The Last Movie You Watched?

The Saloon
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[quote=“El Topo, post:8540, topic:1923”][size=12pt]Persecución hasta Valencia [/size] - Julio Coll - 1968

Never a real fan of what’s called Eurospy genre, a term itself a contradiction Spying is a universal activity.

Anyway weak film, only worth watching for the cool soundtrack with some folk songs, and the photography with the background filmed in a glorious way.
The main actor looked a bit gay well for a tough guy and to hell with political correctness. The director an experimented one (he wrote some nice scripts), made a few scenes well, and its cool to believe hippie girls wondered all around Spain during Franco’s regime, I still remember when I saw the first girl in topless in some beach in the south, a foreign girl. But the rest is pure cinematographic nonsense,

These films do have a very positive side; they remind us of the good things of live, traveling, nice places to visit, cool convertible cars and nice looking girls, pitty about the rest[/quote]

Not a great fan of the genre either, unless it’s one of those OSS flicks, preferably with Frederick Stafford, somehow a favorite of mine

I always have trouble to follow the story, I get a bit bored, start thinking about other things, and near the end of the movie, I don’t remember what the opening was about.

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Shogun Assassin - One of them films that you just have to watch every so often.

Valkyrie - I bought this a while back then put it on the back burner and then wasn’t too bothered if I watched it or not, I was convinced otherwise and I really enjoyed it, really good performances from all involved, It kept me anticipating what was going to happen next (Yes, I know it’s a true story but not a story I knew)

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A captivating little mystery; Cry Panic, 1974… John Forsythe’s car hits-and-kills a guy on the outskirts of a small town. His car is stuck down an embankment. He wanders to the nearest house to call police. But the guy’s body disappears. The townspeople seem to want Forsythe to leave as fast as possible. Until he insists on mailing an accident-insurance claim. Then the townspeople insure he can’t leave. Yet he alludes capture and decides to investigate what’s happening. -A satisfying quasi-enigmatic film.

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The Apartment (1960) - A Christmas story for the real world

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I love it. Prefer it even to Some Like It Hot.

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[size=12pt]Amphibious[/size] (2010, Brian Yuzna)

Who doesn’t like a good monster movie every now and then?

I do, but this barely released Indonesian-Dutch coproduction isn’t very good. The Dutch contribution isn’t impressive either. Apart from a couple of crew members, two actresses have a Dutch passport. Lead actress Janna Fassaert appeared in a couple of tv-series (I had never heard of her) while supporting actress Elke Salverda makes her debut; she’s a ravashing beauty, but her appearance lasts for only a couple of minutes, so it’s still a question if she can act …

Easy to see why it was barely released: the story about child labour, a marin biologist investigating some strange events in the waters north of Sumatra, and a girl giving birth (in Alien style) to scorpion-like creatures is confusing, occasionally even implausible. The tongue-in-cheek opening scene (with Salverda) is okay, performances and special effects aren’t too bad, but I had the impression that elements of different scripts were combined to realize one movie, with predictable results.

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Girl Slaves of Morgana Le Fay
-Disappointing erotic horror film. On the surface the film looks much like Rollin’s films but it lacks the certain atmosphere and tension which makes it just boring to watch. Most of the erotic bits are kinda disappointing too.

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“Diner” - takes place Christmas 1959…

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I was only four years old back then, so i don’t remember a damn thing of the damn night

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[size=12pt]Cane e gatto[/size] 1983 Bruno Corbucci

This is part of a new project I’m working on, to watch movies of actors who where SW stars after the SW train reaches its final station, or a more pompous way to say “got so many stuff to watch, that I can’t decide my mind”. I do got a bunch of Spencer and Hill post SW movies and I’ve seen many almost all, but not very familiarized with Millian’s career in the 80’s and on, did notice he was mostly typecast was the latino character In all kind of US productions.

It’s a bad film of course, but it does have some redeeming points, first one it’s the fact that is obligatory watch for any SW aficionado, the story is not so badly told and also both Spencer and Millian character’s got some real substance, all this does not make Cane e gatto a good film, only a watchable one, in a nice way.
Millian is strangely low profile here, always acting in a monochordic way, but his Tony Rome is funny, the one way style works, Bud Spencer acts like he does in all his 80’s films no surprises here, the simple cat and mouse plot with character actor Marc Lawrence as the main villain is easy and nice to follow, and the gags are comical enough.

We’re served with all the usual 80’s clichés, like the gay’s very now old fashioned gays (not the metro sexual ones from today where very man looks gay), and the stuck sister in law among others.

In a personal note, couldn’t help noticing that a few good years after the end of the sixties counter culture period, and already working in the imperialistic “enemy” for the paycheck, the Corbucci’s still had a political statement to make even if a small one, in this case the adopted by Spencer family Vietnamese girl, some things never change.

