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Post by lobsterjohnson on Mar 21, 2016 11:12:37 GMT -5
My most reliably willing Star Trek moviegoer friend hated Into Darkness so much, I'm worried I won't be able to convince him to go to Beyond. I'll keep reminding him Simon Pegg wrote it and hope I can sway him... I'm surprised to see the negative reactions towards Into Darkness from a lot of Star Trek fans. I only personally know a small number of Trek fans, but they all enjoyed it. I've seen some similar reactions among Firefly fans when talking about Serenity. I thought Serenity was awesome (maybe even my favorite overall movie), but I know of a large number of Firefly fans that disliked it (or at least thought it was worse than the show). |
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 21, 2016 11:29:11 GMT -5
I finally got around to watching Mon Oncle on YouTube. I've watched about 30 minutes. (I stopped to put the laundry in the dryer.)
This YouTube version seems to dubbed in Italian and there are no sub-titles. I'm enjoying it anyway and I plan to watch the whole thing because, as I recall from the other Tati films I've seen, you don't really need to know exactly what they are saying.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 21, 2016 11:32:48 GMT -5
My most reliably willing Star Trek moviegoer friend hated Into Darkness so much, I'm worried I won't be able to convince him to go to Beyond. I'll keep reminding him Simon Pegg wrote it and hope I can sway him... I'm surprised to see the negative reactions towards Into Darkness from a lot of Star Trek fans. I only personally know a small number of Trek fans, but they all enjoyed it. I've seen some similar reactions among Firefly fans when talking about Serenity. I thought Serenity was awesome (maybe even my favorite overall movie), but I know of a large number of Firefly fans that disliked it (or at least thought it was worse than the show). I laid out pretty specifically a few of my problems with Into Darkness. If stuff like Kirk being an utter moron with an anger management problem doesn't bother you, then fine. But I couldn't enjoy the movie because of that and a bunch of other really dumb stuff. I am not alone. Another thing that bugged me was the way that McCoy was almost completely sidelined in both films of the reboot. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 21, 2016 12:22:11 GMT -5
I finally got around to watching Mon Oncle on YouTube. I've watched about 30 minutes. (I stopped to put the laundry in the dryer.) This YouTube version seems to dubbed in Italian and there are no sub-titles. I'm enjoying it anyway and I plan to watch the whole thing because, as I recall from the other Tati films I've seen, you don't really need to know exactly what they are saying. Tati's films have lots of visual humor and pantomime. Still, its a shame watching it for the first time you not understanding the dialogue which would add to your enjoyment. I never hear you mentioning your library system for film viewing. Or even their film streaming service. Have you explored that option? In the NYC system, the library seems to be really stocked heavy with The Criterion Catalogue and all Tati's movies are a part of it. And they include great extras on the DVDs as well |
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 21, 2016 12:44:15 GMT -5
I finally got around to watching Mon Oncle on YouTube. I've watched about 30 minutes. (I stopped to put the laundry in the dryer.) This YouTube version seems to dubbed in Italian and there are no sub-titles. I'm enjoying it anyway and I plan to watch the whole thing because, as I recall from the other Tati films I've seen, you don't really need to know exactly what they are saying. Tati's films have lots of visual humor and pantomime. Still, its a shame watching it for the first time you not understanding the dialogue which would add to your enjoyment. I never hear you mentioning your library system for film viewing. Or even their film streaming service. Have you explored that option? In the NYC system, the library seems to be really stocked heavy with The Criterion Catalogue and all Tati's movies are a part of it. And they include great extras on the DVDs as well My library system (San Bernardino County, California) leaves a lot to be desired on a lot of levels. I don't think I've ever searched for a movie earlier than 1980 that was available. So I don't even bother anymore. (And I just checked ... no Jacques Tati. The online catalogue doesn't even recognize that such a person has ever existed.) I like to read a presidential biography every once in a while. I found a good one on Polk and a really good one on John Quincy Adams from the 1950s. No biography of Taft or Buchanan, except for some juvenile bios that are 60 to 80 pages. Comic reprints are pretty spotty. I bought the Showcase Supergirl (Volume One) and the Thor Marvel Masterworks (Volume Three) because the library doesn't have them. But they have a bunch of Batman Showcase volumes, the Batgirl one, Aquaman, Wonder Woman. You never can tell. For the New 52 Wonder Woman, they have Volumes One to Four and Volume Six. But not Five. That's just how it is. I wanted to read Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier, but the library never heard of it unless I want the DVD. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 21, 2016 18:12:07 GMT -5
