the last film you watched thread

what was the last film you watched on dvd or the cinema

evan allmighty

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

The Last Days - A movie set in Barcelona where an epidemic starts happening around the world where people start developing extreme Agoraphobia. The movie only focus' on that so much and it is more about the characters themselves, which ended up being very good and I quite enjoyed it.

Someone mentioned in the comments that this movie is what "The Happening" would be if that were an actual good movie and I sort of agree with it.

 

[spooky]

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. Hosted by Neil Degrasse Tyson

This is a documentary/speculative scientific program broken up into 13 episodes.
I enjoyed it but I've seen various other programs similar to this one (The Universe Series).
If you've never seen or cared much for the Universe Series, check this one out.

It's got pretty decent production values and an engaging set of animation sequences that
introduce you to the heroes and heroines of scientific knowledge. It does get a bit tedious
and preachy... but still, I liked it quite a bit.

Additionally, I loved the Jupiter storm sequence, that was pretty damn beautiful. Now, why can't Star Trek films be that beautiful?

 

[Irish Queer]

Guardians of the Galaxy which was excellent then Contraband again which I enjoyed first time around.

 

[SFLMAN]

Boyhood. One of the best movies I've seen so far. The movie takes you on a journey from when the boy is 6 years old to age 18, when he goes off to college. It's a 12 year journey of a boy's life. The movie was filmed over a 12 year period. It's an incredible film that has never been done before in cinema. There was not one dull minute in the movie, which most movies have. Everyone should check out this film! The parents in the movie are played by Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette. The boy is played by Ellar Coltrane.

 

[dpnice]

Well you can forget about "Planet of the Apes".

The special effects are good but that is about all. I didn't enjoy it, it wasn't a gripping story and I don't see the need for it to be in 3D.

 

[mikemizanin729]

The last Movie I watched was Carrie 2013. Not bad for a remake.

 

[zoltanspawn]

Africa Addio (1966).

An exploitation film most often prized by gore-hounds for its explicit (and often un-watchable by me) scenes of animals being butchered.

It's overlooked because of this. It's fantastic. Otherwise terrific imagery, music, editing, cinematography with subject matter as keen as The Battle of Algiers. Like Leni Riefenstahl, repugnant but brilliant, comic and vile.

The narrative is absurd, and should appeal to many of our members because of it: the Black African is genocidal, a violent imbecile, a grave-robber, a cannibal, a sweaty, dark black mess of buck teeth and dirty manners. The beleaguered colonist being robbed by him is civil, humane, rational and clean. The future is bleak and bloody in the incompetent hands of the black, while in Cape Town sexy white chicks bounce airily by sleek highways.

A brutal mess, idiotic, wonderful, recommended.

Here's the whole thing:



And here's an evocative trailer:

 

[pat grimshaw]

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I will say nothing. BBN should.

 

[zoltanspawn]

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I will say nothing. BBN should.

Have you seen it?

Of course I'm interested in BBN's opinion.

 

[pat grimshaw]

Have you seen it? ...

I think I may have seen things like it …like this one (but I may have been on drugs at the time) .

 

[zoltanspawn]

I think I may have seen things like it …like this one (but I may have been on drugs at the time)

There's stylistic similarity; while Mondo Cane is a pastiche, Africa Addio is bound by a theme which I find more compelling. The filmmakers spent three years gathering footage in Africa.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

Watched a few "found footage" films and I personally enjoy these films when well made. "The Dyatlov Pass Incident" is one of the better ones I watched because the premise is interesting to begin with. What plays out is not something normally used in films, so I personally enjoyed it over all. Some of the acting can be a bit rough and also the special effects are not top notch, but the over all film is pretty good.

The "The Dyatlov Pass Incident" is actually real, but I don't know how much the movie itself follows what actually happened or how much liberties it took with the actual events to fit the film. I haven't read too much on it.

 

[spooky]

Well isn't that a coincidence... I just watched this program on the web a few days ago called the Russian Devil: The Killer Lives.
The program supposedly delves into the real story behind the Dyatlov Incident. They use dramatizations to tell the story but concurrent to that, they also have a present-day investigator who is investigating the original Russian investigations from 50 years ago.

Part way through the program, the focus shifts to the present day investigator trying to piece out the real story, so he enlists a Russian translator/reporter to help him find any surviving evidence and tracking down people who might know something of the incident from years ago. This means meeting people, documented evidence, and so on.

This culminates into the investigators taking their findings to the field. They visit all the locations trying to replicate certain reported factors which may have lead to the death of the 9 hikers. They do get some type of response in varying degrees of success. I felt that they should have risked a little bit more... heck they should have stayed until they got their evidence.

So this is where I felt that this program felt a bit stagey!

I mean, if they really wanted to prove something they would have hired a risk taking film crew, more armed hunters. It felt like an excuse not to continue probably because they had nothing really... so it leaves you with just some questions.

The biggest of course is what really happened to those 9 hikers.

 

[Ninja108]

Frozen......

 

[zoltanspawn]

William Friedkin's Killer Joe (2011) reminds me of Polanski's The Ninth Gate and Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. They're all films made by men of a certain age reminiscing on the twilight of their libidos with comic results.

 

[pat grimshaw]

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So should I spend money to hire the DVD?

 

[zoltanspawn]

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So should I spend money to hire the DVD?

It's violent, not especially clever and tries too hard to be cool, so it doesn't seem like a movie you would like.

If you're interested in Friedkin, or Gina Gershon or Matthew McConaughey, it's not bad.

But it seems like the era when Friedkin could frame a momentous taboo has passed. This one is just pitbulls and 'trailer trash.'

 

[pat grimshaw]

...If you're interested in Friedkin, or Gina Gershon or Matthew McConaughey...

Friedkin Schmeidkin!

I've seen his list of wives and he obviously lives in a movie bubble.
My ex took me to the uncut version of Cruising and it seemed not much different from NYPD or any of those other cops shows that I ignore on TV nowadays.

 

[zoltanspawn]

In another thread one of Harke's posts reminded me that I'd never seen Friedkin's fagsploitation classic The Boys in the Band (1970).

 

[pat grimshaw]

...The Boys in the Band...

You'll recognise a couple of JUBbers in it.


We went to see A Million Ways to Die in the West. We didn't think it was as funny as Seth's TV stuff ... but I suppose it didn't matter that much as I guess we were using it as 'a date movie'.