Last Film You Watched


degsy said:
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.
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I saw a biopic on Ava Gardner...golly she had a potty mouth...I liked her...so did Frank Sinatra, (who married her).
 
Dylan said:
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.

Everyone dies. Everybody. It does a wonderful job of conveying the hopelessness of the situation by having the remaining populace queue for suicide pills
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With the big build up in the nuclear stakes it was eerie and very believable.It was meant to be depressing.
 

donny said:
With the big build up in the nuclear stakes it was eerie and very believable.It was meant to be depressing.
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Yes I get that. Even working in the industry of global nuclear war, we still don't fully appreciate what would/could happen.

Even though with our actual weapons it wouldn't happen as depicted in the movie (the bombs had Cobalt-60 hacked into them to make the fallout as big as possible to wipe out life on a large scale), it is still scary as heck!
 
Deckard2049 said:
Directed by the same guy who directed Green Room and Blue Ruin- two great films from the last 5 years so I hope that this new one was good.
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Yep, I was steeped in anticipation going into it as they're both fantastic films, particularly Blue Ruin. Not sure about Hold The Dark though, atmosphere and setting are very spooky but not sure about the plot and especially the ending.
 
Venom
Don't care what the critics say, I really enjoyed it. Tom Hardy will always be one of my faves, liked the banter between Hardy and Venom etc. Only real negative was the shaky cam during action scenes, couldn't see what was going on. 7/10

Schindler's List
Masterpiece 10/10

Million Dollar Baby
Very good. 9/10

The Equalizer
Denzel is great, the villain not so much. Still some enjoyable violence in it and the story was better than expected. 7/10
 
Dylan said:
I have and I enjoyed it, save the final final battle with the upgrade, and the iron man scene.

Take it for what it is, you aren't going to get an oscar winning movie and it can never be the original.

There were several 'oh damn!' deaths and I liked the humour, speaking for myself as former military, we tend to deal with stress via humour (for the folk saying they wouldn't be joking around when being hunted)
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Not that I am not open minded, but does the line...
"That stuff will make you a goddam sexual Tyrannosaurus.... just like me" make it, or should I avoid the film?
 

degsy said:
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.
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I hate Melbourne.

Its a hipster dump.
 
summerisle said:
One of my favourite British sci-fi films is on Talking Pictures on Saturday : The Day the Earth Caught Fire. Catches nicely the angst about nuclear weapons in the sixties. Also features the very attractive Janet Munro, but that's by the by.:)



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Love that film, ive got a big collection of 50s sci fi but annoyingly its all on video and i havent got a player any more haha
 

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