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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 11, 2016 15:30:52 GMT -5
Saw this last night. It's a weird little movie...Great funky soundtrack though! Blacula is awesome. Isn't Pam Grier in the sequel?
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Post by Pharozonk on Dec 11, 2016 15:36:16 GMT -5
Saw this last night. It's a weird little movie...Great funky soundtrack though! Blacula is awesome. Isn't Pam Grier in the sequel? She is! I need to give the sequel a watch some time. I've heard it's more fun than the first one.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 12, 2016 0:36:43 GMT -5
I saw The Pink Panther just a few weeks ago. It is quite a lot of fun. It has all those silly Blake Edwards chase gags that really shouldn't be funny but they are (for a while).
But Fran Jeffries singing "Meglio Stasera" steals the show. I had The Pink Panther on DVR and I watched the "Meglio Stasera" segment a bunch of times over the next week before I deleted it. (I think it's on YouTube.)
Fran Jeffries is also in Sex and the Single Girl with Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, Lauren Bacall and Henry Fonda.
The ultimate for a Blake Edwards chase film is The Great Race. Also, the greatest pie fight in cinematic history, a terrific send-up of the Prisoner of Zenda, and Natalie Wood in her undies. Plus, Jack Lemon is a hoot, as Prof. Fate. I would have loved an entire series of Prof. Fate and Max movies. Back to the Panther films, A Shot in The Dark really set the template for the later Edwards ones. First one I got to see, as a kid, was Return of the Pink Panther, at the theater. My dad loved the films, so we got to see Pink Panther Strikes Again and Revenge of the pink Panther, with him, when movies were a rare treat. Hard to say which is better, between Return and Strikes Again, as both leave me in hysterics. I saw Inspector Clouseau, years ago, on a weekend movie and was mildly amused. Alan Arkin is good; but, the script lets him down. I bought it years later, on dvd (dirt cheap) and it's still mildly musing.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 12, 2016 11:37:27 GMT -5
Last night I watched Night and the City (1950), a nifty little thriller starring Richard Widmark as a street-level club tout and hustler in London. He comes up with a scheme (he's promoting Greco-Roman wrestling) that's actually almost legit, but trying to keep all the balls in the air gets more and more complicated. Can he keep it up for the whole 100 minutes? He better be careful, because one of those balls is marked with DEATH! Starring Gene Tierney, Herbert Lom, Googie Withers, Mike Mazurki and Hugh Marlowe. And there are a lot of really good actors that I don't know in supporting roles. Directed by Jules Dassin. Great movie! There's a wrestling scene where a couple of the grapplers get into it (for personal reasons) late at night at the gym and it turns into a struggle for survival! Nobody can stop them because they're just too big! One of the most amazing fight scenes I've ever seen.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2016 23:15:26 GMT -5
Tackled National Lampoon's Animal House today. One of the greatest comedies ever. That boy is a P-I-G. Pig. So many great quotes in that film.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2016 1:26:25 GMT -5
One of the greatest comedies ever. That boy is a P-I-G. Pig. So many great quotes in that film. A lot of it wasn't my style, but it was clever and I certainly liked significant parts of it. Now I just watched Saturday Night Fever. Good movie, not exactly what I was expecting in some respects, but I enjoyed it. SNF is a unique film and I find it different and totally caught me off-guard in the way they made it. It's very retro and it's helped John Travolta's career. But, I just can't stomach to watch it again and I'm more an Animal House (Person) because of it crazy humor it's brings.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 14, 2016 12:03:05 GMT -5
Geez Louise, I love Animal House! My mom made my dad take my brother and I to see it. They were living apart and working on a divorce and my mom had seen it with some friends. She knew we would like it but she said she didn't think she could sit through it with us because she would die from embarrassment. (I was 15 and my brother was 13, so we couldn't get in without an "adult.") So he took us. I think it was a bit of an ordeal for him too, but he smiled a few times.
I've seen it a bunch of times over the years.
The last couple of days, I saw My Brilliant Career (1979), starring Judy Davis, and the documentary The Battle of Chile, Part 1 (1975). They were both pretty great!
The Battle of Chile, Part 1 for all the parallels with our current political situation in the U.S.
A foreign power meddling with the democratic process. In 1973, it was the U.S. undermining Allende's government in Chile. In 2016, it's Russia throwing the election to Trump.
A hostile right-wing opposition doing everything in their power to make sure the left-wing government can't succeed.
Calls for impeachment and prison for a left-wing opponent for very vague reasons that don't seem to encompass more than a difference of opinion on policy.
Also, a media environment that favors distorted and outright false right-wing talking points and mindless nationalism that convinces a large part of the working class to vote against their own interests.
I loved My Brilliant Career but I most highly recommend The Battle for Chile, Part 1 for how relevant it is for our times.
I'm hoping to get to Part 2 later today.
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Post by Pharozonk on Dec 14, 2016 14:10:55 GMT -5
Tackled National Lampoon's Animal House today. One of my all time favorite comedies. It helps that I watched it for the first time when I was in college so it stuck with me even more.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 14, 2016 18:44:26 GMT -5
"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl harbor?"
"The Germans?"
