Last movie you saw? v2.0

[Glasser]

I just saw "Metal Massacre- The Story Behind the Legendary Album" documentary about Brian Slagel and Metal Blade records. It was excellent!

[MirrorMask]

For the first time, I saw Saw.

 

Pun aside, while I'm not the biggest horror fan, I liked it. It's a film so old and relatively famous that I was bound to know something about it, but luckily the movie didn't get spoiled down to the last detail. I remember having read that the killer was always there in the room, but I was also sure that the actor playing Jigsaw was the guy playing Zed, so I was a bit confused. In the end, the twist got me, so it was all good in the end.

There are clever plot twists (that are constructed well and give a movie rewatch value) and there are silly plot twists, thrown there just because; Saw's plot twist is definitively of the first kind, the good one.

[TheHoveringSojourn808]

saw Saw X last week finally. glad to put that series to rest, and weirdly the 10th one was one of the best ones? lol

went and saw The Changeling last night as well, and it's based on a haunted house that I live walking distance from in Denver!

[MirrorMask]

saw Saw X last week finally. glad to put that series to rest, and weirdly the 10th one was one of the best ones? lol

I don't think I'll watch the sequels. I watched the first movie of a genre I'm not overly in love with, I liked it, I'm just gonna quit while I'm ahead 

[Metro]

Just an FYI, Saw X takes place between the first and second films, despite being the 10th film in the series.

[MirrorMask]

Just an FYI, Saw X takes place between the first and second films, despite being the 10th film in the series.

Duly noted! 

Last couple of movies seen:

- SPEAK NO EVIL - Interesting premise and execution, but some things in the decisions process of the protagonists fell flat and felt too unbelieavable. Wasted opportunity.

- THE NUN - Good enough for this period of the year, nothing groundbreaking but just a decent horror movie with religious undertones.

[hefdaddy42]

Throw Momma From The Train

First time watching in several decades.  Still fantastic.  Possibly an acquired taste, but I cannot recommend highly enough.

[KevShmev]

Throw Momma From The Train

First time watching in several decades.  Still fantastic.  Possibly an acquired taste, but I cannot recommend highly enough.

"Owen doesn't have a friend."

"That's because he's shy."

"No, he's not.  He's fat and he's stupid."

 

That exchange sounds awful without watching the scene, but Anne Ramsey totally makes it work.

[Metro]

The Social Network


Hate Facebook. Love this movie.

[hefdaddy42]

Throw Momma From The Train

First time watching in several decades.  Still fantastic.  Possibly an acquired taste, but I cannot recommend highly enough.

"Owen doesn't have a friend."

"That's because he's shy."

"No, he's not.  He's fat and he's stupid."

 

That exchange sounds awful without watching the scene, but Anne Ramsey totally makes it work.

[Momma sees Larry for the first time]
Momma: Who's this?
Owen: This is Cousin Paddy. He's coming to stay with us a while. Isn't that nice?
Momma: [suspiciously] You don't *have* a "Cousin Paddy".
Owen: [to Larry] You lied to me!
[Owen knocks Larry out with a frying pan to the head]

------

Larry: [on the phone with Owen from Hawaii] Owen, what the hell did you do to my wife?
Owen: Ehh, I don't want to say over the phone. All I can tell ya is that I killed her last night.
[hangs up]

[KevShmev]

Throw Momma From The Train

First time watching in several decades.  Still fantastic.  Possibly an acquired taste, but I cannot recommend highly enough.

"Owen doesn't have a friend."

"That's because he's shy."

"No, he's not.  He's fat and he's stupid."

 

That exchange sounds awful without watching the scene, but Anne Ramsey totally makes it work.

[Momma sees Larry for the first time]
Momma: Who's this?
Owen: This is Cousin Paddy. He's coming to stay with us a while. Isn't that nice?
Momma: [suspiciously] You don't *have* a "Cousin Paddy".
Owen: [to Larry] You lied to me!
[Owen knocks Larry out with a frying pan to the head]

------

Larry: [on the phone with Owen from Hawaii] Owen, what the hell did you do to my wife?
Owen: Ehh, I don't want to say over the phone. All I can tell ya is that I killed her last night.
[hangs up]

 

Bill Crystal's puzzled reaction and "what?" after Momma calls him a black bastard will never not make me LOL hard.

