Whats the LAST movie you have watched?

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VenusFly said:
Porky's Revenge on Betamax recorded OTA from Channel Seven 6th May Tatts Lotto Draw 604 on my Sanyo 34cm Stereo CRT TV.

Received my 40x Betamax tapes today.
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Johnny Guitar on Betamax from 1985'ish OTA Channel 10 Australia + The rest of the tape its full of music videos recorded from the Music Video show. Pretty good if you ask me.

Songs like "Everytime you go away" by Paul Young and lots of other great hit songs. Style Council...

Good value entertainment if you ask me.
 
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leadbelly said:
I watched Blade Runner 2049 for the 2nd time a few days ago. I know it was slammed a few pages back in this thread, but I still think it is the best science fiction movie ever made, except perhaps Alien, which I consider more horror movie than scifi.



The Glass Castle was also quite good.
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I agree it was quite good, but not best. Certainly the best of the money-grab reboots of late... probably half of my enjoyment was relief! I try to go into these things without too much comparison to the original; or else I’m bound for disappointment.

The most recent Alien restored a bit of faith as well.

Best for me has to be divided into classic and modern....

I’ll throw some trailers in for some of the sleepers.

Best classics?

(La Jetee and Stalker are tied in my top spot for science fiction)

La Jetee
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Stalker
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Visitor to a Museum
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Solaris:
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Videodrome:
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First Mad Max (imho beats the sequels)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti6rG4NmsyM

And of course the bigger box office efforts:
Terminator I
Alien
Blade Runner
2001
Brazil


Modern Sci-Fi / last 10-20 years

These three at the top are far and away the best indie Sci Fi efforts to date. Amazing the special effects you can make up for with raw talent.

Primer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nj5MMURCm8

Upstream Color
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U9KmAlrEXU

Timecrimes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XuWoe9NSic

Midnight Special:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zuQTmVCEn4

A Scanner Darkly
Gattaca

And the past few years have been especially fruitful. While not flawless, excellent in their own way and thoroughly immersive from a visual standpoint.

The Arrival
Gravity
Interstellar
Mad Max Fury Road
Annihilation



Also interested to see The Congress, apparently loosely based on The Futurological Congress by Stanislav Lem which is one of my favorite books. However I’ve been partially avoiding it in fear of it disappointing me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rNSTizOsws
 
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For post apocalypse sci-fi there are several not always mentioned, "Five", "On the Beach", and "The World, the Flesh and the Devil". I love the way the Mad Max franchise turned into an amalgam of S&M industrial. punk, and wrestling culture as opposed to the gross self indulgence of "Waterworld" or the "Postman".
 
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How do you deem Waterworld and Postman to be gross self indulgence? Maybe you're just not a fan of Kevin Costner. On another note I would say most sci-fi / action movies of recent years would all be better movies if they cut the special effects action by about 50% and added in an equal amount to deepen the characters portrayed so we actually have a reason to care about them.
 
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Neither a Costner hater or apologist, but for those keeping a scorecard, I couldn’t agree more with Scott on this.
At least a few gazillion dollars and CG talent was directed at something less mind-numbing than say Green Lantern. At least Ryan bounced back one of my absolute faves in the past 10 yrs - Deadpool - and not just because of the scenes with Morena.
 
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scott wurcer said:
For post apocalypse sci-fi there are several not always mentioned, "Five", "On the Beach", and "The World, the Flesh and the Devil". I love the way the Mad Max franchise turned into an amalgam of S&M industrial. punk, and wrestling culture as opposed to the gross self indulgence of "Waterworld" or the "Postman".
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Agreed pleasantly surprised by the mad max trajectory. It didn’t take itself too seriously, and excelled at it.

I read on the beach and watched the film, as well as the 2000ish made-for-tv reboot. The other two were from before my time but have heard of them both and will check them out.

Speaking of made-for-tv efforts, while admittedly not the best display of acting and of course the book’s quality is insurmountable I enjoyed the three part Childhoods End.

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Some others I don’t believe I included but are worthwhile:

Time of the Wolf (Haneke / Funny Games) was also good.

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And Delicatessen:
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And can’t forget about a boy and his dog. Perhaps don Johnsons finest moment (but also perhaps not saying much?)

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Never let me go:

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Turkey shoot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojai1EcJcV8

World on a wire:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URq7m3-SOtA

(The matrix basically spliced this with kung-fu and lots of guns)

A Quiet Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgx-EGuKJZ0

Alphaville
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQCic5WTx-o


Also best Horror flick since Witch and It Follows was certainly Hereditary. Catch it in theaters if it’s still playing near you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHxcDbai7aU

Scott- this one I think you’ll dig quite a bit. Personally I thought it was an instant classic.

And sorry all I have to side with Scott here, Postman and Waterworld - alongside most Costner efforts in general - are trash imho.

Last thing he did that was worth 2 hours of my mildly focused life force was A Perfect World.

I’d sooner watch Battlefield Earth.

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