"Forget it; he's rolling!"
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 14, 2016 22:58:11 GMT -5
Tonight I went a bit older with my film-watching and viewed 1939's Young Mr. Lincoln, starring Henry Fonda. Not quite historically accurate, though it's slightly based on a true story. Geat movie. Love the trial scene.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 15, 2016 0:43:03 GMT -5
Also check out Abe Lincoln in Illinois, with Raymond Massey. Massey looks the part and was a tremendous orator, as he displayed in Things to Come, and as the cool villain in the original Prisoner of Zenda and Desperate Journey.
oh, and if you are a fan of Blackhawk, check out Desperate Journey. It features Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan and Alan Hale Sr as a bomber crew, shot down over Germany. Massey is the Gestapo officer who interrogates them, though they escape, with Massey on their trail. Along the way, they uncover the location of a secret aircraft factory, sabotage an armaments warehouse, steal a captured Lancaster bomber and escape back to England, while dropping a bomb on a bridge to halt a Nazi advance into Holland. It was directed by raoul Walsh and has the sensibilities of Flynn's swashbucklers and more closely resembles the spirit of the Blackhawk comics than the Kirk Allyn movie serial did.
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 15, 2016 10:23:27 GMT -5
oh, and if you are a fan of Blackhawk, check out Desperate Journey. It features Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan and Alan Hale Sr as a bomber crew, shot down over Germany. Massey is the Gestapo officer who interrogates them, though they escape, with Massey on their trail. Along the way, they uncover the location of a secret aircraft factory, sabotage an armaments warehouse, steal a captured Lancaster bomber and escape back to England, while dropping a bomb on a bridge to halt a Nazi advance into Holland. It was directed by raoul Walsh and has the sensibilities of Flynn's swashbucklers and more closely resembles the spirit of the Blackhawk comics than the Kirk Allyn movie serial did. I have thought the same thing about a few old movies! Wish I could remember now which ones, but it will come to me. It is fun to watch them with the idea that I'm watching a comic book adaptation. This is an Errol Flynn picture I've never seen, but will ASAP! Flynn is obviously Blackhawk, Hale would be an Irish version of Hendriksen and Reagan could be Chuck.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 15, 2016 10:46:04 GMT -5
oh, and if you are a fan of Blackhawk, check out Desperate Journey. It features Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan and Alan Hale Sr as a bomber crew, shot down over Germany. Massey is the Gestapo officer who interrogates them, though they escape, with Massey on their trail. Along the way, they uncover the location of a secret aircraft factory, sabotage an armaments warehouse, steal a captured Lancaster bomber and escape back to England, while dropping a bomb on a bridge to halt a Nazi advance into Holland. It was directed by raoul Walsh and has the sensibilities of Flynn's swashbucklers and more closely resembles the spirit of the Blackhawk comics than the Kirk Allyn movie serial did. I have thought the same thing about a few old movies! Wish I could remember now which ones, but it will come to me. It is fun to watch them with the idea that I'm watching a comic book adaptation. This is an Errol Flynn picture I've never seen, but will ASAP! Flynn is obviously Blackhawk, Hale would be an Irish version of Hendriksen and Reagan could be Chuck. I always kind of felt that the first season of Baa Baa Black Sheep was very much like Blackhawk, too. Leaving aside being Marine pilots, you have a ragtag group of aviators, on their own island, fighting in the air and on the ground. They even have their island invaded, in one episode. If that's not Blackhawk, I don't know what is. Plus, they had iconic planes, with the Corsairs.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 16, 2016 10:03:58 GMT -5
Last night, after a day of running around and errands and chores, I got home and watched 300: Rise of an Empire (2014). I know it's not old enough for this thread, but this is where I post my movie comments. I'll keep it brief.
I can see why people say 300: Rise of an Empire is not very good. But I enjoyed it way too much to call it a bad movie. (Keep in mind that I loved The Spirit, a movie which nobody but me seems to get.)
Eva Green makes this movie a delight. She should be charged and prosecuted for Grand Theft Movie because she steals the show.
It's wonderfully dumb, but it's beautiful to look at. And it's never boring. Even when you're rolling your eyes at things like Greek-eating sea monsters or Artemisia's stupid origin story, you can still enjoy the scenery.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 16, 2016 10:15:33 GMT -5
It wasn't that late when Rise of an Empire was over. So I watched Thirteen Women (1932), featuring Myrna Loy, Irene Dunne and Ricardo Cortez! Also, Wally Albright, who you might remember from one or two Our Gang comedies. He's Irene Dunne's son. And Myrna Loy - as Ursula Georgi, a half-blood Hindoo - is trying to kill him because she hates white people! (She must drive in my neighborhood because I feel the same way sometimes. The tail-gating, the Confederate flags, the Oakland Raiders stickers.) This movie is also notable because it features Peg Entwhistle. (She's the one who stabs her husband early in the movie for no reason except she got a letter saying she would do it.) This is another extravagantly silly movie, but Myrna Loy is SO EVIL. She totally sells it. It's barely an hour long. I gave it an 8 on IMDB. If it was a minute longer, I'd give it a 7. If it was a minute longer than that, I'd probably give it a 5!
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