Official last movie you saw thread

Gonna come in here for the first time and share two movies that I just got done watching back to back in honour of Robert Redford who passed away today.

Barefoot in the Park (1967) - This is one I've seen multiple times and absolutely love, I wish more people of my generation would watch great old movies like this.
A Walk in the Woods (2015) - First time watching this one, wanted to watch another one of his movies that was light hearted. It was alright, nothing too special.

Mickey 17 (2025)
A quirky sci-fi ride about identity & dying over and over again.
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Watched an older movie last night called "Tomorrow War"

Decent action movie if you ignore the many plot holes, and just enjoy the action and flow of the story.

The Couch Trip (1988)

American comedy film. It's about a patient at a Chicago mental facility who escapes confinement by impersonating his doctor and then he takes a job in Beverly Hills as a therapist and radio host, where his unconventional style quickly gains popularity. This has good potential, especially with a cast like this (Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, Donna Dixon, Richard Romanus and more) but somehow it doesn't get all the way there. It's definitely not bad but I felt like it could've been better. Still, it was entertaining so I can recommend it.

Superman 2025 meh
Jurassic whatever it's called the new one, the target audience seems to be kids now.

The Laughing Policeman (1973)

American crime drama thriller film. It's about an off-duty police detective who is killed in a mass shooting on a bus so his partner and a new partner start investigating the city's seamy side. This is a really good cop flick starring Walter Matthau and Bruce Dern as two miserable cops who barely tolerate each other long enough to solve a case and that should already convince you but if it doesn't the rest of the cast includes Louis Gossett Jr., Anthony Zerbe, Cathy Lee Crosby, Joanna Cassidy, Louis Guss and more. Overall if you're looking for a gritty cop drama that has a surprisingly Blade Runner feeling vibe to it, I can highly recommend this one.

The Curse of Bridge Hollow (2022)

American supernatural comedy horror film. It's about a teenage girl who must team up with her father to save their town after she accidentally releases an ancient and mischievous spirit on Halloween which causes decorations to come alive and wreak havoc. I know it's a bit early for halloween movies but I was just in the mood for something like this. And sure, it's no cinematic masterpiece but Marlon Wayans and Priah Ferguson as a father and daughter duo with Kelly Rowland, Lauren Lapkus, John Michael Higgins, Rob Riggle and more in the supporting cast are just fun. So turn off your brain and watch this. I can recommend it.

Deal of a Lifetime (2023)

American comedy drama short film. It's about a thrifty, cash-strapped neurotic who visits a funeral home to try to negotiate a buy-one-get-one-free deal on burials. David Cross is playing the lead role in this and he's very good. It's definitely more on the dramatic side overall. I can recommend it.

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946)

American animated comedy crime mystery short film. It's about Daffy Duck having a surreal dream in which he is a P.I. pursuing an army of grotesque villains who stole every piggy bank in town, including his own. Fantastic animation, great gags, a nice Dick Tracy parody (Daffy Duck dreams that he's "Duck Twacy") and an illustrious rogues gallery of villains. Overall I think this is great and it's certainly among the best Daffy Duck cartoons I've ever seen. Highly recommended.

Alpha (2018)

American prehistoric adventure film. It's about a young hunter during the last Ice age who becomes separated from his tribe and forms a bond with an injured wolf. This doesn't have that much story but it doesn't need to. The bit of story it did have was entertaining and Kodi Smit-McPhee as the main character was also good. Overall I liked this one and can recommend it.

Maxie (1985)

American fantasy comedy film. It's about a woman who is possessed by the ghost of an budding actress from the 1920s who died before her big audition for a Hollywood studio. Glenn Close (who's of course playing her own, rather quiet character and the very outgoing and brash actress possessing her body) and Mandy Patinkin are both very good, and the supporting cast (Barnard Hughes, Michael Ensign, Harry Hamlin (who's playing himself) and more) is good too. Overall this was entertaining so I can recommend it.

