Saturday Evening Movie Thread 05-20-2017 [Hosted By: TheJamesMadison]

Forgotten, but Still Loved

We all have them, those movies that we adore but no one else seems to have even heard of. These are the movies that we marvel at every time we watch them, and marvel even more at the people who have forgotten their existence.

You recommend it to everyone no matter what, and the fact that you can’t seem to actually find anyone who’s seen the movie before is just flummoxing. “How?” you wonder.
Well, here’s a forum for bringing some of them to light. We’ll start with a few of mine.

Chimes at Midnight

The first time I heard of this movie was in relation to Gangs of New York. Martin Scorsese had built the opening battle scene in the same way (framings and cuts that reflected the chaos of battle) that Orson Welles had built the Battle of Shrewsbury in Chimes at Midnight as an homage.

(Content Warning for Violence below)

Like every movie Welles made after Citizen Kane, this was mangled on its way to release. Like most of his movies, he made it over time and with almost no money. He had even tried to bring it to the stage a couple of times before turning it into a film. He lied to financiers about using the sets to make two movies (the other would have been Treasure Island) while having no intention of making anything other than his tale of Falstaff.

Welles took the plays Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Henry V, and The Merry Wives of Windsor, cut them apart and reassembled them as a single 2-hour film centering around the comic hero Fallstaff. Welles saw good John Fallstaff as the manifestation of “Olde England”, that mystical vision of England that was always just out of grasp in the past. He called Fallstaff a purely good character. And the movie he made about good John Fallstaff is remarkable. Citizen Kane is the more important movie, but I think Chimes at Midnight is his best.

Ender’s Game

This one is much more recent, but criminally under looked. It did not do well at theaters, killing the idea of making any sequels and getting Lionsgate a new Hunger Games-esque franchise, but I kind of love Ender’s Game.

It endeavors to be a faithful adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s book, and I think that it succeeds. It manages to wring a surprisingly strong performance from a normally bored Harrison Ford while providing some excellent sequences in the Battle Room and in Ender’s later training. It looks great, it moves well, and it carries emotional weight.

The movie was probably hurt by Card’s politics and the left’s attempt at a boycott, but the movie didn’t deserve to be harmed. It’s very good and I actually just wish that it was longer (another hour of Battle Room stuff, please!).

The Twelve Chairs

This movie by Mel Brooks is largely forgotten by, well, everyone. I had no idea this movie even existed until I bought the collection of Mel Brooks movies on Blu-Ray which included it. “What is this?” I asked myself before immediately putting into the player and watching it. I think it’s safe to say that Brooks hasn’t made a movie like The Twelve Chairs.

It’s based on a Russian story about a man in the Soviet Union who’s looking for a bunch of money that’s been hidden in one of twelve chairs lost during the Revolution. It’s funny in much the same way that The Producers is funny, but it’s also, ultimately, very sad.

It’s touching in its sadness in ways that Brooks never even ever tried again in his career. It’s overshadowed by Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, which he made a few years later, but The Twelve Chairs is really something special.

So….

Have you seen any of these?

What are those movies that feel like you’re the only one who knows of its existence?

Movies of Today

Opening in Theaters:
Alien: Covenant
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
Everything, Everything

Next in my Netflix Queue:
The Jewel of the Nile

Movies I Saw This Week:

La La Land (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2.5/4) Poster Blurb: “A sweet confection, but little more.”

Fiend Without a Face (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2/4) “Typical 50s scifi horror. Thin characters, nothing plot, but some very fun effects at the end.”

Apt Pupil (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2/4) “Can’t decide if it’s a serious exploration of the appeal of Naziism or a monster movie and suffers for the struggle.”

It Happened One Night [Rewatch] (Netflix Rating 4/5 | Quality Rating 3/4) “A fun and diverting old school romantic comedy.”

Bell Book and Candle (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2/4) “Passable entertainment.”

Super Troopers (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2.5/4) “Some very funny sequences spread through an otherwise so-so movie.”

John Carter [rewatch] (Netflix Rating 5/5 | Quality Rating 3.5/4) “Old school fun. Criminally underappreciated.”

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Posted by: OregonMuse at 07:13 PM

Comments

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1 infamous

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 20, 2017 07:15 PM (FR2VS)

2 FIRST! I WIN!!!

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 20, 2017 07:16 PM (vRcUp)

3 Good Saturday evening!

I truly love Bagdad Café, which no one else seems to have seen (except for All Hail Eris, who commented once on the theme song, so I know she has).

It's quirky and delightful, and I love it.

Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 07:16 PM (e8PP1)

4 The Duelists.

Posted by: Javems at May 20, 2017 07:16 PM (yOqwj)

5 Comfort and Joy. My favorite Christmas movie. I get crickets whenever I mention it.

Posted by: Truly St. Cyr at May 20, 2017 07:16 PM (Tj45n)

6 SHUT UP

HOCKEY'S ON

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 07:16 PM (GsAUU)

7 The French movie Delicatessen is a quirky favorite of mine.

Only one of my friends has seen it.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 07:17 PM (GsAUU)

8 Re: John Carter: my husband is one of those who does not appreciate it. He was an avid reader of Edgar Rice Burroughs as a child, and he thought it was contrived and dumb.

Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 07:18 PM (e8PP1)

9 Cast a Deadly Spell. Citizen X.

There was a time when HBO was cranking out some good material (early 90's.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 07:18 PM (ycWCI)

10 'Tell it to the Marines' is a 1926 silent film with Lon Chaney in a non-makeup role. More accessible than a lot of silents and a typical great performance by Chaney, it will draw you in even if you don't expect it to.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 20, 2017 07:19 PM (oVJmc)

11 Enders Game should have been split between Battle School and afterwards. Could have put in more of stress he was under.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at May 20, 2017 07:19 PM (J70i0)

12 The Jewel of the Nile is fun, as I recall.

Watched Romancing the Stone a few years ago (the wife got a VHS copy cheap), so I'd like to re-watch Jewel.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 07:19 PM (GsAUU)

13 8 Re: John Carter: my husband is one of those who does not appreciate it. He was an avid reader of Edgar Rice Burroughs as a child, and he thought it was contrived and dumb.
Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 07:18 PM (e8PP1)

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That's too bad. I read the books late but felt that the movie called the spirit quite well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:19 PM (Jj43a)

14 Irreversible

Melancholia

Oh Africa, Brave Africa.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 07:19 PM (AuISE)

15 OMG, I saw Delicatessen, in the theater, way back then. I am still a little disturbed.

Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 07:19 PM (e8PP1)

16 The Wheeler Dealers with James Garner and Lee Remick(I believe.) Loved that movie as a kid and have not been able to find it since.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 07:20 PM (ycWCI)

17 Yellowbeard.

The Monty Python crew plus Cheech and Chong and too many other comic actors to list.

Also makes a great drinking game movie. Every time someone says Yellowbeard - drink.

Posted by: weirdflunky at May 20, 2017 07:20 PM (PLq8b)

18 What was that Nicholas Cage move Bangkok something? I can't find it in my pile. Maybe I only watched it once.

"Knowing" is a good movie, sad ending.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 20, 2017 07:20 PM (FR2VS)

19 Loopers. Bruce Willis.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 07:20 PM (vRcUp)

20 Never heard of The Twelve Chairs before, either.

It's on the list.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 07:20 PM (GsAUU)

21 11 Enders Game should have been split between Battle School and afterwards. Could have put in more of stress he was under.
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at May 20, 2017 07:19 PM (J70i0)

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Structurally I don't think it would work as two separate movies. As a long the hour movie though...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:20 PM (Jj43a)

22 Do they still make Falstaff?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 20, 2017 07:20 PM (IqV8l)

23 The Twelve Chairs is fun, particularly for Dom Deluise.

He's a lot more entertaining when he's that kind of dangerous, edgy crazy that he used to do before he became a teddy bear sidekick to Burt Reynolds.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 20, 2017 07:20 PM (oVJmc)

24 18 What was that Nicholas Cage move Bangkok something? I can't find it in my pile. Maybe I only watched it once.

"Knowing" is a good movie, sad ending.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 20, 2017 07:20 PM (FR2VS)

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I love Knowing.

Alex Proyas directed it. He also did Dark City which is very much with checking out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:21 PM (Jj43a)

25 Apt Pupil was retarded. Took an intriguing concept and butchered it.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, at May 20, 2017 07:22 PM (0mRoj)

26 Agony and the Ecstasy. Charleton Heston and Rex Harrison.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 07:22 PM (ycWCI)

27 15 OMG, I saw Delicatessen, in the theater, way back then. I am still a little disturbed.
Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 07:19 PM (e8PP1)

--Yeah, I'm glad I was sober when I watched it.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 07:22 PM (GsAUU)

28 The comments I've seen re Ender's Game is that the shower scene was creepy AF. [Now playing at this place: New Order, "Age of Consent"]

I didn't much like the movie.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 20, 2017 07:22 PM (D2CCA)

29 A couple of other movies from that same era as Delicatessen: Liquid Sky, and The 4th Man. Anyone see those?

Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 07:22 PM (e8PP1)

30 25 Apt Pupil was retarded. Took an intriguing concept and butchered it.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, at May 20, 2017 07:22 PM (0mRoj)

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My impression is that it's Stephen King's fault and his simplistic view of Nazism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:23 PM (Jj43a)

31 Europa was pretty good. Subtitles for me because American Moron.

Posted by: weirdflunky at May 20, 2017 07:23 PM (PLq8b)

32 Unthinkable is a great movie that didnt get much attention.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, at May 20, 2017 07:23 PM (0mRoj)

33 Next in my queue - The Lobster.

Jewel of the Nile - with the Flying Karamatzov brothers.

Clown - Eli Roth take on the creepiness of clowns.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 20, 2017 07:23 PM (rzRHr)

34 26 Agony and the Ecstasy. Charleton Heston and Rex Harrison.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 07:22 PM (ycWCI)

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It's good!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:23 PM (Jj43a)

35 1 Firsts don't count on weekend threads
Posted by: L, Elle at May 20, 2017 01:38 PM

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2017 07:23 PM (Ot7+c)

36 30 25 Apt Pupil was retarded. Took an intriguing concept and butchered it.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, at May 20, 2017 07:22 PM (0mRoj)

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My impression is that it's Stephen King's fault and his simplistic view of Nazism.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:23 PM (Jj43a)

You could easily say "His simplistic view of reality."

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 07:24 PM (ycWCI)

37 Liquid Sky is a freaky movie. What I remember of it, anyway.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 20, 2017 07:24 PM (oVJmc)

38 Chimes at Midnight? Never heard of it, but after watching that battle scene I will. Is that based on an actual battle?

Posted by: dantesed at May 20, 2017 07:24 PM (88xKn)

39 Everyone knows the 1986 "Little Shop of Horrors" with Steve Martin and Bill Murray, and I respect both those actors.

But what about the 1960 version? I'm not trying to be an elitist, contrarian dipshit, but I really do prefer it to the later one. It's got a much more low key, Dr. Strangelove type vibe. It just works better as comedy for me than the "over the top" type approach.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 07:25 PM (vRcUp)

40 36
You could easily say "His simplistic view of reality."
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 07:24 PM (ycWCI)

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Maybe that's why I've never gotten into his stuff.

I remember being just about the only person who felt like The Mist was like a hammer to the back of the head (i.e. obvious as anything).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:25 PM (Jj43a)

41 Oh shit, Duck power play

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 07:25 PM (GsAUU)

42 1 Firsts don't count on weekend threads
Posted by: L, Elle at May 20, 2017 01:38 PM

Charlie don't first.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 20, 2017 07:26 PM (HP6gF)

43 38 Chimes at Midnight? Never heard of it, but after watching that battle scene I will. Is that based on an actual battle?
Posted by: dantesed at May 20, 2017 07:24 PM (88xKn)

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It's based on Shakespeare first and history second.

The Battle of Shrewsbury was a real thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:26 PM (Jj43a)

44 Bell Book and Candle (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2/4) "Passable entertainment."

++++

I rate this one higher than you. I give it an extra star just for Kim Novak's enchanting pussycat. My how it purred.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 07:26 PM (R+30W)

45 39 Everyone knows the 1986 "Little Shop of Horrors" with Steve Martin and Bill Murray, and I respect both those actors.

But what about the 1960 version? I'm not trying to be an elitist, contrarian dipshit, but I really do prefer it to the later one. It's got a much more low key, Dr. Strangelove type vibe. It just works better as comedy for me than the "over the top" type approach.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 07:25 PM (vRcUp)

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I've seen both and I don't really like the original version. Very B movie without a whole lot else going on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:27 PM (Jj43a)

46 I feel like I'm the only person who knows about the excellent 2003 John Malkovich movie "Ripley's Game". It didn't even get a theatrical release in the U.S., and so while plenty of people know about that aimless "Talented Mr. Ripley" with Matt Damon mugging his usual confused look, I don't think many people know about "Ripley's Game". It's superb though - directed with Italian flair and with a great Ennio Morricone score.

Posted by: TheLowerDepths at May 20, 2017 07:27 PM (1WTGm)

47 Structurally I don't think it would work as two separate movies. As a long the hour movie though...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:20 PM (Jj43a)

The problem is they had to rush through Battle School to get to Command School. In the book you can see how Ender is getting pushed to his limit and is at his breaking point. You never feel that with movie. Heaven knows Card has filled in a lot of other stuff with the other books that could have padded out two movies.

Personally, I liked the movie but thought it was a little flat, what's-his-name as Mazer was a poor choice, annoyed that the first Earth battle was shown as in Earth's atmosphere, and annoyed that they didn't point out the Formics had attacked Earth twice.

John Carter needed to be a simpler story. Too much crammed into the film. It's not a bad film though.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at May 20, 2017 07:27 PM (J70i0)

48 13 8 particularly enjoyed the scene in John Carter where they invade the wrong city.

Posted by: richard mcenroe at May 20, 2017 07:28 PM (6wURk)

49 Great power play kill by the Preds.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 07:29 PM (GsAUU)

50 The Ruins was an effective horror film about plants infesting people in the jungles of central America.

If BTH here - this is really stolen from Clark Ashton Smith's story "Seed in the Sepulcher".

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 07:29 PM (vRcUp)

51 Maybe that's why I've never gotten into his stuff.

I remember being just about the only person who felt like The Mist was like a hammer to the back of the head (i.e. obvious as anything).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:25 PM (Jj43a)

King lets his prejudices show more and more. Or maybe we just notice them more and have less patience for the shtick.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 07:29 PM (ycWCI)

52
The Train (1965) was just on. I can only take a couple of minutes of that commie turd Burt Lancaster and he had the acting ability of a 2X4. I'm always hoping that Paul Scofield will put a bullet in his head.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 07:30 PM (auHtY)

53 47 Personally, I liked the movie but thought it was a little flat, what's-his-name as Mazer was a poor choice, annoyed that the first Earth battle was shown as in Earth's atmosphere, and annoyed that they didn't point out the Formics had attacked Earth twice.

John Carter needed to be a simpler story. Too much crammed into the film. It's not a bad film though.
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at May 20, 2017 07:27 PM (J70i0)

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If I could change one thing (other than more battle school) it would be to make the visuals of command school less realistic to try and sell the idea that it was just a simulation.

My wife thought it was real stuff when we saw it together and she had never read the book.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:30 PM (Jj43a)

54 46 I feel like I'm the only person who knows about the excellent 2003 John Malkovich movie "Ripley's Game". It didn't even get a theatrical release in the U.S., and so while plenty of people know about that aimless "Talented Mr. Ripley" with Matt Damon mugging his usual confused look, I don't think many people know about "Ripley's Game". It's superb though - directed with Italian flair and with a great Ennio Morricone score.

Posted by: TheLowerDepths at May 20, 2017 07:27 PM (1WTGm)

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I saw that one! It was very well done and Malkovich did make a more threatening Ripley. Damon's Ripley was more of a sneak weasel of evil.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 07:30 PM (R+30W)

55 52
The Train (1965) was just on. I can only take a couple of minutes of that commie turd Burt Lancaster and he had the acting ability of a 2X4. I'm always hoping that Paul Scofield will put a bullet in his head.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 07:30 PM (auHtY)

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The Train is great!

It's also wildly expensive for a legal for on Blu Ray.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:31 PM (Jj43a)

56 I've seen both and I don't really like the original version. Very B movie without a whole lot else going on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone

Awe gee Mr. Mushnick I didn't meeeeeean iiiiiiiiit!!!

/kidding

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 07:32 PM (vRcUp)

57 The Train (1965) was just on. I can only take a couple of minutes of that commie turd Burt Lancaster and he had the acting ability of a 2X4. I'm always hoping that Paul Scofield will put a bullet in his head.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 07:30 PM (auHtY)

--LMAO.

Lancaster was an insufferable lefty, which almost always translates into overrated actor.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 07:32 PM (GsAUU)

58 You are right and I've never heard of any of those movies. But I WILL find them and watch them!

Posted by: LASue at May 20, 2017 07:33 PM (CLKfs)

59 Ender's Game is actually on the official Marine Corps reading list for officers. The movie didn't pay much attention to it, but the book is a perfect study of how leaders create teams, especially in a military setting.

Posted by: Sentry at May 20, 2017 07:33 PM (YCY8X)

60 End of Lord of the Rings, Return of the King is on, wonder why for all his stretching of these movies he didn't follow the book with Wormtongue in the Shire.

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2017 07:33 PM (Ot7+c)

61 If I could change one thing (other than more battle school) it would be to make the visuals of command school less realistic to try and sell the idea that it was just a simulation.

My wife thought it was real stuff when we saw it together and she had never read the book.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:30 PM (Jj43a)

Yeah, that would have been a far better choice. I did think they handled the egg and dreams fairly well. It's too bad Card got hammered for having badthoughts. I purchased the movie and went to it just to spite the SJW's.

The Mist is annoying for the "crazy Christian" meme and the horrendous ending.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at May 20, 2017 07:34 PM (J70i0)

62 Hey Truly St. Cyr no crickets here, seen Comfort And Joy several times, the dream sequences were great agonizing fake-outs.

Also, high school history teacher made us watch Twelve Chairs as part of the class.

Posted by: czarkazm at May 20, 2017 07:34 PM (ipAaY)

63 If BTH here - this is really stolen from Clark Ashton Smith's story "Seed in the Sepulcher".
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 07:29 PM (vRcUp)

--Yes, he was listening to "Age of Consent" earlier.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 07:34 PM (GsAUU)

64 If you have any love at all for '60's/'70's eurohorror, check out "Tombs of the Blind Dead"--make sure it is the Spanish version.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at May 20, 2017 07:34 PM (x3uSY)

65 Lancaster was an insufferable lefty, which almost always translates into overrated actor.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 07:32 PM (GsAUU)

He did a narration for something about the USSR and it was the most blatant commie propaganda. I always thought his acting sucked he was very wooden then I learned what a commie he was and really couldn't stand him

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 07:35 PM (auHtY)

66 I know about Burt, but the Train is good.

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2017 07:35 PM (Ot7+c)

67 A couple of other French movies I've enjoyed: Man Bites Dog, which is a documentary style movie where a journalist is interviewing a serial killer, and eventually becomes part of his serial killing operation.

And one of my favoirites, Girl on a Bridge. Girl is about to throw herself off a bridge, and a knife thrower recruits her for his act. What has she got to lose, right? She's gonna kill herself anyway...

Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 07:35 PM (e8PP1)

68 Music break.

One of my favorite duets ever:

https://youtu.be/apuCxTV3pMg

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 07:35 PM (GsAUU)

69 I was/am a mad fan of the Barsoom stories and thought John Carter was great fun, like an Astounding Stories cover come to life. Taylor Kitsch and his flowing locks was not how I imagined the steely-eyed John Carter but he won me over, and Lynn Collins was fine as Dejah Thoris. But the star of the show was Dafoe's Tars Tarkas. And of course Woolah.

Shame there won't be another. I would love to see Ras Thavas and his vat-grown freak army.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 07:35 PM (NT3RT)

70 World's Fastest Indian with Sir Anthony Hopkins

Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman

Posted by: Infidel at May 20, 2017 07:36 PM (ie8tB)

71 I agree that Enders' Game and John Carter are fine movies. I enjoy them every time they come on.

After seeing John Carter the first time, I read Burrough's "Princess of Mars" which is the source of John Carter. Surprisingly, the movie reasonably resembles the book. The changes are made to make the movie comprehensible in the short 2 hours of run time.

Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at May 20, 2017 07:36 PM (T71PA)

72 60 End of Lord of the Rings, Return of the King is on, wonder why for all his stretching of these movies he didn't follow the book with Wormtongue in the Shire.
Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2017 07:33 PM (Ot7+c)

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Because it's a minimum of 45 minutes of material and doesn't really fit structurally.

In the books, it works well as a culmination of Frodo's journey. It might have worked in the movies, but it was probably redundant.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:36 PM (Jj43a)

73 I agree with you about Ender's game - it could have used more time to flesh itself out. As it was, nothing seemed really emotionally connected; it was a timelapse of vignettes leading to victory.

Also, I think Harrison Ford was miscast as Colonel Graff. He just didn't project the ruthlessness that was the core of the story. Ben Kinglsey would have worked better, and Ford would have been great as the mentor Mazer Rackham even if they ditched the Maori backstory.

Posted by: Vrag Naroda at May 20, 2017 07:36 PM (17QyB)

74 Unthinkable was ironically conservative.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 07:36 PM (AuISE)

75 Predestined is a real trip. Adaptation from Heinlein's All You Zombies. Looper on acid.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 20, 2017 07:36 PM (rzRHr)

76 The Train (1965) was just on. I can only take a couple of minutes of that commie turd Burt Lancaster and he had the acting ability of a 2X4. I'm always hoping that Paul Scofield will put a bullet in his head.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 07:30 PM (auHtY)

--LMAO.

Lancaster was an insufferable lefty, which almost always translates into overrated actor.
Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 07:32 PM (GsAUU)

Yeah, I'm a big fan of "Run Silent, Run Deep", but Lancaster really comes across as wooden compared to Clark Gable.

Another overrated lefty actor from that era is Gregory Peck, who my Dad used to describe as having, "graduated from the wooden Indian school of acting".

Posted by: TheLowerDepths at May 20, 2017 07:36 PM (1WTGm)

77 61
The Mist is annoying for the "crazy Christian" meme and the horrendous ending.
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at May 20, 2017 07:34 PM (J70i0)

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For all my problems with The Mist, I LOVE that ending.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:37 PM (Jj43a)

78 Never Let Me Go. Sad as hell but I was glued to the TV the whole time. Keira Knightly gives an outstanding performance believe it or not.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at May 20, 2017 07:37 PM (CNHr1)

79 The 12 Chairs has some funny stuff but I did not like the general leftist tone (the happy ending is when the jewels are used to finance a Soviet retirement home) and specifically did not like the scene in which Frank Langella convinces Ron Moody to abandon all pride as the proletariat have to.

Dom DeLuise is funny.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 20, 2017 07:37 PM (Nwg0u)

80 The Man From Nowhere.

Posted by: Hanzo at May 20, 2017 07:37 PM (2oBxT)

81 For all my problems with The Mist, I LOVE that ending.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:37 PM (Jj43a)

You HAVE to be the only one.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at May 20, 2017 07:37 PM (CNHr1)

82 60,70 I always thought it should have been a throw away in the books.

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2017 07:37 PM (Ot7+c)

83 67 A couple of other French movies I've enjoyed: Man Bites Dog, which is a documentary style movie where a journalist is interviewing a serial killer, and eventually becomes part of his serial killing operation.

And one of my favoirites, Girl on a Bridge. Girl is about to throw herself off a bridge, and a knife thrower recruits her for his act. What has she got to lose, right? She's gonna kill herself anyway...
Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 07:35 PM (e8PP1)

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I second Man Bites Dog. It's brutal and kind of great.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:37 PM (Jj43a)

84 I watched Green Room based on someone's recommendation in this thread a week or three ago. It was excellent! Based on that positive experience, I also checked out Blue Ruin by the same director and that was great as well.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4062536/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2359024/

Both are crime/drama/horror movies that are well written. No names for any of the actors, so you can't predict who will be getting the axe or who will be wielding it.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 07:38 PM (R+30W)

85 Orson Welles Sketchbook, The Police

https://youtu.be/Crn_mPWd1HQ

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 20, 2017 07:38 PM (VdICR)

86 How about Runaway Train with Jon Voight? Great performance by him and I found it interesting.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 20, 2017 07:39 PM (Lqy/e)

87
Speaking of WWII movies earlier today was The Secret Invasion (1964). It could have been called the Dirty Half Dozen. Five cons including Mickey Rooney and Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes led by Stewart Granger all experts at something go into Yugoslavia on a mission to rescue an Italian general. Maybe they needed someone to surrender

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 07:39 PM (auHtY)

88 81 For all my problems with The Mist, I LOVE that ending.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:37 PM (Jj43a)

You HAVE to be the only one.
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at May 20, 2017 07:37 PM (CNHr1)

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Trust me, I'm not.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:39 PM (Jj43a)

89 I haven't searched out a Russian movie in a little while on YouTube, if I ever did Netflix I wouldn't get anything done.

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2017 07:39 PM (Ot7+c)

90 I know about Burt, but the Train is good.

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Agree.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 20, 2017 07:39 PM (Nwg0u)

91 Because it's a minimum of 45 minutes of material and doesn't really fit structurally.

In the books, it works well as a culmination of Frodo's journey. It might have worked in the movies, but it was probably redundant.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:36 PM (Jj43a)

I think you could argue that the Scouring really does not work in the book either. It was a bit of the massive amount of tributary stories Tolkien write (like the Silmariliion), that for some reason he included in the novel.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 07:39 PM (ycWCI)

92 April @ 3- Bagdad Cafe?
I watched that recently. When it was over I just sat there and asked myself 'What was that?'

Posted by: Eromero at May 20, 2017 07:39 PM (zLDYs)

93 77 61
The Mist is annoying for the "crazy Christian" meme and the horrendous ending.
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at May 20, 2017 07:34 PM (J70i0)

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For all my problems with The Mist, I LOVE that ending.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:37 PM (Jj43a)

The "crazy Christian" was in the book, and instructed me of King's mindset towards religion. The ending wasn't, but was perfect.

Posted by: Vrag Naroda at May 20, 2017 07:40 PM (17QyB)

94 Predestined is a real trip. Adaptation from Heinlein's All You Zombies. Looper on acid.

Is Predestined the one with the song "I Am My Own Grandpa"? If so, it is a very unique take on time paradoxes. Love it.

Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at May 20, 2017 07:40 PM (T71PA)

95 Another overrated lefty actor from that era is Gregory Peck, who my Dad used to describe as having, "graduated from the wooden Indian school of acting".
Posted by: TheLowerDepths at May 20, 2017 07:36 PM (1WTGm)

--+1

Peck was great in To Kill A Mockingbird because of the great source material, not because of his acting.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 07:40 PM (GsAUU)

96 I just saw "Predestination" with Ethan Hawke. Freaky!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 07:40 PM (NT3RT)

97 84 I watched Green Room based on someone's recommendation in this thread a week or three ago. It was excellent! Based on that positive experience, I also checked out Blue Ruin by the same director and that was great as well.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4062536/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2359024/

Both are crime/drama/horror movies that are well written. No names for any of the actors, so you can't predict who will be getting the axe or who will be wielding it.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 07:38 PM (R+30W)

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Might have been me. Green Room was in my Movies of Today section last week.

Blue Ruin is also great, as you say. I think it's better than Green Room.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:40 PM (Jj43a)

98 88 81 For all my problems with The Mist, I LOVE that ending.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:37 PM (Jj43a)

You HAVE to be the only one.
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at May 20, 2017 07:37 PM (CNHr1)

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Trust me, I'm not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:39 PM (Jj43a)

Well, he is probably right there, there are tons of fans of GoT and Walking Dead.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 07:41 PM (ycWCI)

99 Watchmen (Ultimate edition).

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 07:41 PM (AuISE)

100 How about Runaway Train with Jon Voight? Great performance by him and I found it interesting.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 20, 2017 07:39 PM (Lqy/e)

Loved it.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at May 20, 2017 07:41 PM (CNHr1)

101 95 --+1

Peck was great in To Kill A Mockingbird because of the great source material, not because of his acting.
Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 07:40 PM (GsAUU)

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Random fact... Peck thought he was miscast in Moby Dick.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:42 PM (Jj43a)

102 Not art, but Night of the Comet and They Live are both good low budget, campy movies that I enjoy watching over and over.

Posted by: LASue at May 20, 2017 07:42 PM (CLKfs)

103 To go slightly off topic... there was a movie I bought a long time ago called "Wax". It was supposed to be a sci fi movie about bees.

