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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jun 12, 2015 22:22:25 GMT -5
Videodrome. Quite possibly be the worst waste of time I've spent on a movie. Croenburg has only managed to wow me in any aspect with Scanners or Existence. This movie was just an amalgam of WTF.
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Post by coke & comics on Jun 13, 2015 0:09:19 GMT -5
Videodrome. Quite possibly be the worst waste of time I've spent on a movie. Croenburg has only managed to wow me in any aspect with Scanners or Existence. This movie was just an amalgam of WTF. I'm generally a Cronenberg fan, though my favorite film of his may be his least Cronenbergian, "A History of Violence". I think he is one of the best sci/fi directors of all time. Videodrome is cool because it takes the debate about television making people violent and creates a world in which television actually makes people violent. In general, it seems a thoughtful examination of the changing role of television in our culture. "I think it's what's next." "Then God help us." |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 13, 2015 9:55:34 GMT -5
I've seen Videodrome twice since its release and enjoyed it each time
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Post by Jesse on Jun 13, 2015 14:46:15 GMT -5
"Death to Videodrome! Long live the new flesh!"
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 13, 2015 15:00:45 GMT -5
Brothers Karamazov (1958) Yul Brynner, Lee J Cobb, Richard Basehart, Maria Schell, Albert Salmi, and in his feature debut..William Shatner
Its 1870 in Russia. Lee J Cobb had married a wealthy woman with 3 sons. She's now dead, Cobb controls the money and he's a lecherous,drunken swine to his step sons. Richars Basehart is one son, an educated atheistic fop. Yul Brynner is another, a dashing ex-military officer up to his ears in debt. Shatner is the 3rd son, a soft spoken pious monk. Maria Schell is a beautiful money hungry woman- the mistress to Cobb for his money but on the side making time with Yul. Shatner has no chance to over-act since he needs to be a timid religious man. And then my DVD freezes up in the middle of a 150 minute long movie and that's all she wrote. I'll probably not bother to try to catch the 2nd half. All I know is Brynner would like to kill his stepfather and Cobb wouldn't mind if all his step sons disappear |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 13, 2015 15:04:17 GMT -5
Does anyone's favourite 60s song come from a 60's movie? You bet Full effect: Best American movie of the 60s? Quite possibly. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is one of my favorite movies of the 1960s.
I always laugh when I think of Tura Satana saying to the gas station attendant: "It ain't down there, Columbus!"
I've seen it a few times over the years. I always cry when Boom-Boom dies.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 13, 2015 15:06:10 GMT -5
Mean Streets (1973)  Underrated Martin Scorsese mob film and his earliest. Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro have great on screen chemistry together. De Niro gives an outstanding performance as the arrogant and often unlikeable Johnny Boy and he has some great lines as well. It sounds like Scorsese actually narrates the inner monologue for Keitel's character Charlie in a couple scenes whose inner conflict is the main focus of the story. The movie has a very candid feel to it and some of the editing seems pretty inventive for the time. The soundtrack is excellent and the score fits each scene perfectly. Fantastic and intense ending. A must see for fans of the gangster genre. I got this on the DVR but I haven't watched it yet. I'm looking forward to it. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 14, 2015 18:02:37 GMT -5
Brainstorm (1965) Jeffrey Hunter, Anne Francis
A Brilliant young scientist rescues a woman from a suicide attempt. Turns out she's the wife of the company he works for. They have an affair, the husband finds out and begins a campaign to make people think the scientist is crazy in order to dismiss him from the job. In retaliation, the scientist plots to murder the boss and then get away with it by pleading insanity.
First off, what kind of smart career move is it to have an affair with a suicidal wife of your millionaire boss. And how brilliant can you be to kill someone in public and get committed to an insane asylum.
This is the movie Jeffrey Hunter decided to work on instead of staying with Gene Roddenbury to re-work the Star Trek pilot episode. Another brilliant career move
Also this is the movie Anne Francis did while simultaneously working on Honey West |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 15, 2015 15:00:05 GMT -5
Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)
Just a few observations:
Its too bad Frankenstein is sitting down when he's in the blind hermit's home listening to the old guy playing violin. Frankie really got into the tune and if he was standing we could have seen some cool Frankie moves. I'm sure it would have been the dance sensation of the year.
Elsa Lanchester as the Bride deserved another 15 minutes of screen time. The blind violinist should have joined them and Frankie could have shown his dance skills and made Frankerina warm up to him
It took 4 years for Universal to produce the sequel. What took so long? Was Karloff hesitant?
I love how the movie opens with Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly (later Frankerina) and her husband discussing her novel.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2015 17:07:50 GMT -5
Bride Of Frankenstein (1935) It took 4 years for Universal to produce the sequel. What took so long? It was subjected to many censorship boards - including Joseph Breen who heads up the Hays Office at that time. He was very much opposed to this sequel and Universal was bombarded with requests to take certain "scenes" out and many countries objected to the original content. I was told that this film went through many editing changes that's cost Universal monies, time, and efforts to make it right. For more information - read the link that I've provided below - too much censorship causes the film to take 4 long years to produce and have the final product release for viewing by 1935. Censorship Link |
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Post by Pharozonk on Jun 16, 2015 12:17:05 GMT -5
Full Metal Jacket  The movie has a very solid first act, but seems to fall apart when the characters leave boot camp. The whole movie seems to go limp as soon as R Lee Ermey leaves the screen and while Private Joker is fun, he doesn't really do much in the movie until the last ten minutes. Everything between the bootcamp and the final climax is a slog to get through.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 16, 2015 12:35:21 GMT -5
Thanks to a four film DVD package, over the weekend I watched
The time machine, still very amusing with its "wonderful world of Disney" innocent tone.
Soylent green, frighteningly close to the "future" we have almost reached! A few anachronisms have become quaint (old style phones, everybody smoking) but concepts like the taking over of our lives by corporate interests, an increasingly huge divide between the ultra-rich and the very poor, environmental catastrophe and and the erosion of the value given to actual education keeps this film relevant.
Forbidden planet, performing a remarkable feat: that of telling an adult, mature science-fiction story that doesn't play the camp card. Leslie Nielsen as a dramatic actor? Who'd have thunk? For decades I've only remembered him for films like Airplane and the naked gun!
2001: a spece odyssey... What's to say? One of the finest films ever made. The scene where our ape-like ancestor has what might be humanity's first idea brings tears to my eyes every time. (And without CGI, this flick still has the best outer space special effects I've ever seen).
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Post by Pharozonk on Jun 16, 2015 12:43:56 GMT -5
Thanks to a four film DVD package, over the weekend I watched The time machine, still very amusing with its "wonderful world of Disney" innocent tone. What a coincidence! I was about to watch that one tonight!  |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 16, 2015 13:21:37 GMT -5
Thanks to a four film DVD package, over the weekend I watched The time machine, still very amusing with its "wonderful world of Disney" innocent tone. What a coincidence! I was about to watch that one tonight! Excellent! It's very enjoyable. |
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Post by berkley on Jun 16, 2015 16:50:02 GMT -5
I caught Forbidden Planet at the local theatre here for the first time in many years, and the thing that surprised and impressed me the most was the soundtrack music - really nice early electronic score that I did not remember at all from seeing it as a kid on tv.
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