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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2020 15:44:32 GMT -5
Is it my perception or are there fewer romantic movies being produced nowadays, at least from a mainstream perspective? I'm not the biggest fan of romantic films, although I do enjoy some such as When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle. For the most part, I avoid them. But there was a time when I couldn't go to the cinema without seeing a trailer for a romantic movie, comedy or otherwise. So that makes me wonder if fewer such movies are being made. I think so ... but, I think both shaxper and Hoosier X might have a better answer for you.
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Post by brutalis on Jan 14, 2020 15:58:16 GMT -5
Is it my perception or are there fewer romantic movies being produced nowadays, at least from a mainstream perspective? I'm not the biggest fan of romantic films, although I do enjoy some such as When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle. For the most part, I avoid them. But there was a time when I couldn't go to the cinema without seeing a trailer for a romantic movie, comedy or otherwise. So that makes me wonder if fewer such movies are being made. Romance movies are still out there, but as major movies have moved towards the LATEST BLOCKBUSTER SPECTACLE, they have become fewer and less profitable. The "date" movie experience is not really a conventional thing for most young people as it was a fairly inexpensive and "safe" 1st date or continuing the dates while getting to know each other thing in the past. When a movie and treats or dinner can run easily into the $60-100 range and the theater experience is full of jerks or packed for a really big movie, it is not a quiet, personal or intimate night out anymore. ADDENDUM: with the advent of Lifetime and Hallmark movie channels at home, the mood and cost of a romantic night together can be around $30 for Chinese take-out and a bottle of wine. Where you can enjoy alone without the noisy crowded theater setting.
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Post by shaxper on Jan 14, 2020 16:38:43 GMT -5
Is it my perception or are there fewer romantic movies being produced nowadays, at least from a mainstream perspective? I'm not the biggest fan of romantic films, although I do enjoy some such as When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle. For the most part, I avoid them. But there was a time when I couldn't go to the cinema without seeing a trailer for a romantic movie, comedy or otherwise. So that makes me wonder if fewer such movies are being made. I suspect the advent of the Hallmark Channel is the cause. It cornered the market and filled the niche.
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Jan 14, 2020 20:10:17 GMT -5
Romantic movies - and the rom-com subgenre - have fallen out of favor in Hollywood because they aren't tentpole films that promise the huge box office of the likes of the MCU, nor do they appeal much to Hollywood's most profitable demographic: teenagers and twenty-somethings who favor other genres (fantasy, sci-fi, and horror).
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Post by rberman on Jan 14, 2020 21:17:30 GMT -5
Comedies depend on language- and. Culture-specific wordplay and do not generally do well overseas.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2020 22:06:36 GMT -5
The Day that the Earth Stood Still both 1951 and 2008 Versions
I watched both versions the past 3 days and tonight on TCM ... I watched the 1951 version starring Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal and I'm not going to get into the 2008 version at all because the movie is not clearly the best of the two and the 1951 version is definitely superior than the modern one. The acting of Billie Gray was a pleasant surprise and I clearly enjoyed the acting of Sam Jaffe who played the Professor. It was a rare treat to watch it today and I find the movie has a good pace, intensity, drama, and awe that literally take you away. I haven't seen the 1951 version for awhile and seen the 2008 version twice and Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly doesn't bear with me here as much as Rennie and Neal.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 14, 2020 22:47:53 GMT -5
Comedies depend on language- and. Culture-specific wordplay and do not generally do well overseas. A theory that partially explains Chaplin's worldwide popularity and the paucity of dialogue in the classic Disney cartoons.
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Post by Confessor on Jan 17, 2020 19:05:12 GMT -5
Is it my perception or are there fewer romantic movies being produced nowadays, at least from a mainstream perspective? I'm not the biggest fan of romantic films, although I do enjoy some such as When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle. For the most part, I avoid them. But there was a time when I couldn't go to the cinema without seeing a trailer for a romantic movie, comedy or otherwise. So that makes me wonder if fewer such movies are being made. Romance movies are still out there, but as major movies have moved towards the LATEST BLOCKBUSTER SPECTACLE, they have become fewer and less profitable. The "date" movie experience is not really a conventional thing for most young people as it was a fairly inexpensive and "safe" 1st date or continuing the dates while getting to know each other thing in the past. When a movie and treats or dinner can run easily into the $60-100 range and the theater experience is full of jerks or packed for a really big movie, it is not a quiet, personal or intimate night out anymore. ADDENDUM: with the advent of Lifetime and Hallmark movie channels at home, the mood and cost of a romantic night together can be around $30 for Chinese take-out and a bottle of wine. Where you can enjoy alone without the noisy crowded theater setting. Totally agree with you, brutalis, regarding the current state of a romantic night out at the cinema. "Netflix and chill", as the youngsters call it, is the new movie date night. Basically it's slang for, come over to mine, we'll watch a movie and suck face/have sex.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2020 15:03:42 GMT -5
I watched Kampout (2017) on Prime over the weekend, released here as American Bigfoot. It stars Zach Galligan as a detective who, along with others, investigates Bigfoot attacks in Southern Ohio. And there's a real odd scene in it which feels like it belongs in another movie.
In one scene, a character called John Hicks (played by Chris Nash) is killed by Bigfoot (impaled) in the woods. Dead as a dodo. Throughout the movie, various characters, including the detective, try to solve the Bigfoot murders. Later on in the film, actor Chris Nash reappears in a scene, dressed smartly. He walks into an office and asks some receptionist for some architectural survey plans for a particular estate. We hadn't seen the receptionist prior to the scene. Nor does she appear again. We've seen Nash, of course, but he can't be playing the same character who got impaled 50 or so minutes earlier. What did he do, un-die, put on a smart suit and enter the office?
