Conservative Political Forum

General Category => Entertainment => Movies => Topic started by: Travis Bickle on November 08, 2012, 02:01:21 PM

Title: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: Travis Bickle on November 08, 2012, 02:01:21 PM
I just finished: GOD BLESS AMERICA   :thumbsup:

If ya have Netflix, check it out.  Also, a great tune in the movie --   http://youtu.be/oHeTJt-Hii0 (http://youtu.be/oHeTJt-Hii0)
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: Eyesabide on December 12, 2012, 05:36:26 PM
"Killing Them Softly", -Excellent Gangster movie. "Flight", Good movie, character driven, but a bit slow at times. "The Last Watch". great cop show.
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: keyboarder on December 13, 2012, 06:19:17 AM
I have net flix and i'll try these movies.  The movies I've been watching are not new but some that I had not seen by going to a movie house.  We watched Lincoln Lawyer.

I try to queue alot of movies that aren't included in the net flix library but run across alot of interesting movies rated 4+.  I especially like some of the older less common serials like Magnum, PI.  Archie Bunker was an all fav of my Dad so i have fond memories of my Dad when I watch this show.  Alot of people see this serial as pregudicial, i just think archie and Edith are hilarious and so did Dad.  He had a similar opinion of Jackie Gleason as Ralph Cramden and his wife, Alice.  His fav on that show was Norton.  I like the Jesse Stone stories withTom Selleck.  Another movie i've had little success finding is Crossfire Trail with Tom Selleck and Virginia Madsen.

Hoping that my queues will iniate the powers that be on net flix to add these suggestions to their library if it works that way. 
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: Darth Fife on December 27, 2012, 09:30:54 PM
Saw The Hobbit, last weekend.

Excellent movie. Can't wait to see the next two parts.
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: quiller on February 25, 2013, 02:38:04 PM
Crossfire Trail is available at Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/191-8515150-0532351?url=search-alias%3Dmovies-tv&field-keywords=crossfire+trail (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/191-8515150-0532351?url=search-alias%3Dmovies-tv&field-keywords=crossfire+trail)
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: willowtree on March 22, 2013, 09:56:32 AM
In a theatre? "Lincoln"
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: Turks on March 22, 2013, 10:08:16 AM
Everyone knows how I rail against supporting anything to do with Follywood but that was actually the last movie I have seen and the first in many, many years.  It was more to see how the subject matter was handled than anything else.
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: quiller on March 23, 2013, 07:01:39 AM
Quote from: keyboarder on December 13, 2012, 06:19:17 AM
I have net flix and i'll try these movies.  The movies I've been watching are not new but some that I had not seen by going to a movie house.  We watched Lincoln Lawyer.

I try to queue alot of movies that aren't included in the net flix library but run across alot of interesting movies rated 4+.  I especially like some of the older less common serials like Magnum, PI.  Archie Bunker was an all fav of my Dad so i have fond memories of my Dad when I watch this show.  Alot of people see this serial as pregudicial, i just think archie and Edith are hilarious and so did Dad.  He had a similar opinion of Jackie Gleason as Ralph Cramden and his wife, Alice.  His fav on that show was Norton.  I like the Jesse Stone stories withTom Selleck.  Another movie i've had little success finding is Crossfire Trail with Tom Selleck and Virginia Madsen.

Hoping that my queues will iniate the powers that be on net flix to add these suggestions to their library if it works that way.

I bought Crossfire Trail for $5 in the bin at Walmart.  It's a very good film, incidentally.

Amazon sells it here....

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/187-8622404-0330336?url=search-alias%3Dmovies-tv&field-keywords=crossfire+trail (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/187-8622404-0330336?url=search-alias%3Dmovies-tv&field-keywords=crossfire+trail)
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: willowtree on March 23, 2013, 09:07:11 AM
Quote from: Turks on March 22, 2013, 10:08:16 AM
Everyone knows how I rail against supporting anything to do with Follywood but that was actually the last movie I have seen and the first in many, many years.  It was more to see how the subject matter was handled than anything else.

