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Miscellaneous => Off-Topic & Testing => Topic started by: Q_BE on September 20, 2009, 09:59:12 PM
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In the same vein as the "What are you listening to?" and "Read any good books" threads, I thought of starting a film-based thread because of my Netflix membership and the 30+ films I've seen in just the last two months because of it. One thing's for sure, though: I definitely appreciate the "Breasts in Movies" archive in this website even more now, because it has lead me to some surprisingly delightful films.
To start off: I say you have to see Simon Birch. Being that the film centers on two teenage boys, boobs are on the brain. The references are quaint but filled me with nostalgia for my youthful innocence. It also is quite a test for your tear ducts. If you can't cry after this film, I defy you to have a heart at all.
Q-"And so it starts"-BE :)
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Yep, I saw District 9 a few days ago. At first I thought, what the fuck is this crap, not having had much prior knowledge of what the film was about. But the film was very good, quite thought provoking.
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Julie and Julia - I thought it might just be a chick flick but it was a lot more than that.
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Got a chuckle out of Cold Souls.
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Julie and Julia - I thought it might just be a chick flick but it was a lot more than that.
Me, too. It is a chick flick, which is why I went. They're fun. There really is a well-written thread about the vaguaries of book writing and publication, and how close Julia Chi1d* came to never being heard of.
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*--In order to protect us all from the awfulness of kiddi3 porn, the name of a certain author of cookbooks is now censored. Jeebus!!
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Saw 9 on the weekend. Good animation, acting, and action, but many plot holes and the story's pretty weak.
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I've seen three movies this summer (which is three times as many as I saw last summer):
'District 9': Pretty good film, the best of the three.
'Terminator Salvation': Kinda okay. Filled in some gaps in the series.
'Star Trek': Good, except for the whole changing the history of the franchise thing.
Watched the previews for '9': Looked like 'Little Big Planet: The Movie' to me.
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"Turtles can fly"
a middle east movie base on true story, produce with cooperation between Iran, and Iraq.
A very heavy film about the little people and how they survive the wars, without parents.
"Namesake"
a boy get named and tease for his name, grows up finding out how he got his name, and realize how important his name is.
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Night at the Museum 2....
I just wanted to watch something which required no brain activity at all... this movie succeeds
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Grease
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Night at the Museum 2....
I just wanted to watch something which required no brain activity at all... this movie succeeds
That's pretty much true for any Ben Stiller movie. ;)
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That's pretty much true for any Ben Stiller movie. ;)
Oh, snap! :D
It's nice to see a goodly response from my peeps here. I will continue this thread by stating that Jacqueline Hyde, Death Becomes Her, and Attack of the 60 Ft. Centerfold are quite hokey and you must enjoy BE to stand watching the 'movies' all the way through (Hyde was okay plot-wise, though).
Anybody else seen movies that contain BE or other expansion elements? ???
Q-"Netflix is awesome"-BE
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Howard Stern's movie with the lady in the airport.
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Oh, snap! :D
It's nice to see a goodly response from my peeps here. I will continue this thread by stating that Jacqueline Hyde, Death Becomes Her, and Attack of the 60 Ft. Centerfold are quite hokey and you must enjoy BE to stand watching the 'movies' all the way through (Hyde was okay plot-wise, though).
Anybody else seen movies that contain BE or other expansion elements? ???
Q-"Netflix is awesome"-BE
I recently re-watched that classic from 2000, Dude, Where's My Car?, on satellite. ;)
P.S.: I have no Netflix or equivalent subscription. Hell, I don't even have a DVR! :o
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Just watched " The Wizard of Oz " in the big screen. All my life I've seen a lot of old movies and I wish to see them in a big screen because frankly, my dear, they are simply better. They had a 70th year presentation at a local movie house and I enjoyed it thoroughly. I've always seen it on TV so I jumped on it to see it in the silver screen. I recomend people do this. Recently saw " Casablanca " and next week it will be " Citizen Kane ". I've asked to see some classic westerns like " Stagecoach ", " The Searchers ", " Winchester 73 " and many more. Hopefully they can get them. They use an old fashioned projector and a vintage celulose print so it won't sound or look like todays digital movies but there is something charming about that. Now, if they would show some newsreels and a Bugs Bunny cartoon .... :)
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Sol, what you're talking about reminds me of how the Pittsburgh Playhouse ran a film repertory which fizzled out in the early Nineties, round about when I abused it to watch "La Femme Nikita" eight times. I still miss the hell out of that series. You're right, with all due respect to TCM, it really is something to see it back up on the big screen. I remember when Costner had his "Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves" movie out, and the repertory showed Errol Flynn's "Adventures of Robin Hood." At the end, the audience burst into spontaneous applause. I miss that.
There are dangers, though. I once went to see "High School Confidential," but I was told they weren't showing it because it was a bad movie. I said I knew that, that I was in the mood for a bad movie -- but they explained that it was LITERALLY a bad movie, that the nitrate content of the reel exploded when they tried to play it. Ouch! But at least it wasn't anywhere as bad as what happens in "Inglourious Basterds."
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I know it's not a 'film' but I've recently become addicted to "Nip / Tuck" - time to buy or rent another season...
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Given that these days, it's almost as easy to to see a movie from almost any time or place as it is to read a book from almost any time or place, I thought I might start a thread for posting our thoughts on various movies that we have seen recently (we've already got one for books (http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php/topic,66802.0.html)). I'm hoping we can avoid current releases; but that's just personal preference (there are far more movies from the past that haven't been seen then there are current and upcoming releases). We'll see how that goes.
Anyway...
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
The title doesn't make it sound like much, but it has been called the greatest movie ever to come out of Britain. I won't go into how the title character was taken from a comic strip, or how Churchill wanted to ban the movie - you can read that for yourself if you care, and it's not relevant anyway.
Roger Livesey is Clive Wynne-Candy, a career soldier, from the end of the Boer War up through WWII. Thanks to fine makeup work, he easily portrays a man in his 20s, his 40s, and his 60s; with the help of that little skill called "acting". Anton Walbrook is Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff, a German officer whom he first meets as a duelling opponent, then a POW awaiting repatriation, then a refugee from occupied France. Deborah Kerr plays Livesey's love interest - a different role in each "era".
You can watch this to see the changing attitudes towards war, or the development of a friendsihp over the decades. What really moved me was how it depicted a man growing old. Wynne-Candy is set in his ways during his first two wars, then finds himself outdated and obsolete for the third. He looks for some way to be useful, to put his years of experience to some meaningful purpose, and finds a role in the Home Guard. But there, he comes to the realization that the world doesn't really need him any longer. He is the living embodiment of MacArthur's later saying that "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away." At least he gets to go out gracefully, on his own terms.
"But let me tell you, that in forty year's time, you'll be an old gentleman, too!" (http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/x8GgfHyCfWs)
(Make sure you watch the restored, full-length version)
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I thought there was a thread already with a title like this one or similar. Anyways, if we are going to talk about good old movies I recommend 1947's stellar performance by Walter Huston Sr, Tim Holt and Humphrey Bogart of " The treasure of the Sierra Madre ". It is a story of the destructiveness of pure, corrosive greed and its consequences. This movie is where that iconic " Batches, we don't need no steenkin batches !! " comes from.
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Them (1954)
If you want to know where Spielberg got some inspiration for Jaws then look no further than this movie.I don't know if it was the first movie that used music or sound effects to announce the enemy or monster was about to appear on screen but it was the first movie that used it in the most effective way.It was nominated for an Oscar for special effects.No ants were super imposed on the screen.You never see the giant ants until a third of the way into the movie.Sound familiar?
My favorite part of the film is when after the first attack by the ants,where a little girl is the only survivor(you never see the ants during the attack),the girl is asked by the police who did the attack.Her response is,"Them!".
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Seen movies? Yep.
Seen GOOD movies? Nope.
Watched Man of Steel the other day... Average movie TBH.
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Well I see that you wanted to keep this about older movies, so I will quickly derail your thread for you :P
I saw Now You See Me tonight. I was pleasantly surprised I did not have real high expectations. It isn't an Oscar winner, but it was solidly entertaining. I would recommend it if you are looking for a current movie to go see.
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yeah, lots on xvideos.
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1956's " The Searchers " with John Wayne. A better performance by John Wayne than 1970's " True Grit " where he got best actor Oscar. It had a young Natalie Wood and gawd, she's gorgeous. :)
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I've seen "War Hunt" (also called "War Hunter") four times now, and I consider to be a neglected gem. It is about the very fine line between a sociopath and a very good soldier, and how the line gets crossed. Set in Korea in the last days of the war, it is fraught with now-discredited ideas about mental illness, but what makes it interesting is that, released in 1962, it was made with everybody who would be anybody in Hollywood for a generation. The star, John Saxon, is hardly remembered now, but he played every ambiguous bad guy for a decade in both movies and on television. Of greater note is Robert Redford in his first supporting role; Tom Skerritt ("Picket Fences"); Gavin MacLeod ("The Night Stalker"); Sydney Pollack; and, uncredited as a truck driver, Francis Ford Coppola.
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I watch Shawshank Redemption every time it's on. It's the dialog that makes great movies.
"hope is a dangerous thing". http://www.youtube.com/v/XDGNsbLayJw
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I watch Shawshank Redemption every time it's on. It's the dialog that makes great movies.
