The Last Movie You Watched

[SaStrike]

Going to watch avengers tomorrow. I know there is like a sequence with many movies before this one. But not bothered with that. So hope it makes sense.

[emjay]

Dances With Wolves... I've been waiting for years for that to come on TV again, and finally it has... one of my favourite films of all time It was on earlier in the week on the same channel but was very unsatisfactory because a) it was on in the daytime... pre-watershed... and thus had many scenes cut, b) it had no subtitles for the Native American dialogue... which was just silly, and c) as TV channels are wont to do, as soon as the end credits came on they shrunk to a tiny and unreadable (even with zoom) box right on the cast list while the channel did its blurb about what was on next... and I'm thinking... 'couldn't you at least wait until after the cast list before you do that?' Anyway, a few days later... it's just been on again, but this time at night - so no scenes cut, with the appropriate subtitles in place, and with no channel blurb at all on the end credits (probably because it was so late when it ended)! So thank you Channel 5 for correcting all three of your mistakes and giving me a recording I can treasure.

[paulpablo]

Just watched "The Witch".

There's no particular interesting dramatic twists in my opinion in this film.  

The things that save the film and make it just a notch above mediocre are the fact that some of the events and script are actually from historical writings, court documents and so on from the period which are related to how people saw witchcraft at the time.  
The acting is also alright.
The atmosphere is believable and there's a good few weird, gruesome messed up scenes that don't take it too far and are used pretty thoughtfully. 

They have a disclaimer for the film saying how the script is formed from old documents and court papers and whatever, I think it was an odd move for them to put this disclaimer at the end.  If I wasn't sure about the film from the start that definitely would have hooked me in, instead it's at the end when I've already seen the film.  

7 out of 10.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring Total rip off. They didn't destroy the ring and Gandalf DIES!

[Rev. Rye]

Watched Coco a couple days ago, and it's an excellent film. I can only think of a few flaws:

• The color scheme, especially for the Land of the Dead scenes is pretty damn gaudy. At this point, I think it's reasonable to attribute my distaste for the loud colors (shockingly close to Problem Solverz levels) is at least partly due to my being a Gringo with different expectations on what color schemes should be. 
  
• The extremely detailed wrinkles on Grandma Coco are downright unnerving.
  
• And related to the big twist at the end:
  

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• Ernesto's decision to kill Hector was astonishingly stupid. Even if he was going to leave the partnership, could Ernesto not have just found someone else to write his songs? Even Elvis had multiple songwriters whose work he could take credit for.
  
• How likely is it that Hector ended up in such obscurity that, 95 years after his death, only his dementia-addled daughter remembered who he was? Surely if Ernesto de la Cruz was as popular as he was, there'd be at least some superfan who found something about him or maybe managed to have some sort of idea of who he even was. They may have been obsessees, small fish in the big fandom pond, but that should be something. Given all the minutiae I've managed to pick up on the Beatles over the past 18 years, I suspect that someone of de la Cruz' stature would have found something to remember him for.
  
• The Mexican people seem to be shockingly quick to dismiss de la Cruz' stature after Miguel returns from the dead to expose him as a fraud. It doesn't help that I know Kenneth Anger sourced many of the more salacious points of Hollywood Babylon from seances (because he outright said so), and that he's been criticised to Thelema and back for it (especially when the details gleamed from the seances turned out to be wrong, like the bit about Marie Prevost's body being partially eaten by her pet dog, Lupe Velez drowning in her own vomit with her head in the toilet, or Clara Bow fucking the entire USC football team.)
  

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Other than that, it's one of the best films of last year, and it's no wonder that it became the top-grossing film in Mexican history after 2 1/2 weeks. And it's certainly interesting to see Gael Garcia Bernal as a voice actor.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies": Exactly what you'd expect.

[Crossless2.0]

I watched The Florida Project last night. It provides a usually overlooked (by Hollywood, anyway) slice of contemporary American life centered on a group of people living on the margins, practically in the shadow of Disney World. The contrast between the lives of the adult characters, who scrape to get by any way they can, and the wide-eyed wonder of the children who either don't understand or don't care that they're poor is handled remarkably well and adds up to an experience that is, by turns, unsettling, funny, depressing, and beautiful.

I have only seen a handful of other films that do so well at seeing the world through a child's eyes.

Recommended.

[brewer]

S.O.B. 1981, Blake Edwards. If you haven't seen it, find it.

[Little lunch]

Just watched Moana with my daughter.
Perfect Saturday night family movie.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"THEM!" Big Bug Movie. This 1954 production was released the same year "Gojira" was released in Japan. Hollyweird went crazy for the BBMs for a while after that, roughly 64 years and counting to date.

Best trivia: Leonard Nimoy has an uncredited part as an Army sergeant making fun of Texans.