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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2015 19:40:29 GMT -5
I haven't seen these 4 Boris Karloff movies yet! ... I really want to see The Atomic Submarine so badly! That's been on my list of movies to see for years. Only the 2 horror films starred Boris. The SF films did not. Did Karloff ever do a true SF film besides Frankenstein? My tiredness prevents me from looking it up in IMDB but I'm sure someone here will provide the answer. The Invisible Ray (1936) The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) The Ape (1940) Before I Hang (1940) Black Friday (1940) Here's the 5 films that I know of that Boris Karloff did in the 30's and 40's ... I have seen Black Friday (just vaguely and can't seem to recall it) ... For what I heard from others - the two films in 1936 are excellent. This is all that I can help you!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2015 0:02:33 GMT -5
Inviting your nominations for best female fight in a movie.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 8, 2015 0:35:04 GMT -5
Inviting your nominations for best female fight in a movie. All The Marbles about the female wrestling business starring Peter Falk as a wrestling manager
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 8, 2015 10:48:08 GMT -5
Inviting your nominations for best female fight in a movie. Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 8, 2015 11:02:21 GMT -5
If you meant female vs. female only, I'd submit the one-sided destruction of Miss Trunchbull by Matilda in Matilda.
If inter-gender fights are included, there are many obvious ones, like Black Widow vs. her captors and Sigourney Weaver vs. loads of aliens, but I would submit for your consideration two: Maureen O'Hara vs. John Wayne in McLintock! and Maureen O'Hara vs.terrorist hijackers in Only the Lonely.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 8, 2015 12:13:30 GMT -5
I watched the 1977 Island of Dr Moreau with Burt Lancaster and Michael York (of whose voice I immediately recognized from Batman TAS) a few nights ago and enjoyed it fairly well. I think the ending seemed a bit condensed. It seemed in like the last 20 minutes of the movie, all that had been laid out the previous one hour plus was just mad chaos. I haven't read Well's novel so I don't know if the pacing was accurate to the novel's but it seemed a bit rushed and not much to a point, other than effing with nature gets you it's wrath. But very enjoyable on most all other fronts. I don't think I've seen York in anything but he did a great job in the movie, especially after Moreau experimented on him.
Would anyone reccomend the 1996 version with Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer? Was it just remade for better special effects, or was it a good take on the novel in it's own right?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 8, 2015 12:49:14 GMT -5
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) Not quite a classic yet but a true and moving story. A French magazine editor suffers a stroke and is completely paralyzed with the exception of one eye that can blink. He is fully conscious and aware of what is happening to him at the hospital where he is being cared for. Most of the film is shot through his perspective from his one eye and you're able to hear his thoughts. A method of communication is worked out and he begins to dictate a book about his life and struggles. A well done film and Golden Globes winner of Best Foreign Film of the Year
Airport (1970) The movie inspiration for the hilarious Airplane parodies. Also the film that kicked off the Catastrophe Film Trend (Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, Earthquake et al) of the 1970s with large all star casts and their personal side stories dealing with a major disaster. Burt Lancaster is the general manager of a Chicago airport in the midst of the snow storm of the decade. His wife is threatening to leave him because he works too many hours. Burt contacts Joe (George Kennedy) Patroni to help clear the runways ("They don't call them emergencies anymore. They call them Patronies"). Dean Martin is the pilot who has knocked up his favorite stewardess, Jacqueline Bisset. Helen Hayes is the little old lady that knows how to sneak on airplanes for free trips. Oh yes, Van Heflin is carrying a bomb on board so he can bequeath insurance money to his wife Maureen Stapleton.