"hope is a dangerous thing". http://www.youtube.com/v/XDGNsbLayJw
So much this. If I catch even a moment of Shawshank, no matter what point in the movie, I'm virtually always roped into watching the whole thing. Just can't help myself.
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Scaramouche (1952)
Not just a name tossed into Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Scaramouche" is the title of a swashbuckling novel by Rafael Sabatini, rendered here into glorious Technicolor by MGM.
Briefly: In the heady days at the very start of the French Revolution, Andre Moreau (Stewart Granger) finds himself on the run from the Marquis de Maynes (Mel Ferrer), who has slain his best friend in an unfair duel. Hiding out in a commedia dell'Arte troupe as the stock character Scaramouche, Moreau finds romance and intrigue while he studies swordsmanship to the point where he is good enough to challenge de Maynes.
That final duel was one of the longest in Hollywood history, and is still the best (http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x1uh8d_scaramouche-duel-final_shortfilms).
What I noticed most while watching the movie is that the costumes are color-coded. The nobility/upper class wear light pastels - lavender, sky blue, cream - while the lower classes where dark, earthy tones - chestnut brown, forest green, burgundy. And as is normal with Technicolor, all the colors are rich and vibrant. A far cry from today's Hollywood, which seems to have lost all its crayons except for Chilly Cyan and Explosion Orange....
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Them (1954)
If you want to know where Spielberg got some inspiration for Jaws then look no further than this movie.I don't know if it was the first movie that used music or sound effects to announce the enemy or monster was about to appear on screen but it was the first movie that used it in the most effective way.It was nominated for an Oscar for special effects.No ants were super imposed on the screen.You never see the giant ants until a third of the way into the movie.Sound familiar?
My favorite part of the film is when after the first attack by the ants,where a little girl is the only survivor(you never see the ants during the attack),the girl is asked by the police who did the attack.Her response is,"Them!".
Great movie. Too bad there weren't any big boobs in it. THEM!!!
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A good (if not great) old movie Arsnic and Old Lace.
Carry Grant play the character Mortimer a well know play write. < Sane character >
Has an older brother Teddy who thinks he's Teddy Rosevelt (charges up any flight of stairs thinking its San Juan Hill )
Two Aunts who invite older men to live in the house if they are lonely eventually killing them whith arsnic laced Sherry (12 kills )
Teddy buries the bodies in the cellar as they are malaria victims from the Panama Canal
Another older brother shows up who is wanted for murder ( 11 kills ) and he brings his last kill and accomplice with him.
Older brother is upset that the Aunts have out done him.
To me the movie is funny as hell.
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Seen movies? Yep.
Seen GOOD movies? Nope.
Watched Man of Steel the other day... Average movie TBH.
I would agree. If I were grading it as a school essay I would say C-, must try harder. Although I do think that the flashback scenes of him as a young man and Kevin Costner as Jonathan Kent gave the film a bit of depth, the action is too full-on, too many plot-holes, and not enough breathing space. Bit short on characterisation, which is unusual for such a long film. However, I do feel that Henry Cavill and Amy Adams were excellent as Lois and Clark. Great special effects, but the pacing is off. Entertaining movie, but muddled. A real mixed bag.
Did watch Jack Reacher recently and was pleasantly surprised. Although Cruise is nothing like the Jack Reacher of the novels, he's good in the role, movie is well directed. Ending is slightly disappointing after the buildup, but is still a good movie.
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Diabolique / Les Diaboliques (1955)
Michel Delassalle (Paul Meurisse) is a right bastard. How he got to stay as or even become the headmaster of a boarding school is beyond me. In addition to being so cheap he buys the school's food from the "reduced for quick sale" bin (and even serves it to his guests!), he abuses both his wife and his mistress (Vera Clouzot and Simone Signoret). The two women have had enough of him, and come up with a foolproof plan to kill him. The plot goes off without a hitch....until the body doesn't turn up where they stashed it. Then odd things start happening. The suit Michel was wearing when they hid the "body" comes back from the cleaners. A student says he's seen Michel around the school... And that annoying detective in the rumpled old raincoat....
Henri-Georges Clouzot beat Alfred Hitchcock to the punch with this one, nabbing the rights to Celle qui n'était plus (She Who Was No More) by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac before Hitch could get his hands on them. The movie has been remade a couple of times, but to much less effect.
"This is the way a suspense movie is supposed to be. We've got killers (or at least would-be killers) who have entirely believable reasons for committing their crimes, we've got a bad guy who’s such an absolute scumbag that any audience would be naturally inclined to side against him no matter how morally compromised the "good guys" might be, and we've got a seemingly air-tight scheme that somehow goes wrong anyway. The tension builds up slow and steady until it reaches a climax that would really have thrown audiences for a loop when Diabolique was first released. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot displays a masterful eye for light, shadow, and frame composition, achieving a mood of eerie menace that is more commonly associated with supernatural horror than with a straight murder mystery. And on top of it all, there's a lot of snappy, well written dialogue and first-rate acting all around. Even the comic relief is well handled — firmly grounded in the surrounding story and sufficiently underplayed that it never makes a nuisance of itself. I'm not sure I’d call it (as I've seen so many people do) "the greatest suspense movie of all time," but Diabolique is definitely a credible contender for that title." - Scott Ashlin, 1000 Misspent Hours (http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsa-d/diabolique1955.htm)
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" She wore a yellow ribbon " with John Wayne ( 1949 ). John Wayne's favorite movie he ever did. The story of one old cavalry soldier at the twilight of his career on a last mission. :)
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Mercury Rising
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Is it possible for a good or even great movie to ruin a career?
Peeping Tom (1960, UK)
Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) is a sort of freelance assistant cameraman for a film studio. When he's not helping with adjusting the focus and exposure on the set, he has a very peculiar hobby, aside from selling nudie pix to girlie mags: Filming women as he kills them. He plays a little cat-and-mouse game with the police as he then films the discoveries of the bodies. Turns out his dad was a psychologist studying the fear response...and one of his long-term subjects was Mark...
He meets a young woman, Helen Stephens (Anna Massey) who happens to be a tenant in the large house that he owns (thanks to inheriting it from his parents). They manage to hit it off. Will Helen be able to help Mark? Will the police find him before he kills again? Will Helen be his next victim?
For whatever reason, the critics hated it. Really hated it. Hated it enough to make sure Powell wouldn't do any significant work outside of TV ever again...
It compares well with Psycho (which came out the same year), and still holds up as one of the best psychological horror-thrillers of all time.
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Forbidden Planet, 1956
If there weren't such a bias against science fiction, this movie would be on many top-ten lists. The story is simply The Tempest remade in a science fiction future where a human crew quit communicating shortly after landing 20 years before. The rescue mission finds two survivors, a doctor and his daughter. They find a planet otherwise fully functional, left operating by its original inhabitants, the Krell, who apparently vanished in a single night. The earlier crew, we find, had likewise perished in a single night, ripped apart by invisible beasts.
After a few close scrapes, we learn that the doctor has been studying the Krell society. They had tapped geothermal energy, which would last as long as the planet. They had also developed a means of creating material objects simply by thinking about them and, in a fateful omission, had ignored the "monsters from the Id", those things created by the **61** minds, which ended their society. Likewise, the doctor had gotten ahead of his own understanding and done the same thing to his own party and nearly did the same to the rescue party.
What I remember most vividly from my first viewing of the movie (in 1956) was the geothermal energy. I learned that the first efforts had been made in California early in the 20th Century; by now Iceland gets about 90% of its energy from geothermal sources, and a few other countries get appreciable quantities that way.
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There are different kinds of "bad" movie.
There are those that are painfully, offensively bad - like Battlefield: Earth or anything with Adam Sandler. There are movies that fail tragically at the fundamentals of acting, writing, and storytelling. Most of those are simply boring and fall into deserved obscurity.
Then there are those movies that are entertaining in their badness, that leave you gaping in amazement at what you are watching; for which laughter can be the only response.
To wit: STARCRASH (1978)
Produced in the heady days immediately post-Star Wars when anyone who had ever even seen an issue of Cinefastique was being hired to kit-bash spaceship models to ride the coattails of the space opera fad, Starcrash is perhaps a perfect storm of bad choices, the first one being in director Luigi Cozzi (aka "Lewis Coates"). Cozzi’s work best known to American audiences are the two Lou Ferrigno Hercules movies, and this movie certainly is no departure in terms of competence. The man simply didn’t know how to do these movies right, but to his credit, that didn’t stop him: if he was going to do it wrong, by golly, he’d do it wrong for all he was worth! And thus what resulted here was the funniest, most captivating train wreck of a supposedly non-comedic movie since the golden age of Ed Wood. - Nathan Shumate, Cold Fusion Video
The other inspiration of Starcrash is only slightly less obvious, and that is Barbarella, what with the weapons that all look like objets d'art and the one-damned-thing-after-another plot; but what made the Jane Fonda vehicle palatable was the sex and a subversive sense of humor, and to say Starcrash lacks those is to understate the situation; it lacks those so much that the videotape may suck those very qualities out of any movies unfortunate enough to be situated near it, like an entertainment black hole. - "Dr. Freex", The Bad Movie Report (http://www.stomptokyo.com/badmoviereport/reviews/S/starcrash.html)
This is one of my favorite bad movies. It lacks any sense of reality, is rife with ridiculous dialog, and is filled with special effects that are extraordinary in their cheesiness. I have never grown tired of watching it and recommend it without reservation to anyone who enjoys other than fine films. Heck, even those who usually avoid the type of movies celebrated on this website should give it a try. It is that good at being bad. I love this movie. I wish it was a girl, so I could break her ankles and keep her chained to a bed in a remote cabin. There, with no worry of discovery, I could read her my poetry (about her) and feed her sauteed songbirds caught especially for her consumption. I think I am going to cry. Okay, creepy homages to "Misery" aside, you absolutely must see "Starcrash." - Andrew Borntreger, Badmovies.org (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/starcrash/)
The Emperor’s forces shoot golden torpedoes that smash through the Count’s windows — yes, his deep space station, especially the bridge, sports lots of windows—and pop open to disgorge laser-firing Imperial soldiers. I should note that although these things smash through all these windows, there’s not a sign of explosive decompression or escaping atmosphere to be seen. In space. See what I’m getting at here? - Ken Begg, Jabootu’s Bad Movie Dimension (http://jabootu.net/?p=2205)
(https://i2.ytimg.com/vi/pzfuNSpP0RA/mqdefault.jpg) (http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/pzfuNSpP0RA)
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The Gamera Trilogy
Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995)
Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (1996)
Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999)
Kaiju done right!
