What's the most recent movie you've seen?

Started by Travis Bickle, November 08, 2012, 02:01:21 PM

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JustKari

I have not watched a movie in the theater in YEARS, but the last movie we rented for us, not the kids, was Les Miserables.

quiller

Quote from: JustKari on December 13, 2013, 08:30:23 AM
I have not watched a movie in the theater in YEARS, but the last movie we rented for us, not the kids, was Les Miserables.

I've ignored the rental joints since it actually costs the same as tickets-for-two to a budget matinee as it does for the DVD that I can watch repeatedly and never have to return. (This assumes I wait a year or so until the retailers finally lower the price.....)

"Man of Steel" did get me into the budget showing. I was surprised they treated organized religion as well as they did...and gee whiz, America was still the best nation on earth.

Pearl Earrring

The Hobbit. The Desolation of Smaug.

Best dragon EVER!

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DanM70

I just went and saw American Hustle today. It was great! Lots of fun. Bradley Cooper and that Hunger games chick were allowed to just go way over the top. Lots of fun to watch. Christian Bale is a genius. Weird guy in real life, but a freakin genius on the screen.

kit saginaw

Istanbul, 1957...  Errol Flynn is a pilot-for-hire, romancing a girlfriend in Turkey before he heads-out for Iran.  He visits a friend/smuggler's jewelry-store to buy an engagement-present, then is asked to safeguard a bracelet (with diamonds inside) for a few days, which he hides.  The smuggler is murdered soon after, and Flynn is pursued by the police and the murderers.  His gf is drawn-into the hijinx, is molested, then left for dead in a hotel-fire.  The film nicely morphs into a 'chick flick' type of drama, as Flynn returns to Turkey a few years later to grab the diamonds.  He discovers his girlfriend is married.  And has amnesia.  -With the murderers and police still dogging him for the diamonds.  Co-starring Nat King Cole who almost steals the show, in a bit part.   

taxed

November Man.  Ehhhh.  It was OK.  They did one thing right, where the lead character, after he kills or disables someone, he takes their gun.  They get an extra point, just for that.  Of course, the fight scenes are horrible, like most movies.  When you get punched in the head once, it would slow you down.  When someone in a movie takes punch after punch, it totally kills it for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREIRTyj9Mk
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mdgiles

Quote from: kopema on December 12, 2013, 08:40:37 AM
I thought Starship Troopers was trying really, really hard to make fun of conservatism -- but failed miserably.

The movie was almost nothing like the book; that was a true classic of science fiction.  The fact that a small handful of lines were directly copied was the only thing that kept the movie from being a complete farce.
What? You didn't notice Federal troops were dressed like the SS?
"LIBERALS: their willful ignorance is rivaled only by their catastrophic stupidity"!

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Quote from: mdgiles on June 17, 2015, 07:27:02 AM
What? You didn't notice Federal troops were dressed like the SS?

One thing I love about that movie, and the same thing I love about "300", is they are so backed into a corner, and the numbers and odds are so against them, but they continue to fight and fight.  Those type plots give me a little tweak in my personal motivation for some reason.
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kit saginaw

" How long have you been a Sergeant, Jeff ? "

" Which time ?! "


Rails Into Laramie, 1954...  Payne, Duryea, Van Cleef.  Very good action-piece.  John Payne is Jeff Harder; a 'soldier of fortune' who's never left the military.  A railroad-outfit was building tracks to Laramie, but the work mysteriously stopped.  So Harder's CO deputizes him and sends him there to find-out what happened.  Duryea and Van Cleef are running the town, is what happened.  -Scamming railroad-workers with various distractions, aided by corrupt town-merchants.  The takeover-scheme is never thoroughly explained, but it doesn't matter.  Fistfights and gunplay carry the film... with a crisply adequate train-top combat-sequence thrown-in.  There's even a sequence where Payne is finagled into forming an all-female jury, because the male-juries kept finding Payne's suspects not guilty.  I'd rate it a 7.5-out-of-10.

" Where is everybody ? "

" They're in the saloon, getting free drinks.  Then they're coming gunnin' for ya-- Where'r ya goin' ?! "

" To the saloon...  For a free drink. "



Mountainshield

Quote from: mdgiles on June 17, 2015, 07:27:02 AM
What? You didn't notice Federal troops were dressed like the SS?

Hehe that's true, have you noticed the Nazi propaganda poster in the space station in the arachnid quarantine zone? It is the same poster   :laugh: Btw the black sergeant in the training camp wears stormbolt SS insignia on his uniform. One thing I would say about it though, their system works without economic oppression of non-citizens which means private property rights is highly respected as middle-class or high income earners don't have to fear the state appropriating their property for theft. And the system seem to be pretty uncorrupt bureaucratically at the surface at least. Never read the novel though, I really should. Is it a conservative book kopema?

Mountainshield

Just watched  the new Judge Dredd again, damn it's a good movie. They flopped the release though which was too bad, if they shown this movie in Norway I would have seen it at least 4 times. It's even much better than fury road imo.

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kroz

Last night I rewatched "African Queen".   The last time I saw it I was still a kid!!!

Boy, have films changed!!!   This was a classic from filmdom.  I had forgotten how much it focuses on human character traits and mores of society.  There used to be a code of honor under which humanity functioned.

Where did it go????

walkstall

Quote from: kroz on July 29, 2015, 07:25:15 AM
Last night I rewatched "African Queen".   The last time I saw it I was still a kid!!!

Boy, have films changed!!!   This was a classic from filmdom.  I had forgotten how much it focuses on human character traits and mores of society.  There used to be a code of honor under which humanity functioned.

Where did it go????

It's the me first syndrome disease now.
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.- James Freeman Clarke

Always remember "Feelings Aren't Facts."

kit saginaw

Quote from: kroz on July 29, 2015, 07:25:15 AM
Last night I rewatched "African Queen".   The last time I saw it I was still a kid!!!

Boy, have films changed!!!   This was a classic from filmdom.  I had forgotten how much it focuses on human character traits and mores of society.  There used to be a code of honor under which humanity functioned.

Where did it go????

I know where the German 'ship' in the movie is...  still performing cargo-passenger runs on Lake Tanganyika.

I read about her last Winter in a French human-interest article.  She's been logistically impractical to replace all these years.  France, Germany, or Belgium needed to include in their replacement-bids, the construction of a shipyard on the shores before they could actually build a new ship.  Too pricey.

So the Liemba has been continuously overhauled since 1927.

She was 'the other queen' in the script... having her named the Königin Luise (Queen Louise... after Queen Luise of Prussia)  The African Queen is still in-service too, revamped and ferrying tourists in the Florida Keys.

It's a great film.  Virtually flawless.