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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 13, 2018 12:31:52 GMT -5
My Cousin Vinny. Director: Jonathan Lynn. Starring: Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio, Fred Gwynne. I re-watched this over the weekend with my youngest son who had never seen it. As a general rule I have a hard time with courtroom shows or police shows as I tend to pick them apart. This one, however, is just so much fun and it really doesn't take itself seriously enough to make it a problem for me. Pesci is hilarious. Gwynne is funny and his timing is perfect. Marisa Tomei is just plan adorable and very sweet and funny. It's maybe not a great film. But it's a very fun and endearing film. Never cloying. Not really over the top. A good comedy.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 13, 2018 15:12:10 GMT -5
I agree, "Vinny" is a solidly entertaining comedy that stands up to repeated viewings. My personal favorite bit is when Tomei's character demonstrates her automotive expertise, starting with "It's a bulls**t question!"
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 13, 2018 15:59:25 GMT -5
I will cop to the fact that I've used the line "I have no further use for this witness." It was in either a court trial or a motion hearing and it was with a judge that I've been good friends with for years. The same judge likes to remind me that I had a habit of throwing my pen down onto counsel table when I was disgusted in his courtroom. I'd never do that with any other judge, but he gave me a lot of leeway.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 14, 2018 0:34:44 GMT -5
Love that film. "That was a concise, lucid argument. Overruled!)
Fred Gwynne was awesome. Lynne is actually a pretty good pedigree for this type of thing. He was part of the Cambridge Footlights and co-created the brilliant political Comedy Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, featuring Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne. He knows his satire.
The best is when Marissa Tomei blows away the men in the court with her knowledge of automotive mechanics.
Also love Austin Pendleton as the stuttering public defender.
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Post by berkley on Feb 14, 2018 12:20:48 GMT -5
The sad thing is, My Cousin Vinnie still feels like a relatively recent movie to me - hard to believe it's been almost 30 years!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2018 9:37:24 GMT -5
I've just watched The Invisible Man Returns (1940) ... that starred Vincent Price, Cedric Hardwicke, Nan Grey, and John Sutton too ... with Alan Napier as Willie Spears who did a splendid job in this movie and I've enjoyed this movie as I watched it this movie this morning.
Great Drama and a pleasant ending that really have me on my edge and has its moment of where Helen (Nan Grey) and Doctor (John Sutton) Frank Sutton trying to keep Geoffrey (Vincent Price) Radcliffe in control and that's hard part of all this. Great Scenes and I loved the Scarecrow Scene at the end of the movie and I was amused by all this before he had conditions restored.
It was more a Mystery than a Horror Movie and that's the beauty of it.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 25, 2018 2:42:12 GMT -5
I've just watched The Invisible Man Returns (1940) ... that starred Vincent Price, Cedric Hardwicke, Nan Grey, and John Sutton too ... with Alan Napier as Willie Spears who did a splendid job in this movie and I've enjoyed this movie as I watched it this movie this morning. Great Drama and a pleasant ending that really have me on my edge and has its moment of where Helen (Nan Grey) and Doctor (John Sutton) Frank Sutton trying to keep Geoffrey (Vincent Price) Radcliffe in control and that's hard part of all this. Great Scenes and I loved the Scarecrow Scene at the end of the movie and I was amused by all this before he had conditions restored. It was more a Mystery than a Horror Movie and that's the beauty of it. Oh man, Nan Grey! One of my favorite obscure actresses of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Yeah, I love this movie!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2018 5:43:06 GMT -5
Hoosier X ... Nan Grey is an excellent actress and she's really fit that part just beautifully and does it with style and substance that very few actresses does in the movie. She has a certain charm and graced the screen with dignity and class. I really like her performance. She was excellent in Dracula's Daughter (1936), Three Smart Girls (1936), Love in a Bungalow (1937), and The Jury's Secret (1938). My personal favorite is she did The House of the Seven Gables (1940) as Phoebe Pyncheon and I have seen this movie a few years back and I definitely wanted to see it again. Very talented actress - her career ran from 1936 to 1941 and did one TV role in Rawhide in 1961.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 25, 2018 12:30:29 GMT -5
Hoosier X ... Nan Grey is an excellent actress and she's really fit that part just beautifully and does it with style and substance that very few actresses does in the movie. She has a certain charm and graced the screen with dignity and class. I really like her performance. She was excellent in Dracula's Daughter (1936), Three Smart Girls (1936), Love in a Bungalow (1937), and The Jury's Secret (1938). My personal favorite is she did The House of the Seven Gables (1940) as Phoebe Pyncheon and I have seen this movie a few years back and I definitely wanted to see it again. Very talented actress - her career ran from 1936 to 1941 and did one TV role in Rawhide in 1961. I've only seen Dracula's Daughter and the one about the Invisible Man. I would love to see some of the others. Especially Three Smart Girls (I love Deanna Durbin!).