[MirrorMask]

Saw Memoirs of a Geisha. Beautiful sceneries all around. Sad story however.

[hefdaddy42]

The French Connection (1971)

First time watching this in a couple of decades, at least.  I didn't enjoy it as much as I remember enjoying it before.  Still wonderfully directed and acted, of course, and the car chase is wonderfully gonzo.  But I just didn't find the actual story all that engaging, I didn't really care much for many of the characters (big shoutout, however, to Roy Scheider, who is gold in everything), and the title cards at the end telling everyone's fate is just kind of weird.  Still, a fantastic film.

[MirrorMask]

Me Before You.

After the disaster of King's Landing, Daenerys Targaryen becomes a simple and kind hearted small town girl that takes a job as assistant to a tetraplegic man, paralyzed from the neck down. A very poignant and touching movie, you can call it "romantic" but it's not saccharine, it has substance to it, it balances in a nice way the drama and the heavy moments (and boy, there ARE very heavy moments) and the more funny and cute ones. Absolutely a great movie, to call it "a romantic movie involving a disabled man" is selling it short. An hidden gem.

[Cool Chris]

The French Connection (1971)

First time watching this in a couple of decades, at least.  I didn't enjoy it as much as I remember enjoying it before.  Still wonderfully directed and acted, of course, and the car chase is wonderfully gonzo.  But I just didn't find the actual story all that engaging, I didn't really care much for many of the characters (big shoutout, however, to Roy Scheider, who is gold in everything), and the title cards at the end telling everyone's fate is just kind of weird.  Still, a fantastic film.

I saw this many years ago, and was mildly disappointed, based on it being an Oscar winner, having one of my favorite actors (Hackman), and all the acclaim it has received over the years. I think I also just didn't find the story very interesting, and outside of Cloudy and Popeye's interactions, the characters weren't interesting either. I've thought about checking it out again to see if my opinions have changed, but when I do revisit an old film, more often than not I find my initial reactions are still valid.

[coz]

Throw Momma From The Train

First time watching in several decades.  Still fantastic.  Possibly an acquired taste, but I cannot recommend highly enough.

"Owen doesn't have a friend."

"That's because he's shy."

"No, he's not.  He's fat and he's stupid."

 

That exchange sounds awful without watching the scene, but Anne Ramsey totally makes it work.

[Momma sees Larry for the first time]
Momma: Who's this?
Owen: This is Cousin Paddy. He's coming to stay with us a while. Isn't that nice?
Momma: [suspiciously] You don't *have* a "Cousin Paddy".
Owen: [to Larry] You lied to me!
[Owen knocks Larry out with a frying pan to the head]

------

Larry: [on the phone with Owen from Hawaii] Owen, what the hell did you do to my wife?
Owen: Ehh, I don't want to say over the phone. All I can tell ya is that I killed her last night.
[hangs up]

 

Bill Crystal's puzzled reaction and "what?" after Momma calls him a black bastard will never not make me LOL hard.

Throw Momma... is an absolute classic in my book.  Sooo many great quotes.

What a dream I was having!  Louis Armstrong was trying to kill me!
 

[KevShmev]

Throw Momma From The Train

First time watching in several decades.  Still fantastic.  Possibly an acquired taste, but I cannot recommend highly enough.

"Owen doesn't have a friend."

"That's because he's shy."

"No, he's not.  He's fat and he's stupid."

 

That exchange sounds awful without watching the scene, but Anne Ramsey totally makes it work.

