Latest Movie That You Watched!

  • This message board permanently closed on June 30th, 2020 at 4PM EDT and is no longer accepting new members.

Susannah's Wheelchair

Susannah's Wheelchair

Well-Known Member
Sep 17, 2018
69
342
53
I'm currently watching The Stand (1994 Tv mini series) as I'm also currently reading it for the first time and am so looking forward to the forthcoming ten part series which will hopefully include everything (or close to) from the book but has anybody noticed this error in The Stand (uncut edition)

Page 642 (pb edition) para 2 "The third man... began to fire at Fran... he was an olive skinned man who looked Italian"
Page 643 para 1 "Stu fired and the olive skinned man's forehead caved in..."
Page 643 final para "The third man... was still staggering around holding his crotch..."

Not sure if this was a printing error or a writing one but it stuck out as soon as I'd read it!!
 
  • Like
Reactions: kelliblue, kingricefan, GNTLGNT and 3 others
kelliblue

kelliblue

Well-Known Member
Jul 31, 2018
385
2,016
Connor B said:
Happy Birthday to Me (1980) *1/2 Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Someone is bumping off members of a group of college kids one by one, through various nasty means. Could Melissa Sue Anderson, recovering from a car accident months before, have something to do with it? What could've been a halfway decent slasher picture is marred by unnecessary gore, unintentional laughs, and a preposterous twist ending that undermines the entire film. Glenn Ford is wasted as a sympathetic therapist.
Click to expand...
I always wanted to see this one.
 
  • Like
Reactions: kingricefan, GNTLGNT, Wayoftheredpanda and 1 other person
ghost19

ghost19

"Have I run too far to get home?"
Sep 25, 2011
8,926
56,578
51
Arkansas
Watched a very good 20/20 special on Netflix last night about Dennis Reader, the BTK serial killer. The interview was with his daughter and gave her view of growing up with BTK as a father. It was a fascinating interview and I think his daughter is a very strong person to live thru what she has. Dennis Rader is chilling in in his interviews. I've always had an interest in his case, I can remember watching news articles as a kid about the killings. It was a very interesting show.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Blake, kelliblue, kingricefan and 7 others
Blake

Blake

Deleted User
Feb 18, 2013
4,191
17,479
I think another director that would be good to direct a Stephen KIng book would be Brian Yuzna. Re-Animator is one of my favourite movies of all-time. I don't know if he has collaborated with King in any way. I want to look at the documentary Stephen King's World of Horror . I don't know if it's the same Stephen King: This is Horror. I can't remember having seen either. The latest movie I watched was Dune, which I think is brilliant, and doesn't get the accolades it deserved. I always thought the actor, Everett McGill, was in more King movies than just Silver Bullet.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Wayoftheredpanda, kingricefan and GNTLGNT
fljoe0

fljoe0

Cantre Member
Apr 5, 2008
15,859
71,642
62
120 miles S of the Pancake/Waffle line
Control (2007)

This is one of the best bio-pic type films I've ever seen. It's about the very short and tragic life of Ian Curtis and the band Joy Division. The film was directed by Anton Corbijn who had been a photographer for the band and knew them very well. I think his closeness to the band gives this film an authenticity that another director may not have been able to create. The film is in black and white and the outside scenes are very gray, bleak and cold looking and mirror the depression that Ian felt. Whenever there are outside scenes, there's very little traffic, people or noise and that just adds to the depressing look of the scenery. Ian suffered from epilepsy (as well as depression) and the doctors he went to had no idea how to treat it. So Ian's battle with epilepsy just added to his misery. The film covers the time from about 1973-1980. He starts off so happy and enthused with his band and as time goes on, his depression and personal battles get the best of him. It's not a happy film but it's a good one.
 
  • Like
Reactions: kingricefan, GNTLGNT, Dana Jean and 4 others
ghost19

ghost19

"Have I run too far to get home?"
Sep 25, 2011
8,926
56,578
51
Arkansas
ghost19 said:
Watched a very good 20/20 special on Netflix last night about Dennis Reader, the BTK serial killer. The interview was with his daughter and gave her view of growing up with BTK as a father. It was a fascinating interview and I think his daughter is a very strong person to live thru what she has. Dennis Rader is chilling in in his interviews. I've always had an interest in his case, I can remember watching news articles as a kid about the killings. It was a very interesting show.
Click to expand...

