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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 2, 2018 19:55:41 GMT -5
Netflix is sadly bereft of a sizable collection of classic movies... But from time to time it allows access to such gems as A Touch of Evil, with an outstanding performance by Orson Welles (who also directed the film).
Just the opening credits made me giddy. Welles, Charlton Heston, Sza Sza Gabor, Marlene Dietrich, music by Mancini... all in glorious black and white.
It’s a classic cop movie, in which you don’t need international conspiracies to keep the viewer’s interest. I wish we could see more such movies, in the midst of the deluge of bad CGI-riddled imitations of recent blockbusters!
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 3, 2018 12:53:31 GMT -5
I can never decide between Dr. No and You Only Live Twice as my favorite James Bond movie.
I love Barbarella so much! I DVRed it months ago and still haven't gotten around to watching it. I've seen it so many times.
I've seen Mata Hari a bunch of times. My favorite Garbo!
Double Indemnity and Them! are also great classics of American cinema! (Even though my favorite Stanwyck movie is Night Nurse!)
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 3, 2018 14:34:48 GMT -5
I can never decide between Dr. No and You Only Live Twice as my favorite James Bond movie. I love Barbarella so much! I DVRed it months ago and still haven't gotten around to watching it. I've seen it so many times. I've seen Mata Hari a bunch of times. My favorite Garbo! Double Indemnity and Them! are also great classics of American cinema! (Even though my favorite Stanwyck movie is Night Nurse!) LOVE Double Indemnity! Stanwyck is superb there. Also love her in Meet John Doe and The Lady Eve.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 3, 2018 15:05:03 GMT -5
I can never decide between Dr. No and You Only Live Twice as my favorite James Bond movie. I love Barbarella so much! I DVRed it months ago and still haven't gotten around to watching it. I've seen it so many times. I've seen Mata Hari a bunch of times. My favorite Garbo! Double Indemnity and Them! are also great classics of American cinema! (Even though my favorite Stanwyck movie is Night Nurse!) LOVE Double Indemnity! Stanwyck is superb there. Also love her in Meet John Doe and The Lady Eve. Most of my favorite Stanwyck films are from the 1930s. Baby Face. Annie Oakley. Have you seen Ladies They Talk About? It's Stanwyck's pre-Code "women in prison" movie. And one of her fellow inmates is Lillian Roth! Another somewhat obscure Stanwyck movie I love is The Mad Miss Manton.
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 3, 2018 16:12:54 GMT -5
LOVE Double Indemnity! Stanwyck is superb there. Also love her in Meet John Doe and The Lady Eve. Most of my favorite Stanwyck films are from the 1930s. Baby Face. Annie Oakley. Have you seen Ladies They Talk About? It's Stanwyck's pre-Code "women in prison" movie. And one of her fellow inmates is Lillian Roth! Another somewhat obscure Stanwyck movie I love is The Mad Miss Manton. No, I think the earliest Stanwyck I know I have seen is The Bitter Tea of General Yen. Early Capra and well worth a look. She's great and the movie is very different. And in a good way.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 3, 2018 17:10:13 GMT -5
Most of my favorite Stanwyck films are from the 1930s. Baby Face. Annie Oakley. Have you seen Ladies They Talk About? It's Stanwyck's pre-Code "women in prison" movie. And one of her fellow inmates is Lillian Roth! Another somewhat obscure Stanwyck movie I love is The Mad Miss Manton. No, I think the earliest Stanwyck I know I have seen is The Bitter Tea of General Yen. Early Capra and well worth a look. She's great and the movie is very different. And in a good way. Oh yes! I love The Bitter Tea of General Yen! I don't know why it slipped my mind when I mentioned my favorites. One of the films that makes 1933 such a phenomenon.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2018 19:03:36 GMT -5
I can never decide between Dr. No and You Only Live Twice as my favorite James Bond movie. I love Barbarella so much! I DVRed it months ago and still haven't gotten around to watching it. I've seen it so many times. I've seen Mata Hari a bunch of times. My favorite Garbo! Double Indemnity and Them! are also great classics of American cinema! (Even though my favorite Stanwyck movie is Night Nurse!) My favorite Bond Movie is Goldfinger and The Spy Who Loved Me. Another favorite is From Russia with Love and Thunderball. I also have a fondness towards On Her Majesty Secret Service, Goldeneye, and of course the original Dr. No. I don't care of any of the Daniel Craig Movies at all and I just find them not my cup of tea.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2018 19:05:53 GMT -5
With Double Indemnity -- I learn something NEW every time I watch it and I have seen it about a dozen or so and that's brings out new JOY to me.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 3, 2018 19:16:05 GMT -5
