list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

^ The original with Charles Groden is far better--- one of the best American comedies of its time.




Edited by Atavachron - July 08 2024 at 22:41

The Return of the Prodigal Son - 7.5/10
It's interesting... I use so many different sources to find movies. This site is one of a dozen. Yet, I never even heard of this movie until I looked up a movie I liked (I was searching yesterday) and then found the IMDB lists it's included in and stumbled upon this one. I'm sure the movie description got me interested.


For all my critique of this movie, part of me says, "Just be the way you are" (just don't be something else). Maybe I'm rating this higher than I normally would, but the handful of movies I tried before gave me no interest in proceeding past the 5-10 minute mark.. By the time the movie is over, my little questions about chronology didn't matter as much. I didn't like the main character at all, but I didn't really like anyone. At one point, the wife tells the psychiatrist, "I love him more than myself" and I immediately thought, "I don't believe you" and a second later, she also tells the psychiatrist, "You don't believe me?". The only person I did believe was the psychiatrist's wife, because it's very basic and obvious.

Unfortunately for me, I had been interrupted so many times, it's taken me almost 24 hours to finish this relatively short movie, since I like to rewind a bit to catch up.

There is a brilliant Spanish movie called The Platform from 2019 (Spanish: El hoyo). I think some people have seen it here:

moshkito wrote: MortSahlFan wrote: The Return of the Prodigal Son - 7.5/10 It's interesting... I use so many different sources to find movies. ... Hi,  I wished a had a couple more peanuts in my SS. I would have at least 2 or 3 of those movie sites and spend a lot of time there.  That said, I'm getting tired of Amazon, and seeing the same damn thing listed in 10 different places, so you always see them showing up. I have to admit I never warmed up to Netflix at all ... not sure why. A couple of other places I like to look at but they are spotty and too many of them are showing stuff that is now "free" to them, and make it look like it is a special film in the history of the art. I did find, by accident that the toob has some stuff in there ... but most of it is the specials and small blurbs about a few films ... a couple of things sneak by and look great.  It shows in my "reviews" ... I don't have enough of them to put up since the video stores died ... I use to do some massive scavenger hunts in every video store, specially if they had a foreign film section. But, sadly, and it shows in Amazon, "foreign" for them also means anime, and a lot of second rate stuff on samurai and wielding weapons in the air.  Hopefully I can get to see a few more things ... although the more recent stuff is the majority of what I am missing and have not seen. So I catch up with what's left.

American Fiction

The always good Jeffrey Wright as a frustrated novelist/teacher going through the failure of his writing career, the loss of a sister, his mother's diagnosis of Alzheimer's, and a potential new relationship.   He decides to write a satire of Black fiction called F u c k , which unaccountably becomes a bestseller.   A worthy, somewhat innovative and often funny human drama worth seeking out.   Based on Percival Everett's Erasure.

The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Twisters - Some of the effects were quite good; apart from that I've forgotten it already 2/10

Alien: Romulus

Why anyone would ever work for the Weyland-Yutani Corporation is inexplicable--- you'd have to be either desperate or facing life in prison to subject yourself to the grim, claggy, dank environs of W-T's installations and the sinister shenanigans they were up to their necks in.   But with a young cast (Cailee Spaeny & David Jonsson are excellent), set between Alien and Aliens and with a straight-forward plot, Romulus is probably about as good an installment in the Alien series we're going to get these days as a group of naive twenty-somethings attempt to retrieve some old but useful tech from an abandoned space station carrying remnants of the old Nostromo only to have their business venture interrupted by a hoard of face-huggers.   Not amazing but more satisfying than the Prometheus duo of films, it is essentially a good old-fashioned space thriller with enough tension to please and to scare.   

^ Oh Alien3 is superb, my favorite after the '79 original.   The sets, cast, story, sophisticated sub-plotting.

Have you seen the alternate cut of A3 ?   It is almost an entirely different movie (and just as good).   Well worth catching.

Atavachron wrote: Have you seen the alternate cut of A3 ?   It is almost an entirely different movie (and just as good).   Well worth catching.