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 1, 2018 16:52:29 GMT -5
I saw 14 movies from the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" list during February. I wasn't planning on watching so many but there were circumstances ... Cable showed so many of them, for one thing - TCM showed 4 and 2 more were on other cable channels. One of them was on a Netflix "short wait" list and it showed up when I'd forgotten about it. I was sick with flu for a bit and watched a lot of stuff on YouTube. One of the List guys I know linked to a watchable version of a film I've had trouble finding.
And Shoah is on YouTube. This is the 9 1/2-hour documentary about the Holocaust. I've been wondering when I would be able to see it, so when I found it on YouTube, I decided to watch it before it is removed. I watched it in segments and it took me about a week.
The Story of a Cheat (1936) - Highly recommended for people (like me) who get a kick out of how weird French films were in the 1930s.
The Man in Grey (1943) - James Mason is really mean in this period piece (early 1800s) about a nice but stupid woman and her awful awful female friend. It's much better than it sounds from my description. The awful awful woman is superbly acted but it's a British actress who looks a bit like Hedy Lamarr and I don't know her name.
The Red Shoes (1948) - One of the best British films ever!
Orpheus (1949)
Written on the Wind (1956) - This is so crazy. Lauren Bacall marries Robert Stack, a poor little rich boy with an alcohol problem who always keeps several guns hidden about the premises because of his insecurities. Rock Hudson is his buddy since childhood. He's not-so-secretly in love with Bacall, and she sometimes confides with him when Stack gets out of hand. Dorothy Malone (she's so awesome in this!) is Stack's sister, and she's carrying a torch for Rock. Big time. She's kind of famous around town for picking up gas-station attendants and going to a hotel when she isn't romancing random drunks in saloon back rooms.
Shadows (1959) - John Cassavettes's first film.
Black Orpheus (1959) - Highly recommended. I can hardly begin to start listing off all the things I loved about this movie.
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
My Night at Maud's (1969)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) - A fascinating look at the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, focusing on his novels and the last few hours of his life. Directed by the guy who wrote Taxi Driver. It's as good as Taxi Driver. Highly recommended.
Shoah (1985) - Probably the best documentary ever made. Highly recommended.
Dancer in the Dark (2000) - I dreaded watching another Lars von Trier film, but I liked this one a lot. Which doesn't mean that it lacks all those von Trier traits that usually make his films so hard to stomach. But it's a musical with Bjork and Catherine Deneuve, and that makes all the difference.
Fat Girl (2001) - Another unique cinema experience. Be warned. A lot of people HATE this. The last 20 minutes made my stomach hurt. And then the last two minutes are even worse.
3-Iron (2004) - A unique cinema experience from Korea.
Live and Become (2005) - I think it's great that the only movie ever made about the Ethiopian Jews is such a good one.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2018 18:21:20 GMT -5
Watched Double Indemnity (1944) today on TCM ... I've loved MacMurray, Robinson, and Barbara Stanwyck trio here and it's always remains a classic. I see this film every 2 years and each time ... I find something new about it. Today, I was focusing on Robinson's performance and he really nailed his character as Barton Keyes in this riveting tales of insurance matters.