Tati's films have lots of visual humor and pantomime. Still, its a shame watching it for the first time you not understanding the dialogue which would add to your enjoyment. I never hear you mentioning your library system for film viewing. Or even their film streaming service. Have you explored that option? In the NYC system, the library seems to be really stocked heavy with The Criterion Catalogue and all Tati's movies are a part of it. And they include great extras on the DVDs as well My library system (San Bernardino County, California) leaves a lot to be desired on a lot of levels. I don't think I've ever searched for a movie earlier than 1980 that was available. So I don't even bother anymore. (And I just checked ... no Jacques Tati. The online catalogue doesn't even recognize that such a person has ever existed.) I like to read a presidential biography every once in a while. I found a good one on Polk and a really good one on John Quincy Adams from the 1950s. No biography of Taft or Buchanan, except for some juvenile bios that are 60 to 80 pages. Comic reprints are pretty spotty. I bought the Showcase Supergirl (Volume One) and the Thor Marvel Masterworks (Volume Three) because the library doesn't have them. But they have a bunch of Batman Showcase volumes, the Batgirl one, Aquaman, Wonder Woman. You never can tell. For the New 52 Wonder Woman, they have Volumes One to Four and Volume Six. But not Five. That's just how it is. I wanted to read Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier, but the library never heard of it unless I want the DVD. FYI- It seems just about the entire Criterion film library is available for streaming via Hulu Plus for $8 a month. And I'm sure that includes all the other things Hulu has to offer. Sounds like a fantastic deal |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 21, 2016 22:49:39 GMT -5
A Pre-Code Hollywood Collection Film
Search For Beauty (1934) Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Robert Armstrong, Ida Lupino, James Gleason
Robert Armstrong has finished serving time in jail for his King Kong promotion fiasco. He now has a new idea to rake in the dough. With James Gleason providing some capitol, they go into the publishing biz with a Health & Fitness magazine that will mainly be filled with sexy pictures and risque stories. They dupe Olympic athletes Buster (Flash Gordon) Crabbe and Ida Lupino to work as editors to give the mag some credibility
Another film rushed out just before the code crack down and featuring many many young lads and ladies in skimpy bathing suits. Sex is spoken of quite often and nonchalantly. There's a men's locker room scene with 2 men running around with their bare tushies completely exposed. Armstrong's girlfriend goes to the Olympics to check out Buster Crabbe on the diving board with her binoculars.She focuses in on his crotch and squeals "come to mama"
It's Ida Lupino's first film and she's barely recognizable with her curly blonde hair and plucked eyebrows. Crabbe does a passable acting performance. Armstrong is great as a fast talking sleazeball.
Your great-grandparents never told you about these movies, did they?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 22, 2016 0:57:41 GMT -5
Girl Crazy (1943) Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, June Allyson, Nancy Walker, Guy Kibbee
Mickey is the son of a wealthy NY publisher. His father thinks Mickey is too much of a womanizing night life playboy and sends him to a Dude Ranch college out west. There he meets Judy who delivers mail to the college and together they try to save the college from bancrupcy
4th and final collaboration between the 2 leads with Arthur Freed as the producer and Busby Berkeley as director. Actually Busby got fired early on during the production, only choreographing one number "I Got Rhythm" and summarily replaced by Norman Taurog. Adapted from a Broadway play featuring songs from the Gershwin Bros
The story is as fluffy and lightweight as they come. I'd have loved to see the pair do some later films that had more substantial storylines and comedy bits.
They are both fun to watch and extremely talented. But these vehicles are so hokey. Nancy Walker gave birth to Rhoda Morgenstern right after the film was completed. Also look for a quick appearance from Peter Lawford
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 22, 2016 8:58:05 GMT -5
A Pre-Code Hollywood Collection FilmSearch For Beauty (1934) Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Robert Armstrong, Ida Lupino, James Gleason Robert Armstrong has finished serving time in jail for his King Kong promotion fiasco. He now has a new idea to rake in the dough. With James Gleason providing some capitol, they go into the publishing biz with a Health & Fitness magazine that will mainly be filled with sexy pictures and risque stories. They dupe Olympic athletes Buster (Flash Gordon) Crabbe and Ida Lupino to work as editors to give the mag some credibility Another film rushed out just before the code crack down and featuring many many young lads and ladies in skimpy bathing suits. Sex is spoken of quite often and nonchalantly. There's a men's locker room scene with 2 men running around with their bare tushies completely exposed. Armstrong's girlfriend goes to the Olympics to check out Buster Crabbe on the diving board with her binoculars.She focuses in on his crotch and squeals "come to mama" It's Ida Lupino's first film and she's barely recognizable with her curly blonde hair and plucked eyebrows. Crabbe does a passable acting performance. Armstrong is great as a fast talking sleazeball. Your great-grandparents never told you about these movies, did they? This sounds great! Robert Armstrong is great! Have you ever seen The Lost Squadron where he flips the bird at one of the other pilots? It also features Erich von Stroheim. |
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Post by dupersuper on Mar 22, 2016 10:03:58 GMT -5
