Last (x) movies you saw

Last (x) movies you saw (II)

Do it

Why not leave this one up for a couple of days, see if anybody comes forward with a compelling argument against. (Can't see what it would be, beyond the one-place idea.) If nothing appears, start a new one and ask a moderator to lock this one.

I'm all for a new thread -- this thing does take a while to load when I need to refer back.

Last (x) movies you saw (II)

I would be fine with a second thread.

A Lucky Loser (1920)
Felix Finds Out (Messmer, 1924)
*Court House Crooks (Sterling, 1915)
Crazy House (Cummings, 1930)
The Count (Chaplin, 1916)
The Ghost Ship (Robson, 1943)
Sure-Locked Homes (Messmer, 1928)
Sorry to Bother You (Riley, 2018)
Felix Revolts (1923)

Yes, Georgio (Schaffner, 1982): 2/10

I've heard Pavarotti sits on a pie.

new thread time?

what’s the rationale on making a new thread?

I've made this request before: can I, or someone else, start a new last-x-movies thread? This one is now almost 6,000 posts long. I know it's nice to have everything in one spot, but I use this thread regularly to check back on what I thought of stuff I saw years ago, and it takes forever and a day for the thread to load (if it does--sometimes I have to log off and try again). The new thread could start with a link to this one at the top.

If you have major objections to this, please speak up.

― clemenza, Sunday, August 5, 2018 8:25 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Why not yearly rolling threads, a la the Obituary thread, or the various genre-centric ones on ILM?

― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Sunday, August 5, 2018 8:41 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yearly sounds good. Politics gets one every month, but obviously you don't need that here--those threads generate a few thousand posts monthly. This one's had 6,000 in 15 years, 400 a year (probably more now). That sounds manageable. (I realize this thread is basically my movie cloud. I just don't use Letterboxd.)

― clemenza, Sunday, August 5, 2018 8:51 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

some ppl not encyclopedic enough

i'm into it if only for the awesome title "Last (x) movies you saw (II)"

I've heard Pavarotti sits on a pie.

yuuup

the version on youtube with a lot of the singing removed was a real lifesaver

i'm into it if only for the awesome title "Last (x) movies you saw (II)"

― flappy bird, Tuesday, August 7, 2018 2:39 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Needs more "Electric Boogaloo" Y/N?

i only lurk this thread for movie recs so discount my opinion to zero i just have an aesthetic bias in favour of super old unwieldy threads

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (4/5)- Gorgeous and warm and a real privilege to have a relatively unobtrusive front-row look at Sakamoto living and working.

*Hardware (3.5/5)- much nastier than I remembered; I wish it leaned a little more heavily into the opening/closing psychedelic imagery- that is, the Ominous Whooshing and quick flashes of a black sun in the sky, which is a remarkable image to go with the movie becoming a Soylent Green (in)voluntary human extinction story (and immediately deflating it with Iggy Pop's aggressively jokey narration). Also can't think of another film (or cult film, anyway) that's become so totally identified with a single soundtrack choice.

Picnic at Hanging Rock (5/5)- I somehow had never seen this (made time for The Cars That Ate Paris, though) but my partner, decidedly not a film person, was down for a rare shared movie night after reading (and, I must confess, hating) the novel. She wasn't a fan of the film, either, and fair enough, but I was fucking dazzled- I'll be checking out The Last Wave as soon as I can as well.

Cry-Baby (4/5)- It's hard to enjoy Depp now, but he was cute and dumb and the movie is like the other half of Hairspray I never knew I needed. The audience (at Philly's International House/Lightbox) absolutely lost their shit at multiple points in the film, but this might have been the standout gag in a movie filled with some of Waters' funniest material:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTDhNLLglf8&t=96s

Neighbors (4/5)- the Norman McLaren short. It's a little on the nose but it's equal parts Svankmajer and The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film and those are things I deeply love & treasure

_i'm into it if only for the awesome title "Last (x) movies you saw (II)"

― flappy bird, Tuesday, August 7, 2018 2:39 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink_


Needs more "Electric Boogaloo" Y/N?

until everyone weighs in

Klown (Mikkel Nørgaard, 2010) - 6/10
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006) - 8/10
Heaven’s Gate (Michael Cimino, 1980) - 9/10
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2013) - 10/10
Kiss Me, Stupid (Billy Wilder, 1964) - 8/10
Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970) - 10/10
And We Were Young (Andy Smetanka, 2015) - 8/10

Good reminder. Let's start a new one. (And When We Were Young is a good title to end on.) Go ahead--use the thread title you like. (I was thinking of including the date in the title, but save that for the 2019 thread.) Include a link to this thread in the first post.

NEW THREAD: 2 Film 2 Furious.

Thanks! Maybe a moderator can close this one down.

On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954) - 10/10
A Colt is My Passport (Takashi Nomura, 1967) - 5/10
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989) - 10/10
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997) - 10/10
Auto Focus (Paul Schrader, 2002) - 7/10
Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000) - 10/10
Le Amiche (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1955) - 6/10
Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch, 1930) - 7/10

wwooooops sorry

I've no idea where else to put this but I watched Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool and was surprisingly moved and impressed by it. That is one ridiculously charismatic performance by Annette Benning. I actually cried at the end.

Small Foot.
musical animation about the tribe of the yeti's encounter with a Western film maker.
Quite fun. NOticed it had a G certificate which I don't remember having seen on a cinema screen before.
& for the lowest certificate there seemed to be a lot of violence or is the idea that what would be physically or life threatening behaviour actually needing to be shown to have consequences before it makes the certificate go up.
Also questions of blasphemy and challeninging received religious wisdom being a central theme of a lot of the film.

JUst hope 5 year old kids don't start dropping off the side of Himalayan mountains cos they've seen it's quite fun.
& there's easier ways of waking villages than displayed here.

I think i was just assuming that a worthwhile film couldn't be rated as low as G but may have been watching things rated as that without seeing the certificate.

FYI there is a new movies thread here: Last (x) movies you saw (II)