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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 13, 2024 4:41:33 GMT -5
Yep....getting my head around the fact that The Crow will be 30 years old this year. I've had this fascination with dark justice / avenging angel types since I was 4 feet tall....and this movie was on constant play while I was getting my own black belt. Also has my favourite song for 1994 (Burn by The Cure). The sequel was utter rubbish though.....shame....
I finally got around to watching the whole movie last night - I missed it during its first theatrical run and never rented it later for whatever reason (although I'd heard good things about it). All I'd even seen up until now was about the last half-hour of it on TV once a long time ago. And ... I liked it well enough. It's very stylish, atmospheric and gothish, and got me feeling a bit nostalgic for the 1990s. I'd say the weakest link is, in fact, Brandon Lee, as his acting skills still needed some honing (sometimes his delivery of lines seems awkward). That's unfortunate, because he definitely inherited some of his dad's on-screen charisma. All in all though, not a bad film. I have no interest in any of the sequels, but I'd love to read the comics it's based on.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jan 13, 2024 11:23:19 GMT -5
but I'd love to read the comics it's based on. They're pretty great! The movie doesn't follow all of the same beats, but it's fairly close (like Eric having severe nerve damage to the point where he can't feel pain) and the ending of the comic is much grimmer, but no less poetic
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 13, 2024 18:23:30 GMT -5
Yep....getting my head around the fact that The Crow will be 30 years old this year. I've had this fascination with dark justice / avenging angel types since I was 4 feet tall....and this movie was on constant play while I was getting my own black belt. Also has my favourite song for 1994 (Burn by The Cure). The sequel was utter rubbish though.....shame....
I finally got around to watching the whole movie last night - I missed it during its first theatrical run and never rented it later for whatever reason (although I'd heard good things about it). All I'd even seen up until now was about the last half-hour of it on TV once a long time ago. And ... I liked it well enough. It's very stylish, atmospheric and gothish, and got me feeling a bit nostalgic for the 1990s. I'd say the weakest link is, in fact, Brandon Lee, as his acting skills still needed some honing (sometimes his delivery of lines seems awkward). That's unfortunate, because he definitely inherited some of his dad's on-screen charisma. All in all though, not a bad film. I have no interest in any of the sequels, but I'd love to read the comics it's based on.
The dvd set I have included an interview (which looks like it was shot in his basement, which doubled as a studio) with James O'Barr, where he talked about the genesis of the project. I used to have one issue of the original Caliber release, but then had the entire Tundra prestige release of it, before Kevin Eastman bought into Kitchen Sink and took the publishing rights there. That was the main reason that entertainment company bought Kitchen Sink, because of the Crow's box office and media profile. I can't recall if this element was in the Caliber version; but, the Tundra edition mixed art media in the story. The present was depicted in harsh black lines, dark backgrounds and a violent cityscape. The flashbacks to Eric and Shelly are done in a painted form, like a wash or something similar, giving it a softer look. A woman I worked with so loved the film and the character and his given name that she named her son Draven.
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Post by berkley on Jan 18, 2024 13:30:30 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 18, 2024 15:50:27 GMT -5
In terms of film, I have a few: Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss and Vinegar-a look at several lady wrestlers, from the 40s to the 80s Beyond the Mat-Barry Blaustein's look at pro wrestling, with features on Terry Funk, Mick Foley and Jake "The Snake" Roberts Roger & Me-Michael Moore's look at the decline of Flint, MI, as GM closes plants and sends the production to Mexico, while Moore tries to get in to see CEO Roger Smith Bowling For Columbine-Moore's look at the Columbine shootings, plus gun violence in America....until his stupid stunt with Charlton Heston, which detracts from better earlier points in the film. Beyond The Lighted Stage-about the band Rush Supersize Me-obvious conclusions, but an interesting look at how the food industry works to undermine common sense Lost in La Mancha-about Terry Gilliam's failed Don Quixote project Night and Fog-Alain Resnais harrowing look at the Holocaust, with Nazi footage from the camps This Film is Not Yet Rated-about the MPAA and how it operates and the frustrating lack of concrete standards The Battered Bastards of Baseball-about Bing Russell's (Kurt's father) minor league baseball team, in the 1970s and battles with the league, as well as the collection of oddballs, including Kurt. Crumb-Terry Zwigoff's look at Robert Crumb Comic Book Confidential I still haven't yet seen it, but have heard nothing but good things about The Fog of War, with former Kennedy advisor Robert McNamara, about the Vietnam War. If you throw tv into the mix, then... The World at War-ITV's documentary of WW@, from all sides, battlefield and homefront, with tons of firsthand interviews and amazing footage Vietnam: A Television History-PBS series (from WGBH Boston), chronicalling the Vietnam War, from the beginnings of French colonialism to the aftermath of the fall of Saigon, inspired by TWAW Comics: The Ninth Art-British documentary series about the history of comics, both in Europe, the US and in Japan, in one episode. Lots of great interviews and examples from all kinds of comics Michael Palin's Travelogues Jacques Cousteau's National Geographic work
