What was the last film you watched?

[DallasFanForever]

Great movie! Never really got a lot of hype when it was released for whatever reason. I too didn’t see it til many years after it came out cause quite frankly I had never heard of it. But it’s become one of my favorites.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

I too didn’t see it til many years after it came out cause quite frankly I had never heard of it. But it’s become one of my favorites.

I can understand why. It's really well-made and I love the period detail of the Fifties and Sixties.

The two hours went by very quickly. I'm very glad it was shown on BBC, which has no adverts. I don't enjoy watching films with commercials, so if it hadn't been on BBC I would have switched it off and missed a great film.

 

[DallasFanForever]

For Tom Hanks’s knock knock jokes alone it’s worth watching LOL!! But all kidding aside I think the thing that attracts me to the movie the most is the great cast. I’ve always appreciated great acting and having Hanks, DiCaprio, Walken, and Amy Adams all in the same film was awesome! And the rollercoaster plot is so well written

 

[Mel O'Drama]

For Tom Hanks’s knock knock jokes alone it’s worth watching LOL!!

Ha ha. Yes indeed.

But all kidding aside I think the thing that attracts me to the movie the most is the great cast. I’ve always appreciated great acting and having Hanks, DiCaprio, Walken, and Amy Adams all in the same film was awesome!

Yes. And all directed by Spielberg himself.

And the rollercoaster plot is so well written

It really is, and it blew my mind that it's (mostly) based on real events.

 

[Angela Channing]

Last Holiday (2006)

I'm now in Christmas film mode so I'm seeking out seasonal films that I've not seen before. I started with Last Holiday which is about a character played by Queen Latifah who gets a terminal diagnosis and only weeks to live so she decides to blow all her savings on going away and enjoying herself. The film is a bit corny (but then that's what you expect from a Christmas film), quite funny, enjoyable and very entertaining.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

Black Christmas (1974)

It's been a few years since I watched it. This was my first spin of the Blu-ray version.​

 

[Ukdallasfan]

Happiest Season starring Kirsten Stewart of Twilight fame. Was an unusual take on a Christmas romcom and we enjoyed it

 

[Seaviewer]

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
2017 biopic about psychologist William Moulton Marston and the polyamourous relationship he shared with two women whose combined attributes seem to have been the inspiration for Wonder Woman.
According to the film, Marston was also the inventor of the lie-detector, which became Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth, and he incorporated his psychological theories into the comic to encourage girls not to be afraid to show their strengths.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

Two very different films last night and this afternoon, though both come from the same stable:

Damn Pixar. They always get my face wet.​

 

[Alexis Colby Carrington]

Prom - loved it

 

[Mel O'Drama]

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

A watchable enough film, but not really the kind of Spider-Man that speaks to me most. I can't get my head round the idea of him being an Avenger, and to have all this incredible technology to support him. I far prefer him poor, alone and a little miserable.

There was also a shedload of liberty-taking with the characters' lore. Half the supporting cast were of a different ethnicity to the comic version, and Liz Allan as The Vulture's daughter is just silly. But there were some nice little nods to touches from the comics as well, so it almost balanced out.​

 

[DallasFanForever]

I remember seeing it in the theatre and I liked it a lot more than I thought I was going to. But I prefer the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movies personally.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

I prefer the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movies personally.

Yes, I think the Raimi/Maguire films captured the feel of Spider-Man's world better, with most of the supporting characters really well cast.

That said, I do think the Holland/Watts films have by far the best Spidey mask and overall the best costume (apart from the thick black go-faster stripes and the narrowing/widening eyes). Holland also looks closer to my ideal of Peter Parker visually (and Garfield even more so), but was played too young and the babbling teen enthusiasm bit was very wearing (it was possibly fun to watch for actual teenagers, if they could get past Holland clearly being much older than he was acting).

 

[Mel O'Drama]

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
2017 biopic about psychologist William Moulton Marston and the polyamourous relationship he shared with two women whose combined attributes seem to have been the inspiration for Wonder Woman.

I've been meaning to watch this and had forgotten all about it.

According to the film, Marston was also the inventor of the lie-detector, which became Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth,

This is true. WMM created an early version of the polygraph.

and he incorporated his psychological theories into the comic to encourage girls not to be afraid to show their strengths.

There was a very can-do feminist philosophy running through early WW comics. But he also incorporated a lot of his kinks into the comic, and the series became infamous for its regular portrayal of bondage.

And it wasn't just WW who was regularly bound. Steve Trevor also had more than his share.

 

[Seaviewer]

Ocean's 8
I've seen the original Ocean's 11 (1960) but the Clooney remake didn't really appeal to me and I haven't seen the sequels. On the other hand, I like Sandra Bullock so I decided to give this spin-off a go. At its heart it's a fairly standard heist movie but it's played entertainingly.

 

[Ukdallasfan]

New Year’s Eve- star studded cast and nicely entertaining. The outtakes at the end were brilliant especially the one with Robert De Niro. Save it for next year if you haven’t seen it

 

[DallasFanForever]

@Ukdallasfan I totally agree with you on the movie New Year’s Eve. The cast alone was just amazing to me at the time. It just seemed like everyone you could think of made a cameo in that movie.

 

[Emelee]

Contagion from 2011 (was on telly last night)
With the Covid-situation now, it felt fitting to watch. I haven't seen it before, but I bet it wouldn't have felt so disturbing and scary if I had seen it before this pandemic. This felt like a documentary in a way.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

Twelve In A Box (2007)

A really nice concept with some great quirky characters and situations. Very much a precursor to Knives Out. But it was frequently very flat and lifeless and not as funny as it seemed to think it was. Which made it seem less clever (which is a shame, because there were some nice twists).​

 

[Willie Oleson]

A season of Desperate Housewives with Stepford Wives and The Skeleton Key. And then there's some racial stuff in it but it's too wacky to take it seriously.
The posture and street talk that was supposed to make the black characters look very "black" was a bit lame imho but maybe other people enjoy that kind of comedy.
I failed to see the relevance.
All in all it doesn't really excel in any of the points and thrills they're tyring to make and I only finished it because I wanted to see the comeuppance part.
Not because of their evil deeds or believes but simply because they were terribly annoying.
It's not really bad for a TV movie if you've got nothing else to watch, except that I do have a lot of stuff to watch.
"Get out", indeed.