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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2015 19:33:51 GMT -5
Libeled Lady is one of my favorite Spencer Tracy Comedies and with Powell, Loy, and Harlow - it's an unbeatable combination of laughter and one of the top comedies of all time. Serial Mom is a winner in my book and one of my sentimental comedies to watch and I like Sam Waterson and Rikki Lake in this film. Kathleen Turner was a hoot.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2015 22:47:13 GMT -5
Lady Snowblood - 1973 - Starring Meiko Kaji
The plot is quite simple: the Japanese girl is seeking revenge for the killers of her parents, but the killers are tougher than she thought and this is where the bloody fight between good and evil begins. The movie is well directed and the acting is pretty good. There is a lot of violent sword fights but it looks kind of funny sometimes. If you are samurai film fan you really should watch this one it's one of the best in it's gender.
Lady Snowblood takes a good old fashioned period revenge story and turns it into something greater than just a good genre film. The direction and cinematography are top notch throughout with evocative use of reds and whites in the color scheme, in keeping with the character of Lady Snowblood.
Was the inspiration for Tarontino's Kill Bill
Any other pinky violence/Japanese exploitation film fans out there?
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 23, 2015 22:52:45 GMT -5
TCM had a Boris Karloff marathon this morning and I recorded all three I've never seen before - West of Shanghai, The Invisible Menace and Frankenstein - 1970. And I also recorded The Walking Dead because it's a great movie that I only saw once close to twenty years ago.
I've already watched West of Shanghai and WOW! It's not one of Karloff's best movies but he is AMAZING. He is a Chinese warlord called General Fang and takes over a Christian mission (for some reason) and takes some white people hostage.
He talks like Charlie Chan! (He reminded me very much of Peter Sellers as Sidney Wang, the Charlie Chan character in Murder by Death.)
Very entertaining. And mildly offensive at times. (Not nearly as bad as The Mask of Fu Manchu. Which is a great movie! But still kind of offensive.)
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 23, 2015 22:56:48 GMT -5
Lady Snowblood - 1973 - Starring Meiko Kaji The plot is quite simple: the Japanese girl is seeking revenge for the killers of her parents, but the killers are tougher than she thought and this is where the bloody fight between good and evil begins. The movie is well directed and the acting is pretty good. There is a lot of violent sword fights but it looks kind of funny sometimes. If you are samurai film fan you really should watch this one it's one of the best in it's gender. Lady Snowblood takes a good old fashioned period revenge story and turns it into something greater than just a good genre film. The direction and cinematography are top notch throughout with evocative use of reds and whites in the color scheme, in keeping with the character of Lady Snowblood. Was the inspiration for Tarontino's Kill Bill Any other pinky violence/Japanese exploitation film fans out there? OMG! I love Meiko Kaji so much! I watched Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 a few weeks ago. I've seen it before, but not recently. It's among my TOP FIVE Japanese movies. Right up there with Yojimbo, King King vs. Godzilla, Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster and the first Female Convict Scorpion movie. Lady Snowblood's pretty good too.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2015 23:02:40 GMT -5
Lady Snowblood - 1973 - Starring Meiko Kaji The plot is quite simple: the Japanese girl is seeking revenge for the killers of her parents, but the killers are tougher than she thought and this is where the bloody fight between good and evil begins. The movie is well directed and the acting is pretty good. There is a lot of violent sword fights but it looks kind of funny sometimes. If you are samurai film fan you really should watch this one it's one of the best in it's gender. Lady Snowblood takes a good old fashioned period revenge story and turns it into something greater than just a good genre film. The direction and cinematography are top notch throughout with evocative use of reds and whites in the color scheme, in keeping with the character of Lady Snowblood. Was the inspiration for Tarontino's Kill Bill Any other pinky violence/Japanese exploitation film fans out there? OMG! I love Meiko Kaji so much! I watched Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 a few weeks ago. I've seen it before, but not recently. It's among my TOP FIVE Japanese movies. Right up there with Yojimbo, King King vs. Godzilla, Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster and the first Female Convict Scorpion movie. Lady Snowblood's pretty good too. Yes! I love her too. I have the Female Convict Scorpian boxed set which include 3 of the 4 movies...I had to wait until Jailhouse 41 was released years later to finally see it. I also love her Blind Woman's Curse. I picked up the Stray Cat Rock films with her in them but have yet to watch them. I also like Reiko Ike, Miki Sugimoto and Reiko Oshida
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 23, 2015 23:09:09 GMT -5
