Topic: Last movies you saw & what you thought of them (Read 200740 times)

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #1880 on:** February 06, 2022, 06:19:13 AM »

Quote from: Hello Goodbye on February 06, 2022, 03:42:20 AM

Marnie

It's necessary to watch this movie a few times to fully understand what Alfred Hitchcock was trying to get across.

Yes, it took me a few years to understand what was actually wrong with Marnie.

I highly recommend this film. Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, and Louise Latham acted brilliantly.

Alfred Hitchcock's cameo was very early in the movie so the viewer could concentrate on the film's character development...

Normandie · « **Reply #1881 on:** February 07, 2022, 12:53:07 AM »

Omigosh! I just read that Jane Asher was in The Masque of the Red Death and even brought Paul along during shooting. I had no idea—but then, the last time I saw this film was when I was 15, a good 6 years before I became a Beatles fan.

I'll definitely be rewatching it.

The short story was so creepy. We had to read it in 10th grade. That last line—"And the Red Death held sway over all"—still creeps me out. Stephen King used it in The Shining. Brr!

My ex is a distant relation of Poe's.

I read The Cask of Amontillado in third grade, and that's always creeped me out, too. (Well, it IS Poe.

) If that was made into a movie, I'm not sure I'd want to see it. The story was unsettling enough.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #1882 on:** February 07, 2022, 01:28:02 AM »

Quote from: Normandie on February 07, 2022, 12:53:07 AM

I read The Cask of Amontillado in third grade, and that's always creeped me out, too. (Well, it IS Poe. ) If that was made into a movie, I'm not sure I'd want to see it. The story was unsettling enough.

It was made into a short film in 2011...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fhExYkBl4Y" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fhExYkBl4Y</a>

Director: Thad Ciechanowski
Writers: Thad Ciechanowski and Frank Tirio, Jr.

This film adaptation was the recipient of an Emmy Award for Best Educational Program.

There was a 1995 PBS version too...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOtHygOuuXU" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOtHygOuuXU</a>

Normandie · « **Reply #1883 on:** February 07, 2022, 01:32:29 AM »

^^^^

I just watched this now and was pretty impressed. I'll have to check out that PBS version.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #1884 on:** February 07, 2022, 01:34:50 AM »

In pace requiescat

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #1885 on:** February 21, 2022, 01:41:42 AM »

Alfred Hitchcock's 1969 motion picture Topaz

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mocX-_VeqRc" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mocX-_VeqRc</a>

It's October 1962...The Cuban Missile Crisis. There were means of espionage other than U2 spy planes by which the United States was obtaining information.

It's time to read Leon Uris' novel again.

Hey Dmitry! You'd get a kick out of the opening credits...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irxBUc7XfvI" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irxBUc7XfvI</a>

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #1886 on:** February 21, 2022, 01:58:50 AM »

Friday night I watched North By Northwest

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek7T9Gyl_J4" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek7T9Gyl_J4</a>

The ultimate case of mistaken identity and another Alfred Hitchcock classic. The movie's climax came atop The Mount Rushmore National Monument...

Not far from you, Kathy.

nimrod · « **Reply #1887 on:** February 21, 2022, 02:53:57 AM »

I went to the cinema and watched Nightmare Alley, really good film.

Then I saw the original 1947 film is on YouTube so watched that as well

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXEkWRti5Qs&t=986s" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXEkWRti5Qs&t=986s</a>

Normandie · « **Reply #1888 on:** March 13, 2022, 08:22:55 PM »

Against the Ice, an Artic chiller tale à la The Terror and The North Water. I really liked this one. I'm trying to stick to my budget and NOT order the book.

Moogmodule · « **Reply #1889 on:** March 14, 2022, 08:39:27 AM »

Took my boys to see the new Batman. Quite enjoyable. Batman doesn’t seem to have the endless military budget for accessories he enjoyed in the Nolan films. His bat mobile seems to be just a hotted up car rather than a high tech indestructible armoured car. And he’s not fighting out of space super villains like in the DC films.

