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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2016 3:39:45 GMT -5
Ish, Babes In Arms (1939) Starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland is a favorite of mine and I learned something new from you about the FDR scene that was taken out when he died in office. I did not know that when I came across your post here. I'm glad it restored on DVD.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 17, 2016 10:26:22 GMT -5
Babes In Arms (1939) Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland Talking movies are killing Vaudeville and a bunch of the veterans decide to go on a road show to revitalize the format. They leave behind their teenage children who have show biz in their blood as well. So they decide to put on their own show back home led, of course, by Mickey and Judy Directed by Busby Berkeley so you will see some wild and extravagant choreography. Memorable numbers include Good Morning Good Morning and Where or When. Mickey and Judy previously teamed up for a comedy and an Andy Hardy film but this 3rd pairing is their first musical together. Released the same year as The Wizard of Oz and Margaret Hamilton also appears in it with a small witchy role. It was MGM's biggest grossing film of the year, outpacing Oz. Its also marred by a big minstrel blackface number by Mickey and Judy. You'll see Mickey do a Clark Gable impression and there's a funny FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt impersonation by Mickey and Judy as well. The FDR scene was removed when he died in office but has been restored on the DVD. Yes, there is plenty of corn but the pair are energetic and bubbly. June Priesser plays a former child movie star and is quite impressive with her acrobatic dancing I've never seen Babes in Arms but I saw the sequel Strike Up the Band a year or two ago and it was very entertaining with a dash of audacious stupidity that you come to expect from Hollywood movies of the era. I think I saw Babes in Arms on the TCM schedule for April so I may give it a try. Mickey Rooney was nominated for Best Actor!
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 17, 2016 10:31:32 GMT -5
In other news, I DVRed The Silencers.
The only Matt Helm movie I've ever seen from start to finish is The Ambushers. It's pretty bad. So I've snubbed Matt Helm for a while.
But last year, I saw the last forty minutes or so of The Silencers. Stella Stevens! Daliah Lavi! Victor Buono! From what I saw, it looked a lot better than The Ambushers. So I'll probably watch it over the weekend.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 17, 2016 10:37:16 GMT -5
I also DVRed The Wrath of Khan. I'm trying to get my nephew to watch it with me so he won't think the recent "Star Trek" reboot is what "Star Trek" is. He hates the first one and he just flat-out refused to see Into Darkness.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 17, 2016 10:47:39 GMT -5
I watched You're Never Too Young last night. It's hilarious at times but sometimes it's merely a little amusing. True, I was ready for it to be over about ten minutes before the end, but I still enjoyed it immensely, and I never started feeling hostile toward the way I did at the end of Artists and Models. (Which is such a great movie at times! This is my love/hate relationship with Jerry Lewis.)
You're Never Too Young also invades "very creepy" territory from time to time. Like when Jerry lures a 12-year-old boy into a utility closet by telling him he has rayguns and then Jerry emerges wearing the boy's sailor suit. (He's masquerading as a child so jewel thief Raymond Burr won't recognize him.) Or when Jerry (still masquerading as a child) makes out with a girl in her early teens in order to keep Raymond Burr (who's prowling around) from seeing his face clearly. Or when Jerry grabs teacher Diana Lynn and kisses her several times and she doesn't try to stop him even though she thinks he's 12.
