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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2017 13:25:17 GMT -5
Shin Godzilla 2016 It's unbelievable and it's colossal ... and truly EPIC. It's crazy and totally amazing movie and TOHO explodes into action of the best GODZILLA film ever. It's explosive and truly blazing away that makes the other Godzilla's like paperweights. I'm utterly speechless! The acting is excellent all around and I'm completely without numb watching it. Atomic Breath is utterly destructive!
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Post by Jesse on Dec 10, 2017 0:17:32 GMT -5
Maniac Cop 2 (1990) Pretty solid follow up to the original and I was glad to see Bruce Campbell return despite his appearance being brief. This was well paced like the previous film and the new casting was good as well. The action scenes are bigger and at times they're pretty over-the-top. The special effects makeup Robert Z’Dar wears is more gruesome and there are plenty of bloody kills. The climax where he breaks into the prison where he was originally stabbed to death was epic especially when he gets set on fire and still manages to continue his killing spree. I'm definitely looking forward to the third and final installment in this series.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2017 13:35:10 GMT -5
Three Musketeers (1935)Walter Abel as D'Artagnan pictured here along with Heather Angel. I recorded this movie off my DVR and finished watching it and this is the first time that I've this version made in 1935 and I felt it was a subpar movie showcasing Walter Abel being out of cast as D'Artagnan. It wasn't all that good nor bad; but I've didn't quite enjoyed it as the other Three Musketeer movies that were made. Of the actors and actresses appeared here; this is my first time seeing most of them for the first time. Heather Angel was good and below exceptional as Constance and Rosamond Pinchot was excellent as Queen Anne and has the best (picture below) costume in this movie. The plot, the execution, and the script was good but the acting by the rest of the actor especially Walter Abel wasn't that good. I enjoyed the scenery, the photography, and the rest of it as I expected it to be. For the first time I've seen it ... I expected better and was disappointed in some acting and not so disappointed in others ... I would had rated it higher if Abel did a better job of delivering his lines. My Grade is about a C+.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 10, 2017 22:39:19 GMT -5
Never saw that one; or, thankfully, the Ritz Brothers one. The Gene Kelly one is fine, if a bit too studio bound and it feels a bit long; but, with many great moments. Love the Richard Lester films, even enjoy The 5th Musketeer with the Bridges Family, Alan Hale Jr, Jose Ferrer, and Cornell Wilde. Wilde and Hale (and Dan O'Herlihy) are in the excellent At Swords Point, with Maureen O'Hara as the daughter of Aramis (which means his holy vows were suspect). I saw but don't even want to dredge up the memories of that Kiefer Sutherland/Charlie Sheen one. Ugh! Tim Curry chews so much scenery as Richelieu that he must have gained about 20 lbs!
Hanna-Barbera did a feature-length animated version, with model sheets by Alex Toth, using their models from the old Banana Splits Show cartoon shorts. They are pretty faithful to the story. It's available from the Warner Archives with some other H-B animated specials (including Cyrano, with Jose Ferrer voicing the character, which I saw as an After-school Special, back when it first aired, in the 70s).
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Post by Jesse on Dec 12, 2017 14:40:33 GMT -5
It Came from Outer Space (1953) I rewatched this as it aired on TCM recently an enjoyed it. Honestly I feel that it's one of the best campy monster movies ever made. The production value is high for the time, the mood and score are eerie throughout and it's full of inventive shots and interesting visuals. Richard Carlson gives a solid performance as an astronomer who witnesses a meteor crash land in the desert which turns out to be an alien spacecraft. Things get complicated when the bug-eyed aliens start impersonating and abducting people in an attempt to repair their ship. I really like the reaction shots of the victims from the aliens perspective. The ending where Carlson's character confronts his own alien doppelganger then blows up the entrance to a mine in order to stop a posse from attacking the aliens is pretty climactic. I would really like to read the Ray Bradbury story this is based on.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 12, 2017 18:15:54 GMT -5
Lana Turner is the star of the month on TCM, and as I haven't seen that many Lana Turner movies beyond the obvious ones (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Imitation of Life and The Three Musketeers (I think she's the best Lady de Winter)), I decided to try to watch one obscure Lana Turner movie every week. And I'm glad I did! I watched Dancing Co-Ed (1939) a few days ago, and it was a delightful and funny light-hearted musical comedy about a Hollywood studio sponsoring a dance contest for all the major colleges to find a new dancing star for the upcoming movie "Dancing Co-Ed." They want a real co-ed, you see. The publicity agent who came up with idea (wonderful Roscoe Karns) wants to make sure they get a real hoofer, so he talks chorus girl (Lana Turner) into enrolling in college and then getting into the contest. Office worker Ann Rutherford goes along to take Lana's entrance exams and to help her fake her homework. Also along for the ride are Richard Carlson as a college-newspaper reporter, Leon Errol as Lana's vaudeville father and Monty Woolley as a snotty English professor. I really had no idea that Lana Turner had such a talent for comedy. I enjoyed this immensely! It's not going to make anybody forget the Marx Brothers or 42nd Street, but I laughed quite a bit and was generally amused throughout. I wish I could remember the name of the one I set the DVR for this week (I think on Wednesday), but it pairs Lana Turner and Joan Blondell as sisters, and that was all I had to see before I decided to tape that one!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2017 18:26:50 GMT -5
Dancing Co-Ed is a gem and I have it on DVD and thinking of watching this weekend Hoosier X and it's a charming movie that really delights you and seeing her that young is a must for Lana fans. I seen this movie about 2 times now and just got the DVD from a friend who had an extra copy and gave it to me for free! Ann Rutherford was very good in this film!