I actually enjoyed this movie. I think its one of Dean Martin's best acting roles-better than his Matt Helm spy flicks or western bits and certainly better than his films with Jerry Lewis. I'm gonna push my luck and dive into the sequels. You only live once
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Post by dupersuper on Jul 8, 2015 19:38:41 GMT -5
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) Not quite a classic yet but a true and moving story. A French magazine editor suffers a stroke and is completely paralyzed with the exception of one eye that can blink. He is fully conscious and aware of what is happening to him at the hospital where he is being cared for. Most of the film is shot through his perspective from his one eye and you're able to hear his thoughts. A method of communication is worked out and he begins to dictate a book about his life and struggles. A well done film and Golden Globes winner of Best Foreign Film of the Year I quite like the book...especially knowing how it was written.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 9, 2015 14:13:07 GMT -5
Airport '75
A 747 takes off for L.A. On board are a bunch of drunken friends (Jerry Stiller, Norman Fell & Conrad Janis). Myrna Loy joins in by guzzling boilermakers. Sid Caesar is watching the in-flight film intently because he has a small part in it. Linda (The Exorcist) Blair is wheeled on board in route to a kidney transplant in California. Helen (I Am Woman) Reddy is a nun who plays guitar and sings to the ailing Linda. Gloria Swanson plays herself and regales the passengers with tales of when she flew with Orville Wright. Your crew consists of pilot Efrem (The FBI) Zimbalist Jr, Roy (The Invaders) Thinnes and Erik (Chips) Estrada. Karen Black is the head stewardess.
Suddenly a private plane crashes into the 747 taking out the crew. Charlton Heston tries to instruct Karen Black over the radio on how to fly the airliner. George (Joe Patroni) Kennedy returns from the first Airport movie, having been promoted to operations manager and is freaking out because his wife and child are on that plane. Larry (F Troop) Storch is the TV news reporter waiting for the big crash and huge ratings to follow
Lord have mercy- so much suspense and so many stars. I haven't even mentioned Sharon (Cagney and Lacey) Gless or Dana Andrews
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Post by Farrar on Jul 9, 2015 14:54:36 GMT -5
Airport '75... Lord have mercy- so much suspense and so many stars... I'll say! The huge cast even includes Heston's erstwhile POTA co-star Linda Harrison--credited as "Augusta Summerland."
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Post by Farrar on Jul 9, 2015 15:01:19 GMT -5
Airport (1970) The movie inspiration for the hilarious Airplane parodies. Also the film that kicked off the Catastrophe Film Trend (Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, Earthquake et al) of the 1970s with large all star casts and their personal side stories dealing with a major disaster. Burt Lancaster is the general manager of a Chicago airport in the midst of the snow storm of the decade. His wife is threatening to leave him because he works too many hours. A thankless role--the talented and lovely Jean Seberg deserved better. I think its one of Dean Martin's best acting roles-better than his Matt Helm spy flicks or western bits and certainly better than his films with Jerry Lewis. I agree, this was one of Dino's better film performances!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2015 1:19:34 GMT -5
Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers (1956) It Came From Outer Space (1953) Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)
Saw these three movies on Turner Classic Movies tonight and they are all gems. Everyone of them is a great classic and will stand the test of time. My favorite of the 3 movies tonight is the DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL that has Micheal Rennie in it's starring role as Klaatu. I haven't seen this movie for quite a while and it was a treat seeing it again tonight.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jul 10, 2015 10:24:57 GMT -5
The other night found She Wore a Yellow Ribbon on TCM, followed by North By Northwest. I hadn't seen She Wore a Yellow Ribbon before and was pleasantly surprised. Not your usual western. John Wayne wasn't gleefully mowing down Indians, he was actively trying to avoid all-out war between the cavalry and the natives. His solution to preventing the war was ingenious. An evening of TV that was well worthwhile.
North By Northwest, was, of course, great as always, though it's responsible for my uneasiness whenever a small plane flies low overhead...
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 10, 2015 12:04:33 GMT -5
The other night found She Wore a Yellow Ribbon on TCM, followed by North By Northwest. I hadn't seen She Wore a Yellow Ribbon before and was pleasantly surprised. Not your usual western. John Wayne wasn't gleefully mowing down Indians, he was actively trying to avoid all-out war between the cavalry and the natives. His solution to preventing the war was ingenious. An evening of TV that was well worthwhile.
North By Northwest, was, of course, great as always, though it's responsible for my uneasiness whenever a small plane flies low overhead... If you haven't seen them, you should probably watch the other two of John Ford's cavalry "trilogy". She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, followed Fort Apache and preceded Rio Grande. While not technically a true trilogy they're thematically related and all star John Wayne with John Ford directing. And all three are very good films.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2015 12:12:37 GMT -5
North By Northwest, was, of course, great as always, though it's responsible for my uneasiness whenever a small plane flies low overhead...
I did not watch it that day, but I've seen it about a dozen times already and everytime I see it - I get a new appreciation for it.
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