Now, it's not unheard of for an actor to play two roles in the same film. That isn't the problem I have. The problem I have is that the scene bears no relation to anything else in the film.
It's a film about a murderous Bigfoot. Various people look for Bigfoot in the woods - or try and keep away from him. The scene of a man walking into an office and asking a receptionist for some architectural plans has nothing to do with the film, whatsoever. The actor is the same, but nothing in that scene is relevant in any way, shape or form. He enters the office, asks for some plans, takes them and walks out. It makes no sense.
What on earth happened? I believe the film, according to IMDb, was filmed in 3 weeks (1 week of pre-production, 2 weeks of filming). It feels like a scene from another movie mistakenly spliced into this one, but that would be impossible to occur, right?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2020 8:15:08 GMT -5
Today marks 40 years since The Fog was released (a limited release in the US): The film sees a strange fog sweep over a Californian coastal town 100 years after mariners died in a shipwreck. The ghosts of the mariners have returned - and they want vengeance! I'm not the biggest fan of the film, to be honest (and I say that as a John Carpenter fan!). It's well-produced and atmospheric, but I didn't find the plot to be that engaging. It elicited little emotion out of me. I didn't find myself caring about the characters in the way I would have expected. A remake, starring Tom Welling and Maggie Grace, was released in 2005, but I haven't seen it.
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Post by brutalis on Feb 7, 2020 8:59:30 GMT -5
Took a break from watching Outer Space movies as MoviesTV channel had a pair of Glenn Ford Film Noir playing just as I got home from work. Had the DVR recording but still became engrossed enough to go ahead and sit through them both. 1st up was 1947's Framed also starring Barry Sullivan and Edgar Buchanan ans the stunning Janis Carter. Ford is a mining engineer who took a truck driving job which crashes as he comes down a steep hill into town. Local waitress Janis pays his fine to prevent him from going to jail as she needs him as part of a plan she and bank manager Sullivan have cooked up to embezzle money from the bank. The plan is to use Ford as the body double for Sullivan who crashes his car and dies making a getaway with the money which burns up with him but is in actuality already stolen and sitting in bank deposit box in Janis name. When the time comes Janis actually kills Sullivan and claims she she is in love with Ford. All the lies and deceits mount up to sending Buchanan to jail as the murder suspect of Sullivan until Ford finds out the truth and je sets up Janis with the police in revealing the truth. Quite a good low budget film which keeps you interested with the actors as you wonder over the honesty/lies/truth of it all.
2nd up was 1952's Affair in Trinidad co-starring Rita Hayworth. Well worth the price of admission for the fiery intro dance of Hayworth dancing barefoot in a sexy gown to Calypso music. Hayworth's husband has supposedly committed suicide. During the investigation it is discovered he was murdered. Ford the murdered man's brother comes to Trinidad having received a letter before the murder asking him to come there for a job. Shocked at the death of his brother Ford begins investigating on his own where he meets up with Hayworth and they are slowly falling in love as they work towards finding the truth. Hayworth is glamorous as always and there is heat between her and Ford even if the story itself is somewhat mundane.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 16, 2020 21:59:07 GMT -5
Attention Humphrey Bogart fans!
I saw The Big Shot (1942) last night. There's still a few 1930s Bogart films I haven't seen but I've seen all Bogart's 1940s and 1950s starring roles .. except The Big Shot! This one seems kind of hard to find for some reason. It was made between The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca and it was the last time he played a gangster until the 1950s.
WOW! It's pretty good, even if it's not quite High Sierra or The Big Sleep. There's a prison break about halfway through where Bogart and his partner sabotage the prison theater during a prison show and make a run for it. Bogart's partner is a song-and-dance man (who's also a crook) who was performing in blackface (dancing with a life-size doll of a black woman they called Miss Golliwog) and so Bogart is running across the prison yard with a guy in black face wearing a derby! It's kind of surreal! When they try to climb the wall, the guards shoot the guy in blackface first because they know that blackface is far worse than anything that Bogart night have done!
Bogart's girlfriend is played by Irene Manning, who looks a lot like the actress who plays Felicity Smoak.
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Post by Duragizer on Feb 16, 2020 23:33:38 GMT -5
Today marks 40 years since The Fog was released (a limited release in the US): The film sees a strange fog sweep over a Californian coastal town 100 years after mariners died in a shipwreck. The ghosts of the mariners have returned - and they want vengeance! I'm not the biggest fan of the film, to be honest (and I say that as a John Carpenter fan!). It's well-produced and atmospheric, but I didn't find the plot to be that engaging. It elicited little emotion out of me. I didn't find myself caring about the characters in the way I would have expected. The Fog would've been far more effective as a short film. It's too long-winded for its own good. For the love and admiration of all that's holy and sacred, never do.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 24, 2020 0:26:37 GMT -5
Last night I watched the 1981 ABC made-for-tv movie, Miracle on Ice, starring Karl Malden, Andrew Stephens and Steve Guttenberg.
Tonight, I watched 2004's Miracle, starring Kurt Russell.
I was 13 again.
U-S-A!
U-S-A!
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 25, 2020 13:19:54 GMT -5
Last night I watched the 1981 ABC made-for-tv movie, Miracle on Ice, starring Karl Malden, Andrew Stephens and Steve Guttenberg. Tonight, I watched 2004's Miracle, starring Kurt Russell. I was 13 again. U-S-A! U-S-A! Right up there with Hoosiers. Probably depends on which one you've just seen. Kurt Russell was great as Brooks.
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