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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 2, 2014 17:30:59 GMT -5
California Suite (1978)
Alan Alda,Jane Fonda,Michael Caine,Maggie Smith,Bill Cosby,Richard Pryor,Walter Matthau
Scrrenplay-Neil Simon D-Herbert Ross
4 stories of people checking into a Los Angeles hotel.Alda and Fonda are in the midst of a custody battle. Intellectual insults fly and people don't speak that way.Caine and Smith arrive to attend the Oscars. Listen in to the troubles of the rich and famous.Matthau's brother treats him to a hooker for the night in his hotel roomThe hooker passes out and the wife arrives.Entertaining. Cosby and Pryor with their wives engage in an esculating battle.Very funny
Maggie Smith got a supporting actress Oscar for her role. Definitaly watchable but uneven 6 and 1/2 stars of 10
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 2, 2014 17:47:34 GMT -5
The Party (1968)
Peter Sellers,Claudine Longet,Steve Franken,Gavin MacLeod
D-Blake Edwards
Indian actor Hrundi V. Bakshi is mistakenly invited to a Hollywood party
The humor comes from Bakshi (Sellers) trying to fit in at the party where he knows no one and misunderstands most of the converstaion.The movie is slow and subtle at first,slow to build but it does deliver with the yuks for the 2nd half. See Murray from the mary Tylor Moore Show in a toupee.See Chadsworth from Dobie Gllis as a drunken waiter.See CarolWayne best known as Johnny Carson's female assistant from his Art Fern Tonight Show skits.Wonder why Longet got hired as an actress and count down the years until she shoots her ski-legend boyfriend. See an elephant covered in body paint.See the most soap bubbles ever used in a film
Director Edwards and Sellers reunite after their Pink Panther success even though they hated each other.6 stars out of 10
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 2, 2014 18:37:37 GMT -5
Peter Pan (1953)
Voices of Bobby Driscoll,Kathryn Beaumont,Hans Conreid
D-Clyde Geronimi,Wilfred Jackson
An adaptation of J. M. Barrie's story about a boy who never grew up. The three children of the Darling family receive a visit from Peter Pan, who takes them to Never Land, where an ongoing war between Peter's gang of rag-tag runaways and the evil Pirate Captain Hook is taking place.
This film is straight up adventure.There is no sense of tragedy,romance or pathos.Therefore its more juvenile than any of the previous Disney full-length features.Peter Pan is a snot-nosed show off. Captain Hook is no match for Peter and Peter knows it-he toys with him,he delights in embarassing him.He cut off Hook's hand and fed it to the sharks.Nice kid.He also treats women like dirt.He ignores Tinkerbell,flirts with the mermaids,makes out with Tiger Lily and wants to prevent Wendy from going home.I think Peter Pan deserves to be taken down
And I forgot how much of a bitch Tinkerbell was.She was so jealous of Wendy that she wished Wendy got killed.Tinkerbell darling,Wendy is a boring character,Peter would eventually dump her and move on to his next conquest.Take my advice,tie Peter Pan to stakes on the ground,smear him with that peanut butter he's known for and wait for the jungle wildlife to finish the job.You deserve better
Yes,Peter Pan isn't my favorite.Oh,its OK as an animated movie goes but a bit of a let down compared to the other Disney films of this time period. 6 of 10 stars
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 2, 2014 18:59:06 GMT -5
Tom Russell's tribute to Bobby Driscoll. Farewell Never Never Land.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 2, 2014 19:06:10 GMT -5
Car Wash (1976)
Franklyn Ajaye,George Carlin,Ivan Dixon,Richard Pryor,The Pointer Sisters,Antonio Fargus,Bill Duke,Professor Irwin Corey,Garett Morris,Melanie Mayron
D-Michael Schultz
One day within a Los Angeles car wash amongst its employees,customers and passerbys
The inner city American Graphitti.I love this movie,always did.Don't know if I saw it in the theaters but it played so many times back then on HBO and later Cinemax.Not a disco fan but the title song is one of my favs.Franklyn Ajaye had the BADDEST afro this side of Oscar Gamble
and who here couldn't relate to his dream of becoming a super-hero callled The Fly. Its all about the dreams these characters have as they work a thankless 9 to 5 and try to have fun as they do it. This is just one of those 70s films that will always bring a nostalgic smile to my face. I don't know why.I'm neither black nor from Los Angeles.Maybe its just great. 8 and 1/2 stars of 10
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 2, 2014 19:09:40 GMT -5
I always thought of Cooley High as the inner city American Graffiti.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 2, 2014 19:16:24 GMT -5
I always thought of Cooley High as the inner city American Graffiti. Yup,Cooley High was very good too |
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Post by allensmith on Jun 2, 2014 20:13:12 GMT -5
My fave movies in various genres: Day the Earth Stood Still (fifties version, of course), Alien, Stalag 17, The Wild Bunch (both of those with William Holden), the old Universal monster movies like Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Wolf Man, things like that. I see a ton of current movies, mostly in the fantasy or action science fiction genre as I go to the movies with my two sons. Enjoyed Frozen a lot. Thought the latest X-Men movie was quite good, as was Godzilla. Saw Maleficent on Saturday, that was a pretty nice movie as a twist on a fairy tale. And other things too. I enjoyed the old western movie with John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Ward Bond, and Shirley Temple, can't recall the title right now.
