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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2018 5:19:22 GMT -5
I've got the DVD and it's been sitting in my stack up "up next" DVD's for a while now. I need to get around to watching it. You're starting to motivate me! This movie will make you fall in love with Audrey Hepburn, as if anyone needed a reason. It feels closest to who she was, by most descriptions: a classy lady, who lived a life in service to others, who seemed to be part of everyone, from the greatest to the smallest. You are exactly right ... very gracious and humbled lady.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2018 12:19:31 GMT -5
I just watched District 9 and I just had a difficult time enjoying it and got nominated for 4 Oscars including Best Picture and all that and I've haven't watched this film since when it's first came out in 2009. To me, this movie is not my cup of tea and it's one of the hardest films to enjoy a film about an extraterrestrial race to forced to live in a slum-like conditions and our own people trying to figure out their technology of which it was a bunch of verbal exchanges that I had a hard time following it. Even with Closed Captioning ... it's doesn't makes any sense to me. I watched this film off of my DYR in two separate times and did not enjoy it at all.
It's rated 4 stars from IMDb and shocked by it. I would give this movie barely 2 stars of the complicated dialogue and questionable scenes that I didn't care for.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2018 21:05:06 GMT -5
I just finished watching Pillow Talk and now I'm watching Lover's Come Back ... back to back Doris Day, Rock Hudson, and Tony Randall Comedies ... I loved these films and they are on TCM tonight. Doris Day and Rock Hudson had great chemistry and I've loved them dearly.
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 11, 2018 22:38:37 GMT -5
I just finished watching Pillow Talk and now I'm watching Lover's Come Back ... back to back Doris Day, Rock Hudson, and Tony Randall Comedies ... I loved these films and they are on TCM tonight. Doris Day and Rock Hudson had great chemistry and I've loved them dearly. I have the set. The 60s have a lot of great light and romantic comedy. Randall's Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and The Brass Bottle are excellent, comedies, with him as the lead, and Hudson has a nice little light comedy in Man's Favorite Sport, , as a fishing expert who has never been fishing and gets roped into a big tournament. Features the excellent Paula Prentiss and the smoking hot Charlene Holt. The movie is very much in the vein of Bringing Up Baby and similar screwball comedies.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 7:49:50 GMT -5
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and Man's Favorite Sport? ... I've haven't seen Man's Favorite Sport? and I need to check for it and thanks for recommending it codystarbuck and I'm a fan of Rock Hunter and I have seen it once and need to see it again someday. I also need to see The Brass Bottle as well. Thanks for your recommendations here!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2018 22:47:54 GMT -5
Watched the Lady From Shanghai and this is Rita Hayworth's best Film Noir ... but Gilda was her most celebrated. In Shanghai she is co-starred with her husband Orson Welles and this is their only film together and later they divorced in 1947. I just find this movie with so many twists and turns that makes you think what might happen next. Very fast paced film, dramatically executed, with great film photography, and lavish costumes. This is the only film that Rita had her hair dyed blonde and I had a hard time accepting at first ... but, later on I've think the hair color made it better and more suited for Film Noir at the time it was filmed. Anyway, I'm a Rita Hayworth Fan ... and seen this movie more than a dozen times in my life and it's one of those movies that's keeps you on the edge of things. Right now, I'm going to watch King Kong (1933) classic for the millionth time ... Gotta love the Big Ape! Starring Fay Wray ...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2018 22:11:05 GMT -5
Watching "THEM" right now and it's has some great lines Dr. (Joan Weldon) Weldon ... said "Insect Pathology" and seeing Leonard (He played a Staff Sergeant in this movie) Nimoy saying "Top Secret" ... and Fess (as Alan Crotty) Parker saying "Flying Kamikazes" were gems ... I just loved this movie and seeing the expression of a lady that played Mrs. Lodge (Mary Alan Hokanson) after hearing that her two sons were found and Sergeant (James Whitmore) Ben Peterson was a hero saving them after a giant ant killed him in the due process. Great Movie and I really enjoyed it more seeing and paying more attention to the Closed Captioning and enjoying these lines and that's why this movie was successful back then.
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Post by Jesse on Mar 28, 2018 15:46:19 GMT -5
I watched Them! this morning On Demand and really enjoyed it. I'm glad I finally got around to checking it out. It's probably one of the better monster movies of that era and of course it inspired numerous copycats. Interestingly it came out the same year as the original Godzilla film only four months earlier. I thought the dialogue was well written and the story was well paced. The practical effects surprisingly worked pretty well. I assume this production had to make quite a few giant ants and larva. Even the sound the ants made was terrifying. This is definitely worth a rewatch.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2018 1:05:14 GMT -5
I watched Them! this morning On Demand and really enjoyed it. I'm glad I finally got around to checking it out. It's probably one of the better monster movies of that era and of course it inspired numerous copycats. Interestingly it came out the same year as the original Godzilla film only four months earlier. I thought the dialogue was well written and the story was well paced. The practical effects surprisingly worked pretty well. I assume this production had to make quite a few giant ants and larva. Even the sound the ants made was terrifying. This is definitely worth a rewatch. It's one of my favorites ... everytime I watch it ... I gained a new perspective of this movie and that alone really makes this movie stand out and that's why I loved watching this movie over and over again.
