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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 8:14:58 GMT -5
From 3pm to 9pm ... TCM is showing my Top Marilyn Monroe movies - Number #4 ... Bus Stop at 3pm, followed by Seven Year Itch at 7pm and my Number 1 film ... Niagara, a 1953 classic at 9pm. Can't wait for tomorrow!
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Post by Jesse on Jul 31, 2017 11:35:27 GMT -5
Tougher Than Leather (1988) I checked this out because Run–D.M.C. are the main characters and I think in a way it was ahead of its time. The story follows them on tour while they deal with a corrupt music producer played by Rick Rubin who is using the label to launder drug money and murders their friend. It basically plays out like a series of long skits between musical performances. There are appearances by Russell Simmons, Beastie Boys and Slick Rick as well as a voice intro by Flavor Flav. Some of the acting isn't great and parts of it are kind of corny by today's standards but I still felt it was entertaining. While I might not recommend it for normal movie watchers I would recommend it to fans of these musicians. I think it's an interesting look back at an influential and groundbreaking era of music.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 1, 2017 11:14:10 GMT -5
A Touch of Zen (1971) This is a very long film but it was interesting full of drama and tense martial arts action sequences. A poor artist's life is forever changed when he meets a noble woman that has become a fugitive after corrupt officials murdered her family. This is from the "1001 Movies You Must See before You Die" list. I haven't seen it. It was on TCM last month and I noticed it on the schedule but I had completely forgotten that it's on the List. It's hard to keep track of all these movies. I should have watched it anyway.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 1, 2017 11:16:55 GMT -5
From 3pm to 9pm ... TCM is showing my Top Marilyn Monroe movies - Number #4 ... Bus Stop at 3pm, followed by Seven Year Itch at 7pm and my Number 1 film ... Niagara, a 1953 classic at 9pm. Can't wait for tomorrow! I don't much like Bus Stop but the other two are classics! My favorite Marilyn Monroe movie, the one I watch every three or four years is so, is Don't Bother to Knock. And I set the DVR for The Prince and the Showgirl. I've never seen that one.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 1, 2017 12:01:51 GMT -5
I went a little overboard and watched 20 movies from the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" list in July. Apparently, the online edition of the List published the new additions for 2016, and I saw them on a 1001 Movies blog that I look at a lot. They added twelve movies and I'd only seen two of them. But they were really easy to get hold of! Four of them were on Netflix Instant Watch and three of them were available from my branch of the library, so I didn't even have to put in a special request and wait a week to get them from another branch. And the others were available from On Demand for $5 or $6. So I watched all the recent additions to the List except one. I watched Jackie (with Natalie Portman) last night and Geez Louise! it's great! Of special interest for my fellow CCF members is Under the Shadow, an Iranian horror film that is available on Netflix Instant Watch. I watched it within a few days of finding out about it because it was just so easy to see it and my teenage niece loves horror films, so I dragged her away from one of her summer anime marathons and persuaded her to watch it with me. She liked it and so did I. It might be a bit low-key for many horror fans, but it's only 85 minutes and its well worth your time. Here's the complete list of movies I saw from the List in July: 1. Weekend (1967) - From the French director Godard. This is for people who like their absurdist, existential movies to have lots of car crashes. 2. Real Life (1979) - A mockumentary from Albert Brooks with Charles Grodin as a normal dad in a normal family in Phoenix. This movie is a sort of illegitimate grandfather to This Is Spinal Tap and Best in Show. 3. Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - From the "Movies I Should Have Seen 30 Years Ago" category. 4. Ariel (1988) - One of the few Finnish movies on the List. It will not make you excited to see more Finnish movies. My favorite Finnish movie is Talvisota, an unfairly obscure war movie. 5. The Ice Storm (1997) - I can't get over how good Christina Ricci is in this movie. 6. The Sweet Hereafter (1997) - This is for people who like long movies about bus crashes. Ian Holm and Sarah Polley are GREAT! 7. Eyes Wide Shut (1999) - Nicole Kidman, not Tom Cruise, should have been the one investigating the sex cult. 8. Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) - For some reason, the List has two Aileen Wuornos documentaries, but not Monster. 9. An Education (2009) - Carey Mulligan makes her mark. 10. The Kid with a Bike (2011) - The kid is so reckless in traffic even without a bike that I was afraid he was going to hit by a car. After a few minutes, it doesn't sound like such a bad idea. 11. A Touch of Sin (2013) - Four short films about how awful it is to live in China. The stories are all based on true incidents and they are all worthy of a feature film, especially the first one. 12. Victoria (2015) - Set in real time! 13. Hell or High Water (2016) - Jeff Bridges is still awesome and Chris Pine is slowly atoning for playing Captain Kirk in those awful Star Trek movies. 