What was the last movie you watched?

[mrbasehart]

I'm ba-ack!  London was great, the film festival was great, and Laura Linney was personable and intelligent.  I also saw a bunch of films!:

Sicko: Wow.  It seems like you Yanks are up shit creek when you get injured or sick!  I don't particularly like Moore when he interjects himself into the documentary, as the film becomes a little more about him, rather than his subject matter - but if what he says is true, then it's disgusting and amazing that sick people aren't being treated because they're poor.

I Do: How to Get Married and Still be Single:  A french romantic-comedy that I expect will be remade any day now by Hollywood.  A single man pays a woman to become his fiance to stop his mother and sisters nagging him about getting married.  Charming, funny, though a little flat in places - it's really quite nice.

Jimmy the Gent: A riotous 70-minute comedy from the 1930s starring James Cagney and Bette Davis.  Cagney plays an underhanded investigator who searches for lost relatives who stand to inherit millions from the wealthy and recently deceased.  Cagney's brutish charm is turned all the way up and it's possibly his fastest performance ever (with the exception of perhaps, One, Two, Three 25 years later).  Great fun.

The Savages: Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney star in a "dramedy" about two siblings who are forced to take care of their father when he is no longer able to take care of himself.  Both leads are teriffic and really play well off of each other - Linney described her working relationship with Hoffman as one of the best she's ever had - and it pays off in some very difficult scenes later on in the movie.

Oh, and I saw Ronnie Corbett shopping in Virgin Megastore in Picadilly.  He was looking through the Jazz Records. 

[Tripe]

Oh, and I saw Ronnie Corbett shopping in Virgin Megastore in Picadilly.  He was looking through the Jazz Records. 

How's the little man looking these days?

[mrbasehart]

Oh, and I saw Ronnie Corbett shopping in Virgin Megastore in Picadilly.  He was looking through the Jazz Records. 

How's the little man looking these days?

A little like Ronnie Barker.   

[Tripe]

Dear god. We must find him an even smaller David Jason lookalike and remake Open All Hours.

[BEERxTaco]

Last movie I watched was last night.... the Legend release of Carnival of Souls 

Tonight it's an airing of the Halloween rifftrax!

[bettertomorrowamy]

Sicko: Wow.  It seems like you Yanks are up shit creek when you get injured or sick!  I don't particularly like Moore when he interjects himself into the documentary, as the film becomes a little more about him, rather than his subject matter - but if what he says is true, then it's disgusting and amazing that sick people aren't being treated because they're poor.

It's worse than that because people who are uninsured don't go in for check-ups before things go bad, so they get cancer and die or have heart-attacks.  Most of these deaths could be prevented if we had some basic universal health care.

[GalvaTRION]

I saw Gone Baby, Gone and the 3D version of Nightmare Before Christmas last week.

GBG is... it's do darn good. Highly recommended. Must-see.

NBC is... still entirely underwhelming. Nice animation doesn't mean you can half-ass the story. Also, 45 minutes out of a 70 odd minute movie should NOT be repedative songs.

[Compound]

Let's see. Tonight, I watched Dead and Breakfast, an entertaining little indy zombie film. Well, they're technically not zombies, but they're close enough for jazz.

Then I watched Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, which I added to Netflix a few weeks ago in a bout of nostalgia. Ah, 60s Sci-Fi goodness.

[graboids]

I saw Gone Baby, Gone and the 3D version of Nightmare Before Christmas last week.

GBG is... it's do darn good. Highly recommended. Must-see.

Isn't it great?  Too bad nobody is going to see the film. 

[ig400]

I watched part of Poltergeist last night while waiting for the new south park.

Still amazes me how Spielberg was able to make something that scary.

[Compound]

Then I watched Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, which I added to Netflix a few weeks ago in a bout of nostalgia. Ah, 60s Sci-Fi goodness.

Isn't it 50s? I saw this last year and was unimpressed by it except for Walter Pidgeon (who's always great) and Michael Ansara (whose appearance surprised me completely).

1961 release date, so you're pretty close.

You know, it strikes me that if Michael Bay was making films in 1961, Voyage would be a film that he would have been directing.

[RoninFox]

I saw Gone Baby, Gone and the 3D version of Nightmare Before Christmas last week.

GBG is... it's do darn good. Highly recommended. Must-see.

Isn't it great?  Too bad nobody is going to see the film. 

Wait wait...something Affleck did is getting good reviews?  On this forum?  Now I have to see this.

[Junkyard]

Finally got to seeing Bedazzled, the 1960's version.

It had funny moments, and was well done overall, but... It's British. It's so damn British. Dryer than the Sahara. Dragged like Hector around Troy at points. But good, overall.

[mrbasehart]

It's that time of the week again:

Elizabeth: The Golden Age:  Put me down as a big fan, not only of Cate Blanchett, but this movie's predecessor.  However, I don't think either of them are quite as good in this one.  It's a little overblown in places, with some scenes recreating the sligthly ridiculous air of 300.  Clive Owen is very "swoonsome" as Walter Raleigh, though I'm a little annoyed that most of the screen-time was reserved for him, and not Francis Drake who commanded the English forces against the Spanish.  Still, we kicked their arses good!

Modesty Blaise: Slightly tiresome 60s version of the comic strip.  Dirk Bogarde is pretty good fun as the budget conscious, though thoroughly evil bad guy, but Monica Vitti in the title role isn't really given enough good stuff to do.  Action scenes are a bit naff too, though I believe it's sort of intentional.  Doesn't make it better.

The Curse of Frankenstein: This is the first Hammer Frankenstein movie, and nowhere near as good as either the Universal Frankenstein's or the sequels that would follow from this one.  Cushing plays the whole thing too evilly, and the monster ellicits the very smallest amount of sympathy.  Most of the plot concerns marital infidelity and Frankenstein's former lab partner turning on him.  Dull.

Werewolf of London: This 1935 version of the Werewolf mythology was rushed out by Universal when they lost the bidding rights to the (apparently definitive) origin of the werewolf in Guy Endore's The Werewolf in Paris.  The slapdash nature of the movie is mostly evident in its plot which concerns a rare Tibetan plant which is the only substance known to control Lycanthropy.  Again, pretty dull, but the Werewolf make-up is pretty decent, and some supporting roles are nicely hammed up.

The Mask of Fu Manchu: Boris Karloff stars in this 1932 effort, and does about as well as Christopher Lee would do 30 years later.  The plot is some hokum about Fu Manchu and the British government in a race to discover Genghis Khan's tomb.  Stylish, with some nice work from the cast - particularly a young Myrna Loy as Karloff's sadistic-nympho daughter - it's not a bad 60 minutes.


The more I see Hammer and AIP horror films, the more I can't believe there are.  Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, and Christopher just cranked those bad boys out, year after year. 

[BathTub]

Iron Fisted Monk:Don't think I have ever seen Sammo Hung so young (no smaller though). Quite a surprising film really, I mean the Manchu's were real bastards in the film, multiple rapes with one woman committing suicide, murders & mass slaughter, not used to such dark Kung Fu fare.