Movie What's the last movie you saw? (7)

[Dan Moody]

bride of frankenstein

changes from the original monster to what he is capable of in this film, are good and necessary. could be where the 'forensic doctor eating in the same room as a dead person' thing began.

are you talking of the 1935 Original or the Bale/Gylenhall remake - The Bride?

 

[dumb]

are you talking of the 1935 Original or the Bale/Gylenhall remake - The Bride?

1935. Lucky enough to have a bunch of the old universal monsters on blu ray with all the off-shoots, son of frankenstein, frankenstein meets the wolf man, Abbott and Costello meet frankenstein, etc

 

[Sketi]

I watched a number of Kurosawa's flicks end of last year as Classic/Astor/Lido did a retrospective, had only seen seven samurai and Ran previously. I think High & Low is my favourite, it just felt so ahead of its time with the themes and genre bending as well as its depiction of drugs and crime.
Felt like a precursor to Parasite in some ways.

That's sick you got to see it on a big screen.

Totally agree, feels super modern for a movie from the 60s. And yeah re Parasite, has that theme of class / wealth gap that seems to be front of mind in lots of Asian cinema these days.

Any other Kurosawa you recommend? I'll bite the bullet with Seven Samurai eventually. That runtime is crushing haha.

 

[joey_jo_jo]

That's sick you got to see it on a big screen.

Totally agree, feels super modern for a movie from the 60s. And yeah re Parasite, has that theme of class / wealth gap that seems to be front of mind in lots of Asian cinema these days.

Any other Kurosawa you recommend? I'll bite the bullet with Seven Samurai eventually. That runtime is crushing haha.

Ran and throne of blood are my other two faves, theyre both Shakespeare samurai adaptations. I think Ran was his biggest budget (I think its was a French production and possibly coppolla was involved too).
Stray dog is one of his earlier flicks but is also a contemporary crime drama like high and low.

You should bite the bullet and watch seven samurai/yojimbo/rashamon too but I reckon cos they've been copied so much by modern movies they might not live up to expectations.

 

[spinynorman]

Ran and throne of blood are my other two faves, theyre both Shakespeare samurai adaptations. I think Ran was his biggest budget (I think its was a French production and possibly coppolla was involved too).
Stray dog is one of his earlier flicks but is also a contemporary crime drama like high and low.

You should bite the bullet and watch seven samurai/yojimbo/rashamon too but I reckon cos they've been copied so much by modern movies they might not live up to expectations.

It was his film before Ran, Kagemusha that was produced by Coppola and Lucas. Kurosawa basically had a flop with Dodes'ka-den in 1970 and attempted suicide, and then was in the wilderness amongst the Japanese to an extent - Dersu Uzala was a (stunningly beautiful) Soviet film, Kagemusha had the backing of some of New Hollywood's young lions, Ran was backed by the French, and Dreams had Spielberg's backing and an acting role for Scorsese.

I don't want to shit on 12 Angry Men, a movie I like plenty but don't feel like anything like love for, but yeah, the comparison to High and Low just shows how beautifully put together that first hour is, before its procedural second half. I honestly think you'd have to be pretty unlucky to go wrong with any randomly chosen Kurosawa film (especially if 1950 is your cut off), but Ikiru might be my favourite of the ones not otherwise mentioned. Every once in a while I'll watch one of the (sadly dwindling) Kurosawa films I've not seen and wonder why I bother watching with half the things I watch otherwise.

 

[joey_jo_jo]

It was his film before Ran, Kagemusha that was produced by Coppola and Lucas. Kurosawa basically had a flop with Dodes'ka-den in 1970 and attempted suicide, and then was in the wilderness amongst the Japanese to an extent - Dersu Uzala was a (stunningly beautiful) Soviet film, Kagemusha had the backing of some of New Hollywood's young lions, Ran was backed by the French, and Dreams had Spielberg's backing and an acting role for Scorsese.

I don't want to shit on 12 Angry Men, a movie I like plenty but don't feel like anything like love for, but yeah, the comparison to High and Low just shows how beautifully put together that first hour is, before its procedural second half. I honestly think you'd have to be pretty unlucky to go wrong with any randomly chosen Kurosawa film (especially if 1950 is your cut off), but Ikiru might be my favourite of the ones not otherwise mentioned. Every once in a while I'll watch one of the (sadly dwindling) Kurosawa films I've not seen and wonder why I bother watching with half the things I watch otherwise.

Oh nice, I've got ikiru and kagemushu (and drunken angel) tee'd up on plex! Ikuru was the only one I couldn't get to classic/lido had the showcase last year.