It’s literally darker. Hard to think of a scene not at night or in a darkened room.

nimrod · « **Reply #1890 on:** March 14, 2022, 11:20:46 PM »

Quote from: Moogmodule on March 14, 2022, 08:39:27 AM

Took my boys to see the new Batman. Quite enjoyable. Batman doesn’t seem to have the endless military budget for accessories he enjoyed in the Nolan films. His bat mobile seems to be just a hotted up car rather than a high tech indestructible armoured car. And he’s not fighting out of space super villains like in the DC films.

It’s literally darker. Hard to think of a scene not at night or in a darkened room.

I have cataracts that need removing so not much point me watching a dark movie

Moogmodule · « **Reply #1891 on:** March 15, 2022, 09:11:39 AM »

Quote from: nimrod on March 14, 2022, 11:20:46 PM

I have cataracts that need removing so not much point me watching a dark movie

You might need to watch the negative

nimrod · « **Reply #1892 on:** March 16, 2022, 01:24:25 AM »

Quote from: Moogmodule on March 15, 2022, 09:11:39 AM

You mind need to watch the negative

I just watched Far From Men starring Viggo Mortenson. I love films like this, absorbing, quite slow, realistic. Films that take you there.

nimrod · « **Reply #1893 on:** March 25, 2022, 12:18:21 AM »

Against The Ice
2022
True story of Danish sailors trapped in Greenlands Ice

Normandie · « **Reply #1894 on:** March 25, 2022, 02:07:46 AM »

Quote from: nimrod on March 25, 2022, 12:18:21 AM

Against The Ice
2022
True story of Danish sailors trapped in Greenlands Ice

Quote from: Normandie on March 13, 2022, 08:22:55 PM

Against the Ice, an Artic chiller tale à la The Terror and The North Water. I really liked this one. I'm trying to stick to my budget and NOT order the book.

I just watched this! What'd you think, Nim?

nimrod · « **Reply #1895 on:** March 25, 2022, 11:39:53 PM »

Girl With A Pearl Earing
2006

Scarlett Johansson stars as Griet, a young 17th-century servant in the household of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (played by Colin Firth) at the time he painted Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665)
Very well acted and excellent direction.
Enjoyable film and quite educational.

7/10

nimrod · « **Reply #1896 on:** March 25, 2022, 11:42:16 PM »

Quote from: Normandie on March 25, 2022, 02:07:46 AM

I just watched this! What'd you think, Nim?

I enjoyed this. It's not a classic but it's a true story told well. The acting is decent, not world beating.
It can get a bit slow, but being a "senior citizen" I've got to like slow films with atmosphere.
The ending was a bit rushed and unexplained, as in many films these days.

6.5/10

Normandie · « **Reply #1897 on:** March 30, 2022, 10:15:39 PM »

Quote from: nimrod on March 25, 2022, 11:42:16 PM

I enjoyed this. It's not a classic but it's a true story told well. The acting is decent, not world beating.

I agree.

Quote from: nimrod on March 25, 2022, 11:42:16 PM

It can get a bit slow, but being a "senior citizen" I've got to like slow films with atmosphere.

I can totally identify with that!

Normandie · « **Reply #1898 on:** March 30, 2022, 10:21:09 PM »

Carrie. Not the horror movie but the 1952 film based on Theodore Dreiser's novel Sister Carrie, one of my favorite books. Bet I've read it almost a dozen times. I love Dreiser.

The movie was a bit of a disappointment. I thought Eddy Albert and Laurence Olivier were great in their roles, but in my opinion Jennifer Jones as Carrie was horribly miscast. She was 'way too old for the part (reminded me of the cringe-worthy Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind), plus I didn't care for her interpretation of the character. AND the screenwriters changed the ending, grrr. Plus the music seemed terribly overdone to me. The word bombastic comes to mind.

Overall, I'm not sorry I finally watched it. Now I should gear myself up to watch A Place in the Sun, which is based on Dreiser's An American Tragedy.

Normandie · « **Reply #1899 on:** April 05, 2022, 10:00:08 PM »

I haven't seen this yet, but I will. It looks deliciously ridiculous, also like it's one of those movies suited to goofy college-age drinking games: "Take a shot every time someone says 'unsinkable'!"

https://youtu.be/uervktH6Ahs

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