What was the last movie you watched? Part 2

[squeekness]

This is a continuation thread, the old one is here.

 

[Detective Conan]

Here’s couple of movies I’ve either rewatched for the billionth time or watched for the very first time ever on my two days off from work:

 

[psylockolussus]

2K1 A Space Odyssey

First time seeing it. I didn't realize until I first saw the few seconds that Barbie parodied this for its teaser trailer.

 

[ObiWanCon]

Extraction 2 (2023)

 

[squeekness]

The Lookout. Joseph Gordon Levitt remains one of my favorite actors and you can never go wrong with Jeff Daniels.

 

[Ash J. Williams]

 

[Frodo]

Back To School (1986)

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Mantan Moreland is easily the highlight of this!

 

[Bayne]

This week I watched Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds for the first time. This movie really is everything Avatar wished it could be. The only significant downside is the weird ass synth action music.

 

[psylockolussus]

An Artpopstar is Born This Way starring the Kindness Punk mother fame monster Lady Joanne Gaga of Chromatica.

 

[Hunter Rider]

8/10

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

The Night Has Eyes (aka Terror House, aka Moonlight Madness ~ 1942)

British, soundstage-bound, gothic horror(ish) mystery, starring James Mason, Joyce Howard, and Wilfrid Lawson. Two young female schoolteachers travel to the Yorkshire Moors where their friend disappeared a year ago. However, as they cross the moors, they soon lose their way in a violent storm. After nearly sinking in the bog they stumble across a mysterious house where they decide to take shelter.

This has those wonderful fog-shrouded sets so prevalent at the time (think The Hound of the Baskerviles). We also get wild, Bronte-type scenery, skeletons in secret chambers, and ominous shots of clouds flitting across the full moon. A young James Mason is at his glowering best, as the tortured loner with a secret; Joyce Howard is at her swooning best, as the heroine who refuses to believe ill of him, and Wilfred Lawson is at his, well, pickled best (he had a notorious drink problem, to the point where it was often written into his parts), as the handyman. It's a stagy melodrama through and through and some of the dialogue is unintentionally funny now, but there's bags of atmosphere and an ending I didn't see coming. 7/10

 

[B]

8/10

Enjoyed it a lot, not as good as the first but definitely a film I regret not going to see in the cinema as the visual spender alone would have been worth the extortionate prices. Very much looking forward to the third instalment.

 

[Luigi]

Collateral

 

[Hunter Rider]

7.5/10

 

[3rdstone]

2K1 A Space Odyssey

First time seeing it. I didn't realize until I first saw the few seconds that Barbie parodied this for its teaser trailer.

That's an interesting entry to this classic. I have a similar yet contrary experience of that film. My mom, who knew I loved reading sci-fi books as a kid in mid 70s (even though I sometimes didn't understand everything, since it was often written for more mature readers), once gave me a book she found at a used bookstore called: 2001 (which was the short title over here), which just had a cover with an astronaut pictured above Earth. Of course I thought, lots of cool space development must've happend at 2001 (lol). Let's read this.

I got totally fascinated by it even though it felt a bit much to grasp for a 9-10 yo kid like me, and used to reread it every summer for a few years, keeping it at our sommer house. And then later on in late 70s I got aware that this book was actually the novel that Arthur C. Clarke wrote AFTER making the script to a 60s sci-fi film with the same title. Yeah, things were slower then lol. I just hate that due to work I couldn't visit the showing of this classic at my local cinema the last day of May this spring. Crap..

 

[KaijuDude1992]

 

[Hunter Rider]

The best movie in the franchise since the first, cleverly uses a meta approach to legacy sequels in the same way the first film did with oldschool slashers.

9/10

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Dr Terror's House of Horrors

 

[Frodo]

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Hunter Rider]

8/10

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Finally got a chance to catch this. Really good.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Aubrey Plaza and Hugh Grant are entraining in a very average action comedy.

7/10

 

[KaijuDude1992]