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Saturday Evening Movie Thread 03-30-2019 [Hosted By: TheJamesMadison]

Best of 2018: And the Winner is…

So, on my last thread, I provided the link to vote on the Horde's nominations. Over 1,300 votes were recorded, and the winner was clear.

The owner of the second annual Ace of Spades Best Film of the Year goes to:

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.

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I'm, personally, quite happy with this result, though, I know that the selection wasn't universal. I found the six short films interesting and involving. The most enjoyable was probably the first story, "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs", with the insane and cheerful Buster riding about, killing bounties, and singing with every step of his horse. My favorite, though, was "Meal Ticket", about Liam Neeson and his armless, legless sideshow attraction, an eloquent young man who quoted poetry with impressive readings. The performance creates little profit in the backwoods of the West, and Neeson ends up abandoning the limbless man for a chicken who can do math.

All of the stories carry the Coen Brothers' signature agnosticism about what the meaning of life is and where we will go after we die. It's a true agnosticism that is begging for an answer, so the Coens never actually provide one in their own films, which can cause some frustration on viewers. I, and a plurality of the Horde, find that to be worthwhile.

The Jury Prize

So, in that last thread, I had a few people asking about a particular movie and why it wasn't in the list. My simple response was, "I'd love to have included it, but not enough people nominated it."

Them's the rules.

So, in honor of what I, and some others, thought was the best movie of 2018 that simply not enough people were able to see, I'm awarding the first Jury Prize to:

They Shall Not Grow Old

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They Shall Not Grow Old is a remarkable documentary on the experiences of trench soldiers during World War I. It takes no stance on the causes of the war, the running of the war, or its closure. It is focused, laser like, on what the individual soldier went through from the run up to the war to going home.

Directed by Peter Jackson, who has a particular interest in the war based on his family's history (his grandfather served in an English regiment) that had extended to collecting paraphernalia of the war from uniforms to infantry weapons to actual artillery. When the Imperial War Museum reached out to him about doing something for the armistice's 100th anniversary, Jackson jumped in with both feet. Using footage solely from the IWM's archives, he had his team of special effects technicians clean up the 100 year old images, colorize them, and provide a third dimension. The technical effects really are remarkable. Clear, bright images of a world long lost to time, the soldiers look as present today as they must have in newsreels back then. Over all of these images lay the voices of actual soldiers recounting their stories in snippets (recorded in the 50s).

The movie's story follows a generic path through the war. It's really the story of every English infantryman from the heady days of excitement that lead to war breaking out, through the early days of movement, to settling into trench life, a battle (which is accomplished visually through contemporary illustrated images), and the wind-down of war and going home. We never learn a single soldier's name, and we rarely see the same soldier's face twice. This, to me, had the makings of creating distance between audience and subject. It's my problem with Battleship Potemkin. However, in They Shall Not Grow Old, the use of the voices of the soldiers themselves is what bridges that gap. We begin to recognize voices, and hear the pain, joy, elation, and reflections on the mundane from the men who experienced it themselves. Matched with that is the extremely respectful tone that the movie takes.

One scene has stayed with me more than any other in the months since I've seen the movie. We see some soldiers hiding down a slope from a raging battle above. They are waiting for the call to move up and contribute. As they wait, they talk, they smoke, and they look directly at the camera. In some of them, it seems as though they know they are about to die, which, we know, they are.

Jackson did a great thing by bringing this film to screen. They Shall Not Grow Old is a great achievement in special effects, but also in making a century old war immediate and emotional in a way that I've never seen before. There are World War I movies that I love (Paths of Glory in particular), but none of what I've seen has made the experiences of the individual soldier so understandable in such vivid terms as what Jackson has accomplished.

The movie is available to stream now, and I highly recommend it.


Back to You

Were you one of those who voted for another movie? Was Ballad just the worst choice possible? Should it have, instead, lost to A Star is Born?

What about They Shall Not Grow Old? Do you think it's a worthy winner for the Jury Prize?

Movies of Today

Opening in Theaters:
Dumbo
The Beach Bum
Unplanned

Next in my Netflix Queue:
Paisan

Movies I Saw This Fortnight:
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Netflix Rating 4/5 | Quality Rating 3/4) Full Review Poster blurb: "It's nice to break things up with an enjoyable and light comedy about death." [Netflix DVD]
A Lesson in Love (Netflix Rating 4/5 | Quality Rating 3/4) Full Review "It's far from Bergman's best, but it really is quite delightful." [Personal Collection]
The Last Movie (Netflix Rating 1/5 | Quality Rating 0/4) Full Review "This might be the worst movie I've ever seen." ["Library"]
Rome Open City (Netflix Rating 5/5 | Quality Rating 4/4) Full Review "It's a marvelous mix of sad and hope." [Netflix DVD]
Sisters (Netflix Rating 4/5 | Quality Rating 3/4) Full Review "Early Brian de Palma is trashy Brian de Palma, but also talented Brian de Palma." ["Library"]
Scenes from a Marriage (Netflix Rating 5/5 | Quality Rating 4/4) Full Review "It's a remarkable insight into the mind of a man who seemed incapable of loving a single woman, or finding the answers to his biggest questions, but he still ultimately finds some semblance of peace." [Personal Collection]
Mission: Impossible Fallout (Netflix Rating 5/5 | Quality Rating 3.5/4) Full Review "The movie's' not a great intellectual exercise, but it exists proudly in a long tradition of thrilling entertainment that has graced the silver screen for a century." [Personal Collection]
The Raid: Redemption (Netflix Rating 4/5 | Quality Rating 3/4) Full Review "It's grungy and rather brutal in its violence, and the chaos is very well managed from beginning to end." [Netflix Instant]


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Posted by: OregonMuse at 07:13 PM




Comments

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1 Mrs. Muse and I saw Unplanned last night.

I did not have high hopes for it. It was made by the same folks who made God's Not Dead, a well-intentioned but ultimately lousy movie. I wanted to like Unplanned, but I was afraid it would be a bomb.

Thankfully, I was wrong.

Unplanned is a remarkably strong film. It tells the story of Abby Johnson, a Planned Parenthood clinic director in Texas who grew disillusioned with her work and with PP and the movie shows how she gradually came to the conclusion that killing babies was not the best way to help women.

The movie is based on the 2011 book of the same name.

There was a bit of controversy a few weeks ago over the MPAA giving this movie an 'R' rating. But after seeing it, I can see why. Two different abortions are shown, one by vacuum and the other by the RU-486 drug. They're not pleasant to watch. Mrs. Muse had to close her eyes and not watch these scenes. I don't think anything is exaggerated, but one of our friends with us, who works in a pro-life crisis pregnancy clinic, told us that vacuum suction is not the way abortions are usually done. There are bloodier movies, but cartoon-level horror movie violence is not as horrific as actual violence.

At the end of the movie, there was a woman at the end of our row crying uncontrollably. Mrs. Muse sat with her and hugged her for awhile, but we never did get her story. We later thought that perhaps she had had an abortion herself and the movie brought back some painful memories. But we don't know.

So I would recommend this movie to everyone except for those who might be a bit squeamish. There's no cussing, no barnyard sex, and except for the abortions, no violence. But you do get to see a Planned Parenthood sign torn down by construction equipment. When that happened, the theater spontaneously erupted in applause.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at March 30, 2019 05:49 PM (htV9h)

2 I liked Buster Scruggs. I am happy with the outcome.

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 07:18 PM (+Tibp)

3 The flickers are a fad. They'll never catch on.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 30, 2019 07:18 PM (oVJmc)

4 I can't really wax highbrow this week. My Netflix rental is the gonzo Japanese flick "Robo-Geisha" (still working on it - the last scene I remember was a geisha-on-geisha fight with one evil robot shooting shuriken out of her robo-blowhole).

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 07:19 PM (kQs4Y)

5 Svengoolie has House of Wax tonight.

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 07:19 PM (+Tibp)

6 Fugly, rainy, cold day in Indiana. Gonna take a hot bath, make popcorn, then watch a movie.

Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid at March 30, 2019 07:19 PM (tCWsF)

7 3 The flickers are a fad. They'll never catch on.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 30, 2019 07:18 PM (oVJmc)

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It's the talkies, now. But they won't last.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:19 PM (SxdB4)

8 So there's yet another Coen Brothers movie I haven't seen? I wish they'd slow down and give me a chance to catch up.

I never did get around to seeing "They Shall Not Grow Old", either. I guess I'm so out of the habit of going to the movies that I don't even think about it on the weekends.

Posted by: rickl at March 30, 2019 07:19 PM (sdi6R)

9 I plan on seeing it OM and thanks for the review.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 30, 2019 07:21 PM (dUJdY)

10 My Netflix rental is the gonzo Japanese flick "Robo-Geisha"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Just watched The Highwaymen on Netflix. Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson as two old Texas Rangers who chase Bonnie and Clyde.

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 07:21 PM (+Tibp)

11 Is there a list of the runners up ifrom the voting?

Posted by: Uncledave at March 30, 2019 07:22 PM (3NPQF)

12 Rented Mortal Engines last week.

What a mess of a movie. Peter Jackson did it, so it looks a lot like LOTR on Wheels.

Its from some teen lit book or series, so I gather they were trying to get all the elements in there. But it was just a jumble. Like a whole Terminator plotline that made no sense, was unexplained, and made no discernible impact on the movie.

And the most likeable characters had the least screen time. The ones we are supposed to be rooting for were wholly unsympathetic.

Posted by: blaster at March 30, 2019 07:22 PM (ZfRYq)

13 I actually went to the theater to see "Captain Marvel" out of morbid curiosity. I was there for Samuel L. Muth@f0ckin Jackson and the cat, and to hear some Hole and Garbage.

Surprise! I kind of enjoyed it. Not top-tier Marvel, but a solid B or B-minus.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 07:23 PM (kQs4Y)

14 11 Is there a list of the runners up ifrom the voting?
Posted by: Uncledave at March 30, 2019 07:22 PM (3NPQF)

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2) Avengers Infinity War
3) Bohemian Rhapsody
4) Mission: Impossible Fallout
5) A Star is Born

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:23 PM (bW9H/)

15 10 My Netflix rental is the gonzo Japanese flick "Robo-Geisha"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Just watched The Highwaymen on Netflix. Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson as two old Texas Rangers who chase Bonnie and Clyde.
Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 07:21 PM (+Tibp)
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I win this round!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 07:23 PM (kQs4Y)

16 10 My Netflix rental is the gonzo Japanese flick "Robo-Geisha"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Just watched The Highwaymen on Netflix. Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson as two old Texas Rangers who chase Bonnie and Clyde.
Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 07:21 PM (+Tibp)

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Well, what are your thoughts?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:24 PM (bW9H/)

17 Eris follow that up with the first episode of Season 1 of Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex.

It seems hostile intelligence agencies know of a certain Japanese minister and his tendency to put his brain into that of a geisha gynoid and so kidnap a ministerial brain.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 07:25 PM (ZgGov)

18 Well, what are your thoughts?
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It's the most mind-bending meditation on what it means to be a robo-trollop since Bladerunner 3: Skin Job

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 07:26 PM (kQs4Y)

19 I used to love seeing movies in the theater. But the selection over the years has diminished mightily, and I have an excellent TV and sound system, and access to the internet, and a yuge DVD collection, so seeing a movie in the theater is a rare occurrence. Not to mention the last movie I did see in the theater was so terrible that I ended up reclining the seat and taking a cat nap. BTW it was The Last Jedi. Fucking nightmare of a movie.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not a Dullard at March 30, 2019 07:26 PM (PXJBj)

20 Of the fortnight movies I endorse "The Raid". (It doesn't need a subtitle, rumors of a sequel are as unfounded as those of Star Wars prequels).

It is violence as poetry. It's sort of "Game of Death", good guys have to fight their way upstairs to bad guy's lair. It's in Indonesian and yet you barely need subtitles. It's brothers at cross purposes and the most beautiful action violence.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 30, 2019 07:26 PM (fuK7c)

21 18 Well, what are your thoughts?
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It's the most mind-bending meditation on what it means to be a robo-trollop since Bladerunner 3: Skin Job
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 07:26 PM (kQs4Y)

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Looks like they bent a bit of the Bonnie and Clyde history...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:26 PM (bW9H/)

22 So I would recommend this movie to everyone except for those who might be a bit squeamish. There's no cussing, no barnyard sex, and except for the abortions, no violence. But you do get to see a Planned Parenthood sign torn down by construction equipment. When that happened, the theater spontaneously erupted in applause.

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Planned Parenthood exists by keeping the bloody reality of its work couched in high-minded euphemisms and misleading buzzwords. I applaud anyone who tries to expose the true nature of is horrific operations.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 30, 2019 07:27 PM (4knXT)

23 Test.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 30, 2019 07:27 PM (JUOKG)

24 23 Test.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 30, 2019 07:27 PM (JUOKG)

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C-

Next time, show your work.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:27 PM (bW9H/)

25 Highwaymen was far too formulaic what with the hard-nosed heroes with the painful backstories, etc. I have no idea how historically accurate it was, but it's worth watching just to see Bonnie and Clyde get their comeuppance. I don't know what it is about Woody Harrelson, but I just don't like watching him for some reason.

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 07:28 PM (+Tibp)

26 25 Highwaymen was far too formulaic what with the hard-nosed heroes with the painful backstories, etc. I have no idea how historically accurate it was, but it's worth watching just to see Bonnie and Clyde get their comeuppance. I don't know what it is about Woody Harrelson, but I just don't like watching him for some reason.
Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 07:28 PM (+Tibp)

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Have you seen War for the Planet of the Apes? He's the human antagonist and I think it might be his single best performance. The scenes he shares with Caesar are just captivating.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:29 PM (bW9H/)

27 Eris, could also add Steel and Lace and Deadly Friend to the movie queue.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 07:30 PM (ZgGov)

28 Fixin' to watch The Highwaymen in about 20 minutes.

Which service is streaming They Shall Not Grow Old?

Posted by: Eustace Haverkamp at March 30, 2019 07:30 PM (C1NyB)

29 Woody Harrelson, but I just don't like watching him for some reason.
Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 07:28 PM (+Tibp)

I have the opposite reaction. He is an absolute tool, but I like most of the roles he's done, especially Tallahassee in Zombieland.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not a Dullard at March 30, 2019 07:31 PM (PXJBj)

30 I also saw Unplanned last night. It was a stunningly good movie, IMO. The book is also excellent. I had no problem with the R rating. The abortion scenes weren't even the worst for me, because I knew they were coming and I was prepared. There is another scene in the movie that is as bad as those, and it hit me harder because I wasn't ready. That scene convinced me not to have my girls (15 and 12) see it in the theater. I will be purchasing the movie, though.

Posted by: Catherine in MO at March 30, 2019 07:31 PM (+PvVa)

31 So I would recommend this movie to everyone except for those who might be a bit squeamish. There's no cussing, no barnyard sex, and except for the abortions, no violence. But you do get to see a Planned Parenthood sign torn down by construction equipment. When that happened, the theater spontaneously erupted in applause.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at March 30, 2019 05:49 PM (htV9h)

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Twitter reflexively banned #unplannedmovie but relented pretty quickly after all the grief they caught about it.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 30, 2019 07:31 PM (ffYR/)

32 28 Fixin' to watch The Highwaymen in about 20 minutes.

Which service is streaming They Shall Not Grow Old?
Posted by: Eustace Haverkamp at March 30, 2019 07:30 PM (C1NyB)

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It's only to buy through a few. No rentals, as far as I can tell.

Google Play
VUDU
Youtube
Apple
Fandango

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:32 PM (bW9H/)

33 Oh, no, wait, the last fight in Robo-Geisha was when the evil sexbots sprayed acid out of their robo-boobies. But hey, here's the trailer, see for yoself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnPum8W92kI


Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 07:32 PM (kQs4Y)

34 the last movies i saw were, "rush," "fury," and, "we were soldiers." all on my home theater. enjoyed them all. haven't been to a real theater since "sniper."