Wow, had no idea the daughter apparently accused Mr. King of trying to profit from her dad's case? WTF? Don't agree with her on that score at all. Still a pretty good documentary but the fact she tried to drag Mr. King into things doesn't make much sense.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Neesy, kingricefan, GNTLGNT and 5 others
Dana Jean

Dana Jean

Dirty Pirate Hooker, The Return
Moderator
Apr 11, 2006
53,634
236,697
The High Seas
Dana Jean said:
45 Years

I have watched this movie about 5 times. Something about it just draws me back to watch the performances again.

This style is not for everyone. It is a very slow, quiet movie with so much to say underneath.

Charlotte Rampling is absolutely fantastic and her expressive eyes and face just say so much.
Click to expand...
This just left Netflix. Noooooo!

But, since this post above and Netflix's stupid decision, I went and purchased this movie and I continue to watch it. It is the most quiet, cerebral, mundane movie ever, so if you're looking for a lot of action, this ain't it.

And even when I'm not watching, I have it on in the background. I like background sound while I do things. Some people listen to music. I put on a favorite movie I have seen so many times that will not draw me in enough to stop what I'm doing. Yet, I can take breaks and know exactly what is going on in the movie. It's like a comforting old friend talking to me. And if I want to sit and watch, it still fascinates me enough that I don't wander. I am focused when I want to be.

Anyway, it's part of the Criterion Collection and the DVD had this wonderful commentary addition of director Andrew Haigh and producer Tristan Goligher. Following the movie with them as they spoke about the scenes, the acting, the sets, the choices. Brilliant.

45 Years

Then, I went to Youtube and listened to the author of the source material, David Constantine, read the short story this is based on.

I am always in awe of people who have this vision of something. While the story is good and focuses more on the husband, I applaud Andrew Haigh for taking it and turning it to the view of the wife. And as the Criterion Collection synopsis says:

" Haigh shifts the focus from the slightly erratic Geoff to Kate, eliciting a remarkable, nuanced portrayal by Rampling of a woman’s gradual metamorphosis from unflappable wife to woman undone."

Okay, I've posted about this movie so many times, I'll give it a rest. Sorry folks.:laugh:
 
  • Like
Reactions: Neesy, kingricefan, GNTLGNT and 3 others
Dana Jean

Dana Jean

Dirty Pirate Hooker, The Return
Moderator
Apr 11, 2006
53,634
236,697
The High Seas
DiO'Bolic said:
The Lobster (2015)

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

This movie got all kinds of critical acclaim???? Why??? I was a fan of avant-garde films and TV series of the sixties… 2001: A Space Odyssey, Easy Rider, Barbarella and The Avengers. But this movie missed the mark if that was the feel they were going for, and IMO this film was just plain stupid with a terrible ending.
Click to expand...
Dana Jean said:
I'm in the process of slogging through this. I got interrupted watching it and haven't felt any great need to return to it anytime soon. But, I'll get it finished.

Colin Farrell works with Yorgos Lanthimos on Lobster and (screenwriter/producer/director) on The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Also a very odd, weird movie. I talk about it here in this thread I think? Somewhere anyway.

The flat affect of the characters in both films is off putting and quite frankly, about as interesting as watching a sloth nap.
Click to expand...

Okay, I finally finished this. I love my creativity being challenged. Making my brain think about things differently. The ending was totally baffling to me. Why would he do that? Solidarity? Brain damage? It seems that the world they lived in, someone would need to keep their
sight. Just to be able to maneuver through that strange landscape.

Ultimately, there was something about it I liked. I appreciated. Weird as it was. The absurdity of it became quite entertaining to me.

The very definition of Avant-garde and WTF Cinema.
 
  • Like
Reactions: DiO'Bolic, kingricefan, Spideyman and 2 others
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom