Last Film You Watched

[Gwladysstreetlad]

It wasnt but dont let facts get in the way of young Fox News over here lol

Young fox news eh? I suppose I'll just take it as a compliment that you consider me young and call it a win!lol

Also good to see you agree with me that it wasn't met with universal critical acclaim.....

 

[Sharpattack]

Just finished watching 'On The Beach'. A 1959 movie starring Gregory Peck, Anthony Perkins, Ava Gardner and Fred Astaire. It is based on the 1957 novel by Nevil Shute of the same name.

God is it depressing.

Nuclear war has happened and the northern hemisphere is dead. A US Navy submarine pulls into Melbourne. They estimate they have 6 months before the radiation starts killing people. They mount a mission back to the west coast, to test the air and to investigate a mysterious signal emanating from San Diego.

Spoiler: Spoils

Everyone dies. Everybody. It does a wonderful job of conveying the hopelessness of the situation by having the remaining populace queue for suicide pills

Is that the one where the sender of the mysterious message

Spoiler

is a bottle of coke

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

I was under the impression that it was generally, if not largely or even universally, well received and acclaimed?

There was plenty of undue negative reviews about it but it is true that Wonder Woman was received unpresidened praise for somthing unaffiliated from the MCU.

 

[COYBL25]

I watched From Dusk til Daw on Netflix last night.

What a mad film

One of my all time favourites, with loads of classic one liners, especially when they are in the Tiity Twister !

 

[McBain]

Young fox news eh? I suppose I'll just take it as a compliment that you consider me young and call it a win!lol

Also good to see you agree with me that it wasn't met with universal critical acclaim.....

Venom no.

Wonder Woman yes.

Besides, Venom has done pretty good business this week. Havent seen it yet but will get down to the cinema on the weekend and i’ll let you know if it’s any good.

 

[Dylan]

Is that the one where the sender of the mysterious message

Spoiler

is a bottle of coke

That's the one

 

[Seathestars]

Just been to see ‘Johnny English’ so daft it was quite funny.

 

[deipnosophist]

That's the one

I suspect Neville Shute might have been a kopite...his real name was Neville Shute Norway.

 

[Rugby Toffee]

Bourne Supremacy for the umpteen time

 

[LocalNative]

Hold The Dark on Netflix.

Not quite sure what to make of it just yet. Will let this one hang with me for a while.

 

[Jamiednm]

Ah mate, True Lies is just getting started on Film4! That’s my night sorted! Awesome movie!

 

[duncs pigeon]

For about the 100th time- The Bourne Ultimatum.

 

[GwladysBlue]

Venom - Thought it was terrible.

 

[deipnosophist]

Just watched Black Hawk Down on the telly...very good movie.

PS I won't be visiting Mogadishu anytime soon.

 

[degsy]

Just finished watching 'On The Beach'. A 1959 movie starring Gregory Peck, Anthony Perkins, Ava Gardner and Fred Astaire. It is based on the 1957 novel by Nevil Shute of the same name.

God is it depressing.

Nuclear war has happened and the northern hemisphere is dead. A US Navy submarine pulls into Melbourne. They estimate they have 6 months before the radiation starts killing people. They mount a mission back to the west coast, to test the air and to investigate a mysterious signal emanating from San Diego.

Spoiler: Spoils

Everyone dies. Everybody. It does a wonderful job of conveying the hopelessness of the situation by having the remaining populace queue for suicide pills

It has often been claimed that Ava Gardner described Melbourne as "the perfect place to make a film about the end of the world."[11]However, the purported quote was actually invented by journalist Neil Jillett, who was writing for The Sydney Morning Herald at the time. His original draft of a tongue-in-cheek piece about the making of the film said that he had not been able to confirm a third-party report that Ava Gardner had made this remark. The newspaper's sub-editor changed it to read as a direct quotation from Gardner. It was published in that form and entered Melbourne folklore very quickly.

Its not got any better in the last 59 years...just bigger.