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

[JHF1870]

Hmmm, looking into the crystal ball…
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On Stan

 

[Knees of Ben Allan]

On Stan

Ah, I don’t think I have Stan anymore. I know I did when Optus swapped the EPL over to them, but following Liverpool religiously just screws up your sleep so much!

 

[JHF1870]

 

[Gralin]

The Gift 2015 - Joel Edgerton, Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall

(0% AI)

10/10

The Gift (2015) ⭐ 7.0 | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

1h 48m | R

www.imdb.com

This could perhaps go down as one of my favourite films of all time. Written, directed and acted by Joel Edgerton in an absolute slow burning masterpiece. I remembered Joel from Dark Matter and I'm not surprised how talented this guy is to put something of this calibre together. With only three notable cast members (Apologies if I'm unaware of the other cast) they all produced outstanding performances. Bateman plays such a sharp role in most of his movies, that you're not really sure who he is, or what he's really all about. Rebecca Hall, who I remember from her role in The Prestige and shared some parallels to Mary in the movie Enemy being pregnant, emotionally distant from Simon, and I felt emotionally resonant and drawn to her character as I did in Enemy.

Spoiler

What I loved about the film was it's intriguing opening scene, it roped me in had me invested and then teased me with a slow burning story building the tension with each scene. It didn't take long for Simon's true personality to shine and we kind of get a glimpse of that very early in the piece. He's very dominant and controlling and in one particular scene where he introduces Robyn at the dinner party he practically speaks on her behalf which was quite intentional to the story but really highlighted the sort of person he was. The progression of his behaviour in the slow burning story showed a continual evolution for us that he really was a piece of shit. Personally, it didn't take long for me to start hating the guy well before his full personality was revealed. It was a culmination of many narcissistic and controlling behaviours but also that he barely showed any emotional interest in his wife and certainly no interest in his unborn child. I don't recall any moments prior to her giving birth of him showing any interest and in fact one scene he mentions that he loves 'him' but referencing his colleague.

I really didn't know at any point where this film was headed and even up to the final scenes wasn't sure what we were going to get. The open ended scene leaving Simon with deep emotional turmoil really sold the message about digging your own hole to fall in it of which Simon did well beyond childhood. He's the kind of guy that fails to mature post high school and you can really spot that from early in the film. In the end, Simon lost everything: His wife, his job, and his child whether it was his or not.

I'm still buzzing about this movie.

Almost put this on yesterday

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Eldest son’s turn to choose a movie. He decided on The Nightmare Before Christmas. I enjoyed it more than he did, but he does want to be Jack Skellington for Halloween now.

I just wanna say “nice work, Bone Daddy” to someone now.

 

[JHF1870]

Under Siege Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee-Jones, Gary Busey

9/10

Under Siege (1992) ⭐ 6.5 | Action, Thriller

1h 43m | R

www.imdb.com

I was trying to figure out which movie to watch. You know when you've got a list of 30-40 movies and you mull over which ones to watch. I wasn't feeling up for 28 days or weeks later, or Cabin in The Woods, so I settled on a kick ass action film and I wasn't disappointed.

I'm still trying to work out what happened to Steven Seagal for him to feature in so many flops and yet star in such a bad ass action flick of which reminded me of Die Hard on a Destroyer and Metal Gear Solid 2 with a lot of similarities. It's one of the few one man action films from pre 2000s that really holds up well. Was it unrealistic, of course but it was bad ass and that's pretty much the reason to watch it.

I was a little disappointed in the casting of Erika Eleniak and I get it. The 80s and 90s action films typically cast 'distractions' irrespective of acting ability and Erika really didn't provide much in terms of talent, and in fact I thought she fell flat in a number of scenes. Having said that she was kind of fun.

Seagal was superb and I get the impression that he's a very loose actor with a lot of improvized lines given the raw reaction he gets from the cast around him with his humour. I love his calm demeanour which really should have given him greater roles in his career given his ability to be calm, have leadership qualities and be a complete badass not to **** with. Great cast from TLJ and Busey and one of my favorite familiar supporting cast members who I've seen in a lot of films in Troy Evans. I quite enjoy seeing movies where the same people keep propping up. I went through a stage where Vincent D'Onofrio kept popping up in my movies and he's become a bit of a fav.


