Latest Movie That You Watched!

[doowopgirl]

I asked this on another thread, but I'm asking again. I recently watched The Wild Bunch at my husbands request. I was prepared to like it. On paper I should have liked it. Great cast, good story. Instead I found long and kind of tedious. Any thoughts on why I didn't like it? I have quite a wide ranging taste in films as long as it has a good story, so any ideas?

 

[Neesy]

I asked this on another thread, but I'm asking again. I recently watched The Wild Bunch at my husbands request. I was prepared to like it. On paper I should have liked it. Great cast, good story. Instead I found long and kind of tedious. Any thoughts on why I didn't like it? I have quite a wide ranging taste in films as long as it has a good story, so any ideas?

Dunno - was Marlon Brando in it (or was that James Dean?) - it doesn't sound like my cup of tea actually.

Andy wanted we to watch one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies (maybe # 3?) - Dang - I almost fell asleep - I think it was about three hours long!

 

[Neesy]

I saw Yentl with Barbara Streisand recently. I also saw Shall We Dance with Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez

Of the two, Yentl was more interesting but I liked Shall We Dance as well. It was a cute little story (and I recognized quite a few places as it was filmed in Winnipeg as well as Chicago).

 

[danie]

Sunshine--Is there a genre of movie in which director Danny Boyle isn't interested (and effective)? Not space horror (ish), that's for sure. This was a really absorbing movie about a team of astronauts and scientists trying to re-ignite the dying sun. I'll definitely watch it again. I can see why Chris Evans called it one of the three movies he's made that he's actually proud of making.

Chris Evans, mmmmmmm.

 

[danie]

Watched About Time yesterday. LOVED it!
Today I watched Nonstop. Great movie...there's just something so likable about Liam Neeson. On a plane. With a gun. And his cool voice.

 

[morgan]

Watched Gimme Shelter (2013) on Netflix. A movie about an abused teenage runaway based on a true story - very good performances by Vanessa Hudgens and Rosario Dawson. Hudgens was practically unrecognizable.

 

[KingAHolic]

Watched BOUNCE with Ben Affleck & Gwenyth Paltrow. Good romance movie. Watchable.

Also watch MONUMENTS MEN ... not my cup of tea.

 

[Dana Jean]

Splendor in the Grass. I had never seen this and although it is a classic, it is one of those that shows a moment on a timeline in our history of life and cinema. The world has moved on. But, there was something captured there, and I enjoyed it well enough, if for nothing else, for the atmosphere of the settings, attitudes, and the roaring 20s.

And the title of the movie, taken from a Wordsworth poem and used to show lost love between the main characters, also applies to the actual film itself.

What though the radiance
which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass,
of glory in the flower,
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind

 

[skimom2]

Big Hero 6, with the kids. I liked it more than I thought I would (though 3 days later I'd have a hard time retelling more than the basic storyline). Standard Disney: someone dies, there's a villain, heart-tugging penultimate scene... My favorite part was the cameo by a well-known person (won't say who, in case someone hasn't seen it & wants to be surprised)--that made me laugh.

 

[skimom2]

I saw Yentl with Barbara Streisand recently. I also saw Shall We Dance with Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez

Of the two, Yentl was more interesting but I liked Shall We Dance as well. It was a cute little story (and I recognized quite a few places as it was filmed in Winnipeg as well as Chicago).

I love, Love, LOVE Yentl, and I'm not a fan of musicals in general. Such a good story, and a great cast. I was a little in love with Mandy Patinkin, I think--lol. Shall We Dance was okay, too--I liked that they didn't make it a romance. The Japanese original is very good, too

 

[skimom2]

Chris Evans, mmmmmmm.

HAHA! I'm not much for blondes, but he's a bit of all right . Have you seen Snowpiercer or Puncture? Those were the two other films he said he was proud of, and both were very, very good movies.

