The Last Movie You Watched?

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[size=18pt]A Boy and His Dog [/size] (1975) L.Q. Jones

Went on a trip to the P.A. world and could have travel in a better company, I actually never viewed it before, so didn’t know quite right what to expect from this strange flick even for the 70’s, in the end a very good and interesting film,. In my opinion and if I got the dates right that is, a starter for all the P.A. fever that would come in the future (well maybe Soylent green and the apes flicks really started), but at least a specific kind and the most prolific of P.A. the MAd MAx kind.

The story is very interesting and with some interesting moral twists, I’m surprised that is ain’t considered an exploitation movie, not that it desevers that status, no, just the moral of the story and the very good acting 8above other things) are above that simple genre clasification, just how thing are in 70’s cinema, our hero searches in the P.A. wasteland for woman to rape, uau that beats Clint Eastwood by far.

Don Johnson is great as the young hero or anti hero, I always liked the guy, I’m from the time when Miami Vice ruled the screens (he was very good in Machete by the way), also the main feminine part in the form of Susanne Benton was good, and we even got Jason Robards, could ask for more.

Its strange that such a film comes from an actor mostly known for being a stunt man, the dialogues are quite funny, and the all distilled some kind of strange perversion not easy to explain, there are no nice guys here 8even the dog)

Maybe not a great film, in the sense of how great films are supposed to be, but quite a unique film, one of a kind.

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Have fond memories of this different kind of film, and has moved up a bit on my re watch pile :slight_smile: .

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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - Colorful 50s blockbuster epic that runs almost 4 hours. The film is so outrageously pompous that you get the impression that its creators were thinking they were doing something really divine while shooting it. Numerous hilarious scenes made me laugh a bit even though I had a relatively rough time sitting through some of them. Overall an average film that I find very unlikely to watch it again in this lifetime.

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Watched Towering Inferno with the familia and was surprised how much they enjoyed it really. I couldn’t help notice all the disaster movie cliches but they were genuinely caught up in it and were gasping and shrieking every time a stairwell exploded or an old lady fell out of a glass lift. So I guess it holds up pretty well for a first time viewer if not so well for a jaded old cynic like me. I still had fun with it though. Particularly enjoyed Faye Dunaways outfit and the orange overkill of the interior design. :slight_smile:

Foxy Brown I watched on my own and thoroughly enjoyed. If the fashions and interior design of Towering Inferno screamed 70s this one took it to a whole new level. Blue white and yellow platform shoes, orange multi patterned nylon shirts, brown suede waistcoats…and that’s just the men! What’s more this is the only genre where someone can believably pull a gun from out of their hairstyle. ;D

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It was on televison here, a few Christmasses ago, and I noticed too how the younger generation enjoyed it. To them it’s a sort of Titanic (on fire). I still found the pic mildly entertaining. Too many clichés yes, but Newman and McQueen playing well together, and a couple of good death scenes. There’s a scène rather early on in the movie, with a guy and his misstress trapped by the flames while having a quicky (I’m not sure, looking at the cast, but I think it’s Robert Wagner). He rans off, saying he’ll be back with the entire fire department, and she breaks a windows (with a chair?) i order to jump. I remember one of the younger people saying “Looks like 9/11”.

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[quote=“El Topo, post:7141, topic:1923”][size=18pt]A Boy and His Dog [/size] (1975) L.Q. Jones

Went on a trip to the P.A. world and could have travel in a better company, I actually never viewed it before, so didn’t know quite right what to expect from this strange flick even for the 70’s, in the end a very good and interesting film,. In my opinion and if I got the dates right that is, a starter for all the P.A. fever that would come in the future (well maybe Soylent green and the apes flicks really started), but at least a specific kind and the most prolific of P.A. the MAd MAx kind.

The story is very interesting and with some interesting moral twists, I’m surprised that is ain’t considered an exploitation movie, not that it desevers that status, no, just the moral of the story and the very good acting 8above other things) are above that simple genre clasification, just how thing are in 70’s cinema, our hero searches in the P.A. wasteland for woman to rape, uau that beats Clint Eastwood by far.