DO NOT GET THIS MOVIE. It is a scam. It is about as interesting as watching a game of pong for an hour and a half.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 07:42 PM (vRcUp)

104 the cook the thief the wife and her lover
liquid sky I had the vhs tape

Posted by: vizzy at May 20, 2017 07:43 PM (TdKpj)

105 How about Runaway Train with Jon Voight? Great performance by him and I found it interesting.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 20, 2017 07:39 PM (Lqy/e)

The Odessa File was on today. Hell of a lot of WWII or WWII related movies on but that was good not great and it had a young Mary Tamm

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 07:43 PM (auHtY)

106 And one of my favoirites, Girl on a Bridge. Girl is about to throw herself off a bridge, and a knife thrower recruits her for his act. What has she got to lose, right? She's gonna kill herself anyway...
Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 07:35 PM (e8PP1)
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This was such a beautiful flick with excellent use of black and white photography (wish more modern films were in b&w). The Girl is Vanessa Paradis, Depp's ex.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 07:43 PM (NT3RT)

107 Another movie that seems to be highly underrated or even unknown in "The Wild Geese", a British action film from 1978. Given that it's about a mostly white mercenary unit in Africa, it's about as un-PC as a movie of that time can get. Good cast too.

Posted by: TheLowerDepths at May 20, 2017 07:43 PM (1WTGm)

108 89 I haven't searched out a Russian movie in a little while on YouTube, if I ever did Netflix I wouldn't get anything done.
Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2017 07:39 PM (Ot7+c)

--Have you seen Russian Ark, a documentary about The Hermitage?

It's pretty fucking good.

Speaking of documentaries, Into Great Silence is also very, very good. 10 stars out of 10.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 07:43 PM (GsAUU)

109 102 Not art, but Night of the Comet and They Live are both good low budget, campy movies that I enjoy watching over and over.

Posted by: LASue at May 20, 2017 07:42 PM (CLKfs)

Is Night of the Comet the one where all the people disappear (because of evil US Star Wars anti-missle tech) except for one guy for around the first half of the movie who wanders around the uninhabited city. Then the guy finds like two other survivors?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 07:44 PM (ycWCI)

110 ...Random fact... Peck thought he was miscast in Moby Dick.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:42 PM (Jj43a)

That is my favorite version of Moby Dick. Orson Wells delivering the sermon from the ship's bow pulpit is one on my favorite scenes in all of moviedom.

Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at May 20, 2017 07:44 PM (T71PA)

111 Posted by: Eromero at May 20, 2017 07:39 PM (zLDYs)

Ah, well...I guess it isn't for everyone.

Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 07:45 PM (e8PP1)

112 Somebody already mentioned Citizen X above. I can't recommend this movie enough. Its fantastic. The book was really good too. Really, gotta check this flick out. Very well done.

A Prayer For the Dying. Based on a Jack Higgins book (which is a great page turner). The movie was a decent adaptation. Mickey Rourke, a still unknown Liam Niason, Bob Hoskins, Alan Bates; all were great in it. Could have followed the book a little more closely but still a solid movie.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 07:45 PM (pY+s4)

113 I saw The Twelve Chairs in college, ages ago. I don't remember anything about it.

When you get to be 29, your memory starts going.

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2017 07:45 PM (sdi6R)

114
96 I just saw "Predestination" with Ethan Hawke. Freaky!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 07:40 PM (NT3RT)

That's what I meant - Predestination. Still trying to connect those dots.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 20, 2017 07:45 PM (rzRHr)

115 Random fact... Peck thought he was miscast in Moby Dick.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:42 PM (Jj43a)

--But Brian Dennehy as the white whale was top-notch casting.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 07:45 PM (GsAUU)

116 When I was a teenager (1

there was this animated movie that came out called "Fantastic Planet"

I think it was made in Europe (Poland?) and then dubbed into English. Really a weird and cool movie.

Anybody every seen it?

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 20, 2017 07:45 PM (S6Pax)

117 I got to see on TV The Twelve Chairs once. It is somewhere in the gray matter my impressions but it has been years. In some ways I get the feeling that It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World was inspired by the original story and then amped up to 11.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 07:45 PM (Ydq56)

118 Another movie that seems to be highly underrated or even unknown in "The Wild Geese", a British action film from 1978. Given that it's about a mostly white mercenary unit in Africa, it's about as un-PC as a movie of that time can get. Good cast too.

Posted by: TheLowerDepths at May 20, 2017 07:43 PM (1WTGm)

I like that one too. Good cast, Richard Burton and Roger Moore

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 07:45 PM (auHtY)

119 30 25 Apt Pupil was retarded. Took an intriguing concept and butchered it.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, at May 20, 2017 07:22 PM (0mRoj)

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My impression is that it's Stephen King's fault and his simplistic view of Nazism.

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Hollywood changed King's ending. In the novella, the kid goes full evil. In the movie, he is redeemed.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 20, 2017 07:45 PM (Nwg0u)

120 Heaven Knows Mr Allison.

Unlikely partnership and unrequited love. Robert Mitchum is the WWII Marine and Deborah Kerr is a nun, marooned on an island with the Japanese coming and going. John Huston directed.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2017 07:46 PM (pV/54)

121 108 --Have you seen Russian Ark, a documentary about The Hermitage?

It's pretty fucking good.

Speaking of documentaries, Into Great Silence is also very, very good. 10 stars out of 10.
Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 07:43 PM (GsAUU)

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Both are great.

Slight warning... With Russian Ark, you may get a bit of vertigo watching it. It's all one shot (literally... It's quite a feat), but there are a couple of moments where the camera moves and zooms at the same time. It can be slightly disorientating.

Still great, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:46 PM (Jj43a)

122 Batman v Superman

The public hysteria of pure hatred infected people to not like it. The hysteria may have ruined the Justice League franchise. The movie is dark as Fuck, and the subtext makes it great.I also like how it's stylized so the scenes are like that of a graphic novel's story panels.

I think I'm the only person who likes it. I just saw it a couple of days ago. Watching it again.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 07:46 PM (AuISE)

123 liquid sky I had the vhs tape
Posted by: vizzy at May 20, 2017 07:43 PM (TdKpj)
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I LOVE Liquid Sky. It is so painfully, beautifully delicious, delicious!

I own it on DVD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9-n9gpFVpk

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 07:46 PM (NT3RT)

124 I second Man Bites Dog. It's brutal and kind of great.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone

Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Goddard). La Voie Lactee (Luis Bunuel)

I love French nihilistic film myself, but I wonder if it has anything to do with the current national suicide they are involved in.

I'd gladly do without these movies if it meant that they weren't in the state they are in.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 07:47 PM (vRcUp)

125 86 How about Runaway Train with Jon Voight? Great performance by him and I found it interesting.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 20, 2017 07:39 PM (Lqy/e)

++++

Seconded. An interesting contrast is Unstoppable, a Denzel Washington movie about a runaway train. I am a fan of Washington, but that was your typical Hollywood action flick. No brains or real feeling to it, just lots of action.

On the other hand, Runaway Train had plenty of action, but it also had a real story. The characters were well developed and you cared what was going on with them and what they were trying to achieve.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 07:47 PM (R+30W)

126 Random fact... Peck thought he was miscast in Moby Dick.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:42 PM (Jj43a)

Yeah, John Bonham did a much better job of it

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 07:47 PM (auHtY)

127 116 When I was a teenager (1 there was this animated movie that came out called "Fantastic Planet"

I think it was made in Europe (Poland?) and then dubbed into English. Really a weird and cool movie.

Anybody every seen it?
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 20, 2017 07:45 PM (S6Pax)

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The animated film?

Yeah, I've seen it. Really weird and really good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:47 PM (Jj43a)

128
Green for Danger, starring Alastair Sim, Trevor Howard, and Leo Genn is a quiet little gem.

"My presence lay over the hospital like a pall-- I found it all tremendously enjoyable."

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at May 20, 2017 07:48 PM (x3uSY)

129 119 -
Hollywood changed King's ending. In the novella, the kid goes full evil. In the movie, he is redeemed.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 20, 2017 07:45 PM (Nwg0u)

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He's not redeemed in the movie. He gets away with it by threatening to accuse his counselor of molestation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:49 PM (Jj43a)

130 "Man on Fire" with Denzel Washington is an overlooked by extraordinarily well-crafted movie IMHO. Lots of Christian imagery and solid performances by Washington, Christopher Walken and Dakota Fanning.

Posted by: RS at May 20, 2017 07:49 PM (CNQqJ)

131 130 "Man on Fire" with Denzel Washington is an overlooked by extraordinarily well-crafted movie IMHO. Lots of Christian imagery and solid performances by Washington, Christopher Walken and Dakota Fanning.
Posted by: RS at May 20, 2017 07:49 PM (CNQqJ)

Excellent flick.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, at May 20, 2017 07:49 PM (0mRoj)

132 Green for Danger, starring Alastair Sim, Trevor Howard, and Leo Genn is a quiet little gem.

"My presence lay over the hospital like a pall-- I found it all tremendously enjoyable."

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at May 20, 2017 07:48 PM (x3uSY)

Just about any British film from the '30s through the mid 60's is bound to be enjoyable.

Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at May 20, 2017 07:50 PM (T71PA)

133 122 Batman v Superman

The public hysteria of pure hatred infected people to not like it. The hysteria may have ruined the Justice League franchise. The movie is dark as Fuck, and the subtext makes it great.I also like how it's stylized so the scenes are like that of a graphic novel's story panels.

I think I'm the only person who likes it. I just saw it a couple of days ago. Watching it again.
Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 07:46 PM (AuISE)

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I've never seen the theatrical cut, but I have seen the ultimate cut twice. I really like it.

It shoots very high narratively, misses, but comes reasonably close. I really like it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:50 PM (Jj43a)

134 How well known is "Zulu" to the folks on the forums here? I have a sense that the movie's still popular, but I don't really know many people who have ever seen it. It's a favorite of mine.

Posted by: TheLowerDepths at May 20, 2017 07:50 PM (1WTGm)

135 I think I'm the only person who likes it. I just saw it a couple of days ago. Watching it again.
Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 07:46 PM (AuISE)

That is pretty much the internet these days. Everyone wants to essentially turn up any feelings (and they are usually negative) to eleven in order to get clicks on their YOUTUBE TAKEDOWN OF "X".

A LOT of games have gotten hate in this same way. It is all skinner box, mob bullshit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 07:50 PM (ycWCI)

136 118 Another movie that seems to be highly underrated or even unknown in "The Wild Geese", a British action film from 1978. Given that it's about a mostly white mercenary unit in Africa, it's about as un-PC as a movie of that time can get. Good cast too.

Posted by: TheLowerDepths at May 20, 2017 07:43 PM (1WTGm)

I like that one too. Good cast, Richard Burton and Roger Moore
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 07:45 PM (auHtY)

Ha! There was a commercial for it in the Rifftrax "Star Wars Holiday Special". The best part of the riffin' is seeing all the late 70's commercials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLwQ1jYVrBo

I was not prepared for just how awful the "special" was. Just painful. I kinda liked the animated segment with Boba Fett done in a poor man's Arsach style.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 07:50 PM (NT3RT)

137 I used to get, title-wise, Bell, Book, and Candle confused with the earlier Veronica Lake movie I Married A Witch. Both amusing films and bits of both were amalgamated to launch a TV series - Bewitched.

Everyone who thought that A Princess of Mars was a bad idea for a movie title, well they need their ovipositors cleaned out. By calling it John Carter of Mars they cast a spell of Blandness on the movie that seriously dampened any box office buzz. It was a fun movie.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 07:51 PM (Ydq56)

138
Ultraviolet (2006) because Milla Jojovich

Sorry, have a crush on the woman, even before I found out she was in Return to the Blue Lagoon.

It's a character flaw that I have learned to live with.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 20, 2017 07:51 PM (FR2VS)

139 I liked the Michael Cain/Lawrence Olivier version of Sleuth.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 20, 2017 07:51 PM (Nwg0u)

140 Paths of Glory gets overlooked in the Kubrick pantheon.

Someone here quoted Truffaut (?) that you can't really make an anti-war film, that in the end you glorify it.

Paths was my mic drop retort

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2017 07:51 PM (pV/54)

141 Judging from the "Gangs of New York" clip, today's gangstas are pussies compared to the old school boyz.

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2017 07:51 PM (sdi6R)

142 My husband wants to know if anyone has seen World Gone Wild with Bruce Dern. Oddly, he is such a Moron, but doesn't check out the site himself. So, he's honorary, and inquiring through me.

Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 07:51 PM (e8PP1)

143 Obscure, strange foreign animated movies?

Peter No Tail:

https://youtu.be/Qt0lzIqOsbY?list=PL62A26558E27887A2

--Saw it as a child on HBO, never since.

May have my evening post-hockey viewing lined up.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 07:52 PM (GsAUU)

144 Hard Times - Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland, Strother Martin, directed by Walter Hill. Depression era flick. Sort of a boxing movie. Definitely not Rocky. Excellent movie.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 07:52 PM (pY+s4)

145 134 How well known is "Zulu" to the folks on the forums here? I have a sense that the movie's still popular, but I don't really know many people who have ever seen it. It's a favorite of mine.
Posted by: TheLowerDepths at May 20, 2017 07:50 PM (1WTGm)

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My dad showed that to me at least once.

I know it's something that I would probably love, but my memory of it is so fuzzy that I can't give it an informed opinion.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:52 PM (Jj43a)

146 The Train (1965) was just on. I can only take a couple of minutes of
that commie turd Burt Lancaster and he had the acting ability of a 2X4.
I'm always hoping that Paul Scofield will put a bullet in his head.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 07:30 PM (auH

I think Paul Scofield was another rat bastard commie, wasn't he?

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 20, 2017 07:53 PM (HP6gF)

147 Milla Jojovich is also in Dazed and Confused,
one of my favorite documentaries

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2017 07:53 PM (pV/54)

148 Don's party.

A Bruce Beresford movie about old college friends that get together years after college to watch the presidential election in Australia. Very funny.

And second the Fastest Indian.

Posted by: Tutu at May 20, 2017 07:53 PM (BsE+u)

149 Not an obscure movie, but I don't remember seeing it for a long time on TV or cable.

"The Hospital", with Diana Rigg and George C. Scott. Diana Riggs mad father (Barnard Hughes) is running around this crazy urban hospital killing incompetent doctors and nurses.

Written by Paddy Chayefsky, if I remember right.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 20, 2017 07:53 PM (S6Pax)

150 How well known is "Zulu" to the folks on the forums here? I have a sense that the movie's still popular, but I don't really know many people who have ever seen it. It's a favorite of mine.

Posted by: TheLowerDepths at May 20, 2017 07:50 PM (1WTGm)

I love that movie. Michael Caine's first staring role. First rank fire! Second rank fire!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 07:53 PM (auHtY)

151 If Disney had not terminally botched the marketing to John Carter, it would easily have made bank. Even with the gratuitous emo-ing of the main character, though I can forgive some of that as the original would not have played well (and was a bit of a mess).

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 20, 2017 07:53 PM (66CWr)

152 I agree that Ender's Game is was a good movie and adaptation. I read that one of the reasons why it took so long to adapt the novel into a movie was because OSC insisted that an actual child play the role of Ender. All the movie studios wanted to age Ender up to 16 so they wouldn't have to worry about child labor restrictions. The kid they cast did a good job, though. I do wish that the movie had been longer so they could show more parts that were fleshed out more in the book.

Posted by: Aunt Luna at May 20, 2017 07:53 PM (Zd2ZF)

153 I need a movie to eat while I'm elbows deep in a tub of ice cream...suggestions?

I wish I could get my netflix working on my tv, but I may have to redbox it.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 20, 2017 07:53 PM (smD62)

154 Best Seller - Brian Dennehy (the actor, not the meme) and James Woods both chew up the scenery and try to out intense each other. Good flick though.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 07:53 PM (pY+s4)

155 137 Everyone who thought that A Princess of Mars was a bad idea for a movie title, well they need their ovipositors cleaned out. By calling it John Carter of Mars they cast a spell of Blandness on the movie that seriously dampened any box office buzz. It was a fun movie.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 07:51 PM (Ydq56)

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At the time, I showed the trailer to some friends and asked them what they thought the movie was about. They had no idea.

It was one of the worst marketed movies ever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:54 PM (Jj43a)

156 Not a movie, but I have been watching "The Rifleman" on the bald headed, slave driver devil's Firestick.

Lucas, in the last episode, got shot and his boy had to take him to town. After his son loaded him in the wagon, he told his son to get his "Raffle". His son asked "Why Pa , your too hurt to be shooting that raffle!"

Lucas told his boy, "Do what I tell you son." His son promptly obeyed.

Nice....TV as it supposed to be.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 20, 2017 07:54 PM (5VlCp)

157 139 I liked the Michael Cain/Lawrence Olivier version of Sleuth.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 20, 2017 07:51 PM (Nwg0u)

Best version. That is all.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 20, 2017 07:54 PM (HP6gF)

158 I liked the Michael Cain/Lawrence Olivier version of Sleuth.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 20, 2017 07:51 PM (Nwg0u)

Blimey that was good. I really enjoyed that one and just two actors to carry the whole movie

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 07:54 PM (auHtY)

159 Anybody every seen it?
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 20, 2017 07:45 PM (S6Pax)
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Saw it in the theater as a kid. Like a little acid trip (not that I would have known what that was).

Anybody seen the Italian spoof of Fantasia, "Allegro Non Tropo"?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 07:54 PM (NT3RT)

160 >>> Someone here quoted Truffaut (?) that you can't really make an anti-war film, that in the end you glorify it.

Paths was my mic drop retort

Das Boot

Posted by: fluffy at May 20, 2017 07:54 PM (jw2Xw)

161 There was a sadistic German film "Funny Games". I thought it was vile, nothing redeeming about it, but it wasn't boring. I think it may explain the predicament they are currently in.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 07:55 PM (vRcUp)

162 146
I think Paul Scofield was another rat bastard commie, wasn't he?
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 20, 2017 07:53 PM (HP6gF)

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Made for a great Thomas More though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:55 PM (Jj43a)

163 At the time, I showed the trailer to some friends and asked them what they thought the movie was about. They had no idea.
It was one of the worst marketed movies ever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:54 PM (Jj43a)

Movie thread topic idea: what makes a movie trailer good or bad, with examples of each.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 20, 2017 07:55 PM (HP6gF)

164 142 My husband wants to know if anyone has seen World Gone Wild with Bruce Dern. Oddly, he is such a Moron, but doesn't check out the site himself. So, he's honorary, and inquiring through me.
Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 07:51 PM (e8PP1)

Rented it on VHS once. Thought it might be like Silent Running.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 20, 2017 07:55 PM (rzRHr)

165 Made for a great Thomas More though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:55 PM (Jj43a)

Oh yes.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 20, 2017 07:55 PM (HP6gF)

166 I suppose most good foreign movies are not very well known in the USA.

I had Amelie (French), Oldboy (South Korean), and Infernal Affairs (Hong Kong) in my Top 10 list a couple months back.

I'm surprised by how few people here have seen Sliding Doors -- perhaps because it's a UK film -- as I often bring it up in conversation.

Amores Perros (Mexican, aka Love's A Bitch) is another that really touched me personally.

Having trouble thinking of US films I've really liked with which few people are familiar, however.

Thanks for your finds, TJM; looking forward to checking them out (had never heard of them).

Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 07:56 PM (ZcAbN)

167 How well known is "Zulu" to the folks on the forums here? I have a sense that the movie's still popular, but I don't really know many people who have ever seen it. It's a favorite of mine.

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Zulu and Zulu Dawn are both great. Couldn't make Zulu today. Zulu Dawn, maybe. It has a good deal of evil, hypocritical white privilege oppressing people of color.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 20, 2017 07:56 PM (Nwg0u)

168 131 130 "Man on Fire" with Denzel Washington is an overlooked by extraordinarily well-crafted movie IMHO. Lots of Christian imagery and solid performances by Washington, Christopher Walken and Dakota Fanning.
Posted by: RS at May 20, 2017 07:49 PM (CNQqJ)

Excellent flick.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, at May 20, 2017 07:49 PM (0mRoj)

--Hell yeah. Surprised it did not do better at the box office, but I'm glad I caught it in the theater.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 07:56 PM (GsAUU)

169 Here's the complete "Liquid Sky" for those curious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1diwX-ydh0

You should probably watch it in full Ziggy Stardust maquilage.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 07:56 PM (NT3RT)

170 I bought 'Zulu' because of recommendations from the Horde, and because of Michael Cain. And because I've read histories of that time and place.

Good movie.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 20, 2017 07:56 PM (FR2VS)

171 "Zulu"?

Yes, I have seen that several times.

Great, great movie.

An old friend of mine who did four tours as a Marine in Viet Nam thought that was the greatest movie every made.

At the end, singing "Men of Harlech",if that doesn't stir you up, you are dead inside.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 20, 2017 07:56 PM (S6Pax)

172 152 I agree that Ender's Game is was a good movie and adaptation. I read that one of the reasons why it took so long to adapt the novel into a movie was because OSC insisted that an actual child play the role of Ender. All the movie studios wanted to age Ender up to 16 so they wouldn't have to worry about child labor restrictions. The kid they cast did a good job, though. I do wish that the movie had been longer so they could show more parts that were fleshed out more in the book.
Posted by: Aunt Luna at May 20, 2017 07:53 PM (Zd2ZF)

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He also took a figurative shit all over Steven Spielberg when he was thinking about making it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:56 PM (Jj43a)

173 "I need a movie to eat while I'm elbows deep in a tub of ice cream...suggestions?

I wish I could get my netflix working on my tv, but I may have to redbox it."
-Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 20, 2017 07:53 PM (smD62)

True Romance

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 20, 2017 07:56 PM (6gk0M)

174 The Scouring of the Shire:

There's never much doubt that the four hobbits could organize and handle the situation. Sharkey, fallen from his commanding position was turned into a hobo. No tension in the outcome, but the reader understands that the easy task might have been impossible prior to his journey.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 20, 2017 07:56 PM (VdICR)

175 Triplets of Belleville was another bizarre animated movie.

Swingin' Belleville rondezvous . . .

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 07:57 PM (GsAUU)

176 The Keep - only drawback Tangerine Dream did the music.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 20, 2017 07:57 PM (rzRHr)

177 The recent flick A Monster Calls didn't find an audience.

It's too mature a theme for kids, and adults would think it hooky unless they saw it. Book will be considered a classic years from now.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2017 07:57 PM (pV/54)

178

Another good British movie with basically just two actors is The Collector (1965) with Terrence Stamp and Samantha Eggar. Stamp does an outstanding job as a really twisted guy

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 07:57 PM (auHtY)

179 160 >>> Someone here quoted Truffaut (?) that you can't really make an anti-war film, that in the end you glorify it.

Paths was my mic drop retort

Das Boot
Posted by: fluffy at May 20, 2017 07:54 PM (jw2Xw)

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Ridley Scott said that while marketing Black Hawk Down.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:57 PM (Jj43a)

180 True Romance is about twenty years old, however. It won't be in a Redbox.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 20, 2017 07:57 PM (6gk0M)

181 The Name of the Rose

Posted by: Javems at May 20, 2017 07:58 PM (yOqwj)

182 161 There was a sadistic German film "Funny Games". I thought it was vile, nothing redeeming about it, but it wasn't boring. I think it may explain the predicament they are currently in.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 07:55 PM (vRcUp)

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Same director remade it with Naomi Watts. I sat that one. Hated it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:58 PM (Jj43a)

183 Italian movies, we could start a Mario Bava thread. Start with Planet of the Vampires for sheer cheese low-budget sci-fi meets horror. Plus the Italian gals in body hugging leather spacesuits.

And then discuss how much did the movie Alien borrow from it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 07:58 PM (Ydq56)

184

Oh yes, The 12 Chairs. Brooks' best. Yeah... I said it.

Posted by: otho at May 20, 2017 07:58 PM (lmIoG)

185 And on the subject of Bowie, I caught Labyrinth[//i] on CometTV the other day.

They pixelated David Bowie's crotchular area! Those tight britches might usher an unsuspecting young girl into womanhood!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 07:58 PM (NT3RT)

186 Into Great Silence (full length) :

http://tinyurl.com/mzlx8n3

Posted by: Tonypete at May 20, 2017 07:58 PM (tr2D7)

187 163 Movie thread topic idea: what makes a movie trailer good or bad, with examples of each.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 20, 2017 07:55 PM (HP6gF)

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Already gestating in the back of my mind...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:59 PM (Jj43a)

188 The City Of Lost Children

Posted by: Javems at May 20, 2017 07:59 PM (yOqwj)

189

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 07:59 PM (NT3RT)

190 >>> Ridley Scott said that while marketing Black Hawk Down.

Never saw Black Hawk Down, but I would think it glorifies the warriors, not the war. Hamburger Hill fits that.

Posted by: fluffy at May 20, 2017 08:00 PM (jw2Xw)

191 John Wick

Because JW was totally justified in his actions and showed amazing restraint considering what he endured.

Posted by: weirdflunky at May 20, 2017 08:00 PM (PLq8b)

192 176 The Keep - only drawback Tangerine Dream did the music.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 20, 2017 07:57 PM (rzRHr)

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I see that in theaters.

No, I'm not that old, I was just in London when the British Film Institute did a Michael Mann retrospective.

So freaking bizarre.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:00 PM (Jj43a)

193 Winchester '73

Posted by: vizzy at May 20, 2017 08:00 PM (TdKpj)

194 The Hit, starring Terrence Stamp is an entertaining film. Back story: Stamp plays a rat who testified against his mob buddies and then went on to live under an assumed identity. They eventually find out who he has become and look to deliver some "justice".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087414/

Most of the movie takes place on the trip from Spain to Paris as hired men carry out their instructions to deliver him to his former colleagues.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 08:01 PM (R+30W)

195 109: Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 07:44 PM (ycWCI)

No, night of the comet is about two Valley girls who are almost the sole survivors of a comet passing by the earth that kills most, but turns others into zombies.

Not my schtick at all, but it's good fun.

Also, "Go" - a wild dangerous night as seen from various perspectives (with a young Katie Holmes and an Uma Thurman look a like).

Posted by: LASue at May 20, 2017 08:01 PM (CLKfs)

196 it's something about the tv being too far from the router and wifi doesn't always work.

Grrrrr...

Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 20, 2017 08:01 PM (smD62)

197 Italian movies, we could start a Mario Bava thread. Start with Planet of the Vampires for sheer cheese low-budget sci-fi meets horror. Plus the Italian gals in body hugging leather spacesuits.

And then discuss how much did the movie Alien borrow from it.
Posted by: Anna Puma

OMG!! When I first say "Alien" back in 1979, I thought the same thing - what a ripoff of "Planet of Vampires". Or was it "Vampire Planet"?

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 20, 2017 08:01 PM (S6Pax)

198 184

Oh yes, The 12 Chairs. Brooks' best. Yeah... I said it.
Posted by: otho at May 20, 2017 07:58 PM (lmIoG)

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Agreed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:01 PM (Jj43a)

199 183 Italian movies, we could start a Mario Bava thread. Start with Planet of the Vampires for sheer cheese low-budget sci-fi meets horror. Plus the Italian gals in body hugging leather spacesuits.

And then discuss how much did the movie Alien borrow from it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 07:58 PM (Ydq56)

Love that movie - and now that you mention it, wow the parallels.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 20, 2017 08:02 PM (rzRHr)

200 True Romance
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 20, 2017 07:56 PM (6gk0M)

Second that!

Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 08:02 PM (e8PP1)

201 Another overrated lefty actor from that era is Gregory Peck,

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He was good in Moby Dick.

Posted by: Javems at May 20, 2017 08:02 PM (yOqwj)

202 How can I see this Ultimate cut of Batman v Superman? Torrenting is not an option and I'm not buying it. Can I rent it somewhere?

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:02 PM (AuISE)

203 The Keep was a great twist on the whole vampire concept. Sometimes I thought the music and atmospherics were a bit too ethereal and blunted the horror the characters were facing.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 08:02 PM (Ydq56)

204 I think The Duelists, by Ridley Scott, the Japanese movie Shall We Dance, King of Hearts, and Strictly Ballroom are in the mix as under-appreciated. Zulu was a masterpiece that is still appreciated.

John Carter. Sigh. As a crazed reader of ERB when I was 10, it did not make the leap to film gracefully. Maybe my internal visualization was so different that I could not get into the film.

I saw the ending of Enders Game. Meh.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 20, 2017 08:02 PM (u82oZ)

205 When I was a teenager (1 there was this animated movie that came out called "Fantastic Planet"

I think it was made in Europe (Poland?) and then dubbed into English. Really a weird and cool movie.