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 12, 2017 18:36:12 GMT -5
Dancing Co-Ed is a gem and I have it on DVD and thinking of watching this weekend Hoosier X and it's a charming movie that really delights you and seeing her that young is a must for Lana fans. I seen this movie about 2 times now and just got the DVD from a friend who had an extra copy and gave it to me for free! Ann Rutherford was very good in this film! Ann Rutherford is one of my favorites. She's the Ghost of Christmas Past in the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol. My favorite Christmas movie! I watch it every year. Sometimes I watch it twice! I DVRed it off TCM in November and I watched it over the weekend. It's early enough in the season that I'll probably watch it again on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. And I might even save to see it again by New Years Day.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2017 18:38:59 GMT -5
Dancing Co-Ed is a gem and I have it on DVD and thinking of watching this weekend Hoosier X and it's a charming movie that really delights you and seeing her that young is a must for Lana fans. I seen this movie about 2 times now and just got the DVD from a friend who had an extra copy and gave it to me for free! Ann Rutherford was very good in this film! Ann Rutherford is one of my favorites. She's the Ghost of Christmas Past in the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol. My favorite Christmas movie! I watch it every year. Sometimes I watch it twice! I DVRed it off TCM in November and I watched it over the weekend. It's early enough in the season that I'll probably watch it again on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. And I might even save to see it again by New Years Day. I do too. I'm thinking of watching that movie on Christmas Eve myself and I do enjoy that movie the Christmas Carol that came out in 1938.
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 12, 2017 23:07:48 GMT -5
Ann Rutherford was very good in this film! Ann Rutherford is one of my favorites. She's the Ghost of Christmas Past in the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol. My favorite Christmas movie! I watch it every year. Sometimes I watch it twice! I DVRed it off TCM in November and I watched it over the weekend. It's early enough in the season that I'll probably watch it again on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. And I might even save to see it again by New Years Day. Versions of A Christmas Carol I can always watch: Reginald Owen (MGM) 1938 (the one with Anne Rutherford); Alistair Sim (1951); Seymour Hicks (1935); George C. Scoot (1984); Mr. Magoo (1962).
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 13, 2017 1:15:25 GMT -5
Ann Rutherford is one of my favorites. She's the Ghost of Christmas Past in the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol. My favorite Christmas movie! I watch it every year. Sometimes I watch it twice! I DVRed it off TCM in November and I watched it over the weekend. It's early enough in the season that I'll probably watch it again on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. And I might even save to see it again by New Years Day. Versions of A Christmas Carol I can always watch: Reginald Owen (MGM) 1938 (the one with Anne Rutherford); Alistair Sim (1951); Seymour Hicks (1935); George C. Scoot (1984); Mr. Magoo (1962). I'd add the animated one that Chuck Jones produced, in the 70s (with Alistair Sim voicing Scrooge), as well as An American Christmas Carol, with Henry Winkler. It's not a classic; but, it was a nice take on the story, though Winkler overplays the mean old man part. However, once he is shown in the past, his performance greatly improves. David Wayne is fantastic and the actor playing mr Thatcher (the Bob Cratchit character) is darn good. The Great depression setting makes for a nice transition of the story, fitting in well with the Dickens Victorian setting. I was greatly disappointed with the Patrick Stewart one, from TNT, especially in light of his one-man stage performances of the story. They should have just filmed one of those. Richard E. Grant as Bob Cratchit is just poor casting. He's a fine actor; but wrong for the part. I do like the George C Scott one, though I don't think he pulls off the redemption as well as Sim. You do get a better feel for his business dealings, though, and he gets the Victorian speech patterns down well, especially for an American actor. David Warner, against type, plays an excellent Cratchit and Edward Woodward is at his raging best as the Ghost of Christmas Present (the man knows how to do disdainful rage). Oddly enough, Liz Smith plays Mrs Dilber in both the Scott version and the Stewart version, some 15 years later. I'm not much for the Albert Finney musical Scrooge, though it has moments. Finney is good; I just find it very uneven, compared to Sim. I'd also throw out the Blackadder Christmas Carol, with the kindly Ebeneezer Blackadder accidentally visited by a Christmas spirit (Robbie Coltrane, imbibing a few spirits of his own), who then shows him his rotten ancestors and a future where Baldrick endangers the survival of the human race. Lots of fun, with Jim Broadbent as a fun Prince Albert (who keeps giving away his Christmas surprises).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2017 15:36:58 GMT -5
One of my friends suggested that I watch District 9 and it's one of the most weirdest and most dumbfounded movie ever made. I just don't care for this movie at all and I'm not going to watch it again.
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Post by shaxper on Dec 15, 2017 12:34:50 GMT -5
So I just happened to be browsing Amazon when The Best of Warner Bros. 100 Film Collection popped up for 90% off. I'm buying my own presents from Santa this year, and yet this might be the most excited I've ever been for a present!
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Post by Jesse on Dec 15, 2017 15:43:42 GMT -5
So I just happened to be browsing Amazon when The Best of Warner Bros. 100 Film Collection popped up for 90% off. I'm buying my own presents from Santa this year, and yet this might be the most excited I've ever been for a present! That's one hell of a list!
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Post by shaxper on Dec 15, 2017 16:14:27 GMT -5
That's one hell of a list! ...and all for $60?? I mean, it's not blu ray, but I think I'll live!
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