The Last Movie You Watched?

The Saloon
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[quote=“scherpschutter, post:3959, topic:1923”][size=12pt]Naked[/size] (1993, Mike Leigh)

Never was my favourite Leigh, and don’t think it ever will be
Some funny moments, some devastating moments as well, but all in all this comedy/drama feels a little too calculated in its bleakness. Moreover most characters (especially David Thewlis’s) are such hopeless pricks (or cunts) that it’s very hard to relate to any of them.
A shouting couple provide the film with its best moments[/quote]

I actually liked Naked a lot when I first saw it, surely more than 10 years ago, at the time thought it was a very brave film, and that was a shame that those characters portrait in the film really existed. Thought that the nihilism of Johnny represented in a way the world of today, I still prefer Secret and Lies and Life is Sweet, but Naked is just behind those, and I saw both more recently than Naked.

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Emperor of the North Pole (1973/Dir: Robert Aldrich)
IMO one of the best Train Action Movies I know. During the time of the great Depression in the US a Hobo named A-No1 (Lee Marvin) tries to get to Portland on the train of the sadistic Railway Conducter Shack (Ernest Borgnine). The movie ends in something like a fianl battle between the two men.
It’s a while ago that I’ve watched it but it’s everytime a good pleasure. Robert Aldrich directed some fine movies (Dirty Dozen, Vera Cruz, Massai, Kiss Me Deadly, What ever happend to Baby Jane, Flight of the Phoenix, Ulzana’s Raid, Too late the Hero, Attack …) during his career. :slight_smile:

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[quote=“The Gringo, post:3958, topic:1923”]Jean Vigo’s Zero for Conduct

A somewhat surreal medium-length film about four rebellious boys in a bordering school. There’s alot to admire about this film, and its influences on “If…” is very apparent.[/quote]

A masterpiece of cinema from a director who died too early.

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The only film from Vigo I’ve seen was L’Atalante his last I think, during a reposition on TV, and I was quite impressed (I remember well cause I was trying to study, but the film kept my attention), there’s something for me to do, purchase Vigo 's films most likely will end side by side with Dreyer, Renoir and others in my collection.

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Morte sospetta di una minorenne (1975) Sergio Martino

Saw this one last night, entertaining and well filmed police Italian film, but pretty uneven also, at least in some aspects. The story is easy to follow but nothing of special there are much better ones, the comedy tones that splash the film from time to time (the car chases for instance) almost spoiled the film cause in he end the subject of the film is suppose to be pretty dramatic, there’s small character deepness, but we have lots of political reflections on the state of Italian Justice of the time and social drama, I particularly like the ending with no moral on any kind was pretty clever in my view .
Cassinelli a unfortunate member of the Vic Morrow club, was a odd choice as the action hero with is John Lennon glasses, but an effective one. Another highlight for me was the Car chase, and yes once again with a Citroen this time the in-temporal 2CV, what a car that was, it could turn in two wheels and would never capsize.
In the end a pleasant film to watch with good action scenes, well filmed by Martino, but that lost focus some times a tille more sharpness was welcome (like the ending), and with a very inept killer as the bad guy, three stars stuff.

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There isn’t much to purchase. you can put his complete works easily on one DVD. L’ Atalante and the half-long Zero de conduit are his only films. Apart from some short documentary pieces.

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Bad Lieutenant : Port of Call New Orleans (2009).

Nicolas Cage plays a cop who is bent as they come. You name he does it. Cage looks kind of weird as he has a back problem. Some of the things he gets up to I found pretty funny. Film is riviting stuff mainly due to Cage. A good example of how the wrong person gets promoted.

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“The Marine 2” another one of those action films with a WWF star as the star of the film in this case Ted Dibiase. average and forgettable.

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two episodes from anime voltus v the episode 9 and 10

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Moon 2009

Sam Rockwell stars in this excellent Sci-Fi movie about a man wprking on the moon harvesting fuel for earth. After a lunar accident, Sam starts to realize that things are not what they seem. This film draws heavily from 2001: A Space Odyssey but is still unique enough to stand as it’s own. One of the best Sci-Fi movies I’ve seen in a long time.

