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Post by Pharozonk on Feb 5, 2017 18:05:54 GMT -5
Say Goodbye to the IMDB message boardI noticed today the bulletin that they will do away with the message board in it's entirely as of Feb 20. A shame. Yes, there are many silly posts such as some joker always proclaiming a certain film as the worst ever made. Lot's of trolling and bashing. But it had plenty of interesting insights, recommendations and corrections to IMDB's data. There goes the baby with the bathwater. I use Letterboxd to catalog my movie watching habits more than I do IMDB. It has a much better interface too.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 6, 2017 1:13:05 GMT -5
So tonight my niece and I watched Candyman (1992), one of the films on the "1001 movies you must see before you die" list.
It's about a grad student (Virginia Madsen) studying urban legends and she gets in a bit over her head when she starts looking into the Candyman.
But in the end, it turns out that it really is all about her.
Pretty good movie. Great use of Chicago as a setting.
I'd forgotten how pretty Virginia Madsen is. And it's weird how much she looks like Thelma Todd!
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Post by berkley on Feb 6, 2017 1:50:26 GMT -5
I'm assuming you mean Grace Kelly, not Gene. Don't get me wrong, Gene Kelly is a heck of a performer, but I wouldn't categorize him as "beautiful and vulnerable". Clearly someone hasn't seen An American in Paris. jk jk Yeah, but what about that dance routine in Dial M for Murder, when he throws the phone up in the air and catches it in mid-leap, and later on that pas de deux with the murderer - what grace! What style!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Feb 6, 2017 7:15:29 GMT -5
People have argued for years as to who was the better dancer-Fred Astaire or Grace Kelly. Astaire was the classy and graceful one. Grace Kelly was the inventive and athletic one. Folks yearned to see them together and perform simultaneously. Not until That's Entertainment did they work on the same film but alas not the same scene. Grace came a long way from her early days as a gun moll with the nickname "Machine Gun". Nowadays she's known as a singer/songwriter. She was constantly bombarded with the question "Are You That Grace Kelly?". Tired of always answering it, she professionally changed her name to R.Kelly
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 7, 2017 1:23:02 GMT -5
My niece and I went and saw La La Land (2016) today.
She has been raving about it for a few weeks. I thought it was some anime series because that's just about the only thing she watches. There's a sullen, black-haired teen boy who is a ninja vampire, and his best friend is an even more sullen, black-haired teen boy who turns into a wolf dog because his father was a demon. And there is a blonde girl with a magic necklace. She giggles a lot and has gigantic pony tails.
But no. I heard that it had been nominated for 14 Oscars, and I figured I had made quite the wrong turn in my assumptions. I found out it has a lot of music and is set in Los Angeles. And Emma Stone is in it. But otherwise I didn't know anything about it.
I was in love with it about ten seconds in, before the first musical number started.
My niece and I are planning to go see it once a week for as long as it's at the local theater.
Highly recommended.
