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Post by Icctrombone on May 29, 2023 16:09:53 GMT -5
Slam_Bradley ... My legal and courtroom experience is limited, though I once was the foreman for a murder trial and we were strongly warned beforehand not to succumb the temptation to solve the crime. The state was almost certainly entitled to a mistrial in the case for juror misconduct. Not because #8 tried to solve the case, but because he brought the knife in. Bringing in outside evidence is absolutely forbidden and that 100% would have been in the jury instructions. It survived your condemnation , which is good. Maybe the prohibition of the knife was created after the date of the movie.
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Post by berkley on May 29, 2023 18:40:12 GMT -5
There was a Russian movie a few years ago, not really a re-make of 12 Angry Men but inspired by the premise of a jury disagreeing about a crime. The crime was something to do with internal terrorism related to the Chechnyan independence movement, or something like that, and the movie was more interesting as a "state of Russia" as it then was than as a comparison to the original 12 Angry Men. Worth a look, anyway.
edit: it was called 12 and came out in 2007, though it was probably a year or two later that I saw it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2023 14:28:41 GMT -5
I watched the original Last House on The Left....omgosh, worst acting ever, what a load of absolute rubbish.
It was one instance where I prefer the remake by far.
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Post by berkley on Jun 6, 2023 19:13:40 GMT -5
Saw Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) last night at a local cinema. Was this his first movie as a director? If so, pretty impressive, because it's already very accomplished and stylish, visually. He had a great eye for interesting-looking settings - buildings, backgrounds, city-scapes, etc. I saw Profondo Rosso (Deep red) last year and it's interesting to compare these two. The same theatre is also showing Argento's Cat o' Nine Tails soon, so I'm looking forward to seeing that one.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 12, 2023 20:01:03 GMT -5
Say, when did movies start routinely putting the title at the end?
The first time I noticed it was in Robocop II sometimes last century, but back then it was something of an exception. Now it's pretty common, especially in comic-book style films.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 12, 2023 21:15:58 GMT -5
Say, when did movies start routinely putting the title at the end? The first time I noticed it was in Robocop II sometimes last century, but back then it was something of an exception. Now it's pretty common, especially in comic-book style films. I've seen it in movies before then, in at least the mid-70s. I think it might be related more to the corporations taking over the studios; but there might be earlier examples.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 12, 2023 21:25:20 GMT -5
Just got my hands on a whole bunch of lucha horror movies, with Santo, Blue Demon, and Mil Mascaras, with English subtitles, instead of dubbing. I plan on being in masked heaven, watching the heroes battle vampires, werewolves, Aztec mummies, while taking time to have wrestling matches, too. The true Mexican superhero films.
I've seen a handful of them, like the two Wrestling Women films (Wrestling Women vs The Doctor of Doom and Wrestling Women vs the Aztec Mummy), Santo (Samson vs the Vampire Woman, where he is dubbed and renamed) and Los Campeones Justiciero (Champions of Justice, a kind of lucha Justice League with Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras and a bunch of others). Also have the first Neutron film, with Wolf Rivinski, Neutron vs the Amazing Dr Caronte.
Santo & Blue demon were wrestlers who became actors in the films, in their ring persona; but, Neutron was created for film, with wrestler Wolf Ruvinskis under the mask. He had a bit more of a superhero look than Santo or Blue Demon.