14. The Jungle Book (2016) - I was rather surprised to see this on the List - until I watched it! Bill Murray as Baloo, Scarlett Johansson as Kaa and Christopher Walken as the king of the Bander-log (i.e., King Louis). 15. Jackie (2016) - Natalie Portman should have won Best Actress. 16. Under the Shadow (2016) - A great Iranian horror movie from which you will learn a little about the Iran/Iraq War of the 1980s. 17. Manchester by the Sea (2016) - Michelle Williams and Casey Affeck are really good, but be warned - it's more than a little depressing. 18. I, Daniel Blake (2016) - Here's another one that might make you kind of anxious. I felt like I was going to throw up for a few hours after I watched it because it stressed me out so much. 19. 13th (2016) - A documentary about the clause in the 13th Amendment that didn't quite rule out slavery under all circumstances. 20. Arrival (2016) - Amy Adams learns an alien language and learns to see through time and saves the day!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 12:16:47 GMT -5
From 3pm to 9pm ... TCM is showing my Top Marilyn Monroe movies - Number #4 ... Bus Stop at 3pm, followed by Seven Year Itch at 7pm and my Number 1 film ... Niagara, a 1953 classic at 9pm. Can't wait for tomorrow! I don't much like Bus Stop but the other two are classics! My favorite Marilyn Monroe movie, the one I watch every three or four years is so, is Don't Bother to Knock. And I set the DVR for The Prince and the Showgirl. I've never seen that one. You are in treat and I have The Prince and the Showgirl on DVD and I just watch it a month ago and it's a gem of a movie and she was very entertaining in that one. Monroe stole the show from Oliver and this is a rare movie that she outclasses her male lead. Great cast and one of the best performances from top to bottom. You will love it! ... I do like Don't Bother to Knock but it's doesn't have the impact as Bus Stop; but Bus Stop is a great Comedy and it's has great supporting cast in Hans Conried, Hope Lange, and Eileen Heckart as Vera. Ranking the next 5 best films of Monroe will be very difficult to do.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 12:21:42 GMT -5
Nice list of Movies ( Hoosier X ) that you've seen and all of them are excellent films and I do consider myself a fan of the film of Jackie and fell in love with Natalie Portman's performance in that one.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 1, 2017 13:32:47 GMT -5
Today, I watched 7 Days of May and currently watching Some Like it Hot on TCM today. I seen them before and I always enjoy watching them again, again, and again ... It's been a while since I saw Some Like It Hot, but I've seen it a few times and yeah, it's great! One of the Super Classics! My mother made us watch it when we were kids and it was one of the many films that she made us watch that we quickly forgot we were being coerced. (Others include: Psycho, North by Northwest, My Fair Lady, Beauty and the Beast (the old French film). I remember not being quite so charmed when she made us watch The Sound of Music ... and even made us watch it onstage at a college production!) I saw Seven Days in May many years ago and that's the only time I saw it, but I remember it being pretty damn impressive!
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 1, 2017 15:58:43 GMT -5
The Blood of Heroes (1989) I checked this out because Vincent D'Onofrio and Rutger Hauer are in it. In a post apocalyptic world warriors compete in team gladiatorial matches. It's big on fight scenes but less so on plot and character development. The sport aspect is weird and kind of interesting and the final fight scene is climactic. Rented this at the video store, back in the early 90s. By the end of it I wished I could have gotten the hour and 3/4 back. Good actors wasted on a bad script. Hauer got sucked into a lot of that type of thing then, making it all the more frustrating, after his work in Holland and Blade Runner. D'Onofrio was young and hungry, and it took time for casting agents to really latch onto him. Sometimes hard to believe that "Thor" in Adventures in Babysitting (an awesomely silly and fun little film) is also Pvt Pyle, in Full Metal Jacket. Hauer was stuck as a third rate Zatoichi (which has moments) and a Steve McQueen wannabe (Wanted, dead or Alive), who has to deal with Gene Simmons' "acting." Hard slog if you knew Hauer from Soldat Van Oranje or TurksFruit. Even Flesh & Blood (aka The Rose and the Sword) was better than most of the American films he did. Well, it was American money, but it was still Verhouven and Hauer doing a Dutch film, with a bigger budget.
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 1, 2017 16:03:23 GMT -5
Seven Days in May is one of Frankenheimer's scariest films. Manchurian Candidate is better; but, this one was way too plausible, especially then (and maybe now). The scenes between Frederick March and Burt Lancaster are mesmerizing.
