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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2016 7:52:21 GMT -5
Recently watched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cool Hand Luke, and 3:10 to Yuma. Great Movies Wesley and I'm a big fan of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid!
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Post by Warmonger on Jun 14, 2016 7:54:00 GMT -5
Recently watched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cool Hand Luke, and 3:10 to Yuma. Great Movies Wesley and I'm a big fan of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid! One of the greatest endings ever!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 14, 2016 7:58:31 GMT -5
Seeing "Dawn of the dead" announced on Netflix, I thought I'd give it a shot, never having seen that classic of the zombie genre. I thought the film had a surprisingly modern look... until an obvious CGI shot made it clear this was a remake I had never heard of. (Turns out it's Zack Snyder's directorial debut). Ah gaht pwned!!!
I took revenge by watching the original film (director's cut, too) on Youtube. Much better than the remake! The societal message remains as true today as it was then.
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Post by Warmonger on Jun 14, 2016 8:02:12 GMT -5
Seeing "Dawn of the dead" announced on Netflix, I thought I'd give it a shot, never having seen that classic of the zombie genre. I thought the film had a surprisingly modern look... until an obvious CGI shot made it clear this was a remake I had never heard of. (Turns out it's Zack Snyder's directorial debut). Ah gaht pwned!!! I took revenge by watching the original film (director's cut, too) on Youtube. Much better than the remake! The societal message remains as true today as it was then. Snyder ruins everything The original Dawn, at least to me, is right up there with The Exorcist and The Shining in the conversation for greatest horror movie of all-time.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2016 8:18:03 GMT -5
One of the greatest endings ever! Yeah that was great. I've now watched 133 of the 675 films on the National Film Registry list. Wesley that's 19% percent down and 81% percent to go! ... Wow, that's amazing!
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 14, 2016 8:21:45 GMT -5
Recently watched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cool Hand Luke, and 3:10 to Yuma. These are all so great, especially the first two. That reminds me I haven't seen Butch Cassidy for a while. I'm due.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 14, 2016 11:15:01 GMT -5
I saw One-Eyed Jacks (1961) a couple of nights ago. I've watched major segments of it a few times. I was starting to think I'd seen it already because of how familiar it looked. But nothing from the last forty minutes looked at all like something I've seen before, and I'm sure I would have remembered it if I'd seen the whole thing. It's kind of famous because it's the only movie directed by Marlon Brando! I love it! I've always avoided seeing the whole thing because it's kind of long and I wasn't sure that it wouldn't be hard to sit through. But I shouldn't have worried about that. It's structured in three acts and each act is a fascinating short film in its own right. The first part is about how bad Rio (Marlon Brando's character) is at escaping after a bank robbery. The second part is about how bad Rio is at getting revenge on Dad Longworth (Karl Malden). The third part is about how bad Rio is at not getting revenge on Dad after he has decided not to take his revenge. I could go on about this movie but I want to keep my comments short. However I do have to mention some of the great performances. Brando is pretty awesome. And you also get a great performance from Karl Malden playing a terrible person. He's Rio's partner in robbing banks in the first part, but he's reformed and become a sheriff five years later. Circumstances show that his reformation is just an elaborate con (played partly on himself) as he's still a terrible person. Also doing a great job playing terrible people are Ben Johnson (Rio's new bank-robbing partner) and Slim Pickens (Dad's deputy). I also thought Katy Jurado (as Dad's wife) and Pina Pellicer (Dad's step-daughter and Rio's girlfriend) were great. Highly recommended.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 14, 2016 18:32:16 GMT -5
And then last night I watched Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967). Well, it's got John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr. and Basil Rathbone. I'll watch anything with a line-up like that. It was on TCM. What was I supposed to do? Not watch it? I didn't find it hard to watch. Some country and western performers (most notably Joi Lansing and Ferlin Husky) are traveling to Nashville for a music festival. They get lost and spend the night at an abandoned house. But it's haunted! But is it really haunted? Or is it just the Communist spy ring (or whatever) that is using the house as a base to get Top Secret information about the nearby missile factory? The bad guys are Carradine, Rathbone and Chaney. They have a gorilla for some reason. And Linda Ho is the Dragon Lady or something. But ... maybe it really is haunted? Who knows? Your tolerance for this movie will largely depend on how much you like 1960s country music. I like it fine. My dad used to listen to this stuff all the time when I was a kid. I learned to appreciate a lot of it. (But there's very little modern country that I like. So much whining!) And in Hillbillys in a Haunted House, they'll drop everything for a musical interlude for just about any reason whatsoever. It could be a little shorter. I was kind of done by the last musical number. I only recommend this for fans of bad movies who also like 1960s country music.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 15, 2016 16:16:38 GMT -5