 

[skimom2]

Watched About Time yesterday. LOVED it!
Today I watched Nonstop. Great movie...there's just something so likable about Liam Neeson. On a plane. With a gun. And his cool voice.

I've been wondering if About Time was good! I like Domnall Gleeson I almost bought it the other day, and now I think I will.

 

[ghost19]

Watched "The ABCs of Death" on Netflix last night. 26 short films from 26 different directors, each of them using a letter of the alphabet to illustrate, badly in most instances, some sort of death sequence. About half of the letters I didn't get the story, another quarter of them were just shock value, which I guess I'm just numb to or something, and about 5 or six of the letters were actually interesting. Overall, not a great flick, but if you want to watch something with a high overall weirdness factor, I guess it's worth it.

 

[Dana Jean]

Watched "The ABCs of Death" on Netflix last night. 26 short films from 26 different directors, each of them using a letter of the alphabet to illustrate, badly in most instances, some sort of death sequence. About half of the letters I didn't get the story, another quarter of them were just shock value, which I guess I'm just numb to or something, and about 5 or six of the letters were actually interesting. Overall, not a great flick, but if you want to watch something with a high overall weirdness factor, I guess it's worth it.

I got up to I think C.

 

[danie]

HAHA! I'm not much for blondes, but he's a bit of all right . Have you seen Snowpiercer or Puncture? Those were the two other films he said he was proud of, and both were very, very good movies.

I much prefer dark hair and eyes as well, but Chris and Simon Baker are blondes whose films I enjoy! I haven't seen those two movies; I'll check them out.

 

[danie]

I've been wondering if About Time was good! I like Domnall Gleeson I almost bought it the other day, and now I think I will.

About Time is very, very good imo. Gleeson is perfect in it, as is Bill Nighy. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

 

[Grandpa]

I much prefer dark hair and eyes as well, but Chris and Simon Baker are blondes whose films I enjoy! I haven't seen those two movies; I'll check them out.

I had a good first impression of Simon Baker in LA Confidential. It was a minor part, but he carried it quite well.

Grandma's kinda the Sean Connery/Harrison Ford fan type (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was movie heaven for her), but in one of the Thor movies when Chris what's-his-name in the titular role was walking around in his chambers, I could swear I heard her drool.

 

[Grandpa]

Last movie I watched was National Lampoon's Animal House - okay and not too bad, but not as funny as I expected it to be - perhaps funnier in a different generation. I liked the ending with Bluto and the blonde cheerleader type.

Yeah, it was better when it came out because it was groundbreaking. Much like Blazing Saddles. And neither of those movies could be done today.

Spoiler

Blazing Saddles' liberal use of the n-word, which I usually abhor, but this was self-parodying; and Animal House's political incorrectness - primitive cultures? underage sex being funny?

So when I first saw Animal House, it was fresh for its newly made genre. I swear, when that devil and angel popped up over the kid's shoulders and had their exchange, I couldn't keep the bray of laughter out. Fortunately, the rest of the audience was the same way.

 

[skimom2]

I had a good first impression of Simon Baker in LA Confidential. It was a minor part, but he carried it quite well.

Grandma's kinda the Sean Connery/Harrison Ford fan type (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was movie heaven for her), but in one of the Thor movies when Chris what's-his-name in the titular role was walking around in his chambers, I could swear I heard her drool.

Harrison Ford will always be a favorite of mine, no matter how crusty and grumbly he's getting in his older age I swear, there's an entire generation of women whose vision of the perfect man is Han Solo--lol. Seriously--how many male leads in books and movies are just a thinly veiled copy of that character? And I don't think anyone but Ford could have done such a good job with the character.

 

[Neesy]

I love, Love, LOVE Yentl, and I'm not a fan of musicals in general. Such a good story, and a great cast. I was a little in love with Mandy Patinkin, I think--lol. Shall We Dance was okay, too--I liked that they didn't make it a romance. The Japanese original is very good, too

Oh yeah - that guy - oy vey - there was just something about him