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 1, 2018 12:23:22 GMT -5
Here's the list of the movies from the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" list that I saw in March. I'm kind of busy for a few days so I don't have much time to comment on them right now, but maybe I'll leave a few comments later in the week when I see which films are being mentioned in the comments. I had very good experiences with the List films in March. I especially recommend Whiskey Galore! (1949), All That Heaven Allows (1956), The War Game (1965), Seconds (1966), In the Year of the Pig (1969), Trust (1990), Archangel (1990), Reversal of Fortune (1990) and The Gleaners and I (2000). But the real highlight this month is a 1966 film from the Czech New Wave. It's called Daisies and I provided the YouTube link. it's great! And only 72 minutes! Watch it soon! It was banned in Czechoslovakia. 1. Ossessione (1943) 2. Whiskey Galore! (1949) 3. All That Heaven Allows (1956) 4. The War Game (1965) 5. Seconds (1966) 6. Daisies (1966) 7. Report (1967) 8. David Holzmann's Diary (1968) 9. In the Year of the Pig (1969) 10. WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971) 11. Days of Heaven (1978) 12. The Color People (1985) 13. Trust (1990) 14. Archangel (1990) 15. Reversal of Fortune (1990) 16. Tongues Untied (1991) 17. The Gleaners and I (2000) 18. The Consequences of Love (2004)
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Post by brutalis on Apr 2, 2018 8:45:38 GMT -5
Being it was Easter Sunday I watched some good old fashioned Disney family live action movies while I cooked up the ham dinner and deviled eggs. Viewed 3 from the Kurt Russell collection in the Dexter Riley trilogy. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Now You See Him Now You Don't and The Strongest Man in the World. The simple joyous wimsical antics of these 3 movies provide a feel good vibe of environment for remembrances from my youth.
All star casting with Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Cesar Romero, William Schallert, William Windom, Eve Arden, Phil Silvers, Dick Van Patten, Frank Welker, Jim Backus and lots of other familiar television star faces you will have fun trying to place. These are live action silly cartoons when movies didn't all have to be serious or gross out comedy to shock and surprise. Fun time watching and guaranteed to deliver a smile!
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Post by dbutler69 on Apr 3, 2018 13:47:04 GMT -5
I did finally watch up seeing Roman Holiday last weekend. It was very good, though the ending isn't what I expected, though I don't want to spoil it for anyone by saying what I mean by that.
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Post by dbutler69 on Apr 3, 2018 13:48:09 GMT -5
Being it was Easter Sunday I watched some good old fashioned Disney family live action movies while I cooked up the ham dinner and deviled eggs. Viewed 3 from the Kurt Russell collection in the Dexter Riley trilogy. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Now You See Him Now You Don't and The Strongest Man in the World. The simple joyous wimsical antics of these 3 movies provide a feel good vibe of environment for remembrances from my youth. All star casting with Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Cesar Romero, William Schallert, William Windom, Eve Arden, Phil Silvers, Dick Van Patten, Frank Welker, Jim Backus and lots of other familiar television star faces you will have fun trying to place. These are live action silly cartoons when movies didn't all have to be serious or gross out comedy to shock and surprise. Fun time watching and guaranteed to deliver a smile! Speaking of Kurt Russell, my friend's got me wanting to see Used Cars. The trailer is pretty hilarious.
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Post by brutalis on Apr 3, 2018 15:59:38 GMT -5
Being it was Easter Sunday I watched some good old fashioned Disney family live action movies while I cooked up the ham dinner and deviled eggs. Viewed 3 from the Kurt Russell collection in the Dexter Riley trilogy. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Now You See Him Now You Don't and The Strongest Man in the World. The simple joyous wimsical antics of these 3 movies provide a feel good vibe of environment for remembrances from my youth. All star casting with Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Cesar Romero, William Schallert, William Windom, Eve Arden, Phil Silvers, Dick Van Patten, Frank Welker, Jim Backus and lots of other familiar television star faces you will have fun trying to place. These are live action silly cartoons when movies didn't all have to be serious or gross out comedy to shock and surprise. Fun time watching and guaranteed to deliver a smile! Speaking of Kurt Russell, my friend's got me wanting to see Used Cars. The trailer is pretty hilarious. Great 1980's low brow working man's comedy. Be prepared though for it is true R rated profanity with lots of F-bombs being tossed around.
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Post by brutalis on Apr 3, 2018 16:00:47 GMT -5
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