#954209 - Fri Dec 07 2012 09:08 AM
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The last movie I watched was Gus van Sant's Last Days. A film loosely based on the death of Kurt Cobain.
-Nam
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#954540 - Sun Dec 09 2012 02:01 AM
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For some good early Scott work, you might enjoy "Petulia" with Julie Christie. I know I enjoyed it. Not a great work but there's some good acting. And it has some Janis Joplin and Greatful Dead cameos.
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#954898 - Tue Dec 11 2012 08:09 AM
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"Seven Years in Tibet" - Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, B.D. Wong, Mako, Danny Denzongpa, Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk, Lhakpa Tsamchoe The film was enjoyable and had beautiful scenic vistas (mountains from all around the world)except for when Pitt let out his german version of an accent. Why? The character wasn't speaking English. A fair telling of the Chinese takeover of Tibet in the 40s.
"Little Shop of Horrors" - Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Steve Martin, Frank Gardenia, Jim Belushi, John Candy, Frank Oz (dir) A humorous take-off of the off Broadway hit musical based on the 2-day movie shoot by Roger Corman.
"Epic Movie" - Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge, Jayma Mays, Faune Chambers, Fred Willard. A spoof done as well as spoofs are done.
"Airplane II: The Sequel" - Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, William Shatner Some repeat jokes and scene re-uses but ohterwise a fair spoof of the original.
"The Adventures of Robin Hood" - Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains One of the first epics Action/Adventure films done in full color. A classic swashbuckler.
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#954900 - Tue Dec 11 2012 08:28 AM
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Posted watched movies in the thread as of 12/11/12 in order of posting. (Discussion posts not recorded.) A location can be approximated by the 33 postings. (On average, thirty-three titles per page) Sorry, there might not be quotemarks, italics or underlining employed and the single apostrophes must be included in copies then deleted and switched to quotes so I didn't change them either. Has anyone noticed using those single quote marks makes going to Wiki's search difficult because they aren't recognized or ignored?
1.Insomnia 2.War Horse 3.The Kids are Alright 4.Abraham Lincoln', Vampire Hunter 5.The Burning Plain 6.Where the Heart Is 7.My Cousin Rachel 8.The Tenth Man 9.Jesus Christ Superstar 10.Rebecca 11.K 19 - The Widowmaker 12.The Scout 13.Batman (version unstated) 14.The Reunion 15.The Condemned 16.12 Rounds 17.the Guard 18.The Avengers 19.Ironman 20.The Hulk 21.Captain America 22.London River 23.Das Boot 24.Pan's Labyrinth 25.Life is Beautiful 26.Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 27.Three Fugitives 28.BOTTLE SHOCK 29.DOSTANA 30.Summer Lovers 31.Splash 32.Thor 33.We Need To Talk About Kevin 34.The Manchurian Candidate, the Denzel Washington 35.The Birds 36.French Postcards 37.MY NAME IS KHAN 38.The Kingdom 39.Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing 40.Titus (Andronicus) 41.Boondock Saints 42.Fail Safe 43.The Descendents 44.The Private Life of Henry VIII 45.The Rainmaker 46.Battleship 47.The Princess Bride 48.Sweet and Lowdown 49.The Italian Job (remake) 50.In Bruges 51.Superman II 52.Superman III 53.Superman IV 54.Sixteen Candles 55.The Mask 56.Rent 57.the first seven "Hellraiser" films 58.Dangerous Liaisons 59.Young Adult 60.The original "Italian Job" 61.The Iron Lady 62.The Hustler 63.Dog Day Afternoon 64.Defendor 65.Wait until Dark 66.Paris, Texas 67.House of Games 68.The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 69.'The Book of Eli' 70.Take the Money and Run 71.Teen Witch 72.Matilda 73.Zombieland 74.'Shaun of the Dead' 75.'Up 76.'The Emperor's