Last Movie You Watched

[LOSTONE]

I will not say what movie I watched last as it was a romantic tear jerker some married couples would love. I will say it was not pornographic or sexual in any context. If it was, I didn't pick up on it.

[Rivers]

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY!!

[Calm]

Went to that 5 hrs ago. Very good, great pacing, a little superficial with character development on the two main leads, but I think it mig feel that way because the other characters were handled so well, even some pretty minor ones.

And the dog was okay!

[Mahoneymoriancumer]

New Addition- I watched Captain America: The Winter Soldier last night; now THAT was a terrific spy thriller with some fun super heroics thrown in!  Even better than I remembered in theaters, and i had to turn it off because no one in the house could get anything done while it was on!  They would pass through the family room, and suddenly they were lingering, then sitting and watching.  

[Storm Rider]

I have been watching older movies as of late - last night I watched "In the Name of the Father".  It came out in 1993, a true story about the Guildford Four who were wrongly sent to prison in England along with the entire family of one of the four's relatives.  Language was not so good and the story was heart rending, but there is redemption between a father and his son and for those who went to prison. 

Edited September 11, 2014 by Storm Rider

[Stargazer]

Watched the Director's Cut of Gods and Generals the other day, and I'm currently watching the Director's Cut of Gettysburg.

 

I love both those movies!

[Stargazer]

Went to that 5 hrs ago. Very good, great pacing, a little superficial with character development on the two main leads, but I think it mig feel that way because the other characters were handled so well, even some pretty minor ones.

And the dog was okay!

 

Dog?  You mean the raccoon?

[3DOP]

I have been watching older movies as of late - last night I watched "In the Name of the Father".  It came out in 1993, a true story about the Guildford Four who were wrongly sent to prison in England along with the entire family of one of the four's relatives.  Language was not so good and the story was heart rending, but there is redemption between a father and his son and for those who went to prison. 

 

Storm Rider! 1993 is old?????? I am sure you have your numbers inverted. You meant 1939. The best of the best. Yes, of course.

 

They had learned so much about film making, using sound, music, camera, and color. My wife is more of a silent fan and 30's fan than anybody I know, and I am only her "convert" about the movies. She could argue about it and win. Anyway, I just can't allow that 1993 is old! If 1993 is old, what does that make my favourite year? My top seven not necessarily in order:

 

1939

Gone With the Wind

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

The Wizard of Oz

Stagecoach

Wuthering Heights

The Four Feathers

Dark Victory

 

All in fun Storm Rider...God Bless.

 

Rory...who didn't think you were so young that 1993 is old!

[Garden Girl]

Storm Rider! 1993 is old?????? I am sure you have your numbers inverted. You meant 1939. The best of the best. Yes, of course.

 

 

This was my reaction... I actually laughed out loud...  I was expecting him to cite something from the 40's, even 50's, but 1993??!

 

GG

[Storm Rider]

This was my reaction... I actually laughed out loud...  I was expecting him to cite something from the 40's, even 50's, but 1993??!

 

GG

Your laugh was justified.  As you go back and read my posts on this specific thread I have actually be more focused on the 1940-1950 range for movies of late.  This movie is one of the newer ones; my intent was that it was not a current movie.  

 

I went back and watched The Bells of St. Mary's and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir again recently.  These old classics are still wonderful to watch and uplift the heart. 

[Tacenda]

Your laugh was justified. As you go back and read my posts on this specific thread I have actually be more focused on the 1940-1950 range for movies of late. This movie is one of the newer ones; my intent was that it was not a current movie.

I went back and watched The Bells of St. Mary's and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir again recently. These old classics are still wonderful to watch and uplift the heart.

Too bad the younger generation will probably never give these films a glance.

[Storm Rider]

Storm Rider! 1993 is old?????? I am sure you have your numbers inverted. You meant 1939. The best of the best. Yes, of course.