In the early 90s, Daiei Studios was looking up at their rival Toho, and seeing how that studio had kept the Godzilla franchise alive by essentially reinventing it, both stylistically and thematically. Why couldn't Daiei do the same thing with their kaiju?
So they did, and they put everything into the effort. These are kaiju for adults - there's no cloyingness or "Kenny" characters around. Gamera gets a real origin story, and they stick with it across all three movies. Characters (and their actors) stay through all three films. The effects are very well done; it's still guys in suits for the most part with only a little CGI where needed. One thing they do better than the Godzilla movies is that the big monster fights are at least well lit if not in daylight, so you can clearly see the action.
These three are probably the best kaiju movies to date, with the sole exception (obviously) of the originial Gojira.
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Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
A screen adaptation of an Agatha Christie story, it has the head-spinning twists at the end that typify her work.
Sir Wilfrid Robarts (Charles Laughton) is a barrister just getting back to work after a hospital stay for a heart attack. His doctors have ordered him to give up his cigar and brandy habits, and Nurse Plimsoll (Elsa Lanchester) is watching him like a hawk to make sure he follows those orders. He's also been told to stay away from stressful cases, but when murder suspect Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power, in his last role) is brought to his office by another lawyer, Robarts cannot pass on the case.
Sir Wilfrid: (Having obtained a cigar from solicitor Brogan-Moore) "Give me a match."
Leonard Vole: "Sorry, I don't carry matches."
Sir Wilfrid: [to Brogan-Moore] "I thought you said I'd like him."
Leonard Vole: "But I do have a lighter."
Sir Wilfrid: "You're quite right, I do like him."
Marlene Deitrich, still hot in her mid-50s, plays the title character of Christine Helm (aka Mrs. Vole).
As with a lot of courtroom dramas, don't expect everything to follow correct legal procedures. But what you can expect is a lot of cracking good dialogue! Laughton excels at the comedic aspects of his character, especially in the interplay between Robarts and Nurse Plimsoll. And as it happened, Elsa Lanchester was Laughton's wife, and the role was written specifically for her so she could keep an eye on him (his health was starting to decline at the time) during filming.
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Three days ago I saw " The Wizard of OZ " on the big screen in IMAX at my local theater. I've always enjoyed and been enchanted by this movie but I had never seen it in the silver screen in all my years, just on TV. It is much better in the movie house. I borrowed ( babysat ) a friend's three year old who needed to do some errands so it looked like grandpa was taking his granddaughter to see it. The little tyke was transfixed and loved it. After the movie we were both singing, badly, " We're off to see the Wizard ! " and when safely delivered back to her mother she told mom she wanted to see it again. At $14.50 a pop I don't think so.
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Forbidden Planet, 1956
If there weren't such a bias against science fiction, this movie would be on many top-ten lists. The story is simply The Tempest remade in a science fiction future where a human crew quit communicating shortly after landing 20 years before. The rescue mission finds two survivors, a doctor and his daughter. They find a planet otherwise fully functional, left operating by its original inhabitants, the Krell, who apparently vanished in a single night. The earlier crew, we find, had likewise perished in a single night, ripped apart by invisible beasts.
After a few close scrapes, we learn that the doctor has been studying the Krell society. They had tapped geothermal energy, which would last as long as the planet. They had also developed a means of creating material objects simply by thinking about them and, in a fateful omission, had ignored the "monsters from the Id", those things created by the **61** minds, which ended their society. Likewise, the doctor had gotten ahead of his own understanding and done the same thing to his own party and nearly did the same to the rescue party.
One of my favourite memories from my childhood was when BBC2 (a UK terrestrial channel) showed classic Sci-Fi movies at 6pm throughout the winter. Along with Invaders From Mars, This Island Earth and The Day the Earth Stood Still was the classic - Forbidden Planet, which was always my favourite. Apart from starring a very young Leslie Nielson it also had the lovely Ann Francis and last but not least, Robby the Robot.
There has been a J Michael Straczynski penned script for a remake in development for a few years now, wonder of anything will come of it. I don't think they could match the eerie spookiness of the original though.
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Not a great movie, but I saw a re-run of the original "Matrix" today--Do you remember that it started with an attempt to kill one of the characters ("Trinity") in a phone booth?
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Not an old movie but yesterday I saw " Gravity " with Sandra Bullock and George Rooney and enjoyed it immensely. Good yarn and at 91 minutes not a overwrought and overlong Hollywood production that is so typical nowadays. I also recommend " Rush ". Those of us who did follow F1 racing back in the 70's will love the story and the racing. Also, this movie is set before the AIDS crisis and the new adventurous sexual revolution. Brought back some mammaries .... er ..... memories. ;) ;D
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I saw Gravity, too. A great movie; some movies are worth watching in a theater, if only for the special effects, which are outstanding. Sometimes the vertigo is worth it.
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Saw 'The Raven' 2012, with John Cusack, such an underrated film. An interesting take on the last days of Edgar Allen Poe's life.
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'The Wolverine' extended edition and theatrical edition. Saw this awesome movie in the theaters 5 times and it was great then and it is even better now on DVD and Blu Ray. The extended edition, awesome!
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Someone is a time traveller. The movie he's interested in isn't scheduled to hit the theaters for at least five months.
Either that, or he's a goddam asshole.
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Frozen was really great.
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I thought Gravity was dreadfully boring. I admit, the special effects were brilliant, and the director had some nice imagery/symbolimsm in there, but it was a real case of style over substance in my opinion. The story was less than wafer thin. So often critics criticise a movie for having a slow or meandering, or in some cases bad story/plot. This movie truly had the lowest amount of plot/story of any movie I have seen this year. Apart from the fact that
*Spolier Alert*
one of the two leads is killed off early in the movie meaning that all tension is now lost, since you can hardly kill off the ONLY OTHER SURVIVING CHARACTER that is left!
*end Spoiler alert*
Oh dearie me.
Still, nice to see a Sci-Fi (Sci-Fact?) movie doing well at the box-office, and like I say, the symbolism about Sandra Bullock's character being seemingly 'reborn' showed some directorial flair, but overall, I like my movies a bit more substantial plot wise. I don't mean something so complex you need a physics degree to work it out, but something to get the little grey cells a bit of a workout.
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Being that I am in my early 60's I have seen hundreds if not thousands of movies.
Since I do not currently have my own transportation I do not have the luxury of going out in the evening to a theater since the buses here in Hampton, VA do not run late.
However I do try to see what is out there via Netflix, downloading movies and being able to obtain a lot of movies through not so regular means.
I think I saw "Forbidden Planet" at a drive-in with my parents and some other sci-fi movies such as "Atlantis the Lost Continent", The Wizard of Oz and Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor. I believe that movie was my first introduction to "cleavage".
At the Stanley Theater in downtown Pittsburgh, PA I saw Ben-Hur and El Cid.
I was fascinated by Sophia Loren and that was the first time I saw her in a movie.
Also, the gangster movies of the 1930's with James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart plus Edward G Robinson were favorites as well. Of course I saw them on television because I am not that old now!
Not too long ago there was a movie about John Dillinger with Johnny Depp portraying Dillinger, but to me Warren Oates did a far better job. Of course him bearing a resemblance to the notorious bank robber helped.
I'll end this with the re-make of Bonnie and Clyde recently broadcast last week.
I enjoyed it as it was done remarkably well, but I also have the original with Warren Beatty and Fay Dunaway which I saw in a theater when it came out. The latter movie although historically accurate took liberties with what actually happened because Clyde never got out of the car when the law opened up on him and Bonnie.
I like this thread and I hope others will join in with their own reflections and memories of the movies.
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Enjoyed the newest Hobbit movie even though it did not follow the book very faithfully. It is quite long so make sure you pee and **108** before you go because it is about 3 hours long if you include the trailers. With no intermission. There were no dead spots and the movie was brisk so it didn't feel that long. I also saw Frozen and it is a very good movie. Just because it's a cartoon doesn't mean it does not have some plot twists. I don't want to spoil it but one of the major characters is definitely interesting. :)
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Today I wasted hard earned money on a truly atrocious piece of shit, Anchorman 2. It was simply not funny and by the reaction of those around me I wasn't alone on that asessment. A few walked out. I've regreted seeing the last few Will Ferrel movies. I now will avoid his crap as much as possible. >:(
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Today I wasted hard earned money on a truly atrocious piece of shit, Anchorman 2. It was simply not funny and by the reaction of those around me I wasn't alone on that asessment. A few walked out. I've regreted seeing the last few Will Ferrel movies. I now will avoid his crap as much as possible. >:(
Given the full court press by studio PR I suspect they're a bit worried that others might feel as you do too... they're probably hoping for a few strong days/couple of weekends before word of mouth gets around. From the incessant advertising for this movie, I personally can't imagine why anyone would think it'd be entertaining, but I know I'm not in the target demo.