Animal Crackers - 1930 - Starring the Marx Brothers Mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding. Groucho plays Captain Spaulding, his most memorable character he ever played as. His lines, singing, and goofy dancing are all so memorable. Chico and Harpo are both still basically bums that go around and cause trouble. Their rountines are fantastic as well, not a dull moment whenever they are on the screen. Margaret Dumont is back from "Cocoanuts" as the high society widow, who throws an extravagant party for Groucho, not realizing how bizzare and chaotic he can be until it's too late. She's basically the straight guy. I don't mention Zeppo because he does literally nothing except act as a dopey servant to Groucho. With tons of humor, great dialouge, less dancing and at least one beauty to gawk at during the less funny scenes, it's a true classic. The Marx Brothers are the funniest guys of all time IMHO. I'm watching Strange Interlude right now. I'm taking a break because it's a bit of a sit and I can't handle it in chunks bigger than 25 to 30 minutes. It stars Norma Shearer and Clark Gable. It's based on a Eugene O'Neill play. And they don't just talk, you can also hear what they're thinking. They are all horrible people keeping secrets from each other. And they stop and look to the side and a voice-over let's you know what they're thinking. Norma: I've come to hate my husband so. He's so boring and stupid. I hate the sight of him. But my lover is a total jerk. He gets me pregnant and then he runs out on me. I know! I'll get my husband to kill my lover! That will show them! And then she looks at her husband and the previous conversation continues and she doesn't actually do it. I mention it because they make fun of it in Animal Crackers! Groucho says something like "Excuse me, I'm going to have a strange interlude" and then he talks to the camera, a little bad philosophy, a little weird drama. It's the part where he says "Figgers appear before me, menacing figgers, scary figgers." It's so weird. It's pretty funny as it is, without knowing that it has anything to do with this movie. So I don't recommend seeing Strange Interlude just to get the joke in Animal Crackers a little better. (But I bet the next time I see Animal Crackers (which I still have on my DVR from last time it was on TCM) I'll probably think it's the funniest thing in the movie except maybe for Chico saying "Ace a spades, Ace a spades."
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 23, 2015 23:10:58 GMT -5
OMG! I love Meiko Kaji so much! I watched Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 a few weeks ago. I've seen it before, but not recently. It's among my TOP FIVE Japanese movies. Right up there with Yojimbo, King King vs. Godzilla, Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster and the first Female Convict Scorpion movie. Lady Snowblood's pretty good too. Yes! I love her too. I have the Female Convict Scorpian boxed set which include 3 of the 4 movies...I had to wait until Jailhouse 41 was released years later to finally see it. I also love her Blind Woman's Curse. I picked up the Stray Cat Rock films with her in them but have yet to watch them. Another really good one (it doesn't have Meiko Kaji unfortunately) is Sex and Fury.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 6:51:10 GMT -5
Yes! I love her too. I have the Female Convict Scorpian boxed set which include 3 of the 4 movies...I had to wait until Jailhouse 41 was released years later to finally see it. I also love her Blind Woman's Curse. I picked up the Stray Cat Rock films with her in them but have yet to watch them. Another really good one (it doesn't have Meiko Kaji unfortunately) is Sex and Fury. I have that one too...I love Christina Lindberg! I have not seen the sequel though which I heard is nowhere as good as the original.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 24, 2015 13:32:23 GMT -5
Big Trouble In Little China (1986) Directed by John Carpenter Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrell, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong
Trucker Jack Burton helps his Asian friend rescue his kidnapped bride-to-be from a mystical Chinese street gang in San Francisco
4th of 5 pairings between John Carpenter and Kurt Russell. A box office bomb and lots of mystical gobbledygook. But with a ton of action start to finish you just go along for the ride and accept all the cheesy special effects and nonsense that gets thrown at you. Very much influenced by the Indiana Jones franchise. Attained cult status after arriving on home video. Supposedly the original intention was for this to be a western but the film studio insisted that Carpenter change it to a modern day setting. Carpenter obviously watched many Japanese samurai films from the 60s for he uses the outrageous costumes and supernatural flying and leaping techniques that was all a rage back then in Japan. OK movie for dumb action
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 24, 2015 13:41:44 GMT -5
The Bullfighters (1945) Laurel and Hardy
The boys are private detectives in Mexico city where an innocent man who they mistakenly sent to jail for 5 years now lives. He swears if he sees them he'll "skin them alive, first the skinny one and then the big one". Laurel also discovers he's the doppelganger of a famous Spanish Bullfighter
The next-to-last film of the legendary comedy team and last Hollywood production (Utopia, 6 years later was an European film) . A bunch of skits from previous shorts are re-done and the movie is just OK. But its Laurel and Hardy dammit and I can always go for that. L&H were in good form all the way to the end