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Post by berkley on Jan 18, 2024 17:45:02 GMT -5
In terms of film, I have a few: Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss and Vinegar-a look at several lady wrestlers, from the 40s to the 80s Beyond the Mat-Barry Blaustein's look at pro wrestling, with features on Terry Funk, Mick Foley and Jake "The Snake" Roberts Roger & Me-Michael Moore's look at the decline of Flint, MI, as GM closes plants and sends the production to Mexico, while Moore tries to get in to see CEO Roger Smith Bowling For Columbine-Moore's look at the Columbine shootings, plus gun violence in America....until his stupid stunt with Charlton Heston, which detracts from better earlier points in the film. Beyond The Lighted Stage-about the band Rush Supersize Me-obvious conclusions, but an interesting look at how the food industry works to undermine common sense Lost in La Mancha-about Terry Gilliam's failed Don Quixote project Night and Fog-Alain Resnais harrowing look at the Holocaust, with Nazi footage from the camps This Film is Not Yet Rated-about the MPAA and how it operates and the frustrating lack of concrete standards The Battered Bastards of Baseball-about Bing Russell's (Kurt's father) minor league baseball team, in the 1970s and battles with the league, as well as the collection of oddballs, including Kurt. Crumb-Terry Zwigoff's look at Robert Crumb Comic Book Confidential I still haven't yet seen it, but have heard nothing but good things about The Fog of War, with former Kennedy advisor Robert McNamara, about the Vietnam War. If you throw tv into the mix, then... The World at War-ITV's documentary of WW@, from all sides, battlefield and homefront, with tons of firsthand interviews and amazing footage Vietnam: A Television History-PBS series (from WGBH Boston), chronicalling the Vietnam War, from the beginnings of French colonialism to the aftermath of the fall of Saigon, inspired by TWAW Comics: The Ninth Art-British documentary series about the history of comics, both in Europe, the US and in Japan, in one episode. Lots of great interviews and examples from all kinds of comics Michael Palin's Travelogues Jacques Cousteau's National Geographic work Agree about Bowling and Crumb - I think those are the only two I've seen from your list.
The Fog of War is excellent, definitely worth seeking out.
From the tv docs, I think I saw large parts of the World at War when I was a kid in the '70s but it's so long ago I can't say for sure how much. There was a Vietnam War documentary series called The Ten-Thousand Day War shown on CBC back in the late '70s or early '80s that I thought was very good at the time.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jan 19, 2024 20:08:28 GMT -5
Watched "Angels In The Outfield"(1994) While a cute movie overall, it's very saccharine, almost intentionally so. Kind of wanted to rewatch it after not seeing it since I was a kid. Was kind of surprised to notice that there's a young Adrian Brody and Matthew McConaughey in it. Did not know that it was a very loose remake of the 1951 film "Angels And The Pirates" (owned by Turner, which explains rather clearly why it's not apart of the Disney Plus service)
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Post by driver1980 on Jan 23, 2024 16:47:06 GMT -5
Random question: Were there any post-credits scenes prior to 1980’s Airplane!?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 23, 2024 17:12:09 GMT -5
Random question: Were there any post-credits scenes prior to 1980’s Airplane!? At the very least The Silencers in 1966 and The Muppet Movie in 1979.
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Post by driver1980 on Jan 23, 2024 17:36:52 GMT -5
Thanks. I do feel they are just in there for the sake of it with some modern films. At least with Airplane!, the post-credits gag was relevant to a gag throughout the movie. I’d rather they be there because there’s a need.
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Post by berkley on Jan 25, 2024 1:37:01 GMT -5
I watched The Goddess (1934), a Chinese silent film starring Ruan Lingyu, the actress Maggie Cheung plays in Centre Stage (1991), which I am planning to watch soon. This is the third Ruan Lingyu movie I've seen over the last few months, after finding out they were available on youtube. The others were Love and Duty (1931) and Little Toys aka Playthings (1933). They're all good, with this one probably being the one I've liked best so far, tough Little Toys is close. I think Ruan Lingyu's personal screen presence comes out best in The Goddess, of the three I've seen, and this is the one where it's easiest to see why she became an iconic figure in Chinese cinema. There's one more of hers on youtube, New Woman (1935), that I intend to see before watching Centre Stage.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 26, 2024 11:01:11 GMT -5
Take Shelter (2011) isn't old enough to be a classic but it's not exactly a new movie either, so...
