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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 8, 2015 13:13:18 GMT -5
My Life As A Dog (1985)
Swedish made film set in the late 50s. A coming of age tale with a young boy who's mother has a terminal illness. She has extreme difficulty dealing with his behavior and sends him off to stay with relatives. He constantly thinks of his pet dog he left behind and the Russian space dog Laika and that canine's fate.
A meditative film, lots of wry humor and odd characters but no real point to the story except its a day in the life. Not bad though
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 8, 2015 13:18:44 GMT -5
Objective Burma (1945) Errol Flynn
Quite a good late WW11 action film. Errol leads a platoon of men behind enemy lines in Burma to destroy a Japanese radar station. However they are unable to rendezvous with their planes for the return ride home. They are forced now to march 200 miles through the jungles, low on supplies, with the Japanese in hot pursuit. The great George Tobias is one of the soldiers, always good for a laugh. Hugh Beaumont is one of the officers at HQ, getting much needed experience for his later high-stress dealings with The Beaver
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2015 16:20:58 GMT -5
Once Upon A Time In The West (1968) D-Sergio Leone Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Claudia Cardinale, Woody Strode, Jack Elam, Keenan Wynn, Lionel Stander After directing the Man With No Name Clint Eastwood movie trilogy, Leone followed it up with this epic western masterpiece which clocked in at 165 minutes (at least on the DVD I watched). Hypnotic, stark facial closeups, gorgeous landscapes, sudden violence. A first rate cast and a magnificent set of western character actors. Henry Fonda played the meanest bastard of his career. Charles Bronson proved with this film he was a leading movie star. A must see oater He spends too much time blowing that annoying harmonica...it's an okay film though.
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Post by berkley on Aug 8, 2015 20:32:17 GMT -5
Once Upon A Time In The West (1968) D-Sergio Leone Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Claudia Cardinale, Woody Strode, Jack Elam, Keenan Wynn, Lionel Stander After directing the Man With No Name Clint Eastwood movie trilogy, Leone followed it up with this epic western masterpiece which clocked in at 165 minutes (at least on the DVD I watched). Hypnotic, stark facial closeups, gorgeous landscapes, sudden violence. A first rate cast and a magnificent set of western character actors. Henry Fonda played the meanest bastard of his career. Charles Bronson proved with this film he was a leading movie star. A must see oater Best Western I've seen. Even better than Leone's Eastwood movies.
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 8, 2015 21:02:31 GMT -5
Objective Burma (1945) Errol Flynn Quite a good late WW11 action film. Errol leads a platoon of men behind enemy lines in Burma to destroy a Japanese radar station. However they are unable to rendezvous with their planes for the return ride home. They are forced now to march 200 miles through the jungles, low on supplies, with the Japanese in hot pursuit. The great George Tobias is one of the soldiers, always good for a laugh. Hugh Beaumont is one of the officers at HQ, getting much needed experience for his later high-stress dealings with The Beaver " Ward, don't be so hard on the Beaver".
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 9, 2015 14:29:15 GMT -5
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) Kathleen Turner, Nicholas Cage, Jim Carrey
Peggy Sue goes to her 25th High School reunion party as her marriage to Nicholas Cage is going through divorce. When crowned Queen of the party, she faints on stage only to revive back in 1960. She's determined to avoid marrying the blond-haired Nick Cage this time around and instead take advantage of a second chance at life
Still enjoyable after all these years. Jeez-now I know who this Jim Carrey person turns out to be. Too bad they didn't switch his character with Cage's , Carrey would have made the movie even better as the star. But then again, this film was directed by Francis Ford Coppola who loves to use his relatives in his films so Nick Cage gets the juicy part along with Sophia Coppola. Kathleen Turner is great in this role
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 9, 2015 14:40:15 GMT -5
Being Human (1994) Robin Williams
Robin Williams through the history of man as he tries to re-unite with his children. First he's a cave dweller whose wife and children are taken by a group of vulgar boatmen. Then he's a slave during the Roman Empire. His master, John Turturro, gets his fortune read via chicken livers. The livers command Turturro to sacrifice himself. Robin gets his master to sign an agreement to free him before he offs himself. Next he's a medieval wanderer tempted to live with a widow but wants to find his own family instead. Then he's a Spanish conquistador shipwrecked in Africa. Finally he's in modern day Ney York City and gets permission from his ex-wife to have the children for the weekend
A box office flop, 40 minutes was trimmed from this already long 2 hr. flick, a happy ending appended, a director who disavowed the movie, no ha-ha funny bits, just cloying and sentimental attempts at entertainment. How the hell did I watch the whole thing?
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 9, 2015 16:24:20 GMT -5
Being Human (1994) Robin Williams
Robin Williams through the history of man as he tries to re-unite with his children. First he's a cave dweller whose wife and children are taken by a group of vulgar boatmen. Then he's a slave during the Roman Empire. His master, John Turturro, gets his fortune read via chicken livers. The livers command Turturro to sacrifice himself. Robin gets his master to sign an agreement to free him before he offs himself. Next he's a medieval wanderer tempted to live with a widow but wants to find his own family instead. Then he's a Spanish conquistador shipwrecked in Africa. Finally he's in modern day Ney York City and gets permission from his ex-wife to have the children for the weekend
A box office flop, 40 minutes was trimmed from this already long 2 hr. flick, a happy ending appended, a director who disavowed the movie, no ha-ha funny bits, just cloying and sentimental attempts at entertainment. How the hell did I watch the whole thing?