It's like a "Family Guy" episode.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2016 10:55:46 GMT -5
In other news, I DVRed The Silencers. The only Matt Helm movie I've ever seen from start to finish is The Ambushers. It's pretty bad. So I've snubbed Matt Helm for a while. But last year, I saw the last forty minutes or so of The Silencers. Stella Stevens! Daliah Lavi! Victor Buono! From what I saw, it looked a lot better than The Ambushers. So I'll probably watch it over the weekend. I'm a huge Matt (Dean Martin) Helm Fan and I have all his films on DVD ... What I do on annual basis is I watch all 4 films films and I enjoyed the humor that he brings. I consider The Silencers the best and the Murderer's Row of which he teams up with Ann Margret was exceptionally good and the bad guy was Karl Malden. The Ambushers with Janice Rule was corny but entertaining. The Wrecking Crew was a good one and it's has a great cast - the most disappointing thing about this movie is no James Gregory who played MacDonald in all Matt Helm's films.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 17, 2016 12:30:44 GMT -5
In other news, I DVRed The Silencers. The only Matt Helm movie I've ever seen from start to finish is The Ambushers. It's pretty bad. So I've snubbed Matt Helm for a while. But last year, I saw the last forty minutes or so of The Silencers. Stella Stevens! Daliah Lavi! Victor Buono! From what I saw, it looked a lot better than The Ambushers. So I'll probably watch it over the weekend. I'm a huge Matt (Dean Martin) Helm Fan and I have all his films on DVD ... What I do on annual basis is I watch all 4 films films and I enjoyed the humor that he brings. I consider The Silencers the best and the Murderer's Row of which he teams up with Ann Margret was exceptionally good and the bad guy was Karl Malden. The Ambushers with Janice Rule was corny but entertaining. The Wrecking Crew was a good one and it's has a great cast - the most disappointing thing about this movie is no James Gregory who played MacDonald in all Matt Helm's films. I usually have a high tolerance for 1960s spy movies. In the 1990s, AMC had a 1960s Retro Weekend (or something) and I ended up with a VHS tape that contained the 1967 version of Casino Royale (which I'd seen before), The Last of the Secret Agents? and Modesty Blaise. I love that version of Casino Royale! When I switched to DVD, I got Casino Royale on DVD, and I've seen it bunches and bunches of times over the years. The idea that the original Bond is long-retired and somebody else is using his name is great. And he had a child with Mata Hari! (And she's played by the beautiful Joanna Pettet!) And Ursula Andress is Vesper Lynd, adventuress! And Peter Sellers is Evelyn Tremble, the world's greatest expert on baccarat! And Woody Allen is James Bond's nephew! And Orson Wells is Le Chiffre! Throw in Deborah Kerr, Barbara Bouchet, Daliah Lavi, John Huston, Charles Boyer, George Raft, Jackie Bisset, Peter O'Toole and etcetera and you have a mess, but oh what a glorious mess! I love The Last of the Secret Agents? a lot as well. Marty Allen, Steve Rossi, Nancy Sinatra (she provides the theme song as well; I hum it all the time), Lou Jacobi, Harvey Korman, Sig Ruman. About the third or fourth time I saw it, I realized that it's not really that funny, but it charges forward on charm and personality. I haven't seen it for close to twenty years. I would love to see it again. Modesty Blaise gets a lot of points for Monica Vitti and also for being so darn weird. It looks like Antonioni and Bunuel made a James Bond movie. It's kind of long though. I'm not sure I watched it more than once when I had it on VHS. I watched it again a year or so ago (it shows on Cinemoi from time to time) and I loved it as much as ever! But I think watching it once every twenty years or so is plenty! I did not like The Ambushers at all. I found it pretty dull for the most part. I think I watched it on Netflix Instant Watch. I guess it just didn't appeal to me. I'm sure you think some of the fair-to-middling movies that I love are pretty bad. But at least we can agree on the awesomeness of Godzilla's Revenge!
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Post by berkley on Mar 17, 2016 12:33:14 GMT -5
Me and my brothers loved watching the Matt Helm movies on tv when we were kids. In hindsight of course they weren't very good, but I'm pretty sure I'd still have a lot of fun watching them again if I ever found time for them. I'm looking forward to trying the books, as I understand they are much more serious in tone.
James Coburn's Flint movies are great as well, as I'm sure everyone here is aware.
