What movies have you seen lately?

Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Fist Fight, Logan, John Wick 2 were the most recent. All were good. Surprisingly the sequels were as good as or better than the first. The worst movies I have seen recently would be a wide selection that my step daughter picks out of Redbox. She doesn’t have good taste in movies and we have shut some of them off after the first half hour. Even she said they were horrible. Unfortunately I cannot warn you of any of them since I have wiped the memory of their names away.

I liked Guardians and Logan as well, but I think they verged on being self indulgent, every scene in Guardians seemed to end on a lame joke, and Logan probably had the record for most head slicing.

This seems a duplicate question, so I’ll just copy and paste the answer I gave the first time.

The list is very long. When I’m at sea in bad weather and not on duty, I’m usually below decks watching a film riding out the storm.

The three films I saw in this past year that I remember most were:

Mr. Right, (2015) which I highly recomend. It is fucking hilarious. Rockwell at his absolute best.

I don’t get films as quickly as you guys back in the States, and I miss quite a few that you all are familiar with. A few months ago, I was sent a flashdrive with a film called U Turn (1997) on it. This is a really freaky film. It goes surreal within the first 15 minutes and you’re never sure what’s actually going on and who are the crazy ones from then on. It twists like crazy, but you can’t take your eyes away from it. The trailer doesn’t do it justice. I love it and will watch again soon.

And the biggest surprise for me was A Million Ways to Die in the West . LOL. I live offshore, so I don’t get a lot of invasive hype like you guys do. So, when it comes to films, I’m pretty much flying blind, if I don’t actively research them. It’s just easier to hit the play button on the VLC screen and take my chances. I give comedies about two minutes to get a laugh out me before I turn them off. I thought the name of this film was kind of hokey (I didn’t know McFarlane had anything to do with it). I had it on a flashdrive for over a year before I ran out of films and got desperate enough to watch it.

Trust me. A Million Ways is the best western comedy since Blazing Saddles. And that is a hard act to follow.

A gunfight scene

The whorehouse scene

Why do you consider this a duplicate question?

- Chinatown: It was surprisingly a very good film noir and an excellent movie in general. I like how they recreated the 1930s noir environment that honors both classic film noir while creating their own style. But what I like the most is how they were unafraid to tell a truly gritty noir-style story.
– The Fire Within. I have already reviewed it here: Enough said.
– True Confession: I was hoping for a thought-provoking movie, but I ended up disappointed. It did have a message to say, but the way it delivers it was just… too boring. I only started to realize what it was trying to say at the very end, and by then I was about to fall asleep.
– Homicide: Much better than True Confession, but still felt unfinished. It did try harder than True Confession, and it could have been great, but it failed to appeal to me as it focused too much on delivering its message. The protagonist was supposed to go to point B from point A, but then got sidetracked to point C. Then on his way got sidetracked again to point C.1 while experiencing existential crisis. After messing up too hard in point C.1 he went back to point B and messed up again. After a while I was in a mess too.
– This Gun for Hire: It wasn’t a masterpiece, but I like how it managed to avoid one-sided character development and created a character people can rely on while dodging the censorship rule of not letting criminals win in the end. That was a very clever move. My only complaint is how it attempted to spread propaganda somewhere in the middle.

Last night, via Amazon streaming: The Brand New Testament. Better than I expected. In fact, one of the best of the past few months, and we average one a week. Original premise, some exceptional acting, fine cinematography, quirky humor. It won’t appeal to everyone, though.

@Espiritus_Corvus, I’m adding A Million Ways to my queue, even though the Western is not my genre.

I watch between 45 and 80 movies each month.
It’s not yet 4pm, and today I watched The High Wall and War Dogs.
The last in theater movie I watched was probably Guardians of the Galaxy 2.

I saw the most recent Pirates of the Caribbean movie at the theater, having not seen the others. It was cute, and funny, and had some nifty special effects. Plus Johnny Depp is just so dang cute.

On TV (Netflix) the most recent movie I watched (and this was my first time seeing it) was one called How to Steal a Million with the handsome Audrey Hepburn, and the beautiful (and I do mean beautiful) Peter O’Toole. When you first see Peter O’Toole, he and his big blue eyes pop up from behind a painting that he is stealing from Audrey Hepburn’s mansion. I really enjoyed it.

A few months back, I got to see (also for the first time) North by Northwest on the big screen. It was really good too, especially the scene of Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint trying to escape the bad guys by climbing on Mt. Rushmore, and scenes of the interior of James Mason’s Frank Lloyd Wright-esque house.

I watched Florence Foster Jenkins the other night. It was funny, but it made me sad too. I didn’t like that she was exploited.

I watched Churchill a couple of weeks ago. It was good. It didn’t focus on his actions relating to the war as much as the man behind the activity.

Watching Florence Foster Jenkins really tested my patience. Couldn’t stand the annoying vocal performance by Simon Helberg, he was hard to watch.

@Earthbound_Misfit I loved Florence Foster Jenkins. It almost made me cry when those awful people in the audience started booing, but thankfully, by the end, they were all cheering her on.

Have you seen Netflix’s The Crown? It’s about the current Queen Elizabeth’s early years as Queen. John Lithgow does a superb job as Winston Churchill.

@rockfan I adore Simon Helberg. I love him on the Big Bang Theory, and I loved him (and his funny, cute voice) in Florence Foster Jenkins. I think he is a very underrated actor and comedian. I read some articles about the making of that movie, and apparently the director wanted him, specifically, partly because of his dramatic and comedic chops (he attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts) and because he is a classically trained pianist. It is he, who is actually playing the piano parts on the soundtrack for the movie.

I have seen The Crown @Kardamom. I like it and so, apparently, does the Queen! She watches it with Prince Edward and his wife. They apparently have a movie evening each week.

Hidden Figures. I loved it.

I watch a lot of Indies and lesser-knowns as well as big ones. Loved Wonder Woman, but I especially love the small quiet things. 45 Years, Words and Pictures, Two Weeks are all ones I have really enjoyed in the last couple of months.

@canidmajor

Loved 45 years as well, the last 5 minutes is definitely not one of those crowd pleasing endings lol

@rockfan: It was so quietly intense. I kind of wished for a sequel…50 Years perhaps? :-)

Ghost in the Shell.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

I loved it. I’m ready to watch it again.

“Maudie” starring Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke. A haunting story about a Canadian artist, a non-traditional love story, a bio-pic – all wrapped up in one. It won a boatload of critics’ awards. Here’s the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCJO6Ax_ev8