Vivo (2021)

American animated musical comedy film. It's about a music-loving kinkajou who embarks on the journey of a lifetime to fulfill his destiny and who must deliver a love song to a retiring singer. This is surprisingly decent so I'm surprised why it barely made any waves when it came out. If you like Lin-Manuel Miranda, he voices Vivo and there are also a few original songs written (and performed) by him in this. The rest of the voice cast includes people like Brian Tyree Henry, Michael Rooker, Gloria Estefan, Leslie David Baker, Zoë Saldaña, Juan de Marcos González and more. Overall I thought this was very fun. I can recommend it.

The Long Walk (2025)

American dystopian survival thriller film. It's about a group of teenage boys who compete in an annual walking contest in which they must maintain a certain walking speed or get shot. Watched this at the cinema yesterday. It's very good, better than I expected a movie about walking to be. It's been a while since I've read the book, so I didn't remember everything. Of course the ending is still kinda predictable but there are really only a few possible outcomes with a story like this. The interesting thing is how it happens anyway. I enjoyed it a lot and the performances by everyone involved were good and believable, too. I can recommend this one. Of course first and foremost to watch at the cinema but I don't think the movie would suffer from being watched at home, so you do you.

One Battle After Another (2025)

American epic action thriller film. It's about an ex-revolutionary who must rescue his daughter from a corrupt military official. Watched this at the cinema yesterday, too. First of all, this isn't even out yet (I think it's officially being released tomorrow) so you won't get to read anything about the story here. But what I can say about this is that this 162 minute movie was so entertaining that it definitely didn't feel that long. Everyone involved delivered great performances and without going into spoiler territory that's already everything I can say about this. So yeah, this movie is great and I can highly recommend it, especially on the big screen.

And I know it's very early for that but I already think this has chances at multiple Oscars.

Hideaway (1995)

American-Canadian dark fantasy psychological horror film. It's about a man who survives a near death experience due to a traffic accident and afterwards finds himself psychically connected to a serial killer. I thought this was really good. I haven't read the Dean Koontz novel this is based on but without that knowledge I very much enjoyed it. Good cast (Jeff Goldblum, Alicia Silverstone, Jeremy Sisto, Alfred Molina, Christine Lahti and more). The visual effects are... definitely something to behold. If you've seen The Lawnmower Man (1992) you kinda know what you can expect here, effects-wise. Overall this definitely was no masterpiece but I still enjoyed it a lot so I can recommend it.

The Mission (1986)

British historical drama film. It's about the experiences of a Jesuit missionary in 18th-century South America. This is really good and with a cast like that (Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson, Fred Melamed and more) and this kind of story I also didn't expect any different. This movie won the Palme d'Or, was nominated for seven Oscars (winning for Best Cinematography), is widely cited as one of the greatest religious films of all time (which even the Vatican agrees with) and Robert De Niro considers it one of the best movies he's made, saying that "it was a really wonderful, meaningful story". So despite me not being religious myself I thought this was really good and I can very much recommend it.

Spaced Invaders (1990)

American science fiction comedy adventure film. It's about a group of dimwitted Martians who drop into a little Illinois town on the day that the local radio station happens to rebroadcast Orson Welles' 1938 War Of The Worlds radio drama. This is of course pretty campy but once you get past those aliens looking very silly it's also quite good. The two main human characters this focuses on (apart from the aliens) are the young daughter of the town's new sheriff who's on her way to go trick-or-treating (played by Ariana Richards, who had been in Tremors (1990) already at this point but of course got infinitely more famous a few years later when she appeared in Jurassic Park (1993); you'll probably remember the famous jello scene) and an elderly farmer (played by the great, always very distinctive-looking Royal Dano). There are some slapstick elements to this movie and also a few silly gags but also decent effects and overall it's just very entertaining. So I can very much recommend it.

Ein Mann seiner Klasse (2024)

German drama film. It's about a boy growing up in poverty, with a violent, alcoholic father and when his mother dies, his aunt takes him in against his fathers wishes and his life gets kinda turned upside down. This is surprisingly really good. The actors are great (especially Leonard Kunz, who plays the father) and the setting is interesting (and actually what first piqued my interest, considering it's literally set in the city right by the village where I live so pretty much every public place or street or whatever in this movie I've been to or at least know about). This really showcases the difficulties of escaping the stigma of class and the conditions of one's upbringing. The only negative thing I noticed was the sparce use of dialect. The only ones who only spoke the dialect (the one I'm speaking too, because, once again, I am also from here) were both grandfathers; the parents, aunts and other people from that generation always spoke like half a sentence in dialect and the rest in Standard German (something people just don't do) and the kids only spoke Standard German. I of course would've preferred if everyone in this movie spoke in dialect all the time but then it probably would've been less intelligible for the general public. So yeah, I thought this was really good. I can highly recommend this.

