Last Movie You Watched

[bsjkki]

3 hours ago, bluebell said:

The Gorge on AppleTV.  

It's got two very popular actor main leaders (Miles Teller and then the girl who's name I cna't remember but I think her first name is Anya).  It starts out as a military thriller and then becomes more sci-fi/fantasy.  It's an action romance kind of thing.  It's not at all believable but if you like sci-fi and fantasy in the real world then you'll probably find it fun.

What I appreciated about it was that even though it was rated TV MA it had one F word in the entire movie and no sex or nudity at all.  And very little blood (though the fantasy aspect has violence and they are trying to escape some things.

I enjoyed that movie for what it was. It was an interesting story and entertaining.

[bluebell]

27 minutes ago, bsjkki said:

I enjoyed that movie for what it was. It was an interesting story and entertaining.

Agreed!  Far-fetched but fun. 

[Tacenda]

My husband and I went to the movie "Last Breath" today. We sat down and thought we were early enough to catch the movie, and soon it looked like it was at the very end. We got up after it came to an end, maybe 30 minutes and went to find out what happened. Turns out the movie was playing in two rooms. So we went to the other room and it was more at the middle of the movie, well we knew the ending so what was the point. I saw that the movie "Rule Breakers" was playing in another room shortly after so we asked if we could trade our tickets for that show and boy am I glad we did, I absolutely love this true story of Afghan young women who participated in a robotics competition in the US. And seeing all they went through to get there. They did this at a good time because later on the Taliban came down harder on girls being able to learn new things or be schooled, in 2021. 

I just wanted to say, what a great movie it was, along with Last Breath. 

[bluebell]

Finally watched Train to Busan. It’s a Korean film (be ready for subtitles) about zombies. Probably one of the best zombie films I’ve seen. They made sure to keep it a human story at its core. I cried at the end.

PG-13 so there’s blood but no guts or anything super gory. 

[Dario_M]

Narnia part 1 2 and 3. 🎬

[bluebell]

If you've got kids or are an adult that likes to play minecraft, the movie is not horrible.   I think there are some inside jokes that I didn't really understand, but overall, it's watchable.  Especially if you are watching it with your kids as a bonding experience.   

[Okrahomer]

48 minutes ago, bluebell said:

If you've got kids or are an adult that likes to play minecraft, the movie is not horrible.   I think there are some inside jokes that I didn't really understand, but overall, it's watchable.  Especially if you are watching it with your kids as a bonding experience.   

There are quite a few LDS folks who worked on this film.  One of the screen writers lives in my ward — very good man.

[bluebell]

1 hour ago, Okrahomer said:

There are quite a few LDS folks who worked on this film.  One of the screen writers lives in my ward — very good man.

It had a lot of heart, which I appreciated.

[Raingirl]

I was in an Alfred Hitchcock mood over the weekend.  I watched Rear Window and Psycho.  I think I will look for some more this weekend. 

[Calm]

2 hours ago, Raingirl said:

I was in an Alfred Hitchcock mood over the weekend.  I watched Rear Window and Psycho.  I think I will look for some more this weekend. 

Have you watched Netflix’s “Hitchcock”?

[Raingirl]

30 minutes ago, Calm said:

Have you watched Netflix’s “Hitchcock”?

I haven’t yet. I saw that after I watched the two movies, and made a note to check it out this weekend. 

[Tacenda]

On 6/4/2025 at 11:49 AM, Raingirl said:

I was in an Alfred Hitchcock mood over the weekend.  I watched Rear Window and Psycho.  I think I will look for some more this weekend. 

Watching Rear Window right now, lol!

[Raingirl]

17 hours ago, Tacenda said:

Watching Rear Window right now, lol!

I really liked Rear Window.

 I just watched The Man Who Knew Too Much, and am now starting Vertigo.  I don’t work Fridays, and my MS fatigue is through the roof by this time, so I’m lying in bed, watching movies. 
 

 

[Pyreaux]

Sidekicks (1992)

"Sidekicks" is a 1992 martial arts / adventure film. In my opinion, a better version of Karate Kid in the 90s, that was mostly forgotten and was never available on DVD, currently available for free on Fawesome, Hoopla, Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, and Tubi TV. The story is of Barry, a highschooler with asthma which limits him physically is bullied by a bigger boy jealous how he steals all the attention from a girl who pitties him, as everyone is painfully aware he is constantly daydreaming and is talking in his dreams out loud in class and regularly embarrasses himself. He's dreaming of being in random adventures as the side kick of his hero Chuck Norris. The film is a conduit for all the films of Chuck Norris, yet you can't compare this to any other Chuck Norris film, it stands apart as thee best of his films. The over-the-top dream sequences with Chuck Norris is a delight.