The film received many accolades, and I must say that it is an intelligent, chilling, very believable study on a man's descent into schizophrenia. It is also a touching tableau of a loving family, and really feels like a grown-up movie. The story dances between reality and hallucination with great elegance, in that it's not always easy to determine which is which; are we witnessing real events, is it a hallucination, is it a metaphor? The uncertainty was a great way to keep viewers on the edge of their seat without resorting to any shocking effect.
All the actors do a stupendous job and the direction is excellent. So why do you feel that a "but" is coming?
I saw praise lavished on the supposedly ambiguous ending, but on that point I must disagree completely. There's no ambiguity there, and I think that the end almost kills the rest of the film. Seriously, I either need someone to explain things to me or go on thinking that the end was a blunder.
Recommended, except for the last few minutes. Which is, admittedly, a better score than Game of Thrones.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 28, 2024 21:59:41 GMT -5
Just finished watching the 1978 version of The Thirty-Nine Steps, starring Robert Powell. This is not the classic Alfred Hitchcock version, done in 1935, but directed by Don Sharp, but bears far closer resemblance to the original John Buchan novel. Also appearing in the film are Sir John Mills, David Warner, Timothy West, Eric Porter, George Baker and Karen Dotrice. There is a slight change to the story, with the addition of Dotrice's character, as a love interest and the climax is at the clockface of Big Ben, rather than London Palladium, as in the 1935 film, or a private seaside villa, in Kent, as in the novel. Also, Dotrice's character does not appear in the novel. There is also a scene of Powel, as Richard Hannay, the hero, attacked by a man in an airplane, which was an homage to North By Northwest (as the clockface was an homage to My Learned Friend (and Harold lloyd's Safety Last!).
The film is quite good, in its own right, Hitchcock or no Hitchcock, and is beautifully shot, full of intrigue, a great cast and nice action scenes. Powell is compelling as the mining engineer Hannay, who gets pulled into the world of intrigue by spy Scudder (Mills) who is investigating a conspiracy, revolving around Prussia and its agents, who kill a couple of senior people involved in the Ministry of Defence, as well as Scudder. he leaves a notebook, with the words 39 steps in it, with Hannay. Scudder is killed when he tries to meet up with Hannay, at the train station, and Hannay is blamed, as witnesses see him with his hand on the knife that stabbed him. The enemy agents steal him away from the police, interrogate him and then he escapes and heads for Scotland, leading to a long chase and disguises, as well as an escape from a health clinic, from a train being searched by police, and through woods.
Don Sharp was an Australian who directed several British film productions, particularly action-oriented films, including The Face of Fu Manchu (with Christopher Lee and Nigle Green), The Four Feathers (remake), the film version of the Edward Woodward spy series Callan, Those Fantastic Flying Fools (aka Blast Off! and Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon) and Kiss of the Vampire. This fits right in with Face of Fu Manchu and Brides of Fu Manchu, the second in the series, also directed by Sharp, which are set in the early teens or 20s, while this is pre-WW1 1914. Nice pulp adventure and spy intrigue.
I knew there was something vaguely familiar about Dotrice's name and something about her eyes and nose, and in looking at her resume, on IMDB, I discovered that she had been Jane Banks, in Disney's Mary Poppins.
The film also spawned a tv series, with Powell, as Hannay in adventures before the film's period, which lasted for two series/seasons.
Watching it, I was reminded of the episode "Whinfrey's Last Case," from Michael Palin and Terry Jones' comedy series Ripping Yarns. Whinfrey is a government agent, in the early 20th Century, which sugegsts that Buchan's hero, Hannay, and others, like Bulldog Drummond, from adventure novels and Boys Own.
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Post by GoldenAge Heroes! on Feb 3, 2024 11:56:08 GMT -5
It's hardly a classic film to me, but I just saw Hard Target last night, that I haven't seen in, at least 15 or more yrs. Forgot how good it was and how cool and good of a job Van Damme did. The action is just slamming. Mabie Woo at his best on that front. Hard to believe it's over 30 yrs old at this point. Man alive.
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Post by GoldenAge Heroes! on Feb 3, 2024 14:03:06 GMT -5
Watched "Angels In The Outfield"(1994) While a cute movie overall, it's very saccharine, almost intentionally so. Kind of wanted to rewatch it after not seeing it since I was a kid. Was kind of surprised to notice that there's a young Adrian Brody and Matthew McConaughey in it. Did not know that it was a very loose remake of the 1951 film "Angels And The Pirates" (owned by Turner, which explains rather clearly why it's not apart of the Disney Plus service) I remember loving that movie in theaters back in the day. Love too see it again. Be a fun night. Thanx for posting, now I have something to look up.
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