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Post by Confessor on Feb 7, 2017 9:19:28 GMT -5
My niece and I went and saw La La Land (2016) today. She has been raving about it for a few weeks. I thought it was some anime series because that's just about the only thing she watches. There's a sullen, black-haired teen boy who is a ninja vampire, and his best friend is an even more sullen, black-haired teen boy who turns into a wolf dog because his father was a demon. And there is a blonde girl with a magic necklace. She giggles a lot and has gigantic pony tails. But no. I heard that it had been nominated for 14 Oscars, and I figured I had made quite the wrong turn in my assumptions. I found out it has a lot of music and is set in Los Angeles. And Emma Stone is in it. But otherwise I didn't know anything about it. I was in love with it about ten seconds in, before the first musical number started. My niece and I are planning to go see it once a week for as long as it's at the local theater. Highly recommended. You're the first real person (as in a person that I either actually know or an online friend) who has enjoyed the film. My Facebook newsfeed has been full of people, mostly women, who have been really disappointed with the film.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 7, 2017 12:22:38 GMT -5
My niece and I went and saw La La Land (2016) today. She has been raving about it for a few weeks. I thought it was some anime series because that's just about the only thing she watches. There's a sullen, black-haired teen boy who is a ninja vampire, and his best friend is an even more sullen, black-haired teen boy who turns into a wolf dog because his father was a demon. And there is a blonde girl with a magic necklace. She giggles a lot and has gigantic pony tails. But no. I heard that it had been nominated for 14 Oscars, and I figured I had made quite the wrong turn in my assumptions. I found out it has a lot of music and is set in Los Angeles. And Emma Stone is in it. But otherwise I didn't know anything about it. I was in love with it about ten seconds in, before the first musical number started. My niece and I are planning to go see it once a week for as long as it's at the local theater. Highly recommended. You're the first real person (as in a person that I either actually know or an online friend) who has enjoyed the film. My Facebook newsfeed has been full of people, mostly women, who have been really disappointed with the film. It's a musical. The music starts and people start singing and dancing out of nowhere when they are stuck in traffic or just walking down the street. I know this particular element of old movies freaks out a lot of people who have no problem with mutants, dragons, impossible car chases, firearms that never run out of ammo or (fill in with favorite egregious silliness from any particular genre). So it's not for everyone.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Feb 8, 2017 23:47:13 GMT -5
Stocked up with some classic movies on DVD with my weekly library trip in time for the coming snowstorm. On tap this week:
The Phantom Creeps (1939) Bela Lugosi-Feature Length edit from the 12 part serial For Me And My Gal (1942) Judy Garland,Gene "Don't Call Me Grace" Kelly-Been on a Judy Garland kick lately One Minute To Zero (1952) Robert Mitchum, Anne Blyth- Korean War action Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1942) Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien Only The Valiant (1951) Gregory Peck, Lon Chaney Jr, Ward Bond- Cowboys 'n Indians Pennies From Heaven (1981) Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters- Seen this many years ago and remember it as a strange comedy Once Is Not Enough (1974) Kirk Douglas, David Janssen, George Hamilton, Alexis Smith, Melina Mercouri, Brenda Vaccaro-Kitschy 70s Flower Drum Song (1961) Nancy Kwan, Jack Soo- An hour after watching, you want to see another musical Paint Your Wagon (1969) Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin- Got to see these guys sing
From my own collection, I've pulled out to watch
Only The Lonely (1991) John Candy Red Sonja (1985) Brigitte Nielsen, Ahnold Ruggles Of Red Gap (1935) Charles Laughton Passage To India (1984) Alec Guinness Director David Lean People Vs Larry Flint (1996) Woody Harrelson, Edward Norton, Courtney Love Play Misty For Me (1971) Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter- Fatal Attraction prequel
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 10, 2017 11:53:53 GMT -5
Stocked up with some classic movies on DVD with my weekly library trip in time for the coming snowstorm. On tap this week: The Phantom Creeps (1939) Bela Lugosi-Feature Length edit from the 12 part serial For Me And My Gal (1942) Judy Garland,Gene "Don't Call Me Grace" Kelly-Been on a Judy Garland kick lately One Minute To Zero (1952) Robert Mitchum, Anne Blyth- Korean War action Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1942) Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien Only The Valiant (1951) Gregory Peck, Lon Chaney Jr, Ward Bond- Cowboys 'n Indians Pennies From Heaven (1981) Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters- Seen this many years ago and remember it as a strange comedy Once Is Not Enough (1974) Kirk Douglas, David Janssen, George Hamilton, Alexis Smith, Melina Mercouri, Brenda Vaccaro-Kitschy 70s Flower Drum Song (1961) Nancy Kwan, Jack Soo- An hour after watching, you want to see another musical Paint Your Wagon (1969) Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin- Got to see these guys sing From my own collection, I've pulled out to watch Only The Lonely (1991) John Candy Red Sonja (1985) Brigitte Nielsen, Ahnold Ruggles Of Red Gap (1935) Charles Laughton Passage To India (1984) Alec Guinness Director David Lean People Vs Larry Flint (1996) Woody Harrelson, Edward Norton, Courtney Love Play Misty For Me (1971) Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter- Fatal Attraction prequel I've not seen very many of these. Pennies from Heaven is a bizarre film with many great moments. Ruggles, Passage and Larry Flynt are all really good. The real highlight is Red Sonja. I love that movie. Every two or three years, I see it scheduled on cable and I watch it again. It would be much much better without Schwarzenegger though.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 12:22:19 GMT -5
Hoosier XRed Sonja would been a better movie if Schwarzenegger had a very limited role in it and Brigitte Nielsen had a more defined role and that would had been a better movie. Arnold had too much presence and that alone killed Red Sonja. That's one of the reasons that I did not like it. I watch it a couple of times and every time I watch it - Arnold killed it.
