Last Movie You Watched? (Part 3)

"The Sheik" (1921) ★★★
Directed by George Melford
Starring Agnes Ayres, Rudolph Valentino and Walter Long

Only the second silent movie I've ever seen, and I liked it. I liked how Ayres' Diana was quite a strong woman, she wasn't afraid to speak her mind or stand up for what she believes in. That's quite rare in old movies in my experience. However, she definitely loses points for falling in love with a man who first kidnaps her then forces himself on her - the title character was deeply flawed, but for some reason I wanted him to succeed in his mission. All credit to the bloke, his claim that she will learn to obey his orders was spot on, well done to a master manipulator?

Valentino played him as quite charming, but also domineering and a bit crazed I thought. Unintentional? It was the wide eyes that had me thinking that, he looked as though he was ready to devour her. Overall though, it was a good movie. Maybe not the most politically correct (notice at the very end he reveals he is fact European, not Arab, as if it made a difference), but an entertaining romance.
 
Night Of The Living Dead.

The deaths make an impact, still.

- Ben, the last survivor, shot dead after being mistaken for a zombie.
- Barbara, dragged into the hordes by her zombie brother.
- Helen, butchered with a cement trowel by her own zombie daughter.
- Harry, partially eaten by his own zombie daughter after being shot.
- Karen, zombiefied and savages her own parents.
- Tom + Judy, incinerated together (quite fitting in a macabre way) and torn to shreRAB / eaten moments later.

And the music, especially in the Tom and Judy devourment scene, it senRAB shivers :o
 
Beetle Juice

Imaginative fantasy film from Tim Burton, starring Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin and Winona Ryder. However, a special mention should go to Glenn Shadix, who played the character Otho, the interior designer, who unfortunately died yesterday. RIP.

A childless couple die in a car accident, finding themselves to be ghosts in their own house. Another problem for them is that the new tenants have really bad taste in house interior design, which just means that they have to go. Time for some spooking!
 
The Town - 7/10
Not a bad film, but there's something about Ben Affleck that doesn't quite make me believe in his character as much as Jeremy Renner does in his.
 
Funuke: Show Some Love, You Losers (Funuke domo, kanashimi no ai wo misero) 8/10
Women Without Men (Zanan-e bedun-e mardan) (2009) 6/10
 
Who's claiming that you spoilt it:confused::confused:

What I do know is that if I sat down to watch the film Monster.
I would know that once she has been raped and attacked she goes on to kill him... so I could'nt sit there and wonder what was going to happen to the guy that rapes her.. Cos I already know.;)
 
I would also like to work through RR :o

Watched The Propsal for the 8th time last night.

Today I watched A Place in the Sun, an old black and white movie starring Montgomery Clift (he was hot !) Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters.

He is a guy torn between his gf and rich girl ET ... great movie and very well acted.
 
^^ How's Blake Lively acting in The Town?

Resident Evil: Afterlife 2/10 I didn't like it, only good thing about it was Wentworth Miller lol :D:D...Could have got Boris and him to take their shirts off which would have made it more worthwhile! :p ...The slow motion action scenes were alright at first but then it just got boring afterwarRAB...I think Paul shifts too much attention on his wife's character that he seems to paid very little attention to the other characters...Chris Redfield's character lacked any character development or any backstory and I would like to have seen more interaction between Wentworth and Ali's characters, they were long brother and sister after all...I think it tried too too hard to be this slicked, stylised action movie but it just fell flat on its arse...xx
 
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