What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

[-Arya-]

8/10 - Cool sequel to Batman Returns

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Rozen Thorne]

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Lego Scooby-Doo! Blowout Beach Bash (2017)

I'm kinda torn on this. On the one hand I have trouble getting into 'Lego Scooby' as a thing, and the story here is really pretty lame; but on the other, there is some very funny dialogue from Scooby and Shaggy. And of course, the regular voice cast of Frank Welker (Scooby/Fred), Grey DeLisle (Daphne), Matthew Lillard (Shaggy), and Kate Micucci (Velma) bring the magic as always. I'm gonna go with 6/10 overall.

 

[Frodo]

 

[J.Drangal]

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THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971)
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich

I stumbled upon this film on TV, a bit by accident. I was first intrigued by its desolate atmosphere, as well as the choice of a black and white image in 1971. Then I saw a young Jeff Bridges, and two actresses who seemed very familiar to me without being able to fully recognize them... It was a young Cybill Shepherd (Taxi Driver) and Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist).
About twenty minutes in, I simply wanted to follow the tribulations of the inhabitants of Anarene, this small, almost ghost town of the 50s, frozen in dust. It was also the occasion to discover Timothy Bottoms, perfect in the lead role of Sonny, a young adult stuck in his existential crisis.

In a probably not very accurate way, I found there a little something of the first few episodes of Twin Peaks, in this configuration of little dirty secrets and destinies that intersect within a small community. But, of course, without Lynch's characteristic supernatural and absurd uneasiness, exchanged for the all-too-real and somewhat sordid banality of everyday life.
You quickly realize that this film is all about portraying America in a way that was impossible to do in cinema decades earlier. As if all that left of the American dream was an old and rusty theme park, in which the film invites you to take a ride.

After my viewing, I looked up some information and learned that this film has been recognized for its meta message. In its form, it can be seen as a bridge between the "Old Hollywood", from which it borrows the dusty Western-style imagery and academic direction, and the "New Hollywood", which is not afraid to tackle harder subjects and expose sexuality in a more crude way. It's like a cinematic oxymoron.
Thus, the film questions the value of transgression, both in terms of its nature of filmic object with its very new and raw staging of sexuality, but also in its story itself, as a way for its protagonists to find meaning in their empty lives by doing things that morality forbids.

All in all, an unexpected viewing but an interesting and layered movie, which manage to turn its pessimism as its charm.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Urban Legend (1998)

Rebecca Gayheart as Brenda is pretty good in this. Underrated performance, IMO.

 

[Captain Tired]

The Omen (1976)

 

[ObiWanCon]

Mystic River (2003)

 

[KaijuDude1992]

 

[Frodo]

Despicable Me

 

[Frodo]

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[blueharvest]

The Wolf of Wall Street

 

[Rozen Thorne]

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Carry on Teacher

 

[Wildcard]

 

[Sculder]

Loot (1970)
Buba (2022)

 

[Captain Tired]

Das Boot (1981)

One of my favourite movies of all time. R.I.P. to Wolfgang Petersen.

 

[Wildcard]

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

The Shallows

Didn't work at all for me. I never felt any tension, Blake Lively is at times embarrassingly bad, and the ultimate fate of the shark is ridiculous. Lively is easy on the eye, but that still only gets it a 5/10

 

[Web-Head]

 

[KaijuDude1992]

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Did an animated double feature of two of the best Batman stories ever told.

 

[blueharvest]

Air Force One.

RIP, Wolfgang Petersen.

 

[Gothamsknight]