What was the last film you watched?

[darkshadows38]

well i watched X-men Days of Future Past: Rogue Cut (2014) and this one is i think far superior i have both of them since both aren't on 4K the Rogue Cut isn't i have that on bluray but the Theatrical Cut is on 4K and i have that. this is 17 minutes longer and is 148 minutes instead of 131 minutes and it's well worth a watch if you like the x-men. 50/10

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

PATCH ADAMS with Robin Williams. Just awful..

 

[Mel O'Drama]

Mushrooms (1995)

Starring Elena, Duchess Of Branagh's mum from Bed Of Roses. And a woman who looks like the result of a three way/one night stand between Michelle Phillips, Helena Bonham Carter and Daisy from Keeping Up Appearances.

The film itself is bizarre but wonderful. ImagineThe League Of Gentlemen taking over an Aussie soap and retooling it to be The Trouble With Harry and you're on the right lines.

(Spoiler-filled trailer warning)

 

[Angela Channing]

Detroit (2017)

A film to open your eyes and make you angry. It's a drama about police violence and discrimination against black people in Detroit but the way the police terrorised a group of innocent people who they wanted to charge for a crime was so tense and genuinely scary that the film was more of a thriller or even a horror.

 

[thomaswak]

Antebellum. Not perfect but I loved it.

Please, if you want to watch it, don't watch the trailer that shows too much. The movie has a great twist but I think the trailer can spoil it.

 

[Willie Oleson]

The movie has a great twist but I think the trailer can spoil it

I wish they would make a movie without a twist.

 

[Angela Channing]

I wish they would make a movie without a twist.

Watch Mank (2020), not only did it not have a twist, it didn't even have a plot.

 

[darkshadows38]

really? i loved Patch Adams (1998) another film and this one i may get a lot of flack on and i get why, i had bought a couple years ago The Predator (2018) on accident at wallmart it was only i think $10 and how was it an accident? the cover to the 4K is similar to the Original (1987) classic i think or at least one of the covers anyways.

i finally got off my ass late last night and watched it and i went in with low really low expectations because of the hatred this film gets, and i do agree that having a kid bring the predators to earth well one of them anyways the other was already on the planet. the kid did it by accident but still and so i was really surprised on how much i enjoyed it it was far better than i thought it would be, some of it was CGI but not all of it was and while i do agree that they shouldn't have had any CGI in it at all it was far better than the 2nd Alien Vs. Predator (2004) film that one i really enjoyed too the 2nd one though was just plain awful and it wasn't so much the script it was how it was shot it had so much darkness that i could barely see what the hell was even going on to me that's a bad film. but for the ones i watched 10/10.

 

[Grant Jennings]

PATCH ADAMS with Robin Williams. Just awful..

Why would you subject yourself to this? Why? I hate this movie. I HATE IT. I had to sit through it several years ago when my sister came to visit and we watched it together with our Mom. Do you know who else hates it? Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams. The filmmakers bought the rights to Dr. Adam's life story then wrote a fictional screenplay.
• Adams checking himself into the psych ward as a middle-aged man: didn't happen.
• His experience in the psych ward (which didn't happen) motivating him to become a doctor: didn't happen.
• Adams going to med school in middle-age and earning his degree in record time: didn't happen.
• Adams and his colleagues stealing medical supplies from the hospital to stock his clinic: didn't happen.
• Monica Potter's character: a male colleague of Adams was killed by a disturbed patient but the rest (young female, romantic interest, survivor of sexual assault) was fiction.
• Practicing medicine without a license and having to defend himself in a hearing that tries really hard to be Frank Capra-esque: didn't happen.

 

[thomaswak]

I wish they would make a movie without a twist.

Be happy : huge majority of movies don't have one

 

[Grant Jennings]

After reading about it on this site I decided to watch The Baby.


I wasn't sure what to expect. I had seen the trailer for it so I had some idea. Ruth Roman starring in it was a draw. Suspenseful and creepy - very creepy. Surprisingly effective, well produced and acted. Nice twist ending. I can't believe it only received a PG rating; it's not gory but it definitely isn't suitable for kids. I learned afterward that the director, Ted Post, also directed the Clint Eastwood "Dirty Harry" movie Magnum Force the same year.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

Silk Hope (1999)

Quite enjoyable in a Lifetime, switch-off-brain, doesn't-matter-if-the-phone-rings-halfway-through kind of way.

 

[Seaviewer]

Antebellum. Not perfect but I loved it.

Are they still allowed to call it that?

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Why would you subject yourself to this? Why? I hate this movie. I HATE IT. I had to sit through it several years ago when my sister came to visit and we watched it together with our Mom. Do you know who else hates it? Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams

I didn't know it was horrible until I saw it. I spent a week convalescing with my sweet sister-in-law who loves Robin Williams (I was never really a fan but can tolerate him in things like GOOD WILL HUNTING and Season 1 of MORK & MINDY) so we watched it. I only knew the title and nothing about the film itself.

Ee gad!

 

[DallasFanForever]

Patch Adams was a film I expected to be very good as I was a big fan of Robin Williams at the time but I couldn’t help but feel very disappointed.

 

[Grant Jennings]

I didn't know it was horrible until I saw it. I spent a week convalescing with my sweet sister-in-law who loves Robin Williams (I was never really a fan but can tolerate him in things like GOOD WILL HUNTING and Season 1 of MORK & MINDY) so we watched it. I only knew the title and nothing about the film itself.

Ee gad!

So we both watched it out of a sense of familial obligation. I can think of few other reasons why one should be subjected to this. Except maybe as part of your punishment in a criminal trial.

 

[Angela Channing]

The Third Alibi (1961)

This is a old British film that I first saw when I was about 7 when it was screened on BBC1 on a Sunday afternoon. I only remembered one particular scene (set in a cinema) and that I liked the film overall so for many years I've been keen to watch it again. It's a story of a composer who is in an affair with his sister in law and his wife refuses to grant him a divorce so they plot to kill her. They set up various alibis to get away with it. It's a clever little thriller which is well worth a watch but didn't have the same impact on me as an adult as it did as a child.

 

[Angela Channing]

The Mauritanian (2021)

Jodie Foster plays a lawyer who defends a an inmate at Guantanamo Bay and uncovers that the US government have been using torture to extract confessions from suspects. A real eyeopener about the lengths the USA went to to secure convictions, even if it meant breaking the law. Jodie Foster is such a great actress and she looks amazing proving that you don't need to have cosmetic surgery to still look beautiful and to get quality roles in films.

 

[Angela Channing]

I liked it. The movie was better and cleverer than the trailer (thank God, I prefer when it goes this way)

I've not heard of this film but it looks really good, I'm going to add it to my list of films to watch over the next few weeks.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

House On Haunted Hill (1959)

My first time watching (though I must confess I've seen the below-average remake more than once). And I watched the colourised version, which is a little sacrilegious (but it was free, and beggars can't be choosers).

I loved it. Such fun, epecially Nora Screaming Nora who was forever dismissed as a hysterical woman. One line made me laugh out loud (and reminded me of this thread).
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Nora, I think you're a little upset. Would you care for a sedative?​