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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 11, 2016 22:00:18 GMT -5
Swords and sandals films were in a class all their own, what with the frequent stop-motion animation... I loved them. adam, you mention Beastmaster and Marc Singer. That's another of those movies that turn out to be much better than they should have been! I thought the witches in the beginning looked awesome, and the creatures you describe were all kind of cool. Good times! I enjoy that film; but my sister loved it and Singer. i was at the Atlanta Fantasy Fair, in 1991, and he was one of the guests (promoting the sequel). I got him to sign a photo of himself (beefcake, obviously) and address it to her, wishing her a happy birthday (which was in a week). I presented it to her, as a surprise. Nice guy, told some fun stories, about Beastmaster and V.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2016 13:42:16 GMT -5
This weekend I watched The Uninvited--a 1940s haunted house mystery. Lots of atmosphere and a twist ending! This one had it all, comedy, drama, romance, and mystery. Also watched Pretty Maids All in a Row with Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, and Telly Savalas. It was boring in parts and I'm not quite sure I got the ending. I do have to say, I wish all my substitute teachers looked like the very beautiful Angie Dickinson. Also nice to see a pre Secrets of Isis Joanna Cameron as one of the high school girls.
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 14, 2016 17:24:23 GMT -5
This weekend I watched The Uninvited--a 1940s haunted house mystery. Lots of atmosphere and a twist ending! This one had it all, comedy, drama, romance, and mystery. Excellent choice. Longtime favorite of mine, too. Love the photography as well as the look and the feel of it. And there's that not-so-sub sub-text involving two of the female characters. Plus Alfred (Alan Napier)! Just found out that there wasa pseudo-sequel called The Unseen with Joel McCrea, which I'll be hunting for.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2016 9:09:07 GMT -5
This weekend I watched The Uninvited--a 1940s haunted house mystery. Lots of atmosphere and a twist ending! This one had it all, comedy, drama, romance, and mystery. Excellent choice. Longtime favorite of mine, too. Love the photography as well as the look and the feel of it. And there's that not-so-sub sub-text involving two of the female characters. Plus Alfred (Alan Napier)! Just found out that there wasa pseudo-sequel called The Unseen with Joel McCrea, which I'll be hunting for. I will be on the lookout for the Unseen too. Joel McCrea is good in his movies. Bird of Paradise and The Most Dangerous Game were recently on and they were both really good. And yes, I did think the psychologist in The Uninvited was interested in more than being friends with Mary Meredith! What a creepy and atmospheric gem!
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 15, 2016 10:24:16 GMT -5
Excellent choice. Longtime favorite of mine, too. Love the photography as well as the look and the feel of it. And there's that not-so-sub sub-text involving two of the female characters. Plus Alfred (Alan Napier)! Just found out that there wasa pseudo-sequel called The Unseen with Joel McCrea, which I'll be hunting for. I will be on the lookout for the Unseen too. Joel McCrea is good in his movies. Bird of Paradise and The Most Dangerous Game were recently on and they were both really good. And yes, I did think the psychologist in The Uninvited was interested in more than being friends with Mary Meredith! What a creepy and atmospheric gem! Trivia: Gail Russell, who played Ray Milland's love interest, later portrayed Cornelia Otis Skinner, the actress who played the psychologist, in Our Hearts Were Young and Gay.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 15, 2016 14:06:23 GMT -5
Wait... is that... is that Michael Caine???