Overall a solid action flick from the 90s well worth watching.

 

[Gralin]

Eldest son’s turn to choose a movie. He decided on The Nightmare Before Christmas. I enjoyed it more than he did, but he does want to be Jack Skellington for Halloween now.

I just wanna say “nice work, Bone Daddy” to someone now.

Nightmare is a favourite in our household

 

[troybe]

Eldest son’s turn to choose a movie. He decided on The Nightmare Before Christmas. I enjoyed it more than he did, but he does want to be Jack Skellington for Halloween now.

I just wanna say “nice work, Bone Daddy” to someone now.

Maybe after some night time recreational activities you could say it

 

[Xtreme]

Dumb & Dumber

Haven't seen it in ages, I think I just watched the "unrated" version or a modified version of the "unrated" version. As it had some scenes that were cut from the theatrical version, but took out other scenes that were also in the unrated cut.... I am super confused, especially more so as I'm used to the theatrical version (that has the little old lady bit!).

So much so I watched the theatrical version straight away (so I essentially watched most of the same movie twice in a row) to make sure I wasn't going bananas.

EDIT Different regions got different versions

US PG-13: Missing "Little old lady!" and toilet out window, includes Mexican hitchhikers
European: Includes "Little old lady!", missing Mexican Hitchhikers and toilet out window
Australian: Includes "Little old lady!" and toilet out window, missing Mexican Hitchhikers (among others)

Still a classic - 4.5/5

Funny thing is that outside of Kingpin and to a lesser extent Shallow Hal,.... I don't really like Farrelly brothers movies.

Have the same kind of thing in tv - like I only ever enjoyed Two and a Half Men (and maybe bits of Dharma and Greg) - fairly low brow.... but tolerable. Yet I can't stand any other Chuck Lorre created sitcom.

 

[JHF1870]

We Need To Talk About Kevin 2011 Tilda Swinton, John C Reilly, Ezra Miller

9/10

I've been hanging on to watching this movie for a while and after watching The Good Son, I felt a little apprehensive that it would go the same way. The good thing was that this movie was vastly different and one of my better watches this festive period.

Spoiler

What I loved most about the movie was the attention to detail with the music, the sound effects, and the cinematics. You very quickly feel unsettled and that feeling was very carefully constructed through colours, and tones, in particular looking at the cars, and the decor they were all very dull, the kitchen and living areas were minimal, the music was very unsettling but so was her office, workplace the town. Literally everything in the movie conveyed a sense of unease. The sounds were very raw and unsettling. This allowed for the build while not exactly linear that built tension at the right moments. In the one scene where Eva (Tilda) started feeling confortable with Kevin, we noticed she painted the walls blue which resemples the calmness we see in Severance, which would perhaps be the only time we see this level of calmness in the entire film.

I felt very striking similarities in cinematics and tension build to Halloween, The Invisible Man, and Soylent Green,

Swinton played an outstanding role and you could really feel the emotional turmoil from the start, she looked like she was going to break at any moment.

I think I might have underestimated Ezra because he was really ****ing good so I'll have to see what else he's been in although I didn't really think much of him in The Flash.

 

[Sketi]

It Ends (letterboxd video store)

It's about 4 recent college grads who head out for food and get stuck on a never ending road.

Lots of existential freakouts and philosophical chats as the characters try to adapt to this terrifying situation.

Effortlessly alternates between a Gen Z version of a Clerks shit-talking movie, tense horror movie, and road trip hangout movie. The chemistry between the 4 actors is so good that I have to believe they are friends in real life.

Super original and well made given what appears a very small budget.

8/10

 

[JHF1870]

It Ends (letterboxd video store)

It's about 4 recent college grads who head out for food and get stuck on a never ending road.

Lots of existential freakouts and philosophical chats as the characters try to adapt to this terrifying situation.