Don Johnson is great as the young hero or anti hero, I always liked the guy, I’m from the time when Miami Vice ruled the screens (he was very good in Machete by the way), also the main feminine part in the form of Susanne Benton was good, and we even got Jason Robards, could ask for more.

Its strange that such a film comes from an actor mostly known for being a stunt man, the dialogues are quite funny, and the all distilled some kind of strange perversion not easy to explain, there are no nice guys here 8even the dog)

Maybe not a great film, in the sense of how great films are supposed to be, but quite a unique film, one of a kind.[/quote]

it’s a good flick, but i didn’t like that much ending part in the underground with clowns - but wasteland part of the film is superb
Don Johnson is indeed great

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dvd with this flick is lying on my shelf for some time, so it could be a good thing to finally watch it …

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Revolver (1975) by Sergio Sollima.
A truly outstanding film. Oliver Reed gives an absolutely fantastic performance. Not only crime film, but also superb drama and political thriller. Sure, there is not too much shootouts, but the plot is very well structured, with so many turnabouts! Besides loads of familiar faces and one of the best soundtracks by Ennio Morricone. Not to be missed. 9/10

Sword Of The Beast (1965) by Hideo Gosha.
It was a very good film, but I had anticipated more. Much more. Well, cannot be compared to Kobayashi’s awesome flicks. It appears to be too talkative in the first 45 minutes. Fortunately the second half saves this one. Overall, it is beautifully executed movie, with some nice plot twists and fabulous ending. 8/10

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Yes, the 911 parallel was very obvious at the end in particular when McQueen has a little speech lamenting the fact that architects should ask firemen more when designing buildings to ensure they don’t fall down so easily when on fire. I also found plenty to enjoy in the film still but I think the family actually enjoyed it more.

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Stardust

The sequel to 1973’s That’ll be the Day which follows the rise and fall of a rock star played by David Essex. Hadn’t seen this one since it’s 1974 cinema release but still found it very enjoyable. Essex is the star of course but, like in the previous film, the show is stolen by his manager sidekick. In That’ll be the Day that was Ringo Starr; here it is Adam Faith. Apparently Ringo couldn’t reprise his role because of other commitments but Faith turned out to be a more than adequate replacement. Although viewers could have been confused as to how the character switched between films from a Liverpudlian to a cockney. It really doesn’t matter though as Faith is excellent in the role which is far bigger than Ringo’s cameo was in TBTD. Unusual for a pop singer to turn out to be a better actor than he was a singer but Adam Faith really was. Liked him a lot in the TV series he did in the 70s, Budgie.

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[center]The Great Madcap[/center]

Breezy little confection from Luis Bunuel’s sojourn in Mexico, a slight but amusing comedic soap opera that sketches the social divide between rich and poor. A wealthy but wayward industrialist (Fernando Soler) is conned by his family - a bunch of idle spongers – into thinking that his hard-drinking, hedonistic lifestyle has brought about the downfall of his business (and their indulgent lifestyle, which is what they are really concerned about). While he is in a paralytic coma, they up sticks from the mansion to a rented house in the slums, adopt ragged clothes and, when he awakes, pretend to be manual labourers. But Soler gets wise to the ruse and decides to continue it to teach his relatives a lesson.

It’s all rather obvious, and as a social satire it is negligible (the gulf between the classes can be bridged by marriage, it seems), but the performances are spot-on, particularly Soler’s, and its moderate success in Mexico gave Bunuel to make his artistic comeback with Los Olvidados, El, The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz etc.

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1970, San Francisco International… failed (no pun intended) pilot of a television-endeavour, centering-around the daily routine of an airport… I think. Starts out with an incoming jet’s landing-gear being lowered, then Pernell Roberts and a stewardess all panic’d about the landing-gear, scaring a group of Congressmen on-board. It all goes downward (no pun intended) from there. -Stars Tab Hunter, in a rare 70’s role, as kind-of a kidnapper and thief. His gang kidnaps a pilot’s wife, then kidnaps Roberts’ gf… intermingled with a side-plot about a kid who steals an airplane, takes off, and Roberts has to get his own plane aloft so he can ‘talk the kid down’… Meanwhile, airport-cops help a hippie teach a ‘corporate capitalist’ about how wonderful hippies are. Utterly mediocre film…