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 30, 2019 07:33 PM (KP5rU)

35 Has They Shall Not Grow Old come out on disk yet?
would be cool to have it

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2019 07:33 PM (BbGew)

36 Acid? Geez talk about low rent...

Aphrodite X fired boob missiles.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 07:33 PM (ZgGov)

37 35 Has They Shall Not Grow Old come out on disk yet?
would be cool to have it
Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2019 07:33 PM (BbGew)

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I'm waiting for it, but all that I've seen available is a Region B version from England. There's no word of a US physical release yet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:34 PM (bW9H/)

38 I hear these horror stories about theaters but people behave in the ones I frequent. Where are you people going?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 07:34 PM (kQs4Y)

39 22 So I would recommend this movie to everyone except for those who might be a bit squeamish. There's no cussing, no barnyard sex, and except for the abortions, no violence. But you do get to see a Planned Parenthood sign torn down by construction equipment. When that happened, the theater spontaneously erupted in applause.

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Planned Parenthood exists by keeping the bloody reality of its work couched in high-minded euphemisms and misleading buzzwords. I applaud anyone who tries to expose the true nature of is horrific operations.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 30, 2019 07:27 PM (4knXT)

--Were it not absurdly government-funded, PP would be boarded up tomorrow.

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 07:34 PM (XAYDB)

40 OK, sports fans, movie score trivia time. Phillip Glass wrote the score to which 1931movie? (I guess he has a time machine.)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 30, 2019 07:35 PM (+y/Ru)

41 Dittos for "The Highwaymen"
Watch also "Cold War" if only for the great music. But it is a love story, so, bookmark for date night.

Posted by: navybrat swimming upstream at March 30, 2019 07:35 PM (w7KSn)

42 38 I hear these horror stories about theaters but people behave in the ones I frequent. Where are you people going?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 07:34 PM (kQs4Y)

--*COUGH*

Diversity

*COUGH*

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 07:36 PM (XAYDB)

43 Clearly these results were hacked by Russians.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at March 30, 2019 07:36 PM (SQjwb)

44 36 Acid? Geez talk about low rent...

Aphrodite X fired boob missiles.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 07:33 PM (ZgGov)

--Ah, Tranzor Z

Thanks for the mammaries.

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 07:37 PM (XAYDB)

45 Test.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 30, 2019 07:27 PM (JUOKG)



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C-



Next time, show your work.


Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:27 PM

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Pixy kept saying I was spam no matter what I typed.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 30, 2019 07:38 PM (JUOKG)

46 i just don't k=like the coen brothers' movies. even their best, fargo and no country for old men didn't rate much above pretty good. i can'y stand their quirky characters paraded out for attention and the loathsome plots. they have nothing but contempt for humanity.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 30, 2019 07:38 PM (Pg+x7)

47 If this was hacked by Russians we would be watching either Solaris or Aelita Queen of Mars.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 07:38 PM (ZgGov)

48 I heard some tech giant banned promoting "Unplanned" but I don't recall who.

Posted by: Emmie at March 30, 2019 07:39 PM (4HMW8)

49 47 If this was hacked by Russians we would be watching either Solaris or Aelita Queen of Mars.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 07:38 PM (ZgGov)

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Nah, Russian establishment types have never liked Tarkovsky that much.

It'd be that giant War and Peace they did in the 60s.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:39 PM (bW9H/)

50 I also saw Unplanned last night. It was a stunningly good movie, IMO.

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Twatter banned its Twatter account so I guess it must be full of hate speech.

https://bit.ly/2TJe0hE

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 30, 2019 07:39 PM (+y/Ru)

51 >>I hear these horror stories about theaters but people behave in the ones I frequent. Where are you people going?

I worked as an usher in a theater while I was in college. Let me tell you, there was no unruly behavior in my theater.

Once I put that flashlight in my hand I was transformed into theater nazi.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2019 07:39 PM (/tuJf)

52 Oh, no, wait, the last fight in Robo-Geisha was when the evil sexbots sprayed acid out of their robo-boobies. But hey, here's the trailer, see for yoself:


Bringing us back to the eternal question. Too much or not enough?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 30, 2019 07:39 PM (fuK7c)

53 --*COUGH*

Diversity

*COUGH*
Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 07:36 PM (XAYDB)
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I'm in a pretty diverse area.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 07:39 PM (kQs4Y)

54 I'm in the minority because I'm not a fan of the Cohen Brothers movies.

I'm was thinking of another movie list.

Instead of calling it a worst movies list I would call it the list of best movies to annoy the #metoo crowd.

My top three

The Apartment
The Quiet Man
Sixteen Candles

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 30, 2019 07:40 PM (2DOZq)

55 Tarkovsky?

Aelita was made in 1924

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 07:40 PM (ZgGov)

56 I heard some tech giant banned promoting "Unplanned" but I don't recall who.
Posted by: Emmie at March 30, 2019 07:39 PM (4HMW

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Twitter, but they unbanned it pretty quickly.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 30, 2019 07:41 PM (ffYR/)

57 51 >>I hear these horror stories about theaters but people behave in the ones I frequent. Where are you people going?

I worked as an usher in a theater while I was in college. Let me tell you, there was no unruly behavior in my theater.

Once I put that flashlight in my hand I was transformed into theater nazi.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2019 07:39 PM (/tuJf)

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In kids movies it tends to be unruly (because, you know, it's full of 3-9 year olds).

However, I haven't had a bad experience in a PG-13 movie on up for a very long time.

My worst experience was when I saw The New World in theaters. I loved it, I was entranced and enraptured, but the couple a few seats down were bored out of their minds and wouldn't shut up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:41 PM (bW9H/)

58 I did not have high hopes for it. It was made by the same folks who made God's Not Dead, a well-intentioned but ultimately lousy movie. I wanted to like Unplanned, but I was afraid it would be a bomb.

Thankfully, I was wrong.

Unplanned is a remarkably strong film. It tells the story of Abby Johnson, a Planned Parenthood clinic director in Texas who grew disillusioned with her work and with PP and the movie shows how she gradually came to the conclusion that killing babies was not the best way to help women.




They are really promoting the movie on Catholic radio. Interviews with cast and all that.

Newsbusters:

Several mainstream channels like HGTV, Lifetime, and Hallmark have straight up rejected advertising for Pureflix's new movie,

THR reported that, besides FNC, "every other mainstream television outlet has declined to air the ad." Among these, the Travel Channel, Cooking Channel, HGTV and Food Network, - all owned by Discovery - "refused to sell ad time for Unplanned due to the 'sensitive nature' of the movie,"

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2019 07:41 PM (sqrfz)

59 55 Tarkovsky?

Aelita was made in 1924
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 07:40 PM (ZgGov)

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I was just latching onto Solaris.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:41 PM (bW9H/)

60 Probably too much

https://www.e2046.com/p/19329/title=fate-series-passionlip

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 07:42 PM (ZgGov)

61 I watched "MI:Fallout" last week. Henry Cavill in a porn stache. It was just okay for me.

I also watched "Charlie Bartlett" and "Odd Thomas" both with Anton Yeltsin, which I really enjoyed. His death was such a tragedy. He had a lot of talent and charisma. I would like to have seen him mature into bigger roles. I think he had the chops.

Posted by: Gem at March 30, 2019 07:42 PM (XoAz8)

62 The Quiet Man
Posted by: Can't resist temptation

"Here's a nice stick to beat the lovely lady with"

Yikes

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 07:42 PM (+Tibp)

63 Just watched The Highwaymen on Netflix. Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson as two old Texas Rangers who chase Bonnie and Clyde.

When I hear "Harrelson", I think Carson Wells from "No Country for Old Men",

Man Who Hires Wells: "Did I say you can sit?"

Wells: "No, but you strike me as a man who wouldn't want to waste his chair."

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at March 30, 2019 07:42 PM (7s3Gx)

64 Just watched The Highwaymen on Netflix. Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson as two old Texas Rangers who chase Bonnie and Clyde.

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 07:21 PM (+Tibp)


I watched that last night. I found it to be "meh", at best. I wouldn't bother recommending it to anyone.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 07:43 PM (N3Mch)

65 61
I also watched "Charlie Bartlett" and "Odd Thomas" both with Anton Yeltsin, which I really enjoyed. His death was such a tragedy. He had a lot of talent and charisma. I would like to have seen him mature into bigger roles. I think he had the chops.
Posted by: Gem at March 30, 2019 07:42 PM (XoAz

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Check out Green Room.

Just watch it. Don't find out anything about it before hand.

It's fun for the whole family!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:43 PM (bW9H/)

66 >>> I'm in the minority because I'm not a fan of the Cohen Brothers movies.

Yeah? Well, that's just, like, your opinion, Man.

Posted by: El Duderino is not into the whole brevity thing at March 30, 2019 07:43 PM (dCRRg)

67
"Here's a nice stick to beat the lovely lady with"

Yikes
Posted by: Blutarski


Sounds like Joe Biden's speech.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2019 07:43 PM (aKsyK)

68 Instead of calling it a worst movies list I would call it the list of best movies to annoy the #metoo crowd.

My top three

The Apartment
The Quiet Man
Sixteen Candles

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 30, 2019 07:40 PM (2DOZq)



On St. Patrick's Day, TCM ran the Quiet Man. They cut out the scene were the woman hands John Wayne a nice stick to beat the lovely lady. It cuts to Wayne tossing away the stick

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2019 07:44 PM (MK8Lo)

69 I also loved "...Scruggs", especially the bit with Tom Waits.
It was a film version of Western style short stories.
Well cast, well produced, well filmed.

Posted by: navybrat swimming upstream at March 30, 2019 07:44 PM (w7KSn)

70 There is going to be a Deadwood movie. It is a shame Powers Boothe is no longer with us.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 30, 2019 07:44 PM (rnAwa)

71 I also watched "Charlie Bartlett" and "Odd Thomas" both with Anton Yeltsin, which I really enjoyed. His death was such a tragedy. He had a lot of talent and charisma. I would like to have seen him mature into bigger roles. I think he had the chops.
Posted by: Gem at March 30, 2019 07:42 PM (XoAz
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He was really good in "Thoroughbreds". What a loss.

First time I saw him was in David Duchovny's sorta autobiographical movie "House of D". My favorite movie of his is "Green Room".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 07:44 PM (kQs4Y)

72 No love for "Alita"? I love anime, but have a pretty low expectation for live action adaptations. Took my dad along, because he likes action movies, so it might work out.

Was pleasantly surprised at the quality. There's a lot crammed in, but the main character is fun, unapologetically feminine and yet a violent badass as well. My dad had asked, when I invited him, if it was "one of the Japanese cartoons", to which I could honestly say "no". He ended enjoying it even more than me. Plenty of action to keep him entertained, and he wanted to see more when it ended.

Posted by: Grimaldi at March 30, 2019 07:45 PM (U8w3J)

73 Instead of calling it a worst movies list I would call it the list of best movies to annoy the #metoo crowd.

My top three

The Apartment
The Quiet Man
Sixteen Candles

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The SJWs hate The Searchers. It's racist, sexist, violent, jingoistic, patriarchal, it stars John Fvcking Wayne, and there's not a single LGBTQEIEIO!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 30, 2019 07:45 PM (+y/Ru)

74 Wasn't one of the elements of "The Searchers" about Wayne confronting his prejudice?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 07:46 PM (kQs4Y)

75 74 Wasn't one of the elements of "The Searchers" about Wayne confronting his prejudice?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 07:46 PM (kQs4Y)

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His hatred of Indians isn't viewed particularly positively by the movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:47 PM (bW9H/)

76 The Ox Bow Incident just started on one of my Starz channels. Great book on mob mentality. Movie is pretty good too.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 30, 2019 07:47 PM (2DOZq)

77 The scenes he shares with Caesar are just captivating.

NO BARNYARD SECTS!!

Posted by: adobe juan kenobe at March 30, 2019 07:47 PM (ZgQQq)

78 Hubs and I saw Unplanned last night.

There were a few times that I wept, and I wasn't the only one in the theater.

PP epitomizes evil.

Posted by: SMH at March 30, 2019 07:47 PM (RU4sa)

79 His hatred of Indians isn't viewed particularly positively by the movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:47 PM (bW9H/)


I don't know. He had good reason for it in the movie.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 07:47 PM (N3Mch)

80 The SJWs hate The Searchers.


I've seen an anti-SJW defense of The Searchers. Wayne's character was bicultural, understood and appreciated the Comanches, that's why he buried them so they couldn't go to Commanche Heaven.

Anyway, I'm off to culturally appropriate some sushi. BiaB.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 30, 2019 07:48 PM (fuK7c)

81 Wasn't one of the elements of "The Searchers" about Wayne confronting his prejudice?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 07:46 PM (kQs4Y)



Yes, but the left is too dim to understand that. I think it's his best role. And we got a Buddy Holly song out of the movie to boot

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2019 07:48 PM (MK8Lo)

82 63 blond agent:

i thought harrelson was terribly miscast in no country for old men, not because of his performance, which was solid, but because he was too young to have been a colonel in viet nam.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 30, 2019 07:49 PM (Pg+x7)

83 Wasn't one of the elements of "The Searchers" about Wayne confronting his prejudice?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Wayne's character didn't want to find the kidnapped girl to return her to civilization, but to kill her (put her out of her misery) since she'd been spoiled or ruined by living among the savages. In the end he relented.

Searchers is also based on a true story of the mother of Quanah Parker.

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 07:49 PM (+Tibp)

84 It's fun for the whole family!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:43 PM

Kids! Make the popcorn! Uncle JM says this movie is really good! :-)

I'm not sure I could take Green Room. I've heard it's pretty violent. I used to be able to watch anything without a problem, but... "Bone Tomahawk" did something to me. Seriously.

Posted by: Gem at March 30, 2019 07:50 PM (XoAz8)

85
Twitter, but they unbanned it pretty quickly.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 30, 2019 07:41 PM (ffYR/)


Ah, thanks.

Good that they unbanned.

Some people sure are particular about what kind of information is allowed in public.

Come to think of it, they are also particular about what kind of thoughts are allowed in private.

Posted by: Emmie at March 30, 2019 07:50 PM (4HMW8)

86 Gunm: Battle Angel Alita.

Tipharenes and the Junkyard? Oh there is a lot more after that. Actually the Motorball story arc happens after Hugo tries to get to the floating city. But it seems Cameron wanted to cram it in. There is also Desty Nova the renegade scientist from Tipharenes that Alita is send to find and take care of. It all culminates in Last Order where Desty reveals to the populace of Tipharenes their dirty secret destroying the place, Alita regains memories of Mars and where she learned the Panzer Kunst, and we find out guess what Tipharenes is basically the dumping ground for the other planets like Mars and Jupiter.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 07:51 PM (ZgGov)

87 84 Kids! Make the popcorn! Uncle JM says this movie is really good! :-)

I'm not sure I could take Green Room. I've heard it's pretty violent. I used to be able to watch anything without a problem, but... "Bone Tomahawk" did something to me. Seriously.
Posted by: Gem at March 30, 2019 07:50 PM (XoAz

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Yeah, it's pretty brutal. Broken limbs that are broken very audibly and visually.

Still, it's a great descent into Hell type movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:51 PM (bW9H/)

88 Wasn't one of the elements of "The Searchers" about Wayne confronting his prejudice?

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Kinda.

SPOILER ALERT!

Despite his decision to kill his niece who was kidnapped and raised by the First Peoples because she (Naralie Wood if I recall correctly) had gone native, he reneges and welcomes her back to civilization.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 30, 2019 07:51 PM (+y/Ru)

89 "Bone Tomahawk" did something to me. Seriously.
Posted by: Gem

Bone Tomahawk. *shudders*

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 07:51 PM (+Tibp)

90 but... "Bone Tomahawk" did something to me. Seriously.
Posted by: Gem at March 30, 2019 07:50 PM (XoAz

Brawl in Cell Block 99 made you cheer the violence. For me at least.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 30, 2019 07:52 PM (2DOZq)

91 89 "Bone Tomahawk" did something to me. Seriously.
Posted by: Gem

Bone Tomahawk. *shudders*
Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 07:51 PM (+Tibp)

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They guy's new movie, Dragged Across Concrete, is apparently really really good.

Brawl in Cell Block 99 was kinda great, too. Would make a great double bill with Green Room.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:52 PM (bW9H/)

92 Haven't actually seen They Shall Not Grow Old, but its on my view list. I've been feeling some better lately so I haven't watched much TV. Got the Cards/Brewers game on right now though. Hideous throwback Cards uniforms, that godawful sky blue and red from the 70s.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 07:53 PM (39g3+)

93 86 anna puma:

aha. thank you.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 30, 2019 07:54 PM (Pg+x7)

94 Dogfight between Texas Tech and Gonzaga.

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 07:54 PM (XAYDB)

95 Wayne's character didn't want to find the kidnapped girl to return her to civilization, but to kill her (put her out of her misery) since she'd been spoiled or ruined by living among the savages. In the end he relented.