Effortlessly alternates between a Gen Z version of a Clerks shit-talking movie, tense horror movie, and road trip hangout movie. The chemistry between the 4 actors is so good that I have to believe they are friends in real life.

Super original and well made given what appears a very small budget.

8/10

would this be like Vivarium type thing

 

[Sketi]

would this be like Vivarium type thing

Never seen it. This was really just a great hang.

 

[Frank Bunn]

I had great success showing 80s movies to my kids… Star Wars, Back to the Future, Goonies, Princess Bride, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, ET, Willow, Bill & Ted’s, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. As they are getting older, I’ve started introduced Speed, Die Hard, T2, The Matrix, Bourne. Now my son has graduated to Scream. It’s a fun ride.

When my kids were that age we enjoyed a lot of movies together. The first Matrix and Bourne movies are classics. Also - The Day After Tomorrow. Pacific Rim. The Fifth Element. Excalibur. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Jack Reacher.

 

[Plugger35]

The Substance

They weren't wrong when they called it a body horror film.

It makes The Fly with Jeff Goldblum look like a Disney film.

 

[GreyCrow]

The Marksman - Netflix

Liam Neeson stars as a rancher forced by circumstances - personal and moral - to take a boy across country to Chicago

With the Cartel chasing him and the boy

I did think of the usual line with a twist - '' you will find me then I will kill you '' - its an ok movie but a few things just miss. Neeson and the child actor dont gel and the side story of the step-daughter goes nowhere

Spoiler: Final scenes

I did think a better near final shout would have been both walking to the house with a hot dog and Neeson getting on the bus with one

 

[spinynorman]

Well I'd worried my write-ups would be wiped so I copied them. Loser, I know.

A Conversation with the Sun - mightn't have posted about this one but it does have its own Letterboxd page (but not its own IMDB one) and means The Housemaid isn't my last film of 2025. This is a 90 minute video installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, made by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (solid contender for my favourite director of this century, who's made films such as Tropical Malady, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives and Memoria). It features a range of footage, often two shots played over one another in a way as to redefine both images, in an almost disjointed, doomscroll through your Instagram reel type of way, as sounds of nature echo. It's more or less split into three parts, though there isn't necessarily a thematic difference between the three. You'll see images repeated into different contexts throughout. I've long wondered about Apichatpong's art and so was happy that this was shown locally, and as an immersive experience it was an enjoyably mellow way to end the year. Sadly, given the MCA's location, I then stepped out onto Circular Quay on the afternoon of New Years Eve, so I suppose that reinforced the need of stopping and letting the gentle beauty of the world embrace you sometimes. Showing until 15 February, so if you're in or will be in Sydney before then and this sounds like your jam, check it out.

Resurrection - humanity has given up dreaming in exchange for something close to immortality, with those who've retained their capacity for dreaming hunted and killed. One such dreamer is captured and mercifully granted a gentle death, slipping between dreams. A movie that really embraces the surrealism of dream logic, this was a pretty astonishing film, so beautifully filmed. This is Chinese director Bi Gan's third film after Kaili Blues and Long Day's Journey Into Night, and while I didn't see the former (but will rectify this soon), his previous film had some of the most innovative use of 3D in the post-Avatar boom that I saw. This was an extremely dense and rich text, and I think I'd need to write an essay to unpack all my thoughts, but for those who are interested in surrealist cinema, it's well worth seeking out (unfortunately it's had an extremely limited release, only showing in Melbourne at Lido and Cinema Nova and in Sydney at the Ritz, reinforcing to me why I could never live outside these two cities in this country).

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

We Need To Talk About Kevin 2011 Tilda Swinton, John C Reilly, Ezra Miller

9/10

I've been hanging on to watching this movie for a while and after watching The Good Son, I felt a little apprehensive that it would go the same way. The good thing was that this movie was vastly different and one of my better watches this festive period.

