What was the last film you watched?

[Seaviewer]

it was great so see Glenn Close in a lead role again.

I had to give that picture a double take - what's happened to Any Adams? Then I realised that for some reason the actresses appear in the reverse order to their billing.

I don't think I've ever watched an Indiana Jones movie, or at least not in its entirety.

I've seen the first one but have never been inspired to watch it again or see the rest. With Star Wars I've seen the first one a couple of times and the immediate sequels as well. I've tried to watch the rest as they've come onto TV but fell asleep with #1 and haven't seen #2 or #3. #7 and #8 haven't been too bad; I'll watch #9 when I get the chance.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

Easily the weakest of the four films for me. The plot was mostly fine - even the infamous "nuke the fridge" scene worked for me. But the overreliance of CGI greatly spoilt the film and made it feel cheap. And I hated that his dull new sidekick (don't even get me started on that twist) was pretty much a superhuman. My least favourite sequence in the film combined these two flaws and had the sidekick doing the splits between two speeding jeeps, swashbuckling like Billy-O before swinging through the trees like Tarzan, apparently faster than the flat out vehicles. Also there were too many double-agent double crosses which got tedious.

On the plus side, Harrison Ford was as good value as ever; it was wonderful to see the return of Karen Allen; Cate Blanchett was great fun; and John Hurt is always good news, isn't he?

 

[Seaviewer]

The Blues Brothers
One of those films I've heard a lot about but never got around to watching before.
It's basically a succession of musical performances punctuated by explosions and car crashes. Innocuous enough but I don't get why it's a popular as it seems to be.

 

[Sarah]

Unhinged (Russell Crowe looking very unhinged indeed!)

Blackbird (Susan Sarandon) - absolutely fantastic.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

It starts strong, but did get a bit silly as it progressed (during one scene of panic, I half expected a pair of boobs to jiggle in front of the camera à la Airplane). A few of the twists can be seen coming without the aid of radar. And the SFX-laden action sequences in the latter part of the film served against it.

All the same, there are some nicely tense scenes. Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman are terrific. And Glenn Close is in it.

 

[J. R.'s Piece]

Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd, Anthony Nicholls and Howard Marion Crawford in The Hasty Heart. Uncredited appearance by Sam Kydd.

The Hi-jackers. With Anthony Booth, Jacqueline Ellis, Derek Francis, Ronald Hines and Patrick Cargill.

Floods of Fear with Howard Keel, Anne Haywood, Cyril Cusack and Harry H Corbett.

Cash on Demand. Starring Peter Cushing, Andre Morell and Richard Vernon.

Clash By Night. Starring Terence Longdon, Jennifer Jayne, Harry Fowler, Alan Wheatley, Peter Sallis, John Arnatt

Psyche 59. With Patricia Neal, Curt Jurgens and Samantha Eggar.

Thunderstorm. Starring Carlos Thompson, Linda Christian and Charles Korvin.

Fort Algiers. Starring Yvonne De Carlo, Carlos Thompson, Raymond Burr, Leif Erickson, Anthony Caruso, John Dehner and Henry Corden.

Tomorrow at Ten. Starring John Gregson, Robert Shaw, Alec Clunes, Alan Wheatley, Kenneth Cope, Harry Fowler and guest star William Hartnell.

Tread Softly Stranger. Starring Diana Dors, George Baker, Terence Morgan and Patrick Allen.

The Small Back Room .(Powell/Pressburger). With David Farrar, Jack Hawkins and Kathleen Byron.

Whistle Down the Wind

Stardust. With David Essex, Adam Faith and Larry Hagman.

One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing (Powell/Pressburger).

