What was the last movie you watched?

peterp1 said:
The Talented Mr. Ripley -- on Netlix -- saw it when it came out in 1999, but couldn't remember, so watched it again. Very well acted and cast, interesting story.

There is one "flub" in the movie when the Matt Damon character (Ripley) s trying to learn jazz in a hurry as part of his con. He's playing records without looking and trying to name the artist -- he's doing poorly and is very frustrated (saying "I can't even tell if that's a man or a woman" when Chet Baker is singing). Finally he shouts out "Charlie Parker" and then is very excited that he got it right. The problem is that it was Dizzy playing trumpet when he said it, before Charlie Parker came in.
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love this... about 50% through (maybe my 4th or 5th time) watching with my older daughter. she has been sucked in.

i watched about a minute of the Ripley series and stopped, saving to watch with aforementioned daughter after finishing the movie.
 
Manhunt In Space (1956) IMDB 2.6; Roku/Classic TV & Movies app
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Not a feature film, but a cobbled movie of 3 episodes from some serial Rocky Jones/Space Ranger from 1952/3

Black and white. Bad acting, wooden dialog, primitive special effects, space pirates, an evil female ruler of a secret world, cold light cloaking device - all woven into a loose plot line.

Bad, just bad. MST3K did a spoof on this, but I watched the 'raw' show. Should watched that instead.
 
Took in "Trap" (NETFLIX 2024)...but a TV movie I should have passed on.

Labeled as a "Thriller"...not so much, "Drag" would have been a better choice.

It's just, weird! Contrived? Yes!

Still not sure why I stayed until the end. :dunno: But I did.
One for punishment I guess.

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The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
I'd watch Gene Tierney read the phone book but her acting in this was not good. Visually the DVD was poorly done, and the dialogue was hard to make out without subtitles.
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Command Decision (1948) Clark Gable.

Not a traditional War movie, in fact it was based on a Play.

It's about the High command back at base who has to make the life-or-death decision about a mission to bomb the Germans Jet Factories. with a casualty count of around 500 men per mission, times three.

Being sourced from a Play, there's no actual combat scenes, though there are scenes of Planes returning to base (with both actual footage and special effects).

Great performances all around. I'm not a big Gable fan as far as his acting goes, he's usually just loud and blustery, and he is here, but it fits his character (the General in charge) perfectly. And for basically a single set film it moves along quite well.

I can't imagine the impact it must have had on people seeing it just three years after the war ended.

More Poster deception here. It's a dark and grim movie with very little humor.
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j_loop said:
Did you like this? I just watched it off the recommendation of a couple coworkers and was disappointed. I get that it’s about a “heavy” transitioning to a dramatic actor and I liked the child actor foil role, but so much of it seemed like fluff ie: Charles Manson, Sharon Tate cult aspect, Bruce Lee and too much focus on Pitt’s character. All that slowed the movie/plot down so much for me that I got kind of bored. Felt like like it was thrown in there because it was part of real old hollywood rather than adding to the story. Tarantino’s take on “historical fiction” didn’t work for me in Inglorious either with the incineration of all the Nazi’s in the theater. Suppose it’s just my taste.
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The transitioning and child actor are just a minor subplot of the movie. The main point of the movie was the alternate history portrayed. Hollywood was changing about that time, and part of that change was brought about by the Tate murder.

The movie was more about Pitt’s character than Leo’s. His interaction with a Manson groupie, and the owner of Spahn ranch. Seemingly inconsequential events that bring Pitt and Leo’s characters into direct contact with the Manson faithful, all because they went to the wrong address.

I would not compare Bastards to Once Upon a Time. I don’t consider it one of his better films.
 
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In The Heart Of The Sea

Spiderman, Thor, and Oppenheimer meet Moby Dick

not quite, but it did have those three actors among others. They leaned real heavy into the connection between the real story of the Essex sinking that inspired Melville's story and Moby Dick but it wasn't quite as direct as the movie implied. I read the book, and while the whale did indeed wreck the ship there was no mention of it being white, nor did they mention it chasing their lifeboats.
 
Vampire Circus (1972)
One of typical Hammer vampire movies. Gothic scenery, deacent effects, some fangs, blood and violence, some cute girls, nudity and romance.

And before that:
La casa dalle finestre che ridono (1976)
Despite some good amount of gore, what really makes this movie scary is it's slow, dark, very unpleasant atmosphere. Not the best horror around, but certainly remarkable.
 
Bill Ferris said:
FWIW, I recently purchased over a month ago, on recommendation of my long time movie buff friend, the complete BR box set of the William Powell/Myrna Loy Thin Man comedy crime solving sleuth movie series, that my B-I-L, and I have been watching after dinner on Wed. & Thur. one movie each of those nights.
Tonight is the final installment of the 5 or 6 last disc.

We`ve enjoyed their noir crime solving comedic antics, so far.
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Try Hopscotch with Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson and Ned Beatty ! Funny movie about an older agent being pushed out and the revenge he gets is funny as can be !
 
Never a Dull Moment [1950]
Fred McMurray, Irene Dunne, Andy Devine, Willam Demarest, and a pre-teen Natalie Wood
A NYC Broadway composer falls in love and marries a widowed cattle rancher. Not merely a "fish out of water" trope movie, this has crisp, funny dialogue and good acting from all the principals and minor characters alike. Dunne, McMurray, and Wood seem to be having a good time. Just when it gets predictable, something happens to keep it fresh.
Based upon Kay Smith's autobiography, Who Could Ask for Anything More. Includes 3 songs written by Kay Smith, sung by the operatically-trained Dunne.
Playing on  YouTube
 
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