The last Will Ferrel movie I saw and enjoyed was Stranger Than Fiction in 2006.
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Suspiria (1977)
"A newcomer to a fancy ballet academy gradually comes to realize that the school is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of grisly murders." - IMDB
Dario Argento's masterpiece. While one could go over the plot, that's not really the point here. The movie is all about style - in this case, what's called giallo. Gaudy set design and vivid color (the attached still is from one of the more toned down scenes) that make today's movies look almost black and white.
There's a dreamy quality ("nightmarish" might be better, given the subject!) to the film. Not everything makes sense. The girl murdered in the beginning, which one might think would be the primary plot driver, is soon forgotten. The disfigured servant and the blind piano player add to the creepiness.
Watch it with the lights down low, and the sound (especially if you have the version with Goblin performing the soundtrack) up.
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I love Argento's movies.I always thought that Stanley Kubrick was going for an Argento type horror film with "The Shining".I'm not saying that he purposely tried to copy Dario or anything.I just think that was the style of horror movie that he was going for.
I really think that Dario and Stanley could have helped each other out in regards to each other's movies.I think that Dario could have taught Stanley how to build an effective scary scene and Stanley could have taught Dario how to flesh his main characters out more and not make them so one dimensional.
Even when you watch European slasher films like Torso and Demons you quickly realize that these filmmakers were way more influenced by Dario than any of the American horror or slasher films.
I still think that Dario's greatest achievement was introducing everyone to his very hot daughter,Asia!
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Who would have thought that the ready availablity of computers and this interweb would make it possible to see almost any movie ever made whenever and as often as we want? Last night I saw "Sixth Sense" for the third or fourth time, and saw both the strengths and weaknesses of the film in sharper relief.
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Compulsion-(2013)
This is a dark comedy with Heather Graham playing a chef who discovers her favourite "used to be a star"actress (played by Carrie Ann Moss) has moved next door to her.Graham is frustrated with her relationship with her boyfriend (played by Kevin Dillon) and tries for a relationship with Carrie's character.The dark comedy part is Heather's character using her cooking utensils for revenge.
I would be shocked if this movie's budget was any bigger than 2 million bucks.The whole movie basically takes place in 2 different apartments and the lobby.
I enjoyed this movie for one reason and that's Heather Graham.I've never seen her look better in a movie.She wears these tight and classy looking dresses throughout the movie.Think Christina Hendricks in Mad Men.
The movie did not do it for me.I just did not find it funny but Graham does a really good acting job here.
If you're a Heather Graham fan then I would give it 8 out of 10 stars.If you're not,then I would give it 3 out of 10 stars.
Here's a cap.This is Kevin Dillon eating out Heather Graham on top of a table.
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Ginger Snaps (Canada, 2000)
It's rather odd that among all the many werewolf movies over the decades, there are very, very few that make the connection between lycanthropy and a certain biological situation.
Think about it for a minute. You suddenly find yourself undergoing **86** changes. Your body alters, and so does your personality. Every month, like clockwork, you lose control of your body and it practically rebels against you and your will. On top of the physical changes, your personality may undergo radical changes.
If this sounds like puberty and **110** to you, give yourself a cookie.
"Is becoming a woman analogous, in some deep psychological way, to becoming a werewolf? Ginger is 16, edgy, tough, and, with her younger sister, into staging and photographing scenes of death. They've made a pact about dying together. In early October, on the night she has her first period, which is also the night of a full moon, a werewolf bites Ginger. Within a few days, some serious changes happen to her body and her temperament. Her sister Brigitte, 15, tries to find a cure with the help of Sam, a local doper. As Brigitte races against the clock, Halloween and another full moon approach, Ginger gets scarier, and it isn't just local dogs that begin to die." - IMDB.com summary by JHailey
What really makes the movie work are the two leads Katharine Isabelle (Ginger) and Emily Perkins (Brigitte) turn in incredibly complex and nuanced performances. It's well worth seeking out.
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Bumping, just because.....
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'X-Men'
'X2 : X-Men United'
'X3 : X-Men - The Last Stand'
'X-Men Origins : Wolverine'
'X-Men : First Class'
'The Wolverine'
Also all 76 episodes of 'X-Men : The Animated Series' (1992-1997)
Getting ready for the new 'X-Men' film : 'X-Men : Days Of Future Past.
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I saw Draft Day with Kevin Costner and I liked it. Disney's Bears was good also.
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'Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes'
'Return Of The Killer Tomatoes'
'Killer Tomatoes Strike Back'
'Killer Tomatoes Eat France!'
Also all the episodes to -
'Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes - The Animated Series'
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'Transcendance.' I really enjoyed this movie. I can see why it is not doing well at the box office though, it is too cerebral, there is real science involved and used, too smart for the general audiences. I will buy this when it is released on DVD. Good cast, good acting, directing.
Next I will be seeing 'X-Men : Days Of Future Past'. Enjoy the X-Men movies, all of them.
I was thinking of seeing 'Godzilla', but the latest tv advertisements are really harping on the human emotional side and that turned me off. I want to see the monster, not the damn people, it is suppose to be a Kaiju monster movie damn it. I read some reviews that Godzilla is not really in much in the movie. I am in the minority and actually like 'Godzilla' (1998), do not understand the flack that got. The effects from the 1998 version still look good, and in some instances, look better than the new one going by some of the tv advertisements. I wonder why TOHO stopped making the Godzilla movies in 2004. They were so close to 30 movies, they stopped at 28 Godzilla movies. Though, Godzilla is barely in 'Godzilla VS. Megalon', when you watch it, Godizilla does not show up for almost an hour, but there are the other monsters to be seen in the first hour.
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The Battle of Algiers, 1966.
A fascinating movie. I saw the English-dubbed version in Chicago in 1967. Forty years later the great minds at the Pentagon realized it had something to tell them.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Algiers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Algiers)
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'The Three Strangers' (1946) - An interesting Peter Lorre neo-noir film and enjoyed this a lot too. The ending was good too.
'The Lady Vanishes' (1938) - Underrated Alfred Hitchcock film, and I think this is my favorite version of this story. The DVD quality though, needs to be cleaned up and restored. I thought it was cleaned up and restored, that is why I purchased it. The product description was clearly wrong, but since I enjoyed the movie, I am keeping it, because who knows when or if it will get a re-release, with dvds disappearing in favor of downloads, rather have an actual copy to have, like a dvd.
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'The Pink Panther' (1963/1964, never know which year to actually put for it)
'A Shot In The Dark' (1964)
'Return Of The Pink Panther' (1975)
'The Pink Panther Strikes Again' (1976)
'Revenge Of The Pink Panther' (1978)
'Trail Of The Pink Panther' (1982)
I also have 'Curse Of The Pink Panther' (1983) and 'Son Of The Pink Panther' (1993), but did not watch them this time. If only there were more Pink Panther films with Peter Sellers. There was one being planned called 'Romance Of The Pink Panther', but Sellers passed before then. There was going to be a tv series with Sellers in the role, but that never happened, instead 'Return Of The Pink Panther' was made. If only Sellers and Blake Edwards got along, there may have been more Pink Panther films between 'A Shot In The Dark' and 'Return Of The Pink Panther'.
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For the 75th year of Batman, also getting ready to celebrate Tim Burton's awesome 'Batman' (1989) series, that should have continued past 'Batman Returns'
Watched -
'Batman' (1989)
'Batman Returns'
'Batman - Mask Of The Phantasm'
'Batman & Mr. Freeze - Subzero'
'Batman - The Animated Series' (all 85 episodes, should still be made today, bet it would have over 300 episodes by now, maybe more)
'Batman Returns' is severely underrated. Music in both Tim Burton's Batman films are perfect, both done by the talented Danny Elfman. Shirley Walker's music in 'Batman - Mask Of The Phantasm' is pure AWESOMENESS, especially the beginning and the scene with the Joker and the Phantasm at the end, perfection. The music in 'Batman & Mr. Freeze - Subzero' is very good too. With regards to 'Batman & Mr. Freeze - Subzero', I wish Warner Brothers would go back to that one and redo the cgi and make it the traditional animation that the rest of the movie used, the cgi stands out and looks awkward, still an enjoyable movie though. Wish there were more movies in the 'Batman - The Animated Series' canon and art style. The ending music to 'Batman' (1989), the scene when the Bat signal is turned by Commissioner Gordon on and Batman is on the rooftop of some building, the build up to that scene, the music being played.....it just says Superhero to me. Even though Batman is technically not a super hero, no super powers, that piece of music still defines what superhero is in the cinematic universe of movies. Pure awesomeness. Gotham city looks so unique and different and stunning in both 'Batman' (1989) and 'Batman Returns', it does not look like Chicago, it looks like its' own universe, its' own style and atmosphere. Mark Hamill is the perfect Joker, his performance in 'Batman - Mask Of The Phantasm' steals the movie, and it is great. His performances in all the Joker episodes in 'Batman - The Animated Series' all steal the show as well, awesome! Michael Anasara's Mr. Freeze in 'Batman & Mr. Freeze - Subzero' is haunting and great, just like his performance in the series as well. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as the voice of Alfred is great and was/is the perfect casting for that character. Michael Gough was great as Alfred too.
