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Post by tartanphantom on Aug 14, 2022 14:15:56 GMT -5
Released 35 years ago today: One of my favourite films. Like how it utilises certain tropes, it’s fun throughout, it mixes horror and comedy well, and there are even a few scary moments. As a kid, I wanted a sequel, but as an adult, I know that it stands alone as a great film because it’s not a franchise. Didn’t realise until years later that the guy who played Dracula also played Charles in V: The Series.
Love this film!
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 14, 2022 16:50:15 GMT -5
This just makes me feel old; nostalgia for a movie I dismissed as kid fare, as an adult (nothing against the film; that was just my impression 35 years ago and I had no kids). The 90s feel too recent for me to have nostalgia for them, other than music in the first half of the decade (more than the second half). It gets worse when I realize that we are 2+ decades into the 21st century and I am starting a review thread of an 80s comic, set only a decade ahead.
I'm gonna go soak in a hot tub now, before my rheumatism gets worse, along with my lumbego.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2022 11:51:41 GMT -5
The Beastmaster, directed by Don Coscarelli, was released 40 years ago today: The film stars Marc Singer as Dar, a warrior who can communicate with animals, battling the forces of an evil wizard. Totally original, of course, and not done since! I like this film (I didn’t realise until years later that it was based on a 1959 novel). It features incredible special effects by 1980s standards, and it’s a rip-roaring adventure from start to finish. The genre is a “crowded field” but this is one of the best in that field. Two sequels and a TV series followed (haven’t seen any of them).
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 20, 2022 19:28:02 GMT -5
The Beastmaster, directed by Don Coscarelli, was released 40 years ago today In the early years of cable TV, this movie was shown so frequently that people joked that HBO stood for "Hey, Beastmaster's On!"
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 21, 2022 1:33:17 GMT -5
My sister watched this multiple times and had the hots for Marc Singer. In 1991 I went to the Atlanta Fantasy Fair, my first larger scale convention. Appearing there was Marc Singer, promoting Beastmaster 2. My sisters Birthday was in a couple of weeks, so I bought a publicity still, from a dealer, of Singer, in the original film and had him sign it "Happy Birthday, Joanna," to her, as a surprise. He was a really nice guy and told some hilarious stories during the Q&A session, relating to V and the film.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2022 9:20:08 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 9, 2022 18:58:34 GMT -5
Today I’m watching The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969).
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 9, 2022 20:19:57 GMT -5
Today I’m watching The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969). Then he sold some Used Cars and served in a future war and had to help the President Escape from New York. It's amazing to listen to Kurt Russell talk about his childhood. The guy worked for Walt Disney, teamed up with the Man From Uncle, went to Gilligan's Island, did a movie with Elvis, met his current partner when he was a teenager, on a Disney movie and then was reunited with her 16 years later, on another movie and they have been together, ever since. This is a guy who talks nonchalantly about playing catch with Elvis. He must have had a pretty good home life, because he was one of the rare child actors who didn't end up a screwed up mess, even if it did take some time to shed the Disney image.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 9, 2022 20:38:52 GMT -5
Today I’m watching The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969). Then he sold some Used Cars and served in a future war and had to help the President Escape from New York. It's amazing to listen to Kurt Russell talk about his childhood. The guy worked for Walt Disney, teamed up with the Man From Uncle, went to Gilligan's Island, did a movie with Elvis, met his current partner when he was a teenager, on a Disney movie and then was reunited with her 16 years later, on another movie and they have been together, ever since. This is a guy who talks nonchalantly about playing catch with Elvis. He must have had a pretty good home life, because he was one of the rare child actors who didn't end up a screwed up mess, even if it did take some time to shed the Disney image. Sometimes when I get home from work, I am really tired. I transport animals for a rescue, and sometimes I’ll have a few exhausting days in a row, and sometimes it’s really hot, and I get home from work and I wanna lay here in the AC and watch something where it’s not that big a deal if I’m not paying attention. So I generally go back and forth between Jerry Lewis movies and old Disney movies. I watched Who’s Minding the Store? a few days ago. I watched Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo last week. Over the weekend, I watched Big Trouble in Little China, which isn’t in either of these categories, but it made me think of Russell’s career and it reminded me that a few of his Disney films are on Disney+. If I saw them as a kid, I don’t remember them very well. A few scenes in The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes were kind of familiar. Disney+ also has The Strongest Man in the World. They don’t have Now You See Him, Now You Don’t. If I want to see that, I’ll either have to get it from the library or pay three or four dollars for a rental. A lot of these movies are very entertaining. And even Jerry Lewis’s worst movies have one or two good scenes, and a lot of those 1950s and 1960s actors that I like so much. Way Way Out was largely a waste, but it was nice to see Linda Harrison several years before Planet of the Apes, Dennis Weaver and Howard Morris are hilarious, and Dick Shawn is great when he finally appears. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes was very entertaining. In addition to a lot of character actors like Fritz Feld and William Schallert, there were some pretty good performances from Cesar Romero and Joe Flynn.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 9, 2022 20:42:58 GMT -5
When I’m not quite that tired, I watch a lot of Japanese movies. Lately, I’ve been trying to watch two or three Zatoichi movies a month.
