The last movie you watched was...?? (take three)

Alien - 1979

In the future, Space people smoked a lot inside their space ships.

 

A few Tom Selleck cable westerns.
Crossfire Trail, Monte Walsh, Last Stand at Saber River. Based on Lamour novels or Lamour like. A lot of the same actors in cast. Selleck and cast work well on these IMHO. If westerns are your bag I don't think you would be disappointed.

 

MAD LOVE (1935) - Peter Lorre as a bald mad scientist in love with the wife of Colin Clive, a concert pianist whose
hands are crushed in a train accident. Lorre stitches on the hands of a recently-executed murderer, and things
get weirder. Beautifully shot, wonderfully odd, and Ted Healy as an ace reporter made this a fun Saturday afternoon
viewing.

 

Pacific Rim is on HBO tonight. Absolutely awful. I didn't like this kind of comic book growing up either.

 

Flipping channels after that debacle.

It has been 31 years since Lampoon's Vacation but only 22 years separate The Misfits and Vacation.

 

The Cabin in the Woods

Very good, some really cool twists on the b-movie horror genre....well done!

 

The Children of Huang Shi

 

The Matrix Reloaded

 

Death Wish 3

The final showdown is epic, laughably ridiculous and awesome.

 

We watched a couple of classics last night

 

Monsters University - I really enjoyed it, visually it looks incredible and the story does a great job of explaining how Mike and Sully become partners in the scare business.

 

El CID. What an epic. I don't think Loren ever looked better.

 

Yeah ... she's soooo beautiful that the only thing to pick on is her funny shaped lower teeth! What a goddess! Sigh.

 

Watched this last night...I also have to question some of the editing decisions....it needed a tighter feel and could have easily left 30 min and not impacted the story or the feel of the film...

 

Phil Hoffman film fest conyinued wuth Mission Impossible 3. It wasnt that great but it was fun watching Phil kick Cruises ass.

 

"Her" by Spike Jonze. I thought it was great.

 

City Lights - a film by Charles Chaplin - on Criterion blu-ray

 

Last night I watched Galaxy of Terror. In 1981, Earth people tried to make Alien knockoffs.

 

Oculus (2014) - pretty good.
Oldboy (2013 - Spike Lee) - pretty good.

 

In The Bedroom

 

SHE FREAK - 1967 David F. Friedman re-make of FREAKS, with an emphasis on carnival footage. Not very well
done, but nice for the vintage carny action, if nothing else.

KILLER'S MOON - 1978 UK "maniacs on the loose" film. Not so hot for me.

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL - Loved it, a nice surprise after not really liking a Wes Anderson film since TENENBAUMS.
Really funny, gorgeously shot and production designed. Best seen on as big a screen as possible.

RIO 2 - Nice to look at and good 3D. Held my interest most of the way, but not something I'd necessarily recommend unless
you liked the first one.

 

Perfect Blue
One of the major animes that should never show most kids.

 

Calvary (2014) - very thought-provoking picture with an excellent lead performance from Brendan Gleeson.

 

I wish I could have flipped back my $24 from the box office.

 

That's what vents are for. Don't you see now why they needed such big air ducts?