Last Film You Saw

[Banshee]

Black Mass

Story of Jimmy "whitey" Bulger. Solid watch. Good performance by Depp.

 

[MarsLlama]

I'm now 6 films into my list of 100 classics I'm aiming to watch for the first time this year.

The most recent was The Rocky Horror Picture Show... I don't think a film has ever been less 'for me' than that one. Other than Tim Curry's performance (mesmerising), Meat Loaf's cameo (a lot of fun) and the Time Warp sequence (Great, I must admit), I did not 'get' this movie at all. One of my partner's favourite films ever, but it really felt like it was made for a very specific group of people in a very specific time.

The other night I added The Shining to my list, though, and that I loved. Nicholson is absolutely incredible in it. It was the first of his movies I've seen and from that alone I fully understand why he's remembered as one of the best actors of all time.

 

[Bill Walker]

I'm now 6 films into my list of 100 classics I'm aiming to watch for the first time this year.

Interesting.
How did you decide what 100 are classics (or was it a IMDB list or something) ?

 

[MCFC1993]

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) - 5/10
Felt like a sequel to Wandavision but at least that had some charm to it, they over-complicated a simple plot and it wasn't very interesting .

Thor - Love and Thunder (2022) - 4/10
Some jokes hit but there were far too many unnecessary jokes. The plot hole in the plan of the 'bad guy' is obvious from minute one, so it's not the least bit surprising when this is what ends up happening. No heart felt emotion given what's happening to one of the characters

A shit year for these movies as Black Panther 2 was downgrade on it's predecessor as well.

I'm now caught up for Ant-Man 3, although I'm thinking why did I bother.

 

[MarsLlama]

Interesting.
How did you decide what 100 are classics (or was it a IMDB list or something) ?

Made it myself just by personal judgement. Flawed way to do it but I can always keep going after the initial 100 if needed.

 

[ZenHalfTimeCrock]

Silence of the lambs now on itv 4
Perfect. Atmospheric, chilling, fantastic script.
Hopkins and Foster at their absolute best.

I preferred Manhunter with Brian Cox as Lecter. The movie goes awry in the last 20 minutes but is still very much worth seeing.

It’s on the BBC iPlayer right now and looks fantastic in a digital format. Hadn’t previously appreciated that Michael Mann deployed such an extraordinary colour palette.

As an aside, back in the 90’s when there was a vogue for serial killer movies and novels, one summer the Head of English changed the signs outside the exam hall in the school I was teaching at back then from ‘Silence. Exams’ to ‘The Silence of the Exams’.

But nobody noticed.

 

[tonea2003]

A man called Otto.
Tom Hanks is great in everything he does.

went to see this last week, thoroughly enjoyable, shades of ricky gervais after life about it

 

[Boo or Boo-urns]

Silence of the lambs now on itv 4

I preferred Manhunter with Brian Cox as Lecter.

Both of them were on (ITV4 & BBC4) at the same time, same day, last week, scheduling madness.

I was flicking between both movies, Interesting to watch them develop in real-time, side-by side.

Michael Mann.

 

[FantasyIreland]

went to see this last week, thoroughly enjoyable, shades of ricky gervais after life about it

Cheers,i'm in.

 

[Bluemanc100]

Watched Nobody with the guy from Better Call Saul / Breaking Bad.. Not a deep and meaningful storyline but we enjoyed it.. plenty of gratuitous violence and lots of “baddies” getting hurt, what’s not to like