[Momma sees Larry for the first time]
Momma: Who's this?
Owen: This is Cousin Paddy. He's coming to stay with us a while. Isn't that nice?
Momma: [suspiciously] You don't *have* a "Cousin Paddy".
Owen: [to Larry] You lied to me!
[Owen knocks Larry out with a frying pan to the head]

------

Larry: [on the phone with Owen from Hawaii] Owen, what the hell did you do to my wife?
Owen: Ehh, I don't want to say over the phone. All I can tell ya is that I killed her last night.
[hangs up]

 

Bill Crystal's puzzled reaction and "what?" after Momma calls him a black bastard will never not make me LOL hard.

Throw Momma... is an absolute classic in my book.  Sooo many great quotes.

What a dream I was having!  Louis Armstrong was trying to kill me!
 

"Get away from me, you horse's ass!"

 

[coz]

 
Next is "Murder at My Friend Harry's" by Owen Lift. Chapter one:
The night was humid. Class dismissed, I have an enormous headache in my eye.

[KevShmev]

Underrated line. 

(to Momma) "Momma, you're alive!"

(to the cops) "Old people, you have to reassure them."

 

[El Barto]

I haven't seen it in a coon's age, but Throw Momma never clicked with me. It should have. I thought it was well done and appreciated the cast. It just didn't resonate. Partly because around the same time DeVito did Ruthless People, and that's an absolute masterpiece. It was a wee bit earlier and pretty much set a bar for Danny DeVito and that sort of comedy, and TMftT majorly failed to match it, I thought.

[KevShmev]

I haven't seen it in a coon's age, but Throw Momma never clicked with me. It should have. I thought it was well done and appreciated the cast. It just didn't resonate. Partly because around the same time DeVito did Ruthless People, and that's an absolute masterpiece. It was a wee bit earlier and pretty much set a bar for Danny DeVito and that sort of comedy, and TMftT majorly failed to match it, I thought.

I had forgotten about Ruthless People until a few years ago when I stumbled across it while flipping around the dial, and I was reminded of how funny it is.  The scene with Sam, Ken, Earl and the SWAT team is priceless.  "This could very well be the stupidest person on the face of the earth.  Perhaps we should shoot him."

[hefdaddy42]

I haven't seen it in a coon's age, but Throw Momma never clicked with me. It should have. I thought it was well done and appreciated the cast. It just didn't resonate. Partly because around the same time DeVito did Ruthless People, and that's an absolute masterpiece. It was a wee bit earlier and pretty much set a bar for Danny DeVito and that sort of comedy, and TMftT majorly failed to match it, I thought.

I don't know, other than DeVito is in it, and it's comedy, I wouldn't think to compare the two.

Give TMFTT a rewatch.

[TheHoveringSojourn808]

saw The Burbs last night and was into it until the last 5 minutes, which kinda ruined the film

2/5

enjoyed the camp. t hanks is always good. the neighbors were kooky. the ending was so stupid tho

[hefdaddy42]

Last night, I watched F/X (1986), starring Bryan Brown and Brian Denehy.

For those unfamiliar with the film: "The film follows a special effects expert who is hired by the U.S. Department of Justice to stage the murder of a mobster about to enter the Witness Protection Program, but complications arise when he is targeted for murder himself; meanwhile, an NYPD detective becomes suspicious of the circumstances of the case."

I haven't seen this movie since shortly after release (so, a long long time).  I won't go so far as to say it was really good, but I definitely enjoyed it.  I've always liked Bryan Brown, and Denehy is pretty much gold in everything.  It also features Jerry Orbach in a seemingly rare villainous role.  Good stuff.

[Orbert]

I haven't seen it in a coon's age, but Throw Momma never clicked with me. It should have. I thought it was well done and appreciated the cast. It just didn't resonate. Partly because around the same time DeVito did Ruthless People, and that's an absolute masterpiece. It was a wee bit earlier and pretty much set a bar for Danny DeVito and that sort of comedy, and TMftT majorly failed to match it, I thought.

I had forgotten about Ruthless People until a few years ago when I stumbled across it while flipping around the dial, and I was reminded of how funny it is.  The scene with Sam, Ken, Earl and the SWAT team is priceless.  "This could very well be the stupidest person on the face of the earth.  Perhaps we should shoot him."