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 07:49 PM (+Tibp)


Not just from living among them but from being a squaw. He said, "No one wants the spoils of a comanche buck." or something like that.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 07:54 PM (N3Mch)

96 I did really like Ballad but damn its relentlessly grim.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 07:55 PM (39g3+)

97 I also watched "Charlie Bartlett" and "Odd Thomas" both with Anton Yeltsin, which I really enjoyed. His death was such a tragedy. He had a lot of talent and charisma. I would like to have seen him mature into bigger roles. I think he had the chops.
Posted by: Gem at March 30, 2019 07:42 PM (XoAz

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I enjoyed Odd Thomas. It was pretty faithful to the book, from what I could recall. It's been a while since I read it.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 30, 2019 07:55 PM (8g9zh)

98 Got the Cards/Brewers game on right now

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Breaking news from the Babylon Bee:

Nation's Faith In Goodness Of God Restored As Baseball Season Arrives

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 30, 2019 07:55 PM (+y/Ru)

99 PP epitomizes evil.
Posted by: SMH at March 30, 2019 07:47 PM (RU4sa)


Yes.

A friend of mine was a cousin of Faye Wattleton, the first black president of PP. He said the rest of the family thought she was nuts, participating in an organization based on eugenics and racism.

Posted by: Emmie at March 30, 2019 07:55 PM (4HMW8)

100 Despite his decision to kill his niece who was kidnapped and raised by the First Peoples because she (Naralie Wood if I recall correctly) had gone native, he reneges and welcomes her back to civilization.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 30, 2019 07:51 PM (+y/Ru)


She didn't want to come back, either.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 07:55 PM (N3Mch)

101 I saw "Brawl" and really liked it. That's why I looked for "Bone Tomahawk."

I was not mentally prepared for " Bone Tomahawk. "

Posted by: Gem at March 30, 2019 07:56 PM (XoAz8)

102 Not just from living among them but from being a squaw. He said, "No one wants the spoils of a comanche buck." or something like that.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair

Also, Buddy Holly wrote a song based a recurring line that Wayne's character uttered. Can you guess?

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 07:56 PM (+Tibp)

103 Wasn't one of the elements of "The Searchers" about Wayne confronting his prejudice?

Kind of. I don't know what the book is like (yet, someday I'll read it) but the film Wayne is basing his ideas not on hate of natives, but on his knowlege, his experience telling him what happens to a woman when she's been a squaw for very long. She will not come back the same.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 07:57 PM (39g3+)

104 Still, it's a great descent into Hell type movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:51 PM (bW9H/)

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Because we don't have enough Hell in real life, we have to escape by watching more of it?

No thanks.

Posted by: SMH at March 30, 2019 07:57 PM (RU4sa)

105 ben johnson wasn;t in the searchers because ford dropped him for about 15 years over a misunderstanding. but johnson was the real thing, an actual drover, bronco busting', rodeo champion cowboy. his father was a rodeo star, too.

just learned that.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 30, 2019 07:57 PM (Pg+x7)

106 I was not mentally prepared for " Bone Tomahawk. "
Posted by: Gem

If not for Kurt Russell, I would have bailed on it.

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 07:57 PM (+Tibp)

107 Saw Trading Places the other day. While watching it, I came to the realization that I'd only every seen it when it was aired on TV. Didn't realize how much I missed out on...

Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 30, 2019 07:58 PM (8g9zh)

108 Jury prize seems like a good choice. For best picture, my vote still goes to Bohemian Rhapsody - but then again, in the 70's I bought every Queen album the day it was released, so I'm biased.

It's a rare case where I actually agree with the official Academy Awards - Rami Malek did a remarkable job playing Freddie Mercury, and deserved the Best Actor award that he was given.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2019 07:59 PM (V2Yro)

109 Didn't realize how much I missed out on...
Posted by: No One of Consequence

He means Curtis' bewbs.

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 07:59 PM (+Tibp)

110 104 Still, it's a great descent into Hell type movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:51 PM (bW9H/)

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Because we don't have enough Hell in real life, we have to escape by watching more of it?

No thanks.
Posted by: SMH at March 30, 2019 07:57 PM (RU4sa)

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It's an acquired taste, for sure. Many people look to movies for escapism, and that's perfectly fine. There's plenty out there that will help that.

But for those who've developed that taste for unpleasant things in their media consumption, Green Room is a great example.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:00 PM (SxdB4)

111 Here Comes Mr. Jordan- one of my faves. Bewitched's daddy supported by Capt. Renault, lovely Evelyn Keyes provided eye candy. The baddies were great in their roles, can't recall their names though.

Posted by: kallisto at March 30, 2019 08:00 PM (v2uEC)

112 Whatever "The Searchers" was about, its worth watching for the scenery. I look at a lot of westerns the same way. The list of locations may surprise you.

Posted by: Burger Chef at March 30, 2019 08:00 PM (RuIsu)

113 87
I'm not sure I could take Green Room. I've heard it's pretty violent. I used to be able to watch anything without a problem, but... "Bone Tomahawk" did something to me. Seriously.
Posted by: Gem at March 30, 2019 07:50 PM (XoAz

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Yeah, it's pretty brutal. Broken limbs that are broken very audibly and visually.

Still, it's a great descent into Hell type movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:51 PM (bW9H/)


I never knew that backstage in TV studios was that violent.

Posted by: rickl at March 30, 2019 08:00 PM (sdi6R)

114 113 Yeah, it's pretty brutal. Broken limbs that are broken very audibly and visually.

Still, it's a great descent into Hell type movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:51 PM (bW9H/)

I never knew that backstage in TV studios was that violent.
Posted by: rickl at March 30, 2019 08:00 PM (sdi6R)

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It's what happened when Rachel Maddow read the Barr summary for the first time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:01 PM (bW9H/)

115 Didn't realize how much I missed out on...
Posted by: No One of Consequence

He means Curtis' bewbs.
Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 07:59 PM (+Tibp)

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Hers weren't the only bewbs in the movie. There was also the Duke's use of the N word (though that wasn't nearly as entertaining)

Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 30, 2019 08:01 PM (8g9zh)

116 Whatever "The Searchers" was about, its worth watching for the scenery.

Every good western, the scenery is one of the characters. A very important one.

I haven't seen Bohemian Rhapsody so I can't comment as to its quality as a film but apparently where the script isn't just outright fiction, its jumbled the order of events and heavily edited them. That bothers me in a biopic, for obvious reasons.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 08:04 PM (39g3+)

117 PP epitomizes evil.
Posted by: SMH at March 30, 2019 07:47 PM (RU4sa)

--[Clears throat]

Listen, all you who are judges here on earth. Learn to love justice; learn to think high thoughts of what God is, and with sincere hearts aspire to him. Trust him thou must, if find him thou wouldst; he does not reveal himself to one that challenges his power. Man's truant thoughts may keep God at a distance, but when the test of strength comes, folly is shewn in its true colours; never yet did wisdom find her way into the schemer's heart, never yet made her home in a life mortgaged to sin. A holy thing it is, the spirit that brings instruction; how it shrinks away from the touch of falsehood, holds aloof from every rash design! It is a touchstone, to betray the neighbourhood of wrong-doing. A good friend to man is this spirit of wisdom, that convicts the blasphemer of his wild words; God can witness his secret thoughts, can read his heart unerringly, and shall his utterance go unheard? No, the spirit of the Lord fills the whole world; bond that holds all things in being, it takes cognizance of every sound we utter; how should ill speech go unmarked, or the scrutiny of justice pass it by? The hidden counsel of the godless will all come to light; no word of it but reaches the divine hearing, and betrays their wicked design; that jealous ear is still listening, and all their busy murmuring shall stand revealed.

Wisdom, Chapter 1

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 08:04 PM (XAYDB)

118 Also, Buddy Holly wrote a song based a recurring line that Wayne's character uttered. Can you guess?

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 07:56 PM (+Tibp)


I had to cheat and look it up.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 08:05 PM (N3Mch)

119 SMH, I think this would make an excellent movie

https://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=85807

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 08:06 PM (ZgGov)

120 Also, Buddy Holly wrote a song based a recurring line that Wayne's character uttered. Can you guess?

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 07:56 PM (+Tibp)

I had to cheat and look it up.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 08:05 PM (N3Mch)
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Is it "That'll be the day?"

Posted by: bluebell at March 30, 2019 08:06 PM (aXucN)

121 40 OK, sports fans, movie score trivia time. Phillip Glass wrote the score to which 1931movie? (I guess he has a time machine.)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 30, 2019 07:35 PM (+y/Ru)
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What was the movie?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 08:06 PM (kQs4Y)

122 What was the movie?

*cheats* Dracula

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 08:07 PM (39g3+)

123 I haven't seen Bohemian Rhapsody so I can't comment as to its quality as a film but apparently where the script isn't just outright fiction, its jumbled the order of events and heavily edited them. That bothers me in a biopic, for obvious reasons.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 08:04 PM (39g3+)
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What I learned from watching Bohemian Rhapsody is that the other members of Queen were absolute choir boys who didn't smoke, drink, or chase groupies. They went home every night to their wives and kids.

Posted by: bluebell at March 30, 2019 08:07 PM (aXucN)

124 ... another thing i just learned that has nothing to do with anything but i thought it was interesting so i thought i'd share though many of you probably know this:

hal sings "bicycle built for two" as it's dying in 2001: a space odyssey because arthur clark actually was at the first demonstration of a computer generated voice on an ibm computer in 1961. it sang that song - its real title is "daisy bell".

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 30, 2019 08:07 PM (Pg+x7)

125 Is it "That'll be the day?"
Posted by: bluebell

Yes! Well done.

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 08:07 PM (+Tibp)

126 123
What I learned from watching Bohemian Rhapsody is that the other members of Queen were absolute choir boys who didn't smoke, drink, or chase groupies. They went home every night to their wives and kids.

Posted by: bluebell at March 30, 2019 08:07 PM (aXucN)

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Just like Mickey Mantle!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:07 PM (bW9H/)

127 I watched Roshomon with the wife.

Her review: It was ok.

Sigh.

I find it fascinating, the four stories containing some mutual facts but being mutually exclusive. No one recitation can be said to be true....but none can be said to be entirely false. Everyone lies and people are complicated. A bandit can be a rapist and a thief but not a murderer. Or a woman can be a victim and an instigator of murder. Only the priest can said to be truly good and innocent but he is so weak and passive, he might as well not exist.

So much of Kurosawa is elevated and Roshomon is no exception.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 30, 2019 08:08 PM (xJa6I)

128 Metropolis?

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2019 08:08 PM (1UZdv)

129 Still, it's a great descent into Hell type movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:51 PM (bW9H/)


I never saw Bone Tomahawk but, along those lines, you might like The Green Inferno.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 08:08 PM (N3Mch)

130 Yes! Well done.
Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 08:07 PM (+Tibp)
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Thank you. I figured it was either that or "Peggy Sue."



Posted by: bluebell at March 30, 2019 08:08 PM (aXucN)

131 Well what did you expect, she had a different take on the events in the movie.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 08:08 PM (ZgGov)

132 127 I watched Roshomon with the wife.

Her review: It was ok.

Sigh.

I find it fascinating, the four stories containing some mutual facts but being mutually exclusive. No one recitation can be said to be true....but none can be said to be entirely false. Everyone lies and people are complicated. A bandit can be a rapist and a thief but not a murderer. Or a woman can be a victim and an instigator of murder. Only the priest can said to be truly good and innocent but he is so weak and passive, he might as well not exist.

So much of Kurosawa is elevated and Roshomon is no exception.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 30, 2019 08:08 PM (xJa6I)

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My wife would have stopped paying attention after ten minutes and spent the rest of the movie on her phone.

I haven't seen Rashomon in forever, though. I should rewatch it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:09 PM (bW9H/)

133 Oh and on topic, I'm pro-Buster Scruggs. It wasn't the best movie of last year but it's a good movie and worthy of praise. Not an anti-western, for which I'm grateful.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 30, 2019 08:09 PM (xJa6I)

134 Thank you. I figured it was either that or "Peggy Sue."
Posted by: bluebell

My first guess was "Hello, Mrs Paulie"

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 08:09 PM (+Tibp)

135 I also watched The Highwaymen on Netflix on the strength of Christian Toto's recommendation.

Really good period piece, maybe the best performance by Kevin Costner in a long while.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 30, 2019 08:10 PM (xJa6I)

136 I haven't seen Bohemian Rhapsody so I can't comment as to its quality as a film but apparently where the script isn't just outright fiction, its jumbled the order of events and heavily edited them. That bothers me in a biopic, for obvious reasons."

It works if you accept that the intent of the movie isn't to give you a factual play by play of everything that happened - the point is to portray who Freddie Mercury was. It's a bit of fantasy, and a bit of hero worship - but it's probably the kind of portrayal that Freddie himself would have adored.

As has been pointed out, the biggest fantasies are probably about the other still living band members (who had approval authority over the script, I believe) resulting in hilarious scenes such as Freddie asking them to stay for the wild party at his house, and these hard-core rock stars saying "no, I can't, I have to go spend the evening with my wife and kids." HA!

But in spite of all that, it's an energizing movie that leaves you feeling good at the end. And that was enough for me to forgive it's many sins.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2019 08:10 PM (V2Yro)

137 Ah, one of the geishas has had her chesticles converted into machine guns.

This movie cries out for a drinking game but you'd be blackout drunk in 10 minutes.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 08:10 PM (kQs4Y)

138 I know! I know!

That'll be the day.

Posted by: booknlass at March 30, 2019 08:10 PM (xIKXj)

139 I'm watching Pumaman right now. It's got that bald headed bad guy guy in it.

Posted by: freaked at March 30, 2019 08:11 PM (UdKB7)

140 I loved that the first sequence in Ballad was almost a cartoon, a tip to those over the top westerns. Loads of fun and despite being ultimately kind of sad, was kind of sweet.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 08:11 PM (39g3+)

141 i thought harrelson was terribly miscast in no country for old men, not
because of his performance, which was solid, but because he was too
young to have been a colonel in viet nam.


Somehow I missed that part, so it didn't blow his role for me.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at March 30, 2019 08:11 PM (7s3Gx)

142 Great picks, OM.

Posted by: Eromero at March 30, 2019 08:11 PM (qBNEP)

143 Ah, one of the geishas has had her chesticles converted into machine guns.

Yeah baby, the Japanese are watching Austin Powers again.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 08:11 PM (ZgGov)

144 Damn, TTU is gonna beat the Zags

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 08:11 PM (XAYDB)

145 129 Still, it's a great descent into Hell type movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:51 PM (bW9H/)


I never saw Bone Tomahawk but, along those lines, you might like The Green Inferno.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 08:08 PM (N3Mch)

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I have no love for Eli Roth as a director, and the RLM review of it kind of convinced me that I never need to see it. Their problem was the weird fart humor that popped up at inappropriate moments, like the movie was straddling a line between terror and schlocky comedy.

Still, I haven't seen it, and I almost never completely refuse to watch movies (the Fifty Shades movies might be a solid example of ones that I refuse to watch). So, maybe I'll check it out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:11 PM (bW9H/)

146 OK, OK, none of you want to play. In 1998, minimalist composer Phillip Glass composed a soundtrack to Bela Lugosi's 1931 Dracula. I guess he's Phillip Glass; he can do what he wants.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dYGB5-d3EkA

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 30, 2019 08:12 PM (+y/Ru)

147 hilarious scenes such as Freddie asking them to stay for the wild party at his house, and these hard-core rock stars saying "no, I can't, I have to go spend the evening with my wife and kids." HA!

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2019 08:10 PM (V2Yro)
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And not only that, they looked shocked - SHOCKED! - there were drugs and alcohol and weirdos at the party. As they stood there hand-in-hand with their wives, looking concerned and whispering "let's get out of here."

Uh huh.