Today on YouTube Theatre: The Thirteenth Hour (1947). With Richard Dix. Richard Dix can't figure out what Zack Snyder was thinking when he made Batman vs. Superman. The Thirteenth Hour was one of the Whistler movies in the 1940s. I think the Whistler movies are hilarious. My best friend thinks they are bad. Well, if one MUST divide all the world's movies into good or bad, then probably the Whistler movies should objectively be placed in the "bad" category. I love them anyway! Mostly for the ham-handed acting style of Richard Dix, who always looks to me like learned how to perform by watching a circus strongman knock a horse unconscious. I assume he practices his lines by rehearsing in a barn before an audience of goats and hogs. He's awesome! I'd love to see a movie with Dix, Lon Chaney Jr. and Victor Mature. The Thirteenth Hour isn't nearly as good as some of the other Whistler movies. Dix is a small businessman who operates a trucking company. He has a run of bad luck too nonsensical and confusing for me to try to sort out right now or probably ever. I didn't understand the twist at the end. (I understood the penultimate twist, but not the one in the final minute.) I guess I could watch it again and pay closer attention. But I probably won't. The good news is that it's only 64 minutes long!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2016 17:55:41 GMT -5
You Tube have Girl Shy and I just can't believe it and I will be definitely be watching in a day or two. Thanks for the heads up Hoosier and that's one of my favorite Harold Lloyd film that came out in 1924. Jobyna Ralston is a Knockout! YouTube also has Harold Lloyd's The Kid Brother, which is another one he did with Jobyna. It's another really good one! I just remembered seeing Girl Shy at a Movie Theater in Vancouver B.C. three years ago and I love Kid Brother and I just watched them on You Tube and thanks for your recommendations. Both of them are fantastic and I just loved Harold Lloyd. Kid Brother was totally rocks and Jobyna was sensational in both movies. Man, she was gorgeous!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2016 15:43:01 GMT -5
They Died with their Boots on
I literally choked and stunned by this scene in this movie that I watched today on TCM and I was humbled by it. A great movie and one of my favorite Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland movie that came out where Flynn portrayed General Custer. Great Costumes, Drama, and Action. This movie have it all.
My favorite scene in this movie.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 20, 2016 16:05:12 GMT -5
They Died with their Boots onI literally choked and stunned by this scene in this movie that I watched today on TCM and I was humbled by it. A great movie and one of my favorite Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland movie that came out where Flynn portrayed General Custer. Great Costumes, Drama, and Action. This movie have it all. My favorite scene in this movie. Their last ever scene together. Beautiful, beautiful moment.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jun 22, 2016 9:16:40 GMT -5
All the Star Trek original cast movies and two TNG movies are available on Netflix instant until July 1 and I just now discovered this. I watched First Contact last week as it has always and still is the one good TNG movie. I like Data, so him pretty much being the front and center character next to Picard was good. And that creepy Borg heffeir ... (can't believe she's that psycho *itch from Silent Hill) ... just makes it more creepy than the Borg ever were before.
Then last night I watched Undiscovered Country which I remember liking a lot of the original cast movies. I had forgotten a lot of the plot and remembered mostly scenes and some of the great actors, David Warner (who I would later know as Ras from Batman TAS) and Christopher Plummer (who at the time I knew more from The Return of the Pink Panther than Sound of Music because RotPP was my father's favorite comedy movie). It was still a good film but not what I remembered. I think I remembered more of the movie being on the penal colony that McCoy and Kirk were held at than it being a political thriller.
Tonight I will watch The Voyage Home
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Post by Farrar on Jun 22, 2016 12:06:21 GMT -5
They Died with their Boots onI literally choked and stunned by this scene in this movie that I watched today on TCM and I was humbled by it. A great movie and one of my favorite Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland movie that came out where Flynn portrayed General Custer. Great Costumes, Drama, and Action. This movie have it all. My favorite scene in this movie. Their last ever scene together. Beautiful, beautiful moment. Her 100th birthday is coming up, on July 1st.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 22, 2016 13:43:58 GMT -5
Their last ever scene together. Beautiful, beautiful moment. Her 100th birthday is coming up, on July 1st. Yes, the Globe recently mentioned that and that she is not doing well. I guess you're entitled not ot be at your best at 100.
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