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The Medusa Touch , with Richard Burton and Lee Remmick. An underrated classic, full of suspense and dread. I highly recommend it.
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'The November Man' - 10/10
Enjoyed this flick a lot. It was nice to see Pierce Brosnan in this type of role again. I take it as his fifth Bond film. He wanted to do one more 007 James Bond film, but the producers said otherwise after initially wanting him to do another one. I wish Pierce got to do one more Bond flick.
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Watched and had a marathon of the 10 Star Trek films.
Star Trek - The Motion Picture - 6/10
Star Trek II - The Wrath Of Khan - 8/10
Star Trek III - The Search For Spock - 7/10
Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home - 10/10
Star Trek V - The Final Frontier - 5/10
Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country - 10/10
Star Trek - Generations - 10/10
Star Trek - First Contact - 10/10
Star Trek - Insurrection - 10/10
Star Trek - Nemesis - 8/10
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Starting to watch the Universal 30 movie dvd box set that was just released. Got it and like it better than the 2004 releases, because these are single sided discs. Though images on the discs would have been nice. It is kind of weird though that House Of Dracula, House Of Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy all appear in the complete set several times, where as they could have been in the set once, since all the movies are together, as opposed to the separate series sets. It is nice to have all the films together.
Dracula (1931) - 10/10
Dracula (1931 Spanish version) - 8/10
Dracula's Daughter (1936) - 8/10
Son of Dracula (1943) - 7/10
House of Frankenstein (1944) - 8/10
House of Dracula (1945) - 10/10
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) 10/10
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Watched and had a marathon of the 10 Star Trek films.
Star Trek - The Motion Picture - 6/10
Star Trek II - The Wrath Of Khan - 8/10
Star Trek III - The Search For Spock - 7/10
Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home - 10/10
Star Trek V - The Final Frontier - 5/10
Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country - 10/10
Star Trek - Generations - 10/10
Star Trek - First Contact - 10/10
Star Trek - Insurrection - 10/10
Star Trek - Nemesis - 8/10
Thought thought Insurrection was better than Wrath of Khan?
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Watched and had a marathon of the 10 Star Trek films.
Star Trek - The Motion Picture - 6/10
Star Trek II - The Wrath Of Khan - 8/10
Star Trek III - The Search For Spock - 7/10
Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home - 10/10
Star Trek V - The Final Frontier - 5/10
Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country - 10/10
Star Trek - Generations - 10/10
Star Trek - First Contact - 10/10
Star Trek - Insurrection - 10/10
Star Trek - Nemesis - 8/10
Only II and IV are good enough to watch more than once. A few of the others (including all the Next Generation ones IMO) aren't watchable all the way through even once. But: different strokes... ;) Attached please find a vaguely-related image featuring two of the only reasons to watch anything associated with "The Next Generation." Yes, of course it's a fake, but it makes my point. :)
hometheatermack.com.2344 ULd OTF movies.jpg
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Only II and IV are good enough to watch more than once. A few of the others (including all the Next Generation ones IMO) aren't watchable all the way through even once. But: different strokes... ;) Attached please find a vaguely-related image featuring two of the only reasons to watch anything associated with "The Next Generation." Yes, of course it's a fake, but it makes my point. :)
hometheatermack.com.2344 ULd OTF movies.jpg
Not even Star trek VI, Generations or First Contact?
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Thought thought Insurrection was better than Wrath of Khan?
I like both a lot, just really enjoy Insurrection and the cast look like they had fun making it. The Enterprise E battle scene in the rift is perfect, wish it was a longer battle, but sometimes less is more right? My ratings change all the time, when I rewatch movies
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I think I saw "Forbidden Planet" at a drive-in with my parents and some other sci-fi movies such as "Atlantis the Lost Continent", The Wizard of Oz and Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor. I believe that movie was my first introduction to "cleavage".
Ah, Cleopatra!
Probably one of the least interesting of the "epic" films if you want plot or character development, it was as big-boob-oriented as a mainstream "G" movie could be. It was the first time I saw Scilla Gabel:
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Starting to watch the Universal 30 movie dvd box set that was just released. Got it and like it better than the 2004 releases, because these are single sided discs. Though images on the discs would have been nice. It is kind of weird though that House Of Dracula, House Of Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy all appear in the complete set several times, where as they could have been in the set once, since all the movies are together, as opposed to the separate series sets. It is nice to have all the films together.
Dracula (1931) - 10/10
Dracula (1931 Spanish version) - 8/10
Dracula's Daughter (1936) - 8/10
Son of Dracula (1943) - 7/10
House of Frankenstein (1944) - 8/10
House of Dracula (1945) - 10/10
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) 10/10
Frankenstein (1931) - 10/10
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - 10/10
Son of Frankenstein (1939) - 7/10
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) - 10/10
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) - 10/10
House of Frankenstein (1944) - 8/10
House of Dracula (1945) - 10/10
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) 10/10
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Starting to watch the Universal 30 movie dvd box set that was just released. Got it and like it better than the 2004 releases, because these are single sided discs. Though images on the discs would have been nice. It is kind of weird though that House Of Dracula, House Of Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy all appear in the complete set several times, where as they could have been in the set once, since all the movies are together, as opposed to the separate series sets. It is nice to have all the films together.
Dracula (1931) - 10/10
Dracula (1931 Spanish version) - 8/10
Dracula's Daughter (1936) - 8/10
Son of Dracula (1943) - 7/10
House of Frankenstein (1944) - 8/10
House of Dracula (1945) - 10/10
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) 10/10
Frankenstein (1931) - 10/10
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - 10/10
Son of Frankenstein (1939) - 7/10
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) - 10/10
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) - 10/10
House of Frankenstein (1944) - 8/10
House of Dracula (1945) - 10/10
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) 10/10
The Mummy (1932) - 10/10
The Mummy's Hand (1940) - 9/10
The Mummy's Tomb (1942) - 7/10
The Mummy's Ghost (1942) - 10/10
The Mummy's Curse (1944) - 8/10
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) - 8/10
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If we're doing lists and compilations, guess who:
House of Wax (1953)
The Fly (1958)
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
The Tingler (1959)
The House of Usher (1960)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Tales of Terror (1962)
The Raven (1963)
Twice-Told Tales (1963)
Comedy of Terrors (1963)
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
The Tomb of Ligea (1964)
Witchfinder General (aka The Conqueror Worm) (1968)
Scream and Scream Again (1970)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
Theatre of Blood (1973)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
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It looks as though Vincent Price had a role in your appreciation of the cinema, rtpoe... :o
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If we're doing lists and compilations, guess who:
House of Wax (1953)
The Fly (1958)
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
The Tingler (1959)
The House of Usher (1960)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Tales of Terror (1962)
The Raven (1963)
Twice-Told Tales (1963)
Comedy of Terrors (1963)
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
The Tomb of Ligea (1964)
Witchfinder General (aka The Conqueror Worm) (1968)
Scream and Scream Again (1970)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
Theatre of Blood (1973)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Have you gotten the new collections of Vincent Price? I did, great quality on all the movies! There so should have been another Dr. Phibes film
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There was a 1999 monster/horror flick called Lake Placid, based on the idiotic proposition that a fifty-foot Asian crocodile somehow winds up in a lake in Maine. It has all the stereotypes--The bumbling county sheriff, the hapless deputy, the sexy paleontologist, the crazy movie director--but what redeems the movie from the trash heap is Betty White as the sole resident of the lakeshore (since her husband was eaten) who occasionally herds a cow down to the water's edge as tribute to the crock.
"It's his lake," she says.
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Just saw a war movie called " Fury " with Brad Pitt and it was pretty good. It's about a Sherman tank crew in the waning days of WW2 but what makes the movie truly unique is that it has the only German Tiger tank that actually functions in the world as part of the movie. The tank is 70 years old and it is kept at a tank collection in Britain. I recommend it.
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Enjoyed Interstellar very much. I highly recommend it. A refreshing change from all the mindless franchise movies they make these days.
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If you like a little romance, supernatural goings-on, a little slapstick humor, and some kick-ass martial arts, then I can recommend A Chinese Ghost Story (1987).
Truly a classic, and a film any fan of Hong Kong cinema needs to have seen. Its energy is boundless but never overwhelming or out of control. It does not depend on its special effects or wild choreography and instead remains faithful to the central romance even when the most insane stuff is happening and Wu Ma is being attacked by a giant tongue. - Ketih Allison, Teleport City
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Enjoyed Interstellar very much. I highly recommend it. A refreshing change from all the mindless franchise movies they make these days.
Yes, it is a good movie but I have two complaints :
1.- The background sound / music was too loud and drowned out what the actors were saying in many occasions. While my hearing is normal for a 58 year old male, that doesn't mean it's the world's sharpest either. I want to hear the dialog so I can make heads or tails of what the movie is.
2.- At 165 minutes, not including 15 - 20 minutes for the trailers, it is too long without a intermission. I had to quickly leave the movie at the two hour time period to pee since my bladder said no more. If you are concentrating on not peeing your pants, rather than the movie, the movie experience is degraded.
I also saw Big Hero 6 and I highly recommend it. It's fun movie with gorgeous colors and a good storyline.