 

They had learned so much about film making, using sound, music, camera, and color. My wife is more of a silent fan and 30's fan than anybody I know, and I am only her "convert" about the movies. She could argue about it and win. Anyway, I just can't allow that 1993 is old! If 1993 is old, what does that make my favourite year? My top seven not necessarily in order:

 

1939

Gone With the Wind

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

The Wizard of Oz

Stagecoach

Wuthering Heights

The Four Feathers

Dark Victory

 

All in fun Storm Rider...God Bless.

 

Rory...who didn't think you were so young that 1993 is old!

 

I can understand the fun and appreciate it.  I will say that even when I wrote it, it did not feel completely right, but was too lazy to think of a better way to say it.  Thank you for sharing your favorites.  Mr. Smith is a wonderful show and I always enjoy watching it.  I will have to go back and watch Four Feathers and Dark Victory. There are just too many great older shows to watch again or see ones that I missed rather than watch so much of what is made today.

 

I would say that I have not attempted to watch silent movies other than snippets.  Hmm, not sure I can go there and would not be a good convert candidate.  Cheers,

[Garden Girl]

Your laugh was justified.  As you go back and read my posts on this specific thread I have actually be more focused on the 1940-1950 range for movies of late.  This movie is one of the newer ones; my intent was that it was not a current movie.  

 

I went back and watched The Bells of St. Mary's and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir again recently.  These old classics are still wonderful to watch and uplift the heart. 

 

This is one of my all time favorites (along with Rebecca starring Joan Fontaine and Lawrence Olivier... now there's one you should revisit)... I love the seaside cottage and how she would walk on the beach... reminds me of me... I can't not pray when I walk along the shore... the power of the sea... the vast sky... the crying gulls... very few people on my beach, in fact sometimes I'm alone for a couple of miles.  I call my little cottage "Gull Cottage."  But I don't want any ghosts, even a Rex Harrison type!!  But I loved the story.

 

GG

[ERayR]

Storm Rider! 1993 is old?????? I am sure you have your numbers inverted. You meant 1939. The best of the best. Yes, of course.

 

They had learned so much about film making, using sound, music, camera, and color. My wife is more of a silent fan and 30's fan than anybody I know, and I am only her "convert" about the movies. She could argue about it and win. Anyway, I just can't allow that 1993 is old! If 1993 is old, what does that make my favourite year? My top seven not necessarily in order:

 

1939

Gone With the Wind

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

The Wizard of Oz

Stagecoach

Wuthering Heights

The Four Feathers

Dark Victory

 

All in fun Storm Rider...God Bless.

 

Rory...who didn't think you were so young that 1993 is old!

 

Or 1952 - High Noon

[VideoGameJunkie]

I watched the 1997 Disney Hercules. James Woods is hilarious as Hades. Greek mythology is cool.

[Calm]

Yes, but the Disney Hercules isn't that much Greek mythology besides names...

[VideoGameJunkie]

True, but it was sure entertaining. I played a video game God of War, which also used Greek mythology and setting.

[3DOP]

Or 1952 - High Noon

 

Good call ERay! I'll take High Noon in any year ERay. Its been a while. Too long. Yeah. The Coop. A snivelling Lloyd Bridges. I must admit, she was pretty and then some, but I have NEVER liked Grace Kelly's characters. I am always against her. Maybe its not her fault. Casting. I think we are supposed to believe that Cooper deserved better...like that Spanish gal who appreciated him, even if she wasn't a princess! 

Edited September 13, 2014 by 3DOP

[3DOP]

I can understand the fun and appreciate it.  I will say that even when I wrote it, it did not feel completely right, but was too lazy to think of a better way to say it.  Thank you for sharing your favorites.  Mr. Smith is a wonderful show and I always enjoy watching it.  I will have to go back and watch Four Feathers and Dark Victory. There are just too many great older shows to watch again or see ones that I missed rather than watch so much of what is made today.

 

I would say that I have not attempted to watch silent movies other than snippets.  Hmm, not sure I can go there and would not be a good convert candidate.  Cheers,

 

Let me also encourage you with Wuthering Heights, the movie, with Olivier, Niven, and Merle Oberon. It is in my opinion, better than the book by one of the Bronte sisters, I forget which sister. I hate the book. I'll never read it again. Gone With the Wind is a much better movie than book too (according to my private authority, who has actually read the thousand pages or so of Margaret Mitchell's only notable work.). Heathcliff (Wuthering) is so hateful in the book. No sympathy for his passion. He is too evil. The movie is haunting, tragic, but in the end, maintains a triumphant mood, and you care about Heathcliff. Call me Pollyanna Pete. I liked it that the movies of that era made things happier than the books that inspired them.

