What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

[Frodo]

Damage (1992)

Airplane(1980)

 

[Gothamsknight]

 

[KaijuDude1992]

 

[Luigi]

Time to do a Mann-a-thon!

Thief

The Keep

 

[Frodo]

The Temp (1993)

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Smile (2022)

Interesting idea, beautifully shot, well acted. Sosie Bacon (Kevin's daughter) is a standout. Caitlin Stasey likewise deserves special mention as the patient, Laura (recreating her role from the 2020 short, Laura Hasn't Slept). Much of the tension is stretched to breaking-point. At times you expect one thing but get another, at others you see exactly where it's heading and it still gets you. There's a strong feeling of 'this could happen in the real world'. The characters are believable, and some scenarios manage to be both cringe-inducing and shocking. However, it does feel derivative. The most common comparisons online are with The Ring and It Follows. It Follows is especially obvious, with the entity pursuing its victims whilst able to take on the appearance of anybody (a change from the original short), and one scene

Spoiler: For both Smile and It Follows

the gigantic figure suddenly emerging from a darkened doorway

looks pretty much lifted wholesale. The supporting cast are good (although not everybody quite pulls off the 'creepy smile'; the best is Caitlin Stasey, used on the movie posters), and there are some effective jump scares. It starts to fall off in the last half hour or so

Spoiler

the reveal with the visiting psychotherapist, whilst initially well done, soon loses its power with one of those 'lesser' smiles and the (IMO) poor decision to have the entity speak with its own voice; the scenes in the old family home gave me Mama vibes (the house in the woods) - but nowhere near as creepy, and I get the feeling they couldn't decide which ending they wanted - so went with both of them (you'll see what I mean).

but it's still entertaining.

Apparently a sequel is on the way. 6.5/10

 

[Frodo]

Magic (1978)

 

[Ash J. Williams]

Two Undercover Angels

Ju-on: The Curse

 

[C. Lee]

ALIEN TRESPASS (2009) Starring Eric McCormack, Robert Patrick, Jenni Baird, and Dan Lauria. A sci-fi comedy spoofing 1950's science fiction movies. If you enjoy genre films from that time and have a sense of humor then it is for you.

RETURNER (2002) starring Takeshi Kaneshiro and Anne Suzuki. A time travelling action film. 80 some years in the future the earth's population is being destroyed by an advanced alien race. When the military guy, picked to go through the experimental time machine to stop the war from beginning gets killed at the last minute, a 16 year old girl jumps through instead. Combination MATRIX, TRANSFORMERS, and TERMINATOR. Fun film with good FX.

THE TIME TRAVELERS (1964) starring Philip Carey, John Hoyt, Merry Anders, and Steve Franken. Scientists in 1963 create a window to look into the future. As they are looking though it into a futuristic wasteland, the janitor/maintenance man steps through it into that future. The window is unstable, so fearing it will shut down stranding him there, the lead scientist goes through to bring him back....as does the next scientist and the next...until it does close down. They are then attacked by mutants, and run from them until they find a cave that is an entrance to an underground city. A few hundred "normal" people and scientists live there, battling the mutants as they build a rocketship to take them away from the WWIII ravaged planet Earth. It has a twist ending I didn't see coming.

WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH (1970) starring Victoria Vetri and Robin Hawdon. A Hammer Films sort of sequel to Raquel Welch's ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. Beautiful cave girls in the skimpiest of fur bikinis being menaced by srop motion dinosaurs (this time supplied by Jim Danforth). Fun for all.

MOON ZERO TWO (1969) starring James Olson, Catherine Schell, and Warren Mitchell. This HAMMER FILM is a sci-fi western. You have moon mine claim jumpers, dance hall girls in the space saloon, bar fights, and shootouts. Yeehawww.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH (1970) starring Victoria Vetri and Robin Hawdon. A Hammer Films sort of sequel to Raquel Welch's ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. Beautiful cave girls in the skimpiest of fur bikinis being menaced by srop motion dinosaurs (this time supplied by Jim Danforth). Fun for all.

One Million Years BC and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth are well worth a look. Who'd have thought that prehistoric women looked like Victoria Vetri and Raquel Welch!

 

[C. Lee]

One Million Years BC and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth are well worth a look. Who'd have thought that prehistoric women looked like Victoria Vetri and Raquel Welch!

Yes indeedy......I watch them for their **ahem** historical significance.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Yes indeedy......I watch them for their **ahem** historical significance.

Absolutely!

 

[Sculder]

Una sull'altra / One on Top of the Other (1969)
Le grand bazar / The Big Store (1973)
The Baby and the Battleship (1956)

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

As I watched this (for the umpteenth time) I was thinking... In another universe Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell would have made a perfect live action Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy. I read once that when the dialogue exchanges were written for Monroe and Russell the decision was taken to write them as though they were a married couple!

 

[-Arya-]

 

[Zyraquis]

Bros
4/10
I like my gay romcoms and tend to give them easy passes but so many things are wrong with this, biggest of all is a thru and thru unlikeable main character - nails scraping on chalkboard level of annoying, less than half way through I just wanted him to shut up.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

 

[Gothamsknight]

 

[Batgirl0202]

A-List cast, tepid thriller.

7/10

 

[psylockolussus]

Fast X

 

[Link]

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

What a waste of time.

 

[Frodo]

Disturbing Behavior (1998)