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 10, 2017 13:06:29 GMT -5
Stocked up with some classic movies on DVD with my weekly library trip in time for the coming snowstorm. On tap this week: Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1942) Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien Only The Lonely (1991) John Candy Two great favorites of mine. Vines has unaffected naturalistic performances from Edward G. Robinson and Margaret O'Brien, both of whom are right up there among the greats of the Golden Age of Movies. Unique, episodic, life-affirming, and inexplicably forgotten. Only the Lonely is Candy at his best. It's not a great movie, perhaps, but it is a great story, and Candy leavens his portrayal with a little Chaplin here, a little Gleason there, and so much heart that it's impossible to not feel for the guy. All the more affecting because of his death at far too young an age.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 14, 2017 3:06:55 GMT -5
I've been kind of busy and I only saw two movies this week. They're both from the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" list.
Meet the Parents (2000) - I guess this was popular and a lot of people find it funny, but it makes me roll my eyes a lot. It's quite a few very good actors doing their best with a comedy script that's not actually very funny. It's not boring, it's just very pointless and stupid. My biggest problem with the movie is that Ben Stiller's character is such a horrible person that I think DeNiro (as the overprotective, ex-CIA father) is actually right to dislike him so much. Ben Stiller's character puts the cat outside when he's been told not to because the cat is an inside cat and doesn't have the instinct to survive on the street. And then, Ben Stiller's character causes a fire in the backyard because he's a careless smoker. So DeNiro is probably right to be worried that his future son-in-law might be irresponsible, and he doesn't want his grandkids to die in a house fire.
It has its moments. The cat actually has a few cute scenes.
Man of the West (1958) - Not the best of the Anthony Mann westerns, but it's OK. I especially like Lee J. Cobb and John Dehner. Gary Cooper comes off as a bit slow in the head.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 14, 2017 9:13:16 GMT -5
I've been kind of busy and I only saw two movies this week. They're both from the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" list. Meet the Parents (2000) - I guess this was popular and a lot of people find it funny, but it makes me roll my eyes a lot. It's quite a few very good actors doing their best with a comedy script that's not actually very funny. It's not boring, it's just very pointless and stupid. My biggest problem with the movie is that Ben Stiller's character is such a horrible person that I think DeNiro (as the overprotective, ex-CIA father) is actually right to dislike him so much. Ben Stiller's character puts the cat outside when he's been told not to because the cat is an inside cat and doesn't have the instinct to survive on the street. And then, Ben Stiller's character causes a fire in the backyard because he's a careless smoker. So DeNiro is probably right to be worried that his future son-in-law might be irresponsible, and he doesn't want his grandkids to die in a house fire. It has its moments. The cat actually has a few cute scenes. Man of the West (1958) - Not the best of the Anthony Mann westerns, but it's OK. I especially like Lee J. Cobb and John Dehner. Gary Cooper comes off as a bit slow in the head. Completely agree with you about Meet the Parents. Along with There's Something About Mary, those are two movies that I don't understand the appeal of at all. They have good casts, but there's something missing for me. Part of it is that I'm not a big fan of "uncomfortable" humor. I couldn't stand The Office because watching Steve Carell be sooooo awkward and clueless wasn't entertaining to me. It made me cringe in a bad way. The other is that I am solidly in the camp of not liking Ben Stiller very much. Outside of Mystery Men and Dodgeball, I haven't seen anything else with him that I really liked. As with his movies, I just don't get his appeal at all.
