What was the last film you watched?

[Mel O'Drama]

Those modernized trailers are so cool!

Aren't they just?

What I like is that they still sell the same film. They just do it in a different way. So there's no lie in there, apart from the score (the blurb on YouTube tells me the music in the F13 trailer is from the 2019 adaption of Pet Semetary).

I'd be curious to know if any new viewers have found older films off the back of some of these trailers.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

April Fool's Day (2008)

I couldn't remember watching this one (even though I have) and thought it'd be worth another spin in case it's a hidden gem.

It is not. It's utter dross. And not even entertaining dross. I haven't seen the original version, but it has to be better than this.​

 

[Sarah]

The Exorcist

Curse of Chucky

His House https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54749782

 

[bmasters9]

Bombshell (2019 Lionsgate film w/Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow, et al.; about the sexual harassment scandal at FOX "News" that toppled Roger Ailes)

 

[Mel O'Drama]

A double-bill yesterday evening, both of which I'd seen before:


Friday The 13th Part 2 (1981)

Copycat (1995)

One of these films was slickly written, well acted, engaging and suspenseful.

The less said about the other, the better.​

 

[Mel O'Drama]

The Bone Collector (1999)

This is another where it's been some years since I last watched it, so I've really dusted off the old DVDs recently. Sadly, I remembered the killer's identity, but the good news is that I'd forgotten almost everything else.

Oh, and while seeking out this video, I've just seen that there's a new TV series based on the same book. Unsurprisingly, the overall feeling from the trailer is of a film remake:

I may take a peek at some point.​

 

[Willie Oleson]

Is that John Ross?

One of these films was slickly written, well acted, engaging and suspenseful

I agree.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

Is that John Ross?

It is indeed (well, one of them, anyway)...

 

[Toni]

Believe it or not (again!), I rewatched "Elvira" this time with my best friend, and this time in Spanish... and look what they did in the dubbing:

When the motel owner picks on her teenage daughter for wearing make-up...

• Elvira: I hate to interrupt this little episode of the Waltons.

In Spanish:

• Elvira: Odio interrumpir este capítulo de "Dinastía" (!!!!!)

So "The Waltons" would be the previous work of "Dynasty"´s author, instead of "Falcon Crest"´s...?

As usual, here is the blindness of the Spanish audiences (and professionals!) re. the American series. "The Golden Girls"´ translators were bent on introducing (non-existing) jokes about "Falcon Crest" in their show!!

"Dynasty" massacre, Elvira-style​

 

[Mel O'Drama]

When A Stranger Calls (1979)

The opening "Sitter" act is the iconic one, but I remain fascinated by the middle act that feels so 1979, and turns the film's potential "monster" into a pathetic creature, hunted down. The barfly sequence feels very Bottom Of The Bottle. And the intense-but-needy antagonist is like Richard Avery with murderous tendencies. Colleen Dewhurst is great as the rough-as-nails barfly.

Despite the less-than-stellar production values and the fact that it looks like a made for TV movie (the poor transfer on my old DVD copy perhaps makes this feel worse than it is), it's still very effective and once again gave me the creeps.​

 

[Mel O'Drama]

When A Stranger Calls Back (1993)

It gets very weird, but it's very effective. The sense of isolation from being alone in the house with the phone out of order and a stranger knocking on the door ostensibly to use the phone is really well done here. It's given me the creeps and unnerved me more than any of the horrors I've watched through October, including the original.​

 

[Mel O'Drama]

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

Enjoyable, meaningless fluff, with Tom Cruise interacting with a series of terribly unattractive men. A clever Hollywood trick to keep Tom looking extra pretty, perhaps (though he does look almost plain when next to Alec Baldwin).​

 

[Willie Oleson]

As usual, here is the blindness of the Spanish audiences (and professionals!) re. the American series. "The Golden Girls"´ translators were bent on introducing (non-existing) jokes about "Falcon Crest" in their show!!

I can understand that they would give it more relevance.
Back in elementary school we were doing a stupid musical and one of the characters (played by me) had to say - in response to the dramatic developments - oh my god, it's almost like Peyton Place (I guess it was a very old script).
So, we kids were like "huh, huh?" and they changed it to Dynasty because that's what we knew, thus making it easier for me to play it convincingly.

Come to think it, maybe that's when my curiosity for Peyton Place was born.

Speaking of soaps, why do I get the feeling that someone's going to rewatch a fabulously signed boxset of a certain aussie soap very soon?

 

[Mel O'Drama]

why do I get the feeling that someone's going to rewatch a fabulously signed boxset of a certain aussie soap very soon?

We will find out...

 

[Toni]

Turd Alert: I watched "I See You", allegedly a horror movie starring Helen Hunt. It´s absurd, and pointless, a waste of time. The only interest is find out what "phrogging" is (Miss Piggy had an orgasm when she heard the word!). Poor Hunt looks as if she were 100 years old and is as expressive as a green tomato.

​

On the other side... "Number 23" turned out to be a really enjoyable mystery thriller, with Jim Carrey good in an unusual role and Virginia Madsen reminding me what a superb, underrated actress she has always been. Not a masterpiece but it has a lot of terrific moments!!

 

[Willie Oleson]

BRÜNO


Reese Witherspintzel, Stevie Wunderbar, Bradolph Pitler, Baby OJ.
And to top it off, an epic gay scene featuring Céline Dion's smash hit.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

HALLOWEEN (1978). I've never really loved it, but it has the right idea. Jamie Lee is perfect casting, but the other girls are terrible.

 

[bmasters9]

Radium Girls (2018 film w/Joey King and Abby Quinn about the radium-dial painting scandal/health scare of the 1920s)

 

[Willie Oleson]

Good movie, and I thought the crossover cameo in the very last scene was something that had never been done before.
But then I discovered that these movies are connected and unfortunately it took the twist out of it. Dammit, it could have been so cool.

 

[Seaviewer]

A Star Is Born (2018)
First time getting around to this.
Bradley Cooper has done a good job with it, even finding a couple of fresh perspectives on the material, but I'm still not convinced that it was a movie that needed to be made.