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Post by berkley on Mar 17, 2016 12:57:39 GMT -5
I'm a huge Matt (Dean Martin) Helm Fan and I have all his films on DVD ... What I do on annual basis is I watch all 4 films films and I enjoyed the humor that he brings. I consider The Silencers the best and the Murderer's Row of which he teams up with Ann Margret was exceptionally good and the bad guy was Karl Malden. The Ambushers with Janice Rule was corny but entertaining. The Wrecking Crew was a good one and it's has a great cast - the most disappointing thing about this movie is no James Gregory who played MacDonald in all Matt Helm's films. I usually have a high tolerance for 1960s spy movies. In the 1990s, AMC had a 1960s Retro Weekend (or something) and I ended up with a VHS tape that contained the 1967 version of Casino Royale (which I'd seen before), The Last of the Secret Agents? and Modesty Blaise. I love that version of Casino Royale! When I switched to DVD, I got Casino Royale on DVD, and I've seen it bunches and bunches of times over the years. The idea that the original Bond is long-retired and somebody else is using his name is great. And he had a child with Mata Hari! (And she's played by the beautiful Joanna Pettet!) And Ursula Andress is Vesper Lynd, adventuress! And Peter Sellers is Evelyn Tremble, the world's greatest expert on baccarat! And Woody Allen is James Bond's nephew! And Orson Wells is Le Chiffre! Throw in Deborah Kerr, Barbara Bouchet, Daliah Lavi, John Huston, Charles Boyer, George Raft, Jackie Bisset, Peter O'Toole and etcetera and you have a mess, but oh what a glorious mess! I love The Last of the Secret Agents? a lot as well. Marty Allen, Steve Rossi, Nancy Sinatra (she provides the theme song as well; I hum it all the time), Lou Jacobi, Harvey Korman, Sig Ruman. About the third or fourth time I saw it, I realized that it's not really that funny, but it charges forward on charm and personality. I haven't seen it for close to twenty years. I would love to see it again. Modesty Blaise gets a lot of points for Monica Vitti and also for being so darn weird. It looks like Antonioni and Bunuel made a James Bond movie. It's kind of long though. I'm not sure I watched it more than once when I had it on VHS. I watched it again a year or so ago (it shows on Cinemoi from time to time) and I loved it as much as ever! But I think watching it once every twenty years or so is plenty! I did not like The Ambushers at all. I found it pretty dull for the most part. I think I watched it on Netflix Instant Watch. I guess it just didn't appeal to me. I'm sure you think some of the fair-to-middling movies that I love are pretty bad. But at least we can agree on the awesomeness of Godzilla's Revenge! The David Niven Casino Royale was my favourite movie when I was a kid. I must have seen it about six times on tv, over the years.
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Post by lobsterjohnson on Mar 17, 2016 13:38:29 GMT -5
I also DVRed The Wrath of Khan. I'm trying to get my nephew to watch it with me so he won't think the recent "Star Trek" reboot is what "Star Trek" is. He hates the first one and he just flat-out refused to see Into Darkness. I'm a big Wrath of Khan fan, but Into Darkness is great too. One of the few relatively recent movies I was excited enough about to see in the theater.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 17, 2016 14:26:54 GMT -5
I also DVRed The Wrath of Khan. I'm trying to get my nephew to watch it with me so he won't think the recent "Star Trek" reboot is what "Star Trek" is. He hates the first one and he just flat-out refused to see Into Darkness. I'm a big Wrath of Khan fan, but Into Darkness is great too. One of the few relatively recent movies I was excited enough about to see in the theater. I thought Into Darkness was AWFUL. Chris Pine's Kirk isn't just a maverick captain who doesn't play by the rules, he has a major anger management problem. No responsible organization would ever put him in charge of a starship. And he's not very smart either. That part where he's mad at Spock because Spock didn't falsify his report and so Kirk looked bad because he DID lie on his report. Yeah. Hey, Kirk, when you lie on your report, it's a good idea to let the other officers know so that you can all put down the same lies. It was moronic of Kirk to think that Spock would support that and it was doubly moronic of Kirk to think that Spock would somehow independently get the idea to lie on his report and that somehow, magically, Spock would come up with the same lies and Starfleet Command would never be the wiser. And Zachary Quinto's Spock doesn't come off as being amused and a bit baffled by human behavior, he comes off as a half-witted dingdong, completely flabbergasted by human behavior that he sees all the time. The whole movie was full of dumb stuff like that. The first Chris Pine Star Trek wasn't great, but it wasn't so bad that it annoyed me. It was another fairly-exciting, lazily-written adventure blockbuster. But Into Darkness was a nonsensical crapfest. I felt so bad for Zoe Saldana because I feel like her Uhura is a real highlight of the reboot.