Anybody every seen it?

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 20, 2017 07:45 PM

It's French. Yeah, it's great. Trippy.

Posted by: otho at May 20, 2017 08:02 PM (lmIoG)

206 Dog Day Afternoon captured the anarchy and weirdness of NYC in the 70s.

Attica! Attica!

John Cazale was in five movies. All got nominated for Oscar Best Picture.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2017 08:03 PM (pV/54)

207 Unthinkable is a must see.
I have a thing for Susan Hayward and have rewatched "Back Street" a few times.

Ben Whipshaw in "The Hollow Crown". Excellent

Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2017 08:03 PM (b/nXm)

208 Never saw Black Hawk Down, but I would think it glorifies the warriors, not the war. Hamburger Hill fits that.
Posted by: fluffy at May 20, 2017 08:00 PM (jw2Xw)

--Black Hawk Down is one of the best combat movies (hey, it wasn't a war) made since 2000. Watch it back to back with 13 Hours and you're in for a feast of solid cinematography.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 08:03 PM (GsAUU)

209 202 How can I see this Ultimate cut of Batman v Superman? Torrenting is not an option and I'm not buying it. Can I rent it somewhere?

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:02 PM (AuISE)

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Might be available from Redbox.

Amazon Prime should have it.

Or you could come to my house. Whichever works for you.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:03 PM (Jj43a)

210 True Romance
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 20, 2017 07:56 PM (6gk0M)

Second that!
Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 08:02 PM (e8PP1)

A few months ago, I had my mom watch it with me when she was visiting. She is pushing 80 and lived it. She cried.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:04 PM (AuISE)

211 I only saw True Romance once. The only scene that I remember clearly is Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walkin havin' a little discussion of Sicilian ancestry. Its funny. Its short scene but REALLY REALLY memorable.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 08:04 PM (pY+s4)

212 My husband wants to know if anyone has seen World Gone Wild with Bruce Dern. Oddly, he is such a Moron, but doesn't check out the site himself. So, he's honorary, and inquiring through me.
Posted by: April
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April, you must drag him along next time.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 20, 2017 08:04 PM (tr2D7)

213 Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:00 PM (Jj43a)

And Scott Glenn with the creepy eyes.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 20, 2017 08:05 PM (rzRHr)

214 OMG!! When I first say "Alien" back in 1979, I thought the same thing - what a ripoff of "Planet of Vampires". Or was it "Vampire Planet"?
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 20, 2017 08:01 PM (S6Pax)
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Carlo Rimbaldi did set and costumes on Alien -- did he work on Vampires?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 08:05 PM (NT3RT)

215 Also...i would prefer for it not to be a romance or romcom....I need a comedy or sci-fi or something.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 20, 2017 08:05 PM (smD62)

216 Or you could come to my house. Whichever works for you.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:03 PM (Jj43a)

Soon

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:05 PM (AuISE)

217 True Romance is how Gandolfini got the role of Tony Soprano

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2017 08:05 PM (pV/54)

218 "I only saw True Romance once. The only scene that I remember clearly is Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walkin havin' a little discussion of Sicilian ancestry. Its funny. Its short scene but REALLY REALLY memorable."
-Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 08:04 PM (pY+s4)

Most memorable scene in the movie.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 20, 2017 08:05 PM (6gk0M)

219 --Have you seen Russian Ark, a documentary about The Hermitage?

It's pretty fucking good.

Speaking of documentaries, Into Great Silence is also very, very good. 10 stars out of 10.
Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 07:43 PM (GsAUU)

Loved Russian Ark. I rented it and then bought it the next day.

Local Hero is one of my favorite movies. Hardly anyone remembers it.

Other movies that I love that when I mention people scratch their heads:

The Replacement Killers
Bandalero
3-Iron
The Skeleton of Cadavra
Japanese Story

And sadly, some old masterpieces, like Night of the Hunter and Black Narcissus.

Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2017 08:05 PM (uaHyk)

220 206
John Cazale was in five movies. All got nominated for Oscar Best Picture.
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2017 08:03 PM (pV/54)

That's quite impressive.

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2017 08:05 PM (sdi6R)

221 168 131 130 "Man on Fire" with Denzel Washington is an overlooked by extraordinarily well-crafted movie IMHO. Lots of Christian imagery and solid performances by Washington, Christopher Walken and Dakota Fanning.

Posted by: RS at May 20, 2017 07:49 PM (CNQqJ)

Is that the one where he killed a guy by stuffing a dynamite stick up his butt?

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 20, 2017 08:06 PM (HP6gF)

222 214 OMG!! When I first say "Alien" back in 1979, I thought the same thing - what a ripoff of "Planet of Vampires". Or was it "Vampire Planet"?
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 20, 2017 08:01 PM (S6Pax)
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Carlo Rimbaldi did set and costumes on Alien -- did he work on Vampires?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 08:05 PM (NT3RT)

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You want to talk about creative influences in Alien? Gotta include Jodorowsky's Dune.

Half of that team worked on Alien.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:06 PM (Jj43a)

223 >>> Black Hawk Down is one of the best combat movies (hey, it wasn't a war) made since 2000. Watch it back to back with 13 Hours and you're in for a feast of solid cinematography.

I knew my wife was getting 'woke' when we watched 13 Hours at her suggestion.

Posted by: fluffy at May 20, 2017 08:06 PM (jw2Xw)

224 206: Fredo?

Posted by: LASue at May 20, 2017 08:06 PM (CLKfs)

225 Citizen X. An HBO movie of all things.

True story about a Russian serial killer and the investigator who tracked him for years despite the resistance he got from the Russian government.

Very bleak, very Russian, excellent movie.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 20, 2017 08:06 PM (/tuJf)

226 Posted by: Tonypete at May 20, 2017 08:04 PM (tr2D7)

Right? He'd have such a good time!

Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 08:06 PM (e8PP1)

227 @210

Okay....I don't want to cry! I've already cried like 4 times today. I need something to take my mind off life.

So maybe True Romance isn't the one for me today.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 20, 2017 08:07 PM (smD62)

228 Let me add Amelie, the French movie, as not under-appreciated, but a good movie to show your neighborhood liberal that you have a artsy side that is unexpected in a conservative like me who has crust under a layer of crust.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 20, 2017 08:07 PM (u82oZ)

229 High Tension.

It's a French Horror film.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:07 PM (AuISE)

230 Paths of Glory gets overlooked in the Kubrick pantheon.

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Paths of Glory is great. The ending is a bit ambiguous, though. After Kirk Douglas fails to save the soldiers, he wanders into a crowded bar where a terrified German chick is forced to sing for the French soldiers. Although not explained in the movie (unless you Kraut), the song she sings is about how it sucks to be a soldier. So things are tough all over.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 20, 2017 08:07 PM (Nwg0u)

231 Another fan of "John Carter" here. I know it combined elements of different stories in the Barsoom series but it retained the flavor of the books. And I really enjoyed the humor. I'm just sorry there won't be any sequels. Disney, once again, screwed the pooch.

I put "Sahara", based on the Clive Cussler book, in the same category. Fun, plenty of action, and faithful to the feel of the books and characters.

Posted by: JTB at May 20, 2017 08:07 PM (V+03K)

232 True Romance isn't "romantic"... lol.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 20, 2017 08:07 PM (6gk0M)

233 The Keep was a great twist on the whole vampire concept. Sometimes I thought the music and atmospherics were a bit too ethereal and blunted the horror the characters were facing.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 08:02 PM (Ydq56) fnord (Ydq56)

Well, I think the point was that the horror was kind of in the background compared to the awe and wonder. In that respect I liked it (in a sense more suspense and less horror).

That being said I'm no fan of horror. If I like a "horror" movie it's probably a genre-buster in some way.

The Keep is a Michael Mann film, BTW.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 20, 2017 08:08 PM (wB8Tg)

234 215 Also...i would prefer for it not to be a romance or romcom....I need a comedy or sci-fi or something.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 20, 2017 08:05 PM (smD62)
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How about "Warm Bodies" -- a ZomRomCom?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 08:08 PM (NT3RT)

235 Who has a better song than Vangeles? No one.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 20, 2017 08:08 PM (6Ll1u)

236 Speaking of Paths of Glory, a somewhat similar movie I liked was Breaker Morant.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 20, 2017 08:08 PM (Nwg0u)

237 234 How about "Warm Bodies" -- a ZomRomCom?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 08:08 PM (NT3RT)

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Pairs in comparison to Shaun of the Dead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:09 PM (Jj43a)

238 The Tin Drum

Posted by: Javems at May 20, 2017 08:09 PM (yOqwj)

239 @134

Zulu - A g*d damn classic for the Men of Harlech scene alone. It's also Michael Caine's first movie.

It would never get made today.

Posted by: browndog at May 20, 2017 08:09 PM (bGMOs)

240 >>> the Japanese movie Shall We Dance,

I really enjoyed it. Thumbs up.

>>> and Strictly Ballroom are in the mix as under-appreciated.

Baz Luhrmann does good film. He did my favorite Shakespeare adaptation Romeo + Juliet.

Bonus: It has M. Emmett Walsh AND Brian Dennehy.

Posted by: fluffy at May 20, 2017 08:10 PM (jw2Xw)

241 238 The Tin Drum
Posted by: Javems at May 20, 2017 08:09 PM (yOqwj)

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Book is better, but still damn fine film.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:10 PM (Jj43a)

242 Planet of the Vampires + It, The Terror from Beyond Space = Alien.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at May 20, 2017 08:10 PM (x3uSY)

243 What's that French film about that guy who lost his girlfriend and who wound up being buried alive?

The American remake sucked donkey whangs because it gave him a way out.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 20, 2017 08:10 PM (HP6gF)

244 True Romance is a legit Romantic movie made for men and women love it too.

I get choked up when I watch it. Alabama is a incredible girl.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:10 PM (AuISE)

245 Amelie is a lovely movie that I don't think I'll ever be able to watch again.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 20, 2017 08:10 PM (smD62)

246 Black Narcissus.
Posted by: Gem
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Oh yeah! Kathleen Byron (Sister Ruth) iirc also played Old Mrs. Ryan in Saving Private Ryan.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 20, 2017 08:10 PM (tr2D7)

247 *waves to Merovign*

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 08:10 PM (Ydq56)

248 Cazale was a NYC theater guy who never got a break for a movie, until he got the role of Fredo in Godfather 1. G2 followed, with Dog Day, The Conversation and The Deer Hunter.

He had a snippet in Godfather 3, so you can say he was six for six.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2017 08:11 PM (pV/54)

249 153 I need a movie to eat while I'm elbows deep in a tub of ice cream...suggestions?

I wish I could get my netflix working on my tv, but I may have to redbox it.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 20, 2017 07:53 PM (smD62)

Ichi the Killer

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 08:11 PM (0mRoj)

250 246 Black Narcissus.
Posted by: Gem
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Oh yeah! Kathleen Byron (Sister Ruth) iirc also played Old Mrs. Ryan in Saving Private Ryan.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 20, 2017 08:10 PM (tr2D7)

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The Red Shoes too.

Same creative team.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:11 PM (Jj43a)

251 232 True Romance isn't "romantic"... lol.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 20, 2017 08:07 PM (6gk0M)

The Hell you say!

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:11 PM (AuISE)

252 249 Ichi the Killer
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 08:11 PM (0mRoj)

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That movie is two or three spots down on my queue.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:12 PM (Jj43a)

253 Hello everyone.

I like the James Garner western/comedy Support Your Local Sheriff. I had to track it down on DVD but I watch it now and again.

There another movie I rented on impulse, called Chef or something like that...it's about a famous chef who walks away from his restaurant to start up a food truck. I guess from a technical standpoint it's kind of meh, but for some reason it works for me.

Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks, AKA Worthless Imbecile at May 20, 2017 08:12 PM (tVWQB)

254 Okay....I don't want to cry! I've already cried like 4 times today. I need something to take my mind off life.

So maybe True Romance isn't the one for me today.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 20, 2017 08:07 PM (smD62)

If you're looking for comedy, perhaps "Monty Python's Life of Brian"? It's funny but less manic than most of their work (thought-provoking even). Perhaps a Marx Brothers film like "A Night at the Opera".

I don't have any sci-fi to recommend, but I just re-watched the 1933 "King Kong" for the first time in years and was really surprised how well it had stood the test of time. Really good movie.

Posted by: TheLowerDepths at May 20, 2017 08:12 PM (1WTGm)

255 "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas". Tear your heart out.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2017 08:12 PM (b/nXm)

256 229 High Tension.

It's a French Horror film.
Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:07 PM (AuISE)

Good movie - reminded me of Identity.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 20, 2017 08:12 PM (rzRHr)

257 Might be available from Redbox.

Amazon Prime should have it.

Or you could come to my house. Whichever works for you.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:03 PM (Jj43a)

The ultimate cut only seems to be for Buy on amazon for some reason for the streaming. 9.99 so it is cheaper than some.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 08:12 PM (ycWCI)

258 "True Romance is a legit Romantic movie made for men and women love it too.
I get choked up when I watch it. Alabama is a incredible girl."
-Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:10 PM (AuISE)

Okay, but it isn't anything like a RomCom or a traditional tear-jerker.

Alabama: "Roller Coasters".

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 20, 2017 08:13 PM (6gk0M)

259 Most memorable scene in the movie.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 20, 2017 08:05 PM

...And that takes some doing. True Romance is simply one memorable scene after another until the credits role. I dunno if it qualifies exactly as an overlooked film, but it doesn't get the love today that it deserves. A 90's masterpiece for sure and one of my fave flicks.

Posted by: otho at May 20, 2017 08:13 PM (lmIoG)

260 201 Another overrated lefty actor from that era is Gregory Peck,

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He was good in Moby Dick.

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Did he play the dick?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 20, 2017 08:13 PM (Nwg0u)

261 Speaking of Paths of Glory, a somewhat similar movie I liked was Breaker Morant.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

"Breaker Morant" was an excellent movie (Edward Woodward was just an excellent actor), but it didn't make me think of "Paths of Glory".

Hmmmm, let me cogitate on that some more.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 20, 2017 08:13 PM (S6Pax)

262 Add Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? and Being There. I wish I could see all of the Shirley MacLaine footage from the later movie.

Memories from my childhood overemphasize The Great Race and What a Way to Go. I should see them with adult eyes.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 20, 2017 08:13 PM (u82oZ)

263 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas". Tear your heart out.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2017 08:12 PM (b/nXm)

The ending left me aghast.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 20, 2017 08:13 PM (HP6gF)

264 Tender Mercies. 1983

Robert Duvall, Tess Harper & Ellen Barkin.

Minimalist - but one of Duvall's best IMHO.

Posted by: phaedrus at May 20, 2017 08:13 PM (6ToBi)

265 206
John Cazale was in five movies. All got nominated for Oscar Best Picture.
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2017 08:03 PM (pV/54)
That's quite impressive.
Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2017 08:05 PM (sdi6R)

I once dated, long ago, a chick who had a long relationship with John "Fredo" Cazale.

She said he was a wonderful guy and he had so much talent but never got a starring role because he was not what you would call "handsome". He left quite an impression on her. She said he was always working, always "acting" and that he was quite the pro.

I think she said he died from a brain tumor or some such.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 20, 2017 08:14 PM (5VlCp)

266 The Illusionist with Ralph Kramden and Paul Giamatti.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 08:14 PM (vRcUp)

267 I also liked Gene Hackman in The Conversation.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 20, 2017 08:14 PM (Nwg0u)

268 The Place Beyond The Pines is an incredible film. It's on Netflix. It is not highly marketed because of the importance of the father roles and the father son bonds.

It's almost as if there is a trend or something.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:14 PM (AuISE)

269 TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017

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How about a "Best Movie Scenes" post one day?

Would be fun, if time consuming, to watch them if available online

Posted by: Javems at May 20, 2017 08:14 PM (yOqwj)

270 That movie is two or three spots down on my queue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:12 PM (Jj43a)

Hope you have a strong constitution.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 08:14 PM (0mRoj)

271
Somebody already mentioned Citizen X above. I can't recommend this movie enough. Its fantastic. The book was really good too. Really, gotta check this flick out. Very well done.

A Prayer For the Dying. Based on a Jack Higgins book (which is a great page turner). The movie was a decent adaptation. Mickey Rourke, a still unknown Liam Niason, Bob Hoskins, Alan Bates; all were great in it. Could have followed the book a little more closely but still a solid movie.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 07:45 PM (pY+s4)

Rourke is surprisingly convincing as an Irish guerrilla. Even the accent is spot-on, never fading like most American actors that try to use British Empire accents.

Switching gears, one of you reprobates recommended The Girl With All The Gifts, and it's definitely a great addition to the zombie genre.

Plus, Glenn Close in a zombie flick. Holy crap, that's either totally awesome or it totally signals the death of the zombie genre. Not sure which.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 20, 2017 08:14 PM (quw2O)

272 Probably mentioned above, but...you really need to read Ender's Game, because the battle training is so much more detailed, and crucial to how Ender can lead in the end. It's a long book, and you will savor every page. And...there's another side to the story they completely skipped: the brother and sister at home are up to some interesting things while Ender is off doing his thing. Love this book!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2017 08:15 PM (NOIQH)

273 -Posted by: otho at May 20, 2017 08:13 PM (lmIoG)

I watch it every single time it is on.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 20, 2017 08:15 PM (6gk0M)

274 243 What's that French film about that guy who lost his girlfriend and who wound up being buried alive?

The American remake sucked donkey whangs because it gave him a way out.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 20, 2017 08:10 PM (HP6gF)

++++

The Vanishing.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 08:15 PM (R+30W)

275 Three Days of the Condor.

Every time I see it, I appreciate it more and more.

Posted by: browndog at May 20, 2017 08:15 PM (bGMOs)

276 TP, watch Count of Monte Cristo (remake.) Some good old fashioned swashbuckling, I'm gonna get you sucka, John Wick without the headshots, revenge porn.

Plus it has this whole subplot about love, revenge, justice and right and wrong.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 08:15 PM (ycWCI)

277 Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks, AKA Worthless Imbecile at May 20, 2017 08:12 PM (tVWQB)

How are you?

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 08:15 PM (0mRoj)

278 Lots of movies about the Mutiny on the Bounty. The Bounty is my favorite. Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence Olivier. Maybe its just all the nekid slinky hot Polynesian gals running around in the movie that I like about it? Well the movie is pretty good too. The Vangelis soundtrack is also very good.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 08:16 PM (pY+s4)

279 Man on Fire Walken "Masterpiece" scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_hLvWmytTo

Posted by: X-ray at May 20, 2017 08:16 PM (Fz5yy)

280

We just watched Manchester by the Sea

Slow, sad. Depressing.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 20, 2017 08:16 PM (fceHP)

281 Ben Whishaw's performance as Richard II is great.

"I'm sorry, did you say something? I was feeding the monkey...."

If you ever get the chance check out the '80's BBC production of Richard III. Ron Cook gives a wonderful low key performance. All the malice and intrigue, without the metaphorical mustache twirling.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at May 20, 2017 08:16 PM (x3uSY)

282 How about a "Best Movie Scenes" post one day?
Would be fun, if time consuming, to watch them if available online

Posted by: Javems at May 20, 2017 08:14 PM (yOqwj)

I think this would be best as a multi-week thread.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 20, 2017 08:16 PM (HP6gF)

283 An oddball film I liked was Nemesis (Olivier Gruner). Definitely a B movie (verging on C movie at the end, especially the effects), it was a relatively early cyberpunk effort with a lot of action and gunplay, some of which even made a sort of sense.

The writers had a little fun and so did some of the B-movie actors (like Tim Thomerson, Marjorie Monaghan and Brion James) with scenes like a little old lady, roughed up by thugs looking for a fugitive, who then shoots them in the back as they walk away.

It's not a film to be taken seriously, but it has a few good fights and a few good ideas buried in there.

I hear the "sequel" was absolutely atrocious.

*waves back to Anna*

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 20, 2017 08:16 PM (wB8Tg)

284 269 TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017

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How about a "Best Movie Scenes" post one day?

Would be fun, if time consuming, to watch them if available online
Posted by: Javems at May 20, 2017 08:14 PM (yOqwj)

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*Takes notes*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:16 PM (Jj43a)

285 Some obscure favorites (I was into artsy romantic movies back in the day) that I feel like NO one has seen but I still love:

Betty Blue and Diva (French)
Impromptu
Wings of Desire (German)
Russia House

And I know it's unpopular here but I really have always liked 'Reds', for eye candy value (incredible scenery, filmed in Finland I think), and for the appreciation of the fact the characters were all dead fucking wrong about everything they thought was right w/r/t the Russian Revolution, and mostly for the "witnesses' of old people interviews through the movie who were actual quite famous figures in the ealy 1900s back when communism was fashionable among the Greenwich Village artsy crowd (Rebecca West, Henry Miller)

Posted by: Goldilocks at May 20, 2017 08:16 PM (zz1sH)

286 245 Amelie is a lovely movie that I don't think I'll ever be able to watch again.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 20, 2017 08:10 PM (smD62)

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Why not?

Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 08:16 PM (ZcAbN)

287 Probably mentioned above, but...you really need to read Ender's Game, because the battle training is so much more detailed, and crucial to how Ender can lead in the end. It's a long book, and you will savor every page. And...there's another side to the story they completely skipped: the brother and sister at home are up to some interesting things while Ender is off doing his thing. Love this book!

I agree with this. I don't like the sequels as much, but Ender's Game hit all the right notes. I think it's hard for any movie to really do it justice, because there are so many layers in there.

Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks, AKA Worthless Imbecile at May 20, 2017 08:17 PM (tVWQB)

288 BTW, I think the Count of Monte Cristo (the remake with Jim Caviezel and Guy Pierce) is a seriously overlooked gem.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 08:17 PM (ycWCI)

289 278 Lots of movies about the Mutiny on the Bounty. The Bounty is my favorite. Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence Olivier. Maybe its just all the nekid slinky hot Polynesian gals running around in the movie that I like about it? Well the movie is pretty good too. The Vangelis soundtrack is also very good.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 08:16 PM (pY+s4)

It's mostly the topless Polynesian gals running around. I'd never seen that many boobies on screen before in my life.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 08:17 PM (0mRoj)

290 Someone mentioned Milla Jovovich. I know she played Joan of Arc in a movie, but I haven't seen it. (Hell, I haven't seen 90% of the movies y'all are talking about.)

I really liked a two-part made for TV version back in the 90s, with Leelee Sobieski in the title role. At the end of Part 1, she was wounded in battle. Her soldiers pulled out the arrow, sat her back on her horse, and handed her her lance. She said, "I am the Maid." She said it with a look of wonder on her face, like she couldn't quite believe it.

Apparently, the "Maid of Orleans", who would arise to save France, was a prophecy at the time. That scene gave me goosebumps.

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2017 08:17 PM (sdi6R)

291 "The Stoning of Soyara M". Real Life.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2017 08:17 PM (b/nXm)

292 "Paths of Glory is great. The ending is a bit ambiguous,"

In the coda the French soldiers taunt the German girl forced to sing. But then they get broken up listening to her. They turn human before they revert back to mindless killers.

Kubrick flicks often have a "what does it mean to be human" theme.

Kubrick married the girl who played the German singer

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2017 08:17 PM (pV/54)

293 We just watched Manchester by the Sea

Slow, sad. Depressing.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette

I watched that on a long airplane flight a few weeks ago. I was about to jump out of the plane.
No, seriously. Just a very depressing movie.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 20, 2017 08:17 PM (S6Pax)

294 The Vanishing.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 08:15 PM (R+30W)

Yes! That was the name. And the American version had Jeff Bridges in it, and since American films have to have happy-clappy endings, they had him rescued.

I puked.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 20, 2017 08:17 PM (HP6gF)

295 243 What's that French film about that guy who lost his girlfriend and who wound up being buried alive?

The American remake sucked donkey whangs because it gave him a way out.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 20, 2017 08:10 PM (HP6gF)

"The Vanishing."

And way to go, OM, you put the spoiler right in your question!

Amazingly, the crappy American remake was made by the same director. Way to trash your own movie - or perhaps he thought us dumb Americans required a happy ending.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at May 20, 2017 08:18 PM (P8951)

296 Tender Mercies. 1983

Robert Duvall, Tess Harper & Ellen Barkin.

Minimalist - but one of Duvall's best IMHO.
Posted by: phaedrus at May 20, 2017 08:13 PM (6ToBi)

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I have never seen Duvall in a bad role. He makes the role every time.

Posted by: GOULD at May 20, 2017 08:18 PM (Hj4t4)

297 Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 08:15 PM (0mRoj)

I'm doing OK, brother. Just trying to keep from sitting around, you know? It's a long road ahead of me but thanks to you and everyone here it's not one I have to walk alone.

How are you?

Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks, AKA Worthless Imbecile at May 20, 2017 08:19 PM (tVWQB)

298 285 Some obscure favorites (I was into artsy romantic movies back in the day) that I feel like NO one has seen but I still love:

Betty Blue and Diva (French)
Impromptu
Wings of Desire (German)
Russia House

And I know it's unpopular here but I really have always liked 'Reds', for eye candy value (incredible scenery, filmed in Finland I think), and for the appreciation of the fact the characters were all dead fucking wrong about everything they thought was right w/r/t the Russian Revolution, and mostly for the "witnesses' of old people interviews through the movie who were actual quite famous figures in the ealy 1900s back when communism was fashionable among the Greenwich Village artsy crowd (Rebecca West, Henry Miller)
Posted by: Goldilocks at May 20, 2017 08:16 PM (zz1sH)

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Wings of Desire is great.

I also love Reds, bit I read it very differently than I think Beatty wanted.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:19 PM (Jj43a)

299 Always loved "The Point", animated with Harry Nilsson sound track.

Posted by: random ~~lurker~~ commenter at May 20, 2017 08:19 PM (+tRIN)

300 The Station Agent, with Peter Dinklage before he became so famous, is a pretty good movie that few seem to have seen.

Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 08:19 PM (ZcAbN)

301 I should have added a Rage Warning for Black Hawk Down and 13 Hours.

Watching them is guaranteed to make you pissed at Billary in a big way.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 08:19 PM (GsAUU)

302 252 249 Ichi the Killer
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 08:11 PM (0mRoj)

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JMP might as well double feature it with Tetsuo the iron man.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 20, 2017 08:20 PM (rzRHr)

303 I have never seen Duvall in a bad role. He makes the role every time.
Posted by: GOULD

Did you ever see "The Great Santini"?

What a great flick. Duvall is so over the top, but perfect in the role.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 20, 2017 08:20 PM (S6Pax)

304 The Kingdom by Peter Berg keeps me on the edge of my seat every time I watch it.

I also like the Iraqi ass map movie, Three Kings.

Posted by: LASue at May 20, 2017 08:20 PM (CLKfs)

305 I will add Passage to India to my list, and Room with a View. Love them, they are never on cable......

Posted by: Goldilocks at May 20, 2017 08:20 PM (zz1sH)

306 Breaker Morant" was an excellent movie (Edward Woodward was just an excellent actor), but it didn't make me think of "Paths of Glory".

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Both court martial movies. Other than that, quite different. The biggest difference is that throughout PoG, you know the soldiers are innocent. Even after the credits roll in BM, there is an issue of how innocent or guilty Breaket is.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 20, 2017 08:20 PM (Nwg0u)

307 I watch it every single time it is on.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 20, 2017 08:15 PM

Thank you Tony Scott. You done good, son.

Posted by: otho at May 20, 2017 08:21 PM (lmIoG)

308 @288

The Count of Monte Cristo with Caviezel (sp) was fun, don't forget Richard Harris' role too.

Nothing like the book, but good fun none the less.

Posted by: browndog at May 20, 2017 08:21 PM (bGMOs)

309 265:I think she said he died from a brain tumor or some such.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Yep. He had it while filming The Deer Hunter. The studios wanted to dump him but the actors revolted and the studios backed down. Merle Streepe was married to him at the time (or had a relationship, not sure about married).

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 08:21 PM (pY+s4)

310 303
Did you ever see "The Great Santini"?

What a great flick. Duvall is so over the top, but perfect in the role.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 20, 2017 08:20 PM (S6Pax)

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Very good movie.

Factoid: it was made for TV but so good that the network got it a limited theatrical run.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:21 PM (Jj43a)

311 297 Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 08:15 PM (0mRoj)

I'm doing OK, brother. Just trying to keep from sitting around, you know? It's a long road ahead of me but thanks to you and everyone here it's not one I have to walk alone.

