What was the last film you watched?

[Mr Larrington]

Sorceror

William Friedkin's visually sumptuous 1977 not-a-remake of Le Salaire de la Peur aka The Fear Of Wages The Wages Of Fear.  I saw this at the cinema when it was first released and thought it was brillsticks, but hardly anyone agreed and it flopped at the box office because:

• Idiot audiences walked out due to no English language dialogue for the first 15-odd minutes, and
• Idiot audiences walked out because they thought it was some kind of spookernatural follow-up to The Exorcist¹, and
• Star Wars

An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman American, a Frenchman, a Palestinian and a Nazi hiding out in $LATIN_AMERICAN shithole accept large sums of money to transport unstable explosives over two hundred miles of terrible roads to put out an oil well fire.  With hilarious consequences, especially for the Nazi.  Takes a while to get going but turns into the Top Gear Bolivia Special only with WW2-era lorries and without Richard Hammond.  Tangerine Dream's first Hollywood soundtrack.  Roy Scheider proves himself very handy with a shovel; features a cameo appearance by a very beaten-up Wolseley 6/110.

1: "Sorceror" is the name of a truck

[LEE]

Sorceror

I went to see it purely based on the Tangerine Dream soundtrack ( I was rather obsessed back then).

I had the vinyl soundtrack but can't say I listened to it much.

When I try to remember the film I realise I'm remembering in Black & White and getting confused with "Wages of fear".

It really is a terrible title for the film.

[Pickled Onion]

Miss You Already

If you take a drama and add a couple of jokes, it does not make it a rom-com.

[Kim]

Steve Jobs (2015)

Still a wanker.  Those other guys barely feature, and this time there's hardly anything about computers (if you want those, go and watch the excellent Halt And Catch Fire instead).  Compelling enough story about the relationships and obsessions of a wanker.  I liked the use of different video/film media.

[mrcharly-YHT]

Steve Jobs (2015)

I actually saw and touched a NeXTCube once.

Jupiter Ascending

Beautiful spaceships. Spaceships with giant deco statues, woohoo.

Wooden storyline.

Lovely overacting by Redmayne.

[Kim]

Steve Jobs (2015)

I actually saw and touched a NeXTCube once.

I introduced barakta to Tim Berners-Lee's one in the Science Museum last week.  I like the way it's got that straight-out-of-the-university-computer-lab tatty sticker aesthetic.  Steve wouldn't be impressed.

Otherwise the closest I've come is running AfterStep in the early days of Linux-on-the-desktop.

[mrcharly-YHT]

When I saw (and touched) one, it was cutting-edge hardware.

When you saw one, it was in a museum.

Go on, make me feel even older, go on.

[T42]

^^^When I see "retired government operative" or "ex-CIA agent" or similar in a film blurb I usually look elsewhere.

RED is a notable exception to the rule, having both a stellar cast and being very funny...

Yes.  We have both 1 & 2.  I think we saw the trailer before I read anything about it, though - although John Malkovich is always worth the money.

[fuzzy]

Day of the Triffids

They don't make them like that anymore

[caerau]

Which one - there's at least four different versions I can think of - offhand.

[citoyen]

Mike Leigh's Naked

After banging on to my son about how he needs to see this film, I impulsively ordered the DVD off Amazon and watched it almost as soon as it arrived. Haven't seen it for some time so there are a few bits I've forgotten, and although certain aspects of it are a little dated now, David Thewlis's performance certainly hasn't lost any of its impact. Incredible film. Gut-churningly grim but very funny.

[fuzzy]

Which one - there's at least four different versions I can think of - offhand.

Why, the best of course

[mattc]

IMDB only knows about 2 film versions (but several TV series - and I think they've missed quite a good one that the Beeb did in "modern" times. Could be wrong mind ... )

[Kim]

IMDB only knows about 2 film versions (but several TV series - and I think they've missed quite a good one that the Beeb did in "modern" times. Could be wrong mind ... )

This one wasn't it?  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332653/  Eddie Izzard as the bad guy...

[Deano]

Mike Leigh's Naked

After banging on to my son about how he needs to see this film, I impulsively ordered the DVD off Amazon and watched it almost as soon as it arrived. Haven't seen it for some time so there are a few bits I've forgotten, and although certain aspects of it are a little dated now, David Thewlis's performance certainly hasn't lost any of its impact. Incredible film. Gut-churningly grim but very funny.