I went because Daniel Day Lewis was in it and sometimes it's just best to see the film first on the large movie screen. LIke Titanic. much is lost trying to watch it on a TV screen.
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: mdgiles on August 22, 2013, 09:49:12 AM
R.I.P.D., better than I expected, and someone else paid for it.
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: Pearl Earrring on October 21, 2013, 01:30:48 AM
I saw "Gravity" yesterday. Thought it was really good.
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: Mountainshield on December 12, 2013, 03:43:30 AM
Just Watched Robocop 1 & 2 again, very conservative movies on many levels along with Starship Troopers (same director I believe) though I got a lot more to say about Starship Troopers, especially love the ridiculing of liberals in both of them, making fun of materialism and of course the glorification of good values such as honor and family. Made me want to watch Death Wish movies over again.

Also watched Man of Steel which was very good movie with good conservative values, I started to watch the Green lantern but damn that movie was horrible so I stopped after 20minutes.

The new Star Trek movie was good too, but got tedious at the end imo.

Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: kopema on December 12, 2013, 08:40:37 AM
Quote from: Mountainshield on December 12, 2013, 03:43:30 AM
Just Watched Robocop 1 & 2 again, very conservative movies on many levels along with Starship Troopers (same director I believe) though I got a lot more to say about Starship Troopers, especially love the ridiculing of liberals in both of them, making fun of materialism and of course the glorification of good values such as honor and family. Made me want to watch Death Wish movies over again.

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.
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: cpicturetaker12 on December 12, 2013, 09:42:12 AM
Quote from: Travis Bickle on November 08, 2012, 02:01:21 PM
I just finished: GOD BLESS AMERICA   :thumbsup:

If ya have Netflix, check it out.  Also, a great tune in the movie --   http://youtu.be/oHeTJt-Hii0 (http://youtu.be/oHeTJt-Hii0)

Actually, the last movie I saw in a theatre was Parkland.  Very well done.  Wasn't sure what it was going to be like.  It DID NOT come down one way or the other side of single shooter or conspiracy.  It was about PARKLAND Hospital though there was a secondary story running throughout about Zapruder--most I didn't know.  It was good, I recommend it.
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: Cryptic Bert on December 12, 2013, 07:47:25 PM
Army of Darkness...
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: quiller on December 13, 2013, 08:50:31 AM
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.
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: Pearl Earrring on December 19, 2013, 09:41:04 AM
The Hobbit. The Desolation of Smaug.

Best dragon EVER!
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: taxed on December 19, 2013, 08:35:20 PM
Quote from: The Boo Man... on December 12, 2013, 07:47:25 PM
Army of Darkness...

YES!!!!!!
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: DanM70 on December 22, 2013, 04:31:27 PM
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.
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: kit saginaw on March 29, 2015, 09:22:14 PM
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.   
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: taxed on May 17, 2015, 01:24:45 AM
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
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: mdgiles on June 17, 2015, 07:27:02 AM
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?
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: taxed on June 17, 2015, 12:06:14 PM
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.
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: kit saginaw on June 29, 2015, 09:22:58 PM
" 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. "


Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: Mountainshield on July 28, 2015, 12:54:53 AM
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?
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: Mountainshield on July 28, 2015, 01:00:43 AM
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.

http://vodlocker.com/jag996mnnzzj (http://vodlocker.com/jag996mnnzzj)
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: 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????
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: walkstall on July 29, 2015, 08:11:35 AM
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.
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: kit saginaw on August 01, 2015, 03:35:43 PM
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. 



Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: kroz on August 01, 2015, 03:49:43 PM
Quote from: kit saginaw on August 01, 2015, 03:35:43 PM
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.

That is pretty cool info, kit.  Thanks for sharing with us.   :thumbup:
Title: Re: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
Post by: kit saginaw on October 10, 2015, 04:10:07 AM
1953, Destination Gobi...  This needs to be re-done into a sprawling epic, because there were detachments of Japanese horse-cavalry roving the Mongolian desert-regions in the early 40's, clashing with flocks of nomadic sand-riders.  And (under SACO; Sino American Cooperative Organization) the US Navy did operate a manned weather-station in the Gobi Desert.

But the movie is a disappointing hodge-podge of dude ranch soap-opera snippets, with predictable patriotic pom-pomming.  At some point, Jap spotter-planes spoil the party and Richard Widmark has to lead his team out of the Province, to the China-coast.  Director Robert Wise had opportunities to present exciting action-sequences, but he generally bypassed them in-favor of suspenseless espionage-fluff.  I'll add a point for enthusiastic production and give the film a 5.5-out-of-10.