Stickied The Last Film You Saw Thread (& Discussion)

[SALTIRE]

vice versa for me. I like Bette way more than this Crawford bitch. Bette was no typical Hollywood (Blonde) Beauty with no brain but sometimes she could look like an angel (no wonder she had "Bette Davis Eyes" (one of my fav 80's songs from Kim Carnes)






Big fan of Spencer Tracy (not so of "hole in the chin" Douglas). He and Katherine Hepburn in a movie, big time entertainment. I love nearly all of his films. For steven a "western" recommendation here with him: Northwest Passage from 1940. I like these "independence war" era western the most (that's why JF Cooper's Leatherstocking novels are still one of my favs)



Faye Dunaway, Absolutely, yes. What a beauty in the end 60s and early 70's. The thomas crown movie with Steve McQueen, brilliant. I even watched Bonny&Clyde (although I already mentioned my absolute dislike of Warren Beatty). Yes these damned "facelifts". Destroyed some real beauty faces (Melanie Griffiths is another example where these endless "liftings" are not the best....ok, Mickey Rourke too



I wrote "depressed" not "mad", Salty


edit: Uih, the Bette Davis pic is a bit large.

Davis was a tremendous actress there is no doubt about that and I've watched a number of films with her. What Happened To Baby Jane with Crawford, is utterly terrifying; All About Eve too is great. I think she also did a number of films with Spencer Tracy where they showed great chemistry. She wasn't a looker and I always remember her on tv getting interviewed in the eighties where she looked like a walking skeleton. Earlier on she looked a lot like my gran too so could never find her attractive in her youth!

Tracy and Hepburn though you can't beat that. There is very few films these days where a man and woman leads show chemistry like these two did. I know of their long term affair and that Tracy would never divorce his wife since he was brought up a Catholic, and both women in his life helped him out when he became bad with the drink and would disappear for weeks at a time even when filming on benders. However when he made it back he was one of the great early screen character actors along with Guinness (my fave ) and the wonderful Charles Laughton.

Face lifts do spoil many a beauty, Ursula Andress is another that you wonder why she did it,and the gorgeous Britt Ekland. Why don't they age naturally like Helen Mirren, Meryl Streep or Sigourney Weaver and look all the sexier for it.

 

[SALTIRE]

Watched Get Out. Started OK then descended into complete unbelievable bollocks.

Think I’ll get back to my old B&W Humphrey Bogart collection - Treasure of the Sierra Madre is my fav

That's another fabulous film, Bogey is another favourite of mine, that, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, The African Queen and The Caine Mutiny (whom Michael Caine got his screen name from) are superb. Could watch them all again and again.

 

[mowgli]

Recue Dawn (2006)
Good film based on the true story of US pilot Dieter Dangler who was shot down over Vietnam in 1965 and his efforts to escape a POW camp. 7.5/ 10.

 

[SF_]

Downsizing - Awful, don't waste your time.

Cloverfield Paradox - A bang average sci-fi film which has been adapted to loosely fit into the Cloverfield 'universe'. Don't bother.

Bridge of Spies - Very good, just a very well polished film with solid acting.

 

[Dirk]

Bridge of Spies - Very good, just a very well polished film with solid acting.

Yes, polished but nonetheless a very good effort from Spielberg to show an interest in the Cold War history The "Glienicker Brücke" became a synonym for the cold war. As a kid I was in the area of the bridge (but couldn't cross it) in the 70's with my father when we visited his relatives who lived in the GDR. (horrible act to get a visa for west germans back then. It was only a 350 km distance but travelling lasted longer than a visit to the South coast of Spain because of the border controls). It was very depressing back then, after the re-unification I visited Potsdam and Berlin and the Bridge again. What a contrast.

anyway, ngaf here about complications of travelling from west to east Germany, I just wanted to say that I liked the movie (ok, I like most of Tom Hanks movies.