Posted by: bluebell at March 30, 2019 08:12 PM (aXucN)

148 142 Great picks, OM.
Posted by: Eromero at March 30, 2019 08:11 PM (qBNEP)

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You hear that Oregon? Congrats...

:/

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:13 PM (bW9H/)

149 Apparently "They Shall Not Grow Old" will not be showing around here. Why didn't it show in more theaters?

Posted by: freaked at March 30, 2019 08:13 PM (UdKB7)

150 We did not finish Buster Scruggs. KTY felt it was too depressing.

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 30, 2019 08:13 PM (dm05u)

151 I consider They Shall Not Grow Old not only the best film of 2018 but the most important film that Peter Jackson has done (and I say that as a great LOTR fan).

And I though that Ballad was great as well, precisely because of the expectations it subverted in various ways. ..fritz..

Posted by: Fritzworth at March 30, 2019 08:13 PM (99++E)

152 Philip Glass is way late to the party... Queen did that for the colorized Metropolis

https://youtu.be/azdwsXLmrHE

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 08:13 PM (ZgGov)

153 >>What I learned from watching Bohemian Rhapsody is that the other members of Queen were absolute choir boys who didn't smoke, drink, or chase groupies. They went home every night to their wives and kids.

I only knew one hard core rock star and he was actually a very smart, conservative guy. Backstage before the show he was just an ordinary guy, what he did on stage was just part of the show.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2019 08:14 PM (/tuJf)

154 is Green Room about the black musician and Italian driver?

Posted by: kallisto at March 30, 2019 08:14 PM (v2uEC)

155 aw. too late.


I watched The Searchers with a "meet-up" group in Albuquerque at the Keno theater. Afterwards, we 4 strangers went out for coffee to talk. Racist blah blah.

I reminded the women that Wayne's character had just returned from the civil war. Also, Indians had murdered his sister in law, who he seemed to love.

I asked them how they think they would have reacted. they were quiet for a few minutes. the one man in the group said to me, good points

Posted by: booknlass at March 30, 2019 08:15 PM (xIKXj)

156 149 Apparently "They Shall Not Grow Old" will not be showing around here. Why didn't it show in more theaters?
Posted by: freaked at March 30, 2019 08:13 PM (UdKB7)

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It showed in a lot more places than a movie like that would normally.

It got released through Fathom Events, which broadcasts films to participating theaters. They Shall Not Grow Old ended up being so popular that they scheduled at least 2 extra showings to meet demand.

Seriously, I've grown to love Fathom Events.

The next thing I'm going to see from them is The Man Who Killed Don Quixote in a couple of weeks. They're also partnered with TCM to release classic movies, so we're getting Ben-Hur, Lawrence of Arabia, and Alien in the next few months.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:15 PM (bW9H/)

157 I'm not sure I could take Green Room. I've heard it's pretty violent. I used to be able to watch anything without a problem, but... "Bone Tomahawk" did something to me. Seriously.
Posted by: Gem at March 30, 2019 07:50 PM (XoAz

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Yeah, it's pretty brutal. Broken limbs that are broken very audibly and visually.

Still, it's a great descent into Hell type movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:51 PM (bW9H/)

I never knew that backstage in TV studios was that violent.
Posted by: rickl at March 30, 2019 08:00 PM (sdi6R)

You forget anything from one of those celebrity divas' special request lists and it gets bloody.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 30, 2019 08:16 PM (NWiLs)

158 I have no love for Eli Roth as a director, and the RLM review of it kind of convinced me that I never need to see it. Their problem was the weird fart humor that popped up at inappropriate moments, like the movie was straddling a line between terror and schlocky comedy.

Huh? I have no idea what movie they were watching. It wasn't The Green Inferno.

Still, I haven't seen it, and I almost never completely refuse to watch movies (the Fifty Shades movies might be a solid example of ones that I refuse to watch). So, maybe I'll check it out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:11 PM (bW9H/)


It's a decent movie. It's certainly violent and shocking - surprisingly so. And it slaps leftist douchebags upside the head.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 08:16 PM (N3Mch)

159 144 Damn, TTU is gonna beat the Zags
Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 08:11 PM (XAYDB)

--Or maybe not

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 08:16 PM (XAYDB)

160 The Searchers is about the passing of the Old West. Final shot with Ethan left outside as the door closes is pure cinema. Also, the sequence with Ethan chasing Debbie, and Martin chasing Ethan

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2019 08:16 PM (1UZdv)

161 154 is Green Room about the black musician and Italian driver?
Posted by: kallisto at March 30, 2019 08:14 PM (v2uEC)

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That's Green Book.

Green Room is about a punk band that goes to perform for some neo-Nazis in the backwoods of Oregon. The band members witness a murder and then have to fight off of the remote complex for their lives.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:16 PM (bW9H/)

162 139 I'm watching Pumaman right now. It's got that bald headed bad guy guy in it.
Posted by: freaked at March 30, 2019 08:11 PM (UdKB7)

Horrible main character, interesting side characters. Including, yes, Donald Plesence.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 30, 2019 08:16 PM (xJa6I)

163 I only knew one hard core rock star and he was actually a very smart, conservative guy. Backstage before the show he was just an ordinary guy, what he did on stage was just part of the show.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2019 08:14 PM (/tuJf)


Alice Cooper?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2019 08:18 PM (VBolV)

164 I hate Oregon Nazis.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 30, 2019 08:18 PM (+y/Ru)

165 163 I only knew one hard core rock star and he was actually a very smart, conservative guy. Backstage before the show he was just an ordinary guy, what he did on stage was just part of the show.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2019 08:14 PM (/tuJf)


Alice Cooper?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2019 08:18 PM (VBolV)

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Does he know the history of the name of Milwaukee?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:19 PM (bW9H/)

166 Dumb foul by the Zags

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 08:19 PM (XAYDB)

167
I'm watching Pumaman right now. It's got that bald headed bad guy guy in it.

Posted by: freaked at March 30, 2019 08:11 PM (UdKB7)


Is he in his Fortress of Balditude?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2019 08:19 PM (VBolV)

168 I'm watching Pumaman right now. It's got that bald headed bad guy guy in it.
Posted by: freaked at March 30, 2019 08:11 PM (UdKB7)

Heh. Me too. Pluto TV?

And Donald Pleasance, or Tater Stelter.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not a Dullard at March 30, 2019 08:19 PM (PXJBj)

169 There's a weird indie movie called Slasher.com out there with Jewel Shepherd of B-movie fame (Zapped, Return of the Living Dead, Hollywood Hot Tubs).

It starts out super cheesy and has a low budget feel but over time starts getting more clever and unpredictable and it turns the entire genre on its head. By the end its really pretty engaging and shocking.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 08:20 PM (39g3+)

170 We're not worthy. We're not worthy!

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2019 08:20 PM (1UZdv)

171 132 127 I watched Roshomon with the wife.

Her review: It was ok.

Sigh.

I find it fascinating, the four stories containing some mutual facts but being mutually exclusive. No one recitation can be said to be true....but none can be said to be entirely false. Everyone lies and people are complicated. A bandit can be a rapist and a thief but not a murderer. Or a woman can be a victim and an instigator of murder. Only the priest can said to be truly good and innocent but he is so weak and passive, he might as well not exist.

So much of Kurosawa is elevated and Roshomon is no exception.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 30, 2019 08:08 PM (xJa6I)

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My wife would have stopped paying attention after ten minutes and spent the rest of the movie on her phone.

I haven't seen Rashomon in forever, though. I should rewatch it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:09 PM (bW9H/)

It's a great two hours and a lot to unpack. I didn't even get into the nature and weather themes...or the demon that may or may not be a character who hid in Roshomon temple to hide from the savagery of men...

Criterion did it right with that one.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 30, 2019 08:20 PM (xJa6I)

172 Jeebus, this movie! The underpants shots are more disturbing than the machine gun boobs.

The Japanese, the Germans...too much or not enough?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 08:20 PM (kQs4Y)

173 So much of Kurosawa is elevated and Roshomon is no exception.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 30, 2019 08:08 PM (xJa6I)
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My wife would have stopped paying attention after ten minutes and spent the rest of the movie on her phone.

I haven't seen Rashomon in forever, though. I should rewatch it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:09 PM

IMHO, Rashomon is by FAR the most insightful movie Kurosawa ever made (and I love almost all of Kurosawa!)

It may seem that it is unsettling because there is no real resolution, you never know for sure what really happened - but if you talk to anyone at any level who actually works with the Judicial System, with the Courts, who's been through trials - they will tell you that in real life, events as laid out in Rashomen are EXACTLY how things play out in real life, every day. Laypeople have this nice fantasy idea that the police investigate a case, and send it to the courts, and someone is telling the Truth, and someone is Lying, and all you have to do is figure it out.

That's fantasy - that almost never actually happens in any hard case (in the easy ones, there's really no question at all what happened.)

What every policeman, every Judge, every Attorney in the system deals with is that some shit happens, and then 3 absolutely sincere people show up and tell 3 stories that all contradict each other in non-reconcilable ways. And the you find out that all 3 of them were lying in certain details, but the Cop who brought in the perp was lying (or forgetful) as well in some aspects. And in the end, you just have to throw the dice and go with your gut and hope you got it right, but you never, ever, really KNOW.

Rashomen, in it's fantastical way, is the most incredibly TRUE depiction of the investigation of a crime ever put to film.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2019 08:20 PM (V2Yro)

174 Eris, if I try to find that movie will I get arrested?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 08:21 PM (ZgGov)

175 131 Well what did you expect, she had a different take on the events in the movie.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 08:08 PM (ZgGov)

Yeah. I just wish she liked movies or liked talking or thinking about them.

Bad dice.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 30, 2019 08:21 PM (xJa6I)

176 I wouldn't have voted for A Star Is Born unless it was the JUDY version.

Posted by: kallisto at March 30, 2019 08:22 PM (v2uEC)

177 Yeah Pluto TV is great. The other night I watched "Journey To The West". Guess what? It's not a western!

Posted by: freaked at March 30, 2019 08:22 PM (UdKB7)

178 The next thing I'm going to see from them is The Man Who Killed Don Quixote in a couple of weeks. They're also partnered with TCM to release classic movies, so we're getting Ben-Hur, Lawrence of Arabia, and Alien in the next few months.

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I think To Kill a Mockingbird is coming or just was.

193? South: Black man falsely accused of rape
1919 Chicago: White men falsely accused of attempted lynching

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 30, 2019 08:22 PM (+y/Ru)

179 The underpants shots are more disturbing than the machine gun boobs.

Japanese have a real problem with upskirt stuff. I tied watching this weird thing with girls who changed into partial animal forms and flew around with propellers on their feet (Strike Witches, I think?) but the first show was half gratuitous upskirt shots and most of them of like middle school girls. I felt like I was turning into Joe Biden.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 08:23 PM (39g3+)

180 Red Raiders win.

First ever Final Four.

Two #1s are eliminated.

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 08:23 PM (XAYDB)

181 173 Rashomen, in it's fantastical way, is the most incredibly TRUE depiction of the investigation of a crime ever put to film.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2019 08:20 PM (V2Yro)

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The key to the movie's power is that we never see the event laid out independent of the different perspectives. We only ever see it through the depositions.

If you have two characters telling different versions of the same event, but show one on camera and leave the other to just dialogue, the audience will automatically be more inclined to believe the one told visually, because we saw it happen. This is a criticism of Branaugh's Hamlet, because he shows Claudius poisoning Hamlet the Elder and doesn't leave it to the ghost's dialogue. Instantly, the audience is convinced that it actually happened, and we don't have that doubt crawling around in my head if this ghost is telling the truth or not.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:24 PM (bW9H/)

182 What is scary about Pluto TV, they have a Shout Factory TV channel so you can right now watch the original sentai shows and not the repackaged Power Rangers versions.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 08:24 PM (ZgGov)

183 So much of Kurosawa is elevated and Roshomon is no exception.

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He stole that shit from Hoodwinked.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 30, 2019 08:24 PM (+y/Ru)

184 *Roundhouse kick with ankle blades*

"How do the socks of a schoolgirl assassin taste?!"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 08:24 PM (kQs4Y)

185 178 I think To Kill a Mockingbird is coming or just was.

193? South: Black man falsely accused of rape
1919 Chicago: White men falsely accused of attempted lynching
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 30, 2019 08:22 PM (+y/Ru)

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Yeah, it is.

Fathom Events is great stuff.

And...no one goes to them. So the theaters are usually pretty much empty. Which means...minimal bad audience experiences.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:25 PM (bW9H/)

186 'Japanese have a real problem with upskirt stuff'

I think it's called "Ogee Panty Complex"

Posted by: freaked at March 30, 2019 08:25 PM (UdKB7)

187 Yeah Strike Witches[/i[ is one of those eeeeehhhhh......

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 08:25 PM (ZgGov)

188 I keep undercutting TJM's insightful musings with my crap. Sorry, TJM!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 08:25 PM (kQs4Y)

189 183 He stole that shit from Hoodwinked.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 30, 2019 08:24 PM (+y/Ru)

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Gonna be honest, I saw that movie once and I laughed hysterically through the whole thing. I will never revisit it and leave my happy memory as the only thing I remember of it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:26 PM (bW9H/)

190 'Japanese have a real problem with upskirt stuff'

I think it's called "Ogee Panty Complex"
Posted by: freaked

Welp, there goes that drink.

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 08:26 PM (+Tibp)

191 Watching Mary Poppins Returns

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 30, 2019 08:26 PM (dm05u)

192 Next Fathom Event for me: Octoman. Rifftrax gold if ever there was one.

Off to birthday dinner with the wife.

Watch all the films, Horde!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 30, 2019 08:27 PM (xJa6I)

193 188 I keep undercutting TJM's insightful musings with my crap. Sorry, TJM!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 08:25 PM (kQs4Y)

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One day, I'll binge a bunch of anime and your musings will be so on point.

That will be the day that you decide to talk about Fellini.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:27 PM (bW9H/)

194 My problem is that I'm a sucker for character design and most of the really neat anime character designs are in really questionable or really nasty content, like To Love Ru

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 08:27 PM (39g3+)

195 Wish I remembered the name of this Japanese live action but here we go - we got this high school Japanese girl who's arm transforms into a Gatling gun and she literally blows away school bullies one bloody chunk at a time.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 08:27 PM (ZgGov)

196 They're also partnered with TCM to release classic movies, so we're getting Ben-Hur, Lawrence of Arabia, and Alien in the next few months.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:15 PM

I would love to see Ben-Hur on a big screen.

I have to be honest. I see why LoA is a cinematic masterpiece. It's epic and beautiful. I understand that. But it bored me to tears when I was a kid, and I bought the DVD as an adult with great anticipation, only to achieve the same result. What am I not getting?

Posted by: Gem at March 30, 2019 08:28 PM (XoAz8)

197 A review of a samurai movie
Its ok

What?

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2019 08:28 PM (BbGew)

198 I only knew one hard core rock star and he was actually a very smart,
conservative guy. Backstage before the show he was just an ordinary guy,
what he did on stage was just part of the show.



Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2019 08:14 PM (/tuJf)





I think every musician I was ever in bands with was pretty much to the right of Attila the Hun. I mean yeah, metal doesn't exactly breed pajama boys, but I can remember only one drummer that was questionable. Everybody else was/is waaay right wing.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2019 08:29 PM (9Om/r)

199 Lawrence of Arabia has to been seen on a giant screen just to feel the impact of the vastness of the desert and how really small Lawrence and all the feuding Bedouins are.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 08:30 PM (ZgGov)

200 I bought the DVD as an adult with great anticipation, only to achieve the same result.

Well it is visually stunning, and it tells a very interesting story that would have otherwise been utterly forgotten but it takes quite a while to tell. If you aren't very patient or don't have the time, its not going to hold you well. Some amazing performances, though

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 08:30 PM (39g3+)

201 195 Wish I remembered the name of this Japanese live action but here we go - we got this high school Japanese girl who's arm transforms into a Gatling gun and she literally blows away school bullies one bloody chunk at a time.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 08:27 PM (ZgGov)

The Machine Girl? I thought she got mixed up with mafia ninjas or something.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 30, 2019 08:30 PM (NWiLs)

202 Everybody else was/is waaay right wing.

Metallica seems to be the exception, maybe Judas Priest

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 08:31 PM (39g3+)

203 200 I bought the DVD as an adult with great anticipation, only to achieve the same result.