If any movie would inspire a kid to have an interest in martial arts, I can't think of any movie better. On par with Cobra Kai. Barry (Jonathan Brandis) is taught martial arts by his teacher's uncle Mr Lee (Mako) and culminates with an exciting martial arts exhibition where he gets everything he ever wanted and so ends his need to daydream. A wish-fulfillment movie for kids. Occasional intentional silliness of Richard Moll as the ridiculous gym teacher, and Piscopo as the always over-the-top assorted bad guys in all dream sequences and the karate sensei of the bully in the opposing dojo, and the quirky sensei Mr. Lee, owner of the Frying Dragon restaurant, who gives amusing life lessons while tossing dumplings at his head when his mind drifts.

Family friendly : Some violence, and a villain says an A-word.

Edited June 9, 2025 by Pyreaux

[bluebell]

9 hours ago, Pyreaux said:

Sidekicks (1992)

"Sidekicks" is a 1992 martial arts / adventure film. In my opinion, a better version of Karate Kid in the 90s, that was mostly forgotten and was never available on DVD, currently available for free on Fawesome, Hoopla, Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, and Tubi TV. The story is of Barry, a highschooler with asthma which limits him physically is bullied by a bigger boy jealous how he steals all the attention from a girl who pitties him, as everyone is painfully aware he is constantly daydreaming and talking out loud in class and regularly embarrasses himself. He's dreaming of being in random adventures as the side kick of his hero Chuck Norris. The film is a conduit for all the films of Chuck Norris, yet you can't compare this to any other Chuck Norris film, it stands apart as thee best of his films. The over-the-top dream sequences with Chuck Norris is a delight.

If any movie would inspire a kid to have an interest in martial arts, I can't think of any movie better. On par with Cobra Kai. Barry (Johnathan Brandis) is taught martial arts by his teacher's uncle Mr Lee (Mako) and culminates with an exciting martial arts exhibition where he gets everything he ever wanted and so ends his need to dream. A wish-fulfillment movie for kids. Occasional intentional silliness of Richard Moll as the ridiculous gym teacher, and Piscopo as the always over-the-top bad guy in all dream sequences and the karate sensei of the bully in the opposing dojo, and the quirky sensei Mr. Lee, owner of the Frying Dragon restaurant, who gives amusing life lessons while tossing dumplings at his head when his mind drifts.

Family friendly : Some violence, and a villain says an A-word.

I remember watching this movie in high school and liking it, but that might have been because I had a pretty big crush on the actor that played Barry (Jonathan Brandis) at the time.  Sadly, he killed himself about ten years after this movie came out. 

[Tacenda]

It's been awhile since a movie took over my whole body of emotions. And once it ended I bawled. That rarely happens. A wonderful movie and made me feel the feels for everyone that might be going through a tough time. It's on Netflix and is called, "Straw". It's gripping! 

[bluebell]

11 hours ago, Tacenda said:

It's been awhile since a movie took over my whole body of emotions. And once it ended I bawled. That rarely happens. A wonderful movie and made me feel the feels for everyone that might be going through a tough time. It's on Netflix and is called, "Straw". It's gripping! 

What’s the premise?

[bluebell]

I watched a really corny 80s teen romance on YouTube yesterday. It’s called “fire with fire“. There’s a bad boy and a good girl that is at a Catholic boarding school. They see each other five times and actually speak three of those times before they are madly and deeply in love. The fifth time that they’re together, they are intimate on the floor of a mausoleum in a graveyard (yuck) when his prison warden finds him and then they escape together to some cabin in the woods where the FBI brings in helicopters to find them (which makes perfect sense because she’s a teenage runaway, and he was at a boys school for driving his stepdad‘s car through a window. So obviously dangerous criminals).

They get one night of freedom before the abandoned cabin they were staying in burns down and they have to jump off a 500 foot cliff into a raging river to escape the prison warden trying to shoot them. They  miraculously survive, so that everybody can think they are dead, and then they wander off into the mountains into the sunset in their soggy clothes with no other possessions. And I think the makers of the film consider that a happy ending.  😂

[Calm]

2 hours ago, bluebell said:

she’s a teenage runaway

Obviously a kidnap victim under duress!

Back in the days when the FBI had money to burn…which was probably never.

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to escape the prison warden trying to shoot them

One twisted dude shooting at a kid and a possible hostage…I guess he has to be to justify the kid not owning up to his responsibilities and turning himself in to become the man of honor she can look up to.  And I guess it’s not that big of a prison (boys’ school?) if the warden can leave the campus and go on a bounty hunt himself.  Or he has a really good assistant that does all the boring bits.  Bet he even gets kickbacks for how many kids they ‘rehabilitate’.

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they wander off into the mountains into the sunset in their soggy clothes with no other possessions.

Hopefully it’s summer and they have watched a lot of Man vs. Wild.

