Which movie did you last see?

[Sailor Kenshin]

Suffused with bad movies that have zero entertainment value, we (re) watched a favorite: Ice Station Zebra, with Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, and Ernest Borgnine, 1968.

But then…what were we thinking? Continuing in the Invisible Man vein, we tried The Invisible Woman, 1940, and choked down eight minutes of this smarmy, unfunny slapstick flop that John Barrymore had somehow wandered into.

For now, we are watching not a movie, but an old anime series, Princess Nine, about a high school girl's baseball team, rendered completely awesome thanks to a score by the Warsaw Philharmonic.

[Lloyd]

The other day I went for a walk and someone from this forum had tagged a wall. I normally don't like tags or street art, but this one reminded me of silent movies, film noirs, and nitrate films. It was like watching the essence of film. And I was content

Here is the tag:

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Any chance you saw a tag for Buster, too?

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[Yazeh]

The other day I went for a walk and someone from this forum had tagged a wall. I normally don't like tags or street art, but this one reminded me of silent movies, film noirs, and nitrate films. It was like watching the essence of film. And I was content

Here is the tag:

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Any chance you saw a tag for Buster, too?

Nope. But in my book, that was enough

[Kaputnik]

I watched the 1990 movie version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, made by Tom Stoppard himself based on his earlier play. I've never seen the stage version, and found myself thinking about how certain aspects of the film must have been quite different from the play.

On the whole, I liked it. The idea of seeing oneself as a minor character in someone else's story is clever.

[Sailor Kenshin]

I saw that, remember liking it.

[welch]

Watched the Ben Hecht movie "Angels Over Broadway". Fine movie, some laughs but not a screwball comedy like "Front Page". What a cast! Douglas Fairbanks, a very young Rita Hayworth, the great Thomas Mitchell, and John Qualen. You will remember Qualen, a fine character actor, as "Berger, I'm Norwegian, sir. Can I interest you in this ring" from Casablanca. And Earl Williams, the condemned killer, in "His Girl Friday".

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032209/

[welch]

The 1939 MGM production of It's a Wonderful World with Jimmy Stewart and Claudette Colbert. The film is a private dick comedy. I was surprised at the number of murders, attempted murders, and scheduled executions in a 1939 comedy. I'm a fan of Jimmy Stewart and his quirkiness, but even so I can give it only 5 on my "meh" scale. (It's a 1 to 10 scale.) It can be viewed here: https://ok.ru/video/723106007554

Just watched it, on your description. I gave it a 9 on IMDB's rating. Stewart is unusually cynical for Stewart, a good approach, and Colbert is "wonderful" as a "poetess".

[Yazeh]

@welch, thanks for sharing your find. Just to nitpick, it's Douglas Fairbanks Jr
I don't know if you've seen the Thin Man Series with William Powell and Myrna Loy. In the 2nd one, Jimmy Stewart has one of his early roles. Enough said

[Lloyd]

"Big Hand for a Little Lady" (1966) - very good Western with a lot of stars. Excellent acting. It could have been written for a different place and time and been just as good. It's about an annual high stakes poker game in the back of a saloon.

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[Lloyd]

"Follow Me Quietly" from
1949. A 60 minute B/noir that was quite entertaining despite having a lot of implausible scenes.

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[Sailor Kenshin]

A lot of these interest me. Have to look them up.

[Yazeh]

Lots.of misses.
Two Netflix movies.
If you want to experience virtual lobotomy within the first 10 minutes of a movie, Mother of the Bride with Brooke Shields.

The 2nd one Marry Me, Jennifer Lopez and Owen Willson. If you mix a lot of 30s, opposite attracts movies, dumb down with social media, music clips, there you'll have a mixmash puke FF style movie.
FF: watch first act, fast forward to 3rd act.

Finally, Migration (animation), ok....

[Sailor Kenshin]

Owen Wilson's sorta, kinda cute, and good with comedy, but gets stuck in lots of awful movies.

[Lloyd]

A lot of these interest me. Have to look them up.

Some of the older ones (and the newer "The Man who Knew Infinity") are free on YouTube.

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[welch]

Comrade X, with Hedy Lamar, Clark Gable, Eve Arden, and all the great German exile character actors you will remember from about 1940. Felix Bresart, as hotel staffer ("valet"). Vanya, forces Gable to try to get his daughter, Hedy, out of Russia. S he is a Communist with ideas, and the Soviets need to kill at the Communists to protect Communism. Great movie from beginning to astonishing ending.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032349/

[Yazeh]

Owen Wilson's sorta, kinda cute, and good with comedy, but gets stuck in lots of awful movies.

He's looking more and more (maybe it's the hair) like a battered Robert Redford