shaxper
CCF Site Custodian
Posts: 22,436
|
Post by shaxper on Jul 23, 2020 19:15:17 GMT -5
Wait - we are counting books after all? In that case I can add a couple that I've watched this month. I left that up to you to decide. If you want to count adaptations from novels, go for it.
|
|
|
Post by brutalis on Jul 24, 2020 0:01:41 GMT -5
Tonight watched a movie doing lots of adaptions. Lego Scooby Doo, Haunted Hollywood. We get Lego toys adapted to movie. We get Scooby Doo cartoon adapted to Lego style CGI. We get an Elvira horror host wannabe (Elvira must have cost too much). We get a movie studio famous for old monster/horror movies going out of business complete with versions of its monsters haunting it. We get a Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney Sr variant called Boris Karnak (and his son Jr) the man of 999 faces. Silly fun as you would expect from the Lego folks.
|
|
|
Post by brutalis on Jul 25, 2020 10:10:04 GMT -5
Another Book to movie watched last night. 1975's Charles Bronson Breakheart Pass adaption of Alistair Macleans novel. A western Agatha Christie train mystery in essence with a plethora of famous faces. Nicely done bit of entertaining.
|
|
|
Post by Prince Hal on Jul 25, 2020 10:48:55 GMT -5
Watched "My Fair Lady" a couple of nights ago, courtesy TCM, adapting the B'way musical, which itself adapted Shaw's "Pygmalion."
Superb cast, clever lyrics, great music. It's fun to watch actors at the top of their game. Hepburn, though she is dubbed by the ubiquitous, and excellent, Marni Nixon, is affecting as Eliza, Stanley Holloway is perfect as her father and Rex Harrison and Wilfred Hyde-White are a fine-tuned comedy team. I also love Gladys Cooper as Mrs. Higgins... she is always a pro, and it's good to see her in a comedy part.
|
|
|
Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 3, 2020 6:09:43 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by brutalis on Aug 3, 2020 10:10:39 GMT -5
Hows about something fun. I Can't Drive 55. Movies with iconic cars and/or fast car chases/stunts. Across the decades from silent films through today the thrill of the race down the street, around the track or across the country with 4 wheels of speeding machines going faster than is smart has been bringing entertainment to the big screen. Turn that ignition key. Rev your motors. Let the race begin!!!
|
|
|
Post by Prince Hal on Aug 3, 2020 10:16:21 GMT -5
Hows about something fun. I Can't Drive 55. Movies with iconic cars and/or fast car chases/stunts. Across the decades from silent films through today the thrill of the race down the street, around the track or across the country with 4 wheels of speeding machines going faster than is smart has been bringing entertainment to the big screen. Turn that ignition key. Rev your motors. Let the race begin!!!So stagecoaches are kosher for this? Anything with wheels? And does it have to "iconic" or can there be a few undiscovered gems here?
|
|
|
Post by brutalis on Aug 3, 2020 10:23:40 GMT -5
Hows about something fun. I Can't Drive 55. Movies with iconic cars and/or fast car chases/stunts. Across the decades from silent films through today the thrill of the race down the street, around the track or across the country with 4 wheels of speeding machines going faster than is smart has been bringing entertainment to the big screen. Turn that ignition key. Rev your motors. Let the race begin!!!So stagecoaches are kosher for this? Anything with wheels? And does it have to "iconic" or can there be a few undiscovered gems here? ANYTHING WITH WHEELS sounds good. So a good stagecoach, bicycle, motorcycle, cars, trucks, buses, tanks, trains and even planes if they are grounded! Iconic I mean in the sense it's not just a "typical" scene (plenty of police chases in movies but there are some big time classic pieces) and something a bit more memorable. Go crazy is my motto...
|
|
|
Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 4, 2020 9:35:18 GMT -5
For my first selection I went with the 1980, John Landis Classic...The Blues Brothers. Not only is it one of the funniest films ever made but it fits the theme perfectly as the Blues Mobile is really central to the plot and its car chase scenes are legendary. From the start with the jump over the bridge:
To the run through the mall:
And finally the great police wreck:
|
|
|
Post by brutalis on Aug 4, 2020 12:59:44 GMT -5
Starting off the race with an Elvis twofer' this morning thanks to MoviesTV channel. I got to enjoy Elvis, fast cars and gorgeous women while watching Viva Las Vegas and Speedway. Both have E as big time race car driver extraordinaire with Ann Margaret in one arm and Nancy Sinatra in the other. Viva shows us the fun of Vegas racing while Speedway delivers lots of professional race car drivers in cameos. Neither deliver any real spectacular racing but plenty of fancy and stylish cars to ooooohhhhh over. Silly yet fun entertainment.
|
|
|
Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 4, 2020 14:15:01 GMT -5
Squeezed in a second one today while doing the laundry...Cannonball Run. Featuring stars like Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise you can't really go wrong and it's full of fun 70's film easter eggs.
|
|
|
Post by codystarbuck on Aug 5, 2020 12:03:41 GMT -5
Anyone gonna try this classic....
Andy needs to have a talk with Opie!
|
|
|
Post by brutalis on Aug 5, 2020 12:49:58 GMT -5
Anyone gonna try this classic.... Andy needs to have a talk with Opie! Actually saw this on the big screen in the day on a double billing with Macon County Line! You gotta love Jethro the redneck bad cop!
|
|
|
Post by brutalis on Aug 9, 2020 15:08:27 GMT -5
Breaker Breaker, this here's Rubber Duck. You got your ears on Pig Pen? I think we got us a Convoy here! I loved the song over the radio in the day and this 1978 movie does a fun job of visually giving us the trucker song brought to life.
A hot mess from Peckinpah's final movie (just how much is Sam & how much cut out we will never know) with Kristofferson, McGraw and Borgnine providing the leads. Plenty of anti-disestablishmentism sentiments over the hard working blue collar truck driver versus the traditional "bad" cop. But what we are here for is all the big rigs racing on down the highway. Which there is plenty of!
|
|
|
Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 10, 2020 8:25:32 GMT -5
For my next selection I went with Planes, Trains and Automobiles. I've always been a fan of both John Candy and Steve Martin so to see them both on screen together was a treat. I was thinking about it today and there are a lot of comedies that involve cars, and I wonder what it is about travel that lends itself to laughs.
|
|