Well, I finally got around to watching Citizen Kane last night with my wife, and I can certainly see why it is considered a masterpiece. Although the ending had long been spoiled for me, my wife somehow still had no idea what "Rosebud" was. We were about 3/4 of the way through the movie, and she turned to me and said "it's probably something stupid, like his dog or his sled." I just had to bite my lip and laugh inside until we got to the end. The first time I saw Citizen Kane, I was about 14 and I saw that it was scheduled for about 2 a.m. on one of the broadcast stations. I was trying to broaden my classic films horizons past monster movies and Tarzan and Abbot and Costello, so I stayed up to watch it. And I dozed off at the end. I saw the scene where they are throwing everything into the fire, and the camera moves closer and closer, and it was so late at that point that I dozed off in the final seconds and didn't know what "Rosebud" was. I asked my mom and dad and some of my relatives, but nobody knew what Rosebud was. And this was before you could look it up on the Internet just like that. But a few months later, maybe a year or more later, I was reading an Iron Man comic (I forget which issue it was, but I remember the Bob Layton art), there's a sequence where Tony Stark is trying to solve a mystery and he just keeps hitting a dead end. He's feeling very frustrated. He's sitting at the bar mulling things over. (I think it's a bar at a hotel or maybe on a luxury ocean liner.) He turns to the drunk sitting next to him and says something like: "Do you know anything?" And the drunk says: "Hic. Rosebud's the sled." So a drunk at a bar in a comic book told me what Rosebud was. I already knew rosebud was the sled the first time I watched the movie as I had seen the Simpsons episode about Mr. Burns long lost teddy bear. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 22, 2016 10:09:11 GMT -5
This sounds great! Robert Armstrong is great! Have you ever seen The Lost Squadron where he flips the bird at one of the other pilots? It also features Erich von Stroheim. Missed that one so far. And looking at his IMDB credits, its amazing about the number of films and TV work he did during his 83 years on this earth. A real fun and engaging actor |
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Post by dupersuper on Mar 22, 2016 10:11:48 GMT -5
My most reliably willing Star Trek moviegoer friend hated Into Darkness so much, I'm worried I won't be able to convince him to go to Beyond. I'll keep reminding him Simon Pegg wrote it and hope I can sway him... I'm surprised to see the negative reactions towards Into Darkness from a lot of Star Trek fans. I only personally know a small number of Trek fans, but they all enjoyed it. I've seen some similar reactions among Firefly fans when talking about Serenity. I thought Serenity was awesome (maybe even my favorite overall movie), but I know of a large number of Firefly fans that disliked it (or at least thought it was worse than the show). I love Firefly, I love Serenity, I love Star Trek, Into Darkness was a weak retread of a much better movie. The Star Trek comic set in the new timeline is pretty good, and feels somewhat more Star Trek, so I still have those, and reruns, and SF Debris reviews, and Star Trek Continues, and cautious optimism for the Pegg-written film and the upcoming series with Wrath of Khan, and DS9 alumns involved... |
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 22, 2016 12:14:53 GMT -5
Here's a bit of a heads-up on some notable programming for TCM for the end of March. On Wednesday, March 23, you might be tempted to set the DVR for the whole day. It starts very early (3 a.m. Pacific Time) with an Akira Kurosawa Marathon! They are showing No Regrets for Our Youth, Stray Dog, Seven Samurai, The Bad Sleep Well and High and Low. I have never seen No Regrets for Our Youth so I set the DVR for that. And I also set the DVR for High and Low because I only saw it once and I think about it a lot. I consider it my second favorite Kurosawa film after Yojimbo. High and Low is highly recommended! Akira Kurosawa is my favorite director. Every one of his films is a wonder! (Except I didn't like Rhapsody in August very much.) Of the other films showing tomorrow, Seven Samurai is a world-cinema classic! I also highly recommend Stray Dog, a very noirish thriller with Toshiro Mifune as a Tokyo policeman who loses his gun. In the afternoon, TCM is switching to comics adapted for film! This goes on until midnight. It seems to be mostly stray chapters from movie serials from the 1940s. A little Batman, a little Superman, a little Green Hornet. Then Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon and the Phantom. And finally Dick Tracy and Ace Drummond! Of course, since, it's TCM, there's a lot of worthwhile programming just about every minute of every day. But I wanted to point out a couple of movies showing the morning of Thursday, March 31. At 3:30 a.m. Pacific Time, they're showing Fog over Frisco, a nifty little thriller with Bette Davis in a supporting role. Highly recommended! Directly after that is an obscure Humphrey Bogart film called Isle of Fury. I've never seen it, but I've seen a lot of obscure Bogart films that turn out to be very entertaining! |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 22, 2016 13:39:12 GMT -5
Wow, a Bogie film I have not seen? There are very, very few of those
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 22, 2016 13:57:25 GMT -5
Wow, a Bogie film I have not seen? There are very, very few of those It's rated 5.5 at IMDB. But it's only 60 minutes long. I'm going to watch it despite the low rating. And keep in mind there are a lot of know-it-all dingdongs rating movies at IMDB. |
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