 

Anna Karenina? (The best movie of a Tolstoy work will never exceed the books, but there are two good Karenina movies. the early one with Garbo and Frederic March, and the recent one with Sean Bean and that pretty French girl from Braveheart, with one bad scene, easily anticipated and avoided. Anna needed to go under the train as in the great book, but you just don't do that to Greta Garbo. But it worked with the pretty French actress. I usually like sad stuff to be at least bittersweet. That's the way of Wuthering in '39 and why I gave it honorable mention. 

 

The Four Feathers is a great story and movie, but Ralph Richardson is way over the top. I can recommend that movie, but not without admitting that I think his act as a blind guy is dorky.

Edited September 13, 2014 by 3DOP

[Storm Rider]

I watched Four Feathers and it was a great movie.  Yes, Richardson's portrayal of a blind man is a bit dorky, but it had little impact on the movie itself.  I also watch Gunga Din; it was a bit of British Empire appreciation day for me. 

 

Four Feathers was a more serious film in the there was such a great lesson to learn about cowardice and courage. Gunga Din was a great show to admire and acknowledge that some of the greatest acts are accomplished by the weakest of people.  

[bluebell]

Let me also encourage you with Wuthering Heights, the movie, with Olivier, Niven, and Merle Oberon. It is in my opinion, better than the book by one of the Bronte sisters, I forget which sister. I hate the book. I'll never read it again. Gone With the Wind is a much better movie than book too (according to my private authority, who has actually read the thousand pages or so of Margaret Mitchell's only notable work.). Heathcliff (Wuthering) is so hateful in the book. No sympathy for his passion. He is too evil. The movie is haunting, tragic, but in the end, maintains a triumphant mood, and you care about Heathcliff. Call me Pollyanna Pete. I liked it that the movies of that era made things happier than the books that inspired them.

Anna Karenina? (The best movie of a Tolstoy work will never exceed the books, but there are two good Karenina movies. the early one with Garbo and Frederic March, and the recent one with Sean Bean and that pretty French girl from Braveheart, with one bad scene, easily anticipated and avoided. Anna needed to go under the train as in the great book, but you just don't do that to Greta Garbo. But it worked with the pretty French actress. I usually like sad stuff to be at least bittersweet. That's the way of Wuthering in '39 and why I gave it honorable mention.

The Four Feathers is a great story and movie, but Ralph Richardson is way over the top. I can recommend that movie, but not without admitting that I think his act as a blind guy is dorky.

Gone with the wind the book is WAY better than the movie!!

(Though I love both. )

I read the book when I was in high school and have probably read it 5 or 6 times since then.

I agree about Wuthering Heights though. I read that a few years ago and I still have no idea what is supposed to be so awesome about it.

[Deborah]

 

The Four Feathers is a great story and movie, but Ralph Richardson is way over the top. I can recommend that movie, but not without admitting that I think his act as a blind guy is dorky.

 

There was also a version with Heath Ledger in the lead. It was much grittier but I enjoyed it more than the older version.

[Deborah]

I saw Atlas Shrugged 3. The best of all the movies but it would have been nice if they had kept the the same actors through the whole series. Of course the book is one of my favorites, read multiple times. What they need is a tV miniseries that can cover the expanse of the book,.

[thesometimesaint]

Cirque du Soleil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVfW46AtqwY#t=82

 

Well worth the watch

[bluebell]

Watched Mom's Night Out last night-it was good.

 

It's a little cheesy but there were some funny parts and it was surprisingly heartfelt and sincere.  Plus, it had a strong Christian theme that i didn't see coming but found very nice.

 

I recommend it, especially for anyone who has kids-it's got a really good message for moms who feel overwhelmed or like they just aren't doing a good enough job.