The Last Movie You Watched

[Gawdzilla Sama]

You need to watch "The Thing From Another World". These days it's just campy. Back then (1951) it was a major shocker.

[Fake Messiah]

I was re-watching the first hour of "Valkyrie" - you know that movie in which Tom Cruise plays a Nazi general who tries to kill Hitler, but like I said I stopped watching after an hour because I'm like the President - not in a way that I think that Nazis are fine people, but that I don't like to see soldiers fail and getting caught.

You know there are apparently web pages on which people share their own edits of movies and maybe I could make an edit of this movie. Like I could edit in a time traveler character when they have meetings to tell Cruise's character to use both explosives. And also when Cruise is going to the Wolf's Lair I could edit in the song "Highway To The Danger Zone".

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was a colonel, not a general.

[Foxaèr]

Don't Open Your Eyes

A home-care nurse takes a job, but as it proves to be his toughest yet; he is inadvertently pulled into something much more sinister.

[OakTree500]

A couple of movies for me over the weekend:

The Mask of Zorro

Plot: 
Legendary hero Zorro foils a some sort of evil plot of his nemesis, Don Rafael, and looks to retire with his wife/child. The Don tracks him down, arrests him, and accidentally kills Zorro's wife in the process. To put the final nail in the coffin, he locks zorro up forever AND takes his daughter [who is a baby at this time] to be raised as his own, as a final insult the the old hero. 20 years later, Zorro escapes from his prison, to seek revenge on the man who has imprisoned him for so long.

Thoughts:
It's cheese on toast, and it's [generic action movie] at it's best, in my opinion anyway. Plus, Catherine Zeta Jones.....*Boing*, that's all I can say about her. It's well made, well though out, funny in places and packs in some real action spots to a story set in 1841 that you might not be expected. I really enjoy it.


Tron : Legacy

Plot:
A sequel to the original Tron, where Jeff Bridges goes back to his arcade, some time in the 80's.......never to be seen again. Some 20+ years later, his son is still looking for him, and tracks down his old arcade. He inadvertently gets sucked into "The Grid" where he find's his father, but also the villainous Clu who has taken over the Grid and seeks to somehow break out into the real world. All this and Daft Punk have scored it.

Thoughts:
I'm a real sucker for "visual" movies. For example, if the special effects are REALLY good, I'm 100% on board. It helps when the story is pretty decent, which this is as well [Son looking for lost father, crazy sci-fi plot, added elements]. This movie is largely visual from the light cycle stuff, the costumes, the world, everything. The only thing that is a slight minor step, is there is de-aging done to Jeff Bridges, but after a while I completely forgot.....so it can't be that bad. That particular effect hasn't aged well, but again you seemingly forget to notice after a little while. And the sound track is bloody great.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Ran the Blade trilogy through yesterday. No sparkly vampires here. Ryan Reynolds and Daniel Craig pump up the last one nicely.

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Robot Monster Delightfully absurd. Boss Lady and I were rolling on the floor laughing.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'Murphy's Romance'.  James Garner, Sally Field.  Delightful film.  Garner's only Oscar nomination, and he wuz robbed, I tell ya, ROBBED!!

Boru

[Angrboda]

Ran the Blade trilogy through yesterday. No sparkly vampires here. Ryan Reynolds and Daniel Craig pump up the last one nicely.

I didn't know that about Blade III. I've watched 1 & 2, but not 3. I've got the trilogy around here somewhere, I'll have to watch it.

[Foxaèr]

Ran the Blade trilogy through yesterday. No sparkly vampires here. Ryan Reynolds and Daniel Craig pump up the last one nicely.

I think I only ever saw the first Blade movie, though I cannot remember what it was about.

[brewer]

The Illustrated Man. There is something about Rod Steiger that screams redneck. Strange in a syfy film.