What was the last film you watched?

[Mel O'Drama]

I'm slightly embarrassed to admit I willingly watched The Meg last night. Well - it was free on Prime.

Disappointingly, it wasn't as terrible as I'd hoped it would be. Not that I'd be in a rush to watch it again, you understand.​

 

[Edie70]

Philomena (2013) with Judi Dench & Steve Coogan.

 

[Angela Channing]

Bill and Ted Face The Music (2020).

I loved the first Bill and Ted film (the second one less so) and this one had strong reviews so I really wanted to like it but it didn't live up to my expectations. They tried to recreate the warmth, comedy and silliness of the original film but Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are just to old now to pull this off convincingly. It's not a bad film and there are some genuinely funny moments but fans of the original film might be disappointed and people new to the characters may not get what their appeal was in the first place.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

Knives Out (2019)

Good fun, and a very impressive cast. Where else can one find Muriel Heslop, Sonny Crockett, Laurie Strode, Steve Rogers, James Bond, Miss Piggy and Captain Von Trapp under one roof?

A decent plot, though, I suspect, not quite as clever as it thinks it is. A few moments could be seen coming from a safe vantage point. And Daniel Craig's accent was very curious indeed. But a nice way to kill two hours and ten minutes. And the house and its environs were very attractive indeed.​

 

[Rove]

Why do I torture myself?

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[bmasters9]

White House Down

 

[hatayas]

Ive just finished watching "The King of Staten Island". What a movie! So powerful. The movie made me laugh becase Pete Davidson is funny and I also cried because of the 9/11 reference. I strongly recommend.

 

[Toni]

The movie version of the spy novel "The Little Drummer Girl". I watched the recent miniseries and it was fun to compare both. Diane Keaton is not playing herself (or Annie Hall, for that matter), and gives her best here, deserving the Oscar nomination she didn´t get. The rest of the cast is equally good, but the character played here by crazybat Klaus Kinski is even more impressive in the TV version with Michael Shannon. A truly remarkable story which shows how many shades of grey you can see of such a serious matter as the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Only but: Keaton plays a struggling actress who has to do commercials to survive, but in every scene she is wearing one of those awful outfits of the 80s that Travilla would have loved to design for "Dallas", shoulderpads and all.

 

[i love jr ewing]

Danielle Steel's Secrets a made for tv movie.

 

[Seaviewer]

Help! (1965)
The Beatles' second film didn't get the critical acclaim that was showered on A Hard Day's Night but it has always been my favourite. I suppose I was just the right age for its fantastical elements to appeal to me more than the pseudo verite of the first film.
John Lennon later said that director Richard Lester's idea was ahead of its time, comparing it to Batman which came out the following year.

 

[CeeCee72]

I just finished "Stand By Me." Watched it with my spawn who simply refuses to believe it was based on a Stephen King story.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

based on a Stephen King story.

Seems to be a theme. I've just watched...

The Shining (1980)

It's many years since I've watched. The best part of a few decades, I should think. And this is possibly the first time I've sought it out to watch. It's one of those films that seemed to be on TV quite frequently, and I got drawn into it after catching the beginning.

Lots I'd forgotten. Like how dopey Shelley Duvall seems when playing Wendy for much of the film. It was like she was on quaaludes or had a traumatic head injury or something. It had the effect of making her seem unlikely to survive by her wits, which set up the latter part of the film well. I hadn't twigged before that Scatman Crothers was in the film. His name either passed me by or didn't mean anything on previous viewings. And in a decent sized role, as well. He kind of preceded LL Cool J being in every other horror film a couple of decades later. Jack's descent into madness seemed to happen much quicker than I remember. Perhaps I'd previously watched the longer version, rather than the European edit I saw tonight. Or perhaps being familiar with the plot made it go by quicker.​

 

[Willie Oleson]

Hyper, annoying, smart, sexy, mysterious, annoying and a Sixties French Beat soundtrack.

 

[Willie Oleson]

I wondered what the critics had to say about it

 

[Willie Oleson]

Lifeless characters, lifeless dialogue, zero atmosphere and a 1950s period set that adds absolutely nothing to the story.
I thought I was watching a supernatural plot from As The World Turns. What a drag!

 

[Angela Channing]

The Boys In The Band (2020)

I didn't really like this film. It was far too theatrical with long scenes and lots of dialogue. The film seemed very dated and I found many of the gay characters to be bad stereotypes. Maybe I'm not the target audience but I bored and couldn't wait for it to finish. I think it would work better on stage than on film.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

Cul-de-Sac (1966)

From the write-up I was expecting a precursor to Knots's Moments Of Truth. A home invasion film set in a suburban American cul-de-sac.

What I got was a film shot entirely on Lindisfarne by Roman Polanski and starring Dr Loomis from Halloween; Max from Hart To Hart (a villainous role here, but he did say "moider" at one point, making me grin from ear-to-ear); a French Michelle Pfeiffer lookalike; a then-practically-unknown Jacqueline Bissett; and that gobby Scottish piece who gave Kenneth Cope a spanking in Carry On At Your Convenience. All most surreal.​

 

[James from London]

I wondered what the critics had to say about it

Oh yes, I remember hearing this review not long ago (I'm a couple of years behind on my Kermode/Mayo podcasts) and quite enjoying the description of how confused it was. Now it's on Netflix, I canadd it to my My List list.

 

[Willie Oleson]

The movie opens with that fast-talking vocal fry and it goes on for almost two hours. Generally speaking, that would be my cue to press the stop button, but this time there was something different about it.
And as Kermode described it, there's a lot of energy coming from the actors. And then there's the beautiful Blake Lively (I think she reminds of Joanna Pettet).

 

[Seaviewer]

Yellow Submarine (1968)
For a film which has come to be regarded as an animation classic, Yellow Submarine started rather inauspiciously with the Beatles agreeing to the project as a way to fulfill their three-picture deal without actually having to make a third picture. It was only after production was underway that they became interested enough to contribute a handful of new songs and even make a live-action appearance at the end.
Evidently they had not enjoyed the experience of filming the first two movies but, given the already cartoonish nature of Help!, this may have been the most logical way to continue anyway.