Just saw Zulu from 1964 yesterday; a rousing war movie with gorgeous scenery. The Zulu warriors were awesome, and this movie should really be studied by whoever plans on doing a big budget fantasy film involving large armies in the future.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 15, 2016 14:40:14 GMT -5
Wait... is that... is that Michael Caine??? Just saw Zulu from 1964 yesterday; a rousing war movie with gorgeous scenery. The Zulu warriors were awesome, and this movie should really be studied by whoever plans on doing a big budget fantasy film involving large armies in the future. Oh, well, you ant that kind of moment, watch The Lafayette Escadrille, with Tab Hunter. During a baseball game, you can see a young Clint Eastwood. If you look even closer you will see Billy Jack, himself, Tom Laughlin. Agree on Zulu; great film. It also led to both Stanley Baker and Michael Caine getting PO'd about the treatment of black extras, by the South Africans on the production and led to some lines in the sand to improve conditions. Caine never made another movie in South Africa, while apartheid stood.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 15, 2016 16:08:00 GMT -5
Wait... is that... is that Michael Caine??? Just saw Zulu from 1964 yesterday; a rousing war movie with gorgeous scenery. The Zulu warriors were awesome, and this movie should really be studied by whoever plans on doing a big budget fantasy film involving large armies in the future. Oh, well, you ant that kind of moment, watch The Lafayette Escadrille, with Tab Hunter. During a baseball game, you can see a young Clint Eastwood. If you look even closer you will see Billy Jack, himself, Tom Laughlin. Agree on Zulu; great film. It also led to both Stanley Baker and Michael Caine getting PO'd about the treatment of black extras, by the South Africans on the production and led to some lines in the sand to improve conditions. Caine never made another movie in South Africa, while apartheid stood. Michael Caine is an SJW! Awesome!
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 15, 2016 19:14:04 GMT -5
Wait... is that... is that Michael Caine??? Just saw Zulu from 1964 yesterday; a rousing war movie with gorgeous scenery. The Zulu warriors were awesome, and this movie should really be studied by whoever plans on doing a big budget fantasy film involving large armies in the future. If only because they are all real human beings. Hear that, Orc army? BTW, the stirring war chant was used again, in Gladiator, as the chant of the barbarian tribesmen in the opening scenes.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 16, 2016 2:14:23 GMT -5
There was a 1979 prequel to Zulu called Zulu Dawn starring Burt Lancaster. Not quite as good but worth seeing for the historical events of the British attempts to defeat the Zulu nation
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 16, 2016 2:28:09 GMT -5
Oh, well, you ant that kind of moment, watch The Lafayette Escadrille, with Tab Hunter. During a baseball game, you can see a young Clint Eastwood. If you look even closer you will see Billy Jack, himself, Tom Laughlin. Agree on Zulu; great film. It also led to both Stanley Baker and Michael Caine getting PO'd about the treatment of black extras, by the South Africans on the production and led to some lines in the sand to improve conditions. Caine never made another movie in South Africa, while apartheid stood. Michael Caine is an SJW! Awesome! Well, tempered with the fact that he supported Thatcher. He hasn't forgotten where he comes from; but, he's danged sure gonna keep what he got since then! He does tell a funny story in his original memoir, about a neighbor coming to visit to drum up support about keeping "undesirables" out. Caine's wife, Shakira, answered the door and the person thought she was a servant. he presented his case to Caine, who was amused (as was Shakira, then told him, "Sorry mate, I can't keep them out of my own house!" and introduced Shakira as his wife. The person's eyes grew wide and they quickly made their exit, while the Caines had a good laugh.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2016 1:10:17 GMT -5