In the past few days -- I added Starz to my cable lineup for a great deal from my Cable company at $6.00 a month for one year and $12 per month after that. Watched:On Her Majesty Secret Service Dr. No You Only Live Twice The General's Daughter Saving Private Ryan The Man From Uncle Barbarella Rodan What Women Wants From TCMMata Hari (1932) Operation Crossbow (1965) Double Indemnity (1944) Them! (1954) Black Swan, The (1942) If you think I'm crazy ... that's fine with me! Man From UNCLE was a hell of a lot more entertaining than the modern Bond films have been. Going the oh-so-serious route has really sucked the life out of them, if you ask me. Connery was serious, but the films had humor. Craig's just contain torture and explosions, with the same old 9/11 influenced trauma. Barbarella is just a fun romp and Jane Fonda carries it off well. It's a bit too long, though, and wears out its welcome, before the end. loe the music enough to buy the soundtrack album. You Only Live Twice is my favorite Bond movie, with the volcano fortress, the ninja commando attack and Little Nellie. I loved it when that one would be shown on ABC, back when they had exclusive rights. I didn't see Dr No until I was in college, when ABC finally showed it again. The book was better, though the film follows it relatively closely. The pulpier stuff worked better on the page (apart from the racism). Basically, Fleming was ripping off Sax Rohmer and Fu Manchu. The film has many fine moments and is a good film; but, the subsequent Bonds were better (especially From Russia With Love and Goldfinger). I never understood the praise for Saving Private Ryan. After the beach landing scenes, it's total cliche. Well shot and acted cliche; but, still cliche. Love Double Indemnity (Fred MacMurray made a great heel) and Operation Crossbow is an under-appreciated gem. Loves me some Black Swan, with Tyrone Power swinging a mean sword and Maureen O'Hara as fiery as her hair. George Sanders chews up some scenery; but, was a pretty good pirate. First saw this on WGN's Family Classics.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 3, 2018 19:19:00 GMT -5
Carol Burnett had a great send up of Double indemnity...
Love Harvey Korman as the dim-witted husband.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2018 21:12:15 GMT -5
Goldfinger (1964) was the Best Connery Film as 007 and all time too. You Only Live Twice (1967) was the Worst Connery Film as 007 the reason was Donald Pleasence as Blofeld.
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) was the Best Moore Film as 007. The Man With the Golden Gun (1974) was the Worst Moore Film as 007.
George Lazenby one film is better than Dalton's Two Films. Lazenby has Diana Rigg and Telly Savalas as Blofeld, and one villain Irma Bunt played by Ilse Steppat was evil to the core. That's made Lazenby film more memorable than Dalton.
GoldenEye (1995) was the Best Brosnan Film as 007. The last three were okay, but not that memorable as GoldenEye -- but entertaining to the letter.
Casino Royale (2006) was the Best Craig Film as 007. His other three were too much for me to bear and Quantum of Solace (2008) was the worst film of all time all time.
Never Say Never Again (1983) is a Connery Film and I liked it very much, but it is an unofficial film and a remake of Thunderball and the stars were lackadaisical, except Barbara Carrera who played Fatima Blush was superb.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2018 21:14:42 GMT -5
In the past few days -- I added Starz to my cable lineup for a great deal from my Cable company at $6.00 a month for one year and $12 per month after that. Watched:On Her Majesty Secret Service Dr. No You Only Live Twice The General's Daughter Saving Private Ryan The Man From Uncle Barbarella Rodan What Women Wants From TCMMata Hari (1932) Operation Crossbow (1965) Double Indemnity (1944) Them! (1954) Black Swan, The (1942) If you think I'm crazy ... that's fine with me! Man From UNCLE was a hell of a lot more entertaining than the modern Bond films have been. Going the oh-so-serious route has really sucked the life out of them, if you ask me. Connery was serious, but the films had humor. Craig's just contain torture and explosions, with the same old 9/11 influenced trauma. Barbarella is just a fun romp and Jane Fonda carries it off well. It's a bit too long, though, and wears out its welcome, before the end. loe the music enough to buy the soundtrack album. You Only Live Twice is my favorite Bond movie, with the volcano fortress, the ninja commando attack and Little Nellie. I loved it when that one would be shown on ABC, back when they had exclusive rights. I didn't see Dr No until I was in college, when ABC finally showed it again. The book was better, though the film follows it relatively closely. The pulpier stuff worked better on the page (apart from the racism). Basically, Fleming was ripping off Sax Rohmer and Fu Manchu. The film has many fine moments and is a good film; but, the subsequent Bonds were better (especially From Russia With Love and Goldfinger). I never understood the praise for Saving Private Ryan. After the beach landing scenes, it's total cliche. Well shot and acted cliche; but, still cliche. Love Double Indemnity (Fred MacMurray made a great heel) and Operation Crossbow is an under-appreciated gem. Loves me some Black Swan, with Tyrone Power swinging a mean sword and Maureen O'Hara as fiery as her hair. George Sanders chews up some scenery; but, was a pretty good pirate. First saw this on WGN's Family Classics. I enjoyed reading these comments ...
