What film did you watch last night?

[MontyVeda]

The film I'm going to watch tonight is, after much consideration... Waiting for Guffman.

At the age of 86, comic actor Fred Willard passed away yesterday so I've been toying with watching one of the films he's featured in... and there's quite a few to choose from.

Here's Fred in This is Spinal Tap


[edit] having watched Guffman countless times, i hadn't realised until last night that the film's music is essentially composed by Spinal Tap

 

[The Crofted Crest]

When the Lumière Bros. had their first outing, I doubt they could ever have foreseen it coming to such glorious fruition as Ruben Brandt Collector. Or Freud, or Warhol, or Picasso, or Huelsenbeck, or Hitchcock, or even Duchamps. Thanks for the groundwork, guys. Your work here is done.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dOZpivfNxw

And a soundtrack to better Tarantino.


ETA:

Spoiler: Spoilers and Easter eggs, well worth watching

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRQ80zAkU70&feature=emb_rel_end

 

[Brencoll]

I watched In The Name Of The Father Re the Guildford Four. I’m astonished at some of the things the police got away with pre PACE.

 

[swee'pea99]

Paint your wagon. Terrible movie, quite a lot of fun. Lee Marvin's drunk, Clint's half asleep, and there's one great song and about two dozen stinkers - enjoyable enough if you suspend all critical faculties and tap into an 'aren't barroom brawls funny' mindset.

 

[Adam4868]

Treated my daughter to Murials Wedding.Great film,allways worth a watch.

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

Paint your wagon. Terrible movie, quite a lot of fun. Lee Marvin's drunk, Clint's half asleep, and there's one great song and about two dozen stinkers - enjoyable enough if you suspend all critical faculties and tap into an 'aren't barroom brawls funny' mindset.

This is the only musical I’ve ever enjoyed.

I’m going to have “I talk to the trees, but they don’t listen to me” stuck in my head all day now.

 

[swee'pea99]

Uncut Gems. Interesting one this. I rated it, she hated it - which mirrors the reviews on imdb, mostly either high scores or 1/10 how can you even call this a film-stylie. A day in the life type affair, as a New York wheeler dealer jewel-merchant with an out of control gambling addiction spirals out of control. Pretty much all the dialogue is yelled, there's plenty of violence, and it never eases for a second - the stress just cranks up, and up, and up...

Not a likeable film, as such, but a tour de force of tension and high energy mania. I'd go with 8/10, tho' I'm not sure I'd recommend it as such.

 

[Adam4868]

Uncut Gems. Interesting one this. I rated it, she hated it - which mirrors the reviews on imdb, mostly either high scores or 1/10 how can you even call this a film-stylie. A day in the life type affair, as a New York wheeler dealer jewel-merchant with an out of control gambling addiction spirals out of control. Pretty much all the dialogue is yelled, there's plenty of violence, and it never eases for a second - the stress just cranks up, and up, and up...

Not a likeable film, as such, but a tour de force of tension and high energy mania. I'd go with 8/10, tho' I'm not sure I'd recommend it as such.

I watched that with my kids when it came out,once I got over Adam Sandler being serious I sort of got into it.Wasnt bad in the end.

 

[Eziemnaik]

If anybody rated Uncut Gems I do recommend the directors' previous movie
Good times - just like Gems it a a homage to NYC and 70's cinema. Not quite likeable characters, setting, music and plot scream Friedkin and early Scorsese and Mann while he still was making great movies

View: https://youtu.be/AVyGCxHZ_Ko

 

[mustang1]

The last few movies:
Something about Jerusalem.
The two faces of January.
Freedom from being free.

The Jerusalem docu was good but I wish I paid more attention rather than using it as background sound.

Ditto the January movie and it's not entirely worth watching.

And the freedom movie is great if you're of a certain political pursuation but it had too many holes in it. For example they talked about how a particular farm does not rely on any petroleum products and the very next scene is a tractor ploughing the fields! Wth!

 

[Adam4868]

The Grand Budapest Hotel...for the 6/7 time ? 10/10 because anything Wes Anderson does can't be marked down !

 

[Smudge]

The other night i watched... It Chapter One. I didn't rate it at all, it strayed too far from the book and i found myself not caring about any of the characters. I wont bother watching Chapter Two. The made for TV film miniseries was much better and Tim Curry made a much better Pennywise as well.
Last night i watched Sicario 2, not quite as good as the first movie, but i still enjoyed it.

 

[swee'pea99]

A Walk in the Woods - Redford doesn't convince as Bryson, but Nick Nolte's terrific as his friend. All in all an amiable enough stroll, but doesn't really do justice to the book.

 

[mustang1]

Outbreak.

Background movie, no need to concentrate too hard on the story line.
Stars Dustin Hoffman, Renne Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding Jr.

 

[mustang1]

A Walk in the Woods - Redford doesn't convince as Bryson, but Nick Nolte's terrific as his friend. All in all an amiable enough stroll, but doesn't really do justice to the book.

Oh that was Nick Nolte??? I thought I'd seen him before but couldn't picture it!