Here's a pic from the shooting with Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks at the original place. The person in the middle is a former russian spy who lived in the GDR. Maybe she was there for telling them about the Stasi, I don't know

 

[SALTIRE]

Yes, polished but nonetheless a very good effort from Spielberg to show an interest in the Cold War history The "Glienicker Brücke" became a synonym for the cold war. As a kid I was in the area of the bridge (but couldn't cross it) in the 70's with my father when we visited his relatives how lived in the GDR. (horrible act to get a visa for west germans back then. It was only a 350 km distance but travelling lasted longer than a visit to the South coast of Spain because of the border controls). It was very depressing back then, after the re-unification I visited Potsdam and Berlin and the Bridge again. What a contrast.

anyway, ngaf here about complications of travelling from west to east Germany, I just wanted to say that I liked the movie (ok, I like most of Tom Hanks movies.

Here's a pic from the shooting with Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks at the original place. The person in the middle is a former russian spy who lived in the GDR. Maybe she was there for telling them about the Stasi, I don't know

Yeah Bridge Of Spies was decent. Rylance getting the Oscar for it though, hmmm.

Have you seen The Lives Of Others, Dirk? Its about how the Stasi spied on people of note, and ordinary citizens too; it must've been nerve-wracking living in East Germany back then. Its a fantastic film.

 

[Dirk]

Have you seen The Lives Of Others, Dirk? Its about how the Stasi spied on people of note, and ordinary citizens too; it must've been nerve-wracking living in East Germany back then. Its a fantastic film.

Yes, I've seen this film. Got an Oscar as best foreign movie if I remember right. Ulrich Mühe ( a former GDR citizen himself) was great, unfortunately he died shortly after the big success of this movie.

Yes, living in the GDR was nerve-wracking but the normal people always "kept their peckers up" . The Stasi and the russian occupying forces were hated by the citizens. My fathers relatives lived (and the man of his sister still lives) in Magdeburg. Every time we wanted to call them per telephone (no direct dialling allowed back then in the 70's from west to east) you could hear a "click" when the connection was established and we knew that the call was wire-tapped. Every time we wanted to visit we had to call for a visa weeks before and my father's brother in law had to inform the Volkspolizei about our intention to visit (and they informed the Stasi, that's for sure).
I remember that I visited East Berlin in 1976 with my father and we went along the Brandenburger Tor. My father wanted to visit the "permanent representation" of the Bundesrepublik in East Berlin to inform himself about the newest Visa-Exchange increases we had to pay (changed our valuable Deutsch-Mark in useless "East-Mark" of the GDR at 1:1 (although 1:10 would be more appropriate). Anyway when we left the building suddenly a person came out of an entrance of the opposite building and asked my father about his and mine passports and our intention for visiting the building. Clearly a Stasi man who observed the whole day the building of our representation (it was no embassy because the Bundesrepublik never recognised the GDR as an autonomous state but still part of a (later to be unified) Germany. On the other side the GDR never recognized that West Berlin was a part of the Bundesrepublik. Cold War at its best ). Maybe they thought we were citizens of the GDR and wanted to inform us about escaping the GDR

The normal people of the GDR were great, very friendly and hospitable. But not the Volkspolizei, Nationale Volksarmee or Stasi. The Inner-German border was ,besides the Korean border ,the heaviest guarded border worldwide at that time with many deaths of GDR citizens who wanted to escape.

sorry for going off topic.

 

[mowgli]

The Patriot (2000)
Hadn't seen this in years and it was better than i remembered even with Mel Gibson's hatred of The English showing as usual. 8/10.

 

[SALTIRE]

The Patriot (2000)
Hadn't seen this in years and it was better than i remembered even with Mel Gibson's hatred of The English showing as usual. 8/10.

He just told the truth Mowgli.

Saw this at the pictures with my old man when it came out and thought it fine, but no Last Of The Mohicans.

 

[Stevencc]

The Man from Laramie (1955)

James Stewart searches Coronado for the man that supplied the Apache with the guns that killed his brother.

8/10

 

[SALTIRE]

Yes, I've seen this film. Got an Oscar as best foreign movie if I remember right. Ulrich Mühe ( a former GDR citizen himself) was great, unfortunately he died shortly after the big success of this movie.

