list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

...and I agree about CftBL, beautiful film that holds up surprisingly well.

Walton Street wrote: put on a CD of James Bond film themes while doing the dishes which hooked me into starting the movie series from scratch again (this time in Blu-Ray) So last night was :   Dr. No   Impressed by the Blu-Ray transfer .. looked fantastic. As far as the movie goes ...everything we'll ever see again in a bond film was right here. Connery was a little goofy in this one though - he perfected his 'cool' a little later on

One of my favourite films, Walton!

I've got many of the Bond blurays, just not that particular one yet.

So many greats scenes in it. I love the really drawn out bit where Bond is waiting behind the door for the baddy to show up, and quickly and coldly plugs him.

The only letdown about it is the final fight with Dr No! He essentially falls off a platform into water that's barely even a metre below him, and that's it!

By the way, have you ever noticed the scene in the club, and the black dude dancing behind Bond? Man, that dude is OFF THE CHAIN wired!!

I had a friend who says when Dr. No came out it was a very modern spy flick.   Good movie, probably the most believable Bond film.   I can see them remaking it.

Really?  Chased by a repressed lesbian and her big blond uberspy?  Well I never liked believability in my Bond anyway, so either way is fine.

   Shaw was good in that wasn't he

The Beast

Before Fury there was this gem from '88 tracking a Russian tank lost in the Afghan badlands during the Soviet Invasion.  Great desert photography and atmosphere highlight the Vietnam parallels with a keen eye for combat psychology.  Jason Patric effective as a dissenting tanker and George Dzundza his disturbed commander.     

Mýrin

Dark and atmospheric psychological thriller. Not much of originalty in the screenplay, but still looks fairly well. It's mostly about the atmosphere, of course. Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson (known for Friðrik Þór Friðriksson's masteripece Englar Alheimsins) acts excellent here as well.

Himmelfall

Quite a sardonic tragi-comedy. Kristoffer Joner at his best, Kim Bodnia & Maria Bonnevie also demand a special mention here.

Den som frykter ulven

A very dismal crime thriller, although it contains some motiffs quite unusual for this genre, it still lacks originality a lot. Feels like the screenwriters weren't sure of what they want to do. And again we find here Kristoffer Joner, one of his most intriguing roles to date. This, and the overall very dark tone, makes it worthy watching though.

Saw last night:

Walton Street wrote: Saw last night:   The Hobbit ... Battle of the 5 armies or whatever...   Well, I was kind of enjoying the films until last night when I saw the end of the trilogy I was never crazy about the book and couldn't wrap my head around it being expanded into 3 2+ hour films, but I thought they were pulling it off - until last night.   Had a hard time staying awake for the first half, and all the 'big moments' fell flat. The end just fizzled out ..  ugh.  No sweeping majesty like the Lord of the Rings .. It felt like a tired forced effort.   I had bad feelings going in - it was worse than expected.

I felt the same way, so boring 

Toaster Mantis wrote: Walton Street wrote: Toaster Mantis wrote: I have a much easy time suspending disbelief about repressed lesbians and sociopathic bodybuilders than an ex-Triad mad scientist with cyborg hands operating a huge secret facility for messing around with missile tests in order to trigger a new world war.   good luck with 90% of all Bond Films then :) Yeah, I don't think I really "get" James Bond in the first place and the only entries in the series I liked are the ones that are most normal. I. e. FRWL and the Daniel Craig stuff.