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Subject: Nasty Goes To The Movies

Posted by: nasty_liar
Date: Nov 29 12

What it says up there

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nasty_liar

I've watched loads since my last post... here goes...

Battle of the river plate 1956. Great footage of actual naval vessels but ultimately not a convincing story dramatically. Would have made for a better documentary than a film.

Educating Rita 1983. Julie Walters shines. Lovely film

The Program 2015. Poor dramatisation of the Lance Armstrong story, better to watch any of the documentaries that are out there.

Antz 1998 animation, I found some of this movie a little inappropriate for kids. When a character literally says the words "erotic dreams" then there's something amiss. It should be innuendo, not blatant.

King Kong 2005. Better than the 30's version but still too much mindless action like the original. Also too long, Peter Jackson should get a stronger willed editor on board.

Mrs Brown 1997. Judi Dench plays queen Victoria. Nice movie but not a classic.

Birth of the Dragon 2016. To call this a Bruce Lee biopic would be paying it too much of a compliment. Good Kung fu fights though.

Everest 2015. Based on a true story from 1996. Visually impressive and star studded. Worth a watch.

The Lunchbox 2013. Good study of loneliness in the backdrop of one of the most densely populated cities in the world, Mumbai.

Some Like It Hot 1959. I appreciate the talents of Lemmon, Curtis (Really like him) and Monroe. It's got a sharp script but I don't know whether it's an age thing but I barely laughed and it's supposed to be a comedy. Maybe it just doesn't translate to my generation.

Reply #461. Jun 18 20, 4:21 AM

nasty_liar

And there's more...

Stripes 1981. Bill Murray and Harold Ramis together are like magic and they're screen time together is a joy to watch but ultimately this spoof is pretty average stuff.

Suspicion 1941. Hitchcock cooks up a great thriller here. Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine star. Very enjoyable. You just have to ignore the fact that Joan Fontaine's character essentially falls for someone who harasses and stalks her at the start of the movie!

WALL-E 2008. Possibly the best animated movie I've ever seen. Incredible visual story telling, much of the movie doesn't have dialogue. Is also truly beautiful. This is a must see.

The Warrior 2001. I guess Irrfan Khan drew me to this since he's impressed me so much in The Lunchbox. This has some interesting moments but I felt a bit more from the protagonist was needed. Probably skip this.

The Empire Strikes Back 1980. Almost perfect movie of it's type, only Han Solo harassing and forcing himself on a Leia who is repeatedly telling him no is a little jarring in this day and age. That is a small blemish on this iconic film. I've seen it countless times and I still enjoy it as much.

Paint Your Wagon 1969. Clint Eastwood sings. That's about it. This is a terrible movie, the final scenes are hilariously silly though. It just seems like everyone involved in this were trolling the audience.

The Lion King 1994. Good Disney.

The Lion King 2 1998. Good, straight to DVD, Disney

Suburbicon 2017. George Clooney trying to make a Coen Brothers script work for him with mixed results. Not great.

The Big Country 1958. Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston and Jean Simmons. Really enjoyed this. It's quite a long film but it flies by. Fantastic score and Burl Ives steals the show in his supporting role, he is awesome. My only criticism is how preachy it feels through Peck's character. It's kind of the anti-western western. Very good though.

She Wore a yellow Ribbon. 1949. I gave Fort Apache a lot of credit but this John Ford cavalry film is not good at all to me.

Remember the Titans. 2000. Decent Disney effort at portraying racism and America coming out of segregation. Probably I enjoyed it more too because it's a sports movie and I have a soft spot for those.

Internal Affairs. 1990. Richard Gere and Andy Garcia in a film about police corruption! It's ok but by the end I think both leads are so grimy that I've almost lost interest.

Reply #462. Jun 18 20, 4:46 AM

terraorca

Opinions not shared by all.

Reply #463. Jun 18 20, 6:52 AM

nasty_liar

Obviously!

Reply #464. Jun 18 20, 10:06 AM

nasty_liar

Another month, another shed load of movies...

Going to do something different:
What I thought of these movies that I had never seen before:

Karate Kid and the Ipcress File were good (in fact the Ipcress File was really good)

Invincible, 99 Homes, Lion King (2019), Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, What Doesn't Kill you, Ice Station Zebra, The Lady In The Van and The History Boys were all average to fair.

Our Idiot Brother, The Blair Witch Project, Passengers, Wagon Master were all fairly poor.

My opinion of these movies that I had seen previously:

The Magnificent Seven, Philomena, Slumdog Millionaire, Return of the Jedi, Back to the Future, Back to the Future part 2, 3:10 to Yuma, Wimbledon, Lion King 1 and a half, Selma and 12 Years a Slave were all good or excellent.