Oh, to have a president with the fire and conviction of Pres. Lyman.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 1, 2017 17:01:48 GMT -5
The Blood of Heroes (1989) I checked this out because Vincent D'Onofrio and Rutger Hauer are in it. In a post apocalyptic world warriors compete in team gladiatorial matches. It's big on fight scenes but less so on plot and character development. The sport aspect is weird and kind of interesting and the final fight scene is climactic. Rented this at the video store, back in the early 90s. By the end of it I wished I could have gotten the hour and 3/4 back. Good actors wasted on a bad script. Hauer got sucked into a lot of that type of thing then, making it all the more frustrating, after his work in Holland and Blade Runner. D'Onofrio was young and hungry, and it took time for casting agents to really latch onto him. Sometimes hard to believe that "Thor" in Adventures in Babysitting (an awesomely silly and fun little film) is also Pvt Pyle, in Full Metal Jacket. Hauer was stuck as a third rate Zatoichi (which has moments) and a Steve McQueen wannabe (Wanted, dead or Alive), who has to deal with Gene Simmons' "acting." Hard slog if you knew Hauer from Soldat Van Oranje or TurksFruit. Even Flesh & Blood (aka The Rose and the Sword) was better than most of the American films he did. Well, it was American money, but it was still Verhouven and Hauer doing a Dutch film, with a bigger budget. I was working in a video store when that came out and I recall it being a big renter as was Blind Fury, which came out around the same time. Hauer was one of those guys who seemed like he was on the cusp of being an A-List star who pissed it all away by appearing in a ton of really bad movies in a short period of time. I don't know if it was poor management, poor selection process, greed, or what. But it always struck me as wasted potential.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 1, 2017 17:07:37 GMT -5
All this talk of Rutger Hauer makes me wonder if anybody else here loves the wonderful low-budget film Hobo With a Shotgun.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 1, 2017 17:22:30 GMT -5
All this talk of Rutger Hauer makes me wonder if anybody else here loves the wonderful low-budget film Hobo With a Shotgun. I wanted to like it. But for me it turned out to be something that was a super cool trailer in Grindhouse and just not a very interesting movie.
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 1, 2017 18:14:48 GMT -5
Rented this at the video store, back in the early 90s. By the end of it I wished I could have gotten the hour and 3/4 back. Good actors wasted on a bad script. Hauer got sucked into a lot of that type of thing then, making it all the more frustrating, after his work in Holland and Blade Runner. D'Onofrio was young and hungry, and it took time for casting agents to really latch onto him. Sometimes hard to believe that "Thor" in Adventures in Babysitting (an awesomely silly and fun little film) is also Pvt Pyle, in Full Metal Jacket. Hauer was stuck as a third rate Zatoichi (which has moments) and a Steve McQueen wannabe (Wanted, dead or Alive), who has to deal with Gene Simmons' "acting." Hard slog if you knew Hauer from Soldat Van Oranje or TurksFruit. Even Flesh & Blood (aka The Rose and the Sword) was better than most of the American films he did. Well, it was American money, but it was still Verhouven and Hauer doing a Dutch film, with a bigger budget. I was working in a video store when that came out and I recall it being a big renter as was Blind Fury, which came out around the same time. Hauer was one of those guys who seemed like he was on the cusp of being an A-List star who pissed it all away by appearing in a ton of really bad movies in a short period of time. I don't know if it was poor management, poor selection process, greed, or what. But it always struck me as wasted potential. Hauer was one of those actors who toiled in B (and C ad D) movie junk, which suckered you when you browsed at the video store. There were others like that, too. I saw Slipstream because it had Mark Hamill. It isn't a bad movie, just kind of bland. I watched the Guyver, for similar reasons. Actually, that was kind of how I stumbled into Flesh & Blood. That was okay (if slow in parts); but, a few other fantasy staples of the video store quickly turned me off trying anything that didn't come from a major studio. Even then, you might get a great story, like Ladyhawk, which was marred by a synth soundtrack (what were they thinking?). Thankfully, I had stopped before sitting through things like Ator or Hawk the Slayer. I did sit through the Swordsman, though. A cool prop does not make a good movie.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 1, 2017 18:38:27 GMT -5
All this talk of Rutger Hauer makes me wonder if anybody else here loves the wonderful low-budget film Hobo With a Shotgun. I wanted to like it. But for me it turned out to be something that was a super cool trailer in Grindhouse and just not a very interesting movie. I love that bit where he makes his crazy speech to the babies in the maternity ward.
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