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Post by Jesse on Aug 6, 2017 3:13:40 GMT -5
The Brood (1979) This was really creepy and disturbing. One of David Cronenberg's best.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Aug 6, 2017 8:34:46 GMT -5
and very under-rated, and one of Oliver's best performances. equal to Burnt Offerings, also a classic film here which bears discussion
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Post by Jesse on Aug 7, 2017 12:16:34 GMT -5
Body Bags (1993) This was a cheesy bit of fun with a little gore. John Carpenter plays a morgue attendant who introduces each segment in the anthology. Carpenter directs the first two stories and Tobe Hooper directs the third. There are a bunch of cameos including Wes Craven, Roger Corman, Greg Nicotero, Debbie Harry and Mark Hamill among others.
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Post by Jesse on Aug 7, 2017 12:20:26 GMT -5
and very under-rated, and one of Oliver's best performances. equal to Burnt Offerings, also a classic film here which bears discussion Burnt Offerings is an underrated haunted house movies with a pretty solid performance from Karen Black. I love the casting of Bette Davis and Burgess Meredith. Reed was also in The Curse of the Werewolf which may have been Hammer Films only attempt at a werewolf movie.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Aug 7, 2017 12:30:01 GMT -5
and very under-rated, and one of Oliver's best performances. equal to Burnt Offerings, also a classic film here which bears discussion Burnt Offerings is an underrated haunted house movies with a pretty solid performance from Karen Black. I love the casting of Bette Davis and Burgess Meredith. Reed was also in The Curse of the Werewolf which may have been Hammer Films only attempt at a werewolf movie. indeed! i loved the performances of Bette Davis and Burgess Meredith in it! and also loved Ollie in The Curse of the Werewolf! which had MUCH pathos, which hammer Films did so well that even a 6 year old could 'get' it. Ollie's lycanthropic 'origin story' in the film was so tragic, it made my eeyes wet as a little bairn.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2017 23:05:59 GMT -5
Lavish Movie on TCM tonight ScaramoucheAn impressive cast led by Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, and Mel Ferrer that was an excellent swashbuckling action, full of great costumes, technicolor delight, and beauty of Leigh and Parker that dazzles us before our very eyes. I just watched this a countless times and one of the better swordsmanship movies that I seen and chuckled at the end seeing Napoleon in a cameo role. Great Movie and I enjoyed watching it tonight on Turner Classic Movies.
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 8, 2017 0:26:13 GMT -5
Lavish Movie on TCM tonight ScaramoucheAn impressive cast led by Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, and Mel Ferrer that was an excellent swashbuckling action, full of great costumes, technicolor delight, and beauty of Leigh and Parker that dazzles us before our very eyes. I just watched this a countless times and one of the better swordsmanship movies that I seen and chuckled at the end seeing Napoleon in a cameo role. Great Movie and I enjoyed watching it tonight on Turner Classic Movies. One of the best sword fights in movie history. Only problem is that Stewart Granger is a rather bland hero (same in the remake of Prisoner of Zenda). I'd still take Eleanor Parker over Janet Leigh in that one.
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 8, 2017 0:36:05 GMT -5
Recently discovered that Amazon Prime has a decent number of old ABC Movie Of The Weeks available, so I put all I could find on my watchlist and started a chronological viewing of them. if you grew up in the 70's in the US, you've probably seen a few of these. I've only made it to 1971 in what they have available so far. I was born in '66 so these are all a little before my time and new to me. As I get later into the seventies there will be a few I actually have memories of. So many Danny Thomas/Aaron Spelling productions, in case that would be thought of as a warning (heh heh). Some quick thoughts: The Over The Hill Gang and The Over The Hill Gang Rides Again (1969) - If you're in the right mood, these are a lot of fun. Walter Brennan, Edgar Buchanan playing up the "grizzled old veterans can outsmart the young gunslingers". Rides Again has what I think is Fred Astaire's last role. Wake Me When The War Is Over (1969) - This was hard to sit through. Really hard. Ken Berry, Eva Gabor. You do kind of get a "Whatever happened to Colonel Klink from Hogan's Heroes", though. The Ballad Of Andy Crocker (1969) - Maybe my favorite so far, if only because of the cast. Lee Majors as Andy Crocker, struggling to adjust after returning from Vietnam, years before Jon Voight. Joey Heatherton (!) Agnes Moorehead (!) in a tasty little cameo. And Marvin Gaye (!!) as Andy's war buddy. Black Brigade (originally Carter's Army) (1970) - Interesting to see a very young Richard Pryor (as the stereotypical coward) and Billy Dee Williams (as the stereotypical streetwise