Amph What was the last movie you saw?

i watched "joe" last night. some classic cage.

 

I watched Late Spring and Black Narcissus in a theater. I'll keep reading on it, but Late Spring wasn't that great. Sorry, I liked Tokyo Story, but the subtext was repeatedly dragged to the surface via dialogue in this film, which became distracting. But Black Narcissus still holds up, weird antiquated racial caricatures aside.

 

The Slender Thread. Sydney Pollack's debut feature, it stars Sidney Poitier as a college student volunteering at a crisis hotline, who has to respond to Anne Bancroft's caller, who has taken an overdose of sleeping pills. You've also got Telly Savalas as the director of the crisis center and Ed Asner as a detective looking for Bancroft (and Jason Wingreen, the voice of Boba Fett, in a decent-sized role), so it's a solid cast. It's extremely effective, as Poitier plays out the draining emotional drama of being sucked into this suicide attempt, and Bancroft plays out her troubles in flashbacks as she talks to Poitier. The film also spins out into the larger effort to save her -- the police, and also, surprisingly effectively, the phone company, performing the work to trace the call. Stirling Silliphant's script is top-notch tense human drama, and all the actors are fantastic. Definitely worth checking out.

 

Sister Ruth is more disturbing than any version of Hannibal Lecter I've seen on screen.

 

I've always thought this film was very underrated. I saw it in high school and remember loving it. But people rarely talk about it.

 

Watched Sunshine on Leith on Sky Movies yesterday. It's a musical rom-com and normally neither of those genres appeal to me - closest I usually come to a musical is something like The Producers or Blazing Saddles. The film has its moments though but I think what cinched it is that I like the Proclaimers music and this is full of it. Not a bad film. I almost paid cinema money to see it when it was out here but I passed. Kinda sorry I did now. I might pick up the DVD in town tomorrow.

 

Rock Star on VH1. Yes, it's a cheesy movie, but I get sucked in every time.

 

Fight Club

 

^ We don't talk about that.

 

Cornered. A war vet immediately after WWII sets out to find the Vichy collaborator responsible for killing his French Resistance wife. It's a total B movie but it's very effectively made, as he dives into this morass and intrigue trying to find Nazis in Buenos Aires. It came out in 1945, too, so it's a very, very immediate look at postwar fears of lurking Nazis. It's a solid revenge-thriller noir.

 

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

I have to admit I really enjoyed this movie. About 3/4 through the movie I was genuinely devastated, and though I sorta wish it stayed that way because I'm sick, it made the happy ending so much more rewarding. Fantastic characters, some very strong performances...excellent adaptation and a true classic.

 

36 Hours, 1964, James Garner & Eva Marie Saint. Decent suspense/drama about an American with D-Day info resisting Nazi interrogators. James "Scotty" Doohan has a quick cameo, and John "Sgt Schulz" Banner is unintentionally hilarious as a corrupt German guard.

 

The To-Do List. An unfunny raunchy sex comedy with a slew of modern comedy actors playing their expected unfunny roles, although Rachel Bilson seems desperate to expand her appeal by playing a vulgar older sister. There's no such thing as innuendo and taboo in these kinds of movies anymore; I can only think of how certain words and references weren't even mentioned in the most raunchy mainstream movies of the '80s or even the daring mid-'90s. No wonder everyone is so desensitized, or maybe they've always been that way. I can imagine pseudo- trendy-feminist hypocrites I've known who get off on Aubrey Plaza and the like will consider this some kind of bold cutting edge movie. Anyway, it's set in 1993 for no apparent reason. As expected, it's full of anachronisms with the music, modern expressions, and emphasized references. "I got it on VHS." No one in 1993 referred to videotapes by the format.

 

Timecrimes. Dubbed from the original Spanish. A nice, tight little time travel drama / thriller. Better than Looper, any day.

 

Good review, Bobatron. I too hated The To Do List. It seemed like it could have been really funny, but it just . . . wasn't.

Oldboy (2003)



I saw this movie last year on the big screen at a local arthouse theater; it was my first viewing. To say I was blown away would be a massive understatement. Caught it again on Blu-Ray; yes, I went home from the showing and put it on my list of movies to buy on Blu-Ray ASAP. It's just one of the strangest, most exciting, darkest, grimmest, most violent, most stylish films ever made. From a nearly three minute fight sequence done in a single shot to the brutally dark premise of a man imprisoned for fifteen years without any idea why to a gruesome sequence in sushi restaurant to the astonishingly harrowing climax, it's a film that simply must be seen. Choi Min-Sik was, as memory serves, my top male performance of last year and Park Chan-wook was my best director; I know Oldboy was in my top ten films, though it didn't get the number one spot. But if you haven't seen it, you absolutely really must. Great film. Highly recommended. **** stars.

 

Inspired by Saintheart's Shakespeare thread...

Othello (1995) - A competent production buoyed by powerhouse performances from Fishburne and Branagh. - 7/10

 

Great movie. Hitchcock would have loved it. Especially for that ending. Hammer fight scene is one of the best in the history of film, I think.

Anyway....

"We Are What We Are": Movies are starting to add up in my instant que, had to watch something. This fits in my category of films liked at festivals.

Good movie. Didn't blow me away. Well acted.

 

http://photos.uk.msn.com/slideshow/photos/pictures-of-the-day/2x49xy2h#1

Didn't we see this scene in Serenity?

 

I've got that recorded off TCM. I'll be checking it out soon.

 

I just watched sharknado fur the first time. It was everything I could have hoped for, even producing actual lols

 

The sequel comes out this month too!

 

I saw Claude Rains played a murderer and was just like, "Sold, recording."

 

Horatio Hornblower, The Duel. First episode of the A&E miniseries from 1999. Some of the ship model fx shows that they didn't have a huge budget, but the stories and CS Forester's immortal characters carry the day.
When I grow up, I want to be Captain Pellew.