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Post by DubipR on Jun 14, 2014 12:46:50 GMT -5
Is the 1982 Swamp Thing movie any good? Only for a topless Adrienne Barbeau...the rest is drek. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2014 19:32:46 GMT -5
Is the 1982 Swamp Thing movie any good? Only for a topless Adrienne Barbeau...the rest is drek. The second one was fun, though. More violence, elements from the Alan Moore series, but didn't take itself as seriously as the first. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2014 20:20:37 GMT -5
Possibly the most creepiest scene I've ever seen in a movie...I don't need monsters or CGI effects...just creepy use of kids. If I was the little guy on the bike, riding through a vacant hotel and then spotting those two just staring at me as I turned a corner, I'd be terrified.
First saw The Shining in the early 90s...I wasn't 10 yet and didn't figure out redrum til I saw it in the mirror.
The ABC remake was a crock of shit though....
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 14, 2014 23:03:42 GMT -5
I saw The Champ (1931) today on TCM. I was kind of blown away by it. I've been meaning to watch it for close to 30 years but I just never got around to it because I always figured it wasn't my kind of movie, a sentimental, overwrought tearjerker.
It's not like that. I can now see why it gets such great acclaim and why it did so well at the 1931 Academy Awards. I am kicking myself for not seeing it before this.
If you've ever dragged your heels on watching The Champ (1931), just start watching it. You'll probably be hooked in five or ten minutes just like I was.
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Post by DubipR on Jun 15, 2014 8:36:53 GMT -5
I saw The Champ (1931) today on TCM. I was kind of blown away by it. I've been meaning to watch it for close to 30 years but I just never got around to it because I always figured it wasn't my kind of movie, a sentimental, overwrought tearjerker. It's not like that. I can now see why it gets such great acclaim and why it did so well at the 1931 Academy Awards. I am kicking myself for not seeing it before this. If you've ever dragged your heels on watching The Champ (1931), just start watching it. You'll probably be hooked in five or ten minutes just like I was. Ha! I watched it too last night. I love the TCM Essentials with Robert and Drew. Its been a while since I've seen The Champ and it still gets to me every time. Jackie Cooper is so freaking good in it. And Wallace Beery (who hated children in real life, like WC Fields) had such great chemistry. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 15, 2014 9:35:18 GMT -5
I need to see the original. I saw the 1979 remake with Jon Voight and Faye Dunaway and it was much too sentimental
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 15, 2014 12:45:25 GMT -5
Watching El Dorado...because John Wayne and Robert Mitchum is a Father's Day kinda thing to do.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 15, 2014 12:51:15 GMT -5
Watching El Dorado...because John Wayne and Robert Mitchum is a Father's Day kinda thing to do. We're so close on the same wavelength.I watched Mitchum's Friends Of Eddie Coyle today.I'll write it up a bit later |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 15, 2014 13:02:51 GMT -5
Watching El Dorado...because John Wayne and Robert Mitchum is a Father's Day kinda thing to do. We're so close on the same wavelength.I watched Mitchum's Friends Of Eddie Coyle today.I'll write it up a bit later Great film. And a great book. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 15, 2014 13:11:11 GMT -5
Red River is available on On Demand for free! I've never seen it. I've been wanting to see it for years.
I'll start it as soon as I have my late breakfast.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 15, 2014 13:23:36 GMT -5
Red River is available on On Demand for free! I've never seen it. I've been wanting to see it for years. I'll start it as soon as I have my late breakfast. I'd argue that is John Wayne's second greatest film role after The Searchers. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 15, 2014 13:46:33 GMT -5
Red River is available on On Demand for free! I've never seen it. I've been wanting to see it for years. I'll start it as soon as I have my late breakfast. I'd argue that is John Wayne's second greatest film role after The Searchers. My two favorites are Stagecoach and Fort Apache. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 15, 2014 13:59:43 GMT -5
There's at least a dozen films of his that are favorites and I can't put them into any permanent preferential order.The ones mentioned,Three Godfathers,She Wore A Yellow Ribbon,Quiet Man,High and the Mighty,Rio Bravo,Man Who Shot Liberty Vallence,Shootist,Rooster Cogburn,a couple more
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Post by shaxper on Jun 15, 2014 20:46:16 GMT -5
I'll agree with ASD that Alien is the crowning achievement in all the Alien movies. The first was the best and none came even close to it. I still own all four. As my opinion stands Alien, Alien 3, Aliens, Ressurection. Shaxper ... I haven't watched Alien 3 theatrical since the theater, but I really enjoy the director's cut. Though as said since it's been so long from seeing the original, I can't tell you the difference in the two. I agree with you on some points; Ripley & the doc, her death scene; however Newt and Hicks death didn't bother me. Even if it had been in the movie itself I would still maintain my difference. I think that's because a good Alien movie makes the xenomorphs the stars not the people. That's one of the reasons Aliens would be at the bottom of my list if Ressurection weren't so bad. (The newborn did ruin the movie for me). The Aliens are always the stars. HR Gigers creation is an statue come to life in an almost literal sense. An Alien film should be viewed best as realistic as watching a lion hunt an antelope on Nat Geo. Ressurections plus? Sigourney Weaver never hotter than she was in it. Aliens was about Ripley, through and through. So was Alien 3 and, to an arguable extent, Resurrection. The original Alien is the only one in which Ripley is not the central figure in terms of characterization, internal conflict/development, and even theme and symbolism. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2014 20:55:31 GMT -5
I don't give a damn...Van Damn had at least one good movie in his resume, Hard Target...you know, where there's no twin brother or a future and past version of himself  This impressed me when I was like....9....  |
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This impressed me when I was like....9.... 