I love Ruthless People.  I think it's hilarious.  The premise, the casting, everything is great.  I never warmed to Throw Momma from the Train.  It just seemed like a like of really unlikeable people doing despicable things.

[El Barto]

I haven't seen it in a coon's age, but Throw Momma never clicked with me. It should have. I thought it was well done and appreciated the cast. It just didn't resonate. Partly because around the same time DeVito did Ruthless People, and that's an absolute masterpiece. It was a wee bit earlier and pretty much set a bar for Danny DeVito and that sort of comedy, and TMftT majorly failed to match it, I thought.

I had forgotten about Ruthless People until a few years ago when I stumbled across it while flipping around the dial, and I was reminded of how funny it is.  The scene with Sam, Ken, Earl and the SWAT team is priceless.  "This could very well be the stupidest person on the face of the earth.  Perhaps we should shoot him."

No! We're the National Rifle Association. 

Lt. Bender was the unsung hero in that movie. When Ken was trying to escape out the window after telling the cops he had the stomach flu, the sympathetic look on Bender's face was priceless.

Pretty much everything about that movie was perfectly done. DeVito really sold the premise wonderfully. Midler killed her part. Slater and Freaking-Reinhold were wonderfully meek. The blonde guy actually was the stupidest person on Earth. Hell, even the dogs were perfect.

[ZirconBlue]

Last night, I watched F/X (1986), starring Bryan Brown and Brian Denehy.

For those unfamiliar with the film: "The film follows a special effects expert who is hired by the U.S. Department of Justice to stage the murder of a mobster about to enter the Witness Protection Program, but complications arise when he is targeted for murder himself; meanwhile, an NYPD detective becomes suspicious of the circumstances of the case."

I haven't seen this movie since shortly after release (so, a long long time).  I won't go so far as to say it was really good, but I definitely enjoyed it.  I've always liked Bryan Brown, and Denehy is pretty much gold in everything.  It also features Jerry Orbach in a seemingly rare villainous role.  Good stuff.

I really like that movie, and the sequel.

[El Barto]

Last night, I watched F/X (1986), starring Bryan Brown and Brian Denehy.

For those unfamiliar with the film: "The film follows a special effects expert who is hired by the U.S. Department of Justice to stage the murder of a mobster about to enter the Witness Protection Program, but complications arise when he is targeted for murder himself; meanwhile, an NYPD detective becomes suspicious of the circumstances of the case."

I haven't seen this movie since shortly after release (so, a long long time).  I won't go so far as to say it was really good, but I definitely enjoyed it.  I've always liked Bryan Brown, and Denehy is pretty much gold in everything.  It also features Jerry Orbach in a seemingly rare villainous role.  Good stuff.

Must have missed this one. I went on a political thriller bender a while back, and this would have been a great fit. Kind of sounds a bit like Blowout, with John Travolta.

[hefdaddy42]

Last night, I watched Crossfire (1947).

This was ostensibly for my annual dive into the film noir genre (#Noirvember), but I would have watched this one anyway.  Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, and Robert Ryan starring, in a crime flick about military personnel and exploring anti-Semitism.  It was nominated for 5 Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Writing - Adapted Screenplay), although it didn't win any.

Very nice.  Good watch.

[Cool Chris]

I remember F/X and liking it, but that's about it all these years later.

[hefdaddy42]

I remember F/X and liking it, but that's about it all these years later.

Well, I'm not sure there is much more about it than that.  I liked it, but I doubt I rewatch it.

[Glasser]

Old Dads. Hilarious!

[MirrorMask]

Being John Malkovich. Never saw it back in the day, it's on Prime and I figured why not. What the hell was that  I mean, I don't regret watching it 'cause it was fun after all, but it was weeeeeeeeird.

[Orbert]

Being John Malkovich was a trip.  Yeah, very weird.  My favorite part was when Malkovich went into his own head, and everyone and everything was Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich.  Didn't make a damned bit of sense, but it was fun.

[JediKnight1969]

Pearl

Not bad at all...