How are you?
Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks, AKA Worthless Imbecile at May 20, 2017 08:19 PM (tVWQB)

I'm decidedly meh. We've all been concerned about you and are glad to see you here. You don't have to walk the road alone. I'm putting my email down below if you ever need to reach out.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 08:21 PM (0mRoj)

312 I thought the Lars von Trier SMOD movie "Melancholia" was effective. It really bummed me out. But it was never boring. Starring Kirsten Dunst and Jack Bauer.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 08:21 PM (vRcUp)

313 299: Yes! Oblio?

Posted by: LASue at May 20, 2017 08:21 PM (CLKfs)

314 If we are going to veer into movies like Ichi the Killer, lets go full samurai and have a Kurosawa fest.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 08:21 PM (Ydq56)

315 I love those old romantic comedies like It Happened One Night. Add to that list: Christmas In Connecticut, My Man Godfrey, Kiss Me Kate (Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel), the entire Thin Man series, and The Philadelphia Story. I enjoy humor and clever dialog.

Posted by: JTB at May 20, 2017 08:22 PM (V+03K)

316 288 BTW, I think the Count of Monte Cristo (the remake with Jim Caviezel and Guy Pierce) is a seriously overlooked gem.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 08:17 PM (ycWCI)

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Absolutely! Also the movie I took my wife to on our first date in 2002 ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 08:22 PM (ZcAbN)

317 ShainS. I have the Station Agent DVD, have not seen it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 20, 2017 08:22 PM (u82oZ)

318 307

Thank you Tony Scott. You done good, son.
Posted by: otho at May 20, 2017 08:21 PM (lmIoG)

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Passed on by his own hand, sadly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:22 PM (Jj43a)

319 @281-piano guy- Wasn't Whipshaw fantastic?

I watch"The Hollow Crown just for his performance.

Hiddelston was a poor second

Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2017 08:22 PM (b/nXm)

320 I just watched A Civil Action on cable-Robert Duvall was fantastic in that. He is good in everything. Tony Soprano and some other familiar faces are also in that, and John Travolta was really good in the lead. Recommended.

Posted by: Goldilocks at May 20, 2017 08:22 PM (zz1sH)

321 One of the best acting performances of all times and a great movie is Two Girls And a Guy. Robert Downey Jr. is amazing. The entire movie take a place in an apartment and the shots and dialogues are long.

Its a much see for cinephiles.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:22 PM (AuISE)

322 304 The Kingdom by Peter Berg keeps me on the edge of my seat every time I watch it.

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That was shot in Phoenix AZ. I remember driving by the set on the way to work and seeing all these camel jockeys mulling around a blown up ambulance.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 20, 2017 08:23 PM (rzRHr)

323 301 I should have added a Rage Warning for Black Hawk Down and 13 Hours.

Watching them is guaranteed to make you pissed at Billary in a big way.
Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 08:19 PM (GsAUU)

I can only describe what I felt at the end of 13 Hours as ice cold fury.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 08:23 PM (0mRoj)

324 312 I thought the Lars von Trier SMOD movie "Melancholia" was effective. It really bummed me out. But it was never boring. Starring Kirsten Dunst and Jack Bauer.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 08:21 PM (vRcUp)

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After watching Antichrist, I've sworn off all Von Trier movies.

It pissed me off that much.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:23 PM (Jj43a)

325 And I know it's unpopular here but I really have always liked 'Reds',

I liked that. Of course, when I saw it, I was a total commie, but I agree with why you like it. It's actually got historical value.

Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 08:23 PM (e8PP1)

326 The TV release of Treasure Island w/Charleton Heston was superb. Great supporting cast as well - Oliver Reed, Christopher Lee, Christian Bale.

Posted by: browndog at May 20, 2017 08:24 PM (bGMOs)

327 What a great flick. Duvall is so over the top, but perfect in the role.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 20, 2017 08:20 PM (S6Pax)

Pretty much all of Pat Conroy's books are him trying to heal from the psychological damage inflicted on him by a shitty dad.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 20, 2017 08:24 PM (HP6gF)

328 "The Kingdom" is a very good movie.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 20, 2017 08:24 PM (6gk0M)

329 OK, a lot of my movies are foreign films I've stumbled across while battling insomnia:

"Vitus" - About a child prodigy who has to deal with a major challenge. Charming, and I love how the film allows all of the characters to be flawed, but not in a crap nuancey way Hollywood does this. This is the film Jodie Foster wishes she made.

"The Secret in Their Eyes" - Slow burn police procedural that is tied up in the then-current political issues in Argentina, with a little love story on the side. Riveting. Cannot recommend this one enough. **Not the Julia Roberts remake**

"It's Hard Being Loved by Jerks" - Documentary on the trial of Charlie Hebdo for reprinting the Mohammed cartoons. Yeah, they're childish, pretentious Frenchmen, but they defend freedom of speech like no American media outlet I've seen, and despite it all they seem to be having fun. So sad to think that a lot of these people are now dead. **Finally available on Amazon online video - was unavailable for years**

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2017 08:24 PM (NOIQH)

330 Mrs. E ordered Zulu off amazon for me. And Fifth Element too. She is a peach. Of course, I just bought her a Micro-Nine.

Posted by: Eromero at May 20, 2017 08:24 PM (zLDYs)

331 314 If we are going to veer into movies like Ichi the Killer, lets go full samurai and have a Kurosawa fest.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 08:21 PM (Ydq56)

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*Finger on chin*

May it be done.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:24 PM (Jj43a)

332 I just sobbed while watching Star Trek: WOK, so...I feel like maybe I just need to watch the All Star Race and see cars crash and burn.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 20, 2017 08:24 PM (smD62)

333 300 The Station Agent, with Peter Dinklage before he became so famous, is a pretty good movie that few seem to have seen.
Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 08:19 PM (ZcAbN)
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I liked it a lot, but then I liked Dinklage in "Living in Oblivion":

[Little person Tito is not happy with the dream sequence]
Tito: Why does my character have to be a dwarf?
Nick: He doesn't have to be.
Tito: Then why is he? Is that the only way you can make this a dream, to put a dwarf in it?
Nick: No, Tito, I...
Tito: Have you ever had a dream with a dwarf in it? Do you know anyone who's had a dream with a dwarf in it? No! I don't even have dreams with dwarves in them. The only place I've seen dwarves in dreams is in stupid movies like this! "Oh make it weird, put a dwarf in it!". Everyone will go "Woah, this must be a fuckin' dream, there's a fuckin' dwarf in it!". Well I'm sick of it! You can take this dream sequence and stick it up your ass!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 08:24 PM (NT3RT)

334 I read Ender's Game several times and was mostly bored by it. I thought Harrison Ford looked bored as well. It just wasn't a good movie and while it was faithful in some parts, the parts it wasn't as faithful was disappointing.

In hindsight, I think it would be do better as a Netflix or HBO style series. 8 to 13 episodes would give it space to develop characters like the movie didn't have.

Posted by: SamVonSam at May 20, 2017 08:24 PM (YgGDs)

335 After watching Antichrist, I've sworn off all Von Trier movies.

It pissed me off that much.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:23 PM (Jj43a)

I must confess I was all WTF through pretty much the whole thing

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 08:25 PM (0mRoj)

336 Highly recommend Kurosawa's Ran which is loosely based on King Lear, but with a better plot.

Lady Kaede is the most bad ass woman character in all of Filmdom.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2017 08:25 PM (pV/54)

337 Thank you, Insomniac - it really means a lot to me. However bad things get for any of us, it's incredible that there is this community to help us get through it.

This place really is something special.

Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks, AKA Worthless Imbecile at May 20, 2017 08:25 PM (tVWQB)

338 320 I just watched A Civil Action on cable-Robert Duvall was fantastic in that. He is good in everything. Tony Soprano and some other familiar faces are also in that, and John Travolta was really good in the lead. Recommended.
Posted by: Goldilocks at May 20, 2017 08:22 PM (zz1sH)

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Another good, but limited, late performance by Duvall is in Thank You for Smoking.

He's also great in George Lucas's first movie THX-1138.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:25 PM (Jj43a)

339 Speaking of French movies, I remember a good one from the 80's, "Tante Danielle."

Tante Danielle is an evil old crone who delights in creating misery for her family - and she gets away with it because she can turn on the "I'm just a helpless little old lady" act when things go awry.

There's a scene where the nephew she is living with has his very proper boss and the bosses wife over for dinner and they're all sitting in the living room making polite chit-chat when Tante Danielle comes out of her bedroom and joins them and she's wearing a long nightgown and slippers and acts like a senile old lady who was locked away in the bedroom. She sits there and natters away and then gets up and there are poop stains on her nightie.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at May 20, 2017 08:25 PM (P8951)

340 Recently one of the best acting scenes I've ever seen was from Sneaky Pete when Bryan Cranston tells about a 6 minute story. Great show by the way.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:25 PM (AuISE)

341 Here is one I cannot remember but the horde may help.

It's a 50's movie, or early 60's, black and white.

Set in the 1950's, English. Guy gets out of prison and then seeks to get back with the wife of the town police dick who sent him up river for her crime, if I remember right. I think they were lovers when he took the fall for her crime.

He had to live in an abandoned boat on the beach while he tried to piece his life and the truth back together.

All English actors but I can't remember any names.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 20, 2017 08:26 PM (5VlCp)

342 And way to go, OM, you put the spoiler right in your question!

Posted by: DonnaV sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at May 20, 2017 08:18 PM (P8951)

Sorry, I couldn't figure out a way to convey enough information about the movie without including the spoiler.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 20, 2017 08:26 PM (HP6gF)

343 Minimalist - but one of Duvall's best IMHO.
Posted by: phaedrus at May 20, 2017 08:13 PM (6ToBi)

--That won him his Oscar.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 08:26 PM (GsAUU)

344 Middle son's waifu in Ran is the true black fox witch.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 08:26 PM (Ydq56)

345 It was mentioned a bit when Bill Paxton died, but "Frailty" was a very good movie.

Posted by: josephistan at May 20, 2017 08:27 PM (ANIFC)

346 If we are going to veer into movies like Ichi the Killer, lets go full samurai and have a Kurosawa fest.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 08:21 PM (Ydq56)

(gets out "100 Martial Arts Movies" DVD set)

See y'all in a week or two...

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 20, 2017 08:27 PM (wB8Tg)

347 LASue- The Kingdom was super.

The Shakespere Company that did the spoof was the funniest thing I have ever seen.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2017 08:27 PM (b/nXm)

348 I have never seen Duvall in a bad role. He makes the role every time.

Posted by: GOULD at May 20, 2017 08:18 PM (Hj4t4)

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Agreed. Reminded me of another relatively unknown gem: Secondhand Lions, with Duvall, Michael Caine, Haley Joel Osment, and the artwork of Berkley Breathed.

Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 08:27 PM (ZcAbN)

349 345 It was mentioned a bit when Bill Paxton died, but "Frailty" was a very good movie.
Posted by: josephistan at May 20, 2017 08:27 PM (ANIFC)

Yes. It kept you guessing to the very end.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 08:27 PM (0mRoj)

350 Is Places in the Heart the one movie more famous for an acceptance speech than for the content?

Anyway, I saw it when I was a littl'un and I still thought it was good.

All about forgiveness.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 08:27 PM (GsAUU)

351 I didn't like Ender's Game. I liked the book to much (and then hated the sequels.) John Carter? It did not work for me. I was HUGE fan of the Barsoom novels. But that was a long time ago, I hardly remember them. But the movie did not work for me. My wife likes them both. Go figure.

For forgotten little movies, I like this B&W film about a city in Africa. Casablanca? Anyone seen it?

Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2017 08:28 PM (tFx3r)

352 >>I love those old romantic comedies like It Happened One Night.

Me, too. Add "Arsenic and Old Lace" - that one is silly fun!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2017 08:28 PM (NOIQH)

353 332 I just sobbed while watching Star Trek: WOK, so...I feel like maybe I just need to watch the All Star Race and see cars crash and burn.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 20, 2017 08:24 PM (smD62)

Ok, you need 10ccs of Airplane! stat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 08:28 PM (ycWCI)

354 We Don't Live Hear Anymore.

Another hidden gem. Great acting. Highly recommend.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:28 PM (AuISE)

355 The War Lord is one of my favorite forgotten movies.

Also Rob Roy which can be considered forgotten ever since the made Braveheart.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 20, 2017 08:28 PM (kzG+k)

356 296 Tender Mercies. 1983

Robert Duvall, Tess Harper & Ellen Barkin.

Minimalist - but one of Duvall's best IMHO.
Posted by: phaedrus at May 20, 2017 08:13 PM (6ToBi) [/br]

One of my favorites. Not really too unknown. I think it got an Oscar or two. Great movie.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 08:28 PM (pY+s4)

357 I thought John Carter had its good parts, and its bad parts. It was okay, but it could have been better, imo.

There was one pretty notable thing that I didn't like about Ender's Game. The script of the movie made it look like the adults were all warmongers hungry for genocide. A key part of the original book is that humanity has every reason to believe that there's another formic fleet on the way. There isn't - but only because the formics belatedly realized that they REALLY screwed up both the first *and* second contacts, and humanity is fully justified in seeing the formics as genocidal monsters. As a result, the formics see the human response as the inevitable result of their own actions (doesn't mean they like it, of course, which is why they desperately reach out to Ender). The movie didn't spend enough time showing that the whole mess is the fault of the formics, imo. I suspect that mentioning the second invasion would have gone a long way to dealing with that (because it suggests that the formics are quite happy to keep sending invasion fleets to Earth).

I also had a minor nit-pick. In the movie, Ali is arab. In the book, he's black. This becomes a plot point in one of the later Shadow books when he becomes the new Caliph, and anti-black racism directed against him starts to show up among some of his arab followers.

Posted by: junior at May 20, 2017 08:28 PM (deapv)

358
If we are going to veer into movies like Ichi the Killer, lets go full samurai and have a Kurosawa fest.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 08:21 PM (Ydq56)

Throne of Blood. The final battle scene with Birnam Wood and a bunch of REAL archers shooting REAL arrows at Mifune...... Holy crapola.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 20, 2017 08:28 PM (quw2O)

359 "Living in Oblivion" was one of my favorite films. Yet I have not shown my wife. I wanted to show my Mom, with her acting and arty background, but alas.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 20, 2017 08:28 PM (u82oZ)

360 Merovign, or Kung-Fu Hustle and Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 08:28 PM (Ydq56)

361 335
I must confess I was all WTF through pretty much the whole thing
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 08:25 PM (0mRoj)

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After the first 15 minutes I said, "I'm guaranteed to at least like this movie."

It was very good character work.

And then it got simply vile without anything to redeem it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:28 PM (Jj43a)

362 350 Is Places in the Heart the one movie more famous for an acceptance speech than for the content?

Anyway, I saw it when I was a littl'un and I still thought it was good.

All about forgiveness.
Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 08:27 PM (GsAU

The ending scene in the church was quite moving.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 08:29 PM (0mRoj)

363 "Runaway Train" was a great movie. Golan- Globus usually put out crap but that was one that great. Another one was "52 Pickup" with Roy Schieder and Ann Margret.
Some other ones off the top of my head, a Cagney flick named "City for Conquest", "Cop" with James Woods, and "The Wages of Fear" about nitro truck drivers in South America.

Posted by: tu3031 at May 20, 2017 08:29 PM (qJhUV)

364 >>>>Wasn't Whipshaw fantastic?

I watch"The Hollow Crown just for his performance.
<<<<<

Oh yes. Jeremy Irons is really good, too. Hiddleston was alright as the wastrel Prince Hal but he wasn't able to carry Henry V. That whole production was odd. Opening with Henry lying in state with the "Muse of fire" speech voice over was a mistake. And as much as I liked John Hurt he was too old and sick to play the chorus. His delivery was labored and it set the pace for the whole show.

So to stay on topic, give the Hollow Crown Henry V a miss and watch the Branagh version instead if you haven't seen it.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at May 20, 2017 08:30 PM (x3uSY)

365 Highly recommend Kurosawa's Ran which is loosely based on King Lear, but with a better plot.

Lady Kaede is the most bad ass woman character in all of Filmdom.
Posted by: Ignoramus

Heh. I just made comment about "Ran" and when I was about to post my internet Wi-Fi dropped out.

Some tremendous battles scenes staged in that one.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 20, 2017 08:30 PM (S6Pax)

366
Regarding Ender's Game -- one key part of the story that didn't make it into the movie was the on-line dialogues beyween Ender's sister and older brother regarding governing systems and the war against the bugs policies. In the book, on-line discusion was portrayed as rational and measured. IRL it is not like that at all (nor will it ever be).

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 20, 2017 08:30 PM (pNxlR)

367 298:I also love Reds, bit I read it very differently than I think Beatty wanted.

Kind of like the writers of The Wire. They wanted to show the failure of the War on Drugs. Instead it showed what happens when a city is run by Democrats for decades.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 08:30 PM (pY+s4)

368 Something Wicked This Way Comes

Posted by: josephistan at May 20, 2017 08:30 PM (ANIFC)

369 And then it got simply vile without anything to redeem it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:28 PM (Jj43a)

I've read a number of interpretations of the movie and I still haven't found one that makes sense out of it, not completely.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 08:30 PM (0mRoj)

370 Stay Hungry.

Early Jeff Bridges. Great movie. Great themes for the GAINZZZ.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:30 PM (AuISE)

371 Maybe someone can help me remember the name this movie:

It's Canadian, I think, about people in dreary government type housing who go to therapy sessions with a counselor who is on a fuzzy old style tv.. a new guy shows up and can't figure out why he's there , but it turns out every person there has sinned greatly; they have all killed someone. The place is a purgatory like setting where they are forced to re-live some of their days.

It is gripping and weird and oddly uplifting at the end.

Posted by: LASue at May 20, 2017 08:31 PM (CLKfs)

372 @336 Highly recommend Kurosawa's Ran which is loosely based on King Lear, but with a better plot.

Lady Kaede is the most bad ass woman character in all of Filmdom.
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Yes, she is. Love that movie.

I'm generally not overly fond of tragedies. But I *love* that movie. It's a very well-done, brutal piece.

And as evil as Lady Kaede is, you can't help but respect what she pulls off.

Posted by: junior at May 20, 2017 08:31 PM (deapv)

373 368 Something Wicked This Way Comes
Posted by: josephistan at May 20, 2017 08:30 PM (ANIFC)

Good movie. Scary as shit when you're a kid.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 08:32 PM (0mRoj)

374 Some other ones off the top of my head, a Cagney flick named "City for Conquest", "Cop" with James Woods, and "The Wages of Fear" about nitro truck drivers in South America.
Posted by: tu3031 at May 20, 2017 08:29 PM (qJhUV)

Wages of Fear? Do you mean "Sorcerer" starring Roy Schieder?

Posted by: josephistan at May 20, 2017 08:32 PM (ANIFC)

375 >>> Runaway Train" was a great movie. Golan- Globus usually put out crap but that was one that great.

Jon Voight alone was worth the price of admission.

Posted by: fluffy at May 20, 2017 08:32 PM (jw2Xw)

376 "The Lives of Others" is pertinent today.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2017 08:32 PM (b/nXm)

377 Wait - I do have a forgotten movie that I LOVED and I can't find it anywhere anymore.

Dudes. With John Cryer. And Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It is a great 80s film

Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2017 08:32 PM (tFx3r)

378 373 368 Something Wicked This Way Comes
Posted by: josephistan at May 20, 2017 08:30 PM (ANIFC)

Good movie. Scary as shit when you're a kid.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 08:32 PM (0mRoj)

It still hold up as an adult. The father/son angle is more poignant to me now, too.

Posted by: josephistan at May 20, 2017 08:33 PM (ANIFC)

379 Passed on by his own hand, sadly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:22 PM

Yeah. Damn shame. That guy was largely under rated. On the subject of forgotten/under rated... have you caught "Ravenous"? A mostly overlooked flick from the 90's that is quite remarkable, despite not being a cinematic tour de force. Weird, darkly funny yet kind of touching. A terrific flick that bombed.

Posted by: otho at May 20, 2017 08:33 PM (lmIoG)

380 @366 Regarding Ender's Game -- one key part of the story that didn't make it into the movie was the on-line dialogues beyween Ender's sister and older brother regarding governing systems and the war against the bugs policies. In the book, on-line discusion was portrayed as rational and measured. IRL it is not like that at all (nor will it ever be).
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They also had to deal with the fact that audiences would have a hard time accepting that a couple of teenagers were getting their political posts accepted like they do in the book.

Posted by: junior at May 20, 2017 08:33 PM (deapv)

381 SLC Punk.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:33 PM (AuISE)

382 314 If we are going to veer into movies like Ichi the Killer, lets go full samurai and have a Kurosawa fest.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Throne of Blood and Ran! Movies if you like Shakespeare with Samurai's!

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 08:33 PM (pY+s4)

383 Vincent Price in Theater of Blood.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 20, 2017 08:34 PM (u82oZ)

384 I always say Ruthless People is one of the funniest movies ever made. Most people don't remember it.

Posted by: MAGA at May 20, 2017 08:34 PM (LQ1Q3)

385
Wages of Fear? Do you mean "Sorcerer" starring Roy Schieder?

Posted by: josephistan at May 20, 2017 08:32 PM (ANIFC)

Sorcerer is the Friedkin remake of Wages. Both are excellent, but Wages of Fear will make you claw the leather off your sofa in suspense.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 20, 2017 08:34 PM (quw2O)

386 Anatomy of a Murder
1959 movie with Jimmy Stewart and Ben Gazzara.

Posted by: Aviator at May 20, 2017 08:34 PM (/Nite)

387 Literally standing in front of my bookcases filled with DVD's looking for gems.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:34 PM (AuISE)

388 Fuck a duck.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 08:35 PM (GsAUU)

389 They also had to deal with the fact that audiences would have a hard time accepting that a couple of teenagers were getting their political posts accepted like they do in the book.

Posted by: junior at May 20, 2017 08:33 PM (deapv)

Not to mention long political discourses being typed and read is not good cinema. The movie was fine without that.

Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2017 08:35 PM (tFx3r)

390 I love Knowing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:21 PM (Jj43a)

*Bitch slap*

Posted by: Robert, who used to be an ONT regular, but now just Some Worthless Lurker, doing a bit of a comeback at May 20, 2017 08:35 PM (mknWS)

391 The Commitments is an early 90s flick about the short but eventful life of a Dublin R&B soul band.

"Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once, say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud."

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2017 08:35 PM (pV/54)

392 340 Recently one of the best acting scenes I've ever seen was from Sneaky Pete when Bryan Cranston tells about a 6 minute story. Great show by the way.
Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:25 PM (AuISE)

--The one from when his character (Vincent) was a cop?

Yeah, I think since he was co-creator of the series he put himself in that role just to have that soliloquy and chew the scenery.

And yeah, it was a great scene. Can't wait for Season 2.

Also, trivia from the Amazon X Ray feature: A Sneaky Pete is a pool cue stick used by hustlers --it's a high-quality stick made to look shabby, like a house stick, to draw in suckers.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 08:35 PM (GsAUU)

393 294 The Vanishing.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 08:15 PM (R+30W)

Yes! That was the name. And the American version had Jeff Bridges in it, and since American films have to have happy-clappy endings, they had him rescued.

I puked.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 20, 2017 08:17 PM (HP6gF)

Jeff Bridges was the bad guy and was beaten to death, IIRC. It's Kiefer Sutherland who gets rescued.

Filmed in and around Seattle. Sutherland's apartment is on Queen Anne Hill on the counterbalance. It's near the park where nearly all the "scenic" pictures of Seattle are taken. If you see the Space Needle with the red and white roof at the foot and to the right (Coliseum/Key Arena/Whatever they call it now), that's the view from that park.

Posted by: Vrag Naroda at May 20, 2017 08:35 PM (17QyB)

394 Babette's Feast...a very lovely film.

Posted by: lizabth at May 20, 2017 08:36 PM (p0fBx)

395 Trippy acid dropping foreign movies that leave you wondering at the end WTF?

There is always from Japan Hausu ...
https://youtu.be/WQ_Yo06kIIA

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 08:36 PM (Ydq56)

396 385
Wages of Fear? Do you mean "Sorcerer" starring Roy Schieder?

Posted by: josephistan at May 20, 2017 08:32 PM (ANIFC)

Sorcerer is the Friedkin remake of Wages. Both are excellent, but Wages of Fear will make you claw the leather off your sofa in suspense.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 20, 2017 08:34 PM (quw2O)

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The rate remake that matches the original.

Of course, Friedkin made a very different movie that just happened to be pretty much equally as good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:36 PM (Jj43a)

397 Watched (on YouTube) some of the 1971 Russian TV version of All the King's Men. Without even knowing Russian it looks quite good and true to the novel, leaving out, however, Willie Stark's rise to become governor.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2017 08:36 PM (hwAG5)

398 321 One of the best acting performances of all times and a great movie is Two Girls And a Guy. Robert Downey Jr. is amazing. The entire movie take a place in an apartment and the shots and dialogues are long.

Its a much see for cinephiles.
Posted by: Who Was Phone?

I did see that. Its very good. Downey was still in 'jail' (half-way house or something) and when he got permission to leave, he'd shoot the movie. Then he go back when filming for the day was finished. I think that was how it went. Memory is a little fuzzy.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 08:36 PM (pY+s4)

399
Runaway Train -- excellent film. The closing shot of Voight as Manny standing defiantly atop the train as it motored to his and his archenemy's demise was stirring and the following quote from Richard III was perfect

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 20, 2017 08:36 PM (pNxlR)

400 >>I always say Ruthless People is one of the funniest movies ever made. Most people don't remember it.

Oh, is that the one where there's a kidnapper (Bette Midler was kidnapped) having a standoff with the police and he is so inept the police are dismayed, "We may be talking to the stupidest criminal ever!"?
If that's the one, that scene killed me - laughed so hard.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2017 08:37 PM (NOIQH)

401 Second John Carter. That shit was great.

Andrew Stanton really should be allowed to direct a Star Wars movie. It was just kind of a goofy fun sci-fantasy story with a smokin' hot lead actress and tons of great humor.

But the movie bombed. Alas.

Posted by: Robert at May 20, 2017 08:37 PM (mknWS)

402 Here's a movie I've been trying to track down for a while. I caught the first ten minutes in TCM years ago, but don't remember the title. It's a b/w mystery from the 40s or 50s about a guy who's trying to find out what happened to his brother, a priest, in WWII. Ring a bell with anyone?

Posted by: josephistan at May 20, 2017 08:37 PM (ANIFC)

403 Bad Boys. (Young as Fuck Sean Penn).

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:37 PM (AuISE)

404 The War Lord is one of my favorite forgotten movies.

Also Rob Roy which can be considered forgotten ever since the made Braveheart.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 20, 2017 08:28 PM (kzG+k)

War Lord is a good movie and rarely shown on TV. I wonder why

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 08:37 PM (auHtY)

405 358
If we are going to veer into movies like Ichi the Killer, lets go full samurai and have a Kurosawa fest.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 08:21 PM (Ydq56)

*************

Could watch his anthology over and over again. Ran, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Kagemusha.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 20, 2017 08:37 PM (rzRHr)

406 386 Anatomy of a Murder
1959 movie with Jimmy Stewart and Ben Gazzara.
Posted by: Aviator at May 20, 2017 08:34 PM (/Nite)

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Small personal story.

I had seen this years ago, but my wife rented it a few weeks back.

I couldn't remember a thing about the film, even while watching it.

And yet, I have it the same Netflix rating I had given it this second viewing as I had the first, seven years ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:37 PM (Jj43a)

407 387 Literally standing in front of my bookcases filled with DVD's looking for gems.
Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:34 PM (AuISE)

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I'm influencing people!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:38 PM (Jj43a)

408 My short list.
* Tremors with Kevin Bacon
* Dust to Glory. It's a documentary, but it's fun to watch.

Posted by: AzDesertRat at May 20, 2017 08:38 PM (PKzRE)

409 lizabth, you've seen Babette's Feast?

I think that makes three people on this blog who have seen it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 08:39 PM (Ydq56)

410 390 I love Knowing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:21 PM (Jj43a)

*Bitch slap*
Posted by: Robert, who used to be an ONT regular, but now just Some Worthless Lurker, doing a bit of a comeback at May 20, 2017 08:35 PM (mknWS)

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Pistols at dawn, good sir!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:39 PM (Jj43a)

411
Any Cagney fans? I would highly recommend "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye" from 1950. Almost totally forgotten, yet I rate it on par with, if not actually better than, "White Heat". It's very dark and very strange. It really is a "90's" gangster flick that was made decades earlier. It's fantastic. Maybe Cagney's best and I'm a huge Cagney fan.

