What film did you watch last night?

[wafter]

Watched Point Break on the recommendation of this thread. Found it entertaining if silly and bizarrely eliciting both regret about how tame my life has been and enthusiasm to expand the limits of my experience. Maybe I'll leave my fate in the lap of the gods later and hang out the washing without checking the forecast first..

 

[EltonFrog]

“…Maybe I'll leave my fate in the lap of the gods later and hang out the washing without checking the forecast first..”

Feck me! That made me laugh out loud. I’m saving that for future.

 

[wafter]

Feck me! That made me laugh out loud. I’m saving that for future.

It rained - definitely not going f*cking skydiving now!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Didn't watch it last night but a few years back, I had a bunch of broken ribs at the time so it took most of a day to watch from the agony of laughing. If you haven't seen it check it out, it's hilarious.

I think there was an American re make which I haven't seen

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+Intouchables+movie&t=newext&atb=v308-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvdJ--DV0Uo

"I recognise that, it's the Paris benefits office music!"

On hearing Vivaldi's 4 Seasons.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Just watched 'Gold Run' on BBC4 about the fight to get Norway's gold reserve out of the country in 1940 before the Nazis got to it.

Close stuff in the end.

 

[wiggydiggy]

I Care A Lot

Black comedy starring Rosamund Pike as a con artist taking advatage of the US legal status of 'court appointed guardian' to fleece old folks of all their wordly goods, until she runs into gangster Peter Dinklage.

If I'm honest the comedy part isn't the main attraction of the film, but the performance of Pike/Dinklage is. Its also fascinating to see (though I'm sure its made to seem easier) just how quickly someone can lose control of their own finances to a complete stranger and then even have their own family be denied access.

It'd had been on my watch list a while and whilst it's hard to sympathise with the robbing Pike, once the game of one upmanship begins with Dinklage you kind of don't care and just enjoy 2 utter bastards try and get one over the other. Great stuff!

 

[stephec]

Undercover Brother

A 70s blaxsploitation parody, and really funny. 😂

 

[Mark Grant]

Just watched 'Free State of Jones' on Netflix.
I enjoyed it. Based on real events during the American civil war.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

The director's cut of Godfather III

Should have left it alone.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Any Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can

2 unnusual Clint Eastwood films in that they have a comedic edge to them, apparently he made the first one as a way to broaden his appeal. The first one is the more serious of the 2, though it still has some laughs to it. It has (I didn't know who it was when I've seen it before) Beverly D'Angelo and her addition to the road trip part of the film really enhances it.

The second is a more slapstick comedic affair though still has an underlying menace to it. The film has an air of Smokey and The Bandit about it though the 2 films are different, and the tar scene (and subsequent aftermath) are some of the funniest physical comedy you'll see. The ending is perhaps predicatable but not bad.

Both films are an unnusual mix of Boxing, Country and Western and Orangutans and certainly something to try at least once.

Both films are enjoyable romps
Eastwood is marvellous in it, as is the main cast

You mention ‘Smokey & The Bandit’, the first is still one my top-10 favourite films, & l saw it at the cinema when it was released
I already knew about Jerry Reed, as a singer/songwriter/fantastic guitarist

Unfortunately, given the insanely huge success of the first film, & quite good takings from ‘Smokey 2’, some idiot decided to write/film/release ‘Smokey 3’, which was actually on TV last night

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

SWMBO is presently watching ’Miss Congeniality 2’
She watched the first one when it was on last weekend(?)
Like Eastwood (see above) Sandra Bullock plays comedy well, plus she’s quite a beautiful woman

 

[MichaelW2]

It's the only thing I remember from either film. It was 40 years ago!
I do remember them being fun, and a favourite in our famliy. About the Nazi thing - I've noticed that in a few films of the era, and yes it is quite jarring. I suspect that in that (american) period, it was just considered another facet of the Hells Angels scene. Just another flavour of "hoodlum", for film/TV purposes.

And watch this crazy scene from Smokey (probably not at work):
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH9W0gGE55s

I cant recall a film from 1970s in which nazis were the good guys. In Cross of Iron, Sgt Steiner ( James Coburn) was resolutely not a nazi and James Mason was an Prussian aristocrat not really a nazi.
The only good-ish nazi was the SS tank captain who became a bank robber in Kelley' Heroes.
It was axiomatic that nazi=bad and did not need a yellow highlighter or underlining.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Both films are enjoyable romps
Eastwood is marvellous in it, as is the main cast

You mention ‘Smokey & The Bandit’, the first is still one my top-10 favourite films, & l saw it at the cinema when it was released
I already knew about Jerry Reed, as a singer/songwriter/fantastic guitarist

Unfortunately, given the insanely huge success of the first film, & quite good takings from ‘Smokey 2’, some idiot decided to write/film/release ‘Smokey 3’, which was actually on TV last night

I keep erasing the existence of Smokey 3 from my memory lol

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I keep erasing the existence of Smokey 3 from my memory lol

It was dire

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Dark Water.