What was the last film you watched?

[thomaswak]

Justice League (2017)
The inevitable continuation of Batman v Superman, and the conclusion of the trilogy that began with Man of Steel.
My objection to the shared universe stands. As primarily a Superman fan, I was sorry to seem him used basically as a plot device while screen time was given to potted origin stories of characters I don't care about, and the heroes seemingly more concerned with exchanging quips than fighting the supposed threat to civilisation as we know it.

I can't wait to watch the Zack Snyder's cut of that movie. It will be quite different I suppose.

 

[darkshadows38]

did anyone here like the (2017) film? i thought it was better than Batman Vs. Superman (2016) but that's me anyways i watched Shivers (1975) one of the i think worst films from the 70's. it was David Cronenberg or however ya spell his last name? 1st film and wow was it bad many seem to love this movie but i'm sure as hell not one of them. 3/10

 

[Jessie]

Wrong Turn

 

[Seaviewer]

I can't wait to watch the Zack Snyder's cut of that movie. It will be quite different I suppose.

I believe so. Initial reports seem to be favourable.

 

[darkshadows38]

it also has a HUGE cliff-hanger my source is Synder himself he said it had that but they cancelled the 3rd film so right now it's not gonna happen at all. but my guess if his cut of it does well than the studio may change their mind? but that's just a guess though, anyways the last film i watched was the masterpiece that is A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) with a 19 year 0ld Johnny Depp. it was his 1st film after all for those who didn't know that, anyways i'm now on A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) this one regardless if its got gay undertones or not is vastly underrated i think.

 

[Grant Jennings]

Warning: spoilers!

First, please direct your attention to the movie's poster - specifically the title of the film, notice that the letters alternate between black and white. You could argue that that is because it appears against different colors and was done to appear clearly. But they could have chosen another color or outlined the text. How often do you see the same word change colors in a poster or advertisement? Not often. I hadn't seen the poster until after I watched the movie but I find it interesting that the marketing team appears to be implying something here. I think the obvious implication is that race is an essential part of the movie's plot. It isn't. Idris Elba said one of the reasons he was attracted to the film was because, despite depicting conflict between black and white characters, the movie does not address issues of race. I read reviews (after watching the movie) that said the film would have been better if it had addressed race. I agree. The plot involves a white woman making a false claim that she had a sexual relationship with a black man in a position of power. But they didn't want to address the racial element to this. Hmmm...

With that out of the way, allow me to present What If Lifetime Made "Fatal Attraction for Dummies"?

Idris Elba works for a finance firm along side formerly fat kid from Stand By Me; their boss is D-Day from Animal House. Elba is married to Richard Lawson's step-daughter (I'll call her R.L.S.), they have an infant son and live in a big house with high ceilings and a two story entry and living room. Remember that, it's important. Ali Larter is a temp at Elba's firm, he's nice to her but she misreads this as something more. Larter flirts with Elba; at the Christmas party she comes on to him. He could tell his boss about this - but he doesn't. He could inform H.R. - but he doesn't. He could tell his wife - but he doesn't. Larter leaves the firm and Elba thinks his problem is solved. Elba, Stand By Me and D-Day attend at a conference at a hotel that is driving distance from Elba's home but he stays overnight in the hotel - because plot contrivance. Larter shows up and comes on to Elba again. He could tell his boss - but he doesn't. Larter drugs Elba's drink which he realizes the next day; he could call 911 - but he doesn't. He could tell his boss - but he doesn't.

Elba returns to his hotel room to find Larter passed out from a drug overdose which appears to be a suicide attempt - except to viewers who can see it's obvious she intended for Elba to find her in time to call 911 - which he does. One of the few times in this movie when someone should call 911 and they actually do! Elba goes to the hospital where he is interviewed by Detective Christine Lahti. R.L.S. arrives at the hospital at the same time. Detective Lahti is inclined to believe Elba when he tells her Larter is a crazy psycho stalker. R.L.S. doesn't believe Elba, she thinks he's been having an affair and kicks him out of their house, the one with high ceilings and a two story entry and living room. We have not been told of any previous problems in this couple's marriage; we've not been told of any past infidelities to explain R.L.S.'s rash decision - but we need a new conflict for the movie's second act. Detective Lahti later tells Elba that Larter's sister took her to stay with her, out of town.