So bad. So so so bad.
I used to watch a lot of cult films. Stuff like Glen or Glenda?, Bride of the Monster, Manos, the Hands of Fate, Monster-a-Go-Go, and so on. A friend of mine (who was never really interested enough in the whole phenomenon to ever watch any of them) knew a few people who worked at the movie studios and he heard about a movie rumored to be really really bad and he sort of challenged me to watch it and compare it to the other legendary "bad" movies I was watching.
So he got me Being Human on VHS. I watched 10 minutes the first day, fifteen minutes the second day, skipped a couple of days, thought about giving up but decided to press on, and I watched the last two hours one morning when I had a day off. I just wanted to get it out of the way.
Being Human is so much worse than any other movie I've ever seen that I hesitate to say that any other movie is really "bad." It is so tedious and boring. It sort of creates a whole new category of movie badness.
Just don't. Not out of curiosity. Don't. Stay away. The Day the Clown Cried can't possibly be as awful as this.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 9, 2015 19:11:35 GMT -5
From what I heard, and you'd have to pay me to actually observe, Robin Williams made a few movies after Being Human that were so much worse. Patch Adams, Death To Smoochy
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 10, 2015 13:00:10 GMT -5
From what I heard, and you'd have to pay me to actually observe, Robin Williams made a few movies after Being Human that were so much worse. Patch Adams, Death To Smoochy I didn't see them, but it's hard to believe that either of them was even close to Being Human. They Saved Hitler's Brain was better than Being Human.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 10, 2015 14:01:01 GMT -5
Phantasm (1979)
Memorable cult horror film from the 70s. Movie opens with a blonde seductress screwing a guy in a cemetery and then stabbing him. Then a young boy observes some weird going-ons during the burial. He investigates the adjoining funeral parlor and is chased by dwarves in brown hoodies and a big strong guy. A metallic ball speedily floats through the corridors, sharp pincers protruding, also after the boy. The boy ducks and the ball smashes into the strong guy's forehead. A drill comes forth from the ball, drilling a hole thru the guys brain and a river of blood shoots out the other end of the ball. The young boy escapes with someone's severed fingers as evidence that the funeral parlor is not on the up & up. His older brother is convinced when the severed fingers move around. Together with their ice cream truck friend they are determined to find out what's going on and why the caretaker of the funeral parlor wears such skinny ties when its the era of wide ties.
What's not to like? They wound up making 2 sequels
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 10, 2015 14:16:33 GMT -5
Going My Way (1944) Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Alfalfa from the Little Rascals
Huge blockbuster when released. Bing was the #1 star of radio, records and movies (according to a motion picture exhibitionists poll) at that time. Immensely schmaltzy but movie audiences ate up this stuff to distract them from the war
Crosby is Father Chuck O'Malley who is assigned to take over a financially troubled church run by Barry Fitzgerald. Der Bingle saves the day by writing a song (Swinging on a Star) and selling it to Fred Mertz who later becomes Lucy Ricardo's landlord. Father O'Malley also butts his nose into people's business like training a gang of street kids to become a church choir. (This gang, after the movie, was beaten to death by a neighboring group of kids for becoming pansies). O'Malley also makes sure a young girl marries her boyfriend before they have sex. Barry Fitzgerald, after being pastor in the church for 45 years, now feels useless, so one night he suddenly leaves. When it begins to rain he has second thoughts and returns. A real man of conviction
Barry Fitzgerald was nominated by the Academy for both Best Actor and Supporting Actor for the same role. The one and only time this ever happened and the Academy thereafter changed the rules to prevent re-occurrence.
And why did I get a brain fart and bring up this Crosby film when Hoosier X was talking about Fred Astaire movies? Maybe because they have similar looking ears?
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 10, 2015 18:57:07 GMT -5
Going My Way (1944) Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Alfalfa from the Little Rascals Bing was the #1 star of radio, records and movies (according to a motion picture exhibitionists poll) at that time. I'm surprised the exhibitors allowed these guys into the theatres. And that they loved Crosby so much. Maybe they thought the title was " Showing My Way"?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 10, 2015 19:26:53 GMT -5
Going My Way (1944) Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Alfalfa from the Little Rascals Bing was the #1 star of radio, records and movies (according to a motion picture exhibitionists poll) at that time. I'm surprised the exhibitors allowed these guys into the theatres. And that they loved Crosby so much. Maybe they thought the title was " Showing My Way"? Shows you where my mind is at. Anyone seen my raincoat?
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 10, 2015 21:06:44 GMT -5
I'm surprised the exhibitors allowed these guys into the theatres. And that they loved Crosby so much. Maybe they thought the title was " Showing My Way"? Shows you where my mind is at. Anyone seen my raincoat? Paul Reubens borrowed it again.
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