Posted by: otho at May 20, 2017 08:39 PM (lmIoG)

412 Kurosawa did a lot of things without samurais.

Ikiru, for one

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2017 08:39 PM (pV/54)

413 Thirded - "Ruthless People" is hilarious.

Posted by: josephistan at May 20, 2017 08:39 PM (ANIFC)

414 Lizzy,

That it.

Bill Pullam , the President in Independence Day, was the "stupidest person alive".

Posted by: MAGA at May 20, 2017 08:39 PM (LQ1Q3)

415 >>> Runaway Train -- excellent film. The closing shot of Voight as Manny standing defiantly atop the train as it motored to his and his archenemy's demise was stirring and the following quote from Richard III was perfect

That was what sparked my interest in Shakespeare.

Posted by: fluffy at May 20, 2017 08:39 PM (jw2Xw)

416 Agreed. Reminded me of another relatively unknown gem: Secondhand Lions, with Duvall, Michael Caine, Haley Joel Osment, and the artwork of Berkley Breathed.
Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 08:27 PM (ZcAbN)

--Did not know that about Breathed.

And I only learned a year ago or so that Duvall was Boo Radley, even tough I saw TKAM in eighth grade.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 08:40 PM (GsAUU)

417 Ender and Carter both suffer from a consistent problem in film.

You have to be a popular book to have a movie made (mostly), and you can't make a film that's too close to the book (because the media are very structurally different).

The end result is movies are (almost) only made under circumstances that will result in massive kvetching about the different between the book and the movie.

It's rare to escape this.

I thought both movies were better than average but not masterpieces, and I thought they both also suffered from poor ad campaigns (surprisingly common from the center of Mass Advertising Central).

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 20, 2017 08:40 PM (wB8Tg)

418 394 Babette's Feast...a very lovely film.
Posted by: lizabth at May 20, 2017 08:36 PM (p0fBx)

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I was very close to including that in the original post, but I didn't think that I would be able to regal enough to say anything about it intelligently.

Great little movie. Highly recommended.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:40 PM (Jj43a)

419 Pistols at dawn, good sir!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:39 PM (Jj43a)

I ain't gettin' up that early.

Posted by: Robert at May 20, 2017 08:40 PM (mknWS)

420 @365
Some tremendous battles scenes staged in that one.
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The big one with the castle siege is excellent. Muted sound for the first part of it. And then the crack of a musket shot at full volume, and the sound comes on in full.

I really need to see more Kurosawa. I own Seven Samurai, but there's a lot of his filmography that I haven't seen.

Posted by: junior at May 20, 2017 08:40 PM (deapv)

421 Any Cagney fans? I would highly recommend "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye" from 1950. Almost totally forgotten, yet I rate it on par with, if not actually better than, "White Heat". It's very dark and very strange. It really is a "90's" gangster flick that was made decades earlier. It's fantastic. Maybe Cagney's best and I'm a huge Cagney fan.

Posted by: otho at May 20, 2017 08:39 PM (lmIoG)

Love Cagney. Angels with Dirty Faces is one of my favorites.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 08:40 PM (auHtY)

422 386 Anatomy of a Murder
1959 movie with Jimmy Stewart and Ben Gazzara.
Posted by: Aviator at May 20, 2017 08:34 PM (/Nite)

You get to hear Jimmy Stewart say "orgasm"

Posted by: josephistan at May 20, 2017 08:41 PM (ANIFC)

423 Right now I'm watching Into the Forest about two sisters surviving a complete continental power outage while living in an isolated house on the edge of the deep woods in British Columbia.

Very slow moving, as befits the slow pace of their new life, but interesting.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 08:41 PM (NT3RT)

424 As the orchestra swells, and Earth is enveloped by a large blue planet, have some solace that HWNBP.

https://youtu.be/2kP-vuOy8cU?t=7m9s

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 20, 2017 08:41 PM (VdICR)

425
It Happened One Night Bell Book and Candle John Carter

All wonderful films! O'Muse would love to suggest films for you to view and receive suggestions more in my bailiwick. Perhaps via e-mail?

Posted by: Locke Common at May 20, 2017 08:41 PM (Y6EAT)

426 Ruthless People: Bette Midler aka Hell on Wheels.

Bell Book and Candle wasn't that good but...Kim Novak mmm.

Posted by: gNewt at May 20, 2017 08:42 PM (uHFrd)

427 Braveheart uses that battle scene from Chimes at Midnight almost shot by shot....

Posted by: JoeF. at May 20, 2017 08:42 PM (89VjS)

428 >>I just saw "Predestination" with Ethan Hawke. Freaky!

OMG, that one was a mind trip! Based on a Heinlein book or short story, IIRC.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2017 08:42 PM (NOIQH)

429 "In the movie, Ali is arab. In the book, he's black. This becomes a plot point in one of the later Shadow books when he becomes the new Caliph, and anti-black racism directed against him starts to show up among some of his arab followers."

So the movie retconned him one way, and Card retconned him the other way. Feh.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 20, 2017 08:42 PM (D2CCA)

430 412 Kurosawa did a lot of things without samurais.

Ikiru, for one
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2017 08:39 PM (pV/54)

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Ha!

I had Steven Prince, the Kurosawa scholar, as a professor in college and I asked him what one movie by Kurosawa would he chose if he could only watch one. He chose Red Beard, which is fantastic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:42 PM (Jj43a)

431 You want to see a really excruciating film that is very satisfying to watch?

King of the Ants

Stuart Gordon directing. You won't be sorry.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 08:42 PM (vRcUp)

432 Less Than Zero

Rules of Attraction

American Psycho.

All 3 are surreal as Fuck now and literally documetaries or evidence of Time Travel.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:42 PM (AuISE)

433 409:

Make that 4!!

Danish filmmaking at its finest.

Posted by: LASue at May 20, 2017 08:42 PM (CLKfs)

434 You people are my people. I also loved Ruthless People and Babette's Feast...

Posted by: Goldilocks at May 20, 2017 08:43 PM (zz1sH)

435 Anna Puma

Babette's Feast is my entry film to hook American women into subtitled films. My wife really likes it too.

I showed her Ruthless People when we were dating, and it made a difference.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 20, 2017 08:43 PM (u82oZ)

436 391: I've been trying to find The Commitments on DVD but have not been successful.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 08:43 PM (pY+s4)

437 413 Thirded - "Ruthless People" is hilarious.
Posted by: josephistan at May 20, 2017 08:39 PM (ANIFC)

--Mandatory:

https://youtu.be/v453Z-GR-38

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 08:43 PM (GsAUU)

438 419 Pistols at dawn, good sir!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:39 PM (Jj43a)

I ain't gettin' up that early.
Posted by: Robert at May 20, 2017 08:40 PM (mknWS)

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Neither am I.

Take tennis in the late afternoon?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:43 PM (Jj43a)

439 225 Citizen X. An HBO movie of all things.

True story about a Russian serial killer and the investigator who tracked him for years despite the resistance he got from the Russian government.

Very bleak, very Russian, excellent movie.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 20, 2017 08:06 PM (/tuJf)

I just watched that the other day! Gave me nightmares.

Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2017 08:43 PM (uaHyk)

440 Anatomy of a Murder
1959 movie with Jimmy Stewart and Ben Gazzara.
Posted by: Aviator at May 20, 2017 08:34 PM (/Nite)

Damn good novel. Reading it will definitely repay you. So will reading Advise and Consent, The Cardinal, and Harm's Way, all of which Preminger made films of inferior to the original.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2017 08:44 PM (m+GP6)

441 Reversal of Fortune. Jeremy Irons and Ron Silver in a pretty good film about von Bulow trial.

Posted by: dantesed at May 20, 2017 08:44 PM (88xKn)

442
Sleepers with Kevin Bacon. I was so glad when they shot him.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2017 08:44 PM (b/nXm)

443 Duvall is also the taxi driver in Bullett.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 20, 2017 08:44 PM (rzRHr)

444 favorite line from 12 chairs.

"Oh, God, You're so STRICT!"
Love Dom deLuise

Posted by: vivi at May 20, 2017 08:44 PM (11H2y)

445
409 lizabth, you've seen Babette's Feast?

I think that makes three people on this blog who have seen it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 08:39 PM (Ydq56)

Four.

My mother is a fanatic for that film. Almost every time I visit, she gets a big grin on her face and asks if I want to watch it again.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 20, 2017 08:44 PM (quw2O)

446 425
It Happened One Night Bell Book and Candle John Carter

All wonderful films! O'Muse would love to suggest films for you to view and receive suggestions more in my bailiwick. Perhaps via e-mail?
Posted by: Locke Common at May 20, 2017 08:41 PM (Y6EAT)

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I wrote the posts, and my email is at the end of the post of you want to give recommendations or anything.

I'm always looking for ways to elongate my Netflix queue.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:45 PM (Jj43a)

447 g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 20, 2017 08:45 PM (KCxzN)

448
Richard Lester does Dumas: The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers. The cast -- Michael York, Richard Chamberlin, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, Raquel Welch, Charlton Heston, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Lee, Geraldine Chaplin and many other top-notch players. The scenes, action and cinematography are superb. I won't watch any newer remakes of that story -- they are that good.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 20, 2017 08:45 PM (pNxlR)

449 I think that makes three people on this blog who have seen it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 08:39 PM (Ydq56)
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Count me in.

I've seen most of the films people claim to have been to only person to see.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 08:45 PM (NT3RT)

450 @409...Yes....I know it about by heart! I am glad to not be the only one.

Posted by: lizabth at May 20, 2017 08:45 PM (p0fBx)

451 >>Anatomy of a Murder

1959 movie with Jimmy Stewart and Ben Gazzara.

Posted by: Aviator at May 20, 2017 08:34 PM (/Nite)

You get to hear Jimmy Stewart say "orgasm"

Posted by: josephistan

The movie was temporarily banned in Chicago by Mayor Daley due to some of the language in the film.

Posted by: Aviator at May 20, 2017 08:45 PM (/Nite)

452 "The Long Good Friday" a British mob movie with Bob Hoskins as the boss.

Posted by: tu3031 at May 20, 2017 08:46 PM (qJhUV)

453 Of the original list, only saw Ender's Game, pretty good but didn't nail the landing like the book did.
Brother From Another Planet
The Man in the White Suit
Secondhand Lions
Coca Cola Kid

Posted by: Joe Mack at May 20, 2017 08:46 PM (PjWy4)

454 229 High Tension.

It's a French Horror film.
Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:07 PM (AuISE)

That film is BRUTAL. Don't watch it late at night when your husband and kids are having an overnight at Camp Tecumseh. Trust me on this.

Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2017 08:46 PM (uaHyk)

455 417 Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith

Jaws was a better movie than a book. It is rare, however.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 20, 2017 08:46 PM (u82oZ)

456 Here's another 80s foreign movie lost to time....Fanny and Alexander. Anyone but me know it?

Posted by: Goldilocks at May 20, 2017 08:46 PM (zz1sH)

457 Tin Men. A movie about aluminum siding salesmen in the 60's. Better than it sounds.
Danny DeVito, Richard Dreyfuss, Barbra Hershey.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094155/

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 08:46 PM (R+30W)

458 @429 So the movie retconned him one way, and Card retconned him the other way. Feh.
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?

Card had finished writing all of the books (including the Shadow books) long before the movie came out. Not sure why you're saying that Card "retconned" him.

Posted by: junior at May 20, 2017 08:46 PM (deapv)

459
I see somebody already mentioned Silent Running with Bruce Dern (he killed John Wayne!).

I liked The Mechanic with Bronson and Vincent.

I would like to see both again, without chemical enhancement, to see if they hold up...

Posted by: Spun and Murky at May 20, 2017 08:46 PM (4DCSq)

460 You mean I'm being marked DOWN?

Posted by: bette midler at May 20, 2017 08:46 PM (11H2y)

461 I just saw "Predestination" with Ethan Hawke. Freaky!

OMG, that one was a mind trip! Based on a Heinlein book or short story, IIRC.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2017 08:42 PM

Fantastic. Now that's an overlooked, under rated movie.

Posted by: otho at May 20, 2017 08:46 PM (lmIoG)

462 >>Reminded me of another relatively unknown gem: Secondhand Lions,

Yes, that one is good.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2017 08:47 PM (NOIQH)

463 >Anatomy of a Murder

1959 movie with Jimmy Stewart and Ben Gazzara.

Neat use of early wire-transmitted photo at the end.

Always reminded me of a mimeograph stencil-maker I used to have access to...

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 20, 2017 08:47 PM (oVJmc)

464 452 "The Long Good Friday" a British mob movie with Bob Hoskins as the boss.
Posted by: tu3031 at May 20, 2017 08:46 PM (qJhUV)

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Damn fine little film.

Layer Cake is in that same vein, but made a couple of decades later. Also recommended.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:47 PM (Jj43a)

465 @445...that's funny...I do the same thing to people. "Let's watch Babette's Feast!"

Posted by: lizabth at May 20, 2017 08:47 PM (p0fBx)

466 Hey...

A MoMee movie marathon? Now if we could take over a cineplex.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 08:47 PM (Ydq56)

467 Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers are definitive. Never to be equaled or exceeded.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 20, 2017 08:48 PM (u82oZ)

468 457: yes, that's a great movie!

Posted by: LASue at May 20, 2017 08:48 PM (CLKfs)

469 Anyone ever see 'The Gods must be crazy'? Saw it decades ago and remember thinking it was hysterical. Haven't seen it since...wonder if I would still find it funny.

Posted by: Tami at May 20, 2017 08:48 PM (Enq6K)

470 Here's another 80s foreign movie lost to time....Fanny and Alexander. Anyone but me know it?

I have a laserdisc copy. Still sealed, so I haven't actually watched it yet...

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 20, 2017 08:48 PM (oVJmc)

471 243 What's that French film about that guy who lost his girlfriend and who wound up being buried alive?

The American remake sucked donkey whangs because it gave him a way out.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 20, 2017 08:10 PM (HP6gF)

With Ryan Reynolds in it it's probably called "Buried Alive."

Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2017 08:48 PM (uaHyk)

472 Tin Men. A movie about aluminum siding salesmen in the 60's. Better than it sounds.
Danny DeVito, Richard Dreyfuss, Barbra Hershey.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094155/

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 08:46 PM (R+30W)

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Yes. Doesn't get mentioned much, but excellent movie.

Posted by: GOULD at May 20, 2017 08:48 PM (Hj4t4)

473
452 "The Long Good Friday" a British mob movie with Bob Hoskins as the boss.

Posted by: tu3031 at May 20, 2017 08:46 PM (qJhUV)

The abattoir scene.....a young Pierce Brosnan for the 'ettes......and a smokin' hawt late 70s Helen Mirren.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 20, 2017 08:48 PM (quw2O)

474 A MoMee movie marathon? Now if we could take over a cineplex.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 08:47 PM (Ydq56)
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Horde Day Afternoon.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 08:48 PM (NT3RT)

475 Wild Bill. (Jeff Bridges plays him). A hidden gem in my book.

Broken Flowers

Bringing Out Your Dead

Evolution (surprisingly funny)

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:49 PM (AuISE)

476 Tin Men. A movie about aluminum siding salesmen in the 60's. Better than it sounds.
Danny DeVito, Richard Dreyfuss, Barbra Hershey.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094155/

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 08:46 PM

Two thumbs up for Tin Men. Excellent. Have no idea why it isn't remembered as it should be.

Posted by: otho at May 20, 2017 08:49 PM (lmIoG)

477 @469 Anyone ever see 'The Gods must be crazy'? Saw it decades ago and remember thinking it was hysterical. Haven't seen it since...wonder if I would still find it funny.
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Haven't seen it. Saw the sequel. It was amusing, but that's about it. I've heard that the original is much better.

Posted by: junior at May 20, 2017 08:49 PM (deapv)

478 470 Here's another 80s foreign movie lost to time....Fanny and Alexander. Anyone but me know it?

I have a laserdisc copy. Still sealed, so I haven't actually watched it yet...
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 20, 2017 08:48 PM (oVJmc)

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I went on a very large Ingmar Bergman binge a decade ago.

Anything he made is worth watching. Fanny and Alexander is near the top of his mighty filmography. I'd put The Virgin Spring at the top, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:49 PM (Jj43a)

479 442
Sleepers with Kevin Bacon. I was so glad when they shot him.

4 friends cruising for tube steaks end up getting weinered.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 20, 2017 08:50 PM (rzRHr)

480 OT

Salty Dawg and other Morons, starting tomorrow for one day Pinch of Larceny is going to Free status. Also Golden Isis will briefly drop down to 99 cents Sunday before resuming regular price.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 08:50 PM (Ydq56)

481 Iron Giant is an animated masterpiece.

Posted by: PaddyO' at May 20, 2017 08:50 PM (Bbw58)

482 This is off the beaten trail:
The Boys and Girl From County Claire.
Colm Meany, Bernard Hill (Theoden), Andrea Corr.

Irish, Irish, Irish...very funny movie.

Posted by: browndog at May 20, 2017 08:50 PM (bGMOs)

483 Pushing Tin, about a feud betwixt air traffic controllers, is pretty funny.

Nick Falzone: [to Russell Bell] I'm personally going to see to it that you go down in flames!
Airplane Pilot: What?
Nick Falzone: Negative, United. That was not to you. Not to you!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 08:50 PM (NT3RT)

484 I remember seeing lots of movies when I was in college. Haven't seen many since.

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2017 08:50 PM (sdi6R)

485 391 The Commitments is an early 90s flick about the short but eventful life of a Dublin R&B soul band. "

I remember that film. That lead singer had some fantastic pipes.

There was also an Irish movie, I think it was calling "Killing Ed Devine" about a guy in a tiny village who wins the lottery and then drops dead of a heart attack and the townspeople try to collect the money.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at May 20, 2017 08:50 PM (P8951)

486 Anyone ever see 'The Gods must be crazy'? Saw it decades ago and remember thinking it was hysterical. Haven't seen it since...wonder if I would still find it funny.

Saw it in the theater back at the end of high school. Rewatched it a few times since, it's a nice, gentle little comedy.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 20, 2017 08:51 PM (oVJmc)

487 I was saying that Card took Game-era Ali and (in the "Shadow" timeline) retroactively decided to make a point about anti-black racism in the Arab/Muslim world.

The movie took Game-era Ali and retroactively was making a point about anti-Muslim Islamophobia in the white world.

I'm supposed to side with Card's "Shadow" timeline.

I guess.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 20, 2017 08:51 PM (D2CCA)

488 481 Iron Giant is an animated masterpiece.
Posted by: PaddyO' at May 20, 2017 08:50 PM (Bbw5

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*Scratches chin*

Animated movie thread, eh?

*Ponders further*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:51 PM (Jj43a)

489 Am I the only person who loves Thinner (Stephen King)?

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:51 PM (AuISE)

490 469 Anyone ever see 'The Gods must be crazy'? Saw it decades ago and remember thinking it was hysterical. Haven't seen it since...wonder if I would still find it funny.
Posted by: Tami at May 20, 2017 08:48 PM (Enq6K)

--"It's an interesting psychological phenomenon."

If you take it for the low-budget mockumentary it is, it's hilarious.

I heard the sequel was a big letdown, though. Never saw it.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 08:51 PM (GsAUU)

491 Anna, I always say your stories feel cinematic -- you oughta be a script writer.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 08:51 PM (NT3RT)

492 Preds GOAL!!!!!!!!!!

Tied 1-1

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 08:52 PM (GsAUU)

493 Salty Dawg and other Morons, starting tomorrow for one day Pinch of Larceny is going to Free status. Also Golden Isis will briefly drop down to 99 cents Sunday before resuming regular price.

Anna, you've done a good job with those books. I hope you have more in the pipeline!

Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks, AKA Worthless Imbecile at May 20, 2017 08:52 PM (PFy0L)

494 Great set-up by Subban.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 08:52 PM (GsAUU)

495
The Last Detail -- Otis Young, a young Randy Quaid and Nicholson in his hat trick role for scoring Oscar nominations. The musical score is perfect.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 20, 2017 08:53 PM (pNxlR)

496 "The Jewel of the Nile"

Ok but over-written. Too much cartoon and not enough fun. Not enough romance. That is why no third movie.

Posted by: Ok at May 20, 2017 08:53 PM (HGnpK)

497 Okay, this is slightly O/T ... but:

When I was about 8 or 9, I saw a movie on television one evening (don't know for sure, but likely a made-for-TV movie) called "My Side Of The Mountain" ... and it was like my first spiritual experience.

About a young boy (same age as me) who is very curious (scientific, wants to do experiments in nature) and -- after the family's summer vacation is cancelled -- runs away from home and lives off the land in the mountains.

His independence struck a chord with me that inspired me and has stayed with me to this day ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 08:53 PM (ZcAbN)

498 441 Reversal of Fortune. Jeremy Irons and Ron Silver in a pretty good film about von Bulow trial.
Posted by: dantesed at May 20, 2017 08:44 PM (88xKn)

My great aunt was married to Claus's grandfather. They had a significant age difference, but she was a duchess as a result of the marriage.

Posted by: LASue at May 20, 2017 08:53 PM (CLKfs)

499 All Hail Eris and Witchdoktor, second Tanya story is being written.

Kucinta is complaining that Tanya and Vivian are giving her headaches.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 08:53 PM (Ydq56)

500 *Scratches chin*

Animated movie thread, eh?

*Ponders further*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:51 PM (Jj43a)

Since Jackon's LOTR movies have come out, people overlook the earlier animated LOTR movie.

Posted by: josephistan at May 20, 2017 08:53 PM (ANIFC)

501 The original "Murder by Number" with Joan Plowright". Still can't get it on DVD for this country.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2017 08:53 PM (b/nXm)

502 Run Lola Run is a great movie for cinephiles. It's French as well.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:54 PM (AuISE)

503 "Raise the Red Lantern" (1991) English subtitles.

Young school girl becomes the fourth wive of rich Chinese businessman. Sad ending, but lots of interplay between the characters. Brace yourself for some Chinese opera singing; only enough to set the scene.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 20, 2017 08:54 PM (FR2VS)

504 Haven't seen it. Saw the sequel. It was amusing, but that's about it. I've heard that the original is much better.

Posted by: junior at May 20, 2017 08:49 PM (deapv)

Never saw the sequel. Sequels usually aren't as good as the original.

Posted by: Tami at May 20, 2017 08:54 PM (Enq6K)

505 There was also an Irish movie, I think it was calling "Killing Ed Devine" about a guy in a tiny village who wins the lottery and then drops dead of a heart attack and the townspeople try to collect the money.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at May 20, 2017 08:50 PM (P8951)

--Waking Ned Devine.

A hilarious comedy with heart.

Soundtrack also kicks ass.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 08:54 PM (GsAUU)

506 @487 I was saying that Card took Game-era Ali and (in the "Shadow" timeline) retroactively decided to make a point about anti-black racism in the Arab/Muslim world.
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It's been a long time since I've read Game. Is there any particular reason to think he's arab in the first book, aside from the fact he's Muslim?

Posted by: junior at May 20, 2017 08:54 PM (deapv)

507 496 "The Jewel of the Nile"

Ok but over-written. Too much cartoon and not enough fun. Not enough romance. That is why no third movie.
Posted by: Ok at May 20, 2017 08:53 PM (HGnpK)

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I'd be surprised if I got anything else from the movie than what you described.

Gotta see it, though. The queue is life.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:54 PM (Jj43a)

508 Secondhand Lions
Coca Cola Kid

Posted by: Joe Mack at May 20, 2017 08:46 PM (PjWy4)

++++

Coca Cola Kid was a fun movie.

I disagree with all the love for Secondhand Lions. I have tried to watch that movie on multiple occasions, could never get through it.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 08:54 PM (R+30W)

509 Anna Puma, I was the third person to buy Golden Isis as a book.

Do not have an e-reader, and would not get a Pinch of Larceny for free anyway. I want you to get the money.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 20, 2017 08:55 PM (u82oZ)

510 The "The Hill" with Sean Connery was always a favorite.

Especially when Ossie Davis "quits" the British Army and walks around in his skivvies and ignores any orders given him.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 20, 2017 08:55 PM (5VlCp)

511
Here's a thread suggestion. Why not focus on a single film? Announce it the previous week so that everyone can watch it, and then have a focused discussion.......

Oh, yeah. Horde.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 20, 2017 08:56 PM (quw2O)

512 505 There was also an Irish movie, I think it was calling "Killing Ed Devine" about a guy in a tiny village who wins the lottery and then drops dead of a heart attack and the townspeople try to collect the money.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at May 20, 2017 08:50 PM (P8951)

--Waking Ned Devine.

A hilarious comedy with heart.

Soundtrack also kicks ass.
Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 08:54 PM (GsAUU)

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There's a gem for you.

One of those mid to late 90s small town British comedies like The Full Monty. Waking Ned Devine might be the best of them. Right there with Billy Elliot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:56 PM (Jj43a)

513 Since Jackon's LOTR movies have come out, people overlook the earlier animated LOTR movie.
Posted by: josephistan at May 20, 2017 08:53 PM (ANIFC)

The Bakshi film is interesting. Way too compacted. Interestingly done.

The animated films are good for the Hobbit and the Battle of the Pelenor Fields (it is amazing how many times I have brought that up on this blog.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 08:56 PM (ycWCI)

514 I love Zulu. It's just a great, interesting film.

Is John Carter still on Netflix? I would like to see that one.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 20, 2017 08:56 PM (Lqy/e)

515
Oh, I thought of another one. "Below" by David Twohy. Sank without a trace... but it really, really good. Creepy and effective ww2 haunted submarine movie.

Posted by: otho at May 20, 2017 08:56 PM (lmIoG)

516 "Harold and Maude", with Ruth Gordon, is a wonderful, touching, and hilarious movie.

Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 08:56 PM (ZcAbN)

517 The English Patient.

Nah, just fucking with you. It's literally trash.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:56 PM (AuISE)

518
There was also an Irish movie, I think it was calling "Killing Ed Devine" about a guy in a tiny village who wins the lottery and then drops dead of a heart attack and the townspeople try to collect the money.

Waking Ned Devine.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 20, 2017 08:56 PM (oVJmc)

519 432 Less Than Zero

Jamie Gertz was smokin' in that movie. James Spader was menacing and Robert Downey Jr. played himself. I kid of course but he would certainly know first had of drug addiction.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 08:56 PM (pY+s4)

520 "Iron Giant is an animated masterpiece."

Brad Bird, who started in the early years of The Simpsons.

Did Ratatouille and The Incredibles. Can't wait for the sequel.

He voiced the costume designer character in The Incredibles, which is an inside baseball joke about Edith Head, who won eight Oscars for Costume Design

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2017 08:57 PM (pV/54)

521 Salty Dawg, once I get these three follow on Tanya stories written; then I should have enough of a word count to actually put it all on paper. Attack of the Omnibus edition.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 08:57 PM (Ydq56)

522 Donna, that was Waking Ned Devine, and it's a charming, funny movie. Yes.

Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 08:57 PM (e8PP1)

523 I liked The Mechanic with Bronson and Vincent.

Posted by: Spun and Murky at May 20, 2017 08:46 PM (4DCSq)

++++

Another movie Hollywood remade for no apparent reason. The original was excellent.

Attention Hollywood: If you must do remakes, here's how you should go about it. Look for a movie that had an interesting idea, but was poorly executed. Remake that one so it works.

You're welcome.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 08:57 PM (R+30W)

524
I disagree with all the love for Secondhand Lions. I have tried to watch that movie on multiple occasions, could never get through it.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 08:54 PM (R+30W)

--It still has value insofar as few movies about father-son (or father figure-son) relationships have been recently made. Same goes for Big Fish.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 08:57 PM (GsAUU)

525 L.A. Story is really good.

Posted by: MAGA at May 20, 2017 08:57 PM (LQ1Q3)

526 What's that French film about that guy who lost his girlfriend and who wound up being buried alive?

The American remake sucked donkey whangs because it gave him a way out.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 20, 2017 08:10 PM (HP6gF)

Speaking of French movies remade into shitty American ones. I like The Visitors with Jean Reno about a 12th Century knight and his servant sent to the late 20th Century. The American remake set in Chicago (?) also with Reno was garbage

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 08:57 PM (auHtY)

527 Waking Ned Devine was another dating my now wife movie. She appreciated, and I persisted.

That movie was a lot of fun, especially the motorcycle ride in the nude and the sweet ending. She liked that!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 20, 2017 08:57 PM (u82oZ)

528 511
Here's a thread suggestion. Why not focus on a single film? Announce it the previous week so that everyone can watch it, and then have a focused discussion.......

Oh, yeah. Horde.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 20, 2017 08:56 PM (quw2O)

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Yeah... Horde.

Still. I should try it.