 

[Xtreme]

Ferris Bueller's Day Off -

Continuing on a trend where I used to watch this religiously.... then had a period of a few years of not watching it. It's still a classic, but my viewing habits change (I haven't even watched Batman Begins/Dark Knight/Dark Knight Rises at all this year... and I usually watch them 2-3 times in a 12 month period lol).

Fun fun fun movie, while watching it I often reminice about watching it when I was really little - liking it way back then, despite not getting a lot of the references (which I did understand as I got older).

4/5.

 

[torq]

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)

John Hughes had a hot streak in the 80's and this movie - inspired by his own hellish 5-day journey from New York to Chicago via Wichita, Kansas - paired Steve Martin and John Candy (in probably his best role). Funny cameos by Kevin Bacon, Michael McKean, Edie McClurg and Dylan Baker as Owen...



A new documentary was released today about Candy called John Candy: I Like Me (2025).

 

[Neese]

Flow. Utterly charming

Conclave. I liked it, more for the glimpses behind the process of choosing the new Pope. Ralph Fiennes is great in this.

 

[Warsaw]

Him - Has a bit of style, an interesting(ish) idea but just hollow and flat in execution in just about every way. Opus was another film that tackled similar themes around religion and cults, with a magnetic larger than life character But both just interrogated their premises as subtle as blunt-force trauma. Jim Jefferies is in this for some reason?

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey - There's an audience for this, sure, but it's probably one that forgot that there used to be really good romantic dramas/comedies made on the regular. I have to only assume Kogonada agreed to do this because it'll fund his next project, one that he's hopefully written himself.

 

[offtherails9]

22nd January for Aus

I never understand this! Why?!? Why do they do it?

 

[spinynorman]

I never understand this! Why?!? Why do they do it?

To be fair, it only gets a release at all in the US (aside its surprise festival premiere the other day) on Christmas Day, so we're not getting it too significantly after everyone.

 

[Kirby]

The Monkey

It’s a fun horror comedy.

6/10

 

[Sketi]

I haven't even watched Batman Begins/Dark Knight/Dark Knight Rises at all this year... and I usually watch them 2-3 times in a 12 month period lol

This seems like healthy growth haha

 

[Sketi]

To be fair, it only gets a release at all in the US (aside its surprise festival premiere the other day) on Christmas Day, so we're not getting it too significantly after everyone.

We will feel every one of those weeks

Trying to make sense of the upcoming release schedule is kinda confusing. The new Park Chan Wook movie (No Other Choice) has an Adelaide Film Fest premiere but then no foreseeable wide release in Aus.

Are you in SA offtherails9 ? Take one for the team and check out No Other Choice for us?

 

[offtherails9]

To be fair, it only gets a release at all in the US (aside its surprise festival premiere the other day) on Christmas Day, so we're not getting it too significantly after everyone.

Really? That's like a month!
Especially in this age of social media and podcasts, the movie will be pretty hard to avoid spoilers etc.
I really had to see OBAA as quickly as I could because the discussion in my twitter algo was just too much to do anything else. I guess this is a me problem but I think a movie being released a month later is crazy.

We will feel every one of those weeks

Trying to make sense of the upcoming release schedule is kinda confusing. The new Park Chan Wook movie (No Other Choice) has an Adelaide Film Fest premiere but then no foreseeable wide release in Aus.

Are you in SA offtherails9 ? Take one for the team and check out No Other Choice for us?

Haha I'm actually in Melbourne that weekend it's showing. Spewing.

 

[spinynorman]

Really? That's like a month!
Especially in this age of social media and podcasts, the movie will be pretty hard to avoid spoilers etc.
I really had to see OBAA as quickly as I could because the discussion in my twitter algo was just too much to do anything else. I guess this is a me problem but I think a movie being released a month later is crazy.

Oh for sure, but one month is better than three!

I actually am in Adelaide during the Adelaide Film Festival but it’s entirely by accident and I’m booked to do stuff with friends. Trying to work out if there’s anything I can sneak away for, unfortunately I don’t think No Other Choice will be doable.

 

[Xtreme]

This seems like healthy growth haha

At one point (the dvd release of The Dark Knight in December 2008) I basically watched it every night for a very long time , would alternate between that and the dvd of the 2008 grand final. Have always had that side of me, when I was little we got the video of Terminator 2..... It was a regular watch (daily) after school. It did get to the point where I went many YEARS without seeing it again in full because I watched it too often back then. Similar thing happened with Back to the Future (although I don't remember watching the original 23472340979207 times, however I did over-watch BTTF Part 2 lol), it was close to 8 years or so between viewings.

