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What was the last film you watched?

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Just a thread to mention the last film you watched. You may write a little comment about it if you want.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I

I was a bit disappointed and it's my least favourite from the series so far. I can't really say much because I haven't read the book tho.
 
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One of the better early Paramount films but I enjoy anything with Miriam Hopkins and Fay Francis in it. They are just fabulous!

We watched A Hard Days Night. It's been several years since I last saw it and I always enjoy it every time. It's the best of the Beatles films in my opinion. It does a good job of not only capturing Beatlemania but it's really a time capsule of 60s pop culture. And to top it off it's a very well directed and artistic film and stands the test of time because of that.



Kevin
 
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^ The Game was good.

As far as oldies with Jack these are my favs:

Five Easy Pieces
The Shining

Don't as much like Easy Rider or Little Shop or even China Town. Could've sworn I'd seen a very very young Michael Dougals in a film that is similar, ending wise with Five Easy Pieces, 'as in he ditches the girl at the end, throws a gallon of ice cream out the window while driving off', I'll have to investigate.
 
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My "Jack" faves--One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Five Easy Pieces, Shining, Chinatown.

I searched Y/T for the Robert ('Jack') & Elton (Billy Green Bush) scene in Five Easy Pieces, but couldn't find it...

" It's ridiculous. I'm sittin' here listening to some cracker *******, who lives in a trailer park, compare his life to mine. Keep on tellin' me about the good life, Elton, because it makes me puke."
 
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Interesting that you have been watching the Marx Brothers as my wife and I just finished these:

The Big Store is my favorite Marx Bros movie!

The thing I love the most in all Marx Bros films is Harpo playing anything!

Also the Merry Widow is a fine operetta and as much as I am a fan of Jeannette Macdonald I prefer a couple other versions I own. She had far better chemistry with Nelson Eddy than she did with Maurice Chavalier.

Kevin
Thanks Kevin, I'll try to get the version you mentioned. It's really nice to meet friends who have a heartedly interest in classic movies.
 
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Ah, a confirmation of my theory regarding off-the-wall responses to threads: I just read this thread's title as "What was the last flu you caught?"

POSS [Perils Of Skim Scanning]
 
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Saw Skyfall the new James Bond film this with the wife this afternoon. Although I did enjoy the film I'm not as enthused about it as others have been. I think the film bogged down quite a lot and I'm a little disappointed that it's a departure from the direction the franchise had been going with Daniel Craig at the helm. It seems a step backwards to me. Now maybe that was intentional by the producers to celebrate the 50th anniversary but I personally don't think it was the right decision. I was hoping to see where they were going to take the Mr. White storyline next but I guess they are abandoning it. I'd be willing to bet that all the Bondisms in the film are the ideas of script writer John Logan's doing. He's such a fanboy!

Kevin
 
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I just saw Skyfall and like Kevin I was a little disappointed. The biggest issue for me was the script, which I thought was weak and lacking the cleverness that previous films have had. Javier Bardem's character was also poorly setup, and for as great of an actor he is (his entrance was fantastic) I kept wishing they would have showed us more of him. The chemistry between Bond and Moneypenny was also totally absent. So while not a bad movie, it wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be and certainly not as great as everyone keeps saying.
 
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Photographing Fairies (1997) film based on the 1992 novel (same title( by Steve Szilagyi
at a friends, via her Netflix basic subscription...

A darkly 'romantic' story (as in the romantic era, not Hallmark romance), simultaneously physical, metaphysical -- about parallel realities, beautifully shot and with a fine cast. Kinda brilliant, I thought.
 
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I think I'm pretty forgiving when it comes to Bond. I own them all on Blu-Ray and previously on DVD and VHS so you can say I'm a fan of the series. I was just hoping for some closure on the storyline they began with Casino Royale but this film acts as if those events never happened. There are a lot of nods in the film to films of the past but nothing with the current continuity they began in the reboot. So it seems like Skyfall is a reboot of the reboot and actually worse than that because it takes us back to the very beginnings of the franchise instead of moving us forward. You'll see what I mean when you see it. Like I said I was hoping that the Mr. White storyline would continue because as we know he escaped in Quantum and is still on the loose and I was hoping that the organization he worked for would be revealed as Spectre but I don't think we will ever see that developed now.

Kevin
 
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Recently bought these two horror classics, favs from my youth, I'd been neglecting the 80's far too long. ED2 is hardly underrated, but TCM2 is every bit as much a classics, though many feel like making lofty diplays of conscience when coming to their conclusion about this film, how utterly stupid people can be.
 
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