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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 25, 2015 17:15:27 GMT -5
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) A Disney animated feature. Totally predictable, by the book, one dimensional characters, and compared to my recently watched Pixar Monsters Inc. a total bore.
I read that the design for that film was supposed to be inspired by the work of Mike Mignola. I must admit that it really didn't strike me. I saw Angel Heart (1987) yesterday. Still a pretty good mystery set in the 50s, and Robert de Niro makes a convincing Lucifer... but I admit that the film loses a lot when you know what the ending is. Mickey Rourke surprised me by how young he looks in this film, and he creates a very convincing character. I like "devil" stories in the vein of Rosemary's baby, the omen, Alice or the last escapade and the ninth gate, in which characters are caught in a supernatural web from which there's no escape.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 25, 2015 18:10:30 GMT -5
Watched Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome last night with Connor. It had been a LONG time since I last saw it and I'd forgotten how incredibly mid-80s it is. Not completely unenjoyable, but dated and easily the weakest of the four films. You could absolutely tell that George Miller lost interest part-way through.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 27, 2015 14:45:09 GMT -5
The Karate Kid (1984)
Young teen Ralph Macchio has just moved into a new neighborhood to join the Marvel Bullpen as an assistant editor. He gets on the wrong side of Big Jim Shooter, who along with the other editors, beats the snot out of Ralph. Only Larry Hama sympathizes with Ralphie and takes on the responsibility of teaching the youngster how to defend himself. At first the training seems pointless, days and days of erasing pencil marks. Days and days of photo stating. But these exercises actually build Ralphie's hand-eye responses and gains for him arm muscle strength. In the mean time, Ralph tries to impress Marie Severin, former Jim Shooter girlfriend. Finally comes the day that Ralph and Big Jim Shooter face off with Stan Lee as the referee. Ralph wins and Shooter leaves to work for Valiant comics
The remake of recent years was pretty good and faithful to the original except its in Japan and there's something about hanging up your jacket
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 27, 2015 14:49:40 GMT -5
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) Susan Haywood
Good alchoholic movie about the real-life story of Broadway chanteuse Lillian Roth. Lillian is pushed into show business by an overbearing stage mother. After the sudden death of her childhood boyfriend/ husband to be, Lillian finds solace in the bottle in order to continue to perform on stage. The results are what you would expect. See Eddie Albert as an AA sponsor before he moves to Green Acres to shack up with Arnold The Pig.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 27, 2015 15:48:19 GMT -5
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) Susan Haywood Good alchoholic movie about the real-life story of Broadway chanteuse Lillian Roth. Lillian is pushed into show business by an overbearing stage mother. After the sudden death of her childhood boyfriend/ husband to be, Lillian finds solace in the bottle in order to continue to perform on stage. The results are what you would expect. See Eddie Albert as an AA sponsor before he moves to Green Acres to shack up with Arnold The Pig. Here's the real Lillian Roth in a clip from a 1930s movie:
It's safe for work, but just barely.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 28, 2015 15:26:39 GMT -5
Ikiru (1952) Directed by Akira Kurasawa
A petty bureaucrat learns that he has terminal stomach cancer and about 6 months to live. All his life he worked a meaningless job, saved his money and never enjoyed himself. He tries to find some meaning in the time that renains for him.
You'd think this 150 minute long film would sink into turgid morbidity and yet it dosen't. Kurasawa and the actors kept my attention and the movie flew by. Realistic and many visually powerful scenes. Don't want to reveal too much to you. From the Criterion Collection on disc
The Innocents (1961) Deborah Kerr
A Victorian, gothic supernatural tale adapted from "The Turn Of The Screw" by Henry James with a screenplay by truman Capote A governess is hired to care for 2 young children on a huge isolated manor. The former caretakers have died of mysterious means and possibly haunting the house and influencing the children. Decent enough and very well mannered
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Post by berkley on Jul 28, 2015 23:24:34 GMT -5
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) A Disney animated feature. Totally predictable, by the book, one dimensional characters, and compared to my recently watched Pixar Monsters Inc. a total bore.
I read that the design for that film was supposed to be inspired by the work of Mike Mignola. I must admit that it really didn't strike me. I saw Angel Heart (1987) yesterday. Still a pretty good mystery set in the 50s, and Robert de Niro makes a convincing Lucifer... but I admit that the film loses a lot when you know what the ending is. Mickey Rourke surprised me by how young he looks in this film, and he creates a very convincing character. I like "devil" stories in the vein of Rosemary's baby, the omen, Alice or the last escapade and the ninth gate, in which characters are caught in a supernatural web from which there's no escape. I like those too, though I haven't seen any for a long time. Can you come up with a list of your top ten, if there are that many good ones? The last couple of decent ones can remember seeing are Warlock from the late 80s-early 90s - kind of a B-movie elevated to something better than average by a great over the top performance from Julian Sands - and Prophecy, with Christopher Walken, from the mid 90s. Checking wiki, I see both of those films engendered multiple sequels, none of which I've seen. Anyone know if they're worth a look?
