What was the last movie you watched?

Not sure if it really counts as a movie but the last long-form thingy I watched was the two part drama-documentary about Kim Philby and Nicholas Elliot - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040bnsl - "His Most Intimate Betrayal". Philby may have been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of folks, but Elliot sure as shit helped him by being so loose-lipped around the guy.

@ Tam H 70

Thanks, I might check it out, though I'm mostly just interested in the horror parodies. Anyway:

Babysitter Massacre (2013): A passable effort. More torture porn-y than I expected, with a slightly lame ending, and way too many filler/padding murders of tertiary characters who are only named in the credits.

If... By Lindsay Anderson, starring Malcolm Mc Dowell. Brilliant film in so many ways.

Toy Story.

The last half-hour or so of "Backdraft", which is among the best films about fire-fighters ever made, and still to this day the highest grossing.

Nightmare on Elm Street 4.

Meh.

I went through all of the Nightmare movies in a row, and 4 and 5 sort of blur together for me.

The Cat And The Canary (1927 version). Man, the "relatives go to a spooky mansion to read a will" premise has been around. But I enjoyed this for a spooky set, some colorful, impressionistic visual touches, and a villain who was apparently supposed to look "cat-like" but instead looks a little like 1920s Freddy Krueger.

edited 3rd Oct '14 10:52:30 PM by MikeK

That was on again? This is because I got the DVD for my birthday, isn't it?

To be honest, there are really only two firefighting movies anyone remembers and the other one is The Towering Inferno.

edited 3rd Oct '14 11:48:08 PM by InverurieJones

I remember Ladder49, but I remember it more as muddled misguided post 9/11 tribute to firefighters then an actually solid work of dramatic entertainment.

It's was also strangely old school irish catholic for a major movie. Written from a different place then most hollywood fare. both regionally and culturally. Not that I found that bad just rather... odd.

Yeah, it really does sort of amble along like a collection of anecdotes told down the pub rather than a proper drama and we don't get to know the characters well enough. I think their mistake was trying to show a fireman's whole career rather than just focussing on a single major incident.

The actual fires were a lot more realistic than in Backdraft, though. I know it's silly, but I like realistic depictions of what we deal with, because then maybe people (my wife in particular) will have some idea what I'm actually up to when the pager goes off and I have to leave my dinner. I'd rather she have a halfway accurate mental image of what a structure fire is like, because then her imagination won't come up with worse, if you catch my drift?

Firstly Patton, with George C. Scott, then Nanny Mc Phee and the Big Bang. Both good films.

Tom Burton Batman.

Nice, but, despite liking the performances, I can't like the stories for Batman and Joker. I'm a firm believer that Batman quest for dressing up as a bat must no be a revenge drama. I seriously hate those. Still, pretty good movie.

I got a list of films to go through here:

• Not Cool: Shane Dawson's debut film (that's actually in competition with another film, Hollidaysburg as part of a tv show The Chair.). It's funny but filled with the kind of jokes you'd expect and it's easy to tell that Hollidaysburg is the better movie.
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High: Fun and pretty entertaining with nicely done moments inbetween. Sean Penn owns the whole movie though.
• Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie: Funny but maybe a bit long. Still it's filled with plenty of fun in-jokes and cameos, even if I've barely watched much of AVGN's videos.
• 47 Ronin: Entertaining and a bit fun. And yeah Keanu's role definitely feels shoehorned in at times. The Witch character was pretty entertaining though.

edited 5th Oct '14 1:05:34 AM by JRPictures

The Caller. Because trying to watch 31 horror movies in a month sometimes means rolling the dice on something you've never heard of that sounds semi-interesting and is streaming on netflix:

Pros: The very creepy idea of being stalked by a stranger who lived when you were a child and can therefor murder anyone you know before you meet them and effectively retgone them out of your life. Lorna Raver, probably best known as Mrs. Ganush from Drag Me To Hell, manages to be unnerving while remaining The Voice for almost all of the movie. And this is silly, but it's a pet peeve of mine when pets come to harm in horror movies, and the dog makes it out fine. And hey, Luis Guzman.

Cons: Some of the changes to the past that occur seem like they would logically affect the present differently than they actually did. The abusive ex-husband subplot never stopped making me feel like I had suddenly switched to a Lifetime Movie of the Week. And the title is pretty generic and made me accidentally tag a totally different movie called The Call on facebook.

edited 5th Oct '14 9:29:27 PM by MikeK

Death Do Us Part (2014): A so-so backwoods slasher about someone killing off the attendees of a unisex bachelor/ette party. The murders, with the exception of a head pulverizing that occurs at the very end, were rather tame, and while I guessed the identity of the villain, the twist was still okay. They really went overboard with the red herring, though.

Saw The Girl Who Leapt Through Time last night.

Yep definitely a great movie, pretty damn sad too. Plus I like how it handled time travel so linearly.

I liked it too. :)

The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari. Really good, a bit confusing, kind of strange. I liked it.

Hostel. I liked this a little more than I thought I would, but I'm still probably not going to watch it more than once.

The Lair of the White Worm. Probably my favorite movie I've watched in the "31 horror movies in 31 days" thing so far, and it's not even "scary" so much as "trippy and deliberately campy". It's a horror movie from the guy who gave us Altered States and the film version of Tommy, so yeah.

edited 4th Sep '15 10:54:09 AM by MikeK

Scott Pilgrim Vs The World. It was pretty good loved the fight scenes.

The Raid 2: Berandal

Definitely improves so much on the first film. Great story and fantastically done action.

edited 7th Oct '14 11:43:02 PM by JRPictures

Unwilling Lovers (1977): Crude, but effective. Not as extreme as I thought it would be, but still definitely up there.

Alien, mostly because I'd seen some gameplay from Isolation and wanted to go directly to the source of its milieu.

The hype was well deserved. I already knew Sigourney Weaver was a capable actress from Avatar, but damn. It was like Prometheus without the Prometheusness. Very good.

I just finished John Carter. I thought it was pretty good.

Patlabor: The Movie... And now I'll be watching the OVAs, because I feel like I should have watched them on the first place BEFORE the movie! (Gosh darn it!)

It's odd, now that I'm think about it... I'm the biggest giant-robot adept around here, and yet I still haven't seen a lot of the classics, like Armored Trooper VOTOMS and Patlabor... Darn! How I love the mech series from that era.

edited 10th Oct '14 7:41:53 PM by VPhantom