Movies You Recently Watched

Promising Young Woman (2020) ~ Most recently, 3rd viewing with director commentary... and then a 4th watch before returning it to library.

Superb. Must own.

 

Started watching the remake of The Getaway with Baldwin and Basinger. Got interrupted halfway through but at least I got to see the sex between Alec and Kim. Missed seeing Jennifer Tilly's scene with Madsen though. BTW, Alec and Kim were husband and wife during the filming and the sex scenes were real, not acted.

 

Rewatched the Farscape series(Scifi/Jim Henson).

They finiseshed the series with a 2 part movie.



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We watched "A Bridge Too Far" the other evening. An epic war film depicting the failed Allied Operation Market Garden. Poor planning and support left a lot of the allied troops vulnerable to German capture. And being captured is exactly what happened along with not being able to succeed in taking 3 important bridges vital to invading Germany from Holland and Belgium. The Allies actually lost this part of the war.

 

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Went to go see Terrifier 3 yesterday. It was pretty good.

 

bad boys ride or die

 

Van Helsing.
Mainly because Kate Beckinsale is hot.

 

Mufusia 2024 The Lion Movie

 

Adelheid - 8/10
Best movie I've seen in at least 2 years.. Despite my neighbor and her loud assed muffler going on for an hour.. I had to take a break (play drums to block out the sound) which usually is a hindrance to a movie, but I couldn't take it anymore.. I had this on my IMDB watch-list... along with 2,000 others. Don't remember ever even reading the title. I did a Search on here and found 0 results. Less than 1,000 votes on IMDB but it's on Criterion. I need more movies like this. Contemporary dramas about people that stand on their own, ones you can't compare.

I actually selected two movies before, and couldn't get past the 20 minute mark... Movies made in my lifetime of course. I've felt this way since I was 19, but I stupidly kept giving movies made in my lifetime a chance. I've seen 906.. I'm just going to stick with 1930-70s, especially European movies. I'm in the US, but unless it's a great independent movie I haven't seen, I'll probably pass.... I have time to see one every day, but after seeing thousands, and some great movies, my standards are higher.

 

Never cared for John Wayne, so I was hesitant to watch a remake of True Grit with Jeff Bridges. But I did and enjoyed it for sure. He's an irascible character and plays it up real good.. The other actors are fine as well.

 

What I liked about the Bridges version of True Grit is how much closer to the actual novel it was. Waynes version was good enough for him to win the Oscar and not have to wait for the sequel Rooster Cogburn. But it was Hepburn who carried Wayne to the award. Bridges version was more true to the life of the times and made a lot more sense. Of the two I feel it was the better movie.

 

2024 was the first year in which I didn't go to the theater to see a single film. This was the reason why.

I would love a good comedy or character-driven story, but all I ever see released where I am is action, horror, Marvel, etc. I understand there are huge audiences for those kinds of movies, but it leaves me out in the cold.

Oh! Wait. I did see one movie this year: the 20th anniversary release of Mean Girls, so that doesn't count.

 

The last movie I watched was a horror movie, called Valentine, it came out in 2001.

 

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Flight - A Denzel Washington film released in 2012. Love the nude scene in the beginning with Nadine Velázquez.

An Officer and a Gentleman - Gere and Winger smoke up the screen with sex scenes. Louis Gossett Jr. is the perfect DI.