What is the last movie you saw? and rate it.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Back in the 1950s, Hollywood discovered the teenager, hence: Teenagers from Outer Space.
Although somewhat older than teenagers, the alien visitors are bent on trouble with the intention of using the Earth as a breeding ground for monsters: a specimen of which they have brought with them.
Equipped with an appalling script, they also have a ray gun that reduces vertebrates to skeletons ....." You are not familiar with the focusing disintigrator ray?" and with equally risible performances it gets a 2/10 because the cast managed their lines without laughing.

Thank you Emil, you just made my weekend, this is right up my alley.
I'll mark it as one to watch.

[Emil Miller]

Emil, I enjoyed that review and got a chortle out of it. Next time I see some risible movie involving teenagers and the paranormal listed in iTunes (this time tomorrow, very likely), I'll remember they were making such fecal matter as far back as 1959.

The first teenage exploitation film ( I was a Teenage Werewolf ) predates Teenagers from Outer Space by two years.
Not forgetting 'I was a Teenage Frankenstein' made in the same year as the werewolf epic and completely ignoring the fact that Frankenstein was the name of the mad scientist and not that of the monster.

Thank you Emil, you just made my weekend, this is right up my alley.
I'll mark it as one to watch.

Well Gilliatt, it's always gratifying to know that cinematic masterpieces are respected by members of the forum.

[amelie88]

Last movie for me was Never Let Me Go. Beautiful film with excellent actors (I am a huge Keira Knightley fan). I will give it 7/10 only because it was extremely sad and depressing from beginning to end! My own fault, though, I knew what I was getting into!

[YesNo]

Another Year: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/another_year_2010/

I realized I saw this some years ago. It was painful to watch again. Perhaps one needs pain every now and then.

This is the story of Mary (Leslie Manville) and her unhappiness due to her sense of inadequacy with her work, the few men around her and her car especially when she compares herself with her friend, Gerri (Ruth Sheen). Her unhappiness doesn't get resolved even though this has been shelved with the comedies in the library. You might as well shelve "Titus Andronicus" with the comedies.

It was written and directed by Mike Leigh and I mention that because I am trying to remember who these writers are. I'll see if I can find more of his work. Although it depressed me, it still deserved a high score.

Score: 10/10

[YesNo]

Aloha: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/aloha_2015/

A private businessman is planning to sneak weapons on a satellite, but he has to get by the conscience of a contractor and a female fighter pilot. There is also an old girlfriend who now has two children the contractor needs to deal with and he does that as well as he handled that businessman. Written and directed by Cameron Crowe.

Rotten tomatoes, both the critics and the regular people, didn't like it, but I had a good time. The plot didn't make a lot of sense, like why is a businessman trying to put nukes on a satellite, but those are irrelevant details.

Score: 10/10

[Calidore]

It was written and directed by Mike Leigh and I mention that because I am trying to remember who these writers are. I'll see if I can find more of his work.

I can highly recommend Life Is Sweet.

[YesNo]

Thanks, Calidore. I have Leigh's "All or Nothing" that I plan to watch tonight. I'll see if I can find "Life is Sweet" in the library.

[YesNo]

I got sidetracked from the Mike Leigh movies perhaps because of the holidays and watched three animation films:

Betty Boop The Essential Collection volume 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Boop

I didn't know that Max Fleischer did both Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popeye) although Popeye originated with Elzie Crisier Segar. Betty Boop and Olive Oyl are two entertaining female characters. These 1930 decade cartoons are somewhat tedious to watch especially the transformations that added the surprise.

Score: 3/10, but worth watching to get a feeling for how far we have come since the 1930s.

Minions: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/minions/

Now this is how cartoons should be made. The basic plot is how the minions found a bad buy bad enough for them to serve and not accidentally kill in the process.

Score: 10/10

Inside Out: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inside_out_2015/

The theme is that Joy and Sadness have to work together and sometimes Joy being too bubbly and optimistic takes control and has to learn to share.