I DVRed a bunch of genre movies in October, but I ended up being unexpectedly busy at the end of the month and though I did manage to watch quite a few movies the last weekend before Halloween, I still ended up with a bit of a backlog, about eight movies. I've watched five of them since Halloween. The Black Cat (1934) - This is the one with Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff both, not the one from a few years later with Bela, Basil Rathbone and ... Alan Ladd? Broderick Crawford? (I like the later one a lot because it's just so dang weird.) The 1934 film is amazing! Boris is a Satanist who lives in a postmodern art deco mansion that was built over a fortress in Hungary where a terrible World War I battle was fought. Bela is a psychiatrist who was among the prisoners handed over to the Russians when Boris betrayed the fort. (He was taken to Kulgaar ... where the soul is killed ... slowly.) Bela has returned to take his revenge! It ends with Boris strapped to a metal rack as Bela skins him with a pocket knife. It's awesome! David Manners and the lovely lovely Jacqueline Wells co-star. Experiment in Terror (1962) - It's not really a horror movie. It's actually rather Hitchcockian. It's directed by Blake Edwards and it stars Lee Remick and Glenn Ford. Lee is terrorized by an anonymous guy in a mask who's threatening to kill her and her sister if she doesn't take advantage of her bank clerk job to steal $100,000 for him. It's pretty good! Some of the details of the plot don't quite work but you might be so distracted by Lee Remick that you won't notice until later. It's not just because she's so beautiful; she also acts the HELL out of her part. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Highly recommended if you've seen your favorite Hitchcock film too many times and would like something almost as good. Black Sabbath (1963) - A horror anthology directed by Mario Bava and starring Boris Karloff. Because of the time-frame and the presence of Boris, it reminded me a little of those Roger Corman movies adapting Edgar Allan Poe stories (allegedly) but the stories tend to have a perverse twist, probably because of director Bava. The story about the wurdulak, for example, is very disturbing, when you think about it, and could very easily be the basis of a season of "American Horror Story." Blood and Black Lace (1964) - Mario Bava again. Somebody is killing all the models at an exclusive modelling agency in Rome. I've heard that some film scholars consider this to be a film that influenced the slasher movie genre, film series like Friday the Thirteenth and Halloween. It seems highly likely to me. In any case, 1960s Italian horror movies just rock! Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) - Dr. Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) puts the brain of an innocent man executed for murder into the body of a woman who drowned. Not such a great entry in the Hammer Frankenstein series, but I DVRed it because I've never seen this one. It gets a lot of points just for being so weird. (The one I love is Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed!, which is probably the first Hammer film I ever saw. I was probably a bit too young for it but IT TOTALLY FREAKED ME OUT! I've never forgotten it, and I try to see it every so often. It's been a while. Cushing's Dr. Frankenstein is Satanic.) I just watched "The Black Cat" recently as well, love the old horror films, especially the ones with Lugosi & Karloff. Also just watched "Dracula", "Frankenstein", "The Mummy" & "Bride of Frankenstein". Not sure if anyone mentioned it yet, but another great old film with Karloff is "The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)".
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 20, 2016 9:43:34 GMT -5
I DVRed a bunch of genre movies in October, but I ended up being unexpectedly busy at the end of the month and though I did manage to watch quite a few movies the last weekend before Halloween, I still ended up with a bit of a backlog, about eight movies. I've watched five of them since Halloween. The Black Cat (1934) - This is the one with Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff both, not the one from a few years later with Bela, Basil Rathbone and ... Alan Ladd? Broderick Crawford? (I like the later one a lot because it's just so dang weird.) The 1934 film is amazing! Boris is a Satanist who lives in a postmodern art deco mansion that was built over a fortress in Hungary where a terrible World War I battle was fought. Bela is a psychiatrist who was among the prisoners handed over to the Russians when Boris betrayed the fort. (He was taken to Kulgaar ... where the soul is killed ... slowly.) Bela has returned to take his revenge! It ends with Boris strapped to a metal rack as Bela skins him with a pocket knife. It's awesome! David Manners and the lovely lovely Jacqueline Wells co-star. Experiment in Terror (1962) - It's not really a horror movie. It's actually rather Hitchcockian. It's directed by Blake Edwards and it stars Lee Remick and Glenn Ford. Lee is terrorized by an anonymous guy in a mask who's threatening to kill her and her sister if she doesn't take advantage of her bank clerk job to steal $100,000 for him. It's pretty good! Some of the details of the plot don't quite work but you might be so distracted by Lee Remick that you won't notice until later. It's not just because she's so beautiful; she also acts the HELL out of her part. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Highly recommended if you've seen your favorite Hitchcock film too many times and would like something almost as good. Black Sabbath (1963) - A horror anthology directed by Mario Bava and starring Boris Karloff. Because of the time-frame and the presence of Boris, it reminded me a little of those Roger Corman movies adapting Edgar Allan Poe stories (allegedly) but the stories tend to have a perverse twist, probably because of director Bava. The story about the wurdulak, for example, is very disturbing, when you think about it, and could very easily be the basis of a season of "American Horror Story." Blood and Black Lace (1964) - Mario Bava again. Somebody is killing all the models at an exclusive modelling agency in Rome. I've heard that some film scholars consider this to be a film that influenced the slasher movie genre, film series like Friday the Thirteenth and Halloween. It seems highly likely to me. In any case, 1960s Italian horror movies just rock! Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) - Dr. Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) puts the brain of an innocent man executed for murder into the body of a woman who drowned. Not such a great entry in the Hammer Frankenstein series, but I DVRed it because I've never seen this one. It gets a lot of points just for being so weird. (The one I love is Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed!, which is probably the first Hammer film I ever saw. I was probably a bit too young for it but IT TOTALLY FREAKED ME OUT! I've never forgotten it, and I try to see it every so often. It's been a while. Cushing's Dr. Frankenstein is Satanic.) I just watched "The Black Cat" recently as well, love the old horror films, especially the ones with Lugosi & Karloff. Also just watched "Dracula", "Frankenstein", "The Mummy" & "Bride of Frankenstein". Not sure if anyone mentioned it yet, but another great old film with Karloff is "The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)". The Mask of Fu Manchu is off the hook! I’ve seen it a bunch of times, including a special screening at the Cinematheque in Hollywood. I especially love Myrna Loy as Fah Lo Suee, and her unseemly pre-Code delight as she tortures one of the Englishmen.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 20, 2016 12:32:40 GMT -5
On Osh's recommendation, I watched Zulu dawn two days ago; it is indeed a worthy prequel to Zulu. I love seeing so many actual people onscreen instead of digitally animated automatons.
More recent viewings, thanks to Youtube:
The land that time forgot, which I remember being advertized in comics when I was young. Nice Saturday matinee feel to it, just like the Pellucidar adaptation from about the same period, but those dinosaur puppets really didn't age well. The plot is however lively and fun.
Cross of iron, a classic war movie. Outstanding performance by several of the actors.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 20, 2016 13:09:52 GMT -5
On Osh's recommendation, I watched Zulu dawn two days ago; it is indeed a worthy prequel to Zulu. I love seeing so many actual people onscreen instead of digitally animated automatons. More recent viewings, thanks to Youtube: The land that time forgot, which I remember being advertized in comics when I was young. Nice Saturday matinee feel to it, just like the Pellucidar adaptation from about the same period, but those dinosaur puppets really didn't age well. The plot is however lively and fun. Cross of iron, a classic war movie. Outstanding performance by several of the actors. Land That Time Forgot is aided immensely by a script from Michael Moorcock (in collaboration with James Cawthorn). A lot was changed; but, Moorcock and Cawthorn brought the Burroughs sensibility. Kevin Connor directed all of those Burroughs adaptations, with Doug McClure along for the ride. Another good one, of a similar vein, is The Blue Max, with George Peppard,Ursula Andress, James Mason and Jeremy Kemp. Peppard is a soldier from the trenches who sees airplanes as his way out and gets a transfer, becoming a pilot. he is not of the aristocracy and is shunned by most of the other pilots, except Kemp, who likes him. peppard is obsessed with showing up the other pilots and winning The Blue Max, Germany's highest honor (of the era). Some great flying scenes, too. I just rewatched Goldeneye (been rewatching the Bond films, from the start). By far the best of Brosnan's, and, in my opinion, the best of the later-era Bond films (after the gap, created by legal issues, in the late 80s), including Craig's. Great score from Eric Serra, which gives it a Nikita feel, which is further reinforced by the presence of Tchecky Karyo. Also liked Michael Kitchen ( Foyle's War) as Bill Tanner, the MI-6 Chief of Staff, from Fleming's novels. Samantha Bond has really great chemistry, as Moneypenny; the best since the great Lois Maxwell.
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