I've got the VHS of that somewhere, and I must dig it out (then find a VHS player).

I heard recently that David Thewlis based his performance on Mark E Smith out of the Fall - it's an enticingly plausible thought.

[ian]

Sharknado 3. Well it promised 'a vortex of airborne sharks' and it delivered. If you've seen one, you have idea. It's a joke that only works if the fridge is full of hoppy beverages.

The Bay. Another of those 'found footage' movies that were once-upon-a-time popular (do young people remember those?) I actually enjoyed it, it wasn't badly done, and spookily believable. Other than the 'fungal bacteria or mutant tapeworm' attempt at science. Giant isopods are well fucked up, like you've shrunk and been attacked by a woodlouse. It could happen.

[mattc]

IMDB only knows about 2 film versions (but several TV series - and I think they've missed quite a good one that the Beeb did in "modern" times. Could be wrong mind ... )

This one wasn't it?  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332653/  Eddie Izzard as the bad guy...

I have a suspicion that was a Sky thing (i.e. not visible in this household). I certainly havent seen a version with Izzard in!

Before 2009 my memory of anything - let alone random TV sci-fi - is far too unreliable, so I should let this lie...

[mrcharly-YHT]

John Wick

Keanu Reeves gets very cross, shoots lots of people who are trying to stop him from shooting Theon Greyjoy (is that guy an annoying git in every single role he gets?).

I have no idea how they managed to spin this out to a full movie length. They did, it doesn't get boring.

[T42]

Took out a Netflix trial sub and watched an episode of Deadwood last night.

8.8 on Imdb? That? Really?

[caerau]

The Eddie Izzard Day of the Triffids thing was BBC about 10ish years ago wasn't it?


[edit] - Yep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids_(2009_TV_miniseries)

[citoyen]

Annie Hall

I was sure I must have seen it before but none of it was familiar to me. Great film. Very funny. Diane Keaton is just wonderful.

[ian]

Olympus Has Fallen. I did see it on a plane some time back, but I'm looking forward to seeing London Has Fallen. I'll be honest, I loved it. There was the po-faced White House Down with the same plot at the same time, but OHF has Morgan Freeman in it, so wins and then wins some more. I've previously posited the theory that no matter the movie, no matter how bad the script, the screenwriting, the cinematography, the directing, just cast Morgan. It's all going to smell of roses. Not that this needs it, Norks make ace baddies, DC gets blown up, the White House gets pebbledashed with high calibre bullets. Pretty much by the end of it, I had to be restrained from declaring war on North Korea myself.

[Pickled Onion]

The Gift (2015)

Fairly standard psychological thriller helped along by the rather excellent Rebecca Hall

Cesar Chavez

Interesting story, mediocre film

The Bed Sitting Room

Set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where the survivors of the "unfortunate incident" succumb to the effects of radiation... in possibly the most English sci-fi film ever made. Brilliant.

[Torslanda]

The Bed Sitting Room

Set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where the survivors of the "unfortunate incident" succumb to the effects of radiation... in possibly the most English sci-fi film ever made. Brilliant.

Arthur Lowe, Marty Feldman(?), a parrot... All filmed in the same quarry as Dr. Who?

I'm the biggest Milligan fan out there but even I thought that was some pretty bizarre shit!

[mattc]

The Bed Sitting Room

Set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where the survivors of the "unfortunate incident" succumb to the effects of radiation... in possibly the most English sci-fi film ever made. Brilliant.

That sounds rather bonkers! And the Beeb put it on the radio (I just like radio plays, sorry):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06sf10d

Three years since the nuclear misunderstanding which led to the third world war ("and it's no idle boast when I remind you that this was the shortest world war on record... two minutes twenty eight seconds... including the signing of the Peace Treaty which is now on sale at Her Majesties Stationary Office with a free T- shirt") survivors gather together on the former-streets of London. In amongst the rubble, Captain Kak and his fiancee Penelope find Lord Fortnum, who is convinced he's turning into a Bed-sitting room. With property prices what they are, Kak should be on to a good thing.

This atmospheric, surrealist play was originally written by John Antrobus & Spike Milligan, and has been adapted for radio by John Antrobus & Paul Merton.

Music & FX by Jerry Peal.
Directed by Sam Michell.
Produced by Victoria Lloyd.