Score: 10/10

[Emil Miller]

From one of the most striking openings in cinematic history, Fellini leads on to a critique of Rome's café society of the 1950s via the restless search for a gossip writer's escape to a life of genuine literary endeavour.
Escaping from his glitzy fast-moving existence proves too much for the leading character who eventually gets swallowed up by the superficial world from which he earns his living as he disintegrates into a drunken lout who embodies the irony of the film's title.
At three hours, this morality tale is perhaps a little too long but such is Fellini's innovative direction and shot with brilliant black and white camerawork , it commands attention to the end.

https://youtu.be/uo84caBoToQ


10/10

[Helga]

Well I am a fantasy and sci-fi nerd in more ways than you know so, the last movie I saw was Star Wars the Force Awakens. I loved it. really did, no spoilers, apparently you get death threats if you spoil. I think they used a bit too much of New Hope references but it was ok. Probably one of the best women in the galaxy was finally found, Leia was awesome in the old trilogy but Rey is a better fighter and I liked her. Kylo Ren, brilliant as Adam Driver is.

Liked it a lot, I was a bit nervous because I don't like what JJ did to Star Trek but SW is field apparently.

[Emil Miller]

It's 1913 and Robert Donat is sent to Russia by the government to infiltrate the burgeoning revolutionary movement and to gain information on it's potential threat to British interests. Implicated in a plot to assassinate a high ranking officer, he is arrested by the Czarist police and sent to Siberia where he languishes until freed by revolutionary forces when the revolution breaks out some years later.
On his return to Moscow, he falls for a Countess, played by Marlene Dietrich, who is going to be tried as an aristocrat and probably executed but, using his position as a trusted revolutionary, he manages to smuggle her out of the country to the safety of Romania after a series of hair raising escapades.
Produced by the great Alexander Korda, the production values are remarkable and give a real feel to what it must have been like in Russia at that time but it's a pity that throughout the vicissitudes of revolution and flight,Marlene Dietrich's make-up remains firmly in place: did they have false eyelashes in Russia in 1917?

9/10

[Emil Miller]

James Hadley Chase's pulp fiction novel becomes a pulp fiction film in this British 1940's shocker supposedly set in New York but actually filmed at Twickenham studios London with an entire English cast; except for Jack LaRue who specialised in American small time gangster parts.
The story involves a kidnapped heiress to a great fortune who falls in love with her gang boss kidnapper.
The gratuitous violence led to the film being denounced from pulpits and watch committees throughout the land and established the film as a cult classic that has now been reissued among 'The Best of British Collection'.
Despite such criticisms as, 'A most most vicious display of sadism, brutality and suggestiveness', it is pretty tame by today's OTT blood letting and isn't as penny-pinched as one might imagine. The villain's nightclub is quite a lavish affair with a couple of good numbers from the resident girl singer who is spurned by the broodingly charismatic Jack LaRue in favour of the classy Miss Blandish.

7/10

https://youtu.be/MeducJKJNbM

[YesNo]

Well I am a fantasy and sci-fi nerd in more ways than you know so, the last movie I saw was Star Wars the Force Awakens. I loved it. really did, no spoilers, apparently you get death threats if you spoil. I think they used a bit too much of New Hope references but it was ok. Probably one of the best women in the galaxy was finally found, Leia was awesome in the old trilogy but Rey is a better fighter and I liked her. Kylo Ren, brilliant as Adam Driver is.

Liked it a lot, I was a bit nervous because I don't like what JJ did to Star Trek but SW is field apparently.

We saw this recently. It reminded me of the original Star Wars movie. Is Rey the daughter of someone important in the story?

[Ecurb]

We saw this recently. It reminded me of the original Star Wars movie. Is Rey the daughter of someone important in the story?

Well, yes, it reminded me of the original Star Wars movie, too. That's because the plot was an exact copy of the original Star Wars. The Force Awakens wasn't horrible, but it was dull, derivative and lacking in originality. The dramatic entrances of Han, Leia and Luke were good for a bit of nostalgia, but that was about it.

The new Darth Vader character (I forget his name) was pathetic. Darth Vader was one of the great movie villains. His descendant isn't scary, isn't tough, and isn't worth watching. He doesn't even have his own theme music (the Darth Vader theme being a classic).

I assume Rey is the daughter of either Han and Leia or Luke -- but we don't know yet. All will be revealed in time, if we shell out the money to sit through another sequel. I'll grant that she's a decent enough character, as is the new droid, but the hero pilot, the reformed storm trooper (Fin?) and the new Darth Vader are worthless.

[YesNo]

The new Darth Vader didn't seem bad enough even when he went on his rampages with the light saber. I think Rey is Luke's daughter. Leia or Han would have recognized her.

What happened to Yoda? He reminded me of Dobby in Harry Potter or Dobby reminded me of him.