Well it is visually stunning, and it tells a very interesting story that would have otherwise been utterly forgotten but it takes quite a while to tell. If you aren't very patient or don't have the time, its not going to hold you well. Some amazing performances, though
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 08:30 PM (39g3+)

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Just think of Lawrence going back for the boy in the desert. There's such remarkable tension there as we peer into the blazing hot horizon, searching for any shape at all along with those who wait for Lawrence.

Lean really was a master filmmaker, and his movies do require 100% attention.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:32 PM (bW9H/)

204 Instead of calling it a worst movies list I would call it the list of best movies to annoy the #metoo crowd.

My top three

The Apartment
The Quiet Man
Sixteen Candles

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 30, 2019 07:40 PM (2DOZq)


The first half, or three-quarters, of Bamboozled, which was absolutely hysterical.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 08:32 PM (N3Mch)

205 Lawrence of Arabia has to been seen on a giant screen just to feel the impact of the vastness of the desert and how really small Lawrence and all the feuding Bedouins are.

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Great soundtrack truly evokes the desert, too.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 30, 2019 08:32 PM (+y/Ru)

206 That'll be the day when I die.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 30, 2019 08:33 PM (PUmDY)

207 I have to be honest. I see why LoA is a cinematic masterpiece. It's epic and beautiful. I understand that. But it bored me to tears when I was a kid, and I bought the DVD as an adult with great anticipation, only to achieve the same result. What am I not getting?

Posted by: Gem at March 30, 2019 08:28 PM (XoAz


You're fine. It's boring.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 08:33 PM (N3Mch)

208 Once upon a time, David Lean went to the Hollywood money men to pitch his next project.

It's epic I tells ya. It's about a guy no one in America has ever heard of. And it'll be long I tells ya. And we're going to shoot in the desert. in 70mm! Love interest? None I tells ya. Unless you count an offscreen homosexual rape. And my leading man is an unknown Irish stage actor who's never been in a movie before. How much ya in for?

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2019 08:33 PM (1UZdv)

209 I'm not a fan at all of Japanese culture based on the samurai code and feudal system which still exists today in many aspects. That's probably why I'm not a big fan of Japanese movies like many of you are here.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 30, 2019 08:33 PM (2DOZq)

210 208 Once upon a time, David Lean went to the Hollywood money men to pitch his next project.

It's epic I tells ya. It's about a guy no one in America has ever heard of. And it'll be long I tells ya. And we're going to shoot in the desert. in 70mm! Love interest? None I tells ya. Unless you count an offscreen homosexual rape. And my leading man is an unknown Irish stage actor who's never been in a movie before. How much ya in for?
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2019 08:33 PM (1UZdv)

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"This is the guy who made Bridge on the River Kwai, right?"

"Yeah...I think..."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:34 PM (bW9H/)

211 Everybody else was/is waaay right wing.



Metallica seems to be the exception, maybe Judas Priest

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 08:31 PM (39g3+)


Metallica didn't start that way. Something happened to those dudes, they became everything they hated. Priest don't count, they're European. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2019 08:34 PM (9Om/r)

212 At the end of the movie, there was a woman at the end of our row crying
uncontrollably. Mrs. Muse sat with her and hugged her for awhile, but we
never did get her story.

--

Your wife is a very special woman for caring enough to reach out in some way and comfort this lady. I commend her for doing so, because so many people couldn't it.

I read Abby Johnson's book (checked it out from the library) several months ago. It was very good, and it was shocking to simply understand how scared she was just to try and break from that awful organization. She was treated like a heretic, and she truly feared for herself simply because she wanted to leave and couldn't support their death mission anymore. She had to keep her decision on the down low, due to severe retribution from Planned Parenthood and the militants that run it.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at March 30, 2019 08:34 PM (JoUsr)

213 Berserker where do blues guitarists fall on the political spectrum?

Posted by: kallisto at March 30, 2019 08:34 PM (v2uEC)

214 How much ya in for?

Amazingly enough it worked. But if it hadn't been for Peter O'Toole's amazing charisma and looks it would not have. Those eyes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 08:35 PM (39g3+)

215 209 I'm not a fan at all of Japanese culture based on the samurai code and feudal system which still exists today in many aspects. That's probably why I'm not a big fan of Japanese movies like many of you are here.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 30, 2019 08:33 PM (2DOZq)

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A lot of the great stuff (like Kurosawa, Shindo, Mizoguchi were making) were actually really critical of the feudal system.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:35 PM (bW9H/)

216 Flash Gordon is on Comet right now. It is wonderfully cheesy!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 30, 2019 08:35 PM (8g9zh)

217 216 Flash Gordon is on Comet right now. It is wonderfully cheesy!
Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 30, 2019 08:35 PM (8g9zh)

Pathetic earthlings.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 30, 2019 08:36 PM (NWiLs)

218 The first half, or three-quarters, of Bamboozled, which was absolutely hysterical.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 08:32 PM (N3Mch)

I like Damon Wayons .

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 30, 2019 08:36 PM (2DOZq)

219 Something happened to those dudes, they became everything they hated.

Yeah I feel kinda bad about Metallica. I think with the success of the Black Album they lost their way and became too self-important. That movie about its making shows what a pack of a-holes they all are except for the bassist they fired. Hetfield was the least jerky but still...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 08:36 PM (39g3+)

220 Yes to Lester, and to the segment with Liam.

I like anything the Coen bros do, and that one was particularly good.

Anybody liked one from a few years back, "The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus?" Not by the Coens.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at March 30, 2019 08:37 PM (+fPHo)

221 "A review of a samurai movie
Its ok "

I watched "13 Samurai" last night. At least there was no flying. Anyway I never understand why 100 guys will stand around watching their comrades gets wacked one at time by a samurai. Why don't they all jump on him at once?

Posted by: freaked at March 30, 2019 08:38 PM (UdKB7)

222 "Those eyes."

The Mad Magazine parody was Florence of Arabia.

Lawrence won all the Oscars, except Actor. O'toole had the bad luck of going against Gregory Peck in Mockingbird.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2019 08:38 PM (1UZdv)

223 220 Anybody liked one from a few years back, "The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus?" Not by the Coens.
Posted by: Les Kinetic at March 30, 2019 08:37 PM (+fPHo)

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Terry Gilliam.

Heath Ledger's last movie before he died. He didn't complete the role, so Jude Law, Colin Farrel, and Johnny Depp took over for certain points.

It's messy, like many of Gilliam's films, but I think it ends up coming together well enough in the end.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:39 PM (bW9H/)

224 Anybody liked one from a few years back, "The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus?" Not by the Coens.

Not Terry Gilliam's best work, but it was interesting. Mostly liked it for gorgeous redheaded model Lily Cole even though it was a small part and she wasn't much of an actress

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 08:39 PM (39g3+)

225 I like Damon Wayons

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 30, 2019 08:36 PM (2DOZq)


I believe Damon Wayans may have been the first to introduce "bitch-slap" into the mainstream when he threatened Halle Berry with it - jokingly - in The Last Boy Scout.

Interestingly, "bitch-slap" has become a favorite of the fem-nazis and poofter fem-nazi sympathizers. They love to say "bitch-slap" since it shows that they're down with the struggle ... to slap bitches.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 08:40 PM (N3Mch)

226 I wanted to rec a couple of furrin movi I saw recently -

The Fencer (2O15) - a PG-13 biopic set in 1950s Estonia. Slow, not much dialogue, but very interesting somehow

The Guilty (201 a Danish movie about a 911 operator (not literally 911, whatever number they use there)
practically a one man movie but very tense and great acting

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 30, 2019 08:41 PM (dm05u)

227 Isn't O'Toole the guy who refused a lifetime achiement Oscar b/c he wanted to win one for realz (acting)?

Posted by: Gem at March 30, 2019 08:41 PM (XoAz8)

228 Kurosawa's 1946 film No Regrets for our Youth is a pretty good snapshot of living under the Japanese military dictatorship.

This village is turned against this couple and their daughter-in-law because their son was a dissident. The hatred that is so stirred up is so intense that the villagers destroy the couple's rice fields.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 08:41 PM (ZgGov)

229 I have to admit that Last Boy Scout is a guilty pleasure. Its really not a very good movie, but it still worked for me. The director took things way too seriously and overdirected it but I liked it anyway. An example of a film that could have worked but was ruined: Hudson Hawk. Great idea, great leads, but horrible casting otherwise and really poorly directed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 08:42 PM (39g3+)

230 Lawrence is a character study of a solitary man who moved the arc of history in one part of the World, seemingly by himself. And then gets swept away by the forces he himself helped unleashed.

I find it truly sad.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2019 08:42 PM (1UZdv)

231 BTW, for anyone who cares, The Lives of Others is now available on Netflix.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 08:42 PM (N3Mch)

232 And my leading man is an unknown Irish stage actor who's never been in a movie before.

-
Opens the door for me to recommend Dean Spanley, a small but very moving movie O'Toole made when he was 76. Two caveats: Nothing ever happens in the movie; it's basically about the conversation at three dinners. It may offend the theology of some. I see it more as a fantasy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 30, 2019 08:43 PM (+y/Ru)

233 I have to be honest. I see why LoA is a cinematic masterpiece. It's epic and beautiful. I understand that. But it bored me to tears when I was a kid, and I bought the DVD as an adult with great anticipation, only to achieve the same result. What am I not getting?"

The second half is not as good as the first. One effect that may not mean as much to you as to me is that the musical score alone is enough for me to be entranced by it, and it's gotta be seen on a wide screen, because nothing else has ever captured the Majesty and Awe of the Desert in its pure form like that film did. (i'm an oddball like Lawrence who loves the Desert)

The 3rd, and perhaps most important reason for watching that movie, is that the events in portrays very literally created the problems we live with to this day. Want to know what we're up against in dealing with the Arabs still today, and it's all right there. They got a lot of money, but they've never changed who they are, and they never will.

Busting up the Ottoman Empire was probably a huge mistake. But almost every result of WW1 has turned out to have been a huge mistake.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2019 08:43 PM (V2Yro)

234 metallica lost their soul when cliff was killed. lars today, is a total elitist asshole.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 30, 2019 08:43 PM (KP5rU)

235 So much of Kurosawa is elevated and Roshomon is no exception.


What I didn't get about Roshomon until after a few viewings was that each character portrays him/herself in a worse light than the others.

You'd think they'd be scheming to place blame elsewhere but they do the opposite.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 30, 2019 08:43 PM (fuK7c)

236
Berserker where do blues guitarists fall on the political spectrum?

Posted by: kallisto at March 30, 2019 08:34 PM (v2uEC)


No clue, if I ever meet any I'll let you know. lol

Seriously though, and I'm only guessing, but I think it depends on where and how they were brought up. Metal deals with a lot of history, and overall ass kicking, and seeing your enemies driven before you, etc etc, so it kind of weeds out the crowd a little to start with. I don't follow blues, but it seems it could probably attract from both sides, so I like I said, I guess it has a lot to do with the up bringing. I mean if you got a blues dude from san fran, and a blues dude from texas, you can almost guess what side of the line they live on.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2019 08:44 PM (9Om/r)

237 I think The Last Boy Scout has become a cult movie like Road House. I like TLBS better.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 30, 2019 08:44 PM (2DOZq)

238 I have to admit that Last Boy Scout is a guilty pleasure. Its really not a very good movie, but it still worked for me. The director took things way too seriously and overdirected it but I liked it anyway.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 08:42 PM (39g3+)


The Last Boy Scout was a very fun movie. Definitely a guilty pleasure.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 08:44 PM (N3Mch)

239 Yeah TE Lawrence is a sad story. Faisel of Saudi Arabia was willing to use him for his purposes and when the British did not need him anymore he was tossed aside.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 08:44 PM (ZgGov)

240 Flash Gordon came up on a movie thread some time ago, we were supposed to like it

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2019 08:45 PM (BbGew)

241 metallica lost their soul when cliff was killed. lars today, is a total elitist asshole.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 30, 2019 08:43 PM (KP5rU)


Lars was always an asshole. Cliff was indeed the soul of that band. He was a great dude.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2019 08:45 PM (9Om/r)

242 We saw They Shall Not Grow Old
very well done.. Peter Jackson explains at the end why he did it the way he did.. If you see it in a theater, you definitely want to stay for that extra.
No date yet for DVD or streaming (at regular prices)

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 30, 2019 08:45 PM (438dO)

243 metallica lost their soul when cliff was killed. lars today, is a total elitist asshole.

They lost a ton of talent when Dave Mustaine was kicked out. I mean he was a mess and they made the right move but damn that guy is talented.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 08:45 PM (39g3+)

244 IIRC O'Toole accepted the honorary but lamented not winning the real thing after eight nominations.

In My Favorite Year, O'Toole channels Erroll Flynn doing a live TV show in the 1950s. It's hilarious.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2019 08:46 PM (1UZdv)

245

I found a very good streaming website for movies and TV shows. Tons of content.


tubitv.com

Watching The Avengers - The Gravediggers.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2019 08:46 PM (/XesT)

246 237 I think The Last Boy Scout has become a cult movie like Road House. I like TLBS better.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 30, 2019 08:44 PM (2DOZq)

*kicks can't resist temptation in the head*

Road House.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 30, 2019 08:46 PM (NWiLs)

247 I like Flash Gordon

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 30, 2019 08:46 PM (dm05u)

248 Bad guy: "Who are you?!"

She: "I'm the cast iron courtesan, Robo-Geisha!"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 08:47 PM (kQs4Y)

249 Rashomon is the Canterbury Tales about one event.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 08:47 PM (ZgGov)

250 217 216 Flash Gordon is on Comet right now. It is wonderfully cheesy!
Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 30, 2019 08:35 PM (8g9zh)

Pathetic earthlings.
Posted by: Insomniac at March 30, 2019 08:36 PM (NWiLs)

Damn! I don't get Comet. That's another movie I have to watch every time, because of that Score by Queen! Even now, if someone says, "FLASH!!!" I think "ooh WAAH ahh..." I nominate that as the best Rock movie score ever (excepting movies ABOUT rock bands, obviously)

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2019 08:47 PM (V2Yro)

251 Christopher R. Taylor, I liked Hudson Hawk. 'BALL, BALL!'

Posted by: Eromero at March 30, 2019 08:47 PM (qBNEP)

252 239 Yeah TE Lawrence is a sad story. Faisel of Saudi Arabia was willing to use him for his purposes and when the British did not need him anymore he was tossed aside.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 08:44 PM (ZgGov)

Well, two things I should do:

1) Read more about Lawrence to increase my interest/empathy
2) See this on a big screen, but make sure it's in a theater with the cushy recliners, in case it's still boring.

Posted by: Gem at March 30, 2019 08:48 PM (XoAz8)

253 245

I found a very good streaming website for movies and TV shows. Tons of content.


tubitv.com

Watching The Avengers - The Gravediggers.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2019 08:46 PM (/XesT)

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Commercial supported service. I've watched a few on there, and the commercials are shockingly rare.

I actually watched Sisters on that (reviewed above).

In general, I use Just Watch, an app that keeps track of every new movie on every streaming service. You can filter it by chosen services (I have it down to Netflix, HULU, Prime, Tubitv, and VUDU ad). I just look once a day to see what's newly available. The vast majority ends up being junk I've never heard of, but I'm always looking out for movies in my queue to pop up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:48 PM (bW9H/)

254 Posted by: Insomniac at March 30, 2019 08:46 PM (NWiL

Catches insomniac's toe blade boot and drags him out of the thread.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 30, 2019 08:48 PM (2DOZq)

255 Comet has a Roku channel.

Posted by: freaked at March 30, 2019 08:49 PM (UdKB7)

256 236. Interesting. I never understood metal, you gave a good description of its motivation.

Posted by: kallisto at March 30, 2019 08:49 PM (v2uEC)

257 I don't really like Roadhouse that much. Its okay but its just too cheese for me to really enjoy. The bad guy is so unbelievably lame.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 08:49 PM (39g3+)

258 "Flash! He'll save every one of us!"

Plus there is Ming's daughter and Timothy Dalton in tights.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 08:49 PM (ZgGov)

259 237 I think The Last Boy Scout has become a cult movie like Road House. I like TLBS better.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 30, 2019 08:44 PM (2DOZq)

--Also, Action Jackson. Hell, throw in Tango and Cash.