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 14, 2017 10:34:04 GMT -5
I've been kind of busy and I only saw two movies this week. They're both from the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" list. Meet the Parents (2000) - I guess this was popular and a lot of people find it funny, but it makes me roll my eyes a lot. It's quite a few very good actors doing their best with a comedy script that's not actually very funny. It's not boring, it's just very pointless and stupid. My biggest problem with the movie is that Ben Stiller's character is such a horrible person that I think DeNiro (as the overprotective, ex-CIA father) is actually right to dislike him so much. Ben Stiller's character puts the cat outside when he's been told not to because the cat is an inside cat and doesn't have the instinct to survive on the street. And then, Ben Stiller's character causes a fire in the backyard because he's a careless smoker. So DeNiro is probably right to be worried that his future son-in-law might be irresponsible, and he doesn't want his grandkids to die in a house fire. It has its moments. The cat actually has a few cute scenes. Man of the West (1958) - Not the best of the Anthony Mann westerns, but it's OK. I especially like Lee J. Cobb and John Dehner. Gary Cooper comes off as a bit slow in the head. Completely agree with you about Meet the Parents. Along with There's Something About Mary, those are two movies that I don't understand the appeal of at all. They have good casts, but there's something missing for me.
With you here. I like slapstick, farce, goofy humor. Bring it on. But for the most part, I need to be able to find a character to sympathize with a little bit. There was nobody in either of those movies I cared about in the least. And when there isn't, the weaknesses of the plot and the script become that much more obvious.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 14, 2017 11:13:10 GMT -5
I've been kind of busy and I only saw two movies this week. They're both from the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" list. Meet the Parents (2000) - I guess this was popular and a lot of people find it funny, but it makes me roll my eyes a lot. It's quite a few very good actors doing their best with a comedy script that's not actually very funny. It's not boring, it's just very pointless and stupid. My biggest problem with the movie is that Ben Stiller's character is such a horrible person that I think DeNiro (as the overprotective, ex-CIA father) is actually right to dislike him so much. Ben Stiller's character puts the cat outside when he's been told not to because the cat is an inside cat and doesn't have the instinct to survive on the street. And then, Ben Stiller's character causes a fire in the backyard because he's a careless smoker. So DeNiro is probably right to be worried that his future son-in-law might be irresponsible, and he doesn't want his grandkids to die in a house fire. It has its moments. The cat actually has a few cute scenes. Man of the West (1958) - Not the best of the Anthony Mann westerns, but it's OK. I especially like Lee J. Cobb and John Dehner. Gary Cooper comes off as a bit slow in the head. Completely agree with you about Meet the Parents. Along with There's Something About Mary, those are two movies that I don't understand the appeal of at all. They have good casts, but there's something missing for me. Part of it is that I'm not a big fan of "uncomfortable" humor. I couldn't stand The Office because watching Steve Carell be sooooo awkward and clueless wasn't entertaining to me. It made me cringe in a bad way. The other is that I am solidly in the camp of not liking Ben Stiller very much. Outside of Mystery Men and Dodgeball, I haven't seen anything else with him that I really liked. As with his movies, I just don't get his appeal at all. Tropic Thunder is hilarious! My favorite movie of 2008. I also like Flirting with Disaster and Zoolander quite a bit. I think Ben Stiller is really really good in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. It's not Stiller's fault that the script completely missed the point of the classic original short story. (The Danny Kaye version was also way off the mark.)
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