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Hansu (1977)

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All I can say is: WTF?

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Why De Niro and Pacino are so great:

Hilarious, and one for SD

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[quote=“Stanton, post:3972, topic:1923”]Why De Niro and Pacino are so great:

Hilarious, and one for SD[/quote]
That was funny. SD must have it on his YouTube favourites.

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[quote=“I…I…Idiot, post:3970, topic:1923”]Moon 2009

Sam Rockwell stars in this excellent Sci-Fi movie about a man wprking on the moon harvesting fuel for earth. After a lunar accident, Sam starts to realize that things are not what they seem. This film draws heavily from 2001: A Space Odyssey but is still unique enough to stand as it’s own. One of the best Sci-Fi movies I’ve seen in a long time.[/quote]

Great flick! I agree it is one of the best sci-fi’s to come along in awhile.

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predators yesterday on blue ray, TOTAL CRAP!!! >:( a ultra poor copy of the original

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I’ve watched tons of stuff since I last updated this topic with my viewing habits. I hardly know where to begin, but I should probably post an update now rather than keep leaving it.

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve waded through A Better Tomorrow I, II and III. The first of the series is probably the best, although I love the ending of the second. The third is maligned too much, but it has to be admitted that it’s the weakest of the lot.

What makes me laugh about these films is that with the first film Chow Yun Fat’s character totally steals the show, and the other two films are elaborate attempts to bring him back from the dead for more crazy gunfights. In the second film, Tsui Hark resorts to a spurious twin brother plot device which is completely brazen. By the third film, it’s all about Mark and the main characters from the earlier installments do not even feature.

Anyway, I’ve also been watching a fair few film noirs, including White Heat, The Lady From Shanghai, Gilda and the brilliant Gun Crazy. Gun Crazy I hadn’t seen before and was completely blown away by. A mesmorising film.

I saw George Romero’s Knightriders, which really surprised me. Very different type of film to what Romero is known for, and I thought in the end it was powerful and memorable. There are some fantastic performances from Ed Harris and Tom Savini, and a welcome role for Patricia Perlman, whom I have the hots for. It does go on a bit too long, in my opinion, but Knightriders is a solid film and unfairly overlooked.

Sticking to the 1980s, I’ve also watched Gymkata and Born American, which were pretty poor. Gymkata in particular was just one long convoluted mess which served only to set up unfeasible scenes in which star Kurt Thomas could show off his gymnastic prowess. Funny, in a sad kind of way.

Another poor film from the era which I’ve seen was Of Unknown Origin, starring Peter Weller. Basically he spends the entire movie battling a quite large rat. It doesn’t make for the most convincing type of horror, to be honest.

As well as the lousy, I have watched some genuinely brilliant films from the 1980s, including My Science Project and Monster Squad. They were absolutely fantastic, and gave me a warm glow after viewing.

I also saw Hot Pursuit for the first time, although I was sort of reluctant to watch it after reading that it’s not John Cusack’s best. I absolutely loved it and it’s now one of my favourites from his early films.

More in the middle of the road is Eye of the Tiger, which was fun but nothing amazing. It has a stellar cast, though, and there were some worthy scenes.

I saw Woo-ping Yuen’s True Legend, which was a bit disappointing. It starts so brilliantly and at one stage I thought I was going to be in for a real treat, like maybe one of the best martial arts films I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately, though, the structure of the film is all messed up, as there’s a natural ending about two thirds of the way through, then it ends with what feels like a decent middle. Hard to explain, but the film was a massive let down. Still, there’s some absolutely spectacular fight choreography which makes the film easily bearable.

I also saw Legend Of The Fist: The Return Of Chen Zhen, which was just disappointing pretty much from the outset. The fights are nothing special, it’s all been done before and better. A shame, because I like watching Donnie Yen most of the time.