Allen Smith
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 2, 2014 20:57:25 GMT -5
I enjoyed the old western movie with John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Ward Bond, and Shirley Temple, can't recall the title right now. This is called Fort Apache, and it's one of my favorites.
I also like Stagecoach a lot. Stagecoach was on Encore Western last night but I just saw it a few months ago and I watch it every year or two anyway, so I watched Bringing Up Baby instead. I haven't seen that for a while.
I think The Awful Truth and His Girl Friday are both just a little bit better than Bringing Up Baby, but it's still one of the best movies of the 1930s. Katherine Hepburn's character is AWFUL, but she's great at it. Plus you have Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles (the voice of Aesop on the Rocky and Bullwinkle show), Barry Fitzgerald, a great variety of character actors, a dinosaur bone, the dog from the Thin Man movies and TWO leopards.
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Post by DubipR on Jun 2, 2014 21:35:50 GMT -5
Tonight on TCM, they're going Gear Fab with their films of the British Invasion. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Hard Days Night. That was first film of their little marathon. Currently is Go Go Mania (UK release at Pop Gear); a fun collection of Brit artists of the time; some you might know, others you might not know. Lots of the Mersey sound and lots of Joe Meek's production. Then its on to the Dave Clark Five and a couple with Herman's Hermits.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 2, 2014 23:20:45 GMT -5
Damn! Did I miss Hard Days Night? It is such a great movie!
Are they showing Help! I've never seen that.
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Post by DubipR on Jun 3, 2014 8:05:15 GMT -5
Damn! Did I miss Hard Days Night? It is such a great movie! Are they showing Help! I've never seen that. Help! wasn't on the list of film they showed. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 3, 2014 11:16:09 GMT -5
The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (1962)
Lex Barker,Karin Dor,Wolfgang Preiss
D-Harald Reinl
FBI agent Joe Como (Barker) returns to solve the mystery behind a machine that makes the wearer invisible. The inventor wants to use it for spying on the woman he loves but Dr Mabuse sees it as a means for world domination
The series moves a step closer to James Bond gadgetry.From reviews I've read,this could be the last decent Mabuse film.As usual,Mabuse is always assumed dead and everyone is surprised as to who he was masquerading in the end.He's always got a legion of henchmen,a world conquest plan,the ability to take over your mind and multiple death traps.This film has an evil clown and lots of floating and moving objects to simulate invisibility.Lots of action,the film moves along briskly.
I've one more Mabuse to watch and its supposed to be a real stinker.Meanwhile this is a 5 of 10
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 3, 2014 21:25:14 GMT -5
Cobra Woman (1943)
Maria Montez,Jon Hall,Sabu,Lon Chaney Jr
D-Robert Siodmak
Evil Queen Naja (Montez) sacrifices the people of her island to appease the fire mountain gods.
Along comes her good identical twin sister Tollea (Montez),her fiancee Ramu (Hall),Ramu's little pal Kado (Sabu),a friendly local brute (Chaney) and a plucky chimp in a dress to take control of the island away from the evil despot
Camp classic with the vivascious Montez in a double role and bright technicolor palettes.
Whats not to love when you have the Dance of the Cobra performed by the evil queen,Lon Chaney Jr as the mute man-mountain,KoKo the chimp running around in a dress (maybe the 1943 audience wasn't ready for accidental monkey genitals?) and a volcanoe getting ready to erupt.
Tollea: [with heavy accent] Geef me that cobra jool! It is rightfully mine! I'll give you 5 of 10 stars
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Post by berkley on Jun 3, 2014 21:41:24 GMT -5
I loved The Party when I saw it on tv as a kid. I watched it again, perhaps about 10 years ago, and while I didn't find the second viewing quite as unbelievably hilarious as I did the first, I still enjoyed it.
Car Wash I've seen in bits and pieces on tv and I liked that fragmented viewing enough that I've been meaning to watch the whole thing from start to finish ever since. I remember thinking the music was pretty good - was it really disco, or just what used to be called variously soul, funk, and r&b? The lines between those and disco are blurry, of course.
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