New Groove' 77.'Wall-E' 78.Serpico 79.Tremors 4 80.Frankenstein 81.Electoral Dysfunction 82.King of Kings 83.Sleeping Beauty 84.Star Odyssey 85.Prisoners of the Lost Universe 86.How to Steal a Million 87.True Blood 88.Objective Burma 89.Mystery Men 90.Quantum of Solace 91.The King's Speech 92.Melancholia 93."The Adventures of Don Juan" starring Errol Flynn 94.Billy Jack 95.Prey 96.Cabin in the Woods 97.How the Grinch Stole Christmas (not the animated one) 98.The Misfits 99.Sherlock Holmes (2011) 100.Some Like It Hot 101.Fargo 102.'Winter's Bone' 103.Anatomy of a Murder 104.Fire and Ice 105.'The Life of Pi' 106.'Dungeons and Dragons: The Book of Vile Darkness' 107.Marty 108.How Green Was My Valley 109.Purple Rain 110.Pirates of the Golden Age- 4 movie features 111.To Catch a Thief 112.Roman Holiday 113."Coonskin" (or "Street Fight") 114.The Exorcist 115.Rosemary's Baby 116.The Mothman Prophecies 117.Star Trek: Nemesis 118.Harvey 119."The Manchurian Candidate" the original 120.Skyfall 121.The Sons of Katie Elder 122.Last Days 123.Patton 124.Iron Sky 125.Seven Years in Tibet 126.Little Shop of Horrors 127.Epic Movie 128.Airplane II: The Sequel 129.The Adventures of Robin Hood - w/ Errol Flynn
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#955104 - Wed Dec 12 2012 02:18 PM
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Going over bonus material of the 65th Anniversary DVD of "The Adventures of Robin Hood", I came across this wonderful trivial tidbit: The horse ridden by Maid Marian (Olivia de Havilland) on her entrance in the caravan through Sherwood Forest was a Palomino that would later be owned by Roy Rogers and then known as Trigger! From the Legacy paragraph in the Wikipedia entry for the film: "Trigger (then named Golden Cloud) was the horse ridden by Olivia de Havilland in the film. Roy Rogers admired the horse so much that he bought Trigger to use in his own films. This eventually made Trigger one of the most famous animals in show business."
Another clip from the bonus shows a scene shot later - to fill exposition and sync it with the visual tale - required Flynn and Patric Knowles (Will Scarlet) to enter Sherwood in the opening scenes. The clip was in the bonus material to point out that the scene was shot in a different location (Warner Ranch) than all the other filming. But the scene clearly shows that Knowles is riding the Palomino later ridden by de Havilland. The scene ends with the two horses, side by side, jumping synchronously over a fallen log which represented the edge of the forest. Seems Trigger was ridden by both de Havilland and Knowles in the film. There are two or three other scenes showing a Palomino being ridden by other horsemen in various scenes. My final review of the film felt like a Where's Waldo exercise looking for that Golden Cloud to flash on the screen.
Edited by mehaul (Fri Dec 14 2012 11:36 PM)
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#955154 - Wed Dec 12 2012 04:44 PM
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Last night I saw “Fatal Reunion.” I first saw it a year ago—then, over the summer, I saw a different [older, I think] version. That day in summer, I didn’t even watch the rest—but the one last night was the version I liked, so I watched to the end.
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#955203 - Wed Dec 12 2012 06:23 PM
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There are some good movies in that list. Yes, indeed! And yesterday I saw "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." Now I remember why it's my favorite Star Trek movie; it's the most like the original series, and everybody still looks likes themselves (and Shatner is still handsome). And it is more like what sci-fi used to be; not action-adventure-fantasy in space but really science fiction. Tonight I'm watching a strange little movie from the 1940s called "Flight From Destiny". A dying professor plots the murder of a woman who is ruining his friends' marriage, because of his theory of socially necessary murder.