I’m a huge fan of Tobe Hooper and I put on Eaten Alive the other night. It’s not his best film, let down by the fake crocodile and lack of plot. Still, worth checking out if you like any of his other stuff at all.

I’m getting to the end of the list now. I watched a Hammer film called Straight On Till Morning, which was a bit too clever for it’s own good. It’s an unusual film for Hammer as it’s more psychological horror than anything else. I didn’t mind it, but it was trying too hard and in the end I felt like I’d rather just watch Christopher Lee hamming it up as Dracula or something.

Finally, I watched the first part of Mesrine, titled Killer Instinct. It was extremely stylish and cool. I’ve always liked Vincent Cassel, ever since I first saw him in the superb La Haine, and he turns in an extremely accomplished performance. I’m sure this film will find plenty of fans on this board.

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Recently I have watched:

Ocean’s 11 - one of the great movies to come out of the 60’s - they will never be another Rat Pack.
Diary of the Dead - still growing on me as a good reboot for the zombie apocalypse
Survival of the Dead - decent follow up to Diary
The Tuxedo - pretty tired action comedy with Jackie Chan
G.I. Samurai - fun action packed Sonny Chiba Sci-fi adventurer. Loaded with guns, samurai combat, and some great natural back drops make for a solid movie.

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[b]Yuke yuke nidome no shojo/ Go,Go second time Virgin /b Koji Wakamatsu

Now this it’s what I call some heavy viewing 18 PG Rating that’s for sure, but still an amazing film. I have been so subsumed to how good some Japanese directors are that, I keep forgetting that the world of Japanese cinema does not end in Kurosawa or Suzuki.
I became curious to see this movie after reading about the director’s late work United Red Army and The Good Soldier, and of what I read about it, being the type of films I would like to see, but while that’s its not possible I already got two titles with me this one and Ecstasy of Angels (both a part of a 4 film compilation of the director sold in Portugal).
Well the film surely isn’t for the weak of heart, tells the story of a girl raped by the second time in the rooftop of a Tokyo building, she’s then left for dead there, she survives, and in the morning she meets a young fellow (who watched her being raped) who also have problems of his own, then the two will went into a journey against the world that surround them (and the guys that raped her), it isn’t that simple but it’s a very difficult film to be described, very difficult.
Shot in B/W with some scenes (the most violent ones shot in colour) is very strong visually excellent photography work, in that aspect it lives by itself, but the viewing experience will gain if you have a good translation from the original language.
Imagine Badlands but made by a Pink film Japanese director with a nihilist iconoclast feeling and an yakuza background.
As piece of artistic achievement I think it’s a great film, an exploitation film with an artistic view now that’s something difficult to get, I still not quite sure about what the director wanted to tells us, but whatever it is its worth it.
After this I think that it’s just another director for me to purchase his films, 5 stars for my personnel taste, but this ain’t an easy film and not for everybody taste that’s for sure.
By the way the title is brilliant and so the soundtrack