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I Am Evel Knievel (2014)
Saw this on cable the other day.It shows footage from all his jumps.**28** like Mathew McConaughey and Michelle Rodriguez talking about him along with Evel's k1ds,ex-wives and friends.
What I liked:The footage of his jumps and especially the footage of the jump he did in California where there was some Hell's Angels in the crowd.One of the Angel's threw a tool at Evel after he made the jump.They show Evel going after him and the Angel slammed him to the ground.Well,one of Evel's entourage and many audience members jumped the Hell's Angels and beat the shit out of them.They show footage of it.
What I did not like:The guy from Wide World Of Sports that tells stories of his interactions with Evel.He is annoying and way over the top.
The other is the lack of interview footage of Knieval.They show some but I wish they showed more.
I give it a solid 7 out of 10.
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Back Issues:The Hustler Magazine Story (2014)
Watched this yesterday.Don't worry.They only spend a few minutes here and there on Larry Flynt's court battles.I know there is enough material on that to last a lifetime.
In addition to the people you see on the poster below,some of the other people that appear are Amber Lynn,Al Goldstein and Kitten Natidivad.They also talk to the guy that shot Larry and put him in his wheelchair from prison.Many Hustler staff members and of course Larry,are interviewed.
It's basically the history of Hustler and all the controversies and rivalries with Playboy,Penthouse and Screw magazines.
The best and most memorable quote in the movie by far goes to Al Goldstein.He is talking about Jimmy Flynt (Larry's brother)and says in a very non-joking but hilarious manner-"Jimmy is a redneck piece of shit but I like him and he knows that."-LOL!
Goldstein is a funny guy.I forgot he died in 2013.
I give this movie a solid 7 out of 10.
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I have always had great enjoyment watching the 'portmanteau' horror movies from the 1970's. For those of you who don't know what these are, they are a movies with separate stories which have a linking thread throughout. They can also be referred to as anthology movies
A company called Amicus produced several of these films and they include
The House That Dripped Blood
Tales from the Crypt
The Vault of Terror
Asylum
From Beyond the Grave
Dr Terror's House of Horrors.
They still get made on occasion, the recent movies V/H/S and V/H/S 2 are also examples, as are movies like
Necronomicon
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Creepshow
Creepshow 2
Cat's Eye
and many more.
The 70's Amicus ones are my favourites though.
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Santa's Slay (2005, Canada)
A thousand years ago, the son of Satan lost a curling contest with an angel. As a result, he had to spend the next millenium being nice and bringing gifts and all that. But now that the time is up, he's got a lot of anger to let out!
Arguably one of the better "killer Santa" movies, it keeps its humor on throughout with creative killings and witty dialogue:
Nicholas Yuleson: The clock just struck midnight at the pole. Christmas is officially over for you, Santa!
Santa Claus: You know, most people make the same mistake. The correct time at the pole is completely discretionary, because the poles are where all the time zones actually converge.
Mary "Mac" Mackenzie: He's scary, yet educational.
Not much in the way of gore, but there is a scene in a strip club with a good deal of breasts on display. It was kind of nice to see that none of the strippers were offed (on screen, at least - Santa left them when he set the place on fire, so one can imagine that they all made it out safely. He was only beating up the bouncers, anyway...)
If you've ever wanted to see a killer Santa menacing people while driving a Zamboni, this is the movie for you!
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I have always had great enjoyment watching the 'portmanteau' horror movies from the 1970's. For those of you who don't know what these are, they are a movies with separate stories which have a linking thread throughout. They can also be referred to as anthology movies
A company called Amicus produced several of these films and they include
The House That Dripped Blood
Tales from the Crypt
The Vault of Terror
Asylum
From Beyond the Grave
Dr Terror's House of Horrors.
They still get made on occasion, the recent movies V/H/S and V/H/S 2 are also examples, as are movies like
Necronomicon
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Creepshow
Creepshow 2
Cat's Eye
and many more.
The 70's Amicus ones are my favourites though.
I can't recall if I'd seen the Tales From the Crypt or Darkside ones, but I definitely (though vaguely) remember Twilight Zone, Creepshow, and Cat's Eye. For some reason, my HS library had a comic/graphic novel of the Creepshow movie (I assume the movie predated the comic), and I remember checking that out for the brief-but-detailed renditions of Adrienne Barbeau. I also remember that one of the TZ movie's vignettes was an updated spin on the youth-with-reality-warping-powers story, and formed one of my earliest BE fantasies, that said youth would BE the schoolteacher protagonist lady.
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I am constantly watching different movies and TV shows on Netflix.
So far I have seen the 8 seasons of Criminal Minds, 3 seasons of American Horror Story, 4 seasons of The Glades and all of Kill Bill. I am still watching Medium, Bluebloods, Sons of Anarchy and even some older TV shows and movies.
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Saw " American Sniper " a couple of days ago. Very intense, very good movie. Highly recommended.
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I watched Interstellar yesterday. A film I really enjoyed. The first film to make me tearful for ages.
The Imitation Game was good, so sad what happen to Alan Turin, being that he kinda invented the electronic computer.
I also saw the new Hobbit film, which I thought was so, so.
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The only newish movie I've seen lately is Birdman, which was quite entertaining and well done IMO.
Image from prior post.
(http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=58710.0;attach=403768;image)
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Folks!
Which one of you knows the film "Simon" with Alan Arkin? Great movie, take look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMHWOI2JyR4
It's impossible to buy this movie on DVD – from Germany.
Obtainable in the US? Or elswhere?
THANKS!
Br
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Alan Arkin's work is appreciated much more in Europe than in the U.S.
I think he's a great actor.
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I thought there was a thread already with a title like this one or similar. Anyways, if we are going to talk about good old movies I recommend 1947's stellar performance by Walter Huston Sr, Tim Holt and Humphrey Bogart of " The treasure of the Sierra Madre ". It is a story of the destructiveness of pure, corrosive greed and its consequences. This movie is where that iconic " Batches, we don't need no steenkin batches !! " comes from.
It's this one:
http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php/topic,9978868.0.html
Perhaps we can merge them?
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You know you're watching a great film when after the first three minutes you forget that four of the main actors (Tim Roth, Tom Wilkinson, Carmen Ejogo and David Oyelowo) are all British and not Americans from the south. Mr. Oyelowo gives a towering performance as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and was robbed of an Academy Award for Best Actor, even as the film itself was snubbed for Best Picture and Ava DuVernay was denied a well-deserved Best Director Oscar.
I highly recommend this film.
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It's this one:
http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php/topic,9978868.0.html
Perhaps we can merge them?
Done.
I recently saw 'A Clockwork Orange' for the first time. Actually rather enjoyed it. The violence is a bit tame for a modern film, although a few women get attacked in it, which people may find disturbing and distasteful (and even more so when it first came out). Quite a long movie, but it rattles along in such a way as to not feel like a long film. I've even been to the underpass where the homeless man got attacked. Shows what a talent Kubrick had for directing, even if his films were always a touch on the surreal side.
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It was considered a good movie when it came out in 1962, but now The Interns is most noticeable for product placement--The entire hospital staff smoked all the time, and drank when they weren't smoking.
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Watching the old movie channel I saw "Erin Brockovich". Like some movies, it has a few great lines:
"But how will you get past security?"
"They're called 'boobs'."
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Watching the old movie channel I saw "Erin Brockovich". Like some movies, it has a few great lines:
"But how will you get past security?"
"They're called 'boobs'."
And a great ending, with the splendid Albert Finney. What a great talent, sadly overlooked. He's the sort of actor who hides all his hard work. It appears seamless, easy, effortless.
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There was a 1999 monster/horror flick called Lake Placid,
How did I ever miss this post? At a critical moment in this movie, Oliver Platt tells Meredith Salenger, who is wearing a tight deputy sheriff's blouse, something like, "You have great tits!"
And she pauses, her smile blossoms, and she says, "Thanks!"
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How did I ever miss this post? At a critical moment in this movie, Oliver Platt tells Meredith Salenger, who is wearing a tight deputy sheriff's blouse, something like, "You have great tits!"
And she pauses, her smile blossoms, and she says, "Thanks!"
Borrowing a line from sightings critics: "pic or it didn't happen!" ;)
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Borrowing a line from sightings critics: "pic or it didn't happen!" ;)
Couldn't find that line, but here's a good one if you wait to the very end. And Betty White to boot:
www.youtube.com/v/uTaaSz3v6FM (http://www.youtube.com/v/uTaaSz3v6FM)
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Ex Machina was really good. It's nice to see a sci-fi movie that's not about CGI superheros punching each other.
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Ex Machina was really good. It's nice to see a sci-fi movie that's not about CGI superheros punching each other.
Agreed. The ending was good also and not what I expected.
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Attack the Block (UK, 2011)
In which alien "gorilla wolves" attack a housing project in South London..... Not as much comedy or social commentary as some reviewers say, but it's still a tightly-paced action-SF movie.
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I am looking forward to Pawn Sacrifice which opens and the end of the week. An exercise in psychopaths using a paranoid.
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I've mostly watched a lot of kid movies... and of those: Spongebob 2, lego movie and anything with the muppets were great!
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I've mostly watched a lot of kid movies... and of those: Spongebob 2, lego movie and anything with the muppets were great!
