What movie have you watched?

  • Simply called “Tolkien”, on general release in the UK from this weekend. Apparently it’s a dramatised biopic suggesting how his early experiences like serving in the First World War might have inspired him to write.

    Will probably watch it when it comes around on TV.

    I have seen my first preview for this film just today. It's released here on the 10th. I may give it a chance in the theater - it looked good to me.


    Thanks for posting about it! :thumbup:

    Stepping out the back way, hoping nobody sees...


  • Finders Keepers - comedy - 1984


    On the run from the police and a female roller derby team, scam artist Michael Rangeloff steals a coffin and boards a train, pretending to be a soldier bringing home a dead war buddy. The train ride turns into far more than Michael bargains for. A coffin boards the the train, containing $5 million which Michael only notices later.


    The music came from Supertramp


    Cast


    Michael O'Keefe ... Michael Rangeloff

    Beverly D'Angelo ... Standish Logan

    Louis Gossett Jr. ... Century

    Pamela Stephenson ... Georgiana Latimer

    Ed Lauter ... Josef Sirola

    David Wayne ... Stapleton

    Brian Dennehy ... Frizzle... The Sheriff from First Blood

    Jack Riley ... Ormond

    John Schuck ... Police Chief Norris

    Timothy Blake ... Estelle Norris

    Jim Carrey ... Lane Biddlecoff.... His first role as an actor

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  • I saw "Tolkien" last night, and it was fantastic!


    I liked it so much that I may see it again next week - yes, it was that good!

    ...and I did see it again tonight - I loved it just as much as the first time I saw it.


    And, it has a tangential Genesis connection - Lily Collins (daughter of Jill Tavelman and a certain Philip David Charles Collins - I think he may be famous ;) ) plays J.R.R. Tolkien's girlfriend/wife.


    It's a great film. :thumbup:

    Stepping out the back way, hoping nobody sees...

  • Today I saw High Life, a very dark sci-fi film about convicts on board a prison ship in deep space. Initially it's just one guy (played by an almost unrecognisable Robert Pattinson) and a baby. Then it flashes back and we see there were previously 6 other convicts and the ship's doctor, then we start to discover what happened to them.


    Very well made even if somewhat relentlessly grim and often unpleasant.


    For the 2nd time in a few weeks I was the only person in the cinema. It was essentially a private screening!

    Abandon all reason

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  • Rocketman. It seems inevitable that you would compare it with Bohemian Rhapsody, more so given that John Reid is portrayed in both! Though I enjoyed both films, I have to say this one is more satisfying, perhaps because I know less of Elton. Being a Queen fan from almost the start, the many "history rewrites" grate, and seem pointless. Here, as you may know, they didn't set out to be historically accurate, but to see things from Elton's drink-and-drugs fuelled memory. The songs are not chronological either, but used as the lyrics best fit the moment.


    I'm sure many Elton fans will find fault, but in the end, as a film, I feel it was the better of the 2. I also enjoyed seeing 2 cars exactly as I owned them back in the day, a Cortina mk3 in "evergreen" (the colour) and a mk 1 Escort in the same colour. But that's just me! ;)

    Ian


    Putting the old-fashioned Staffordshire plate in the dishwasher!


  • Tarantula - 1955

    A spider escapes from an isolated Arizona desert laboratory experimenting in giantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.


    Has the very young Clint Eastwood, that saves the day, flying a jet plane and bombs the giant spider!....:D


    Quite a good movie and used a real spider. The special effect are quite good for it's time. :)

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    Coming soon, cannot wait. It appears he's been to the barbers for a haircut. :D

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    Here's another one :).

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  • Rocketman. It seems inevitable that you would compare it with Bohemian Rhapsody, more so given that John Reid is portrayed in both! Though I enjoyed both films, I have to say this one is more satisfying, perhaps because I know less of Elton. Being a Queen fan from almost the start, the many "history rewrites" grate, and seem pointless. Here, as you may know, they didn't set out to be historically accurate, but to see things from Elton's drink-and-drugs fuelled memory. The songs are not chronological either, but used as the lyrics best fit the moment.


    I'm sure many Elton fans will find fault, but in the end, as a film, I feel it was the better of the 2. I also enjoyed seeing 2 cars exactly as I owned them back in the day, a Cortina mk3 in "evergreen" (the colour) and a mk 1 Escort in the same colour. But that's just me! ;)

    I enjoyed Rocketman & thought it worked much better as a musical than it would have done as a straightforward biopic, especially since Elton had such a wonderful range of costumes to recreate. I’m not a big fan & didn’t know his career in detail, so the historical inaccuracy wasn’t off-putting, although Taron Egerton being much taller than Elton was!


    John Reid came across as such a villain that I googled “Is John Reid dead?” on the assumption that he must be past being able to sue :D, & thus could be painted as black as the late Paul Prenter was in Bohemian Rhapsody. Also not surprised Elton didn’t make the film until his parents were dead, seeing how badly they came out of it.


  • Have to say, this was the most boring uneventful film, I've seen for some time. If you like Sylvester Stallone and action movies, then this may bring you joy.


    Apart from the original Escape Plan movie, 2 and 3 are the worst sequels to a film I've seen...

  • During my time in Edinburgh I saw two very contrasting films in the same day.


    Midsommar is about a group of young Americans visiting a remote community in Sweden. As they learn more about the customs and rituals of this community things start to seriously unravel. The film as a whole is quite unsettling and contains deeply unpleasant and gruesome imagery I won't quickly forget. But sometimes it's good to be disturbed and it's very well made. Excellent lead performance by Florence Pugh who I'll be looking out for from now.


    Later I saw The Dead Don't Die, a comedy zombie movie by Jim Jarmusch. It has his trademark deadpan quality and is very self aware, which will annoy some people. The comedy zombie flick thing has probably been overdone by now but it's okay, and was a bit of lighthearted relief after the intensity of Midsommar.

    Abandon all reason

  • Also saw Rocketman & enjoyed it immensely. The way they used the songs to make it almost a musical was inspired - the sequence of Bernie singing Goodbye Yellow Brick Road as they split up was inspired. It wasn't quite right to come out of rehab with I'm Still Standing though - obvious choice it may be but ironically the song was recorded at the height of the drugs/alcohol period in the early 80s.


    We also watched Men In Black - International & it was vapid & mechanical. I'm not a fan of movies like this really but hubby wanted to see it.


  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit


    Watched this 25 years ago and did not appreciate the talent in the movie... OMG!! 8|:love: This movie is brilliant!... Spent 3 - 4 years to make and well worth it!.


    The gags and humour is typical cartoonish character's and love it!.......<3


    The only movie to show both animated and real people through the entire picture.


    Mary Poppins only lasted 20 minutes in that entire film..

  • It is, indeed, a work of art. There is a docu that covers the making of it, such as the café scene where the penguins serve with real trays, which involved a set elevated about 7 feet off the real floor so people could move the trays on poles via slots in the floor, the penguins were drawn in afterwards.


    Not hindered by the inclusion of Christopher "Doc Brown" Lloyd, either!

    Ian


    Putting the old-fashioned Staffordshire plate in the dishwasher!