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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 19, 2019 21:32:31 GMT -5
Watching Beast From 20,000 Fathoms right now. One of my favorite monster movies growing up. The ending always made me sad. And the professor is my favorite character. So eccentric and enthusiastic.
Edit: Wow I forgot how beautiful Paula Raymond is! :hearteyesemotioncon:
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 19, 2019 21:52:54 GMT -5
Has anyone seen the Stan And Ollie movie? Coogan and Reilly. How do they compare to the classic originals? I'm hoping to see this before too much longer.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 19, 2019 22:44:31 GMT -5
Has anyone seen the Stan And Ollie movie? Coogan and Reilly. How do they compare to the classic originals? I'm hoping to see this before too much longer. Just the trailer; looks good, though. I was introduced to Laurel & Hardy in childhood. My parents used to take us, weekly, to the local Shakey's Pizza Parlor. They went for a family entertainment atmosphere and used to show the old Laurel & Hardy & Charlie Chaplin shorts; plus, have sing-alongs and similar things (and you could watch the pizzas being made, through a window). We loved those films.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 20, 2019 15:29:27 GMT -5
I think there are still some Shakey's in California but it must be a smaller chain than it used to be, not many or even any in the PNW I don't think. There's a bit of music trivia about a group recruiting a keyboard player from a Shakey's... I think it was San Francisco's Charlatans, or what was left of them post Dan Hicks and Mike Ferguson. If the cobwens clear on this I'll update, don't want to give out crucial info that might be wrong. I love most of the Hal Roach shorts which includes Laurel & Hardy. I grew up with them on tv when I was little; Roach was one of the first into tv with a Topper series and packaging old Our Gangs as The Little Rascals, as well as Tom Bosley narrating (a bit like Howard Cosell) over silent Harold Lloyd.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2019 16:16:13 GMT -5
Two Things ... Stan and Ollie movie looks really good and looking forward seeing it; another thing that I missed out watching Dracula's Daughter last night on Svengoolie because I had to attend a birthday party that was planned in the last minute.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 21, 2019 14:27:55 GMT -5
Two Things ... Stan and Ollie movie looks really good and looking forward seeing it; another thing that I missed out watching Dracula's Daughter last night on Svengoolie because I had to attend a birthday party that was planned in the last minute. I might go see Stan and Ollie this week. It looks really good! And I caught Dracula's Daughter on Svengolie this weekend! I've seen it a bunch of times. It's not one of my favorite Universal horror movies, but it's grown on me over the decades. I love the banter between Otto Kruger and Marguerite Churchill (who looks like Mia Farrow). But the best thing about the film is the scene with Nan Grey!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2019 15:15:46 GMT -5
Two Things ... Stan and Ollie movie looks really good and looking forward seeing it; another thing that I missed out watching Dracula's Daughter last night on Svengoolie because I had to attend a birthday party that was planned in the last minute. I might go see Stan and Ollie this week. It looks really good! And I caught Dracula's Daughter on Svengolie this weekend! I've seen it a bunch of times. It's not one of my favorite Universal horror movies, but it's grown on me over the decades. I love the banter between Otto Kruger and Marguerite Churchill (who looks like Mia Farrow). But the best thing about the film is the scene with Nan Grey! Thinking about seeing in a day or two ... the Stan and Ollie one.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 1, 2019 14:05:41 GMT -5
Here is a list of the movies I saw in January from the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" list: 1. Subarnarekha (Golden River) (1965) - Indian cinema! 2. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967) - I am so glad I am finally enjoying Godard; he has so many films on the List! (But just because I enjoy them doesn't mean I always understand them.) 3. The Red and the White (1967) - Hungarian cinema! 4. Memories of Underdevelopment (1967) - Cuban cinema! 5. The Devils (1971) - I've been a fan of Ken Russell for a very long time. I remember seeing Altered States on cable when it wasn't very old and I saw Salome's Last Dance in the theater when it was brand new. I've been wanting to see The Devils for close to 25 years. Great movie! 6. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) - One of the best movies I've ever seen about the native people of Australia. Based on a true story! Jimmie gets tired of being cheated and spit on by white people and declares war. 7. L'argent (Money) (1983) - Bresson is another director with a lot of movies on the List, but I've never had the trouble with him that I sometimes do with Godard. Bresson is the French De Sica and Godard is the French Antonioni. My favorite Bresson film is Au hazard Balthazar; it's not for the faint of heart. 8. The Double Life of Veronique (1991) - A wonderful beautiful poetic film. Irene Jacob is amazing. 9. Strange Days (1995) - You know how you laugh at old science fiction when there's a caption about "Moon colonies by 1975!" and it's decades later and there are no moon colonies? Well, Strange Days was made in 1995 and set only four years later, New Year's Eve, 1999. I found it very watchable and enjoyable despite being two and a half hours long, with good performances from Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett and Juliette Lewis. But the film's naivete is kind of amusing. And the "twist" (such as it is) at the end is more than a bit yawn-inducing. I have no idea why it's on the List. 10. Gohatto (Taboo) (1999) - Japanese cinema! And this one is about a very pretty samurai whose charms attract the attention of some of the other samurai, causing jealousy and dissension in the ranks.