This year I've spent most of my spare time gaming vs movie/tv series watching (I've still binge watched a lot of tv series). Although I have done a few familiar series re-watches that I typically do each year... I've snuck in a few I hadn't watched in years also. Like the Dark Knight Trilogy, I haven't even done a Marvel Universe marathon (something else I've done year to year) this year.

I think it's born out of convenience, even though I have digital back ups of all of my physical purchases I still just go through only a few in deciding what I want to watch at any given time. Sometimes it's easier to pick something safe even though it's already been watched 74290370490432749320432984023493204893204 times.

 

[Sketi]

At one point (the dvd release of The Dark Knight in December 2008) I basically watched it every night for a very long time , would alternate between that and the dvd of the 2008 grand final. Have always had that side of me, when I was little we got the video of Terminator 2..... It was a regular watch (daily) after school. It did get to the point where I went many YEARS without seeing it again in full because I watched it too often back then. Similar thing happened with Back to the Future (although I don't remember watching the original 23472340979207 times, however I did over-watch BTTF Part 2 lol), it was close to 8 years or so between viewings.

This year I've spent most of my spare time gaming vs movie/tv series watching (I've still binge watched a lot of tv series). Although I have done a few familiar series re-watches that I typically do each year... I've snuck in a few I hadn't watched in years also. Like the Dark Knight Trilogy, I haven't even done a Marvel Universe marathon (something else I've done year to year) this year.

I think it's born out of convenience, even though I have digital back ups of all of my physical purchases I still just go through only a few in deciding what I want to watch at any given time. Sometimes it's easier to pick something safe even though it's already been watched 74290370490432749320432984023493204893204 times.

I kinda understand it, I used to be like that with Seinfeld. Especially around sleep, it's nice having something familiar (these days I just cycle through the same handful of Bill Bryson audiobooks for sleeping).

 

[Dan Moody]

1935. Lucky enough to have a bunch of the old universal monsters on blu ray with all the off-shoots, son of frankenstein, frankenstein meets the wolf man, Abbott and Costello meet frankenstein, etc

same here.
On occasions, the Astor Theatre here in Melbourne will hold a creature feature and screen some of the old Universal horror films.

 

[Xtreme]

I kinda understand it, I used to be like that with Seinfeld. Especially around sleep, it's nice having something familiar (these days I just cycle through the same handful of Bill Bryson audiobooks for sleeping).

Seinfeld has been my November/December "marathon" show for the last 2 years.... not sure if I have the motivation to do it this year (originally was centered around making it to the Festivus episode by Christmas time.... both years I finished the entire series by mid December lol).

 

[Roobs321]

Really? That's like a month!
Especially in this age of social media and podcasts, the movie will be pretty hard to avoid spoilers etc.
I really had to see OBAA as quickly as I could because the discussion in my twitter algo was just too much to do anything else. I guess this is a me problem but I think a movie being released a month later is crazy.

it was always thus, even worse decades ago, so awards films steadily trickling out here across January/February is perfectly normal to me. Traditionally it made sense as a distribution strategy for our local market. As long as you get to see a chunk of the awards season films before Oscar night (or the week after). I don’t really do film socials/pods though, and I live hours from the nearest cinema so I have to wait regardless (urban arthouse was only a twentysomething thing for me). Streamer Leaving Soon is my cinema queue fomo habitat nowadays

the trick is not minding the wait

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

World Movies last night showed Assassination of Jesse James. Still bloody good and one of the best modern westerns.

It’s been criticised for being too long but even watching again I didn’t think so. Tense all the way through. Outstanding cast with Pitt, the good Affleck (acting wise), Rockwell, Shepard, Schneider. Reckon close to Pitt’s best and probably Affleck as well. Music was great as well and that along with brilliant cinematography really added to the atmosphere

 

[JackOutback]

The Mummy (1999)… this has built up quite a cult following, it seems, in recent years. The kids liked it but it didn’t really live up to the hype for mine (I did see it near release but not since). It’s fine and fun enough, the characters have some chemistry but it doesn’t really thrill in the way Indiana Jones did (which it is obviously inspired by), or offer anything original. Competent and has its moments. 6.5/10

 

[Plugger35]

World Movies last night showed Assassination of Jesse James. Still bloody good and one of the best modern westerns.

It’s been criticised for being too long but even watching again I didn’t think so. Tense all the way through. Outstanding cast with Pitt, the good Affleck (acting wise), Rockwell, Shepard, Schneider. Reckon close to Pitt’s best and probably Affleck as well. Music was great as well and that along with brilliant cinematography really added to the atmosphere

Yeah it's a good film with some good acting performances but it's just a shame the title is a spoiler that gives away the ending.