We are now treated to a montage of Elba arriving at his home to pick up his son and play the adoring father while R.L.S. looks out of the window at them. Elba asks R.L.S. to spend his birthday with him, she agrees. The couple go out to dinner and leave their son with a babysitter. Larter shows up and the babysitter lets her in - of course she does. When the couple return home their son is missing. They call 911 - surprise. When Elba gets in his car (they took R.L.S.'s to dinner) he finds his son in the car-seat in back. Larter also trashes the couple's house and cuts R.L.S. out of photos of the family. R.L.S. calls Larter's phone and leaves a threatening message. I think this voicemail might come back to haunt R.L.S - but it doesn't, missed opportunity. Detective Lahti suggests they get a security system.

Elba and R.L.S. reunite and plan to go away for the weekend. When Larter calls the firm (where she worked for two weeks) the office gossipy queen (we're not told the character is gay but he sent my gaydar into the red zone) he gives her Elba's itinerary in great detail. How does he know this? Why would he give it to a temp who used to work at his office? For two weeks. Several months ago. R.L.S. leaves the house but realizes she forgot to set the alarm so she returns to set it. She hears a noise coming from upstairs. She should go outside and call 911 - but she doesn't. Instead she goes upstairs and finds Larter wearing one of Elba's shirts and rose petals strewn across the bed. Larter and R.L.S. fight. R.L.S. tries to push Larter off of the house's second story balcony but she doesn't succeed. Larter gets away and runs up to the attic. R.L.S. and Larter catfight in the attic (reminding me of Krystle vs. Rita). Part of the attic doesn't have flooring revealing the back of the lath and plaster ceiling of the two story living room below. Have you seen The War of the Roses? If you have, you have some idea of what's about to happen. R.L.S. teeters in her high-heeled boots atop the rafters as Larter lashes out at her. Larter crashes through the lath and plaster holding onto one of the rafters. R.L.S. tries to pull Larter up. Larter tries to pull R.L.S. down. R.L.S. loosens Larter's grip. Larter falls and crashes into the glass-top coffee table below (of course it has a glass-top, why wouldn't it?). Larter, still alive, looks up at R.L.S. menacingly. The huge chandelier (of course there's a huge chandelier, why wouldn't there be one?) gives way and crashes down on Larter. Elba and Detective Lahti arrive. R.L.S. runs into Elba's arms. The end.

Thank you for tuning into this week's episode of The Only Way To Deal With A Crazy Lady Is To Kill Her In The Most Violent Manner Possible.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

Theatre Of Blood (1973)

Up there with the most bizarre films I've seen. It's genuinely horrific at times but the tongue never leaves the cheek. It's quirkily British, with a backdrop of early Seventies London and its surrounding areas.

And it features an impressive cast of big names of the time. Where else can one watch Vincent Price sawing Arthur Lowe's head off to a jolly soundtrack while Diana Rigg passes the instruments and Joan Hickson as Lowe's wife, mistakes the sawing for snoring and scolds her hubby. Or Robert Morley being force fed poodle pie - made from his beloved dogs - until he chokes. Or Diana Dors smothered for making noisy orgasmic groans while being massaged.

I honestly don't know if I enjoyed it, but I think I might have. I do want to giggle slightly hysterically when I think back on it.

@James from London can take the blame credit for this one as it was one of the films mentioned in a British comedy podcast he put me on to a couple of months ago.

 

[darkshadows38]

i love that movie much i just love Vincent Price in this, his afro was one of the things of many that i loved about this film too that would be my favorite scene.

anyways, i have this on dvd actually and a bit of trivia 1. that theater it was filmed at is i think torn down now as it was a really successful theater for many years until it was closed down. when they did that film it was the 1st time anyone i think did anything in it for over i think 50 years or more! the other trivia is the fact that Vincent Price had an affair with Corral Browne during the making of this film & in fact left his wife and married Corral who he stayed with until he died in (1993) i think she died first though. anyways the film i watched was The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: back in the shadows (2016) and let me say that it's the worst one people may give a lot of flack to the (1993) film but no that one is a lot better film i think than this one.

now don't get me wrong it had some stuff i liked about it Bebop and Rocksteady were funny as hell in it and i wish the film had a better script but it was a weaker film than the previous one. it had some funny moments that did make me actually laugh so there is that but other than that it's not a very good movie and i can so see why it flopped when it came out a few years ago. i think i gave it a 6/10

 

[Willie Oleson]

Shameless me decided to watch another remake.

Well, it's the same idea. And since I was browsing the netflix catalogue I felt I had to click on something.

