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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2017 14:06:06 GMT -5
TCM is showing Hitchcock all day. Psycho is on now and then Marnie, The Birds, Vertigo, Rear Window, Shadow of a Doubt, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) and The Trouble with Harry.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 1, 2017 19:27:17 GMT -5
TCM is showing Hitchcock all day. Psycho is on now and then Marnie, The Birds, Vertigo, Rear Window, Shadow of a Doubt, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) and The Trouble with Harry. I decided to DVR The Birds. Again. I just saw it three or four months ago. If they had been showing Notorious, I would have DVRed that because I've been wanting to see it again for a while. I love a lot of Hitchcock's movies, but The Birds is special. I usually watch it once a year, sometimes more, and it never gets old.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2017 19:50:55 GMT -5
I DVRd all of them except Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window and The Birds. I own all those (and maybe some of the others) in a boxset. I watched most of Psycho while it was on, and how great is Perkins in that film? Such a creepy little dude.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 1, 2017 22:40:41 GMT -5
Psycho works better for me when I don't see it so often. Every four or five years, I'll notice it's on and I'll think "Yeah, it's time to watch it again!"
I especially love the Janet Leigh scenes. They are so suspenseful! It's a fascinating mini-movie about the fascinating adventures of embezzler Marion Crane!
And then she stops at the wrong motel and a completely different movies starts.
I think Janet Leigh would have been great as "pretty policewoman Diane Meade" in a Martian Manhunter movie circa 1960. With Broderick Crawford as Captain Harding.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 1, 2017 23:19:56 GMT -5
I think Janet Leigh would have been great as "pretty policewoman Diane Meade" in a Martian Manhunter movie circa 1960. With Broderick Crawford as Captain Harding. And Jerry Mathers as the Zook !!
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 2, 2017 9:57:49 GMT -5
I think Janet Leigh would have been great as "pretty policewoman Diane Meade" in a Martian Manhunter movie circa 1960. With Broderick Crawford as Captain Harding. And Jerry Mathers as the Zook !! And as J'onn J'onzz? Woody Strode? Yul Brynner?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2017 12:18:24 GMT -5
Woody Strode would be a better choice than Yul Brynner; far more superior than anyone else. Woody wins hands down.
Woody was 6'4"
Yul was 5'8"
Manhunter was 6'7"
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2017 0:22:50 GMT -5
Just finished Patton. Maybe just a tad too long for my taste, but a great performance by George C. Scott. Is that the first time you seen it? ... I have seen it about a dozen of times already and I totally agree with your comments about George C. Scott. I thought Karl Malden did a good job as General Omar Bradley. It's one of my favorite movie and I think it was 20 minutes too long in my book. The Movie was 2 hours and 52 minutes. I think 2 hours and 32 minutes would had been better.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2017 5:07:49 GMT -5
Is that the first time you seen it? ... I have seen it about a dozen of times already and I totally agree with your comments about George C. Scott. I thought Karl Malden did a good job as General Omar Bradley. It's one of my favorite movie and I think it was 20 minutes too long in my book. The Movie was 2 hours and 52 minutes. I think 2 hours and 32 minutes would had been better. Yes, it was my first time seeing it. #182 on the NFR list for me. Thanks for letting me know that ... for me the first time that I seen that movie was 1972 and loved it ever since.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2017 11:47:38 GMT -5
Watched East of Eden last night. I really enjoyed it. Sad that James Dean died so young as he had a great career ahead of him. The final scene in East of Eden had me tearing up! Also watched Svengali and The Hypnotic Eye yesterday. Enjoyed them both.
Svengali was sad and creepy all at once. Barrymore was awesome. The Hypnotic Eye was interesting, although I am still not sure of the motivations of the villains in the film.
Here a couple of others I watched over Christmas:
Scrooge from 1970. This was a musical version and it was pretty good! The Omega Man: Sci-Fi with Charlton Heston
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2017 11:52:30 GMT -5
@mrjupiter
Omega Man is one of my favorite SCI-FI Movie and I'm happy that you've get a chance to see it. Great Movie and great performance of Charlton Heston too.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 3, 2017 12:52:32 GMT -5
When I was a kid, The Omega Man was one of my favorite movies.
I've seen a few more movies since then, but Heston's Omega Man mostly holds up if you like 1970s sci-fi.
I like every version of this particular story, The Last Man on Earth with Vincent Price and I Am Legend with Will Smith.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 3, 2017 13:15:39 GMT -5
Just finished Patton. Maybe just a tad too long for my taste, but a great performance by George C. Scott. Watched it so many time I can almost quote it scene for scene. Great movie. "Rommel, you magnificent b@$!@&*, I read your book!" "...Your one of the best field commanders I've got; but, you don't know when to shut up. George...you're a pain in the neck!"
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 3, 2017 14:26:25 GMT -5
The last movie I saw in 2016 was Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968). It's not good. But I did like Jacqueline Pearce (she's so CUTE!) and Patricia Routledge (who has ALL the funny moments). And it was kind of neat to see Bernard Cribbins, who I know as Rose Tyler's granddad on Doctor Who.
Patricia Routledge - as somebody pointed out above - is Hyacinth on the wonderful British TV show "Keeping up Appearances." I had never seen it until recently, but I was visiting my aunt and uncle over the summer and my aunt LOVES the show. But PBS isn't showing it anymore. So her daughter got her the DVD collection! The Complete Hyacinth! But my aunt can't figure out the DVD player. (She's very intelligent, and has a master's degree in education and used to be an elementary school principal! But she is now over 80 years old and is somewhat technologically challenged. She has figured out how to answer her cell phone, so perhaps there is hope.) So I was there for about ten days and most days, I started "Keeping Up Appearances" on the DVR and watched an episode with her. We watched the second season and maybe a couple of episodes in the third. Great show!
The first movie I saw in 2017 was Straight Outta Compton (2015). I've heard good things about it, and I liked it a lot! Very well-made and very entertaining. I'd forgotten what a great song "F*** tha Police" is. (I understand why the police don't like the song. But maybe the police should take a moment to understand why Ice Cube wrote it and why it was so popular. It just gets more and more relevant, doesn't it?)
And I've also seen Lonelyhearts (1958) and The Moon Is Down (1943). They're both very good.
Lonelyhearts is based on a short novel by Nathanael West, the author of "The Day of the Locust," the Hollywood novel from which the name "Homer Simpson" is derived. (Donald Sutherland is Homer Simpson.") In Lonelyhearts, Montgomery Clift gets a job as an advice columnist for a newspaper and he starts to crack up trying to deal with all the sad stories he has to deal with. Also featuring Myrna Loy, Robert Ryan and Maureen Stapleton.
The Moon Is Down is based on the John Steinbeck novel about a small mining village in Norway occupied by the Nazis. It's not as brutal as Hitler's Madman but it's still surprising for a 1943 film. Henry Travers is the village mayor, standing up to the Nazi occupation, led by Cedric Hardwicke. After seeing The Moon Is Down, I don't think I will ever think of Clarence the angel in quite the same way.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2017 20:20:56 GMT -5
I just watched Tora, Tora, Tora today on TCM and it was the first time in many years that I have seen it and it's one of the better war/documentary/drama movie that built on the buildup of the Japaneses Navy/Air Attack on Pearl Harbor. I loved the ending of which Admiral Yamamoto said at the end of the movie ...
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve"
Anyway, it's done realistically and I was impressed by the series of mini-events that lead to the attack.
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