KPop Demon Hunters (2025)

American animated musical urban fantasy film. It's about a K-pop girl group who lead double lives as demon hunters and they face off against a rival boy band whose members are secretly demons. First of all, this isn't really my kind of music but that doesn't mean it's bad and I can respect the artistry and assume that kpop fans thought the music in this was great. Apart from that I thought the movie was surprisingly really good. The animation is of course fantastic, the story is very entertaining and I'm 100% certain that this will be nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film and maybe even get a Best Song nom or two. I'm one of those people who likes to experience new stuff after the biggest hype has died off so even after hearing for weeks about how good this movie is I didn't really have it on the top of my watchlist, but after visiting my cousin and her two daughters last week (where the 11 year old almost immediately asked me if I've seen this movie (to which I just replied "I've heard good things about it." and she said that I was the first boy she knew that even heard of it) and the 3 year old later showed me that she could dance to one of the songs (and her father telling me that they watched the movie so often that she remembers that song's whole choreography perfectly)) I thought I'll watch it as soon as possible, so because I didn't have anything on my watchlist for today (and next week will finally be Robert Redford Memorial Week and with the rest of October being for horror movies) I just made the spontaneous decision to watch it today (and not wait until November (or later) to watch it). So yeah, this was good and I can recommend it.

And funnily enough, the next thing Netflix immediately auto-played after this movie was the sing-along version of this movie, so I guess they know their audience.

Tall Story (1960)

American romantic comedy film. It's about a young college basketballer who is in trouble because he wants to marry his girlfriend but has no money and when he is offered a bribe to fix a game, he is torn even more about the matter. I enjoyed this one a lot. Very good cast (Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda (in her debut), Ray Walston, Murray Hamilton and more) and an interesting story, too. Overall I thought this was very good and I can recommend it.

I of course mostly watched this because it was also the first movie of legendary Robert Redford who sadly passed away two weeks ago. He plays a basketball player in an uncredited role, but I didn't really see him. He was probably somewhere in the background in some shots. Of course the movie being in black and white and the video quality not being the greatest might've contributed to it but I looked at those other basketball players when they were on screen but couldn't say "hey, that's him". Well, anyway. In his first movie Robert Redford might've been a bit inconspicuous but we all know that didn't last long. I found so many highly praised movies of his when I was putting together my watchlist for this Robert Redford Memorial week that it could've been two weeks long.

Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

American Western drama film. It's about a mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit but becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat. I'm not the biggest Western fan but I loved Red Dead Redemption 2 and this movie does have a similar vibe at times. Robert Redford is of course great in this, too. Overall I thought this was great and I can definitely recommend it.

Last movie I saw was probably How To Train Your Dragon (live action remake). It was surprisingly good, actually. I really enjoyed it.

The Natural (1984)

American sports drama film. It's about a middle-aged unknown who comes seemingly out of nowhere to become a legendary baseball player with almost supernatural talent. I don't even care about baseball and I thought this was great. That was of course partly due to Robert Redford once again being fantastic in this, but also due to the great supporting cast (Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Barbara Hershey, Richard Farnsworth, Michael Madsen and more) and the story was also surprisingly good. Overall I thought this was great and I can definitely recommend it.

Brubaker (1980)

American prison drama film. It's about a newly arrived prison warden who attempts to clean up a corrupt and violent penal system. Great cast (Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman, David Keith, Jane Alexander, Yaphet Kotto, Murray Hamilton, Everett McGill, Matt Clark, M. Emmet Walsh, Wilford Brimley and more). It's even based on actual events. This might be getting old by now but I thought this movie was great and I can highly recommend it.

Take Shelter (2011) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1675192/