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 08:50 PM (XAYDB)

260 Movies I Saw This Fortnight:


Hootie tootie movie thread. We have to put our pants and everything on, huh?



Where's my bow tie?

Posted by: Braenyard at March 30, 2019 08:50 PM (ePWRo)

261 249 Rashomon is the Canterbury Tales about one event.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 08:47 PM (ZgGov)"

I think some make too much of the witch/ghost telling his tale at the inquest. There were 3 main witnesses of the events - the Criminal, the Lady, and the Nobleman (although we find out at the end there probably was a fourth, who hid) The ghost/witch is a convenient way for the Nobleman, who's dead, to give his version of the event - and he is far more critical of the Lady than he is of the Criminal. He pretty much blames the entire sequence of events on her.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2019 08:50 PM (V2Yro)

262 260 Movies I Saw This Fortnight:


Hootie tootie movie thread. We have to put our pants and everything on, huh?



Where's my bow tie?
Posted by: Braenyard at March 30, 2019 08:50 PM (ePWRo)

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Don't hate me because I love the word Fortnight. It's my second favorite word.

The first is misanthrope.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:51 PM (bW9H/)

263 258 "Flash! He'll save every one of us!"

Plus there is Ming's daughter and Timothy Dalton in tights.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 08:49 PM (ZgGov)

Princess Aura gave me my first funny feeling in my pants.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 30, 2019 08:51 PM (NWiLs)

264 Also, Action Jackson. Hell, throw in Tango and Cash.
Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 08:50 PM (XAYDB)

I think one requirement is they are played on TV at least once a week.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 30, 2019 08:51 PM (2DOZq)

265 I believe Damon Wayans may have been the first to introduce "bitch-slap" into the mainstream when he threatened Halle Berry with it - jokingly - in The Last Boy Scout.
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"Bitch Slap" is also a good bad movie.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 08:52 PM (kQs4Y)

266 258 "Flash! He'll save every one of us!"

Plus there is Ming's daughter and Timothy Dalton in tights.

And Bleedin' Brian Blessed, Chewing up the Scenery every chance he gets!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2019 08:52 PM (V2Yro)

267 I enjoyed Tango and Cash more than I should. Ditto Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man. And Action Jackson just makes me laugh, its really not fair that didn't launch a huge movie career for Carl Weathers. My favorite action movie that bombed was Last Action Herom though.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 08:52 PM (39g3+)

268 Hey, I had a hard time too.

Posted by: Rev. T Lawrence Shannon at March 30, 2019 08:53 PM (ePWRo)

269 266 And Bleedin' Brian Blessed, Chewing up the Scenery every chance he gets!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2019 08:52 PM (V2Yro)

========

Never better than in Blackadder.

Well, maybe The Phantom Menace.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:53 PM (bW9H/)

270 Commercial supported service. I've watched a few on there, and the commercials are shockingly rare.

I actually watched Sisters on that (reviewed above).



Zero commercials on this episode so far. They have a lot of 60s spy shows like The Avengers, Secret Agent, The Prisoner and The Saint.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2019 08:53 PM (/XesT)

271 The first is misanthrope.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:51 PM

Tinny!! Ew! Ew!

Posted by: Gem at March 30, 2019 08:54 PM (XoAz8)

272 I think one requirement is they are played on TV at least once a week.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 30, 2019 08:51 PM (2DOZq)

--One reason people are sick of cable.

A: Playing old Stuff over and over

B: The original appeal of cable was no commercials. So much for that shit.

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 08:54 PM (XAYDB)

273 Lives Of Others is the best flick of the last 25 years.

When East Germany fell, the author looked up his Stasi file and was shocked to see that many of the entries were false. A faceless anonymous bureaucrat, at great personal risk, had been covering for him. I find it a hopeful counter to our being doomed to dystopian futures.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2019 08:54 PM (1UZdv)

274 They lost a ton of talent when Dave Mustaine was
kicked out. I mean he was a mess and they made the right move but damn
that guy is talented.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 08:45 PM (39g3+)


Yeah, that was a bit of hypocrisy on their part. We were all a frigging mess back then. I mean yeah, some a wee bit more than others, but its metal. You partied, you played hard, you partied some more. I saw the shit that went on, there were no popes among us. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2019 08:55 PM (9Om/r)

275 Eris, did they use this song in Robo-Geisha?

https://youtu.be/uc6f_2nPSX8

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 08:56 PM (ZgGov)

276 i've read that lawrence was much more a dedicated agent of the crown and british military, and less the dissenter, than portrayed in the movie.

lawrence was very famous and widely admired. his funeral brought out the heights of british society, including churchill.

full disclosure: my father owned a copy of latencies autobiography, "seven pillars of wisdom", although i never read it. it was a big best seller both sides of the atlantic.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 30, 2019 08:56 PM (Pg+x7)

277 273 Lives Of Others is the best flick of the last 25 years.

When East Germany fell, the author looked up his Stasi file and was shocked to see that many of the entries were false. A faceless anonymous bureaucrat, at great personal risk, had been covering for him. I find it a hopeful counter to our being doomed to dystopian futures.
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2019 08:54 PM (1UZdv)

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I saw that in theaters, and I've since purchased it twice (once on DVD and once digitally). I still haven't seen it a second time, though.

There's another one I need to rewatch...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:56 PM (bW9H/)

278 TJM, did I tell you I came across a movie on Netflix I think you'd like. Its Exposed (2016)

Keanu is on it but only as a supporting character.
Sort of a psychological mystery movie

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 30, 2019 08:56 PM (dm05u)

279 Don't talk to me about hard times.

Posted by: Dr. Edward Hewitt at March 30, 2019 08:56 PM (ePWRo)

280 267 I enjoyed Tango and Cash more than I should. Ditto Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man. And Action Jackson just makes me laugh, its really not fair that didn't launch a huge movie career for Carl Weathers. My favorite action movie that bombed was Last Action Herom though.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 08:52 PM (39g3+)

--The whole appeal of Action Jackson and Tango and Cash is that they're guilty pleasures.

"FUBAR. Big Time."

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 08:56 PM (XAYDB)

281 Never better than in Blackadder.

Well, maybe The Phantom Menace.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:53 PM (bW9H/)

Exeter in Branagh's Henry V.

End of.

Posted by: Gem at March 30, 2019 08:56 PM (XoAz8)

282 At the end of Seven Samurai, the farmers sing a happy song as they all sow rice together. They ignore the samurai that saved their village, and the three survivors quietly walk past the graves of their friends.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x31wmqi

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 30, 2019 08:56 PM (rnAwa)

283 278 TJM, did I tell you I came across a movie on Netflix I think you'd like. Its Exposed (2016)

Keanu is on it but only as a supporting character.
Sort of a psychological mystery movie
Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 30, 2019 08:56 PM (dm05u)

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I don't think you have. I shall give it a look.

Thanks!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:57 PM (bW9H/)

284 I had given up on going to see movies in the theater but then I read some things about Apollo 11 and how it's amazeballs and previously unseen 70mm footage and you have to watch it on a big screen.

OK, I went. It's fine. All of the amazeballs 70mm footage is from the ground pre-launch. It's definitely cool. The inflight stuff is stuff we've already seen. And we know the story.

To me it was just a reminder of the first time my parents let me stay up late, which is cute, but not worth going outside for.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 30, 2019 08:57 PM (fuK7c)

285 lawrence's autobiography, not latencies (!) damn splchk, with editorial content apparently.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 30, 2019 08:57 PM (Pg+x7)

286 A young Charles Bronson is on Svengoolie's House of Wax

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 08:57 PM (+Tibp)

287 If there's any Endeavor fans out there that were disappointed in the SJW direction they were taking the last few seasons, they reversed course. This new season they dropped all that nonsense and even a lot of the soap opera stuff. So watch the new season, it's only four episodes but it's good.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 30, 2019 08:58 PM (4thlk)

288 saw a look back on "Flash Gordon" by the director and some others a while back, it was quite entertaining. George Lucas wanted to do it, and couldn't get the rights nailed down, so he made Star Wars instead. When "Flash" finally got made, there were two parallel production and shooting teams - one in England, and one in Italy. The bunch in England took it as a total spoof, and did all of their stuff that way. The Italian team thought it was supposed to be horror sci-fi with a lot of violence and sexual overtones, so they put in all of the black leather, and terrible deaths, and Cletus' eyeballs popping out when Flash kills him.

At the end, the top producer just spliced these two halves together, and so you've got Princess Aura being threatened with the most horrible and disgusting tortures, and then immediately cut to Brian Blessed chomping his teeth and doing slapstick.

Amazingly, it worked and made "Flash" a completely unique film.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2019 08:58 PM (V2Yro)

289 The Lives of Others is one of the best arguments against socialism ever produced.

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 08:58 PM (XAYDB)

290 Box of Rain is incredible.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 30, 2019 08:59 PM (PUmDY)

291 Princess Aura is totally hot

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 30, 2019 09:00 PM (dm05u)

292 This movie is beyond cheesy

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2019 09:00 PM (BbGew)

293 Lawrence was a misfit screwup who just couldn't fit in anywhere in his life until he got called up for this incredibly improbable job. And somehow he found exactly the place he'd been created for and shone for just a little while like a golden god.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 09:00 PM (39g3+)

294 I think Shazam! should be a good fun movie. A fun DC super hero without all the angst we see with the others.

Posted by: iComputerFix at March 30, 2019 09:00 PM (VRtvl)

295 I liked the busted strugs flick. I will see unplanned.

Posted by: usntakim at March 30, 2019 09:00 PM (0OmEj)

296 To me it was just a reminder of the first time my parents let me stay up late, which is cute, but not worth going outside for.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 30, 2019 08:57 PM (fuK7c)
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*deep, bone-weary sigh of disappointment*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 09:01 PM (kQs4Y)

297 full disclosure: my father owned a copy of latencies autobiography, "seven pillars of wisdom", although i never read it. it was a big best seller both sides of the atlantic.


I have it. One of the joys of it is an appendix in which he responds to the comments of his editors.

"You spelled it Q'Uran on page 53 and Koran on page 172"

"Yes, quite!"

The Peter O'Toole persona really comes through there.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 30, 2019 09:01 PM (fuK7c)

298 And Bleedin' Brian Blessed, Chewing up the Scenery every chance he gets!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2019 08:52 PM (V2Yro)

========

Never better than in Blackadder.

Well, maybe The Phantom Menace.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 08:53 PM (bW9H/)



I, Claudius as Augustus.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2019 09:02 PM (ZUi5T)

299 I, Claudius as Augustus.
Posted by: TheQuietMan

Where are my eagles!!!

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 09:03 PM (+Tibp)

300 Doesn't the young smitten samurai settle down with the beguiling farmer's daughter?

Would make a good comedy skit when years later, he's a henpecked farmer wishing he could be out with his wild and crazy ronin comrades.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2019 09:03 PM (1UZdv)

301 294 I think Shazam! should be a good fun movie. A fun DC super hero without all the angst we see with the others.
Posted by: iComputerFix at March 30, 2019 09:00 PM (VRtvl)

I think the early word on this is very positive. I'm going to see it because I love Zach Levi. (I was a huge Chuck nerd.)

Posted by: Gem at March 30, 2019 09:03 PM (XoAz8)

302 300 Doesn't the young smitten samurai settle down with the beguiling farmer's daughter?

Would make a good comedy skit when years later, he's a henpecked farmer wishing he could be out with his wild and crazy ronin comrades.
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2019 09:03 PM (1UZdv)

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It's heavily implied that he'll stay with her.

Damn...the ending of that movie is still so crystal clear in my head. Seven Samurai is just so great.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 09:04 PM (bW9H/)

303 Doesn't the young smitten samurai settle down with the beguiling farmer's daughter?


He most certainly does not. He gives her a parting smitten look and she tries to not see it while she gets back to the rice business.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 30, 2019 09:04 PM (fuK7c)

304

Where are my eagles!!!

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 09:03 PM (+Tibp)


As he's laying on his death bed and Livia is telling him her schemes, the look on his face is priceless

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2019 09:04 PM (ZUi5T)

305 I am hoping that Shazam is goofy fun entertainment, which is kind of what it looks like. Captain Marvel is supposed to be cheesy fun innocence.

By the way, the story behind his costume is fascinating. The original one, at least. They gave him a hood and a long cape and changed the top, but originally it was literally based on the term captain. He was envisioned as a military captain originally (Captain Thunder was his first name).

The cape was based on a pelisse, a silly pointless jacket that cavalry officers wore in the 19th century, on one shoulder. His top was a jacket, with the flap across the chest. His wrists are the stripes of a captain from those old uniforms. His pants are tight pants, not tights, like they used to wear. Its all one intentional creative design and once you see it it all makes sense.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 09:04 PM (39g3+)

306 293 Lawrence was a misfit screwup who just couldn't fit in anywhere in his life until he got called up for this incredibly improbable job. And somehow he found exactly the place he'd been created for and shone for just a little while like a golden god.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 09:00 PM (39g3+)

It's amazing how often that happens in Wartime.

Both Grant and Sherman fit that model. Although they played the aftermath a bit better than Lawrence did - he was probably just too idealistic to survive.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2019 09:04 PM (V2Yro)

307 The Lives of Others is one of the best arguments against socialism ever produced.

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 08:58 PM (XAYDB)


Man on a Tightrope is a great anti-commie movie. Elia Kazan 1953

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 09:04 PM (N3Mch)

308 Aside: Judge Jugs is fappalicious tonight.

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 09:05 PM (XAYDB)

309 I saw a tiny snippet of Shazam! and it looked fun.

Thugs in convenience store shoot Captain Marvel and the bullet drops to the floor.

Captain Marvel in an awe-shocked voice, "I'm bulletproof." Pause and then in a voice that could come from any teen, "you are so dead."

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 09:05 PM (ZgGov)

310 As he's laying on his death bed and Livia is telling him her schemes, the look on his face is priceless
Posted by: TheQuietMan

He must have gone five minutes without blinking, just staring into the camera. I could never have done that.

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 09:06 PM (+Tibp)

311 307 Man on a Tightrope is a great anti-commie movie. Elia Kazan 1953
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 09:04 PM (N3Mch)

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I love how Kazan is still lauded by Hollywood even though he fingered Communists in Hollywood and made a movie about the dangers of him doing it (On the Waterfront).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 09:06 PM (bW9H/)

312 303 Doesn't the young smitten samurai settle down with the beguiling farmer's daughter?

He most certainly does not. He gives her a parting smitten look and she tries to not see it while she gets back to the rice business.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 30, 2019 09:04 PM (fuK7c)

Westerners like that ending where he stays, which is why it got changed in the remake with Yul Brynner. The Japanese know that duty is duty, and the classes do not mix, and Samurai do not settle down with peasants.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2019 09:07 PM (V2Yro)

313 Man on a Tightrope is a great anti-commie movie. Elia Kazan 1953
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 09:04 PM (N3Mch)

--I thought anything Kazan did was eminently anti-commie

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 09:07 PM (XAYDB)

314 I have been on a Charlton Heston kick the past couple of weeks.

"Omega Man" is a favorite even if a little dated. A BAR to scatter the "family" trying to hurl fireballs from their catapult at Neville's hideaway is a classic scene.




Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 30, 2019 09:07 PM (Z+IKu)

315 Has anyone seen Glass? I usually don't get to these movie threads, so not sure if it has been discussed.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 30, 2019 09:09 PM (438dO)

316 Man on a Tightrope is a great anti-commie movie. Elia Kazan 1953
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair

I'm about four episodes into a new Netflix series called Traitors. After WWII an American Intelligence officer uses a British secretary at White Hall to gather information about who might be a Soviet agent. Surprisingly up front about how stupid the Socialists were.

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 09:09 PM (+Tibp)

317 At the end of the movie, there was a woman at the end of our row crying
uncontrollably. Mrs. Muse sat with her and hugged her for awhile, but we
never did get her story.


Thanks for the reminder that there are good people still out there. Very encouraging.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at March 30, 2019 09:09 PM (lD3vL)

318 "Doesn't the young smitten samurai settle down with the beguiling farmer's daughter?"


Uhh, I know it's Japan, but don't you mean "farmer's beguiling daughter"?