Lots of fun and monsters.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2023 5:47:36 GMT -5
Just got my hands on a whole bunch of lucha horror movies, with Santo, Blue Demon, and Mil Mascaras, with English subtitles, instead of dubbing. I plan on being in masked heaven, watching the heroes battle vampires, werewolves, Aztec mummies, while taking time to have wrestling matches, too. The true Mexican superhero films. I've seen a handful of them, like the two Wrestling Women films (Wrestling Women vs The Doctor of Doom and Wrestling Women vs the Aztec Mummy), Santo (Samson vs the Vampire Woman, where he is dubbed and renamed) and Los Campeones Justiciero (Champions of Justice, a kind of lucha Justice League with Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras and a bunch of others). Also have the first Neutron film, with Wolf Rivinski, Neutron vs the Amazing Dr Caronte. Santo & Blue demon were wrestlers who became actors in the films, in their ring persona; but, Neutron was created for film, with wrestler Wolf Ruvinskis under the mask. He had a bit more of a superhero look than Santo or Blue Demon. Lots of fun and monsters. Interestingly, I have them on order: some distributor specialises in obscure/esoteric stuff has released them.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2023 5:52:18 GMT -5
Thirty years ago today, Last Action Hero, directed by John McTiernan, was released: Arnie starred as an LAPD detective, Jack Slater - who exists within an action film series. Danny Madigan (Austin O’Brien) plays Danny Madigan, who enjoys the exploits of Jack Slater. Madigan manages to enter Slater’s fictional universe, while Mr. Benedict (Charles Dance), a villain within the Slater universe, escapes to the “real world”. I think I have that right. Meta-fiction, eh? I remember some really negative reviews about this film, yet I enjoyed it immensely. It was fun, and made good use of the premise, with even a thoughtful comment or two about the nature of reality. It manages to be quite poignant in places while embracing the silliness of it all. Oh, and there are some fun cameos, too. I did enjoy much of the dialogue, such as this:
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 13, 2023 6:35:32 GMT -5
Thirty years ago today, Last Action Hero, directed by John McTiernan, was released: Arnie starred as an LAPD detective, Jack Slater - who exists within an action film series. Danny Madigan (Austin O’Brien) plays Danny Madigan, who enjoys the exploits of Jack Slater. Madigan manages to enter Slater’s fictional universe, while Mr. Benedict (Charles Dance), a villain within the Slater universe, escapes to the “real world”. I think I have that right. Meta-fiction, eh? I remember some really negative reviews about this film, yet I enjoyed it immensely. It was fun, and made good use of the premise, with even a thoughtful comment or two about the nature of reality. It manages to be quite poignant in places while embracing the silliness of it all. Oh, and there are some fun cameos, too. I did enjoy much of the dialogue, such as this: Also notable for an appearance by Joan Plowright as Danny's teacher, futilely trying to interest Danny and his classmates in watching Olivier (her husband) as Hamlet. And then this happens...
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jun 13, 2023 7:12:02 GMT -5
Last Action Hero is a very underrated/unappreciated entry in Arnie's cinematic oeuvre.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 20, 2023 17:11:32 GMT -5
I happened to have TCM on Sunday while the child was playing an online D&D game and my wife was doing stuff around the house. They had films about fathers on and I managed to catch To Kill a Mockingbird from the start. I simply can't imagine anyone but Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch. His presence just looms over the entire film even the scenes he isn't terribly connected to. They also managed to find, and Robert Mulligan managed to direct, two kids who aren't just incredibly annoying in Mary Badham and Phillip Alford as Scout and Jem.
I also caught a 1939 Our Gang short Dad For A Day that spotlights Mickey Gubitosi, aka Robert Blake, as a member of the gang without a father to take him to the Father/Son picnic. So the gang ends up getting a young gas station owner to step in for the day. It's a pretty subdued entry in the series, but appropriate for the day and pretty endearing.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 26, 2023 19:15:04 GMT -5
I saw a colorized version of 1936's Things to Come this afternoon. What an excellent film, and quite unsettling in its prediction of the future! From world war II to the rise of petty strongmen to that of an anti-science movement, it shows that even without a crystal ball H.G. Wells was quite observant of political events and human nature.
I loved the movie's Flash-Gordonesque machines of the future. The special effects were also pretty impressive for the time!
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Post by berkley on Jun 26, 2023 23:17:38 GMT -5
I watched Pedro Almodovar's Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! which, while entertaining and expertly crafted, as all the Almodovar films I've caught have been, was a major disappointment in one overwhelming way: it sent a terrible message about how men and women relate to one another, with Banderas's character kidnapping the female lead, knocking her unconscious with a punch to the head, tying her up in her own apartment, threatening to cut her throat if she screams, etc, etc - but all in the name of true love, so apparently we're meant to accept that's it's OK in the end, as his victim and her sister who rescues her do: they voluntarily seek him out after escaping. What the hell Almodovar was thinking with this is beyond me and I'm amazed it hasn't come in for more criticism (there has been some but not nearly as much as I'd have expected).
I'm lucky this wasn't the first Almodovar I've seen or it might have put me off his movies altogether. As it is I'll have to take a break before trying anything else, and hopefully when I do it'll wash the memory of this one out of my brain.
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Post by berkley on Jun 26, 2023 23:18:42 GMT -5
I saw a colorized version of 1936's Things to Come this afternoon. What an excellent film, and quite unsettling in its prediction of the future! From world war II to the rise of petty strongmen to that of an anti-science movement, it shows that even without a crystal ball H.G. Wells was quite observant of political events and human nature. I loved the movie's Flash-Gordonesque machines of the future. The special effects were also pretty impressive for the time!
I remember seeing it on tv when I was a kid and being impressed, though I was probably a little too young to appreciate everything. I think I'll read the Wells book before watching it again, though.
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