Last Movie You Watched Part II, Electric Bugaloo

[comicscollector]

I watched Carry on abroad (1972).
The movies that i watched of this franchise are always quite funny to me,even when it´s a re-watching as this movie.

[Arfguy]

THE 13th WARRIOR

I really liked it this time, which is disappointing, cause I loved it more when I watched it years ago.

Interesting. I remember watching the 13th Warrior when it was released in the theatres and absolutely hating it. It didn't help when someone said it was basically Beowolf, which I didn't even know was a thing when I watched the 13th Warrior.

Maybe I should give it another try?

Personally, I watched it more for Denis Villeneuve than for it being Blade Runner sequel, and it was a disappointing P.o.S that made me appreciate Quantum of Solace a bit more.

WOW! Don't take it the wrong way, but this opinion poses so many questions: what made it a PoS? What could Villeneuve have done differently to not make it a PoS? How does BR:2049 relate to Quantum of Solace?

Recently watched:

3:10 to Yuma. I wanted to watch something on Netflix, while trying to sleep...it kind of worked, since I kept dozing off during the movie. More likely due to me trying to watch it at 3:30 am, rather than the movie being boring. I wasn't all that thrilled after watching it the first time a while ago.

The Wretched. Not bad. Neither of the twists worked for me, IMO.

Venom. Also on Netflix, because I had company over who wanted to watch it. What a piece of ****!

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. There's something about this movie that has a special place in my heart. This is easily David Fincher's most sentimental movies, but I have zero qualms about placing this movie third in place among his best output.

[ed2962]

The Green Room. Patrick Stewart slept walked his way through his role, but the film was otherwise entertaining.

[Deathstroke]

I saw Deep Blue Sea 3 tonight.

It wasn't terrible. The second movie was an abomination of filmmaking in every possible regard but the script here was at least semi-coherent. There was some bad CGI, but given how bad the 2nd movie was, I wish this had been made as a sequel to the first movie. I would've dreaded watching it a lot less.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

"there will be blood" (2007)

an interesting film with a great perfomance by Daniel Day Lewis.

[Steel Inquisitor]

In the middle of rewatching The World Is Not Enough and it's not as bad as I remembered. I haven't gotten to Christmas Jones yet, however.

[batnbreakfast]

Interesting. I remember watching the 13th Warrior when it was released in the theatres and absolutely hating it. It didn't help when someone said it was basically Beowolf, which I didn't even know was a thing when I watched the 13th Warrior.

Maybe I should give it another try?

The movie could be better but for its time it was fun enough. The novel is written by Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park) and is an adaption of Beowulf. It seems like Justice League there has been a conflict between directors, Crichton and John McTiernan (Die Hard,Predator), with the movie as a victim. Releasing both cuts as a set would be interesting.

13th Warrior > Venom

[YounG03]

Queen nd Slim


Awesome movie. I relly like the actor.

[ed2962]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I thought I was going to hate it but once I got pass the first ten minutes ( like the kids say, "cringe"), I ended up enjoying it.

[Jim Kelly]

"I'm thinking of ending things" is what I kept thinking as I watched I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS--and by "ending" I mean ending my watching of the movie. But I kept with it, just because I had gone down this road this far, I didn't want to end the trip until I got to the destination (except you never do get to the destination with this movie).

The 2020 movie, directed by Charlie Kaufman, stars Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Colette and David Thewlis. And that's what lured me into watching. It has a tone that suggests a psychological thriller, but that it ain't. It's just so tedious and so full of its own crap--and aware of its own pretentiousness--that it's nothing but a waste of time.

It's not that I didn't get the movie. I twigged to its game early on--I got all the references and the intellectual tricks. But this is the kind of self-indulgent twaddle that we all wrote in creative writing classes--believing that no one else had been this brilliant before us.

It's so stagey that I thought it might be adapted from a stage play. But it turns out that it's adapted from a book. The book could be quite brilliant because the kind of things that happen in the movie can work much better as a novel.

And it's not that the director or the actors don't know what they're doing. It's a very well put together movie, but it's all for nought. Which might be the point--the futility of existence. One thing near the very end did give me a smile--in the stage bedroom, on the bookshelf, is a copy of the Overstreet Price Guide--a volume that I have on my own book shelf. And also there are various references to OKLAHOMA--which is a musical I really love, so I didn't mind that stuff so much. But you'd be better off just to watch OKLAHOMA.

I'd give this movie a zero.

[Largo161]

"I'm thinking of ending things" is what I kept thinking as I watched I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS--and by "ending" I mean ending my watching of the movie. But I kept with it, just because I had gone down this road this far, I didn't want to end the trip until I got to the destination (except you never do get to the destination with this movie).

The 2020 movie, directed by Charlie Kaufman, stars Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Colette and David Thewlis. And that's what lured me into watching. It has a tone that suggests a psychological thriller, but that it ain't. It's just so tedious and so full of its own crap--and aware of its own pretentiousness--that it's nothing but a waste of time.

