have that one on my watch list.
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I feel the same as do you. I've skipped several of Tarantino's films because of his penchant, even fetish, for bloody violence-- in what otherwise are probably very good films.

My guess is that you'll like Once Upon a Time in America. Pitt, DiCaprio, and everyone else are very good. And although Tarantino purposely fractures the history of 1969 Hollywood, there's only a short bit of violence near the end, which is treated almost comically.
 


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