I saw Shirkers on Netflix and loved it. It has a really strange mystery at the centre of it (a man disappears with the footage shot for an independent student film so the filmmakers try to track him down) but also has so much love for classic films.

How about you? What's the last film (fiction or feature-length documentary) you watched and what did you think of it?

Edit: I'm also going to update this thread with brief thoughts on films I recently watched. I don't think they'd all be glowing recommendations but I usually try to think of something positive to say about most of the films I watch. :)

Two Escobars

The stories of Pablo and Andres Escobar. One the infamous drug lord killed by police in 93 and the other a young footballer murdered by cartel member's in 94 after scoring an own goal in the World Cup. The focused on how their lives and worlds were intertwined despite being two completely different people.

"The Matrix (1999)" (Rewatch)

One of my alltime favourite Movies.
Maybe even my "absolute favourite Movie."

I love the "Spoon Scene". :-)
"There is no spoon".

Er ... Sadly, it was Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989). Never watched it before and thought maybe it's time that I should, after all these years, to bridge the knowledge gap. But it turned out, I didn't really miss anything. Dunno if I would have thought differently in 1989 or with nostalgia googles on. There are some great, timeless movies from the 80's, but B+T's Excellent Adventure IMO is not one of them.

Shame on you. I absolutely love that movie. It's one of my favorite comedies. And the soundtrack is amazing. And it's not nostalgia talking, I only saw it for the first time maybe five years ago.

Anyway, last movie I saw - Indiana Jones and the last Crusade (for the millionth time probably, but first time since way back). It's still amazing, and while obviously it can't quite blow me away like it did the first time, I think I appreciate how well it's made even more now than I did as a kid.

Mad Max Fury Road because I've not seen it since it was in movie theaters. Still the great movie I remember it to be. I hope it's not the last time Tom Hardy will play the role of Max Rockatansky.

Last Man Standing (1996) with Bruce Willis and Christopher Walken. Basically it's a Western set in the 1920s in Texas, near the US/Mexico border, and Willis is the token "Drifter" who enters a town full of corruption and fueds. I rented it from a video rental store (an endangered species to be sure).

Edit: I just realized looking at IMDB that Akira Kurosawa was one of the writers.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - my girlfriend had never seen that movie. An omission I had to correct on the weekend! :-)

Stalker. It really wasn't what I expected.. not sure I liked it that much tbh.

A Serbian Film (2010)

Enemy of the State (1998). And for some weird reason I'm now in the mood to watch The Relic (1997) again. Or perhaps I should read the book first. Not sure.

It's a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo, and if it feels like a western it's no wonder, as that was before sort of remade by Sergio Leone in A Fistfull of Dollars. Both were derived from Dashiel Hammet's brilliant novel Red Harvest. Ha! Anyone else here watch it this weekend? :D Me too, but apparently the director is making a prequel about Furiosa instead of a sequel with Max. Don't get me wrong, I liked Furiosa, but I really don't feel like she needs a prequel of all thing. She's not even going to be played by Charlize Theron. What's the point?

I watched Forrest Gump in German some months ago. I wish it had a sequel is all I can say. I have't watched many films in the last years. Rather, I have been binging lots of series instead. Two of the maybe 5 films I have watched in 2020 were Cloud Atlas and Jupiter Ascending. I expecially loved the first. I watched all Matrix films in cinemas (sadly dubbed in Italian) and I had them on DVD, plus the beautiful Animatrix. Can't wait for a fourth one and hopefully some related game release on GOG.

Hammet's "Continental Op" stories are almost 100 years old, some are in the public-est of domains: Five Continental Op Stories By Dashiell Hammett from Black Mask circa 1923. Thanks for the info!

I forget!