what is the last movie you have watched? (films, script, scenes)
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De'Lovely with Ashley Judd as Cole Porter's wife, Linda who turned the other cheek to his gay activities. Lots of music in the movie and sad at the end. On Amazon Prime.
Part of "Swords and Clubs" Monday, watched it with a Xena, but finished the flick on Tuesday. If you get into that kind of flick, it's a wonderful diversion.
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Stakeout (1987), great comedy and action, 7/10.
I like that flick when I saw in the theater way back when. A nice diversion for the few hours, a world to get one's self lost in.
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De'Lovely with Ashley Judd as Cole Porter's wife, Linda who turned the other cheek to his gay activities. Lots of music in the movie and sad at the end. On Amazon Prime.
Just got that DVD in the mail last week (got on an Ashley Judd buying spree recently), but haven't watched it yet.
Totally worth it--if not for the acting, then to experience one of the most depressing theme songs in modern film history: "I live with melancholy; my friend is vague distress. I wake up every morning and say "Bonjour Tristesse..."
"Lion" - started out good but seemed a little tedious for the last hour.
Yes--thought it felt padded---
Also felt he/the character (maybe not the real guy) had undeserved anger against his Aussie parents...
Would he have been any happier if left in that Indian orphanage until they kicked him out???
I watched two very different movies in the last few days, one that aligned with my interests and one with my fiance's.
The first was Becket (1964) starring Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton. This one was my pick. I saw The Lion in Winter a while back and really loved it. Also I'm really interested in Plantagenet history, so overall this was going to score well with me. Back then the historical epics were popular and in a way I understand why. The costumes and sets looked pretty great on screen. Historically-speaking, some things were right and others weren't, but nothing stood out as a "Hey, this inaccuracy ruins this movie for me" moment. People watch this movie for the actors, and they delivered in a very...stage-y manner. Obviously O'Toole and Burton were Shakespearean actors so they were doing what they know. They were great, once I remembered this was 1964 and that was the style of acting that prevailed back then. I'm personally more a fan of restrained acting but not a lot of people had mastered that by the '60s and not stage actors either.
Having seen Lion in Winter already, I appreciated O'Toole's consistency in portraying Henry FitzEmpress; despite playing the guy in two different movies with two different directors and writers, you could tell he brought the same gravitas over the two movies that were four years apart.
Burton played Becket very sympathetically as well. You could understand why he made the decisions he made, even if the Norman vs Saxon aspect was hammered too hard.
The second was Blue Velvet (1986), my fiance's pick. He is a huge Lynch fan and we both loved Mulholland Drive. He's currently watching the Twin Peaks revival. For my part, I like Lynch but not when he's too obscure. I'll work to some degree to understand a movie but I don't like to work too hard. Fortunately I didn't have to do so with Blue Velvet, but to say the viewing experience was off-putting would be an understatement. I disliked every character I was supposed to like in Blue Velvet. Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) was just a...total weirdo and creep. Sandy (Laura Dern) was just kind of there, though I did like her horror face toward the end. I won't spoil the movie but most scenes were disturbing, either subtly so, or outright. I believe this was Lynch's point.
I appreciated the stark portrayal of insanity in the movie. Dennis Hopper was my MVP. Isabella Rossellini was great as well. I spent a lot of this movie paying a huge amount of attention to symbolism after my fiance pointed out that Lynch relies heavily on it and it was understandable, from that view. I liked the insect motif as well as the lighting emphasizing good/bad moments. As usual I find that Lynch excels as a director while everything else is sort of...passable, for me.
Still, I'd rewatch Becket, but not this one. That's the way I feel about most Lynch films, though.
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