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Post by lobsterjohnson on Mar 17, 2016 14:51:48 GMT -5
I'm a big Wrath of Khan fan, but Into Darkness is great too. One of the few relatively recent movies I was excited enough about to see in the theater. I thought Into Darkness was AWFUL. Chris Pine's Kirk isn't just a maverick captain who doesn't play by the rules, he has a major anger management problem. No responsible organization would ever put him in charge of a starship. And he's not very smart either. That part where he's mad at Spock because Spock didn't falsify his report and so Kirk looked bad because he DID lie on his report. Yeah. Hey, Kirk, when you lie on your report, it's a good idea to let the other officers know so that you can all put down the same lies. It was moronic of Kirk to think that Spock would support that and it was doubly moronic of Kirk to think that Spock would somehow independently get the idea to lie on his report and that somehow, magically, Spock would come up with the same lies and Starfleet Command would never be the wiser. And Zachary Quinto's Spock doesn't come off as being amused and a bit baffled by human behavior, he comes off as a half-witted dingdong, completely flabbergasted by human behavior that he sees all the time. The whole movie was full of dumb stuff like that. The first Chris Pine Star Trek wasn't great, but it wasn't so bad that it annoyed me. It was another fairly-exciting, lazily-written adventure blockbuster. But Into Darkness was a nonsensical crapfest. I felt so bad for Zoe Saldana because I feel like her Uhura is a real highlight of the reboot. I think the first movie was decent, but it did have some plot issues and wasn't a perfect movie. I really like Into Darkness, though. It might even be my favorite Star Trek movie.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 17, 2016 15:23:52 GMT -5
I thought Into Darkness was AWFUL. Chris Pine's Kirk isn't just a maverick captain who doesn't play by the rules, he has a major anger management problem. No responsible organization would ever put him in charge of a starship. And he's not very smart either. That part where he's mad at Spock because Spock didn't falsify his report and so Kirk looked bad because he DID lie on his report. Yeah. Hey, Kirk, when you lie on your report, it's a good idea to let the other officers know so that you can all put down the same lies. It was moronic of Kirk to think that Spock would support that and it was doubly moronic of Kirk to think that Spock would somehow independently get the idea to lie on his report and that somehow, magically, Spock would come up with the same lies and Starfleet Command would never be the wiser. And Zachary Quinto's Spock doesn't come off as being amused and a bit baffled by human behavior, he comes off as a half-witted dingdong, completely flabbergasted by human behavior that he sees all the time. The whole movie was full of dumb stuff like that. The first Chris Pine Star Trek wasn't great, but it wasn't so bad that it annoyed me. It was another fairly-exciting, lazily-written adventure blockbuster. But Into Darkness was a nonsensical crapfest. I felt so bad for Zoe Saldana because I feel like her Uhura is a real highlight of the reboot. I think the first movie was decent, but it did have some plot issues and wasn't a perfect movie. I really like Into Darkness, though. It might even be my favorite Star Trek movie. There was one scene I liked a lot. Where Kirk and the other guy (was it Khan?) were in those suits and plummeting through the asteroid field straight at the tiny bay door that Scotty was holding open for them. That was pretty exciting. But overall I just couldn't get past the avalanche of lazy writing and Chris Pine's overacting (which wouldn't have been a problem if he was good at it. He's not Victor Mature, that's for sure).
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 17, 2016 15:48:10 GMT -5
Babes In Arms (1939) Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland Talking movies are killing Vaudeville and a bunch of the veterans decide to go on a road show to revitalize the format. They leave behind their teenage children who have show biz in their blood as well. So they decide to put on their own show back home led, of course, by Mickey and Judy Directed by Busby Berkeley so you will see some wild and extravagant choreography. Memorable numbers include Good Morning Good Morning and Where or When. Mickey and Judy previously teamed up for a comedy and an Andy Hardy film but this 3rd pairing is their first musical together. Released the same year as The Wizard of Oz and Margaret Hamilton also appears in it with a small witchy role. It was MGM's biggest grossing film of the year, outpacing Oz. Its also marred by a big minstrel blackface number by Mickey and Judy. You'll see Mickey do a Clark Gable impression and there's a funny FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt impersonation by Mickey and Judy as well. The FDR scene was removed when he died in office but has been restored on the DVD. Yes, there is plenty of corn but the pair are energetic and bubbly. June Priesser plays a former child movie star and is quite impressive with her acrobatic dancing I've never seen Babes in Arms but I saw the sequel Strike Up the Band a year or two ago and it was very entertaining with a dash of audacious stupidity that you come to expect from Hollywood movies of the era. I think I saw Babes in Arms on the TCM schedule for April so I may give it a try. Mickey Rooney was nominated for Best Actor! Babes In Arms is the 1st of four Rooney/Garland films in the boxset I just started to watch. Strike up The Band might be the one I watch next tonight. The others are Girl Crazy and Babes on Broadway
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 17, 2016 16:07:54 GMT -5
You probably don't have this one:
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