I think then you might enjoy Disney/Pixar Inside Out. Also The Minions for goofy humor. These movies remind me why I always enjoyed the old Warner Brothers cartoons ( Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester, Tweety Bird and others ) because much of the humor is actually directed at adults while the slapstick kept the k1ds happy. My $0.02. :)
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It's only in the budget cinemas now, and not many of those: Tomorrowland. I think you'll love it if you're a baby-boomer. I'm going to see it again today . . . for the fourth time.
I haven't been such a fan since "Raiders" first came out.
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I've mostly watched a lot of kid movies... and of those: Spongebob 2, lego movie and anything with the muppets were great!
I remember those days...
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Two movies I highly recommend for people to see are The Martian with Matt Damon and The Walk, the story of Phillipe Petit who walked a wire he strung out between the towers of the World Trade Center in New York back in 1974.
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Just watched the Martian. Very enjoyable !
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Night Tide (1961)
Dennis Hopper (before all the drugs) is a sailor who hangs out at a Southern California seaside amusement park. At a jazz club one night, he runs into Mora (Linda Lawson), a just-slightly-mysterious young lady who happens to portray a "mermaid" in one of the side show attractions. He falls for her.... but why are people warning him away? Where did she really come from? The old, alcoholic captain who "adopted" her on a Greek island doesn't know. And what's the deal with that old lady in black who keeps popping up to scare her?
It's not really a "scary" movie as the poster would have you believe. It's more a psychological thriller, done with a soft touch. There's always the lingering sense that you aren't getting the whole story - even after the movie ends.
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And speaking of subtle, atmospheric horror:
The Changeling (1980)
George C. Scott is a composer who after the death of his wife and daughter in an auto accident, moves to Seattle to "get his shit together", as it were. He manages to score a lease on an old mansion that's currently owned by the local historical society. Needless to say, the place is haunted. But not "possessed" (e.g. Poltergeist, The Amityville Horror); no, there's just a lot of odd things going on. The running faucets. The loud banging at the same time each morning. The ball bouncing down the stairs. The fact that no one really wants to talk about the place's history....
It's a haunted house movie for grown-ups. Not only are there no young people in the cast, all the actors are seasoned, mature professionals. And there's no gore - not even any real blood, even including the car accident(s) - or cheap jump scares. Just a spooky tale about a spirit that cannot rest until it's been avenged (which adds a very nice mystery to the story).
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Saw Dead Pool and enjoyed it immensely. I realized it was going to be very different when the opening credits ( Directed by a overpaid tool, Produced by Douche bags, etc, etc ;D ) and the interactions of the main character toward the audience were refreshingly different than that of other comic book based movies. Ryan Reynolds did a superb job and the part fit his personality very well. I highly recommended the movie BUT don't take a young ch1ld to the movie. For one, he/she won't get the jokes and two, they should not be exposed to such a movie anyways. My $0.02.
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Attack the Block (UK, 2011)
In which alien "gorilla wolves" attack a housing project in South London..... Not as much comedy or social commentary as some reviewers say, but it's still a tightly-paced action-SF movie.
You might recognize the main protagonist. He's John Boyega aka "Finn" from Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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Flipping through the channels and turned up Chennai Express (2013). Starring Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, and Satyaraj, it's a rollicking action/rom-com/drama that combines the best of the Bollywood (northern) cinema with some heavy hitters from the south. Think of it as SRK's attempt to pull off a Rush Hour, and pay homage to the biggest star of Tollywood films, Rajnikanth.
"Rahul (SRK) embarks on a journey to a small town in Tamil Nadu to fulfill the last wish of his grandfather: to have his ashes immersed in the Holy waters of the river Rameshwaram. En route, he meets Meenamma Lochini Azhagusundaram (Deepika Padukone), a woman hailing from a unique family down South. As they find love through this journey in the exuberant lands of South India, an unanticipated drive awaits them."
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"Florence Foster Jenkins"
I was probably the only person in the theater that afternoon who had heard of Jenkins *before* the movie. And it was weird being in line with all the old ladies asking for tickets to "Florence Foster Streep"..... (hey, it was a HOT Saturday afternoon, and I wanted the air conditioning)
It's a decent biopic of a truly unique entertainer. I don't know how accurate it is; they probably massaged the truth a bit....
The critics love Streep's performance, but it's really Hugh Grant's show. He's got a tougher acting job, convincing you that he really does love the older Florence (and he's not just in it for the money) while still being a "man about town" with his "sport" on the side....
Anyway, I think that the song over the closing credits was Florence herself:
(http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/V6ubiUIxbWE/mqdefault.jpg) (http://youtube.com/v/V6ubiUIxbWE)
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Saw a very good movie today called " Sully " with Tom Hanks as US Airways pilot Captain Sullenberger i.e. Sully. At 96 minutes long it is not filled with a lot of useless fluff because the event, The Miracle on the Hudson, in which he safely landed a jet aircraft on the Hudson river and all 155 passengers and crew survived, is amazing enough without adding useless stuff to it. I highly recommend it. :)
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Saw a very good movie today called " Sully " with Tom Hanks as US Airways pilot Captain Sullenberger i.e. Sully.
That's on my list. It's funny how much in common this "based-on-a-true-story" film about an airline pilot portrayed by a multiple Oscar winner (Tom Hanks) who achieves a near-impossible landing under extreme conditions has with Flight (2012), a possibly (http://communitytable.parade.com/19022/patricksmith/cockpit-confidential-how-realistic-is-denzel-washingtons-flight/) based-on-a-true-story (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/feb/11/a-pilots-view-on-flight) film (http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/9741/is-the-film-flight-based-on-a-true-story) about an airline pilot portrayed by a multiple Oscar winner (Denzel Washington) who achieves a near-impossible landing under extreme conditions. Apparently, I'm not the only person who had that thought (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/07/clint-eastwood-s-sully-is-flight-minus-the-cocaine-denzel-and-fun.html).
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Train to Busan
I finally got around to watching this South Korean zombie movie.It’s easily in my top 5 zombie movies and one of the best horror movies I’ve seen in the past 25 years.I highly recommend it.
If you liked another South Korean horror movie a few years ago called The Host then I’m telling you this movie is even better than that one!
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Re-watched Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation. I really love the ending. So satisfying. He might be a member of a wacky cult but damn Tom Cruise makes some fantastic movies.
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I liked two late movies. The first is is " A Honest Thief " with Liam Neeson of a bank robber who tries to make amends but is then betrayed by rogue FBI agents and " Let Him Go " with Kevin Costner and Dianne Lane about a a couple of Grand Parents trying to rescue their widowed Daughter In Law and her **09** from an abusive new husband and his weird family. Sad ending though. :(
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Watching a lot of good movies these days, thanks to people sharing them not entirely legally online.
The Innocents (1961) - Possibly the best film adaptation of Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw". Moody and "Gothic", and an excellent performance by Deborah Kerr. Though I wondered if it could have all been taken care of if the housekeeper-cook Mrs. Grose had taken Miss Giddens (Kerr) aside and said, "Look, your charges have been through a lot. Their parents died, and their former governess killed herself after her lover the gardener died. They've just about gotten over it, so don't bring it all up again by asking them questions. Talk to me first. And this is a very big and empty house. You'd do well to have neighbors stopping by quite often. At least invite the vicar over for tea once a week...."
The Spy who Came in from the Cold (1965) - The greatest spy movie, because it doesn't rely on gadgets or someone trying to take over the world. Just an agent and a very deep act of deception.....
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Watching a lot of good movies these days, thanks to people sharing them not entirely legally online.
The Innocents (1961) - Possibly the best film adaptation of Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw". Moody and "Gothic", and an excellent performance by Deborah Kerr. Though I wondered if it could have all been taken care of if the housekeeper-cook Mrs. Grose had taken Miss Giddens (Kerr) aside and said, "Look, your charges have been through a lot. Their parents died, and their former governess killed herself after her lover the gardener died. They've just about gotten over it, so don't bring it all up again by asking them questions. Talk to me first. And this is a very big and empty house. You'd do well to have neighbors stopping by quite often. At least invite the vicar over for tea once a week...."
A little common sense could destroy a lot of movies. ;)
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A little common sense could destroy a lot of movies. ;)
Indeed it could. I rewatched Skyfall last night, and it's annoying. For instance, why would Q (supposedly a tech genius) plug an unvetted computer directly into MI6's main computer network, not knowing what malware it could contain? And then why would he be surprised when (tada!) the malware on said computer overtakes the network?
He should have been sacked on the spot.
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And don't get me started on the tenuousness and improbability of Silva's plan to get into and out of MI6's HQ in the first place. If Bond had shot him dead on the island after Silva had killed Severine, that entire scheme would have been for naught.
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We're watching "The Hobbit" trilogy for Christmas. Watched "An Unexpected Journey" last night, just after our annual watching of "A Christmas Carol" with Alistair Sim. Going to watch "The Desolation Of Smaug" tonight.
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I will probably keep it locked on the DIY Network until it's time to watch A Charlie Brown Christmas.
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In the light of the coup attempt at the Capitol last Wednesday, rewatching the best standalone movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: 2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
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been watching the Cobra Kai 3rd season on netflix!
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been watching the Cobra Kai 3rd season on netflix!
Didn't know it had reached a third season. Is it that good?
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News Of The World with Tom Hanks in theaters right now. I recommend it. :)
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News Of The World with Tom Hanks in theaters right now. I recommend it. :)
You're a braver man than I am, going to a movie theatre while COVID is rampant :D
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Yes I think the writing is very good and the way they present complex character, instead of the typical good vs bad guy. We are able to see how each character became who they are. also some bit of humor mix in.