I have the next three planned (only the first is written but they're all connected). After that though...

*Ponders further*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:57 PM (Jj43a)

529 436 391: I've been trying to find The Commitments on DVD but have not been successful.

Never mind. Found it.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 08:58 PM (pY+s4)

530 Strictly Ballroom.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 20, 2017 08:58 PM (oVJmc)

531 432 Less Than Zero

Jamie Gertz was smokin' in that movie. James Spader was menacing and Robert Downey Jr. played himself. I kid of course but he would certainly know first had of drug addiction.

I was just thinking about that movie - that's the one with the Bangles doing the cover of Hazy Shade of Winter and absolutely nailing it. A really good take.

Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks, AKA Worthless Imbecile at May 20, 2017 08:58 PM (PFy0L)

532 Another one I never hear much about is "Rocket Gibraltar" about a family getting together for the patriarch's birthday - Burt Lancaster is the old guy. There was Brit film recently that ripped off this idea that was not as good, "What we did on our holiday."

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2017 08:59 PM (NOIQH)

533 481 Iron Giant is an animated masterpiece.
Posted by: PaddyO' at May 20, 2017 08:50 PM (Bbw5

Criminally under-promoted. But that's the curse of (nearly) every animated movie not made by The Mouse.

Posted by: Vrag Naroda at May 20, 2017 08:59 PM (17QyB)

534 530 Strictly Ballroom.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 20, 2017 08:58 PM (oVJmc)

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My dad loves that movie.

I see it as a dress rehearsal for Moulin Rouge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:59 PM (Jj43a)

535 Brother From Another Planet

Posted by: Joe Mack at May 20, 2017 08:46 PM (PjWy4) =========

Two Thumbs Up. Was playing at the local art-house in college, and we went to see it on a whim. Hilarious ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 08:59 PM (ZcAbN)

536 This is off the beaten trail:
The Boys and Girl From County Claire.
Colm Meany, Bernard Hill (Theoden), Andrea Corr.

Irish, Irish, Irish...very funny movie.

Posted by: browndog at May 20, 2017 08:50 PM (bGMOs)

Andrea Corr. She was so damn cute. Probably still is

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 08:59 PM (auHtY)

537 My wife and I always watch Devil Bat with Bela Legosi. Great cheap fun.

Posted by: MAGA at May 20, 2017 09:00 PM (LQ1Q3)

538 497 Okay, this is slightly O/T ... but:

When I was about 8 or 9, I saw a movie on television one evening (don't know for sure, but likely a made-for-TV movie) called "My Side Of The Mountain" ... and it was like my first spiritual experience.

About a young boy (same age as me) who is very curious (scientific, wants to do experiments in nature) and -- after the family's summer vacation is cancelled -- runs away from home and lives off the land in the mountains.

His independence struck a chord with me that inspired me and has stayed with me to this day ...
Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 08:53 PM (ZcAbN)
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I saw this movie as a kid! Loved it. It was like a kid's dream to hollow out your own treehouse and have a pet falcon.

Would make a great double bill with "Where the Red Fern Grows".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 09:00 PM (NT3RT)

539 I simply love how the Bangles did that cover to Hazy Shade of Winter, to me it is better than the original.

*readies MN-23*

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 09:00 PM (Ydq56)

540 One of those mid to late 90s small town British comedies like The Full Monty. Waking Ned Devine might be the best of them. Right there with Billy Elliot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 08:56 PM (Jj43a)

--There is nothing not funny about a naked, wrinkled old guy riding around on a moped.

There's even a tune on the soundtrack for it, "Michael's Ride"

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:00 PM (GsAUU)

541 521 Anna Puma. Rest assured I will buy it. I may buy multiple copies as gifts.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 20, 2017 09:00 PM (u82oZ)

542
530 Strictly Ballroom.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 20, 2017 08:58 PM (oVJmc)

Marketed in Canada as "Loose Pants".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 20, 2017 09:00 PM (quw2O)

543 A movie I love that practically no one I know has ever heard of ---Two for the Road. with Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn.
I don't think it was a big hit when it came out, although I think it won an Oscar for best screen play.

It's a rom-com, I guess, but with zero cheap sentiment or melodrama--- very witty. It basically traces the relationship of a married couple over a dozen years or so.
Nice Mancini score too.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 20, 2017 09:00 PM (0jtPF)

544 It may not hold up, but Jonathan Demme's Something Wild made a big impression on me when it came out. And I still listen to its fantastic soundtrack. Ray Liotta was excellently evil.

Posted by: LASue at May 20, 2017 09:00 PM (CLKfs)

545 @523 Attention Hollywood: If you must do remakes, here's how you should go about it. Look for a movie that had an interesting idea, but was poorly executed. Remake that one so it works.

You're welcome.
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It happens, occasionally - usually when a story is being adapted to film. The most famous versions of 'The Maltese Falcon' and 'Ben Hur' were not the first versions that Hollywood put on the screen.

Posted by: junior at May 20, 2017 09:00 PM (deapv)

546 October Sky

Posted by: tu3031 at May 20, 2017 09:01 PM (qJhUV)

547 War of the Buttons with Colm Meany is pretty good.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at May 20, 2017 09:01 PM (x3uSY)

548 One movie, all comment. I vote 'no thanks'.

First, it's the horde. We argue about long bows and crossbows for pete's sake.

Second, it's the horde. Everyone has their own ideas about everything.

Third, it's the horde. Everyone would want a different movie.

So. Potluck. Bring your favorite movie to the get together. Just my opinion.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 20, 2017 09:01 PM (FR2VS)

549
The Guard. Irish Guard Brendan Gleeson and FBI agent Don Cheedle. Great fun.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 20, 2017 09:01 PM (pNxlR)

550 It may not hold up, but Jonathan Demme's Something Wild made a big impression on me when it came out. And I still listen to its fantastic soundtrack. Ray Liotta was excellently evil.

Posted by: LASue at May 20, 2017 09:00 PM

That's a good movie!

Posted by: otho at May 20, 2017 09:01 PM (lmIoG)

551 Broken Flowers

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:49 PM (AuISE)

++++

Yes! Directed by Jim Jarmusch, who is usually interesting. Another classic of his is
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165798/

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 09:01 PM (R+30W)

552 How can anyone watch Apt Pupil, the rumors surrounding it are sickening, Extras suing because the Director wanted the young boys to shower nude and someone took pictures of them and then disappeared, and read up on what the lead kid actor went through, this movie killed him in the long run.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 20, 2017 09:01 PM (dKiJG)

553 Dr. Cyclops. A really gorgeous color scifi classic from 1940. And the special effects are really good.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 20, 2017 09:01 PM (oVJmc)

554 523
Attention Hollywood: If you must do remakes, here's how you should go about it. Look for a movie that had an interesting idea, but was poorly executed. Remake that one so it works.

You're welcome.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 08:57 PM (R+30W)

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That was Ocean's Eleven, apparently.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 09:02 PM (Jj43a)

555 LA Story is so good, one of my favorite movies, and Less than Zero. OMG. Both are fantastic. 80s California.

Less than Zero had a great soundtrack too.

Posted by: Goldilocks at May 20, 2017 09:02 PM (zz1sH)

556 Oh, I thought of another one. "Below" by David Twohy. Sank without a trace... but it really, really good. Creepy and effective ww2 haunted submarine movie.
Posted by: otho at May 20, 2017 08:56 PM (lmIoG)
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Seconded.

Of course submarine movies are inherently cool.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 09:02 PM (NT3RT)

557 Suggestion: We may need to include certain tv series that have functioned as a film. They exist.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 09:02 PM (AuISE)

558

I watch"The Hollow Crown just for his performance.

Oh yes. Jeremy Irons is really good, too. Hiddleston was alright as the wastrel Prince Hal but he wasn't able to carry Henry V. That whole production was odd. Opening with Henry lying in state with the "Muse of fire" speech voice over was a mistake. And as much as I liked John Hurt he was too old and sick to play the chorus. His delivery was labored and it set the pace for the whole show.

So to stay on topic, give the Hollow Crown Henry V a miss and watch the Branagh version instead if you haven't seen it.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at May 20, 2017 08:30 PM (x3uSY)

I love the Branagh version, but Tom Hiddleston is so pretty... I liked him in The Hollow Crown, too.

And Ben Wishaw *was* great. I had just seen him Skyfall as Q, too.

Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2017 09:02 PM (uaHyk)

559
Speaking of Zulu another good British movie from 1964 set in Africa was the 'Guns at Batasi'. I think there was a scene were a British MP (Flora Robson) was shown as a completely naive do gooder

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 09:02 PM (auHtY)

560 The American remake set in Chicago (?) also with Reno was garbage

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 08:57 PM (auHtY)

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"Leon: The Professional" was an awesome flick with Jean Reno, an over-the-top hilarious Gary Oldman, and a young Natalie Portman.

Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 09:02 PM (ZcAbN)

561 489 Am I the only person who loves Thinner (Stephen King)?

Don't feel bad. I'm the only person who liked Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive. King didn't even like it. He blamed the coke.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 09:02 PM (pY+s4)

562 I may be overstating it but Uncle Buck should have won an Academy Award.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 20, 2017 09:02 PM (IDPbH)

563 I need a movie to eat while I'm elbows deep in a tub of ice cream...suggestions?

Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 20, 2017 07:53 PM (smD62)

Posted by: JT at May 20, 2017 09:03 PM (slGrF)

564 C.H.U.D. Verrrry underrated. And with John Heard.

Posted by: Barry O at May 20, 2017 09:03 PM (K3F/8)

565 551 Broken Flowers

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:49 PM (AuISE)

++++

Yes! Directed by Jim Jarmusch, who is usually interesting. Another classic of his is
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165798/

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 09:01 PM (R+30W)

Love Ghost Dog!!!

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 09:03 PM (AuISE)

566 Don't feel bad. I'm the only person who liked Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive. King didn't even like it. He blamed the coke.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 09:02 PM (pY+s4)

Great AC/DC soundtrack

Posted by: josephistan at May 20, 2017 09:04 PM (ANIFC)

567 Want a fun movie to mess with?

Pop in the Spanish version of Dracula that was shot on the same sets as the Lugosi Dracula, turn off the sound and subtitles, and make your own dialog.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 09:04 PM (Ydq56)

568 531 432 Less Than Zero

Jamie Gertz was smokin' in that movie. James Spader was menacing and Robert Downey Jr. played himself. I kid of course but he would certainly know first had of drug addiction.

I was just thinking about that movie - that's the one with the Bangles doing the cover of Hazy Shade of Winter and absolutely nailing it. A really good take.
Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks, AKA Worthless Imbecile at May 20, 2017 08:58 PM (PFy0L)

--Ahhh, the "Hazy Shade of Winter" video: Those TVs . . . those Bangles

--and I still recall a MNF game where Dierdorff dropped a reference, saying something like "That run was less than zero"

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:04 PM (GsAUU)

569 "a lonely place to die" with Melissa George......

a thriller about a bunch of mountaineers who discover a little girl buried alive in the Scottish highlands....they rescue her but are pursued by the kidnappers through the mountains and into a small Scottish village that just happens to be having an odd sort of festival reminiscent of the weirdness we saw in "wicker man"...

the killers were as nasty as they come ...it was a great escapist movie full of excellent action,scenery and the music was fantastic...

you won`t be sorry....

oh,and the original "get carter" with Michael caine.....fantastic...

Posted by: rocky mattioli at May 20, 2017 09:04 PM (nkfDI)

570 I love the cult horror classic "Tonald Drump Hacks Off the Heads of Rhinos With His Platinum Axe"

Just kidding. There is no such film.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 09:04 PM (vRcUp)

571 Young Helen Mirren? The Age of Consent with James Mason.

Posted by: gNewt at May 20, 2017 09:04 PM (uHFrd)

572 @554 That was Ocean's Eleven, apparently.
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I like the Rat Pack version better, myself.

The two versions are different enough to essentially be completely different films. The first one opens with the heist, and is all about trying to get the money out of Vegas when everyone's looking for it. The second one is all about the set up and execution of the heist.

Posted by: junior at May 20, 2017 09:04 PM (deapv)

573 500:Since Jackon's LOTR movies have come out, people overlook the earlier animated LOTR movie.
Posted by: josephistan

Great, now I have that "Frodo and his 9 fingers and the ring of Doom" song stuck in my head (I think thats how it went). I haven't seen the animated version in decades. Loved it as a kid.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 09:05 PM (pY+s4)

574 I need a movie to eat while I'm elbows deep in a tub of ice cream...suggestions?

Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 20, 2017 07:53 PM (smD62)

1941

Posted by: JT at May 20, 2017 09:05 PM (slGrF)

575
546 October Sky
Posted by: tu3031 at May 20, 2017 09:01 PM (qJhUV)

A predominant message from that film is how much we've given up since the 50s and 60s when the Space Race was a preeminent field of battle between us and the Rooskies. The Right Stuff is a perfect pairing to go with this.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 20, 2017 09:05 PM (pNxlR)

576 Suggestion: We may need to include certain tv series that have functioned as a film. They exist.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 09:02 PM (AuISE)

You mean like episodes of TV shows that are repackaged an shown in theaters like the 70s Battlestar Galactica or even the two part Man From UNCLE episodes that were turned into movies?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 09:05 PM (auHtY)

577 "Conde Dracula! Conde de la Noches!"

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at May 20, 2017 09:05 PM (x3uSY)

578 562 I may be overstating it but Uncle Buck should have won an Academy Award.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 20, 2017 09:02 PM (IDPbH)

I think Kathy Bates should have been nominated for "The Waterboy." She was just perfect in that. But The Academy hardly ever nominates, much less awards, comedies.

Posted by: josephistan at May 20, 2017 09:06 PM (ANIFC)

579 560 The American remake set in Chicago (?) also with Reno was garbage

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 08:57 PM (auHtY)

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"Leon: The Professional" was an awesome flick with Jean Reno, an over-the-top hilarious Gary Oldman, and a young Natalie Portman.
Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 09:02 PM (ZcAbN)

The American Leon The Professional was one of the best movies of all times. Gary Old man was robbed of awards. Natalie Portman and Jean Reno as well.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 09:06 PM (AuISE)

580 451 >>Anatomy of a Murder

1959 movie with Jimmy Stewart and Ben Gazzara.

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My favorite crossexamination scene when tough prosecutor George C. Scott asks one too many questions.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 20, 2017 09:06 PM (Nwg0u)

581 It's been so long since I've been able to comment, I forgot how.

Posted by: JT at May 20, 2017 09:06 PM (slGrF)

582 I saw this movie [My Side Of The Mountain] as a kid! Loved it. It was like a kid's dream to hollow out your own treehouse and have a pet falcon.

Would make a great double bill with "Where the Red Fern Grows".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 09:00 PM (NT3RT)

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So true back then. Sadly, it seems like those days are long gone ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 09:06 PM (ZcAbN)

583 560 comments and no one has mentioned Near Dark?

Amateurs ;>

Posted by: Grad School Fool at May 20, 2017 09:06 PM (swEzU)

584 Watching Officer and a Gentemen now....".Only two things ever come out of Oklahoma..Steers and Queers, Which one are YOU, boy?"...What ever happened to Lou Gosset Jr?

Posted by: Goldilocks at May 20, 2017 09:06 PM (zz1sH)

585 Seconded.

Of course submarine movies are inherently cool.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 09:02 PM

I was dubious before seeing it. Haunted something or other flicks tend to be lame (on the whole) and rely on jump scares and whatnot... and on a submarine? How the fuck is THAT gonna work?? It does. It's great, builds nicely, creepy and does it all without cheap "scares". Fantastic for a box office bomb.

Posted by: otho at May 20, 2017 09:07 PM (lmIoG)

586 Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 09:01 PM (R+30W)

I love Jarmusch. Coffee and Cigarettes, Down by Law, Night on Earth...

Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 09:07 PM (e8PP1)

587 Paths of Glory is one of my favorites,
I see Year of Living Dangerously 1982 is on TMC tomorrow night, great movie.

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2017 09:07 PM (Ot7+c)

588
Yes! Directed by Jim Jarmusch, who is usually interesting. Another classic of his is
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165798/

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 09:01 PM (R+30W)

Love Ghost Dog!!!

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 09:03 PM (AuISE)

I actually like the soundtrack to Ghost Dog better than the movie itself, mainly because I'm just not a fan of Jarmusch's style. RZA does an awesome job there.

And yes, it's a remake (I don't give a fuck how much Jarmusch says it isn't). The Frog film noir, Le Samourai, by Jean Pierre Melville.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 20, 2017 09:08 PM (quw2O)

589 502 Run Lola Run is a great movie for cinephiles. It's French as well.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:54 PM (AuISE)

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Oh man, gotta see that one again.

So many great recommendations in this thread -- I'll be spending the next week mining it for the Netflix queue which may now double size.

Thanks all and TJM ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 09:08 PM (ZcAbN)

590 @554 That was Ocean's Eleven, apparently.
------------------
I like the Rat Pack version better, myself.
The two versions are different enough to essentially be completely different films. The first one opens with the heist, and is all about trying to get the money out of Vegas when everyone's looking for it. The second one is all about the set up and execution of the heist.
Posted by: junior at May 20, 2017 09:04 PM (deapv)

Yup....me too. Sammy Davis Jr. driving the garbage truck and that actor that looks like Frank (he was in Three's Company later) and Frank himself were great in that.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 20, 2017 09:08 PM (5VlCp)

591
The Thomas Crown Affair. The only one ever made. McQueen and Dunaway. The chess game. Yow...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 20, 2017 09:08 PM (pNxlR)

592 I've always liked They Might be Giants with George C. Scott. That ending!

Posted by: Numchucks at May 20, 2017 09:08 PM (K3F/8)

593 "Twelve Chairs" may be Brooks' best film.

"The Naked Prey" is great pure cinema. And basically the inspiration for "Apocalypto"

"The End" - surprisingly dark but funny Burt Reynolds/Don Deluise comedy about cancer

Oops, steaks ready...be back.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 20, 2017 09:09 PM (9q7Dl)

594 So glad they finally made an enders game movie, i hard there were a lot of failed attempts over decades without the proper technology to handle the space and battle room
However i was sort of underwhelmed. It wasnt bad but just.. Ok. They had an impossible task given how beloved the books are to many people esepcially who read them as kids

Posted by: Mst3k at May 20, 2017 09:09 PM (SbaWv)

595 You mean like episodes of TV shows that are repackaged an shown in theaters like the 70s Battlestar Galactica or even the two part Man From UNCLE episodes that were turned into movies?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 09:05 PM (auHtY)

--I still think David Lynch can't decide whether Twin Peaks should be a movie or a TV series.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:09 PM (GsAUU)

596 Falstaff, huh? I directed a porno once called "Fullstaff". Thank God the fluffer showed up, or it would have been "Halfstaff".

Posted by: FaCubeItches at May 20, 2017 09:09 PM (ggtda)

597 Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 07:21 PM (Jj43a)

*Bitch slap*
Posted by: Robert, who used to be an ONT regular, but now just Some Worthless Lurker, doing a bit of a comeback at May 20, 2017 08:35 PM (mknWS)

Hey, Robert! A little early for you, if I recall. You were a staple of the ONT graveyard shift.

Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2017 09:09 PM (uaHyk)

598 The Bank Job is really good. Jason Statham in a very un-Jason Statham role.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 09:09 PM (pY+s4)

599 Posted by: Goldilocks at May 20, 2017 09:06 PM (zz1sH)

Diggstown is a guilty pleasure movie.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 20, 2017 09:10 PM (IDPbH)

600 Run Lola Run is a great movie for cinephiles. It's French as well.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:54 PM (AuISE)

It's a German movie but it is very good.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 09:10 PM (auHtY)

601 A WWII class submarine is such a tiny thing. A US Gato class will induce claustrophobia by just going down the hatch. A German Type XXI U-boat is a bit bigger so takes a little longer before the walls start to close in.

Now imagine it submerged. Running on batteries. Condensation building on the bulkheads because the fans are shut off as the Kaiptan is running silent. And overhead is a Flower class corvette circling with ASDIC active.

Who needs ghosts on a sub?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 09:10 PM (Ydq56)

602 Also john carter was quite good for having flopped at the box office so hard. But I think it was another case of a ridiculous budgeted film which basically had no chance to ever turn a profit, no?

Posted by: Mst3k at May 20, 2017 09:11 PM (SbaWv)

603 595
--I still think David Lynch can't decide whether Twin Peaks should be a movie or a TV series.
Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:09 PM (GsAUU)

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Red Letter Media just released a re:View episode of Twin Peaks: Fire Wash With Me. They explain a lot of the backstory of both movie and film.

Check it out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 09:11 PM (Jj43a)

604 423 Right now I'm watching Into the Forest about two sisters surviving a complete continental power outage while living in an isolated house on the edge of the deep woods in British Columbia.

Very slow moving, as befits the slow pace of their new life, but interesting.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 08:41 PM (NT3RT)

That was a much better movie than I expected it to be.

Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2017 09:11 PM (uaHyk)

605 The Dogs of War. Walken is great in it.

Posted by: tu3031 at May 20, 2017 09:12 PM (qJhUV)

606 602 Also john carter was quite good for having flopped at the box office so hard. But I think it was another case of a ridiculous budgeted film which basically had no chance to ever turn a profit, no?
Posted by: Mst3k at May 20, 2017 09:11 PM (SbaWv)

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It had, quite literally, one of the worst marketing campaigns of a big budgeted film. Ever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 09:12 PM (Jj43a)

607 let it ride.

richard dreyfus, teri garr, jennifer tilly give damon runyon a go. and it goes!

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 20, 2017 09:13 PM (WTSFk)

608 The best darkest movie is The Killer Inside Me. I should have stopped watching it but I couldn't.

Also Brad Pitt should have won an award for his performance in Kalifornia.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 20, 2017 09:13 PM (IDPbH)

609 I hate this thread- Now I have to build another cabinet.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2017 09:13 PM (b/nXm)

610 600 Run Lola Run is a great movie for cinephiles. It's French as well.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 08:54 PM (AuISE)

It's a German movie but it is very good.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 20, 2017 09:10 PM (auHtY)

Ha! Eurotrash either way.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 09:13 PM (AuISE)

611 I never saw the movie "My Side of the Mountain", but I read the book when I was 8 or 9. It was very inspirational.

Didn't stick, though. The closest I ever got to living off the land was mowing the lawn, and I dislike even that.

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2017 09:13 PM (sdi6R)

612 605 The Dogs of War. Walken is great in it.
Posted by: tu3031 at May 20, 2017 09:12 PM (qJhUV)

One of those movies I watch every time I come across it.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 20, 2017 09:14 PM (IDPbH)

613 I like THX-1138 (before George Lucas' insecurity molested it).

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 20, 2017 09:14 PM (oVJmc)

614 Another great writer/director is John Sayles, though he has tapered off in recent years.

But, he has made some really great movies that really capture a specific place in America. Texas, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, etc.

Baby It's You, Limbo, Sunshine State, Matewan, Passion Fish, Lone Star are among those that I would recommend.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 09:14 PM (R+30W)

615 oh,and the original "get carter" with Michael caine.....fantastic...
Posted by: rocky mattioli

This! A very gritty movie. Had the 'perfect' ending for the kind of movie it was.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 09:14 PM (pY+s4)

616
569 "a lonely place to die" with Melissa George......

a thriller about a bunch of mountaineers who discover a little girl buried alive in the Scottish highlands....they rescue her but are pursued by the kidnappers through the mountains and into a small Scottish village that just happens to be having an odd sort of festival reminiscent of the weirdness we saw in "wicker man"...

the killers were as nasty as they come ...it was a great escapist movie full of excellent action,scenery and the music was fantastic...

you won`t be sorry....

Posted by: rocky mattioli at May 20, 2017 09:04 PM (nkfDI)

Yeah, that's a good one. There's a bit of America-bashing in one scene that gets turned around on the asshole Limey later in an extremely funny yet very very dark fashion later in the film.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 20, 2017 09:14 PM (quw2O)

617 If you haven't seen it khartoum with Charleston Heston your missing out. A movie that would NEVER be made to today because it casts the Muslims in a very very bad light.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 20, 2017 09:14 PM (dKiJG)

618
Ichi the Killer

My Dinner With Itchy

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 20, 2017 09:15 PM (IqV8l)

619 Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 20, 2017 09:13 PM (WTSFk)

Yes that was when Dreyfus was on a hot streak. He has a pretty good resume.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 20, 2017 09:15 PM (IDPbH)

620 A very weird movie (seems like a dream sequence or a guy in limbo between life and death) is "The Machinist" with Christian Bale and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Just seeing the physical condition of Bale (who lost an extreme amount of weight for the role and looks like a human skeleton) is surreal. I thought for sure it was CGI, but it was real ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 09:15 PM (ZcAbN)

621 @602 Also john carter was quite good for having flopped at the box office so hard. But I think it was another case of a ridiculous budgeted film which basically had no chance to ever turn a profit, no?
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Also, Disney screwed up the advertising. The title of the original novel is 'A Princess of Mars'. But Disney reportedly didn't want to call it that because that would make people think "Disney Princesses", which was not exactly the right kind of image for the film (though adding Dejah Thoris to the line-up of princesses in her traditional attire would probably get me to pay a little more attention... /innocent whistle). So they called it 'John Carter' instead.

One problem - who is John Carter? Unless you're familiar with the books (and lets be blunt - the books are old enough that unless you're a SF/F fan, you've almost certainly never heard of them; and even a lot of SF/F fans probably don't know anything about the Barsoom books), the title tells you nothing about the movie.

And Disney's ad campaign didn't answer that question.

Posted by: junior at May 20, 2017 09:15 PM (deapv)

622 The Dogs of War. Walken is great in it.
Posted by: tu3031 at May 20, 2017 09:12 PM (qJhUV)

Yup....one where the book and the movie were great.

"Vive la mort ! Vive la guerre ! Vive le sacre mercenaire!"

The only french you need to know.....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 20, 2017 09:15 PM (5VlCp)

623 Does anyone remember seeing Richard Harris in "A Man Called Horse"?

I think it was made in the late 60's.

Harris is a British nobleman who is captured by the Sioux when he is out on a hunting expedition in the Old West. They make him a slave, and treat him like shit for a good part of the movie.

There is also a sequel called (what a surprise) "Return of a Man Called Horse", with Richard Harris reprising his role, which was actually pretty good.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 20, 2017 09:16 PM (S6Pax)

624 "The Long Goodbye"

So much of Robert Altman's stuff was elitist Hollywood leftist crap, but he could make an interesting movie.

http://tinyurl.com/kv4tyse

Posted by: Levin at May 20, 2017 09:16 PM (PNwAd)

625 614 Another great writer/director is John Sayles, though he has tapered off in recent years.

But, he has made some really great movies that really capture a specific place in America. Texas, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, etc.

Baby It's You, Limbo, Sunshine State, Matewan, Passion Fish, Lone Star are among those that I would recommend.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 09:14 PM (R+30W)

--I still want to see Matewan. My step dad is from Logan, WV. Very little-known slice of history.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:16 PM (GsAUU)

626 @497 ShainS

One of my son's favorite books / movies. It's the reason he's an outdoorsman today. Tracking, living off the land, woodcraft - he's in his element when he's out in the wilderness.

Posted by: browndog at May 20, 2017 09:16 PM (bGMOs)

627 Good night all.

May the actor (or actress) playing you in your personal biopic life story be classy and good-looking.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 20, 2017 09:16 PM (u82oZ)

628
613 I like THX-1138 (before George Lucas' insecurity molested it).
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 20, 2017 09:14 PM (oVJmc)

What? He felt compelled to mess with that, too?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 20, 2017 09:17 PM (pNxlR)

629 Breaking Bad functions as a film. True Detective Season 1 as well. Shows like that might as well be films/movies.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 09:17 PM (AuISE)

630 I had to look up Run, Lola, Run on Wiki, I thought it sounded familiar.
Lots of movies mentioned I have seen only once and would like to see again.

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2017 09:17 PM (Ot7+c)

631 Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 20, 2017 09:16 PM (S6Pax)

Yes of course . One of my favorites.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 20, 2017 09:17 PM (IDPbH)

632 617 If you haven't seen it khartoum with Charleston Heston your missing out. A movie that would NEVER be made to today because it casts the Muslims in a very very bad light.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 20, 2017 09:14 PM (dKiJG)

--Is it about Charles Gordon's death?

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:18 PM (GsAUU)

633 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was a surprisingly good film.

I'm not sure how widely this was viewed, so I'm not sure if it counts. But I would highly recommend it.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 09:18 PM (vRcUp)

634 628
613 I like THX-1138 (before George Lucas' insecurity molested it).
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 20, 2017 09:14 PM (oVJmc)

What? He felt compelled to mess with that, too?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 20, 2017 09:17 PM (pNxlR)

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Yes, but the changes are not nearly as obtrusive as with the Star Wars trilogy.