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Post by tartanphantom on Sept 9, 2022 21:08:16 GMT -5
Today I’m watching The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969). Then he sold some Used Cars and served in a future war and had to help the President Escape from New York. It's amazing to listen to Kurt Russell talk about his childhood. The guy worked for Walt Disney, teamed up with the Man From Uncle, went to Gilligan's Island, did a movie with Elvis, met his current partner when he was a teenager, on a Disney movie and then was reunited with her 16 years later, on another movie and they have been together, ever since. This is a guy who talks nonchalantly about playing catch with Elvis. He must have had a pretty good home life, because he was one of the rare child actors who didn't end up a screwed up mess, even if it did take some time to shed the Disney image. You left out the part where he had a barbecue with the Thing From Another World.
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 10, 2022 1:45:30 GMT -5
Then he sold some Used Cars and served in a future war and had to help the President Escape from New York. It's amazing to listen to Kurt Russell talk about his childhood. The guy worked for Walt Disney, teamed up with the Man From Uncle, went to Gilligan's Island, did a movie with Elvis, met his current partner when he was a teenager, on a Disney movie and then was reunited with her 16 years later, on another movie and they have been together, ever since. This is a guy who talks nonchalantly about playing catch with Elvis. He must have had a pretty good home life, because he was one of the rare child actors who didn't end up a screwed up mess, even if it did take some time to shed the Disney image. You left out the part where he had a barbecue with the Thing From Another World. And when he made the final charge with his Immortals.
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Post by berkley on Oct 11, 2022 2:03:15 GMT -5
Seen so many old movies the last few months I can hardly keep up with myself, but to make a start, tonight, in the spirit of Hallowe'en month, I watched Vampyr (1932), a movie I thnk I had almost sub-consciosuly convinced myself I had seen before but that, after having actually seen it, I now think I must have just read something about it that left a lasting impression. I can even make a pretty good guess as to where and when this might have happened - around 1980-82, when I first went away to university and spent way too much time in the MUN library reading a book of old NYT movie reviews I found instead of studying.
Anyway, this was quite amazing - strange and dreamlike, a silent movie done with sound, a horror movie made like an art film. I've been watching a few of the old, classic Universal Horror films of the 1930s since October started and was getting so much into that groove that I wasn't sure I wanted to get out of it, even for another horror movie of the same period, but I'm glad I did now. I never know how much to say about my personal reactions to stuff like this but I'll just mention one odd thing that struck me - doesn't the lead actor look a bit like HP Lovecraft?
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 11, 2022 10:49:14 GMT -5
(...) I can even make a pretty good guess as to where and when this might have happened - around 1980-82, when I first went away to university and spent way too much time in the MUN library reading a book of old NYT movie reviews I found instead of studying. That reminds me of my own college years, where I was doing the same thing! The library had a subscription to Les Cahiers du Cinéma, and I couldn't get enough of its analyses of films like Nosferatu or Exorcist II : the Heretic (which I hated when I first saw it, but gained a whole new respect for when I saw what Boorman was trying to do). Right now I'm in the middle of watching The Medusa Touch, once again thanks to Youtube. An impressive cast and an a good, engaging story so far. Lino Ventura, Richard Burton, Derek Jacobi and Lee Remick in the same film? Sorry, Werewolf by Night, you'll have to wait your turn.
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Post by berkley on Oct 11, 2022 15:04:06 GMT -5
(...) I can even make a pretty good guess as to where and when this might have happened - around 1980-82, when I first went away to university and spent way too much time in the MUN library reading a book of old NYT movie reviews I found instead of studying. That reminds me of my own college years, where I was doing the same thing! The library had a subscription to Les Cahiers du Cinéma, and I couldn't get enough of its analyses of films like Nosferatu or Exorcist II : the Heretic (which I hated when I first saw it, but gained a whole new respect for when I saw what Boorman was trying to do). Right now I'm in the middle of watching The Medusa Touch, once again thanks to Youtube. An impressive cast and an a good, engaging story so far. Lino Ventura, Richard Burton, Derek Jacobi and Lee Remick in the same film? Sorry, Werewolf by Night, you'll have to wait your turn.
I'll be watching a lot of horror this month so I'll add those to my list. I already had Exorcist III added because I noticed it was directed by William Peter Blatty but never thought about Exorcist II for some reason.
I was impressed with Lino Ventura in Touchez pas au grisbi, which I watched a few months ago. I'd like to see more of his work - what do you think are his best or most iconic performances?
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