tough). And good old Rosey Grier as the lovable giant. How Awful About Allan (1970) - Eh. Did Anthony Perkins ever just play a normal guy? In this one he's suffering from hysterical blindness. Maybe I'll Come Home In The Spring (1971) - Wha... Sally Field wasn't bad, but David Carradine as the hippy love interest kept committing auto theft. I wanted him to be arrested. Congratulations, It's A Boy (1971) - Surprisingly entertaining little movie about a bachelor who finds out he has a teenage son. At least until Bill Bixby's rather bizarre meltdown at the end when he ran around screaming "I'm a man!" over and over. Anyone else have any nostalgia for these 1970's time capsules? Up next is Moon Of The Wolf (1972). Can't wait until I make it to Snowbeast, starring the great Bo Svenson! I have a few from the Warner Archives: Earth 2 (with Gary Lockwood)-Pacifist space station, orbiting the Earth, threatened with nuclear missiles. Genesis 2: pilot for a series, from Gene Rodenberry. Stars Alex Cord and Mariette Hartley. Planet Earth-same thing, with John Saxon in the role. Made up of two scripts for the episodes that were to follow the pilot Amazing Captain Nemo-Jose ferrer as the science pirate City Beneath the Sea-Irwin Allen pilot Some others I have: Death Race-Doug McClure, Roy Thinnes, Lloyd Bridges-pair of pilots must escape a fanatical german Panzer commander, in a stricken P-40 Warhawk. They can only make short hops. Brian's Song-James Caan and Billy Dee Williams, about Brian Piccolo's death and friendship with Gayle Sayers. Trilogy of Terror-Richard Matheson classic
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 8, 2017 2:20:50 GMT -5
I love Eleanor Parker SO MUCH! But I've never seen Scaramouche.
However, I did DVR The Naked Jungle and Interrupted Melody tonight.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 8, 2017 10:29:13 GMT -5
The Brood (1979) This was really creepy and disturbing. One of David Cronenberg's best. A year or so back I watched a bunch of Cronenburg movies. All of them new to me except The Fly. And I (upon reading about them on the internet) saved The Brood and Dead Ringers for last as they were supposedly the most pearl clutching of all, and I found them both to be the weakest of his movies. I mean they had their creepy/scary moments, but either they just weren't that way, or my mind built them up too much from what reviews I read of other people's impressions.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 8, 2017 21:07:26 GMT -5
Just watched the best western ever made The Sons of Katie Elder. Great score too. Not sure why I latched on to this western of all the westerns I watched with my grandfather. But I did. And this is the one I like the most.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 8, 2017 21:16:29 GMT -5
I watched The Godfather Part II over the weekend with my youngest son. It was his first time watching. We had watched The Godfather a month or so back. I've watched both multiple times, The Godfather well over a dozen, Part II at least half that many.
He definitely enjoyed it, but he didn't like it nearly as well as The Godfather, which makes a fair amount of sense. The non-linear structure is more difficult to follow. And it absolutely helps with Part II if you're familiar with Murder, Inc. and the bases for Hyman Roth and that storyline. He was keyed in to the Cuban Revolution. For a 16 year old he did well with it. But I'm not going to watch Part III with him any time soon.
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Post by Jesse on Aug 10, 2017 15:00:48 GMT -5
M*A*S*H (1970) Groundbreaking for the time but some aspects of it don't hold up well today. Some jokes are shockingly sexist, misogynist and racist and that was really unfortunate to see. Still I thought other parts of it made for an interesting look back ugly warts and all.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 10, 2017 16:17:50 GMT -5
M*A*S*H (1970) Groundbreaking for the time but some aspects of it don't hold up well today. Some jokes are shockingly sexist, misogynist and racist and that was really unfortunate to see. Still I thought other parts of it made for an interesting look back ugly warts and all. Shockingly sexist, misogynist and racist jokes were kind of par for the course in the early 50s. I know the film was made in 1970, but it was set in 50-52. To be fair shockingly sexist, misogynist and racist jokes were par for the course in 1970 as well.
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 11, 2017 0:28:13 GMT -5
M*A*S*H (1970) Groundbreaking for the time but some aspects of it don't hold up well today. Some jokes are shockingly sexist, misogynist and racist and that was really unfortunate to see. Still I thought other parts of it made for an interesting look back ugly warts and all. Shockingly sexist, misogynist and racist jokes were kind of par for the course in the early 50s. I know the film was made in 1970, but it was set in 50-52. To be fair shockingly sexist, misogynist and racist jokes were par for the course in 1970 as well. It was all there in the source material.
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