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 30, 2019 09:09 PM (DjIXP)

319 Yeah, wasn't there a big snit at the Oscars when he won?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 09:10 PM (kQs4Y)

320 Music Never Stopped is very good.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 30, 2019 09:10 PM (PUmDY)

321 315 Has anyone seen Glass? I usually don't get to these movie threads, so not sure if it has been discussed.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 30, 2019 09:09 PM (438dO)

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I had some thoughts:

https://tinyurl.com/y2fjfc99

I think it's underrated and a lot of people missed the point, though it's not great.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 09:10 PM (bW9H/)

322 The ending has the young samurai removed from the other two. Head guy then says "We've lost again"

Power of the pussy!

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2019 09:11 PM (1UZdv)

323 I haven't seen Omega Man in quite a while, but I loved it! One of my favorite fantasies is having a place in the middle of town fitted out and armed like Heston's townhouse there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2019 09:11 PM (V2Yro)

324 315 Has anyone seen Glass? I usually don't get to these movie threads, so not sure if it has been discussed.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 30, 2019 09:09 PM (438dO)
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I liked it.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 09:11 PM (kQs4Y)

325 Regarding "A Lesson in Love", it's interesting to think it was slightly racy for the Fifties. Sure, the husband and wife reconcile, but unlike "The Awful Truth" it's undeniable that both spouses cheated.
Also, when their teenage daughter says she wants "reassignment surgery" it's clear she's acting out because of her parents' drama along wth the usual adolescent angst, rather than an expression of "his" truth.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at March 30, 2019 09:11 PM (lmfRx)

326 Westerners like that ending where he stays, which is why it got changed in the remake with Yul Brynner. The Japanese know that duty is duty, and the classes do not mix, and Samurai do not settle down with peasants.


Exactly. Well, I'll take your word for the Yul Brynner version, No. 2 Son and I couldn't get through it.

Seven Samurai is the best movie ever for multiple reasons. I will trot our Reason #1 for purposes of dissent or discussion.

Each character is fully formed by the way we meet him. Monk guy shaving his head, wood choppy guy chopping wood, Kikuchiyo overcompensating with his sword and fake ancestry.

I especially like the guy I refer to as Bill Wyman who only wants to perfect his craft.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 30, 2019 09:11 PM (fuK7c)

327 I'm about four episodes into a new Netflix series called Traitors. After WWII an American Intelligence officer uses a British secretary at White Hall to gather information about who might be a Soviet agent. Surprisingly up front about how stupid the Socialists were.

Posted by: Blutarski at March 30, 2019 09:09 PM (+Tibp)


I'm 2 episodes into it and not sure about where they're going to go with it. The first episode is a great discussion about the Brits spitting on CHurchill and the stupidity of the socialists. I still haven't caught what the book was that he read to turn socialist, though I assume it was Marx. The whole "private intelligence" thing can be bent either way on this. It's good to hear that you're 4 episodes in and it's still okay.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 09:12 PM (N3Mch)

328 Omega Man" is a favorite even if a little dated. A BAR to scatter the "family" trying to hurl fireballs from their catapult at Neville's hideaway is a classic scene.




Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 30, 2019 09:07 PM (Z+IKu)

In the blue ray version you can pick up the cars driving on the LI Expressway. My favorite of the three versions.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 30, 2019 09:12 PM (2DOZq)

329 Westerners like that ending where he stays, which is why it got changed in the remake with Yul Brynner. The Japanese know that duty is duty, and the classes do not mix, and Samurai do not settle down with peasants.

Well in Magnificent Seven, they're all bad guys, gunmen. They have honor, and are decent and will keep their word but they aren't good men. And the main theme of that movie is that its better to not be that way, even if sometimes you need someone like that.

That speech by Charles Bronson on the fathers of those boys and their courage, the cowardly misery of Robert Vaughn after having been broken by facing one too many enemies, the dumb greed of Brad Dexter, it all points to how this isn't how you really should live.

And for that kid, not following through on his dreams of being a gunslinger was better. It gave the other guys hope, their life didn't rub off on him.

The Seven Samurai were honorable knights, following their life was one of duty and honor and camaraderie, it was a completely different theme.

Which is why if I get the book I have planned, it will be from another, different perspective of that concept...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 09:12 PM (39g3+)

330 315 Has anyone seen Glass? I usually don't get to these movie threads, so not sure if it has been discussed.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 30, 2019 09:09 PM (438dO)

--I liked Unbreakable and Split was okay, so I'll eventually give Glass a go.

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 09:13 PM (XAYDB)

331 ""farmer's beguiling daughter"?"

Touche

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2019 09:13 PM (1UZdv)

332
Emma Peel is tied to train tracks as a kiddie size train is about to run her over. Steed is racing to her rescue as 1920s style damsel in distress music plays. I loved the fun and quirkiness of this show

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2019 09:14 PM (uvC8U)

333 "Amazingly, it worked and made "Flash" a completely unique film.

Posted by: Tom Servo"

And topped off with a great soundtrack.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 30, 2019 09:14 PM (DjIXP)

334 Your wife is a very special woman

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at March 30, 2019 08:34 PM (JoUsr)


Don't I know it.

I thank God for her every day.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at March 30, 2019 09:14 PM (htV9h)

335 I haven't seen Omega Man since the early 80s when it blew my young teenaged mind. I remember it feeling dated even then, that probably hasn't gotten better, but the story was well done and Charleton Heston is always worth the price of admission.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 09:15 PM (39g3+)

336 325 Regarding "A Lesson in Love", it's interesting to think it was slightly racy for the Fifties. Sure, the husband and wife reconcile, but unlike "The Awful Truth" it's undeniable that both spouses cheated.
Also, when their teenage daughter says she wants "reassignment surgery" it's clear she's acting out because of her parents' drama along wth the usual adolescent angst, rather than an expression of "his" truth.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at March 30, 2019 09:11 PM (lmfRx)

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It was Swedish, so there was less concern about censors.

Bergman used his movies as public therapy sessions. He worked through his issues with god and women in film for decades. It helped that he was a damn fine filmmaker.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 09:15 PM (bW9H/)

337 new Netflix movie The Highwaymen is interesting
it's about the two ex Texas Rangers who took down Bonnie & Clyde

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 30, 2019 09:15 PM (dm05u)

338 Seven Samurai is the best movie ever for multiple reasons. I will trot our Reason #1 for purposes of dissent or discussion.

Each character is fully formed by the way we meet him. Monk guy shaving his head, wood choppy guy chopping wood, Kikuchiyo overcompensating with his sword and fake ancestry.

I especially like the guy I refer to as Bill Wyman who only wants to perfect his craft. "

I agree with you, that one is crafted perfectly. Knowing it well pretty much ruins "the Magnicient Seven", which isn't a bad movie if you've never seen it's predecessor. But once you know the original, it's painfully obvious that every scene and every character is just a poor copy of what had already been done.

One Exception - Eli Wallach, as the leader of the Criminal Band, is a far more engaging and entertaining character than the original Bad Samurai Leader. But then Eli Wallach did that to every role he ever played.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2019 09:17 PM (V2Yro)

339 Dan Bongino brings teh Truth!

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 09:17 PM (XAYDB)

340 Disappointed in Comet right now. They cut to commercial in the middle of the tree-stump scene, and when they come back, Flash is running through the forest.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 30, 2019 09:17 PM (8g9zh)

341 Rinky dinky doo.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 30, 2019 09:18 PM (PUmDY)

342 338 I agree with you, that one is crafted perfectly. Knowing it well pretty much ruins "the Magnicient Seven", which isn't a bad movie if you've never seen it's predecessor. But once you know the original, it's painfully obvious that every scene and every character is just a poor copy of what had already been done.

One Exception - Eli Wallach, as the leader of the Criminal Band, is a far more engaging and entertaining character than the original Bad Samurai Leader. But then Eli Wallach did that to every role he ever played.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2019 09:17 PM (V2Yro)

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Magnificent Seven has that soundtrack, though.

My major complain with Magnificent is that its simply too short. Robert Vaughn's character, in particular, gets no screen time but has this huge arc around his cowardice that gets no exploration.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 09:18 PM (bW9H/)

343 Omega Man is a great movie

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2019 09:18 PM (BbGew)

344 343 Omega Man is a great movie
Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2019 09:18 PM (BbGew)

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I, just, do not like it. I much prefer Soylent Green.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 09:19 PM (bW9H/)

345 Seven Samurai, Best Western ever!

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2019 09:19 PM (1UZdv)

346 Netflix movie The Highwaymen is interesting
it's about the two ex Texas Rangers who took down Bonnie & Clyde
Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 30, 2019 09:15 PM (dm

Clyde had a sawed off BAR . I can't imagine.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 30, 2019 09:19 PM (2DOZq)

347
I love how Kazan is still lauded by Hollywood even though he fingered Communists in Hollywood and made a movie about the dangers of him doing it (On the Waterfront).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 09:06 PM (bW9H/)








Well, some parts of Hollywood. The seriously woke contingent hate his fucking guts. Like Ed Harris and his crone wife at the Oscars when Kazan got that special award. They sat there in the audience, scowling like Kazan had just sacrificed a puppy and offered it up to the ghost of Ronald Reagan.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2019 09:20 PM (w5Kav)

348 My major complain with Magnificent is that its simply too short. Robert Vaughn's character, in particular, gets no screen time but has this huge arc around his cowardice that gets no exploration.

I agree, they spent too much time on Horst Buchold's character and the others got too little time. But they thought he was going to be the Next Big Thing when instead it was James Coburn who had even fewer lines than Steve McQueen.

More time spent developing those characters would have made for an even better movie, but I love them both.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 09:20 PM (39g3+)

349 I, just, do not like it. I much prefer Soylent Green.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 09:19 PM (bW9H/)


They're both great movies. And Leigh Taylor-Young in Soylent Green gives that little extra - "furniture". The Global Warming is the funniest part of Soylent Green, though. Still, great movie.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 09:21 PM (N3Mch)

350 Omega Man is okay, but the original version with Vincent Price is still the best to me. I have never seen the Will Smith version.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 09:21 PM (ZgGov)

351 The problem with Soylent Green is that its too short a story for the run time of the film.

I have never seen the Will Smith version.

Its damned good.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 09:22 PM (39g3+)

352 347 Well, some parts of Hollywood. The seriously woke contingent hate his fucking guts. Like Ed Harris and his crone wife at the Oscars when Kazan got that special award. They sat there in the audience, scowling like Kazan had just sacrificed a puppy and offered it up to the ghost of Ronald Reagan.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2019 09:20 PM (w5Kav)

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It surprises me that any of Hollywood likes him at all, to be honest.

Old school, new school, it feels like they should all loathe him for his politics.

But, for some, the art is more important, which is nice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 09:22 PM (bW9H/)

353 Omega Man is okay, but the original version with Vincent Price is still the best to me. I have never seen the Will Smith version.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 09:21 PM (ZgGov)


Those movies are wildly different. The Price movie is good and well paced. The Chuck version is good but a little 70s cheesy

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2019 09:23 PM (uvC8U)

354
I agree with you, that one is crafted perfectly. Knowing it well pretty much ruins "the Magnicient Seven", which isn't a bad movie if you've never seen it's predecessor.

Does knowing Zero Hour ruin Airplane! ?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2019 09:23 PM (aKsyK)

355 350 Omega Man is okay, but the original version with Vincent Price is still the best to me. I have never seen the Will Smith version.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 09:21 PM (ZgGov)

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The Last Man on Earth is okay. I Am Legend is pretty good, though I think it should have ended about 30 minutes early.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 09:23 PM (bW9H/)

356 Does knowing Zero Hour ruin Airplane! ?

You ate the fish...

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 09:24 PM (ZgGov)

357 I love how Kazan is still lauded by Hollywood even though he fingered Communists in Hollywood and made a movie about the dangers of him doing it (On the Waterfront).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 09:06 PM (bW9H/)


Still lauded? Last I heard, Kazan is pretty much persona non grata in Hollywood.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at March 30, 2019 09:24 PM (htV9h)

358 344 343 Omega Man is a great movie
Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2019 09:18 PM (BbGew)

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I, just, do not like it. I much prefer Soylent Green.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 09:19 PM (bW9H/)

--Another aside: don't care for fast zombies.

Vampires can fly. The Fast Undead category already exists.

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 09:24 PM (XAYDB)

359 354
I agree with you, that one is crafted perfectly. Knowing it well pretty much ruins "the Magnicient Seven", which isn't a bad movie if you've never seen it's predecessor.

Does knowing Zero Hour ruin Airplane! ?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2019 09:23 PM (aKsyK)

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It's the other way around, really.

I cannot watch Zero Hour seriously because ZAZ took so much of its script word for word in Airplane.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 09:24 PM (bW9H/)

360 The hopeful ending tone of I Am Legend was all wrong for the rest of the film, but Will Smith is amazing in it. That scene where he awkwardly talks to the manikin in the video store...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 09:24 PM (39g3+)

361 Omega Man is okay, but the original version with Vincent Price is still the best to me. I have never seen the Will Smith version.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 09:21 PM (ZgGov)

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I liked the Will Smith version well enough as its own movie. However, as an adaptation of the story, the ending completely changed the meaning of the title.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 30, 2019 09:25 PM (8g9zh)

362 Ugh Mary Poppins Returns is so bleh

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 30, 2019 09:25 PM (dm05u)

363
Omega Man is okay, but the original version with Vincent Price is still the best to me. I have never seen the Will Smith version.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 09:21 PM (ZgGov)






Smith is surprisingly good in that one. The movie itself is shit. Especially since they changed the ending so that it totally misses the point of the book. Who's the stupid fucker who did that?

*looks up screenwriter*

Ohhhhhh.... Akiva Goldsman. That explains everything.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2019 09:25 PM (w5Kav)

364 345 Seven Samurai, Best Western ever!
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2019 09:19 PM (1UZdv)

--Nope. The Outlaw Josey Wales.

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 09:25 PM (XAYDB)

365 357 I love how Kazan is still lauded by Hollywood even though he fingered Communists in Hollywood and made a movie about the dangers of him doing it (On the Waterfront).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 09:06 PM (bW9H/)

Still lauded? Last I heard, Kazan is pretty much persona non grata in Hollywood.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at March 30, 2019 09:24 PM (htV9h)

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He had some retrospective spot at the Oscars a few years ago, and he got a good amount of applause.

And, on the On the Waterfront disc from Criterion, there are extras with people like Scorsese who wax poetic about the movie's greatness.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 09:26 PM (bW9H/)

366 That is why the Price version is so good. At the end he suddenly realizes in a world of vampires he IS the monster, the Grendel.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 09:26 PM (ZgGov)

367 Does knowing Zero Hour ruin Airplane! ?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2019 09:23 PM (aKsyK)


Knowing Thunderbirds Are Go does put a small dent in Team America: World Police, though it's still hysterical.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 09:26 PM (N3Mch)

368

Another one like Airplane and Zero Hour, and the same Zuck crew is Police Squad (and the later Naked Gun movies). That was based on "M Squad" a hard boiled Quinn Martin police show starring Lee Marvin.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 30, 2019 09:26 PM (f1Vqw)

369 have never seen the Will Smith version.

Its damned good.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 09:22 PM (39g3+)

I didn't like it at all. Fast super strength zombies main reason but a lot of little things took me out of it. Same reason I don't like TWD.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 30, 2019 09:26 PM (2DOZq)

370 Magnificent Seven has that soundtrack, though. "

Oh absolutely - one of the greatest Musical Themes of all time! I was listening to it again once and was thinking "Damn that sounds so much like Aaron Copeland!" so I looked up the composer, Elmer Bernstein, and learned that as a young man he studied composition under Aaron Copeland, personally.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2019 09:26 PM (V2Yro)

371 360 The hopeful ending tone of I Am Legend was all wrong for the rest of the film, but Will Smith is amazing in it. That scene where he awkwardly talks to the manikin in the video store...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 09:24 PM (39g3+)

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Right after his best friend passes, and he goes back to the store begging for the manikin to talk back to him.

If the movie had ended right there, I'd call it a great film.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 09:27 PM (bW9H/)

372 I had no idea there is a remake of Omega Man, but is there any movie made before 25 years ago that hasn't been made again?

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2019 09:28 PM (BbGew)

373 Still lauded? Last I heard, Kazan is pretty much persona non grata in Hollywood.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at March 30, 2019 09:24 PM (htV9h)

--You are correct, sir.