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" Curse Of The Living Corpse"( 1963) this is from the same director who did the awful " Horror" film " Horror of Party Beach" and this is a vast improvement although that’s not saying a lot.Set in New England in 1892, it is the classic family join together at a mansion when the wealthy father dies and they gather for the will. then they are picked off one by one by a mysterious killer supposedly the dead man come back from the dead. quite cheap and unevenly acted, it is said it is rather violent for it’s time but i didn’t find it so. in black & white. screen debut for Roy Scheider, billed as Roy R. Scheider. 5/10

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i have caught a timetravel movie called Timeline late on tv
i remember watching half of it once and i was surprised this film is directed by Richard Donner
okay, this time i liked it little more

  • 70% of the movie looks like mediocre (but watchable) television movie, well, the rest of it contains quite good medieval battle with catapults throwing a huge fireballs in the air, and arrows flying in every direction
    btw, it is based on a Michael Crichton novel
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[quote=“tomas, post:7154, topic:1923”]i have caught a timetravel movie called Timeline late on tv
i remember watching half of it once and i was surprised this film is directed by Richard Donner
okay, this time i liked it little more

  • 70% of the movie looks like mediocre (but watchable) television movie, well, the rest of it contains quite good medieval battle with catapults throwing a huge fireballs in the air, and arrows flying in every direction
    btw, it is based on a Michael Crichton novel[/quote]

I thought it was okay, but nothing special

Same thing for the novel: I’ve read most of Crichton’s novels, this one is not one of his best, but it’s readable

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[quote=“scherpschutter, post:7155, topic:1923”]I thought it was okay, but nothing special

Same thing for the novel: I’ve read most of Crichton’s novels, this one is not one of his best, but it’s readable[/quote]

yap, nothing special, but for me a must-watch, because, it’s not only timetravel movie, but also timetravel movie set in some historic medieval era, and i’m sucker for such kind of movies - and that final battle was quite rewarding

from Crichton novels i read only Jurassic Park, back in those days of dinosaur boom - somehow i didn’t get to read another of his works

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In Time.

Film set in the future where everything is paid for in time which added something different in this thriller. The star is a bit limited re his acting ability, but this was better than I expected.

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[B]A Bloody Aria[/B] - A professor takes a student out into the wilderness to try and have his way with her but runs into some Korean hillbilly types. OK but nothing special.

[B]The Moment of Truth[/B] - Fascinating film about a young peasant who travels to the city and becomes a top Matador. Recommended.

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finally i have seen Cowboys and Aliens
haven’t read much about it before i thought it is going to be a film with some sort of comedy relief, or at least some funny buddy talk between Craig and Ford, but road not taken
actually i was shocked how serious was this flick
it combines my two favorite genres, so i was quite disappointed how unimaginative and full of cliche it was - until last thirty minutes i had real difficulties to pay attention - then at least some interesting action began
but what it was all about? aliens mining a gold on Earth? (don’t worry they don’t use humans to bring them gold like it was in masterpiss movie Battlefield Earth, this time they have some super duper technodevice)
but if they only mine gold, that wouldn’t be so malevolent, so aliens also abduct people, and they let them stare at some shiny white ball or whatever,
oh, yes, aliens also do some vivisection on abducted people, you can’t have alien movie without that bullshit in these days
at least Daniel Craig has some mcguffin bracelet, which can do some damage
but all in all this was a big letdown

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I wrote a while ago:

Cowboys and Aliens (2011, Jon Favreau)

Aliens visiting the West in search for … gold. Now who would have thought that? It’s all adequately executed, but like most CGI oriented SF-horror movies, it loses itself in CGI monsters running and jumping around and an awful lot of explosions (my ears are still tingling). The final scene reminded me of the exploding Challenger of twenty years (or so) ago

Works best as a western, and I wish they would have left all this abduction stuff out. As a horror movie it simply fails to impress. There’s too much nonsense and in my humble opinion things were far more convincing in the days of Alien and Predator, when it still was a hell of a job to create believable visual effects. Directors were forced to be creative, and the final result was far more suggestive and scary. Today they can get any monster they want, and we audiences get more than we ever asked for.

Performances are adequate too, although I had trouble to accept Craig as a cowboy. He would do better in a Peplum-SF-horror blend.