Spoiler

What I loved most about the movie was the attention to detail with the music, the sound effects, and the cinematics. You very quickly feel unsettled and that feeling was very carefully constructed through colours, and tones, in particular looking at the cars, and the decor they were all very dull, the kitchen and living areas were minimal, the music was very unsettling but so was her office, workplace the town. Literally everything in the movie conveyed a sense of unease. The sounds were very raw and unsettling. This allowed for the build while not exactly linear that built tension at the right moments. In the one scene where Eva (Tilda) started feeling confortable with Kevin, we noticed she painted the walls blue which resemples the calmness we see in Severance, which would perhaps be the only time we see this level of calmness in the entire film.

I felt very striking similarities in cinematics and tension build to Halloween, The Invisible Man, and Soylent Green,

Swinton played an outstanding role and you could really feel the emotional turmoil from the start, she looked like she was going to break at any moment.

I think I might have underestimated Ezra because he was really ****ing good so I'll have to see what else he's been in although I didn't really think much of him in The Flash.

Good movie.

 

[bommer16]

Copland

Moral weaknesses exposed on all levels in this film based in a town outside nyc where a group of city cops live and enjoy flying under the radar. MC Freddy (Stallone) plays the good sheriff of the town who wanted so much to be a boy in blue mentally writes off any suggestions of corruption as he deals with his own internal struggles.
De Niro as Mo the detective from IA just tops this film off.

 

[TimZoo]

Under Siege Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee-Jones, Gary Busey

9/10

Under Siege (1992) ⭐ 6.5 | Action, Thriller

1h 43m | R

www.imdb.com

I was trying to figure out which movie to watch. You know when you've got a list of 30-40 movies and you mull over which ones to watch. I wasn't feeling up for 28 days or weeks later, or Cabin in The Woods, so I settled on a kick ass action film and I wasn't disappointed.

I'm still trying to work out what happened to Steven Seagal for him to feature in so many flops and yet star in such a bad ass action flick of which reminded me of Die Hard on a Destroyer and Metal Gear Solid 2 with a lot of similarities. It's one of the few one man action films from pre 2000s that really holds up well. Was it unrealistic, of course but it was bad ass and that's pretty much the reason to watch it.

I was a little disappointed in the casting of Erika Eleniak and I get it. The 80s and 90s action films typically cast 'distractions' irrespective of acting ability and Erika really didn't provide much in terms of talent, and in fact I thought she fell flat in a number of scenes. Having said that she was kind of fun.

Seagal was superb and I get the impression that he's a very loose actor with a lot of improvized lines given the raw reaction he gets from the cast around him with his humour. I love his calm demeanour which really should have given him greater roles in his career given his ability to be calm, have leadership qualities and be a complete badass not to **** with. Great cast from TLJ and Busey and one of my favorite familiar supporting cast members who I've seen in a lot of films in Troy Evans. I quite enjoy seeing movies where the same people keep propping up. I went through a stage where Vincent D'Onofrio kept popping up in my movies and he's become a bit of a fav.


Overall a solid action flick from the 90s well worth watching.

Do a deep dive on the great man on YT,You won't regret it,Sensai Seagal and Space ice are good places to start

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

Copland

Moral weaknesses exposed on all levels in this film based in a town outside nyc where a group of city cops live and enjoy flying under the radar. MC Freddy (Stallone) plays the good sheriff of the town who wanted so much to be a boy in blue mentally writes off any suggestions of corruption as he deals with his own internal struggles.
De Niro as Mo the detective from IA just tops this film off.

Good movie

 

[phantom13]

I saw the Vanishing, IT's controversial here because everyone hated it but liked the original. I also liked Breakdown with Kurt Russell.

I'm looking at some gaslighting movies,

Spoiler

I Know The Invisible Man was a good one. The Gift maybe which I haven't seen. You know the movies where everyone thinks the bad guy is actually the nice guy and visa versa.

Have you tried the original. Like the one that actually coined the term?

 

[JHF1870]

Have you tried the original. Like the one that actually coined the term?

Id like to but ill need to wait. Cabt source it.

Ive got anxiety seeing a reply from you

 

[joey_jo_jo]

Id like to but ill need to wait. Cabt source it.

Ive got anxiety seeing a reply from you

Its on HBO Max

 

[JHF1870]

Its on HBO Max

Is on netflix?