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 4, 2018 8:37:55 GMT -5
I never understood the praise for Saving Private Ryan. After the beach landing scenes, it's total cliche. Well shot and acted cliche; but, still cliche. I'm with you. I was more frightened by the landing sequence than I had ever been or have been since by a movie scene. Frightened doesn't really quite do it. I wanted out, I wanted it to end, and I think it was less the violence (as chilling as it was) than the sheer chaos that made me squirm. Spielberg and his editor(s) seemed to capture the randomness of battle as well as it can be done. Still, I knew even as I watched that sequence, that what it really accomplished was moving the SFX goalpost for portraying violence on film that much further along. And the audience's sensitivity to horrendous violence is scabbed over once more and, inured gain, we comfort ourselves with analysis ("How'd they show that guy's leg get blown off?") instead of feeling horror, sympathy and/or empathy. And, yes, it devolved into cliche quickly. The battle in the French village had its moments -- the death by a gentle stab was excruciating to watch -- but too many things went too well (as in heroically) to be believable in what was ostensibly a more realistic look at war than we were used to. And the denouement struck me as cloying than and seems even more mawkish now. To be fair, there are rules and conventions in moviemaking. If megastar and neo-Jimmy Stewart Tom Hanks was going to die, all of us knew it wouldn't be before the final minutes. The sergeant was never going to be anything but a rock (allusion intended); Reiben was always going to be reliable even if he was a hard-bitten cynic; and Ryan was going to be saved. Listen, conventions and cliches find their way not every work of popular art; it's how they are played with that separates the best of popular art from the pack. I don't hate SPR. I admire its craftsmanship and some of the acting, but it continually fails at its attempt to give us a more realistic picture of warfare from the infantryman's pov. Off the top of my head, I would offer as films that are much better at portraying the absurdity, the chaos and the randomness of war The Steel Helmet and All Quiet on the Western Front.
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Post by brutalis on Sept 4, 2018 9:15:19 GMT -5
Saturday afternoon/night Comet TV ran back to back the Peter Cushing Dr. Who movies from the 60's. Got to watch Dr. Who and the Daleks and Dalek Invasion of Earth 2150 which I haven't seen in years. These are 2 very psychedelic and campy movies I must say! These are purely meant to spotlight the Daleks and not the Doctor so they are not really very Whovian and true fluff Saturday movie matinee makings. Truly wasn't meant to be adult Sc-fi drama and more children's action/adventure which Who was originally created and aimed towards. Very colorful and a real trip into the past for some science fiction other than of the usual type. Glad to have recorded and have these to watch again as part of my Doctor Who recordings.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 4, 2018 12:25:20 GMT -5
Saturday afternoon/night Comet TV ran back to back the Peter Cushing Dr. Who movies from the 60's. Got to watch Dr. Who and the Daleks and Dalek Invasion of Earth 2150 which I haven't seen in years. These are 2 very psychedelic and campy movies I must say! These are purely meant to spotlight the Daleks and not the Doctor so they are not really very Whovian and true fluff Saturday movie matinee makings. Truly wasn't meant to be adult Sc-fi drama and more children's action/adventure which Who was originally created and aimed towards. Very colorful and a real trip into the past for some science fiction other than of the usual type. Glad to have recorded and have these to watch again as part of my Doctor Who recordings. I enjoy them tremendously. I've always enjoyed the tv series; but, I'm not a diehard fan. I can take the movies for what they are, which is a fun romp. The first has the more serious tone and better story, with some actual frightening stuff. The second is more wide ranging and pure fun, aided greatly by Bernard Cribbins, as the police constable.
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