What was the last movie you saw that you really liked?

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Hacksaw Ridge was hard to watch (no doubt even harder to live through). It was inspiring, but was somewhat spoiled for me by the actor’s appearing in Silence, which I read about but don’t choose to watch as he apostasizes.
 
LisaB said:
Not a movie but Downton Abbey! I finished watching all 6 seasons yesterday. Today I’m sad with nothing to watch. 😦
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Good news: There is a feature film coming – I saw the preview last week.

Another vote for Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse!

I saw and enjoyed The Mule last week, though the ending was kind of anti-climactic and unsatisfying.

Bohemian Rhapsody was well done.

I am hoping to see Green Book, The Upside, Glass, and Serenity soon.

And, no one asked, but: I hope Black Panther will take the Best Picture award. Not only because Wakanda Forever! :no_good_man:, but also because I prefer when blockbusters win both the box-office and the awards. (Or rather: I hate when films which had hardly been viewed (late, “limited” releases) are nominated and/or win)

“Save me an aisle seat” 🍿
 
Empire Records. From the 90s

Not saying that I haven’t liked movies since the 90s, just that it was the most recent movie I watched. My wife made me watch it because I had never seen it.
 
Not a movie, but I watched a documentary series on the Roosevelt’s. Absolutely loved it.
 
“The Upside” with Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart was really good. It’s pretty much the exact opposite of that awful “Me Before You” movie.
 
The actor was conveying a tremendous amoungst of truth, as apostasy is almost as old as the Church. The persecution of Christians started in the earliest Church and continued in spates until Constantine; and has been an issue in subsequent times in history when persecution of Catholics has occurred; so the book and the movie tell the real issues people have faced.

It is all well and good to say that one might accept martyrdom rather than deny the faith (and we have graphic examples in the last few years by ISIS, as well a others. But it takes a special grace and an unbelievable amount of courage to not do so, especially in circumstances where one is actually seeing others endure horrible torture and death for the purpose of breaking the viewer.

So I would not hold it against the actor; it was a demanding role in a demanding story.
 
I like Empire Records as well.

I take a trip back to the 90s.

I remember lines from that film.

“Well, well, Sinead O’ Rebellion. Shock me, shock me, shock me with that deviant behavior.”

Nice.
 
True, it would be silly of me to hold it against the actor.
I just don’t think I could handle that movie.
 
I saw The Godfather for the first time a couple months ago. It was a movie I had been meaning to watch for a while, and I really enjoyed it. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get around to watching the second and third films before they were pulled from Netflix.

The other film I saw recently that I remember loving was Coco, which I may have seen right before The Godfather. I’m not sure I’m ready to declare it my favorite Pixar movie just yet, but it’s at least up there with Finding Nemo and Ratatouille.

The most surprisingly good one was Cars 3 (yeah, I also had to catch up on Pixar recently). As much as I loved the first movie, the second one was the first Pixar movie I really didn’t like and started the run of films that left me mostly disinterested in Pixar. I guess that made Coco surprisingly good as well, but I was expecting that to at least be good if for no other reason than the aesthetics and setting. Cars 3 ended up being a good follow-up to my least favorite Pixar film and is now the only non-Toy Story sequel I really like. (Well, I still need to see The Incredibles 2, so maybe that’ll be another exception.)
 
It speaks a brutal truth, and sometimes that is extremely painful to watch.

Then, again, so was The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gobson).
 
The last movie I saw that I liked was The Post. Meryll Streep and Tom Hanks portrayed Katherine Graham owner of the Washington Post and Editor Ben Bradley. The story told of the Pentagon Papers being leaked back during the Vietnam War.
Well acted by the cast.
 
Rogue One. Which in my opinion is the best Star Wars movie in the series. I thought the story line and the acting was really good compared to all of the other ones. I’m actually watching it again right now on TNT.
 
A Simple Favor was unexpectedly good. It’s not for everyone, but it had some intrigue and some dark humor.
 
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