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Post by batlaw on Jul 29, 2015 0:20:44 GMT -5
I read that the design for that film was supposed to be inspired by the work of Mike Mignola. I must admit that it really didn't strike me. I saw Angel Heart (1987) yesterday. Still a pretty good mystery set in the 50s, and Robert de Niro makes a convincing Lucifer... but I admit that the film loses a lot when you know what the ending is. Mickey Rourke surprised me by how young he looks in this film, and he creates a very convincing character. I like "devil" stories in the vein of Rosemary's baby, the omen, Alice or the last escapade and the ninth gate, in which characters are caught in a supernatural web from which there's no escape. I like those too, though I haven't seen any for a long time. Can you come up with a list of your top ten, if there are that many good ones? The last couple of decent ones can remember seeing are Warlock from the late 80s-early 90s - kind of a B-movie elevated to something better than average by a great over the top performance from Julian Sands - and Prophecy, with Christopher Walken, from the mid 90s. Checking wiki, I see both of those films engendered multiple sequels, none of which I've seen. Anyone know if they're worth a look? Remember seeing warlock in the theater. Liked it quite a bit at the time. As a utah I Loved the use of the salt flats. I don't remember anything specific about the sequel other than it was a cheap B dtv sequel. I totally loved prophecy. Really underrated movie. It was slightly ahead of its time imo. I still have all three on video tape. The sequel was surprisingly good too. The third one was good, especially with Walkens return. However it wasn't as good as the first two and mainly suffered from an obviously even lower budget. Definately check out the second prophecy if none of the others. You shouldn't be disappointed if you liked the first one and can look past the low budget.
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Post by batlaw on Jul 29, 2015 0:25:10 GMT -5
To follow the theme, how about the "Devils Advocate"? Keanu Reaves and Al Pacino. Thought it was a pretty good movie.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 29, 2015 10:42:38 GMT -5
On Prophecy I enjoyed the first three to a certain degree. They weren't all the caliber if the first but Walken's always gave a quality performance. But if you enjoyed the first one the concepts and continuing story stay strong in the next two sequels. I haven't seen the last two. But if I remember right Doug Bradley has a prominent role in the fourth one. But Walken is not in it.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 29, 2015 11:36:30 GMT -5
Reflections In A Golden Eye (1967) Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith
Its 1967, LSD and psychedelic hippydom is sweeping the nation during the summer of love. Sgt. Pepper is playing, the Vietnam war is escalating, civil rights protests are getting bigger and this movie weirdly fits right in
Marlon Brando is a stiff army major teaching at a military academy and possibly a repressed gay man Elizabeth Taylor is his wife-horney, vivacious and can't stand Marlon Brian Keith-a Lt Col. at the academy, friend of Marlon's, having an affair with Elizabeth Julie Harris- Brian's Keith's neurotic wife, who after her breakdown over the death of her young daughter, clipped her nipples off with a pair of garden shears Robert Forster- a private at the academy, a loner and creepy stalker obsessed with Elizabeth Taylor. He likes to go horseback riding in the nude and sneak into Liz's bedroom in the middle of the night to smell her underwear Zorro David- Plays Brian Keith's gay Pilipino houseboy
I can't make this up
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jul 29, 2015 11:41:46 GMT -5
Reflections In A Golden Eye (1967) Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith Its 1967, LSD and psychedelic hippydom is sweeping the nation during the summer of love. Sgt. Pepper is playing, the Vietnam war is escalating, civil rights protests are getting bigger and this movie weirdly fits right in Marlon Brando is a stiff army major teaching at a military academy and possibly a repressed gay man Elizabeth Taylor is his wife-horney, vivacious and can't stand Marlon Brian Keith-a Lt Col. at the academy, friend of Marlon's, having an affair with Elizabeth Julie Harris- Brian's Keith's neurotic wife, who after her breakdown over the death of her young daughter, clipped her nipples off with a pair of garden shears Robert Forster- a private at the academy, a loner and creepy stalker obsessed with Elizabeth Taylor. He likes to go horseback riding in the nude and sneak into Liz's bedroom in the middle of the night to smell her underwear Zorro David- Plays Brian Keith's gay Pilipino houseboy I can't make this up But was it good?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 29, 2015 11:42:43 GMT -5
Meet The Robinsons (2007)
Disney animated feature of an orphaned inventor boy-genius and his time travel adventures
This is the brightest movie I've seen. As in the color spectrum. The pace is so fast that if something doesn't work, you're already on to the next thing. Think of Back To The Future at double speed. Still, a decent toon
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 29, 2015 11:44:40 GMT -5
Reflections In A Golden Eye (1967) Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith Its 1967, LSD and psychedelic hippydom is sweeping the nation during the summer of love. Sgt. Pepper is playing, the Vietnam war is escalating, civil rights protests are getting bigger and this movie weirdly fits right in Marlon Brando is a stiff army major teaching at a military academy and possibly a repressed gay man Elizabeth Taylor is his wife-horney, vivacious and can't stand Marlon Brian Keith-a Lt Col. at the academy, friend of Marlon's, having an affair with Elizabeth Julie Harris- Brian's Keith's neurotic wife, who after her breakdown over the death of her young daughter, clipped her nipples off with a pair of garden shears Robert Forster- a private at the academy, a loner and creepy stalker obsessed with Elizabeth Taylor. He likes to go horseback riding in the nude and sneak into Liz's bedroom in the middle of the night to smell her underwear Zorro David- Plays Brian Keith's gay Pilipino houseboy I can't make this up But was it good? C'mon-the way I broke it down, you know you want to see it.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 30, 2015 14:12:47 GMT -5
A Walk In The Sun (1945) Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland, Sterling Holloway, Huntz Hall
A movie that I've never heard much about and really, really impressed me. A war movie unlike any I've seen from this time period
A platoon of American soldiers land on an Italian beachhead. Their mission is to march 6 miles inland to a farmhouse and blow up a bridge. It is unknown as to what resistance they will meet. Their commanding officer is immediately killed as well by enemy fire.
The movie is pretty much all character driven with the banter of the soldiers as they march the 6 miles and the obstacles and fears they encounter. The dialogue is very much ahead of its time. This is not one of those rah-rah patriotic clichéd war films you usually see from the 1940s. An excellent cast of actors.
Now this movie is definitely amongst my top 10 list of war films of the 1940s
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