And it does what a modern remake usually does: more and bigger of the same.
These kind of movies need to be all in-clusive: special effects, thrills, romance, poignant-dramatic-heroic moments and of course the super-irritating standard banter.
Not much effort went into the dialogue or how it was delivered but I guess that's not a top priority in this type of movies.
But whenever there's a quite moment with a more dialogue it rapidly becomes quite tedious. The lack of chemistry between the characters doesn't really help.

The most impressive stuff happens in the first half of the movie and the final battle is surprisingly un-spectacular.
There are some impressive sceneries (probably all CGI, but still) but there are too many of them and at some point I didn't even know where the action took place.
Also, way too many dark scenes.

The actress who plays the princess is well cast, I think.
Speaking of the princess, I thought her deal with Some Evil Power was unnecessarily convoluted. She was introduced as a ruthless and cunning character, so why not just kill her baby half-brother and her father? Or arrange an accident and then blame someone else. And then she'd be queen of Egpyte, problem solved, everybody happy.
What exactly did the evil super-power do for her? It only got her mummified and buried in a pit of mercury.
It's a shaky premise, to say the least.

The movie isn't total rubbish but it kinda buries itself in too much of everythings instead working towards an impressive climax.

I'm going back to youtube, where all the good stuff is.

 

[darkshadows38]

i wasn't sure how my feelings about Theater of Blood (1973) was going to get a reaction i had to re-write that a couple times so it wouldn't sound like someone evil cause i'm not. anyways i haven't seen this one and there are so many of his movies i haven't seen ever since he went bat shit crazy on Oprah some years back (2004) i think it was? and with him being in that cult i lost my respect for him i had while growing up. and therefore drifted away from his films i think and it wasn't intentional either

but the last one i saw of his i forget the name of it where he drives around in a plane a couple years back that was a good movie but it was one of those movies that you only watch once have you seen it?

 

[DallasFanForever]

@darkshadows38 are you referring to American Made? I loved that movie but I know what you mean. It’s a movie you really only watch once and ur done.

 

[darkshadows38]

yes actually i did mean that movie i liked it i thought it was a good movie but i'm prolly never going to watch it again i was just to lazy to look up the title lol

 

[darkshadows38]

i see someone mentioned the Tremors films i love those! the best ones i think are the 2 i think. part 3 is decent 4 is okay and part 5 sucks ass. i haven't seen any of the ones after that though

 

[Mel O'Drama]

i wasn't sure how my feelings about Theater of Blood (1973) was going to get a reaction i had to re-write that a couple times so it wouldn't sound like someone evil cause i'm not.

Not at all. It's great to find out some behind-the-scenes facts about it.

 

[Sarah]

Coming 2 America. It was absolutely brilliant! Highly recommend!

 

[thomaswak]

His House/Netflix.

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

 

[Angela Channing]

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I wasn't in the mood to watch anything in particular so I figured I'd be safe with a Hitchcock remake.
The movie was just intriguing enough to keep me awake and there's nothing in it that's going to upset anyone. It's more like a very long and very pleasant episode of Downton Abbey.

I wasn't a big fan. It had not of the tension or mystery of the Hitchcock version. I would sum it up by saying it was bland.

 

[Angela Channing]

Theatre Of Blood (1973)

Up there with the most bizarre films I've seen. It's genuinely horrific at times but the tongue never leaves the cheek. It's quirkily British, with a backdrop of early Seventies London and its surrounding areas.

And it features an impressive cast of big names of the time. Where else can one watch Vincent Price sawing Arthur Lowe's head off to a jolly soundtrack while Diana Rigg passes the instruments and Joan Hickson as Lowe's wife, mistakes the sawing for snoring and scolds her hubby. Or Robert Morley being force fed poodle pie - made from his beloved dogs - until he chokes. Or Diana Dors smothered for making noisy orgasmic groans while being massaged.

I honestly don't know if I enjoyed it, but I think I might have. I do want to giggle slightly hysterically when I think back on it.

@James from London can take the blame credit for this one as it was one of the films mentioned in a British comedy podcast he put me on to a couple of months ago.

I absolutely love this film. It's a brilliant combination of humour and horror. The storyline is almost identical to The Abominable Dr. Phibes (which I also loved) and also starred Vincent Price.

 

[Angela Channing]

Mank (2020)

I hated it. It's a triumph of style over substance. The film looks beautiful and they cleverly shot many scenes to look like scenes from Citizen Kane which was fun but the plot was one big yawn.

 

[thomaswak]

I believe so. Initial reports seem to be favourable.

The Snyder Cut is way better, on so many levels. I really enjoyed it. The bad thing is now I want more of Snyder's Justice League.
But Warner Bros executives said "no"