What was the last film you watched?

FrankE said:

Beetlejuice (1988) Cert 15

Beetlejuice (1988) - IMDb

Beetlejuice: Directed by Tim Burton. With Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Annie McEnroe, Maurice Page. The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.

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A fun film I couldn't take seriously due to some very odd and cringy scenes.

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Beetlejuice, I love that film! That and Edward Scissorhands are my favourite Tim Burton movies.

The movie I just watched is M3GAN. For a totally predictable movie, I found some parts kind of funny.

Toy Story 4



Disappointing. There were just too many characters, too much plot, too much repetition of not-very-funny jokes (It's trash - no, it's toys) until about two thirds of the way through the film. Then the story became more compelling but the characters didn't - Bo Peep too fashionably feisty, Woody too hopeless, Gabby Gabby veering from villainess to misunderstood girly, Andy's toy crew not given enough to do or say and so on. It was just about watchable, but it will be going back to the charity shop whence it came, and I don't think we'll bother with Toy Story 5.

A pity, since the first three films were brilliant.

Pollock

Pollock is a 2000 American independent biographical drama film centered on the life of American painter Jackson Pollock, his struggles with alcoholism, as well as his troubled marriage to his wife Lee Krasner. The film stars Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan, and Sada Thompson, and was directed by Harris.

Marcia Gay Harden won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Lee. Ed Harris received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Pollock. The film was a long-term personal project for Harris based on his reading of the 1989 biography Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, written by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

1978

Babylon (2022)
Amazing movie, a must-see despite it's length (3+ hours).

Cinema Paradiso
Director's Cut



Cinema Paradiso (Italian: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, Italian pronunciation: [ˈnwɔːvo ˈtʃiːnema paraˈdiːzo], literally "New Paradise Cinema") is a 1988 coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. Set in a small Sicilian town, the film centers on the friendship between a young boy and an aging projectionist who works at the titular movie theatre. This Italian-French co-production stars Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Leopoldo Trieste, Marco Leonardi, Agnese Nano and Salvatore Cascio. The film score was composed by Ennio Morricone and his son, Andrea, marking the beginning of a collaboration between Tornatore and Morricone that lasted until Morricone's death on 6 July 2020.

Director's cut
In the 173-minute version of the film, after the funeral, Salvatore notices an adolescent girl who resembles the teenage Elena. He follows the teen as she rides her scooter to her home, which allows Salvatore to contact his long-lost love Elena, who is revealed to be the girl's mother. Salvatore calls her in hopes of rekindling their romance; she initially rejects him, but later reconsiders and goes to see Salvatore, who was contemplating his rejection at a favorite location from their early years. Their meeting ultimately leads to a lovemaking session in her car. He learns that she had married an acquaintance from his school years, who became a local politician of modest means. Afterwards, feeling cheated, he strives to rekindle their romance, and while she clearly wishes it were possible, she rejects his entreaties, choosing to remain with her family and leave their romance in the past.

During their evening together, a frustrated Salvatore asks Elena why she never contacted him or left word of where her family was moving to. He learns that the reason they lost touch was because Alfredo asked her not to see him again, fearing that Salvatore's romantic fulfillment would only destroy what Alfredo sees as Salvatore's destiny – to be successful in the cinema world. Alfredo tried to convince her that if she loved Salvatore, she should leave him for his own good. Elena explains to Salvatore that, against Alfredo's instruction, she had secretly left a note with an address where she could be reached and a promise of undying love and loyalty. Salvatore realizes that he never found that note, and thus lost his true love for more than thirty years. The next morning, Salvatore returns to the decaying Cinema Paradiso and frantically searches through the piles of old film invoices pinned to the wall of the projection booth. There, on the reverse side of one of the dockets, he finds the handwritten note Elena had left thirty years earlier.

The film ends with Salvatore returning to Rome and, with teary eyes, viewing the film reel that Alfredo left.

Pinocchio (1940)



I watched this because my husband loves cartoons. He enjoyed all the funny moments, the frantic episodes, dances & bright colours. I hated every minute of it! But I enjoyed watching him enjoy it.

Hell Drivers (1957, Cy Endfield)

Amazing cast of established and soon-to-be famous actors. Led by Stanley Baker, with Patrick McGoohan, Gordon Jackson, Sean Connery, Peggy Cummins, David McCallum, Herbert Lom, Jill Ireland, brilliant turn by William Hartnell as the crooked manager, Alfie Bass, Sid James...

I saw this a very long time ago on television, so I thought I should refresh my memory. Exciting, gritty film of its time in a world with no safety at work and lots of people out for themselves in a tough world. Endfield was an American director blacklisted under the McCarthy witch-hunt.

Reese Witherspoon was adorable.

Not bad at all.