What Movie Did You Watch Last Night...?

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  • I thought I'd get off the politics shtick for a while and do something a little different for a change.

    We like to make Thursday "Movie Night" at Chez Jen. Once we get the mini-tsunami tucked down for the night, we pick a flim, snug up on the sofa with the big box of maltesers between us and enjoy a film. Sometimes a comedy or a musical.... sometimes an action film. sometimes a classic. Sometimes something deep and meaningful. No, we don't do porn, although some films can have a kinda raunchy element to them. That's cool.

    So... the title of the thread says what it says....... "What movie did you watch last night..?"

  • We got all deep and meaningful last night.

    Never Let Me Go (2010). Carey Mulligan, Kiera Knightly and Andrew Garfield.

    Based on Kazuo Ishiguro's novel about an alternative Britain where children are cloned, reared in special schools to adulthood and then used for organ harvesting to supply the transplants industry.

    The three friends know their fate and accept it. It is a very touching story which examines how they reconcile themselves to the knowledge of what will be done to them.... their relationship with each other and the hopelessness of their situation.

    It depicts how society treats these people. Because they're cloned, they're treated as freaks... not natural. Mostly shunned or at best, barely tolerated, they struggle to integrate into a society that sees them only as a commercial commodity.

    On a deeper level, it makes the viewer ponder on how our world would be if there were no medical ethics to prevent such things happening.

    This is a serious movie. It's not there to make you laugh, or gasp at the action. It doesn't uplift you in any way. It's serious, bleak and sorrowful. But it came from a book that needed to be written. If you value human life at all, it's a movie you need to see.

    And if you don't value human life, then it's a movie that you need to see all the more.

  • I managed to watch half of 'The Invisible Man' last night before we had to retire to bed as it was getting late. It is even better than expected, and keeps you guessing. It focusses on an abused woman who escapes from a controlling husband. After she escapes, he kills himself apparently, but she gets the distinct feeling that he is still trying to manipulate her.

    Well worth seeing!

  • There was nothing on the TV last night I was interested in at all , so I had a look on Netflix steeled down with a glass or two of Red and watched Munich The Edge of War starring Jeremey Irons as Neville Chamberlin trying to negotiate with Hitler to prevent another war with Germany

    I really enjoyed its twists and turns

  • As said above there was nothing on TV last night to interest the discerning viewer. My wife started reading her kindle. I checked through Prime video and loaded a film which had been around for some time. I wasn't sure if I would enjoy it before I started watching BUT I soon became engrossed and enjoyed the film immensely. It was called "The Revenant" . It's a long film but I'm glad I watched it.

    The Voice of Reason

  • As said above there was nothing on TV last night to interest the discerning viewer. My wife started reading her kindle. I checked through Prime video and loaded a film which had been around for some time. I wasn't sure if I would enjoy it before I started watching BUT I soon became engrossed and enjoyed the film immensely. It was called "The Revenant" . It's a long film but I'm glad I watched it.

    Honestly, Mike, I’m never stuck for something to watch. I have many programmes recorded, but also the streamers fill in any gaps. Have you tried searching for Amazon originals, for example? There’s a lot more on the streamer than they highlight!

    Linear TV is doomed. All the good stuff is already migrating to the streamers so the only new dramas on terrestrial TV are their own productions. It’s only a matter of time before streaming is the only means of accessing content.

  • If....

    If.... (1968) - IMDb
    If....: Directed by Lindsay Anderson. With Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan. In this allegorical story, a revolution led by…
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    Not watched this recently but quite entertaining.

    There's reason why they're called whips. ;)

    History is much like an Endless Waltz. The three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever.

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  • I sat with daughter last night and we watched Florence Foster-Jenkins, starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, it's a film about the worst opera singer in history. Based on her true story, FFJ was a widowed New York socialite who ran a gentle-ladies musical group for the purpose of enabling her to "perform" at their functions. She was a dreadful singer and completely tone deaf. But her audience sucked up to her because she financed the group and covered the cost of everything. Eventually, her ambition got the better of her and she booked herself to perform at Carnegie Hall to a paying audience. I won't spoil how that turned out, but it is funny, warm, comi-tragic but above all, endearing. Me and dau were both reaching for the hankies at the end.

    It is a truly wonderful film and well worth seeing

    Just telling the truth, that's all. I know you don't like it, but there it is.

  • The Gentlemen

    The Gentlemen (2019) - IMDb
    The Gentlemen: Directed by Guy Ritchie. With Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong. An American expat tries to sell off his…
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    Very clever, very funny, very coarse, very Guy Ritchie

    and Hugh Grant as you have never seen him before

    Brilliant

    Celebrate it, Anticipate it, Yesterday's faded, Nothing can change it, Life's what you make it

  • There was a movie on Terrestrial TV the other night called "Wild" starring Reese Witherspoon and based on a true story. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

    The Voice of Reason

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