Some of them are actually quite seamless.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 09:18 PM (Jj43a)

635 "The Long Goodbye"

Yeah, a strange cast. Jim Bouton as a hit man???

Posted by: tu3031 at May 20, 2017 09:18 PM (qJhUV)

636 I remember seeing A Man Called Horse in a drive in theater as a kid

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2017 09:18 PM (Ot7+c)

637 633 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was a surprisingly good film.

I'm not sure how widely this was viewed, so I'm not sure if it counts. But I would highly recommend it.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 09:18 PM (vRcUp)

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I have a soft spot for it. I also own the 3d edition, because I am crazy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 09:19 PM (Jj43a)

638 "OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies" is hilarious and un-PC. French, with Jean Dujardin. He also did an Oceans 11 type movie, Ca$h, which isn't bad.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2017 09:19 PM (NOIQH)

639 583: Near Dark is fantastic! It does get mentioned but usually around Halloween. Underrated Vampire flick. Probably gets overshadowed by The Lost Boys. They came out around the same time.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 09:19 PM (pY+s4)

640 614 Another great writer/director is John Sayles, though he has tapered off in recent years.

But, he has made some really great movies that really capture a specific place in America. Texas, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, etc.

Baby It's You, Limbo, Sunshine State, Matewan, Passion Fish, Lone Star are among those that I would recommend.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 09:14 PM (R+30W)

And "Eight Men Out", one of the best baseball movies ever made.

I was a Sayles fan back in my younger, commie-ish days. I haven't kept up with him.

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2017 09:19 PM (sdi6R)

641 A couple of weeks ago I saw The Tall T with Richard Boone And Randolph Scott. A good western.

Posted by: dantesed at May 20, 2017 09:19 PM (88xKn)

642 one you never see anymore...el cid with heston.....

the final scene where they mount the dead el cid on his horse and send him out against the horrified,superstitious muslim horde(who thought they`d killed him) was one of the great,chill inducing scenes I`ve watched.....

Posted by: rocky mattioli at May 20, 2017 09:19 PM (nkfDI)

643 627 Good night all.

May the actor (or actress) playing you in your personal biopic life story be classy and good-looking.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 20, 2017 09:16 PM (u82oZ)

--Heh, thanks and good night.

I was told I was a dead ringer for Henry Thomas (Elliott in E.T.) in Legends of the Fall.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:20 PM (GsAUU)

644 A Man Called Horse, was that the movie where they hung the guy by the pectoral muscles?

Posted by: Infidel at May 20, 2017 09:20 PM (ie8tB)

645 "The Long Goodbye"

Yeah, a strange cast. Jim Bouton as a hit man???
Posted by: tu3031

Eliot Gould was great in that movie. Really a "film noir" updated for the 1960's.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 20, 2017 09:20 PM (S6Pax)

646 639 583: Near Dark is fantastic! It does get mentioned but usually around Halloween. Underrated Vampire flick. Probably gets overshadowed by The Lost Boys. They came out around the same time.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 09:19 PM (pY+s4)

Also has three of the cast members from Aliens in it.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 09:20 PM (0mRoj)

647 640 And "Eight Men Out", one of the best baseball movies ever made.

I was a Sayles fan back in my younger, commie-ish days. I haven't kept up with him.
Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2017 09:19 PM (sdi6R)

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Eight Men Out is solid good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 09:20 PM (Jj43a)

648 A Man Called Horse, was that the movie where they hung the guy by the pectoral muscles?
Posted by: Infidel

Yup.

Intense, wasn't it?

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 20, 2017 09:21 PM (S6Pax)

649 @513 Aetius

Oh no, that travesty of a rendition of LOTR by Backshi should be a case study on how to almost ruin a masterpiece of Fantasy.

The only good thing that came out of the movie was the poster (which I've got hanging in one of the boys old room.

Posted by: browndog at May 20, 2017 09:21 PM (bGMOs)

650 "The Long Goodbye"

Yeah, a strange cast. Jim Bouton as a hit man???
Posted by: tu3031

Every time I read that, I think "The Long Kiss Goodbye" which now that I think about it fits the theme of this thread nicely.

Posted by: Vrag Naroda at May 20, 2017 09:22 PM (17QyB)

651 Withnail and I...anyone?

Posted by: Goldilocks at May 20, 2017 09:22 PM (zz1sH)

652 "Long Kiss Goodnight"

See?

Posted by: Vrag Naroda at May 20, 2017 09:23 PM (17QyB)

653 A Man Called Horse, was that the movie where they hung the guy by the pectoral muscles?

Posted by: Infidel

Yup.

Intense, wasn't it?

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 20, 2017 09:21 PM (S6Pax)

Yes, I was a kid when I saw it. Intense isn't a strong enough word.

Posted by: Infidel at May 20, 2017 09:23 PM (ie8tB)

654 629 Breaking Bad functions as a film. True Detective Season 1 as well. Shows like that might as well be films/movies.
Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 09:17 PM (AuISE)

--A lot of cable shows are cinematic, partly because the season storylines are condensed into a handful of episodes, as opposed to the traditional ~20-25.

Now network shows are following suit. Taboo's first season was only 8 episodes.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:23 PM (GsAUU)

655 Is it about Charles Gordon's death?

-
Yes. English General Chinese Gordon died in Khartoum. I guess he got around.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 20, 2017 09:23 PM (Nwg0u)

656 642 one you never see anymore...el cid with heston.....
Posted by: rocky mattioli at May 20, 2017 09:19 PM (nkfDI)
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Good one.
And the score is beautiful too.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 20, 2017 09:23 PM (0jtPF)

657 I was told I was a dead ringer for Henry Thomas (Elliott in E.T.) in Legends of the Fall.
Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:20 PM (GsAUU)

I was always told I looked just like Melissa Gilbert in Little House one the Prairie. So, there's that.

Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 09:24 PM (e8PP1)

658 A WWII class submarine is such a tiny thing. A US Gato class will induce claustrophobia by just going down the hatch. A German Type XXI U-boat is a bit bigger so takes a little longer before the walls start to close in.

Now imagine it submerged. Running on batteries. Condensation building on the bulkheads because the fans are shut off as the Kaiptan is running silent. And overhead is a Flower class corvette circling with ASDIC active.

Who needs ghosts on a sub?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 09:10 PM

Agreed. I doubted very much that it would work, but it did. It's still a WW2 flick, so it runs on the very stuff you mentioned. But, it adds a mystery presence that is constantly fucking with the crew. It sounds like a naff premise, but it nails it.

Posted by: otho at May 20, 2017 09:24 PM (lmIoG)

659 And "Eight Men Out", one of the best baseball movies ever made.

I was a Sayles fan back in my younger, commie-ish days. I haven't kept up with him.

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2017 09:19 PM (sdi6R)

++++

Agreed about Eight Men Out and about Sayles being a commie. But, he mostly keeps his leftism out of his movies, at least the ones I cited. Just good stories.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 09:24 PM (R+30W)

660 I simply love how the Bangles did that cover to Hazy Shade of Winter, to me it is better than the original.

*readies MN-23*

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 09:00 PM (Ydq56)
Oh yes, yes, yes.I LOVE THE BANGLES like Banana Splits Guy loves Winona.

Posted by: browndog at May 20, 2017 09:24 PM (bGMOs)

661 620 A very weird movie (seems like a dream sequence or a guy in limbo between life and death) is "The Machinist" with Christian Bale and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Just seeing the physical condition of Bale (who lost an extreme amount of weight for the role and looks like a human skeleton) is surreal. I thought for sure it was CGI, but it was real ...
Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 09:15 PM (ZcAbN)

Bale also lost a lot of weight for "Rescue Dawn"

Posted by: josephistan at May 20, 2017 09:24 PM (ANIFC)

662 Heh, Labatt Blue ad just on during the hockeh game.

Had it just once, at the Maple Leaf Lounge in Winnipeg.

Too bitter for me.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:24 PM (GsAUU)

663 647
Eight Men Out is solid good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 09:20 PM (Jj43a)

One scene that made my jaw hit the floor was when the sportswriters were comparing questionable plays. The scorecards they had, with printed lineups, were virtually identical to the ones used at Crosley Field in the 1960s. Which I still have. I have no doubt that they were period accurate for 1919.

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2017 09:24 PM (sdi6R)

664 A great little horror/alien flick is "Attack the Block."
ET had the alien land in sunny, suburban CA; this one has the aliens land in some UK projects where lil' chavs/thugs find her. Love the premise.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2017 09:24 PM (NOIQH)

665 Is this the point where I say how disappointed I am that the three parts of Atlas Shrugged all had different actors?

GO BIG OR GO HOME!!!

Ugh ... what a letdown to my favorite novel.

Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 09:25 PM (ZcAbN)

666 logprof-+1 on Passion Fish- " I never asked for the anal probe" scene is classic.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2017 09:25 PM (b/nXm)

667 649 @513 Aetius

Oh no, that travesty of a rendition of LOTR by Backshi should be a case study on how to almost ruin a masterpiece of Fantasy.

The only good thing that came out of the movie was the poster (which I've got hanging in one of the boys old room.
Posted by: browndog at May 20, 2017 09:21 PM (bGMOs)

It was interesting in how it was shot (I think live action with an animated overlay.) I think that was one of Backshi's things. The music was also good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 09:25 PM (ycWCI)

668 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - You know, I didn't think I was going to like this movie but I did.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 09:25 PM (pY+s4)

669 Blood Simple.

Posted by: LASue at May 20, 2017 09:25 PM (CLKfs)

670 Speaking of Canada, on the radio earlier today I learned that the Hamilton Tiger Cats hold the CFL rights to Johnny Manziel, RG III, and Colin Kaepernick. The talk show dudes said that Manziel was the best of that lot, and I have to agree.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:26 PM (GsAUU)

671 >>>> they mount the dead el cid on his horse<<<

I've always felt sorry for the horse. "Get it off me!"

El Cid has my favorite jousting scene. The fight for Calahorra is spectacular. The way the chunks fly off the saddle you wonder how Heston didn't get a broken arm at least.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at May 20, 2017 09:26 PM (x3uSY)

672
I was told I was a dead ringer for Henry Thomas (Elliott in E.T.) in Legends of the Fall.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:20 PM (GsAUU)

I was always told I looked just like Melissa Gilbert in Little House one the Prairie. So, there's that.

Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 09:24 PM (e8PP1)

Heh, when I worked in the beer bar in the eighties, I was told I looked like Daisy Duke. Musta been the hair.

Posted by: Infidel at May 20, 2017 09:26 PM (ie8tB)

673 665 Is this the point where I say how disappointed I am that the three parts of Atlas Shrugged all had different actors?

GO BIG OR GO HOME!!!

Ugh ... what a letdown to my favorite novel.
Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 09:25 PM (ZcAbN)

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There were finding issues for one. I think that by the third movie it became a conscious choice

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 09:26 PM (Jj43a)

674 I rather enjoyed Bakshi's LOTR. The style alone was quite engrossing.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 09:26 PM (0mRoj)

675 one you never see anymore...el cid with heston.....

True. I had to go out and get the DVD.

Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at May 20, 2017 09:26 PM (G9MZN)

676 651 Withnail and I...anyone?
Posted by: Goldilocks at May 20, 2017 09:22 PM (zz1sH)

https://youtu.be/3aFh4oTmIio

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:27 PM (GsAUU)

677 And yes, it's a remake (I don't give a fuck how much Jarmusch says it isn't). The Frog film noir, Le Samourai, by Jean Pierre Melville.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 20, 2017 09:08 PM (quw2O)

Le Samourai started my Alain Delon fixation.

Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2017 09:27 PM (uaHyk)

678 speaking of eliot gould,

"the silent partner"

a bank teller takes a bank robber's haul, becoming the target of the psychopath (christopher plummer).

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 20, 2017 09:27 PM (WTSFk)

679 --Is it about Charles Gordon's death?
Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:18 PM (GsAUU)

Yes, A Muslim Horde lead by a man that claims to be Muhammad reincarnated surrounds Khartoum and General Gordon defends the city.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 20, 2017 09:28 PM (dKiJG)

680 I've always been told I look like, well, a weasel.

Posted by: Weasel at May 20, 2017 09:28 PM (Sfs6o)

681 629 Breaking Bad functions as a film. True Detective Season 1 as well. Shows like that might as well be films/movies.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 09:17 PM (AuISE)

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Yep, and you can include The Wire and the TV series Fargo (Ewan McGregor is quite something this current season playing two brothers, although the story doesn't seem as compelling as earlier -- still, enjoyable).

Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 09:28 PM (ZcAbN)

682 675 one you never see anymore...el cid with heston.....

With a rebel yell
He cried Moor, Moor, Moor

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 09:28 PM (0mRoj)

683 674 I rather enjoyed Bakshi's LOTR. The style alone was quite engrossing.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 09:26 PM (0mRoj)

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I like it too, but I'm still not sold on rotoscoping as a tool for animation like that. Even after seeing Wizards and Fire and Ice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 09:28 PM (Jj43a)

684 Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 08:17 PM

You need to see when Shaka Zulu is on Centric TV some weekend

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2017 09:28 PM (Ot7+c)

685 If you haven't seen it khartoum with Charleston
Heston your missing out. A movie that would NEVER be made to today
because it casts the Muslims in a very very bad light.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 20, 2017 09:14 PM (dKiJG)
...and Sir Lawrence Olivier as The Mahdi.
Lot's of fun.

Posted by: browndog at May 20, 2017 09:28 PM (bGMOs)

686
I was always told I looked just like Melissa Gilbert in Little House one the Prairie. So, there's that.
Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 09:24 PM (e8PP1)

--Heh, did you constantly bust your ass in the tall grass?

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:29 PM (GsAUU)

687 Bound. With a prepoker playing Jennifer Tilley.

Posted by: LASue at May 20, 2017 09:29 PM (CLKfs)

688 Blood Simple.
Posted by: LASue

Great movie. I think that was the first movie the Coen brothers made.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 20, 2017 09:29 PM (S6Pax)

689 Is this the point where I say how disappointed I am that the three parts of Atlas Shrugged all had different actors?

GO BIG OR GO HOME!!!

Ugh ... what a letdown to my favorite novel.

Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 09:25 PM (ZcAbN)

Yes, very disappointed. Didn't buy the 3rd DVD.

Posted by: Infidel at May 20, 2017 09:29 PM (ie8tB)

690 El Cid has my favorite jousting scene. The fight for Calahorra is spectacular. The way the chunks fly off the saddle you wonder how Heston didn't get a broken arm at least.
Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at May 20, 2017 09:26 PM (x3uSY)

The scene when the new king (Sancho) is being presented to his subjects and he asks them to kneel. All do except for El Cid. Good scene.

My Lord King. Many believe *looks around at the kneeling crowd* though NONE DARE SAY SO that you may have harbored counsel in your brother's death!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 09:29 PM (ycWCI)

691 a re:View episode of Twin Peaks: Fire Wash With Me. They explain a lot of the backstory of both movie and film.

Check it out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 09:11 PM (Jj43a)

Watched it this a.m. Really made me want to watch the series again.

Also, the Best of the Worst preceding that re:View is one of the funniest I've seen in a while.

Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2017 09:30 PM (uaHyk)

692 I liked True Detective 1. Story was meh but the acting was superb. I didn't know Woody Harrelson was that good an actor. Great cinematography and good music provided a really good foreboding atmosphere for the show. Plus, Alexandra Daddario nekid!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 09:30 PM (pY+s4)

693 I saw LoTR animated movie in a drive in out in Nevada, but wasn't impressed, and I like anime

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2017 09:30 PM (Ot7+c)

694 687 Bound. With a prepoker playing Jennifer Tilley.
Posted by: LASue at May 20, 2017 09:29 PM (CLKfs)

But Post-Boobs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 09:30 PM (ycWCI)

695 Okay, tell me what movie this is from -- I saw it as a kid and it freaked me out. It's a costume drama - takes place somewhere in the near or middle east.

A queen asks one of her soldiers if he is loyal and will obey any order. He of course agrees. She tells him to demonstrate a device which is a long slide composed of a huge blade. By sliding down, he cuts himself in half.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 09:30 PM (NT3RT)

696 --Is it about Charles Gordon's death?

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:18 PM (GsAUU)

Yes

Posted by: browndog at May 20, 2017 09:31 PM (bGMOs)

697 694: oh yes.

Posted by: LASue at May 20, 2017 09:31 PM (CLKfs)

698 691 a re:View episode of Twin Peaks: Fire Wash With Me. They explain a lot of the backstory of both movie and film.

Check it out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 09:11 PM (Jj43a)

Watched it this a.m. Really made me want to watch the series again.

Also, the Best of the Worst preceding that re:View is one of the funniest I've seen in a while.
Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2017 09:30 PM (uaHyk)

If you watch the movie then go watch the series again it makes a great deal more sense.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 09:31 PM (0mRoj)

699 An obscure movie well worth a look is Tiger Bay, the first movie Hayley Mills was in. B&W and gritty, a wonderful drama.
And yeah, Mills steals the show, although I wouldn't call this a kid's movie. (She plays a little girl who witnesses a nasty murder.) But you can see why Walt Disney grabbed that talent as soon as he could.

Hayley's father, John Mills, plays the detective.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 20, 2017 09:31 PM (0jtPF)

700
Also, the Best of the Worst preceding that re:View is one of the funniest I've seen in a while.
Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2017 09:30 PM (uaHyk)

Never realized there was that much soft core gay porn out there. Not my wheelhouse I guess, but still.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 09:31 PM (ycWCI)

701 "the silent partner"

a bank teller takes a bank robber's haul, becoming the target of the psychopath (christopher plummer).
Posted by: musical jolly chimp

Talk about an overlooked minor classic. Really slick movie.
Christopher Plummer was really evil. You never quite imagined how it was going to turn out.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 20, 2017 09:32 PM (S6Pax)

702 666 logprof-+1 on Passion Fish- " I never asked for the anal probe" scene is classic.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2017 09:25 PM (b/nXm)

--Not Passion Fish, Big Fish.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:32 PM (GsAUU)

703 691
Watched it this a.m. Really made me want to watch the series again.

Also, the Best of the Worst preceding that re:View is one of the funniest I've seen in a while.
Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2017 09:30 PM (uaHyk)

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They've been on a little roll recently.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 09:32 PM (Jj43a)

704 669 Blood Simple.
Posted by: LASue at May 20, 2017 09:25 PM (CLKfs)

I've got to see that whole movie someday. I saw part of it on TV once, long ago. There was one scene where a guy was trying to clean up a murder scene and just kept making it worse and worse. I was laughing hysterically and cringing at the same time.

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2017 09:32 PM (sdi6R)

705 I look like Jabba the Hutt in Star Wars except more apartment building than but.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 20, 2017 09:32 PM (Nwg0u)

706 Predators GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!

2-1 Smashville

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:32 PM (GsAUU)

707 There are a bunch of good performances in Khartoum.

Ralph Richardson was a fine Gladstone.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at May 20, 2017 09:32 PM (x3uSY)

708 I was always told I looked just like Melissa Gilbert in Little House one the Prairie. So, there's that.

Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 09:24 PM (e8PP1)

How you doin'...

Posted by: browndog at May 20, 2017 09:33 PM (bGMOs)

709 Last one from me: Bernie.

Posted by: LASue at May 20, 2017 09:33 PM (CLKfs)

710 651 Withnail and I...anyone?
Posted by: Goldilocks at May 20, 2017 09:22 PM (zz1sH)

Own it. I have always liked Richard Grant.

Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2017 09:34 PM (uaHyk)

711 675 one you never see anymore...el cid with heston.....

"True. I had to go out and get the DVD."

......

I`ve always wondered if it isn`t shown because it "offends muslim sensibilities"...

Posted by: rocky mattioli at May 20, 2017 09:34 PM (nkfDI)

712 Yep, and you can include The Wire and the TV series Fargo (Ewan McGregor is quite something this current season playing two brothers, although the story doesn't seem as compelling as earlier -- still, enjoyable).
Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 09:28 PM (ZcAbN)
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I'm not digging this season as much as previously. I don't care for McGregor when he does American roles, I don't think he nails it (Big Fish excepting). He just grins a lot because Yanks love to smile!!. But Stussy's second in command, Sy, is great.

Never thought I'd see a cup dicking on network television. Saw it on the watchfloor once...

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 09:34 PM (NT3RT)

713 Yep, and you can include The Wire and the TV series Fargo (Ewan McGregor is quite something this current season playing two brothers, although the story doesn't seem as compelling as earlier -- still, enjoyable).
Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2017 09:28 PM (ZcAbN)

--Yep, the 5 seasons of The Wire could be 5 movies.

Homicide: Life on the Street also fits, especially since Barry Levinson directed it.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:34 PM (GsAUU)

714 I've been told I look like Matthew Perry from "Friends." Someone even asked for an autograph once.

Posted by: josephistan at May 20, 2017 09:34 PM (ANIFC)

715 Ctl+F "Cemetery Man"

It's like I don't even know you people sometimes.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 20, 2017 09:34 PM (fD1ST)

716 How you doin'...
Posted by: browndog at May 20, 2017 09:33 PM (bGMOs)

LOL She turned out to be a lovely grown-up.

Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 09:35 PM (e8PP1)

717 I've been told I'm a dead finger for DB Sweeney.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 20, 2017 09:35 PM (IDPbH)

718 I have to get El Cid now haven't see that movie in ages.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 20, 2017 09:35 PM (dKiJG)

719 Gilda is on right now.

Posted by: LASue at May 20, 2017 09:35 PM (CLKfs)

720 The Hidden -- an 80s era sci-fi, low budget, about an alien with a bad attitude and a taste for prog rock and fast cars.

Videodrome -- Sci-fi, I suppose, but too strange to be pigeon holed.

3 O'Clock High -- A coming of age movie that probably resonated with me because I know what it's like to be hunted at school.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 20, 2017 09:35 PM (wTwJ2)

721 Seen it-Want it-got it

Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2017 09:35 PM (b/nXm)

722 No Forbidden Zone, either?

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 20, 2017 09:35 PM (fD1ST)

723 Rocketman starring Harland Williams.

Stickman Martin freeman

Posted by: Shiggz at May 20, 2017 09:36 PM (X8Fea)

724 720 Videodrome -- Sci-fi, I suppose, but too strange to be pigeon holed.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 20, 2017 09:35 PM (wTwJ2)

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I believe that the proper genre is: David Cronenberg.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 09:37 PM (Jj43a)

725 695:

wasn't that "the long ships"? with richard widmark, sidney poitier, vikings, moors and a huge golden bell.

great fun. and a good score.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 20, 2017 09:37 PM (WTSFk)

726 692 I liked True Detective 1. Story was meh but the acting was superb. I didn't know Woody Harrelson was that good an actor. Great cinematography and good music provided a really good foreboding atmosphere for the show. Plus, Alexandra Daddario nekid!!
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 09:30 PM (pY+s4)

--You know about the plagiarism, right?

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:37 PM (GsAUU)

727 Nobody unravels with as much glee as Richard Grant. Anybody seen "How to Get Ahead in Advertising"? He plays a young ad exec who can't come up with a good slogan for a pimple cream. He grows a huge stress pimple on his shoulder and it grows into a second head and aggressively takes over him and his life.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 09:37 PM (NT3RT)

728 702 666 logprof-+1 on Passion Fish- " I never asked for the anal probe" scene is classic.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2017 09:25 PM (b/nXm)

--Not Passion Fish, Big Fish.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:32 PM (GsAUU)

++++

That is a scene from Passion Fish. You quoted me naming Passion Fish, so Ben Had just misread who was saying what.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2017 09:38 PM (R+30W)

729
How you doin'...

Posted by: browndog at May 20, 2017 09:33 PM (bGMOs)

LOL She turned out to be a lovely grown-up.

Posted by: April at May 20, 2017 09:35 PM (e8PP1)

Melissa Francis from FBN was on Little House for two seasons as a little girl.

Posted by: Infidel at May 20, 2017 09:38 PM (ie8tB)

730 156- Talking to Johnny Crawford at the Cicada Club, Los Angeles, I said (and he'd probably heard it 1000 times), "Growing up, I wanted to be you." He said, "So did I."

Posted by: Charles the Simple at May 20, 2017 09:38 PM (w7U7L)

731 The Cube movie franchise.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 20, 2017 09:38 PM (AuISE)

732 Oh yea, The Hidden and 3 O'Clock High! Loved both movies. I think South Park borrowed a little from 3 O'Clock High in that episode where Cartman gets his ass kicked by that girl because he kept mocking breast cancer.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 09:38 PM (pY+s4)

733 539 I simply love how the Bangles did that cover to Hazy Shade of Winter, to me it is better than the original.

*readies MN-23*
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2017 09:00 PM (Ydq56)

No argument here. I have a fondness for '80's chick bands though. Heard "It's a Cruel, Cruel Summer" on the radio today and it took me right back....

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at May 20, 2017 09:39 PM (P8951)

734 Homicide: Life on the Street also fits, especially since Barry Levinson directed it.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:34 PM (GsAUU)

A fabulous series, never got its due IMHO. I wish the powers that be would run it instead of the Law and Order overkill that's on TV today.

Posted by: browndog at May 20, 2017 09:39 PM (bGMOs)

735

Vampire's Kiss with Nicholas Cage.

Posted by: otho at May 20, 2017 09:39 PM (lmIoG)

736 726:You know about the plagiarism, right?

No.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2017 09:40 PM (pY+s4)

737 717 I've been told I'm a dead finger for DB Sweeney.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 20, 2017 09:35 PM (IDPbH)

He played Shoeless Joe Jackson in "Eight Men Out".

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2017 09:40 PM (sdi6R)

738 Of course it was "Waking Ned Devine." "Kill Ned Devine" was an O'Reilly book.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at May 20, 2017 09:40 PM (P8951)

739 "Brewster McCloud" - weird but fun comedy, I think it's the movie Robert Altman made after M*A*S*H

"Images" - weird but weird movie by Robert Altman about a woman loosing her mind.

"Phenomena"- best horror movie Argento ever made, try to see it without any foreknowledge

Posted by: naturalfake at May 20, 2017 09:40 PM (9q7Dl)

740 Kon Tiki? I seem to remember watching as a kid, was some sort of reed type boat from ancient history.

Anyone else? Maybe I'm not spelling it right.

Posted by: Infidel at May 20, 2017 09:40 PM (ie8tB)

741 700
Also, the Best of the Worst preceding that re:View is one of the funniest I've seen in a while.
Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2017 09:30 PM (uaHyk)

Never realized there was that much soft core gay porn out there. Not my wheelhouse I guess, but still.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 20, 2017 09:31 PM (ycWCI)

I know, right? What the hell?!

Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2017 09:41 PM (uaHyk)

742 Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 20, 2017 09:37 PM (WTSFk)
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Yes! Thank you! They were searching for the great golden bell, and when they finally get there it's a tiny little thing in a sad rundown church dome -- until one hurls it away in disgust, and it turns out to be the clapper in a huge bell with a deafening ring. Awesome.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 09:41 PM (NT3RT)

743 734 Homicide: Life on the Street also fits, especially since Barry Levinson directed it.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:34 PM (GsAUU)

A fabulous series, never got its due IMHO. I wish the powers that be would run it instead of the Law and Order overkill that's on TV today.
Posted by: browndog at May 20, 2017 09:39 PM (bGMOs)

--I think networks like the likes of Law and Order because the episodes are self-contained, while Homicide had such (realistically) sprawling story arcs, like the murder case of Adeena Watson.

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:42 PM (GsAUU)

744 Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2017 09:40 PM (sdi6R)

Yep. Most people refer to the movie The Cutting Edge as in you look just like that guy in the movie The Cutting Edge.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 20, 2017 09:42 PM (IDPbH)

745 Mr. Frost with Jeff Goldblum.

"You are my psychiatrist and you are going to kill me because I am the Devil. We are bridging a gap of centuries here...."

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at May 20, 2017 09:42 PM (x3uSY)

746 DB Sweeney.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 20, 2017 09:35 PM (IDPbH)

He played Shoeless Joe Jackson in "Eight Men Out".

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2017 09:40 PM (sdi6R)

Also "Dish" on Lonesome Dove.

Posted by: browndog at May 20, 2017 09:42 PM (bGMOs)

747 And sadly, some old masterpieces, like Night of the Hunter and Black Narcissus.

Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2017 08:05 PM (uaHyk)

I'm always surprised when people tell me they haven't seen Night of the Hunter.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 20, 2017 09:42 PM (fD1ST)

748 Of course I like Simon & Garfunkel's original "Hazy Shade of Winter", but I have to agree that the Bangles nailed the cover.