The Black Hole (1980) Gary Nelson

After Last night fast but heavy viewing I thought that a more light one would be more adequate so nothing better than a Disney film right.
Actually I saw this in the cinema during my childhood but contrary to other films I saw at the time, just don’t remember the film that well.
Cleary Disney response to Star Wars success, but for several reasons the film was never really a contender for Stars Wars.
The film its too talky and scientific and there’s also few action, and the existing one it’s too tame, the robots were quite static, even in merchandising terms (and at least I remember that Disney tried to) was also never a contender to the Stars Wars franchise, only the robots (VINCENT/BOB and Maximillian a creation of the character played by Maximillian Schell, so a good joke I guess) were up to that, but with no cool aliens and just a few not memorable characters (come on what kid wanted a Ernest Borgnine dummy, instead of Princess Leia Organa), there was just no commercial chanceof competing with that, but in the end where a doomed robot BOB tells to his more advance prototype VINCENT “we are the best ones”, I guess he was really trying to say “ we are so much better, cool and better looking than R2-D2”.
Pity because I really liked the film, it got one of those great heterogeneous casts (Perkins, Forster, Borgnine, Schell, Mimieux), its well shot got a great cinematographic score from John Barry, there’s also some deepness in the characters mostly in Perkins and Shell ones (and Borgnine as the Yellow coward), when Prf.º Reinhart (Shell) asks Dr Kate Mcrae (Mimieux) to protect him from the evil robot Maximillian, we understand that the creation as took over and overrun its creator and who the real evil is. In the last scene where both robot and creator are strangely mixed in one on top of the fire mountain the robot really reminded me of The Wicker man film figure.
But I guess the all film was a little to heavy for the kids and missed its target viewers, the ethereal and at the same time beautiful ending didn’t helps either, must have been confusing for a young child, even for me now it was, and surely demanded a sequel.
One of those films clearly made for the big screen and that I’m sure a blueray treatment would fit just fine.

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saw " Carry On Cowboy" & " Carry On Screaming". i had not seen eithier for a long time, and now i have seen them again i have completely changed my views. when first seen i thought " Carry On Screaming was much the better film, although both were and still are entertaining and easily watchable. now i think " Carry On Cowboy" is the better film,with some funny moments and some more serious ones, ok the accents are very dodgy at times but it’s great fun and Sid James made a great villain. " Screaming" isn’t as funny as i remembered it but does have the odd moment and using a different actor in Harry H Corbett worked well.

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[quote=“El Topo, post:3978, topic:1923”][b]Yuke yuke nidome no shojo/ Go,Go second time Virgin /b Koji Wakamatsu
The Black Hole (1980) Gary Nelson

After Last night fast but heavy viewing I thought that a more light one would be more adequate so nothing better than a Disney film right.
Actually I saw this in the cinema during my childhood but contrary to other films I saw at the time, just don’t remember the film that well.
Cleary Disney response to Star Wars success, but for several reasons the film was never really a contender for Stars Wars.
The film its too talky and scientific and there’s also few action, and the existing one it’s too tame, the robots were quite static, even in merchandising terms (and at least I remember that Disney tried to) was also never a contender to the Stars Wars franchise, only the robots (VINCENT/BOB and Maximillian a creation of the character played by Maximillian Schell, so a good joke I guess) were up to that, but with no cool aliens and just a few not memorable characters (come on what kid wanted a Ernest Borgnine dummy, instead of Princess Leia Organa), there was just no commercial chanceof competing with that, but in the end where a doomed robot BOB tells to his more advance prototype VINCENT “we are the best ones”, I guess he was really trying to say “ we are so much better, cool and better looking than R2-D2”.
Pity because I really liked the film, it got one of those great heterogeneous casts (Perkins, Forster, Borgnine, Schell, Mimieux), its well shot got a great cinematographic score from John Barry, there’s also some deepness in the characters mostly in Perkins and Shell ones (and Borgnine as the Yellow coward), when Prf.º Reinhart (Shell) asks Dr Kate Mcrae (Mimieux) to protect him from the evil robot Maximillian, we understand that the creation as took over and overrun its creator and who the real evil is. In the last scene where both robot and creator are strangely mixed in one on top of the fire mountain the robot really reminded me of The Wicker man film figure.
But I guess the all film was a little to heavy for the kids and missed its target viewers, the ethereal and at the same time beautiful ending didn’t helps either, must have been confusing for a young child, even for me now it was, and surely demanded a sequel.
One of those films clearly made for the big screen and that I’m sure a blueray treatment would fit just fine.[/quote]

I too saw The Black Hole as a kid in the cinema. And I too did not remember much about seeing it (except the menacing Maximilian and the death of Anthony Perkin’s character). I recently rewatched this as well - I really enjoy it F/X and the characters are solid in it. Along with Tron Disney did some decent Sci-Fi work back in the day.