 

[Ukdallasfan]

The Prom on Netflix with Merck Streep, James Corden and Nicole Kidman to name but a few. Film adaptation of a successful Broadway musical that I’d never heard of. Enjoyable fun

 

[Seaviewer]

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (2016)
Semi-official documentary directed by Ron Howard with the cooperation of Paul, Ringo, Yoko and Olivia (Harrison).
It's hard to know the intended audience. There was some footage I hadn't seen before but not much in the way of new information, or, in some cases, old information, with sequences which seemed to lack proper context.
Probably works better as nostalgia for old fans than as an introduction for newbies.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

I'd never seen it, and it was very low down on my radar of films to watch one day. In fact I wasn't planning to watch last night, but it came on TV and, before I even knew what I was watching, I was drawn in by the Saul Bass style opening credits:

I really enjoyed it, though I'm quite shocked to find it's almost two decades old. I thought it was far more recent. For much of the film I was impressed that they were making Leo DiCaprio look decades younger, whereas actually he was decades younger.

It's quite a Christmassy film as well. Another nice surprise.​

 

[DallasFanForever]

Great movie! Never really got a lot of hype when it was released for whatever reason. I too didn’t see it til many years after it came out cause quite frankly I had never heard of it. But it’s become one of my favorites.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

I too didn’t see it til many years after it came out cause quite frankly I had never heard of it. But it’s become one of my favorites.

I can understand why. It's really well-made and I love the period detail of the Fifties and Sixties.

The two hours went by very quickly. I'm very glad it was shown on BBC, which has no adverts. I don't enjoy watching films with commercials, so if it hadn't been on BBC I would have switched it off and missed a great film.

 

[DallasFanForever]

For Tom Hanks’s knock knock jokes alone it’s worth watching LOL!! But all kidding aside I think the thing that attracts me to the movie the most is the great cast. I’ve always appreciated great acting and having Hanks, DiCaprio, Walken, and Amy Adams all in the same film was awesome! And the rollercoaster plot is so well written

 

[Mel O'Drama]

For Tom Hanks’s knock knock jokes alone it’s worth watching LOL!!

Ha ha. Yes indeed.

But all kidding aside I think the thing that attracts me to the movie the most is the great cast. I’ve always appreciated great acting and having Hanks, DiCaprio, Walken, and Amy Adams all in the same film was awesome!

Yes. And all directed by Spielberg himself.

And the rollercoaster plot is so well written

It really is, and it blew my mind that it's (mostly) based on real events.

 

[Angela Channing]

Last Holiday (2006)

I'm now in Christmas film mode so I'm seeking out seasonal films that I've not seen before. I started with Last Holiday which is about a character played by Queen Latifah who gets a terminal diagnosis and only weeks to live so she decides to blow all her savings on going away and enjoying herself. The film is a bit corny (but then that's what you expect from a Christmas film), quite funny, enjoyable and very entertaining.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

Black Christmas (1974)

It's been a few years since I watched it. This was my first spin of the Blu-ray version.​

 

[Ukdallasfan]

Happiest Season starring Kirsten Stewart of Twilight fame. Was an unusual take on a Christmas romcom and we enjoyed it

 

[Seaviewer]

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
2017 biopic about psychologist William Moulton Marston and the polyamourous relationship he shared with two women whose combined attributes seem to have been the inspiration for Wonder Woman.
According to the film, Marston was also the inventor of the lie-detector, which became Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth, and he incorporated his psychological theories into the comic to encourage girls not to be afraid to show their strengths.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

Two very different films last night and this afternoon, though both come from the same stable:

Damn Pixar. They always get my face wet.​

 

[Alexis Colby Carrington]

Prom - loved it

 

[Mel O'Drama]

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

A watchable enough film, but not really the kind of Spider-Man that speaks to me most. I can't get my head round the idea of him being an Avenger, and to have all this incredible technology to support him. I far prefer him poor, alone and a little miserable.

There was also a shedload of liberty-taking with the characters' lore. Half the supporting cast were of a different ethnicity to the comic version, and Liz Allan as The Vulture's daughter is just silly. But there were some nice little nods to touches from the comics as well, so it almost balanced out.​