Yes, living in the GDR was nerve-wracking but the normal people always "kept their peckers up" . The Stasi and the russian occupying forces were hated by the citizens. My fathers relatives lived (and the man of his sister still lives) in Magdeburg. Every time we wanted to call them per telephone (no direct dialling allowed back then in the 70's from west to east) you could hear a "click" when the connection was established and we knew that the call was wire-tapped. Every time we wanted to visit we had to call for a visa weeks before and my father's brother in law had to inform the Volkspolizei about our intention to visit (and they informed the Stasi, that's for sure).
I remember that I visited East Berlin in 1976 with my father and we went along the Brandenburger Tor. My father wanted to visit the "permanent representation" of the Bundesrepublik in East Berlin to inform himself about the newest Visa-Exchange increases we had to pay (changed our valuable Deutsch-Mark in useless "East-Mark" of the GDR at 1:1 (although 1:10 would be more appropriate). Anyway when we left the building suddenly a person came out of an entrance of the opposite building and asked my father about his and mine passports and our intention for visiting the building. Clearly a Stasi man who observed the whole day the building of our representation (it was no embassy because the Bundesrepublik never recognised the GDR as an autonomous state but still part of a (later to be unified) Germany. On the other side the GDR never recognized that West Berlin was a part of the Bundesrepublik. Cold War at its best ). Maybe they thought we were citizens of the GDR and wanted to inform us about escaping the GDR

The normal people of the GDR were great, very friendly and hospitable. But not the Volkspolizei, Nationale Volksarmee or Stasi. The Inner-German border was ,besides the Korean border ,the heaviest guarded border worldwide at that time with many deaths of GDR citizens who wanted to escape.

sorry for going off topic.

No apologies needed Dirk, I find it fascinating and enlightening, though a bit terrifying to hear tbh. Were you celebrating good and proper the night the wall fell?

 

[SALTIRE]

The Man from Laramie (1955)

James Stewart searches Coronado for the man that supplied the Apache with the guns that killed his brother.

8/10

Love Jimmy, the best of the lot of them.

 

[Stevencc]

Love Jimmy, the best of the lot of them.

Love him too, great actor.

Going with a spaghetti western in Django tonight.

 

[SALTIRE]

Going with a spaghetti western in Django tonight.

Never fancied that even though I do like a spag west now and again.

 

[claret50]

Murder on the Orient Express. (2017)
a good performance from Kenneth Branagh as Inspector Hercule Poirot.

 

[Dirk]

No apologies needed Dirk, I find it fascinating and enlightening, though a bit terrifying to hear tbh. Were you celebrating good and proper the night the wall fell?

I was really happy, especially for my Dad that he lived long enough to see Germany re-united (he died in 1996) and that the Russians left East Germany at last. He didn't like the Russians, had to fight against them as a very young soldier in the last stages of WW2. But he liked the Brits very much, that influenced me too later

Murder on the Orient Express. (2017)
a good performance from Kenneth Branagh as Inspector Hercule Poirot.

Inspector? I thought he was a Private Investigator. Did they change that in this version?

btw: The Hercule Poirot series with David Suchet is class. For me, he is the best for this role (like Jeremy Brett was the best as Sherlock Holmes).

 

[claret50]

Inspector? I thought he was a Private Investigator. Did they change that in this version?

Well spotted Dirk, I think he was just detective Hercule Poirot come to think of it, there was a character in the film played by Michael Rouse who was a British chief inspector.
Edit: put it down to a senior moment.

 

[SALTIRE]

I was really happy, especially for my Dad that he lived long enough to see Germany re-united (he died in 1996) and that the Russians left East Germany at last. He didn't like the Russians, had to fight against them as a very young soldier in the last stages of WW2. But he liked the Brits very much, that influenced me too later



Inspector? I thought he was a Private Investigator. Did they change that in this version?

btw: The Hercule Poirot series with David Suchet is class. For me, he is the best for this role (like Jeremy Brett was the best as Sherlock Holmes).

Did the World Cup win in 1990 help bring Germany together post-unification?

Agree about Brett being the best Holmes (then its Rathbone who actually looked most like the great detective of anyone).

 

[Dirk]

Well spotted Dirk, I think he was just detective Hercule Poirot come to think of it, there was a character in the film played by Michael Rouse who was a British chief inspector.
Edit: put it down to a senior moment.

Nah, not you, claret .

I haven't seen yet the new version of "Murder on the Orient Express" (so far I know only the Peter Ustinov version).