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 1, 2018 23:12:14 GMT -5
Watched Double Indemnity (1944) today on TCM ... I've loved MacMurray, Robinson, and Barbara Stanwyck trio here and it's always remains a classic. I see this film every 2 years and each time ... I find something new about it. Today, I was focusing on Robinson's performance and he really nailed his character as Barton Keyes in this riveting tales of insurance matters. Also one of Carol Burnett's greatest movie parodies. She and her writers always had fun with the noir films. Harvey Korman as the doomed husband is a scream!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2018 0:55:48 GMT -5
Today, I've watched on my DVR, Guns of Navarone, The (1961) that was on TCM yesterday, and one of my favorite war movies that I enjoy watching as always ... and on Retroplex, Frankenstein (1931) and the Bride of Frankenstein (1935) just to see Elsa Lanchester as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and she was an enhancing beauty that graced the Silver Screen.
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Post by Farrar on Mar 4, 2018 16:42:25 GMT -5
The Man in Grey (1943) - James Mason is really mean in this period piece (early 1800s) about a nice but stupid woman and her awful awful female friend. It's much better than it sounds from my description. The awful awful woman is superbly acted but it's a British actress who looks a bit like Hedy Lamarr and I don't know her name. That's Margaret Lockwood, one of the mainstays of those glorious Gainsborough costume dramas. Other mainstays were Mason and my personal favorite Stewart Granger--I love those movies! As an aside, there's something I read awhile back that I always associate with Lockwood: when natural blonde Joan Bennett dyed her hair dark [enabling her to embark on a new career path of embodying femme fatales in film noir], a churlish film critic sniffed that the newly dark-haired Bennett--instead of looking like Lamarr--looked more like Margaret Lockwood. Written on the Wind (1956) - This is so crazy. Lauren Bacall marries Robert Stack, a poor little rich boy with an alcohol problem who always keeps several guns hidden about the premises because of his insecurities. Rock Hudson is his buddy since childhood. He's not-so-secretly in love with Bacall, and she sometimes confides with him when Stack gets out of hand. Dorothy Malone (she's so awesome in this!) is Stack's sister, and she's carrying a torch for Rock. Big time. She's kind of famous around town for picking up gas-station attendants and going to a hotel when she isn't romancing random drunks in saloon back rooms.
As a teenager I was a huuuuge Stack fan because of the Untouchables reruns. This movie was a staple of a local channel's Million Dollar Movie so I saw this film on TV at least a dozen times back then. Like Malone, Stack got an Oscar nomination, but unlike Malone he didn't win. "It's great just to be nominated..." Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) ...
I'd first read about this movie, and about how its events unfolded in real time, decades ago. I finally got around to watching this, about six months ago. Hard to believe this was made in 1962, it feels and looks (cinematography, sound, etc.) so contemporary. Vive Agnes Varda, a true cinematic artist/genius.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 5, 2018 12:22:11 GMT -5
The Man in Grey (1943) - James Mason is really mean in this period piece (early 1800s) about a nice but stupid woman and her awful awful female friend. It's much better than it sounds from my description. The awful awful woman is superbly acted but it's a British actress who looks a bit like Hedy Lamarr and I don't know her name. That's Margaret Lockwood, one of the mainstays of those glorious Gainsborough costume dramas. Other mainstays were Mason and my personal favorite Stewart Granger--I love those movies! As an aside, there's something I read awhile back that I always associate with Lockwood: when natural blonde Joan Bennett dyed her hair dark [enabling her to embark on a new career path of embodying femme fatales in film noir], a churlish film critic sniffed that the newly dark-haired Bennett--instead of looking like Lamarr--looked more like Margaret Lockwood. I was thinking Hedy Lamarr wasn't quite right. I even spent a few minutes trying to think of who else she looked like before I posted. But for some reason Joan Bennett didn't come to me. Now I know her name - Margaret Lockwood! She's great!
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