It's not that I didn't get the movie. I twigged to its game early on--I got all the references and the intellectual tricks. But this is the kind of self-indulgent twaddle that we all wrote in creative writing classes--believing that no one else had been this brilliant before us.

It's so stagey that I thought it might be adapted from a stage play. But it turns out that it's adapted from a book. The book could be quite brilliant because the kind of things that happen in the movie can work much better as a novel.

And it's not that the director or the actors don't know what they're doing. It's a very well put together movie, but it's all for nought. Which might be the point--the futility of existence. One thing near the very end did give me a smile--in the stage bedroom, on the bookshelf, is a copy of the Overstreet Price Guide--a volume that I have on my own book shelf. And also there are various references to OKLAHOMA--which is a musical I really love, so I didn't mind that stuff so much. But you'd be better off just to watch OKLAHOMA.

I'd give this movie a zero.

Ouch!

/10 char

[Largo161]

Taxi Zum Klo (1980). This German film is ...notorious...infamous...lauded?—I’m not sure—for its explicit gay sex. It’s flat-out pornographic, but it’s not a porno movie. A few days in the life of a promiscuous school teacher who gets into many sexual shenanigans to the dismay of his live-in boyfriend. I think Wikipedia described it as a “comedy of manners”. I didn’t find many laughs. Daring for 1980, but I was indifferent by the end.

[Jim Kelly]

Taxi Zum Klo (1980). This German film is ...notorious...infamous...lauded?—I’m not sure—for its explicit gay sex. It’s flat-out pornographic, but it’s not a porno movie. A few days in the life of a promiscuous school teacher who gets into many sexual shenanigans to the dismay of his live-in boyfriend. I think Wikipedia described it as a “comedy of manners”. I didn’t find many laughs. Daring for 1980, but I was indifferent by the end.

I well remember seeing this movie back in the 1980s. Not in 1980, but whenever it made it to North America. I wasn't outraged or offended by it. I wouldn't say it was a comedy--just an interesting slice of life from the perspective of a certain group of characters. The title literally means taxi to the toilet--but I think the nuance is different in German.

Frankly, there were a whole lot of movies in the 1980s which I saw that would now be considered offensive, but back then were accepted as fair game. But maybe that was just the circle I travelled in. I suppose most people didn't see so many movies that were on the fringes. But I belonged to various film societies and was doing film studies, so I saw these kinds of movies all the time. That's why Charlie Kaufman's movie isn't anything new to me--it is very much doing the same thing that hundreds of auteurs have already done.

I haven't seen CUTIES, but hearing about it made me think of one movie I saw either in the 1980s or the 1990s, at a film society screening. I think it was an Eastern European movie made by a respected director--and there's one scene with this woman and some boys--which to me was really offensive. I wasn't offended by movies that simulated crimes--but movies that showed the real thing offended me--as I'm being forced to go along with a crime, just by seeing the movie. There was no way to excuse this movie as not exploiting the boys in it.

Another movie that offended me was by Jean Luc Godard, who I usually like, which was WEEKEND (1967). There are scenes of fake dead people on the road with fake blood--that's okay by me--but then there is a scene of an animal actually being killed. That made me sick.

[Largo161]

I well remember seeing this movie back in the 1980s. Not in 1980, but whenever it made it to North America. I wasn't outraged or offended by it. I wouldn't say it was a comedy--just an interesting slice of life from the perspective of a certain group of characters. The title literally means taxi to the toilet--but I think the nuance is different in German.

Frankly, there were a whole lot of movies in the 1980s which I saw that would now be considered offensive, but back then were accepted as fair game. But maybe that was just the circle I travelled in. I suppose most people didn't see so many movies that were on the fringes. But I belonged to various film societies and was doing film studies, so I saw these kinds of movies all the time. That's why Charlie Kaufman's movie isn't anything new to me--it is very much doing the same thing that hundreds of auteurs have already done.

I haven't seen CUTIES, but hearing about it made me think of one movie I saw either in the 1980s or the 1990s, at a film society screening. I think it was an Eastern European movie made by a respected director--and there's one scene with this woman and some boys--which to me was really offensive. I wasn't offended by movies that simulated crimes--but movies that showed the real thing offended me--as I'm being forced to go along with a crime, just by seeing the movie. There was no way to excuse this movie as not exploiting the boys in it.

Another movie that offended me was by Jean Luc Godard, who I usually like, which was WEEKEND (1967). There are scenes of fake dead people on the road with fake blood--that's okay by me--but then there is a scene of an animal actually being killed. That made me sick.

Yeah, what you described would bother me, too.

(And the way you put it is an apt summary of Taxi Zum Klo.)

[MacrossPlus]

I just watched Crank 2: High Voltage