The Last Movie You Watched? ver.2.0

[aldo]

@Bill_san_Antonio

As for Midnight Express, I just like prison movies in general so there’s a bit of bonus on the rating here I think.

I saw it in the cinema on a double bill with ‘Taxi Driver’ (1976) … Not light stuff, but I thought ‘Midnight Express’ was shocking, exciting and very entertaining then … subsequently watching it on DVD a year ago or so, I felt it hadn’t aged well at all … and after reading how a lot of it was invented by the author/protagonist, it really put me off.

I know it was very highly regarded at the time of it’s release with critics and received many awards … but somehow it comes off as a slickly made exploitation film.

Anyway, Bill … we all enjoy our movies for different reasons and don’t have to qualify or explain … but thanks for your reply

[LankyGringo (Brian)]

@aldo

it comes off as a slickly made exploitation film.

That is a spot on evaluation.

[MABUSECAST]

I finally got around to watching Jordan Peele’s newest sci-fi horror film “NOPE” (2022) tonight!

For the first half of this I was worried that this would turn out to be something like “X” (2022) where its more or less over-hyped by the Letterboxd film snob/“EleVatEd hORrOr” crowd and just is OK but NOPE this shit rules once it gets going!

The finale of this is one of the best I’ve seen in a movie in a long long time, all the cast members are fun to watch, and its just an all around banger to behold!

Top shelf Sci-fi horror IMO!

[LankyGringo (Brian)]

The wife is gone this weekend so that she and her five friends from high school could go away to a cabin by a lake to sunbathe, swim, and perhaps have a cocktail or two to celebrate the fact that they have all turned 40 (though a couple have actually hit 41 and one 42). As someone who is only a couple or three years away from 60, I really don’t think this is cause for celebration…but to each their own.

Not feeling like depriving her of the pleasure of unpacking , I decided to do a few things around the new house (re-route a drain pipe, try out my new riding mower, connect the motor to and master the retractable awning on the back porch, and enjoy the pleasure of being able to hang out with my horses) before deciding to sit down and watch some movies.

Since I just recently got a nice Blu of Twins of Evil, I decided to sit down and watch all of Hammer’s so-called Karnstein Trilogy (or if you count Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter then I only watched three of the four).

I decided to watch them in the order in time they occurred instead of the order they were released so I began with…

This is the first part of the trilogy but the last one made and Hammer at their best. I thoroughly enjoyed this one plus the fact that it starred the Collinson Twins (the first twins to ever appear in Playboy) only added to the enjoyment.

I followed that up with…

The first of the trilogy made. This one too is Hammer at their best and Ingrid Pitt was absolutely mesmerizing. There are certainly more beautiful actresses (not that she wasn’t beautiful) but just the way she played her role was so seductive that it would have been impossible for any one to resist her character’s charms.

I think she had an almost Diana Rigg quality about her…maybe it’s the eyes.

And finally, I concluded with…

Will someone please explain to me how Yutte Stensgaard had to give up acting because she couldn’t find work? She ended up selling advertising for a Christian radio station in Portland, Oregon.

She is absolutely beautiful and had the potential to be a really good actress. Unfortunately, this is the weakest film of the three but still highly enjoyable.

And that concludes my first relaxing afternoon in quite some time.

[Gritz]

That is a fantastic afternoon there LG! One of my favorite trilogies right there. Maybe just throw in some Countess Dracula and Vampire Circus for some added enjoyment and then you have a full weekend there

[LankyGringo (Brian)]

Those are definitely two top notch recommendations!

[Toscano]

@LankyGringo

And that concludes my first relaxing afternoon in quite some time.

With your recent move and everything else, I hope that there are more relaxing afternoons to follow for you…

[Toscano]

Sat down and finally got to watch the excellent…

Only criticism…I wish the documentary had included a discussion on ‘A Fistful of Dynamite’ (‘Duck You Sucker’). To my ears, it is one of Ennio’s greatest, and most appropriate scores…it’s absence was glaring.

All in all though, a definite

[LankyGringo (Brian)]

Thank you, my friend. I am sure they are coming soon.

[Admin (Sebastian)]

Watching the first Santo movie

[JoshuaTracy]

Last night I watched Point Blank (1967, John Boorman).

Lee Marvin of course always delivered, and the atmosphere of the movie was incredibly unique. Feels more like an arthouse movie than a film noir, with an almost dreamlike feel hanging over it. Based on the novel “the Hunter” by Donald Westlake (using his Richard Stark pseudonym); the late 90s thriller Payback (with Mel Gibson) is an adaptation of the same book. I enjoy Payback a lot, very fun movie in its own right but artistically it’s nowhere near Point Blank.

[Max (Max Stephenson)]

Watched the Radiance blu of Iron Prefect. Not my type of film as it’s very much a slow burn but I still found it quite enjoyable.

Really loved the extras, especially the Alex Cox feature on Gemma’s life. Never knew Gemma’s iconic scar was from him playing with a bomb as a child

[Admin (Sebastian)]

i recently watched their whole Damiani/Nero box and that was a friggin blast

[cuchillosancheez (Roland)]

I just came back from watching Oppenheimer in 70mm and, WOW, what a movie! Enough said, just go watch it!

[Admin (Sebastian)]

Watched the first part of Barbenheimer last night

[Lone_Gringo]

John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)…The ridiculous way over the top action ruined the movie for me. 5/10.

[Admin (Sebastian)]

I got tired from all the shooting people in the head from above in part 1…

[Max (Max Stephenson)]

Saw the Barbieheimer double feature today. Both absolutely fantastic. Oppenheimer was just on a whole other level.

[PistoleroAmigo]

I read that Kubrick wanted Ennio Morricone for the film, but Leone told Kubrick that Morricone was too busy, without even telling Ennio thwt Kubrick had asked.

[scherpschutter]

The Invisible Man (2020, Leigh Whannell)

Some have listed this SF/horror movie as part of an ‘Invisible Man franchise’ starting with the 1933 Hollywood adaptation of H.G. Wells’ original story, but it only uses some names and ideas from Wells’ writings and is best watched as a standalone movie that bears little or no relation to any novel or movie of the same name. Instead there are some similarities (especially on visual level) to Paul Verhoeven’s SF shocker The Hollow Man (2000).

Elisabeth Moss plays a woman who escaped from an abusive marriage and believes she is now stalked and gaslit by her ex-husband, who supposedly committed suicide: he was an optics engineer and she thinks he has acquired the capacity to become invisible. Of course nobody wants to believe her … Okay, the premise is a bit hard to accept, but this is basically a horror movie and as such it works marvellously: it’s nasty, mean-spirited and above all scary. And it also has an appropriate twist ending that might take you by surprise.

**** out of 5