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 1, 2019 15:39:43 GMT -5
5. The Devils (1971) - I've been a fan of Ken Russell for a very long time. I've been wanting to see The Devils for close to 25 years. Great movie! The book it's based on is well worth reading - The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 1, 2019 16:02:24 GMT -5
5. The Devils (1971) - I've been a fan of Ken Russell for a very long time. I've been wanting to see The Devils for close to 25 years. Great movie! The book it's based on is well worth reading - The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley. I really like what little Huxley I've read, especially Every Summer Dies the Swan. I've been thinking of checking to see if I can it through the local library so I can plan on reading it later this year.
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Post by beccabear67 on Feb 2, 2019 13:38:34 GMT -5
I watched The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter for the first time on TCM yesterday. Carson McCullers story, Alan Arkin as a deaf mute. First thing that grabbed me was 'is that Chuck McCann? Naw, sure looks like him though... it is!' That must've been one of his first big jobs. He was amazing too! This is a film people had been mentioning to me for years and somehow I had missed it up to now, so I'm glad I got to see it at last. TCM is still worthwhile sometimes.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 2, 2019 18:33:25 GMT -5
I watched The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter for the first time on TCM yesterday. Carson McCullers story, Alan Arkin as a deaf mute. First thing that grabbed me was 'is that Chuck McCann? Naw, sure looks like him though... it is!' That must've been one of his first big jobs. He was amazing too! This is a film people had been mentioning to me for years and somehow I had missed it up to now, so I'm glad I got to see it at last. TCM is still worthwhile sometimes. I've been wanting to see this for a while and I noted it was going to be on TCM but that was a few weeks ago and I forgot to set the DVR! But I'm in luck! It's available on TCM On Demand until Feb. 8.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 2, 2019 18:39:21 GMT -5
I DVRed The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958) off FXM Retro and I watched it a couple of days ago. Directed by John Huston, which I didn't know until I started watching it! It was filmed in Japan and it's quite lavish and lovely to look at it. I was never bored with it but I also wasn't particularly inspired. As much as I like John Wayne in his best movies, he also made a lot of movies where the studio just seemed to be slotting him in, hoping his name would draw the crowds. Maybe it worked and this was a big-office smash in 1958. But watching it 60 years later, I kept thinking how much better this would have been with somebody else. I love the idea of Joel McCrea or Randolph Scott in the role!
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 2, 2019 18:42:28 GMT -5
And I forgot to mention that I saw Stan & Ollie last week and I really liked it!
Coogan and Reilly are both really good at their Stan and Ollie impersonations, but Reilly in his make-up looks so much like Oliver Hardy that it's spooky.
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Post by Duragizer on Feb 3, 2019 18:05:35 GMT -5
For research purposes, I was gonna make an attempt to read Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. When I picked up the copy I had requested from the library, saw the actually thickness of the book, then read the description on the inner flap, I quickly decided I'd watch the movie instead.
I'm not a man of extremes. I believe in objective good and evil, in black and white. At the same time, I believe there're many shades of gray between the black and white, much ambiguity and subjectivity in play. That's precisely why I despise this film. It has strong cinematography, the performances are competent, at the very least, but the "moral" is vile. Either you're an individualist — an emotionally abusive, utterly self-motivated psychopath — or you're a collectivist — a devil dedicated to quashing all forms of individualism, a weak-willed trend follower, or a social parasite. I reject Rand's dimensionless caricature of the human condition, and I reject this celluloid obscenity.
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