Borg vs McEnroe, War of the Worlds (Spielberg version), East is East were all average to fair.

Reply #465. Jul 15 20, 7:34 AM

nasty_liar

The Big Lebowski last night!

Brilliant!

Reply #466. Jul 16 20, 3:37 AM

nasty_liar

I wrote 290 reviews on the website 'Letterboxd' in 2020.

Not sure I'm supposed to link another site here. If there's anyone interested enough then PM me for my username (I don't use Nasty Liar these days).

Reply #467. Jan 06 21, 12:49 PM

nasty_liar

A movie watching week in lockdown....

Started with Gunfight at the OK Corral from 1957. Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas starring. It was fairly good but not a highlight of my recent tour of 40's, 50's and 60's westerns. Kirk Douglas gets more interesting things to play in this one as the filmmaker seems to have been very hot on the mystique of Doc Holliday.

Then I jumped into the eighties to watch Superman III from 1983. I've been fascinated revisiting the Christopher Reeve Superman movies at how lighthearted and wacky they were but this installment takes the biscuit. In the first scene there is a farcical scene full of slapstick and ending with a pie in face! That sets the tone but it is an enjoyable movie.

Next I jumped into 'The Trench' from 1999. It's a claustrophobic WW1 film that follows a platoon through the days leading up to the Battle of the Somme. Very effective and starring Daniel Craig who gives a performance better than any other I have seen from him.

I jumped back to 1979 for the best film I've watched in the last week. Escape From Alcatraz starring Clint Eastwood. Don Siegel directs this excellent prison break movie based on the true story of Frank Morris. Superbly atmospheric and the tension rises and rises towards the end of the movie without the need for any melodrama either from the actors or created by the score. It's the second time I'd seen this and enjoyed it just as much if not more than the first time.

Then I jumped onto the couch with the kids to watch the Disney animation Tangled from 2010. This is one of my favourite Disneys, and incidentally, the most expensive animated movie ever made (still). It's a modern Disney princess story with great music, funny dialogue and a really nice story. We've watched this one countless times.

Draft Day from 2014 was a rather dull interlude. A Kevin Costner sports movie, who'd have thought it? It follows Costner's manager character through a fictional NFL draft.

From the same year I then picked Gone Girl starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. This is really quite a good mystery thriller. Pike is great. Lots of twists and turns, changes of pace half way through as we are clued into what is going on. It works well.

Last night I went back for the final installment of my Superman run, Superman IV: the quest for peace. Awful movie. Sad way for Christopher Reeve to bow out of his red cape. Luckily with a short run time (mercifully I'd say) I had time to stick on an Oscar winner from a couple of years ago.

Green Book (2018) was my final stop. Lovely road movie about the friendship that develops between musician Don Shirley, played by Mahershala Ali, and his driver played by Viggo Mortensen. Some great scenes in a feel good movie.

And that's it! A week in the locked down life of me.

Reply #468. Feb 06 21, 6:02 AM

Mixamatosis

Nasty Liar, I saw your post about 'Some Like it Hot' saying you barely laughed. My family has always enjoyed that film and we've seen it several times but recently it was the first time my daughter has seen it and she was also impressed and amused. I can't understand why anyone would not find it funny, but then we're all individuals with individual tastes.

I've recently watched 'The Dig' which I thought was good - so many little themes going on in that film. Also I used to dig on archaeological sites myself when I was younger - once with a supervisor with the same unusual surname as the leading character in the film. It's based on a book which is based on real events but there are some fictional aspects to it.

Reply #469. Feb 09 21, 10:54 AM

nasty_liar

Thanks Mix.

Yes I wasn't particularly amused, that's not to say I didn't enjoy it necessarily though. I really like Tony Curtis whenever I see him. I enjoyed how well it was put together. Structured superbly with great dialogue but if it doesn't make me laugh it doesn't make me laugh haha! I likened it to a better written version of Carry On... maybe if I saw it on another day? Who knows.

On Saturday I watched the 1970 epic "Waterloo" starring Christopher Plummer. It's a remarkable spectacle the likes of which will never be recreated on film except using CGI. They used 17,000 Soviet troops including a Cavalry regiment in the recreation of Waterloo which took up the second half of the film. Fantastic.

Rod Steiger is a very dialled up Napoleon and Plummer is Lord Wellington. I enjoyed both performances. My favourite line being Wellington as he surveyed the site of battle afterwards with dead or injured bodies and horses strewn all over he says, "Next to a battle lost, the saddest thing is a battle won."

RIP Christopher Plummer, he passed away last week.

Reply #470. Feb 10 21, 9:44 AM

nasty_liar

By the way, sorry, didn't mean to ignore you're comment about The Dig.