My suggestion:  look for pine trees.  Many parts are edible.***

Bet his stepdad hit him, so the car deserved to be totaled 

***Bonus points if you recognize this.

Edited June 10, 2025 by Calm

[Tacenda]

7 hours ago, bluebell said:

What’s the premise?

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/straw-tyler-perry-taraji-p-henson-release-date-photos-news

[bluebell]

7 hours ago, Calm said:

Obviously a kidnap victim under duress!

Back in the days when the FBI had money to burn…which was probably never.

One twisted dude shooting at a kid and a possible hostage…I guess he has to be to justify the kid not owning up to his responsibilities and turning himself in to become the man of honor she can look up to.  And I guess it’s not that big of a prison (boys’ school?) if the warden can leave the campus and go on a bounty hunt himself.  Or he has a really good assistant that does all the boring bits.  Bet he even gets kickbacks for how many kids they ‘rehabilitate’.

Hopefully it’s summer and they have watched a lot of Man vs. Wild.

My suggestion:  look for pine trees.  Many parts are edible.***

Bet his stepdad hit him, so the car deserved to be totaled 

***Bonus points if you recognize this.

I found the official trailer for the movie.  Be prepared to be impressed (and to see some 30 year olds pretending to be teenagers).

https://www.imdb.com/video/embed/vi77513497/

[bluebell]

3 hours ago, Tacenda said:

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/straw-tyler-perry-taraji-p-henson-release-date-photos-news

That looks good.

[Calm]

2 hours ago, bluebell said:

I found the official trailer for the movie.  Be prepared to be impressed (and to see some 30 year olds pretending to be teenagers).

https://www.imdb.com/video/embed/vi77513497/

Definitely felt like that time period.

[Rain]

On 6/8/2025 at 11:19 PM, Pyreaux said:

Sidekicks (1992)

"Sidekicks" is a 1992 martial arts / adventure film. In my opinion, a better version of Karate Kid in the 90s, that was mostly forgotten and was never available on DVD, currently available for free on Fawesome, Hoopla, Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, and Tubi TV. The story is of Barry, a highschooler with asthma which limits him physically is bullied by a bigger boy jealous how he steals all the attention from a girl who pitties him, as everyone is painfully aware he is constantly daydreaming and is talking in his dreams out loud in class and regularly embarrasses himself. He's dreaming of being in random adventures as the side kick of his hero Chuck Norris. The film is a conduit for all the films of Chuck Norris, yet you can't compare this to any other Chuck Norris film, it stands apart as thee best of his films. The over-the-top dream sequences with Chuck Norris is a delight.

If any movie would inspire a kid to have an interest in martial arts, I can't think of any movie better. On par with Cobra Kai. Barry (Jonathan Brandis) is taught martial arts by his teacher's uncle Mr Lee (Mako) and culminates with an exciting martial arts exhibition where he gets everything he ever wanted and so ends his need to daydream. A wish-fulfillment movie for kids. Occasional intentional silliness of Richard Moll as the ridiculous gym teacher, and Piscopo as the always over-the-top assorted bad guys in all dream sequences and the karate sensei of the bully in the opposing dojo, and the quirky sensei Mr. Lee, owner of the Frying Dragon restaurant, who gives amusing life lessons while tossing dumplings at his head when his mind drifts.

Family friendly : Some violence, and a villain says an A-word.

My husband and I stopped at the movie theater when coming home from his parents when we were newly married. He wanted to see Sidekicks and I wanted to see Benny and Joon. We ended up being kind of ticked at each other and stubbornly deciding we would see our own movie!  So there!

Well, I couldn't handle it and I went in to watch Sidekicks with him.  Right away I caught on that it was filmed in my mission and I had fun finding places that I recognized.

A month or so later we watched Benny and Joon and found it was filned in his mission. He, too, had fun picking out places.

We learned that it was ok to do things separately, but most of the time we preferred to support each other. Whatever we chose, it was important to not be selfish about it - that there were blessings in thinking of each other.

Edited June 11, 2025 by Rain

[bluebell]

1 hour ago, Rain said:

My husband and I stopped at the movie theater when coming home from his parents when we were newly married. He wanted to see Sidekicks and I wanted to see Benny and Joon. We ended up being kind of ticked at each other and stubbornly deciding we would see our own movie!  So there!

Well, I couldn't handle it and I went in to watch Sidekicks with him.  Right away I caught on that it was filmed in my mission and I had fun finding places that I recognized.

A month or so later we watched Benny and Joon and found it was filned in his mission. He, too, had fun picking out places.

We learned that it was ok to do things separately, but most of the time we preferred to support each other. Whatever we chose, it was important to not be selfish about it - that there were blessings in thinking of each other.

That's a  cool lesson.