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#955209 - Wed Dec 12 2012 07:33 PM
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"Chico and Rita" ... one of those I expected to be mostly indifferent about, but got happily rewarded when I completely enjoyed it. And ended up watching it twice! Insanely fine music and incredible animation, too.
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#955954 - Mon Dec 17 2012 09:52 AM
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Over the weekend, saw two films which I’d watched before, but missed the beginning or end (or both). First: “Taken From Me,” about a woman whose ex-husband gets her permission to take their son on vacation to Florida, when his real plans are to abduct the boy and take him to another country, then make all sorts of claims about what an unfit mother she is. The second movie was “The Elizabeth Smart Story,” which is the one where I missed the beginning (and, subsequently, lost interest). That’s why I made sure to watch it closely this time). I was reminded, the first time I watched, of a book I had read in which the villain said something similar (if not the exact line). Both films, I found, were pretty easy for me to follow the story line,and the portrayal of emotion was very realistic, not overly done.
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#956342 - Wed Dec 19 2012 10:45 AM
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"Hollow Man" (2000) with Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue and Josh Brolin. The story sets the exposition of how a modern day invisible man is made and some bit of a story of the troubles it brings him. Done by Paul Verhoeven, master of modern cinematic techniques, there are few scenes without digital participation. The scenes of becoming in- and visible are quite stunning.
"Hollow Man 2" (2006) with Christian Slater, Peter Facinelli, Laura Regan is the direct to DVD sequel produced by Verhoeven. Once he figured out where costly effects were not required to tell the invisible man story, he put this together. It is a good story, with just enough visual effects added to convince the viewer of the activities of the unseen.
Also beginning in 2000 there was a Sci-Fi Channel series called "The Invisible Man" which ran for two seasons that relied on the same digital image manipulations (sans the gory transition phases) as the first Hollow Man. It was an amusing look at what a government agent may encounter using his abilities. In this vehicle it was played that the government saw not much advantage to the ability and relegated the operation to a backwater agency.
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#957009 - Sun Dec 23 2012 02:04 AM
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"Rock of Ages" Whoops ... there went 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back  . The music was a rather fun trip down memory lane and recalling that we really DID walk around with that much hair on our heads back then was worth a giggle, but the script was painfully bad and the love story just didn't feel right, at least not to me. And I refer to the love story between the two young singers, not the one between Russell Brand and Alec Baldwin (?). The latter coupling didn't feel right either, of course, but that was because they were both so annoying. It's pretty telling, and kinda scary, when the following statement sums up a movie being watched at my house: Tom Cruise was the best thing in it?! Ugh.
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#957032 - Sun Dec 23 2012 05:48 AM
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lol! (But surely the inclusion of Russell Brand was a tell-tale sign that it would be bad?)
"Still of the Night"
Oh, this film is so tantalising! One moment brilliant and intriguing, the next bizarrely boring and switch-offable. It's a psychological thriller, but really it's like a pale version of a Hitchcock film. It should have been a classic but something was wrong and I cannot decide what.
Perhaps it was Roy Scheider - he seemed a bit wooden. & The plot was a bit confused. It reminded me of a "choose your own adventure" story in that it was full of twists (great) but I felt that not all the twists and turns linked up with each other. Meryl Streep was her usual Meryl Streepness of good, even if a bit hammy at times.
All that said, I enjoyed it! Worth watching if there's nothing else on.
From wiki:
"---When Streep appeared on the Bravo talk show, "Watch What Happens Live," in August, 2012, host Andy Cohen asked her to “Name one bad film that you have made.” Streep replied, “Still of the Night.” “What was that about?” asked Cohen. Streep replied, “Never mind.”---"
Of course, if you are the fabulous Meryl Streep a "bad" film might be what anyone else would call an okay one.
Incidentally, following on from Mehaul's observation that Joe E Brown and William H Macy were separated at birth, Roy Scheider was born to play Groucho Marx!
Edited by Chavs (Sun Dec 23 2012 08:08 AM)
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