Did the World Cup win in 1990 help bring Germany together post-unification?

pre-unification . We weren't united when we won the World Cup 1990. The official date is October 3rd 1990. Since then this day is a (national/bank) holiday. Most of the East Germans always kept their fingers crossed for West Germany in football (even in 1974 when we had to play the only time against East Germany at the World Cup (and lost 0-1, I was 11 back then and shattered that we lost against "the other Germans". And Franz Beckenbauer was really angry after that and we all know that this worked well.....the Dutch were beaten 2-1 in the final and little Dirk had a broad smile in his face and was so proud when we kids played football on the muddy fields that I didn't want to be Uwe Seeler as usual but Gerd Müller

Agree about Brett being the best Holmes (then its Rathbone who actually looked most like the great detective of anyone).

I like the Rathbone Movies (have them all on DVD) but unfortunately only the first ones were settled in the original era. After changing the production company they settled Sherlock into the WW2 era and against Nazis and the (then) present time. (OK, the actual Sherlock series with Cumberbatch is settled in the/our present and it's functioning too. But tbh I am no fan of changing the era )

 

[SALTIRE]

I like the Rathbone Movies (have them all on DVD) but unfortunately only the first ones were settled in the original era. After changing the production company they settled Sherlock into the WW2 era and against Nazis and the (then) present time. (OK, the actual Sherlock series with Cumberbatch is settled in the/our present and it's functioning too. But tbh I am no fan of changing the era )

Aye I've seen most of the Rathbone movies too, some are good, some not so, and I know what you mean about changing the time period, though the Cumberbatch ones were full of inventive good ideas when they first modernised it, and it worked. What both of these interpretations suffer from though is a poor Watson; with Rathbone, he's nothing more than comic relief (though the comic timing from Nigel Bruce was excellent); and in the latest incarnation, he's treated with disdain. In the Brett version, and the novels, Watson is very much Holmes equal and is treated as such, which gives Holmes a great humanity at times, whereas he appears above everyone in those other versions, and becomes slightly pompous as a result.

 

[Dirk]

Aye I've seen most of the Rathbone movies too, some are good, some not so, and I know what you mean about changing the time period, though the Cumberbatch ones were full of inventive good ideas when they first modernised it, and it worked. What both of these interpretations suffer from though is a poor Watson; with Rathbone, he's nothing more than comic relief (though the comic timing from Nigel Bruce was excellent); and in the latest incarnation, he's treated with disdain. In the Brett version, and the novels, Watson is very much Holmes equal and is treated as such, which gives Holmes a great humanity at times, whereas he appears above everyone in those other versions, and becomes slightly pompous as a result.

Agreed. That's another thing i like so much about the "Jeremy Brett version" that Watson is treated as equal (and that they made the most of the original version of the novels).
Another Holmes I liked very much was Peter Cushing in the Hammer studio movies (ha, I like the old Hammer movies, some are really trashy but cult . Have a lot of them e.g Vincent Price as Witchhunter or Ingrid Pitt in the Karnstein Vampire film )

 

[claret50]

Molly's Game.
Top film based on a true story.
9/10.

 

[Lance Stoe]

Second Mother- Brazilian film about a live in employee and how the arrival of her daughter shows how the different social stratas in Brazil are unfair and morally repugnant- 8/10

 

[mowgli]

Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
Both haven't aged well im afraid, i loved both films when they came out but i couldn't get too excited about seeing them again for the first time in many years,both still worth 7/10 though.

 

[Lance Stoe]

10 Cloverfield Lane

After breaking up with her fiancé, a woman has an accident and wakes up in a bunker with a man who convinces her there’s been an apocalyptic event- 5/10

 

[Stevencc]

Django (1966)

A spaghetti western featuring a coffin-dragging protagonist, a gang of red-hood wearing racists and a machine gun as big as my leg. A cooler, more violent version of A Fistful of Dollars.

9/10

 

[Dirk]

Ah, Franco Nero (Frank Black ). I always liked him, not only as Django.
tbh: I don't like many of these "spaghetti-western" but some are really good (and some are really crap). Django is one of the best (together with the Clint Eastwood ones and the "Nobody" movies)

 

[Gilly?]

Hostel Part 2
Forgot how shit it was.

The Revenant
Very good, not Di Caprio's best but it's about time he got some plaudits. 8/10.

 

[mowgli]

The Revenant
Very good, not Di Caprio's best but it's about time he got some plaudits. 8/10.

I thought Tom Hardy outshone him acting wise.

 

[Lance Stoe]

I thought it was overrated tbh