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 15:51:48 GMT -5
Big Trouble In Little China (1986) Directed by John Carpenter Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrell, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong Trucker Jack Burton helps his Asian friend rescue his kidnapped bride-to-be from a mystical Chinese street gang in San Francisco 4th of 5 pairings between John Carpenter and Kurt Russell. A box office bomb and lots of mystical gobbledygook. But with a ton of action start to finish you just go along for the ride and accept all the cheesy special effects and nonsense that gets thrown at you. Very much influenced by the Indiana Jones franchise. Attained cult status after arriving on home video. Supposedly the original intention was for this to be a western but the film studio insisted that Carpenter change it to a modern day setting. Carpenter obviously watched many Japanese samurai films from the 60s for he uses the outrageous costumes and supernatural flying and leaping techniques that was all a rage back then in Japan. OK movie for dumb action Absolutely love love love this movie as it is one of my favorite Carpenter films. Something to remember about Big Trouble - the main character (Jack Burton) is not really the Hero; he's the Comic Sidekick (speaking as character types). Except for the climax, he's bumbling about, not a clue in the world, and way in over his head. Everything that he does, and everything that happens to him, is the sort of thing that happens to (say) C-3PO, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 23:37:53 GMT -5
Prime Cut - 1972 - Starring Lee Marvin, Sissy Spacek, Gene Hackman
A Chicago mob enforcer (Marvin) is sent to Kansas City to settle a debt with a cattle rancher (Hackman) who not only grinds his enemies into sausage, but sells women as sex slaves.
Hackman is fantastic and memorable as an utterly loathsome, disgusting, frightening villain, who keeps a twinkle of charm that makes him even more despicable, and who shows his callow, wormy heart at the end. Marvin plays a straight-ahead get-it-done knight-errant - you know nothing is going to keep him from his quest. While it's the two leads that steal the show, making her film debut is the impressive Sissy Spacek, who's doll-face appearance simply sticks with you.
This flick has it all: bad guys, really bad guys and the worst guys. Lots of action, fast and plot-driven. Excellent cinematography, concise, tight, vivid. Good music.
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Post by dupersuper on Nov 25, 2015 1:19:06 GMT -5
Big Trouble In Little China (1986) Directed by John Carpenter Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrell, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong Trucker Jack Burton helps his Asian friend rescue his kidnapped bride-to-be from a mystical Chinese street gang in San Francisco 4th of 5 pairings between John Carpenter and Kurt Russell. A box office bomb and lots of mystical gobbledygook. But with a ton of action start to finish you just go along for the ride and accept all the cheesy special effects and nonsense that gets thrown at you. Very much influenced by the Indiana Jones franchise. Attained cult status after arriving on home video. Supposedly the original intention was for this to be a western but the film studio insisted that Carpenter change it to a modern day setting. Carpenter obviously watched many Japanese samurai films from the 60s for he uses the outrageous costumes and supernatural flying and leaping techniques that was all a rage back then in Japan. OK movie for dumb action Absolutely love love love this movie as it is one of my favorite Carpenter films. Something to remember about Big Trouble - the main character (Jack Burton) is not really the Hero; he's the Comic Sidekick (speaking as character types). Except for the climax, he's bumbling about, not a clue in the world, and way in over his head. Everything that he does, and everything that happens to him, is the sort of thing that happens to (say) C-3PO, etc. I also like that Kurt Russel played him as John Wayne, Played Snake Plisken as Clint Eastwood, and played the guy in The Thing as some one else. Also, the current comic book run is cool.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 25, 2015 2:09:08 GMT -5
Prime Cut - 1972 - Starring Lee Marvin, Sissy Spacek, Gene Hackman A Chicago mob enforcer (Marvin) is sent to Kansas City to settle a debt with a cattle rancher (Hackman) who not only grinds his enemies into sausage, but sells women as sex slaves. Hackman is fantastic and memorable as an utterly loathsome, disgusting, frightening villain, who keeps a twinkle of charm that makes him even more despicable, and who shows his callow, wormy heart at the end. Marvin plays a straight-ahead get-it-done knight-errant - you know nothing is going to keep him from his quest. While it's the two leads that steal the show, making her film debut is the impressive Sissy Spacek, who's doll-face appearance simply sticks with you. This flick has it all: bad guys, really bad guys and the worst guys. Lots of action, fast and plot-driven. Excellent cinematography, concise, tight, vivid. Good music. One of the great underrated movies of the 1970s. Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman together-cinema bliss!
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Post by berkley on Nov 25, 2015 2:45:20 GMT -5
First I ever heard of Prime Cut but I'll be looking out for it now.
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