So bad film yes, but to be honest the only thing that annoyed me was the terrible 80’s soundtrack, the rest was funny to watch, always nice to see Bud Spencer delivering some punches and if Millian is around even better.

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A Prayer For The Dying -
Mickey Rourke stars as IRA terrorist in this quite fine Peter Snell’s effort
Rourke did a magnificent acting job on playing irishman - i love his accent in this flick, plus he carries a sawn-off shotgun, what is always an assett - little letdown is, he doesn’t use it very much
Alan Bates is worth-mentioning as London mobster
problem is, Rourke’s character wants to stop his murderous life and it gets quite too sentimental towards the end - especially when Bob Hoskins aka Father Da Costa is around
Bluray looks great

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[quote=“tomas, post:8551, topic:1923”]A Prayer For The Dying -
Mickey Rourke stars as IRA terrorist in this quite fine Peter Snell’s effort
Rourke did a magnificent acting job on playing irishman - i love his accent in this flick, plus he carries a sawn-off shotgun, what is always an assett - little letdown is, he doesn’t use it very much
Alan Bates is worth-mentioning as London mobster
problem is, Rourke’s character wants to stop his murderous life and it gets quite too sentimental towards the end - especially when Bob Hoskins aka Father Da Costa is around
Bluray looks great[/quote]

Not a great movie, but one with good moments. Love the scene with father Hoskins knocking down a few thugs.

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it would work better for me if Rourke went on last rampage in the end, similarly as Eastwood in Unforgiven

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Great film. Features one of my favorite lines ever

Father, whether you believe me or not, there’s to be no more killing, not by me.
There’s nothing worth killing or dying for.
And the real truth is, Father…there’s nothing worth living for, either.

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No Blade Of Grass (1970).

A virus hits London, and not long before the country is in total chaos. Are story concerns a group who are trying to get to a remote farm in Scotland, but proves a difficult task. Film is dated but ahead of its time which compensates for that in my view. Like the way people do not hesitate when someone needs to be killed, adds to the whole negative aspect of the film. Nigel Davenport is excellent as the no nonsense leader of the group. Hard to find film in its uncut version at one point, but made more available since the Warner Archive release which presents the film in its correct 2.35 ratio.[size=3] [/size]

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[quote=“ENNIOO, post:8555, topic:1923”]No Blade Of Grass (1970).

A virus hits London, and not long before the country is in total chaos. Are story concerns a group who are trying to get to a remote farm in Scotland, but proves a difficult task. Film is dated but ahead of its time which compensates for that in my view. Like the way people do not hesitate when someone needs to be killed, adds to the whole negative aspect of the film. Nigel Davenport is excellent as the no nonsense leader of the group. Hard to find film in its uncut version at one point, but made more available since the Warner Archive release which presents the film in its correct 2.35 ratio.[size=3] [/size][/quote]I didn’t get that, apparently they made a mess up and put some of it in the wrong order.

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Watched the first few episodes of NEW SCOTLAND YARD, enjoying it so far.

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[quote=“Yodlaf Peterson, post:8557, topic:1923”]Watched the first few episodes of NEW SCOTLAND YARD, enjoying it so far.

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one of them must be in american werewolf in london right?

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[size=12pt]The Long Good Friday [/size] 1980 John Mackenzie

A rewatch cause is always good to return to places where you were happy. It’s the case here, still as good as I remember.
Not really familiarized with the director’s work, but he did a great job in The long good Friday. For such a conventional story the direction is very effective pushing all the right bottoms, with great pace as we watch Harold in his doom path, the intensity of harold’s task of finding the organization that is putting in risk the bussiness of a lifetime with a short time window, gives a fatastica sense of claustrophobia from the begining to the end of the film. Also all the main characters have real substance with everyone having an important part in this dark opus (enve a young Pierce Brosnan in a small no speaking part). We got the sense that Harold, magnificently interpreted by Bob Hoskins, is not a man of compromises, and eventually sense how the film will end, but ont he other hand, we hope not.

Liked the camerawork, great as the camera follows Hoskins, in what seems an emulation of Italian directors, who are best known for that kind of imaginative work. But we are far from Italian police thrillers of the 70’s, without any obvious references, but considering the plot, the film owns more to those US gangster noir of the 50’s.
Also important the message that the film shows, that terrorist organizations whatever their political agenda is, in the end just became usual or conventional criminal organizations, which are only looking for their cut in the big scheme of backhand businesses.
But even if it still be a great work, it wouldn’t be the same without Bob Hoskins; the film shines an extra more with an actor like him in the main role. He’s really awesome in the part of the Kingpin that gained the town control by force, and doesn’t want to share that same control so hard to obtain with other organizations. The logical thing to do would be to negotiate, but in that last scene, magnificent by the way, is not regret we seen in Harold face, only hate.
Great film

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Mindscape of Alan Moore - great documentary about this graphic novel genius, but not only about comics - he talks a lot about magic and spiritualism too