FilmNight: Movies you watched recently

[andromeda331]

29 minutes ago, Anela said:

I love E.T. I will avoid it for years, because it makes me sob at the end, but it’s one of my favourite movies. 

So do I. It's on my list of movies that I love but I'll never watch again because it makes me cry. The Fox and the Hound is another one seeing the two animal separate and become enemies. Tod's owner taking him back to the woods because it's time to let him go.

And Bambi.

Edited February 24 by andromeda331

[Shannon L.]

I watched Down Periscope last night for the first time in a long time.  With the exception of some of the sexual harassment jokes, it holds up well for a screwball comedy.  

And, while I'm typically not a fan of fart jokes, this one, once again, had me rolling, especially when followed immediately by the (brilliant!) marine life imitations.  

[Rushmoras]

Well, had the will and the time to actually watch something, and continued on with Akira Kurosawa, this time - Rashamon (1950). A movie about three distinct versions of a murder event, and probably, how you cannot rely on witnesses or something, I don't know, it was boring. Stray Dog, which I saw last, was so much better.

[andromeda331]

On 2/28/2025 at 11:29 AM, Rushmoras said:

Well, had the will and the time to actually watch something, and continued on with Akira Kurosawa, this time - Rashamon (1950). A movie about three distinct versions of a murder event, and probably, how you cannot rely on witnesses or something, I don't know, it was boring. Stray Dog, which I saw last, was so much better.

I've always wondered how good that movie was since it gave me one of my favorite movie/tv episode setups. Everyone having their own version of what happened.

[Bastet]

On 2/23/2025 at 10:49 PM, Anela said:

I’ve just watched Dirty Dancing, for the first time in years, for movie night with other people online. I still love it.  

I don't watch a ton of movies with romance as the main plot, partly because they're so often sexist, but that is a fantastically feminist movie. 

[Rushmoras]

3 hours ago, andromeda331 said:

I've always wondered how good that movie was since it gave me one of my favorite movie/tv episode setups. Everyone having their own version of what happened.

I have the same observations about this movie as I wrote about Kurosawa's The Men Who Tread on Tigers Tails a year or so back in here - it felt more like a mediocre theatre play than a movie due to unnatural dialogues. I don't think that people speak like that in real life...

Edited Yest. at 08:32 AM by Rushmoras

[Anduin]

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is daft and not all that entertaining. There's a suggestion that it started as a slice of life living and dealing with kaiju kind of thing, but that gets lost further in. In a movie that's two hours, we only meet the big bad one hour five minutes in. Rushed for time. On the bright side, there's a little more primatology here. Not enough to justify my watching it ever again, but at least I didn't entirely waste my time.

But as I remember the Gareth Edwards Godzilla, Godzilla himself tried to avoid collateral damage. Ducking under bridges, watching where he stepped, etc. Here, no. Destruction city all over.

Nice hearing a couple of Kiwi accents. I'm on the other side of Australia, but I still regard NZ as a neighbor down the other end of the street. But all up, it's not a great movie. Next one I watch, I hope it'll be better. It won't be a kaiju movie, so who knows.