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Yes I think the writing is very good and the way they present complex character, instead of the typical good vs bad guy. We are able to see how each character became who they are. also some bit of humor mix in.
Nice! I hope they don't overstay their welcome and have ten seasons like the US version of The Office did.
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Tom hanks in Greyhound was quite good if you like Warships as I do... The Destroyer used is in late war fit and the movie depicts a Fletcher class ship in 1942 but hey I didnt mind,,, Im probably one of the few who even noticed.... The other ships in the hunter group are Canada's own flower class Corvette and a sweet Vampire class RN Destroyer.... The movie shows the gap where air cover stopped and wolf packs gathered to prey on Convoys... Also being a Sci fi fan the latest Season of the EXPANSE on Amazon prime.... The best Sci Fi series since the remake of Battlestar Galactica IMHO..
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The Expanse is good! Very underrated sci-fi show
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Saw " Crisis " which is about the opiate epidemic in the USA. it was engaging, saddening and thought provoking.
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Watched Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse for the first time last night. Wow! That film was one of the best animated movies I've seen this decade. Top 3 best films I've seen this year!
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Watched Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse for the first time last night. Wow! That film was one of the best animated movies I've seen this decade. Top 3 best films I've seen this year!
Thanks for the reccy! I've got that one in my unwatched new DVD pile, I'll give it a look next weekend. :D
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The new Godzilla movie is so fake, their national guard shows up immediately instead of 3+ hours later! Just unbelievable !
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"Collecting" a few flicks about Irish history to watch in honor of Irish-American Day.
There's The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006), about two brothers who fight the Brits in the war for Irish independence, then each other in the civil war that followed.
And The Siege of Jadotville (2016), about a battle in the mess in Africa in the "de-colonization" era where fewer than 160 Irish peacekeeping forces held off an attack by some 3,000 mixed troops - only to be called cowards and shoved aside because after six days, they had to surrender when their ammunition ran out - and no one could be bothered to come to their rescue.
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Speaking of the results of European colonialism:
Watched Hotel Rwanda (2004) for the first time today. Starring Don Cheadle and Sophie Okenedo, it's the stunning true story of how Hutu hotelier Paul Rusesabagina (Don's character) and his Tutsi wife Tatiana (Sophie's character) kept their family and almost 1,200 guests and refugees safe in the immediate aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
The movie is partly based upon Philip Gourevitch's 1998 book with the chilling title We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families.
Although in my opinion it deserved all the acclaim it received, including Academy Award nominations for Best Actor (Cheadle), Best Supporting Actress (Okonedo), and Best Original Screenplay, the account as portrayed in the movie was not without criticism from the post-genocide Rwandan government, led by Paul Kagame.
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Highly controversial movie! I think we were fascinated that even blacks can be racist toward other blacks. As it turns out the NAZI favored the straight nose Africans over the flat nose types. So they establish a hierarchy caste system inherited from NAZI quest for purifying the nation. It can be human nature to selectively associate to those they feel similar to, but a conscience effort to not do so by looks. "Planet of the apes" was a very racist movie and Charles Heston notice that during meal break of shooting the movies all the primates typecast hang out to their collective group during the meal, and nobody told them to do so. I guess it was easier to explain to the public about evil of racism, if its not in their own yard.
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In theaters now there is a Cold War spy movie called " The Courier ". Set from 1960 through 1965, it is a story of a unlikely spy played by Benedict Cumberbatch as British salesman Greville Wynne who MI6 and the CIA recruit to assist Soviet GRU ( Soviet Military intelligence agency not under the control of the KGB. Similar to the relationship that the Pentagon controlled NSA and the separate independent CIA have in the USA ) Colonel Oleg Penkovsky gather and steal Soviet secrets which untimely disclose Soviet activity in Cuba and the Cuban Missile crisis of October 1962. I was 6 years old then. It is nothing like a James Bond spy movie but better because it shows how banal and boring real intelligence activity can be. This was a real life incident and many of the details have only been declassified recently. Go see it. :)
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The Courier looks very interesting.
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The Courier looks very interesting.
It is. It won't insult your intelligence, There is no gratuitous violence or overacting because the story and the facts are compelling as they are. I highly recommend it. :)
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W A R N I N G !!!!!
Do NOT watch Cosmic Sin!
Possibly the WORST movie of the 21st century
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W A R N I N G !!!!!
Do NOT watch Cosmic Sin!
Possibly the WORST movie of the 21st century
"To suggest that Bruce Willis is phoning in his performance in Cosmic Sin would be an insult to telephone communication, which can be an effective means of conveying important information and genuine emotion.
Willis’ work—and this movie as a whole—accomplish neither of these things. As directed by Edward Drake, who co-wrote the abysmal script with supporting actor Corey Large, Cosmic Sin is at once baffling and boring. It lays the groundwork for its futuristic, sci-fi setting with lengthy and convoluted title cards, suggesting a transporting adventure awaits. But then the Earth of 2524 doesn’t look or feel terribly different from the one we occupy today, except for robot bartenders and the obligatory flying cars. And apparently there are no acting lessons in the future, as the performances here are uniformly stiff and unconvincing...
After starring in a recent string of such cheap action flicks, including Hard Kill, Survive the Night and 10 Minutes Gone, it appears Willis would rather be anywhere else but here. He offers nary a trace of the trademark swagger that made him a superstar in the ‘80s. Regardless of the situation, he delivers his lines in a sleepy monotone. Doing shots alone at a roadside dive bar at the film’s start, he’s theoretically trying to convey a sense of isolation and regret, but all we get is boredom. It’s the most honest and relatable moment in the whole movie."
-- Christy Lemire on RogerEbert.com, 12 March 2021
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Planes,Trains and Automobiles (1987)
I usually watch this at least once a year.
I think it’s John Hughes’s best movie and John Candy’s best performance!
Something I found out the other day is the original cut of the movie was over 3 and a half hours long but there is only one deleted scene that appears on any DVD release.That’s because no one can find what happened to the original cut of the film including John Hughes before he died.The script for the lost footage is out there but not the footage itself.Strange that a film classic like this movie has so much extra footage but nobody knows what happened with it.
Here’s an article about the lost cut of the movie:
https://www.avclub.com/unpacking-the-3-hour-planes-trains-and-automobiles-cut-1845776326
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Just saw in the theater a movie called " 12 mighty Orphans " set in 1938 Fort Worth, Texas, Masonic orphanage starring Luke Wilson, Martin Sheen and Robert Duvall about a most unlikely High School Football team winning the state championship. It's a great story of a real event which will make you feel good. :)
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I watched Captain Marvel for the first time since its release. It wasn't as bad as people were trying to make it out to be, although the reason why Nick Fury got his famous eyepatch was as underwhelming as people told me it was.
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I watched Captain Marvel for the first time since its release. It wasn't as bad as people were trying to make it out to be, although the reason why Nick Fury got his famous eyepatch was as underwhelming as people told me it was.
I thought it was an good movie. And yeah, I was pretty disappointed in the eyepatch thing too.
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I already knew the broad outlines of the story but having recently watched the Hulu documentary Batman and Bill (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcBDjjY2swE) and dug into the details, I can say:
FUCK BOB KANE
FUCK HIM STRAIGHT TO HELL.
-- TheZookie "also, fuck that motherfucker Bob Kane (https://screenrant.com/real-life-people-helped-bill-finger-batman-credit/)" 007
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The Sound of Freedom. It was actually a pretty decent movie. But you wouldnt know this if you listened to mainstream, for some odd reason absolutely hate the movie. I wonder why...?
(https://imgur.com/FhBF3gU.jpg)
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Saw the 40th Anniversary of National Lampoon's Vacation movie with Chevy Chase and Beverly DeAngelo with Christie Brinkley and John Candy as supporting characters/actors on the big screen in the cinema and it was/is a great comedy. :)
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No human characters - not even in the background.
No human voice actors - all the animal sounds were taken from real animals.
Made entirely in Blender - without storyboards, by the way.
(http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/ZgZccxuj2RY/mqdefault.jpg) (http://youtube.com/embed/ZgZccxuj2RY)
Win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
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I recently saw the three Lords of the rings at the movie house this past Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On Friday I saw The Fellowship of the Ring, which originally came out in 2001, on Saturday I saw The Lords of the Rings: the two towers which originally came out in 2002 and on Sunday I saw The Lord of the Rings: The return of the Kings, which originally came out in 2003. Movies based on J.R.R. Tolkien classic novels. :)
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PONTYPOOL (Canada, 2008)
Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie) is a new "morning drive time" DJ at a small town radio station in rural Ontario. Stopped at a traffic light on his way into work one snowy February morning, he is accosted by a woman. She bangs on his passenger side window, shouts something incomprehensible, and then vanishes.
At the station, Mazzy leads off his show by recounting that incident, and asking for people to call in with their own strange stories.
He doesn't get any responses, but the morning is going to get much stranger - and scarier.
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This is not your ordinary zombie movie; the zombie pathogen is not transmitted in the usual way. That makes it all the scarier. Being set at a small radio station that operates out of a church basement, the claustrophobia only heightens the tension. Everything happens in and around that one building - and there are only three people in the main cast.
What the hell is going on out there? Why aren't there any official news or government reports on the events? Why are only French-Canadian troops being sent in?
Worth looking for - especially if you like zombie movies.