It goes without saying that I would like to nail the Bangles.

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2017 09:42 PM (sdi6R)

749 The International with Clive Owen.

Actually there are many Clive Owen movies that are not well known that I would consider good films.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 09:42 PM (vRcUp)

750 "the silent partner"

a bank teller takes a bank robber's haul, becoming the target of the psychopath (christopher plummer).
Posted by: musical jolly chimp

Excellent nasty little thriller.

Finally, found a DVD of it a couple of years ago.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 20, 2017 09:43 PM (9q7Dl)

751 One of the creepiest movies I have ever seen is "Dead Ringers" with Jeremy Irons, who did a fantastic job playing identical twin gyns.

Ladies, do NOT see that movie right before your annual visit.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at May 20, 2017 09:43 PM (P8951)

752 Mud

Posted by: Javems at May 20, 2017 09:43 PM (yOqwj)

753 749 The International with Clive Owen.

Actually there are many Clive Owen movies that are not well known that I would consider good films.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 09:42 PM (vRcUp)

Shoot Em Up. Ridiculous, over-the-top fun.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 20, 2017 09:43 PM (0mRoj)

754 A movie that I find people eithe love or hate is The Devil's Advocate. I'm one that's likes it. Also another good movie with Keanu Reeves.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 20, 2017 09:44 PM (IDPbH)

755 Ladies, do NOT see that movie right before your annual visit.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at May 20, 2017 09:43 PM (P8951)
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"...slaving over the hot snatches!"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 09:44 PM (NT3RT)

756 Kon Tiki

Book and movie...and a Nat Geo production recently IIRC.

Bored the ever lovin' shite out of me when I had to read it in grade school.

Posted by: browndog at May 20, 2017 09:44 PM (bGMOs)

757 749 The International with Clive Owen.

Actually there are many Clive Owen movies that are not well known that I would consider good films.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 09:42 PM (vRcUp)

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I can't remember why, but I did not like that movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 09:44 PM (Jj43a)

758 The Legend of Bagger Vance is one movie that I always thought should have been more popular. Good lead cast and good supporting cast, even though by lesser known actors.

Posted by: GOULD at May 20, 2017 09:44 PM (wM+lU)

759 ======

They've been on a little roll recently.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 09:32 PM (Jj43a)

I, personally, loved that Rich Evans audition for Bladerunner. Gritty, with vistas.

Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2017 09:44 PM (uaHyk)

760 The Cube movie franchise.

Posted by: Who Was Phone?

The first was intriguing, but ultimately dumb ("It was a public works project gone wrong!"). The rest sucked.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 09:45 PM (vRcUp)

761 The International with Clive Owen.

Actually there are many Clive Owen movies that are not well known that I would consider good films.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 09:42 PM

That's a surprisingly good movie. It has one of the best shoot out sequences I've ever seen. Stunningly well done.

Posted by: otho at May 20, 2017 09:45 PM (lmIoG)

762 A terrific oldie is "Northwest Passage," starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Young (his best role) and Walter Brennan. The movie is about Rogers' Rangers' attack on an Indian village that has been terrorizing American colonists during the French and Indian War. It turns out the environment and threat of starvation are deadlier enemies than the French or Indians. A great tale about fighting men stretched to the limits of their endurance.

It was filmed in glorious Technicolor so those who shun black-and-white flicks can enjoy it. The movie pops up on TCM a few time a year and is well worth DVRing.

Posted by: Outside Adjitator at May 20, 2017 09:45 PM (hbvkG)

763 *ONT is NOOD!*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 20, 2017 09:45 PM (6gk0M)

764 742: all hail eris... a super moment. they don't make movies like that anymore, that's for sure.

the long ships was sort of at the tail end of the 50's-60's adventure movies like 20,000 leagues & the vikings. i think spielberg and lucas tried to evoke some of that pure and simple fun.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 20, 2017 09:45 PM (WTSFk)

765 758 The Legend of Bagger Vance is one movie that I always thought should have been more popular. Good lead cast and good supporting cast, even though by lesser known actors.
Posted by: GOULD at May 20, 2017 09:44 PM (wM+lU)

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With the literal magical negro!

Seriously, though, I do really like that movie. Robert Redford is a good director.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 09:46 PM (Jj43a)

766 I'm going to assume it's late enough in the thread for an Off-Topic question:

If Kim Dotcom confirms that Seth Rich was the source of the DNC emails, what happens to the intelligence community that claims to have found Russian fingerprints all over everything? Are we going to see the whole IC implicated in a cover-up?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 20, 2017 09:46 PM (oVJmc)

767 758 The Legend of Bagger Vance is one movie that I always thought should have been more popular. Good lead cast and good supporting cast, even though by lesser known actors.
Posted by: GOULD at May 20, 2017 09:44 PM (wM+lU)

They murdered the book. And I'm not saying that as a meme' the book is always better'. They tortured it and then murdered it.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 20, 2017 09:46 PM (IDPbH)

768 759 ======

They've been on a little roll recently.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 09:32 PM (Jj43a)

I, personally, loved that Rich Evans audition for Bladerunner. Gritty, with vistas.
Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2017 09:44 PM (uaHyk)

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It made me feel okay about enjoying a series of movies meant for children.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 09:46 PM (Jj43a)

769 Some movies that are big favorites of me and my hubby are "Cinema Paradiso" -- be sure to watch the director's cut version, which is about an hour longer than the original, as it explains a VERY critical plot point that is left hanging in the original -- and "84 Charing Cross Road," with Anthony Hopkins as a British bookseller and Anne Bancroft as the American woman who orders books from him waaay back in the days before Amazon (1940s-1960s).

We also agree with many other Hordelings that "John Carter of Mars" was a significantly better movie than its reviews and box office performance would indicate. It was so badly marketed that I can only conclude Disney WANTED it to fail.

Posted by: Secret Square at May 20, 2017 09:48 PM (9WuX0)

770 Kon Tiki

Book and movie...and a Nat Geo production recently IIRC.

Bored the ever lovin' shite out of me when I had to read it in grade school.

Posted by: browndog at May 20, 2017 09:44 PM (bGMOs)

I must have seen the original movie when I was a kid. I liked it since I am a water baby and love sailing.

Posted by: Infidel at May 20, 2017 09:48 PM (ie8tB)

771 Ok, I'm shallow. I like shoot 'em ups. I am not ashamed.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 20, 2017 09:48 PM (vRcUp)

772
Of course I like Simon Garfunkel's original "Hazy Shade of Winter", but I have to agree that the Bangles nailed the cover.

And do you know why? MORE COWBELL!!!

Posted by: tu3031 at May 20, 2017 09:48 PM (qJhUV)

773 720 The Hidden -- an 80s era sci-fi, low budget, about an alien with a bad attitude and a taste for prog rock and fast cars.

Ooh! Seconded! Wasn't that right around Twin Peaks? I think I remember some talk about Agent Cooper being Kyle McLaughlin's character from The Hidden. Or maybe that was just me and my friends, lol.

Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2017 09:49 PM (uaHyk)

774 True Detective:

https://lovecraftzine.com/2014/08/04/

did-the-writer-of-true-detective-plagiarize-thomas-ligotti-and-others/

URL busted to appease pixy

Posted by: logprof at May 20, 2017 09:49 PM (GsAUU)

775 You're missing out on the mayo shooting hot dog gun upstairs

Posted by: josephistan at May 20, 2017 09:50 PM (ANIFC)

776 Even though I haven't seen most of the movies everyone is talking about, this is one of those times I resent the ONT horning in. This thread is just getting warmed up. It's a fascinating discussion. We could go on for another 500 comments easily.

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2017 09:50 PM (sdi6R)

777 Okay here's an obscure one: back in college in the 70s, they would run foreign film night. I saw Borsalino with Jean Paul Belmondo. I've always wanted to see it again but have never stumbled across it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 20, 2017 09:50 PM (Lqy/e)

778 Duvall was good in "Get Low". Bill Murry was better.

Posted by: Javems at May 20, 2017 09:50 PM (yOqwj)

779 Even though I haven't seen most of the movies everyone is talking about, this is one of those times I resent the ONT horning in. This thread is just getting warmed up. It's a fascinating discussion. We could go on for another 500 comments easily.

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2017 09:50 PM

Agreed.

Posted by: otho at May 20, 2017 09:50 PM (lmIoG)

780 776 Even though I haven't seen most of the movies everyone is talking about, this is one of those times I resent the ONT horning in. This thread is just getting warmed up. It's a fascinating discussion. We could go on for another 500 comments easily.
Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2017 09:50 PM (sdi6R)

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We'll be back next week.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 09:50 PM (Jj43a)

781 I must have seen the original movie when I was a kid. I liked it since I am a water baby and love sailing.

Posted by: Infidel at May 20, 2017 09:48 PM (ie8tB)
While I, on the other hand, hate sailing with a passion. Too many years spent being capsized by my brothers in 50/60 degree weather - scarred me for life.

Posted by: browndog at May 20, 2017 09:51 PM (bGMOs)

782 'Avalanche Sharks' coming on Comet.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 20, 2017 09:52 PM (oVJmc)

783 lol, poor browndog. Siblings really suck sometimes.

Posted by: Infidel at May 20, 2017 09:52 PM (ie8tB)

784 It made me feel okay about enjoying a series of movies meant for children.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 09:46 PM (Jj43a)

Cool, very cool.

(You had to know that was queued up!)

Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2017 09:55 PM (uaHyk)

785 "Kon-Tiki" was about a raft Thor Heyerdahl built to see if the ancient Polynesians could have sailed across the Pacific with their technology. That was back in the 1940s or 50s.

In the 70s, he noted similarities in reed boats built by the Egyptians and the Incas. So he built a replica and sailed it across the Atlantic. That movie was "The Ra Expeditions".

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2017 09:55 PM (sdi6R)

786 Thank you for another great movie threat TJM!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 09:56 PM (NT3RT)

787 We'll be back next week.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 09:50 PM (Jj43a)
Sure, but how many opportunities do you get to encourage people to watch movies that include things like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Uh-AFFDyst=1m25s

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 20, 2017 09:57 PM (fD1ST)

788 "The Fox" with Kier Dullea, Sandy Dennis and Anne Heywood definitely caused wood.

"The Chase" with Marlin Brando, Angie Dickinson, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, E.G. Marshal and Robert Duvall wasn't bad.

Posted by: Javems at May 20, 2017 09:57 PM (yOqwj)

789 Slightly OT because it's not a movie but a TV show, but recently we discovered "After MASH" on You Tube -- the short-lived (2 seasons) sequel to the TV series "MASH" in which Col. Potter, Fr. Mulcahey, and Cpl. Klinger (along with the Korean girl he married in the MASH finale) are all working at a stateside VA hospital. Lots of critics deride it as one of the worst shows ever, but the episodes that we watched didn't seem too bad. The concept had a lot of potential that just wasn't realized.

Posted by: Secret Square at May 20, 2017 09:59 PM (9WuX0)

790 786 Thank you for another great movie threat TJM!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 09:56 PM (NT3RT)

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My pleasure. I probably have more fun than any of you on the threads.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at May 20, 2017 10:00 PM (Jj43a)

791 "The 7 Faces of Doctor Lao"

and

"Local Hero"

Posted by: SouthofReality at May 20, 2017 10:07 PM (i6sA7)

792 My list:
"Fandango" with a VERY young Kevin Costner. AWESOME SOUNDTRACK!!!
"Timothy" with a very young Mel Gibson. This was a movie that came after Mad Max. This movie told me he was going to be a huge actor.
"My Bodyguard" with Adam Baldwin and Matt Dillion.
"Kelly's Hero's" WWII action/comedy about stealing Nazi gold with Clint Eastwood, Donald "It's a mother beautiful bridge" Sutherland, Don Rikkles.

Posted by: Cosmic Yeti at May 20, 2017 10:08 PM (ld/f6)

793 "Detention" - 2011 time travel serial killer horror comedy that works, huge fun...I appear to be the only living human who saw that movie

"Kontroll" - Hungarian bizarro thriller comedy set in the subways. Functions as a waking nightmare that keeps getting wilder and wilder.

"O Lucky Man" - modern picaresque tale with Malcolm McDowell

"Romeo is Bleeding" - great black comedy. One of Gary Oldman's best movies.

"Intacto" - great Spanish noir involving an unusual underground gambling organization and people who can steal luck.

"Anything Else" - Woody Allen movie that just misses. Has a lot of the feel of his "annie Hall" period without quite reaching the heights.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 20, 2017 10:10 PM (9q7Dl)

794 Russian night watch

Shackleton

Screamers original

Posted by: Shiggz at May 20, 2017 10:11 PM (X8Fea)

795
"Intacto" - great Spanish noir involving an unusual underground gambling organization and people who can steal luck.
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Great film. Need to see it again.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2017 10:15 PM (NT3RT)

796 "Kafka" - excellent Soderbergh movie which everyone but me hates. Also, recently found on DVD.
Criterion should revisit this one.

"Shadows and Fog" - Woody Allen comedy which parallels certain aspects of "Kafka". would make an interesting double feature for movie night.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 20, 2017 10:15 PM (9q7Dl)

797 My picks:

The Duellists

The Name of the Rose

The City of Lost Children

Moby Dick (1956)

The Tin Drum

Mud

Get Low

The Fox

The Chase (1966)

I win

Posted by: Javems at May 20, 2017 10:16 PM (yOqwj)

798 Kill, Pussycat, Kill, Kill
and
Sole Survivor (starring, somewhat, William Shatner)

Posted by: Wtp at May 20, 2017 10:22 PM (WQfDg)

799 I agree with many of the suggestions (especially Branagh's Henry V and Babette's Feast).

Most obscure:

Julius Caesar 1970. Robards is wooden as Brutus, but Heston is the best Antony ever!

Return from the Ashes with Ingrid Thulin. Great suspense film.

The Last of Sheila. Fabulous cast. Great script.

A Taxing Woman. Japanese comedy/suspense. Great acting.

Less obscure but under-appreciated:

The Americanization of Emily. James Garner is fantastic and Julie Andrews gives perhaps her best performance.

Charly. Try not to get misty with that one.

Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing. Not only was it a fun movie, it led to an Olympic gold medal for Tara Lipinski.

The Big Country. Best western ever with one of the best sountracks.

The Professionals. Maybe 2nd best western and excellent soundtrack.

Finally, aerial combat films:

The Blue Max. Wow.

The Battle of Britain. Not great acting, but historically important as they assembled the 11th largest air force in the world to make it!

633 Squadron. Dedicated to the exploits of WWII's most capable and versatile airplane, and quite possibly the most beautiful airplane of all time, the DH98 Mosquito. May have influenced Lucas. Just Google Star Wars 633 Squadron.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at May 20, 2017 10:22 PM (tVoI/)

800 Gah. How could I forget....

"Barcelona" - great great great Whit Stillman comedy/drama set in Barcelona, Pro-American look at Americans and military in Europe during leftist terror outbreak.

You must see this movie.

Recently, released by Criterion on blu-ray.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 20, 2017 10:23 PM (9q7Dl)

801 Re Wi-Fi issues look into Ethernet over power line. Very simple cheap stable great for that corner of your house that's always weak wifi

Posted by: Shiggz at May 20, 2017 10:28 PM (X8Fea)

802 Banshee Chapter, watched it again. Still worth seeing, though there are too many jumpscares and I hate them.

Watched Doctor Strange. I was so bored I fell asleep.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 20, 2017 10:41 PM (MZcWR)

803 Dune 3 part sci fi channel version

Samurai = Azumi

Movie thread idea films youve seen 100 times

Posted by: Shiggz at May 20, 2017 10:51 PM (X8Fea)

804 Even with legal public domain stuff Strongly recommend against torrents unless you use a seedbox.

Reddit megalinks or a Usenet account are superior.

Posted by: Shiggz at May 20, 2017 10:57 PM (X8Fea)

805 Can't believe someone else remembers Cast a Deadly Spell. I love that film. H.P. Lovecraft meets film noir, starring Fred Ward of Remo Williams fame and a young Julianne Moore. Good stuff.

Thought Ender's Game was as good a movie could be telling the story in the limited time format of a single film. I would rather it been a mini-series because the film really sped through battle school training and it was such a huge and excellent part of the book.

Posted by: Darth Randall at May 20, 2017 11:07 PM (6n332)

806 My dad would have me tag along to movies with him sometimes back in the sixties. I remember those very vividly. He was a big fan of Mel Brooks and I remember seeing The Twelve Chairs and The Producers with him. Also remember A Man For All Seasons and Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid. Very special moments for one of ten kids in the family. Made me feel what it must be like to be an only child.

I think he mellowed on Mel Brooks, though, as the silliness took over. Space Balls was just a little bit beyond his reach.

Posted by: JD at May 20, 2017 11:09 PM (JiHYO)

807 "Barcelona" - great great great Whit Stillman comedy/drama set in Barcelona, Pro-American look at Americans and military in Europe during leftist terror outbreak.

You must see this movie.
================================

I remember loving that movie, but I wonder if it holds up. I have a feeling it was very zeit-geisty for the mid-90s.

Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2017 11:23 PM (uaHyk)

808 Enders game would have been great as a thrones or expanse format.

Posted by: Shiggz at May 20, 2017 11:24 PM (X8Fea)

809 You've made a sale! I've just rented John Carter. I read and loved all the books, so this should be interesting!

Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2017 11:25 PM (uaHyk)

810 The Stuntman

Hows many times do I have to shill this, people?

Posted by: Tim Minear at May 20, 2017 11:37 PM (Or+Xp)

811 In America starring Samantha Morton

Posted by: Cricket at May 20, 2017 11:52 PM (1/PZS)

812 >>>Have you seen any of these?

Agree with you on Ender's Game. Really enjoyed it. Didn't realize they were probably setting that up for a trilogy. Definitely could have done it. Asa Butterfield was good in the main role. Too bad it was ruined possibly by SJW boycott BS.

>>>What are those movies that feel like you're the only one who knows of its existence?

"About Time"

I don't even remember how I came across it. Probably during one of U-Verse's free preview of their upper tier channels. It has Rachel McAdams (who always seems to pull off the perfect charming, wonderful sweet girl-next-door role every time), Bill Nighy and Domhnall Gleeson (Bill Weasley in Harry Potter and General Hux in The Force Awakens). Really charming little ordinary boy meets ordinary girl and falls in love movie, with the twist of time travel. But the message at the end is wonderful.

As an added bonus, it has Margot Robbie as a summer love interest (movie came out the same year as Wolf of Wall Street).

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at May 21, 2017 12:00 AM (7A4qQ)

813 Babette's Feast is on my list of Great Food Movies.

One of the others on the list is 1996's "Big Night" -- Stanley Tucci & Tony Shalhoub as brothers who manage & head chef, respectively, their own restaurant. Minnie Driver & Isabella Rossellini are the women in their lives. The film centers around a fabulous multi-course meal, prepared to serve Louis Prima (who never shows), so he can boost the profile of the struggling restaurant.

Posted by: Shopgirl at May 21, 2017 12:01 AM (jETL9)

814 Speaking of time travel movies, a movie that I was turned on to by a friend I met after moving to Michigan in 1999 is "Somewhere in Time (1980)". Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour in the leads. Also has Christopher Plummer. Reeve is a talented writer, but having writer's block. He's encouraged to take a trip to get away and get back his inspiration. He ends up going to Mackinac Island, The Grand Hotel.

This is why my new Michigan friend wanted me to see the movie, because she was telling me all about how great The Grand Hotel is and how wonderful Mackinac Island is.

So I checked it out. Great movie. Already liked Reeve and Seymour and I'm a sucker for a good romance film and some time travel twists thrown in. Plus the setting at The Grand Hotel was great.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at May 21, 2017 12:13 AM (7A4qQ)

815 1993: Woody Allen's "Manhattan Murder Mystery", which reunited him with Diane Keaton in a film that was his revisit of the original script for "Annie Hall".

Keaton & Allen are long-married empty-nesters (Zach Braff cameos as their son) who are thrust into an adventure when a neighbor dies under suspicious circumstances. She wants to investigate; unsurprisingly, he's resistant.

They're joined by Alan Alda and Anjelica Houston. It's smart and funny and suspenseful; something I call a "Grown-up Movie". At the usual Allen 90 minute running time, it's a great choice for an late evening's viewing.

Posted by: Shopgirl at May 21, 2017 12:15 AM (jETL9)

816 I wouldn't mind being the filling in a Minnie Driver and Isabella Rossellini sandwich.

Posted by: rickl at May 21, 2017 12:17 AM (sdi6R)

817 You seem to take a great delight in sending your money to the assholes in Hollywood. They're using it to destroy President Trump, you know.

Posted by: jbspry at May 21, 2017 12:33 AM (IhKmM)

818 YOu know what would have been great? A young John Wayne doing John Carter as a serial, up against Crabbe's Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. Still, the Carter movie is underrated, i have it on blu ray and it looks great!

Posted by: hurricane567 at May 21, 2017 12:38 AM (bvBZW)

819 Back from work.

Two favorites:

Alec Guiness in "The Man in the White Suit"

Jennifer Jones in "The Song of Bernadette"

Posted by: mrp at May 21, 2017 12:48 AM (Pqytn)

820 Captain Ron - starring Martin Short and Kurt Russell

Going Postal - adapted from the book by Terry Pratchett

Lightning Jack - starring Cuba Gooding Jr and Paul Hogan. Hogan is just ok, Cuba makes the movie.

Posted by: DingusKhan at May 21, 2017 01:09 AM (DVoDx)

821 The Man from Snowy River. Great western from Australia and one of the greatest horse riding scenes ever...down the side of a mountain.

Posted by: RGallegos at May 21, 2017 01:12 AM (dzlaS)

822 Harrison Ford looked reeeaaally bored to me.

"The book was better."

Posted by: spoonfeed me at May 21, 2017 01:22 AM (tJ4VQ)

823 'Stalker' by Andrei Tarkovsky. You need to clear a little time and commit to watching the film, but it's a weird, haunting movie. it's been a long time since I saw it, but I remember the effect it had on me

Posted by: Amos at May 21, 2017 01:22 AM (/4974)

824 Completely forgotten film: "Twice Upon a Time"... I hardly remember what it was about, a dog voiced by the Garfield actor and a skinny guy-- and there are little good dreams and the bad guy is sending nightmares so that the good dreams can't land --boop, boop-- on people's faces.
(On second thought, maybe there's a reason it's forgotten)

Ender's Game was great (book and movie both.)
Nobody That I know saw "O Brother Where Art Thou?" but I loved it.

Posted by: Go to bed, mom at May 21, 2017 02:14 AM (GZ9c7)

825 The original Rollerball. An intelligent and engrossing work of science fiction, grounded by extremely realistic depictions of the sport.

Posted by: Lawrence Person at May 21, 2017 03:11 AM (zPalU)

826 Another great film few people have heard of is Fresh, about an inner city black kid who works for two different pushers, and eventually maneuvers to play one against the other.

Posted by: Lawrence Person at May 21, 2017 03:16 AM (zPalU)

827 Also William Friedkin's Sorcerer, made after The French Connection and The Exorcist, and worthy of comparison to them.

Posted by: Lawrence Person at May 21, 2017 03:19 AM (zPalU)

828 A second for "Blue Ruin". I thought it was the best movie I saw that year.

"From Beyond", an 80's movie based on Lovecraft is a guilty pleasure.

Posted by: sherloczz at May 21, 2017 07:52 AM (uBsvC)

829 I would recommend "A Simple Plan" with Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton and Bridget Fonda.

"When three blue collar acquaintances come across millions of dollars in lost cash they make a plan to keep their find from the authorities but find complications and mistrust weaving its way into their plan."

Posted by: gcm at May 21, 2017 08:06 AM (Ce7rN)

830 "Life and Death of Colonel Blimp". Roger Livesey and Deborah Kerr (she's in multiple roles).

Posted by: Jaclyn at May 21, 2017 08:31 AM (PfJ3B)

831 the Apartment. Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston. "That's the way it crumbles - cookiewise."

Posted by: Jaclyn at May 21, 2017 09:04 AM (PfJ3B)

832 "A Simple Plan" is a great movie.

Posted by: Jaclyn at May 21, 2017 09:05 AM (PfJ3B)

833 I liked John Carter. Not a great movie but good never the less. Being a big ERB fan, it was great to see how well the movie did with the various Martians. Very nicely done.

Posted by: Zogger at May 21, 2017 09:33 AM (SKahJ)

834 Finally, aerial combat films:

The Blue Max. Wow

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Howard Hughes "Hell's Angles" was terrific in that regard. Some of the special effects were outstanding for its time. Has the worst kissing scene of all time.

Posted by: Javems at May 21, 2017 10:13 AM (yOqwj)

835 Not quite unknown, but many haven't seen either Lady Vanishes or Hobson's Choice. For my money, they are respectively Hitchcock's and Lean's best movies.

And Murnau's Sunrise. I took a girl to see it in college; she was skeptical about the idea of a silent. Not by the end. It was a great date.

Posted by: George LeS at May 21, 2017 10:18 AM (+TcCF)

836 I have to disagree on Ender's Game. It was not a bad adaptation or movie, but it had two yuuuge flaws. First, there are some very easily explanatory scenes or dialog that were not included that left many people who had not read the book confused. I had read the book (and sequels), but I found that I had to explain little points here and there to friends and family who had not. These were not Lord of the Ring, down the rabbit hole complications either. Simple exposition or quick scenes would have fixed it.

The second, and worst, flaw in my estimation is Harrison Ford. He has anti-charisma through out the whole movie. If Al Pacino chews every scene he is in, Ford is the polar opposite. The man needs to go back to being a carpenter or something. (He shows slightly more life in SW: TFA, but I cannot not emphasis slightly enough.)

Posted by: Ken in NH at May 21, 2017 11:43 AM (YeSKV)

837 I actually bought the Mel Brooks collection that contained the 12 Chairs, even though it contained duplicates I already owned because I could not find it alone.

One of my favorite under-loved movies is "Montana" with Kyra Sedgewick, Stanley Tucci, Robbie Coltrane, Ethan Embrey, John Ritter, Robin Tunney, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman.....

Highly recommended.

Posted by: zipity at May 21, 2017 12:31 PM (twvsf)

838 Crap. Forgot IMDB link....

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119699/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_81

Posted by: zipity at May 21, 2017 12:32 PM (twvsf)

839 John Carter is an under-appreciated movie, I have seen it several times and have enjoyed each and every viewing.

Posted by: Capt. Kranky at May 21, 2017 04:31 PM (8/v6Q)

840 Sorry to have missed this thread last night. Some great recommendations; I am going to watch quite a few of them.

I'd second these ones mentioned above: About Time, Blue Ruin, Cube, Kafka, Ravenous, The Station Agent.

I'd add:

Darkness - in the tradition of H.P. Lovecraft

Housebound - Australian comedy/horror/suspense

In Bruges - comedy/drama about hitmen

Insomnia - murder movie (this one is dark)

Jamie Marks is Dead - coming of age supernatural thriller

Spy Game - overlooked espionage film

Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at May 21, 2017 04:38 PM (C+n+z)

841 Barton Fink

Posted by: mocrocosme at May 21, 2017 04:53 PM (X079o)

842 Getting back to Ender's Game and John Carter. I heard terrible things about both, and then I saw them. John Carter was, to be honest, brilliant. Ender's Game was good, too.

Posted by: The Lonebadger at May 21, 2017 06:59 PM (m4pt8)

843 Back in the day, Black Narcissus was considered one of the most beautiful films ever made.

It's a triumph of pre-CGI- all the scenery is matte paintings. The outdoor jungle scenes were shot in a large tropical garden in London.

Huge fan of the Archers (Pressburger and Powell) films. Love "A Matter of Life and Death", with David Niven and Kim Stanley.
The first scene is a knockout- which I will not spoil.

Posted by: Sal at May 21, 2017 07:30 PM (hA4a+)

844 The Field, set in Ireland it is the best foreign movie I have ever seen.

Posted by: Mark Valore at May 22, 2017 09:35 AM (8zzAv)

845 'Fraulein Doktor'.

Posted by: PersonFromPorlock at May 22, 2017 02:46 PM (84MDv)

846 Lots of good recommendations. My favorite "nobody I know has seen these" movies include:

Deathtrap, with Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve

A Family Thing, with Robert Duvall

Passed Away, with Bob Hoskins and Jack Warden

Mindwalk, with Sam Waterston and Liv Ullman

Bedtime Story, with David Niven, Marlon Brando, and Shirley Jones (which was remade as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)

Posted by: wheels at May 22, 2017 05:40 PM (PRLW0)

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