Sounds interesting, I will give it a watch sometime soon. My mother said it was quite good. Always interesting to rekindle an old interest through a movie too...

Reply #471. Feb 10 21, 9:46 AM

C30

The Dig I would highly recommend as a "film with a difference"....but I am a bit biased as I have connections with the event depicted.
One of the people invited in reality to view the site whilst work ongoing, was my mother.
I lived briefly, a few miles from the site, at Felixstowe Ferry on mouth of River Deben.

Recently watched "Glory".............quite a good film and fairly accurate..........but to level the playing field a bit, in reality the Union attackers outnumbered the Confederate defenders 5-1.

Also re-watched "The Cruel Sea", filmed in 1953, it is still IMO one of the most realistic and best films of WW2 sea warfare.

Reply #472. Feb 10 21, 11:29 AM

nasty_liar

Glory is on my radar, never seen it.

The Cruel Sea is a masterful film. I watched it last year for the first time, magnificent. The only film (that I've seen) of the genre that rivals it, in my opinion, was Das Boot.

Always like Jack Hawkins though, he was in Waterloo too but with a smallish role. He played Picton I think.

Reply #473. Feb 10 21, 1:19 PM

C30

Correct about Jack Hawkins playing Sir Thomas Picton..........btw my next door neighbour is Graham Picton, who claims to be decendant of General Picton. Whether he is or isn't, no idea, but I used to be surrounded by famous names, because for years my next door neighbour on other side was Collette Chard (no idea if related to Lieutenant John Chard VC)

Agreed about Das Boot being up there with Cruel Sea.

Reply #474. Feb 10 21, 3:21 PM

nasty_liar

Rubbing shoulders with hearty bloodlines!

Recent movies

End of Watch from 2012. Buddy cop movie about LA cops played by Jake Gyllenhal and Michael Peña filmed half in found footage style and half conventional. I didn't not think it was quite as good as when I saw it at the cinema but still a good film.

Sharpe's Rifles from 1993. First installment of the excellent TV movie series starring Sean Bean. Love, love, love this.

Penguin Bloom (2020). Weepy film based on a true story featuring an Aussie family who have to deal with a serious injury sustained by the mother played by Naomi Watts who becomes paralysed from the waist down. Andrew Lincoln also stars. The couple that the film is based on co-executive produced the movie so I think it holds plenty of truth. Sweet film.

Turbo 2013
Cartoon adventure, a snail becomes supercharged and enters the Indy 500. Silly but entertaining movie, great music and voice actors.

Peanut Butter Falcon 2019
Shia Labouef, Dakota Johnson, Bruce Dern and John Hawke all feature.
This movie depicts a man with Down syndrome who escapes the care home that he resides and goes on an unlikely adventure with a rascal type of guy. Think Rain Man for the dynamic and you wouldn't be far away from this story. It's really good actually, love all of the shots on the water and it is a heartwarming story.

Reply #475. Feb 11 21, 6:50 AM

scorpion1960

I watched an old very funny movie that is still funny and completely non PC. Mel brooks at his funniest. Blazing Saddles.

Reply #476. Jan 11 22, 1:44 AM

nasty_liar

It’s still funny, great satire that goes totally bonkers towards the end doesn’t it with lots of breaking the fourth wall and such!

Sorry I don’t post here anymore but I use a film review site and don’t want to have to go to the effort of posting things twice.

Feel free to message if you want the link!

Films I’ve seen so far in 2022:
(* denotes a first time watch)
*It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
*West Side Story (1961)
*Portrait of a lady on fire (2019)
*20000 Leagues under the sea (1954)
*Save The Cinema (2022)
Transformers: The Movie (1986)
*Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959)
*Triumph (2021)
*A Star Is Born (1954)
Ant-Man (2015)
*Rope (1948)
Moneyball (2011)
*Fracture (2007)
*The Alpinist (2021) - this is a documentary film

Reply #477. Jan 28 22, 9:58 AM

nasty_liar

My friend loaned me a Hitchcock box set, I’m watching one each week.

In recent weeks I’ve watched Rope, Frenzy and The Birds.

What’s anyone else’s favourite Hitchcock?

I think mine is Vertigo from the ones I’ve seen so far.

Reply #478. Feb 08 22, 8:01 PM

scorpion1960

The birds is one of my favorites. Psycho is sick, but a really good scary movie.

Reply #479. Feb 09 22, 1:09 AM

nasty_liar

Ooh, not surprising!

My most recent watches have been a cinema trip to see a 50th anniversary showing of The Godfather. Great movie that I'd only seen once before.
The other one in the last week was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon but I've fallen asleep twice trying to finish that. No reflection on the quality of the film, just that I'm tired!

Reply #480. Mar 06 22, 2:40 AM

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