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 09:28 PM (XAYDB)

374 I didn't like any part of the WIll Smith version, I Am Legend. It was mostly annoying to me.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 09:29 PM (N3Mch)

375 Fast super strength zombies main reason but a lot of little things took me out of it.

Well, they're not zombies, for one thing. They're a mutated human race, changed. Weirder, but in some ways better, stronger.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 09:29 PM (39g3+)

376 Okay, Kageno Iron Works has just transformed into a giant robot that is going to drop a megaton bomb into Mount Fuji.

Because, Japan. *shrugs*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 09:29 PM (kQs4Y)

377 They still haven't remade The Last Starfighter.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 09:29 PM (ZgGov)

378 79
His hatred of Indians isn't viewed particularly positively by the movie.



Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 07:47 PM (bW9H/)



I don't know. He had good reason for it in the movie.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair

See, that's just it. Both of these are understatements. He's not racist against Indians - he has an insane, genocidal hatred. His hatred leads him to mutilate corpses, interupt and prematurely leave the funerals of his brother, nephew, and sister-in-law, who's the only woman he's ever loved. He slaughters buffaloes merely to deny food to Indians. The woman begs him not to let the young men waste their lives in vengeance, and he absolutely ignores her - as if she hadn't said a thing. It borders on madness.
Yet - the Indians have massacred his brother's family, gang-raped and murdered both his niece and Martha. He's the one who found Marty as a baby, after Indians massacred his parents. He has seen evidence that women kidnapped by Indians basically go insane.
It's an incredible film. And no one ever talks about the doorways. One of the great climax shots of all time - Ethan chasing down Debbie as she desperately tries to run back home.

Also - great WWI movie - check out All Quiet on the Western Front.

Posted by: Vertov at March 30, 2019 09:29 PM (PqxzU)

379 --I liked Unbreakable and Split was okay, so I'll eventually give Glass a go.

Posted by: logprof
...............
Same here...

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 30, 2019 09:30 PM (438dO)

380 I had no idea there is a remake of Omega Man, but is there any movie made before 25 years ago that hasn't been made again?

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2019 09:28 PM (BbGew)


Ghandi was never remade. Thank G-d.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 09:30 PM (N3Mch)

381 Magnificent Seven has an awesome soundtrack, but so does The Cowboys.

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 09:31 PM (XAYDB)

382 Okay, Kageno Iron Works has just transformed into a giant robot that is going to drop a megaton bomb into Mount Fuji.


Mega-Maid is going to drop a load!!!!

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 09:31 PM (ZgGov)

383 Open the pod bay door, Siri.

Siri, open the pod bay door...

Posted by: Burger Chef at March 30, 2019 09:32 PM (RuIsu)

384 371 360 The hopeful ending tone of I Am Legend was all wrong for the rest of the film, but Will Smith is amazing in it. That scene where he awkwardly talks to the manikin in the video store...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 09:24 PM (39g3+)
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Right after his best friend passes, and he goes back to the store begging for the manikin to talk back to him.

If the movie had ended right there, I'd call it a great film.

Neither the Will Smith or the Charlton Heston version had the guts to do the ending that Richard Matheson had written for it, 50 years ago. That's why it never fits the rest of the movie.

"I am Legend" becomes the literal truth when, at the end, the "Hero" realizes that Humanity has transformed into a new species, a new type of man, and they aren't monsters, they are just different. HE is the monster, HE is the one who won't accept what happens, HE is the one who shows up from nowhere, butchering people for no reason in his never ending quest to change things back.

Things can't go back, and HE is the Evil One, the Monster, the Legend. not them.

that is how it was always supposed to end.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2019 09:33 PM (V2Yro)

385 LOL, the giant robot is running amok smashing buildings and the buildings are spurting gouts of blood.

This is just b@tsh1t.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 09:33 PM (kQs4Y)

386 I had no idea there is a remake of Omega Man, but is there any movie made before 25 years ago that hasn't been made again?

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2019 09:28 PM (BbGew)



Manos: The Hands of Fate. Why mess with perfection?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2019 09:33 PM (4rn6F)

387

M-Squad/Police Squad comparison, two parts:

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

Part 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDhR1EgI3AA

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 30, 2019 09:33 PM (f1Vqw)

388 I had no idea there is a remake of Omega Man, but is there any movie made before 25 years ago that hasn't been made again?
Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2019 09:28 PM (BbGew)

-------------------------------

Haven't remade Ladyhawke (yet)...

Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 30, 2019 09:33 PM (8g9zh)

389 Siri, open the pod bay door...
Posted by: Burger Chef at March 30, 2019 09:32 PM (RuIsu)

I'm sorry I can't do that BC.
I know you're trying to go see Alexa

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 30, 2019 09:33 PM (dm05u)

390
Okay, Kageno Iron Works has just transformed into a giant robot that is going to drop a megaton bomb into Mount Fuji.


Mega-Maid is going to drop a load!!!!

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 09:31 PM (ZgGov)





Speaking of maids and Japan....

Band Maid - Thrill

http://tinyurl.com/yyhv65to

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2019 09:34 PM (w5Kav)

391 "And no one ever talks about the doorways."

Me @160/

Crazy hard men are necessary in the early stages of civilization. Like the seven samurai

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2019 09:34 PM (1UZdv)

392 385 LOL, the giant robot is running amok smashing buildings and the buildings are spurting gouts of blood.

This is just b@tsh1t.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 09:33 PM (kQs4Y)

--Are you watching this?

https://youtu.be/qORYO0atB6g

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 09:34 PM (XAYDB)

393 Things can't go back, and HE is the Evil One, the Monster, the Legend. not them.

Yeah, but you'd never get Will Smith to play that part.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 09:35 PM (39g3+)

394 I better have lights out before the ONT shows up
Good night horde

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2019 09:35 PM (BbGew)

395
Does knowing Zero Hour ruin Airplane! ?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2019 09:23 PM (aKsyK)

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It's the other way around, really.

I cannot watch Zero Hour seriously because ZAZ took so much of its script word for word in Airplane.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts

OMG! I watched "Zero Hour" late at night a few years ago, and couldn't stop laughing. It was hilarious, knowing that "Airplane" was based on it. All the ridiculous melodrama with Dana Andrews and Sterling Hayden cracked me up.

And it's hard to take anything Sterling Hayden has done in retrospect, because he was such a Hollywood Commie.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at March 30, 2019 09:35 PM (S6Pax)

396 All Hail Eris, you know what Robo-Geisha is starting to sound like?

The writer and director both watched Hausu and decided they could ramp that movie up to 12.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 09:35 PM (ZgGov)

397 What do you think of "The Andromeda Strain"? I remember seeing it on TV a lot and then I haven't seen it in ages.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 30, 2019 09:36 PM (DjIXP)

398 395 And it's hard to take anything Sterling Hayden has done in retrospect, because he was such a Hollywood Commie.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at March 30, 2019 09:35 PM (S6Pax)

==========

I prescribe one viewing of The Godfather. Watch with plenty of popcorn.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 30, 2019 09:36 PM (bW9H/)

399 What do you think of "The Andromeda Strain"?

I thought the original was really well done. The more recent remake didn't have the same feeling of tension and drama to me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 09:37 PM (39g3+)

400 They remade The Andromeda Strain.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 09:37 PM (ZgGov)

401 One of the all time Best Western Theme songs ever written - from a movie that most people have forgotten now. (But I guarantee that you'll recognize this music!)

The Big Country (195

It's not just better than either Magnificent 7 or the Cowboys - I'd make the case that this may be the Best Western Theme Ever.

https://tinyurl.com/odlcfz7

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2019 09:39 PM (V2Yro)

402 What do you think of "The Andromeda Strain"? I remember seeing it on TV a lot and then I haven't seen it in ages.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 30, 2019 09:36 PM (DjIXP)


The original is a classic. There are, to be sure, a few glaring plot holes, but it's still a great story and a great movie.

I can't remember if I've seen the remake.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2019 09:39 PM (N3Mch)

403 Dana Andrews is in a red scare radio show called "I was a Communist for the FBI" based on the hysterically overstated role of an actual mole for the FBI (in reality Matt Cvetic did very little, in the radio show he's a deep cover agent). The concept is overstated and really melodramatic but the plots are tight and its a really well done, highly tense spy show.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 09:39 PM (39g3+)

404 I have not seen nor read Andromeda Strain, but it reminds me of a story.

One of my kids asked hey do you like Westworld? I said I liked it at first but it was turning into Jurassic Park. Kid says yeah that's because Michael Crichton wrote Westworld.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 30, 2019 09:40 PM (fuK7c)

405
ONT!!!

Posted by: Spun & Murky at March 30, 2019 09:41 PM (4DCSq)

406 Sterling Hayden left Hollywood at the start of WWII and fought a one-man war for the OSS in Yugoslavia.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2019 09:41 PM (1UZdv)

407 ONT is NOOD!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 30, 2019 09:41 PM (8g9zh)

408 Michael Crichton with just that one book scared NASA enough to put the Moon astronauts into quarantine

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 09:41 PM (ZgGov)

409 I liked Westworld the film, not so fond of the TV show.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 09:41 PM (39g3+)

410
It's not just better than either Magnificent 7 or the Cowboys - I'd make the case that this may be the Best Western Theme Ever.

https://tinyurl.com/odlcfz7
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2019 09:39 PM (V2Yro)

--So say you.

I would not be so declarative, but it's in the mix.

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 09:42 PM (XAYDB)

411 409 I liked Westworld the film, not so fond of the TV show.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 09:41 PM (39g3+)
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There were elements of the HBO Westworld that were brilliant, but it was another of those stories that was asking me to root against humans.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 30, 2019 09:43 PM (kQs4Y)

412 Nearly all of Chrichton's works got made into movies or TV shows.

Except for State of Fear (200$), his remarkably prescient novel about eco-terrosists. It even has an appendix refuting Global Warming.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2019 09:45 PM (1UZdv)

413
Things can't go back, and HE is the Evil One, the Monster, the Legend. not them.

Yeah, but you'd never get Will Smith to play that part.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 09:35 PM (39g3+)






Actually, he does play that part. Sort of. They did a watered down version of the original Matheson ending.... and then they chickened out and did a reshoot of the upbeat ending.

It's slightly better than the theatrical ending, but not by much (it still ends rather upbeat).

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2019 09:45 PM (w5Kav)

414 Drat. I dozed off and forgot about Earth Hour. On the plus side, my electric bill won't be as high as it would have been.

Posted by: rickl at March 30, 2019 09:46 PM (sdi6R)

415 Late to the thread but "They Shall Not Grow Old" was the best movie I've seen in many a year and Peter Jackson's commentary at the end was absolutely fascinating. It was touching that he took the time to search for that exact spot where those young soldiers stood before they died that was referenced above.

Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2019 09:47 PM (jm1YL)

416 Willowed, but appropriate as not a movie guy, but from what little I've read about Hayden he was fairly interesting. Not just the OSS part. He sort of got recruited into Hollyweird and never liked it. Was fairly new and yet landed one of the hotties of the day. She was British, she got caught up in the war effort and Hayden followed. Whatever the actual value of his exploits in Yugoslavia for the OSS (OSS's covert ops were mostly pointless and failures, but that was normal for everyone's covert ops, no black mark especially), he did step up - parachuting in, solo. In a place where capture = death.


So if what I've seen is accurate, his stupid leftism at least had some interesting unrelated stuff to dilute it.


Posted by: rhomboid at March 30, 2019 09:48 PM (QDnY+)

417 Husband has every light in the house on...

Posted by: lin-duh at March 30, 2019 09:48 PM (UUBmN)

418 Oooooo, Judge Jeanine guest drops Soros's name.

Posted by: logprof has a thing for dark beauties at March 30, 2019 09:48 PM (XAYDB)

419
Nearly all of Chrichton's works got made into movies or TV shows.

Except for State of Fear (200$), his remarkably prescient novel about eco-terrosists. It even has an appendix refuting Global Warming.
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2019 09:45 PM (1UZdv)








That book is genuinely good. If only because of what happens to the transparently obvious Martin Sheen character (he's eaten by cannibals).

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2019 09:48 PM (w5Kav)

420 "andromeda strain" has the first electronic score in movies, by the jazz musician gil melle. he also did a lot of tv: "night stalker", "columbo" and on others.

looking up his name on imdb, to make sure i got it right, i came across this bit of trivia: the studio invited crichton to view the production during the filming and his tour guide? - the young steven spielberg.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 30, 2019 09:53 PM (Pg+x7)

421 Heh heh, Smith & Wesson parent AOBC is in the final stage of leaving Massachusetts and moving to Missouri.

Fuck you gun grabbing scum.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at March 30, 2019 09:53 PM (r3pIP)

422 140 I loved that the first sequence in Ballad was almost a cartoon, a tip to those over the top westerns. Loads of fun and despite being ultimately kind of sad, was kind of sweet.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2019 08:11 PM (39g3+)

If you think of that first sequence as a Bugs Bunny cartoon, it works.

Loved Buster Scruggs.

Saw They Shall Not Grow Old. It was interesting, quite impressive, but it just didn't move me. I would recommend it to someone who likes documentaries or WWI history, but I don't think its target audience is somewhat narrow.

Posted by: windbag at March 30, 2019 09:55 PM (awgKf)

423 "science is not consensus. and if it's consensus it's not science: - michael crichton (i think that's the quote, something like that).

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 30, 2019 09:56 PM (Pg+x7)

424 384
"I am Legend" becomes the literal truth when, at the end, the "Hero" realizes that Humanity has transformed into a new species, a new type of man, and they aren't monsters, they are just different. HE is the monster, HE is the one who won't accept what happens, HE is the one who shows up from nowhere, butchering people for no reason in his never ending quest to change things back.

Things can't go back, and HE is the Evil One, the Monster, the Legend. not them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2019 09:33 PM (V2Yro)


Sounds oddly similar to today's America. Traditional Americans are the weirdos, freaks, and dangerous extremists.

Posted by: rickl at March 30, 2019 09:57 PM (sdi6R)

425 424 rick:

very good.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 30, 2019 10:00 PM (Pg+x7)

426 Actually Forbidden Planet holds the title of movie with the first all electronic score. Caused a stink in Hollywood because the two who did it were not in the composers union so they never got actual credit as composers.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2019 10:03 PM (ZgGov)

427 Woody Harrelson did a good job in Defendor. It's the story of a not too bright man who tries to be a superhero.

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 30, 2019 10:05 PM (pCQP5)

428 and Neeson ends up abandoning the limbless man



That's one way to put it.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 30, 2019 10:22 PM (yQpMk)

429 Did they really drop the SJW from Endeavour? That was one of the best shows until that crap. Are you serious? Cuz I was gonna skip it.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2019 10:34 PM (uEbPt)

430 294 I think Shazam! should be a good fun movie. A fun DC super hero without all the angst we see with the others.
Posted by: iComputerFix at March 30, 2019 09:00 PM (VRtvl)


Saw Shazam! last week as part of the special preview showing and it is GREAT!!

It is silly funny and not roll your eyes stupid. It has some serious moments, but doesn't labor from trying to be a serious important movie. All of the actors do a great job especially Levi and the young man who plays Billy Batson. There is a little bit of possible SJW message with the adopted family, but it works.

It is one of the best superhero movies done...closer to Superman the Movie than Man of Steel.

Just a warning, although it's a good enjoyable movie to take the youngsters too, but there are a couple of "F" bombs and scary monsters. It doesn't take away from it and still makes for enjoyable movie.

Posted by: RGallegos at March 30, 2019 10:43 PM (59GQk)

431 Comey's daughter is asst US atty for SDNY?


Huh

Posted by: Ha at March 30, 2019 11:11 PM (MAstk)

432 Just watched Dial M For Murder, holds up in my opinion.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 30, 2019 11:30 PM (P1AAi)

433 Greetings:

For you Korean movie fans, I watched "The Great Heist" this evening and it was a really well done comedic caper movie based in the 1700s kingdom.

Posted by: 11B40 at March 31, 2019 12:51 AM (evgyj)

434 Wow, last week my teen son was watching a kind of strange Western movie (I looked in for a minute), he really enjoyed it--"Ballad of Buster Scruggs!" Kid's got good instincts...

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