Saturday Night Movie Thread [moviegique]: Potpourri

The Los Angeles-Israeli Film Festive kind of snuck up on us this year, and it doesn't look like The Boy and I will be able to catch any of them, but we still managed to see a half-dozen good-to-great films this fortnight-and-a-half.

Let's get started.

Heretic

It's ridiculously hard to find a picture from this movie that isn't completely murky.

In what some (not me) are calling the best horror movie of the year, Hugh Grant plays a maniac atheist who lures a couple of young LDS missionaries into his house to test their faith. Top notch acting with Grant avoiding his famous and easily-impersonated acting twitches and stammers, and the two girls (Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East) giving surprisingly nuanced performances.

The major surprise of this film is how it avoids many of the expected tropes. The two girls are presented in veritably clichéd ways at first, but as the movie goes on, we're surprised by how they respond to the various challenges they face. Hugh Grant gives a lecture on how Christianity mirrors dozens of faiths in the past—there's a theme here of imitation which touches both metaphysical and literal aspects of the story—and his big reveal is that it's all just a control mechanism.

But he's a literal maniac, a cruel monster beyond even what we see right away, and at no point is he admirable. He's basically the stereotypical Internet atheist, only more energetic.

There's a reference here to something called "The Great Prayer Experiment" which purportedly showed that prayer didn't work. I found that fascinating since as I was growing up, I remember reading studies that shower prayer did work. Looking it up it seems like the current "science" is that prayer actually makes things worse. Heh.

Saturday Night

Can you figure out who is supposed to be who in this picture?

I generally avoid biopics, as they tend to reduce people's lives into very formulaic cartoons, but the Barbarienne wanted to see this—she's a big Jim Henson fan—and it's very entertaining, and absurd. It takes a lot of vignettes (mostly from the first generation Saturday Night run) and shoves them into the two hours before the premiere took place.

Chevy Chase is shown as an insufferable egomaniac who loses his girlfriend to an overly endowed Uncle Milty, and his future disastrous late night talk show career is presaged. John Belushi is a fragile, barely sane, self-imagined Marlon Brando who quits because Polaroid is going to sponsor the show. Dan Aykroyd is a smooth-talking lothario. Jane Curtin is skilled but clear-eyed about what's going on while Laraine Newman is more of a wide-eyed naïf being seduced by Aykroyd. Gilda is kind of low-key and whimsical. Garrett Morris has no idea why he's there.

First host George Carlin hates everything and everyone.

When they're "on", the not-ready-for-prime-time players are pretty good, though lacking even a fraction of the original cast's charisma. When they're in the background and to the side, it's easy to forget who's who.

That's okay, though, because it's really the Lorne Michaels story. Will he be able to get the show on the air or will they end up re-running Carson? Will he figure out what his relationship is with his sort-of wife? (They try to make a thing out of what name she's going to use, but it's not really a strong part of the film, just kind of '70s weirdness.) What even is this show? Nobody can answer!

I'm sitting there going "It's a variety show with an emphasis on comedy, a perfectly ordinary thing for 1975, just a little saucier."

As surviving cast members have commented, while not strictly accurate, it captures the feel of the era, and I can buy that. The pace makes it such that it's a very lively (real time) watch.

The Burmese Harp (1956)

A pacifist Japanese WWII movie?

Ever hear of it? Me, neither. The Boy and I saw this on Election Day and, while it's a great movie, The Boy was too stressed to enjoy it much. It's very low-key: A Japanese troop in Burma at the end of WWII has one soldier, Mizushima, who has learned to play the Burmese harp, and dresses in Burmese clothes, so he can act as a scout.

The harp ends up alerting them to danger, saving them from a deadly firefight, and identifying Mizushima at various points in the movie.

The plot is that, after trying to save a bunch of holdouts from getting shelled by the British, Mizushima is separated from his troop and has to cross Burma on foot to rejoin them, which he does in the stolen robes of the monk who saved his life. And on the journey he is treated with the tremendous respect accorded to Burmese monks, and also a witness to the mountains of Japanese corpses who died in the jungle.

The journey changes him and he's torn between wanting to go home and feeling a need to bury his dead countrymen.

Really interesting and moving film, but probably not the best to watch if you're biting your nails over election results. (I wasn't but, as mentioned, the Boy was.) My two random observations were: 1) That doesn't sound like a Burmese harp. It sounds like a western harp. 2) I wonder if all those gorgeous Buddha monuments are the ones the Muslims destroyed?

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)

Maggie Smith in her prime. Pamela Franklin not?

I wasn't actually expecting that much from this, Maggie Smith's breakout film, beyond a great performance from the late Ms. Smith herself, and was actually pretty bowled over. It was nuanced in a way I can't imagine a modern film being (and by 1969, the grossly simplistic Boomer world-view was being ensconced).

It's 1930s England, and Miss Jean Brodie (Smith, duh) is teaching her class at the all-girl school where she proudly announces she's "in her prime". The sole source of this is her own heart, which is the source of almost everything she does, much to the annoyance of the school staff and faculty.

So, you think "Oh, free-thinking woman sticking it to the stuffed shirts"—but, no! She's basically loathed at her school by everyone but her students and the two men wooing her. Her professed love of her students is a weirdly narcissistic fantasy with dire consequences. She decides their fates, incorrectly, and spends a large amount of time lavishing adoration on Francisco Franco and Benito Mussolini.

Meanwhile, she's in love with the school's art teacher. They had a fling which she broke off, and he's been chasing her ever since. (He's a married Catholic man with an increasing number of children as the movie goes on.) There's a staid, dependable, wealthy guy who adores her, but she's strongly resisting his proposals. (Although I do think they canoodle.)

And the camera is showing us all the time: This is not this woman's prime. She's 35 (which is ancient for a single woman in 1969) and Dame Maggie looks at least that old. (She aged rapidly, I think, and even in her 20s didn't look that young.)

And still, for all her ridiculousness and narcissism, we still like her. We're rooting for her. It's a tragedy, in that sense, as she has no capability to self-correct. One can hardly imagine what lies in her future. In today's world, we'd suspect lots of white wine and cats.

Smith won a well-deserved Oscar. Rod McKuen was nominated for the title song, which is loathsome, but his ham-handed romantic score actually works in the film proper because it's basically white-hot irony (whether McKuen knew it or not).

(We played guess the rating after watching this, with Pamela Franklin being fully nude in this movie that features a middle-age man in an affair with a 16-17 year-old girl. It was and remains rated PG.)

Juror #2

o/~I heard he played a good song...~\o

Clint Eastwood's (maybe) last film is a solid morality tale which I probably rate higher than most, because it's a real movie from Hollywood, where the characters have believable motivations and are driven to desperate, even evil actions, such that the sort of happy ending crowds like just can't happen without some sort of deus ex machina, and that ain't the way Eastwood rolls.

Nicholas Hoult finds himself as the titular juror in a case that Toni Collette is trying. She's trying put away a guy who allegedly killed his girlfriend and dumped her body in a ditch during a rainstorm the previous fall. Except the more Justin (Hoult) hears, the more convinced he becomes that he was the one who killed the girl.

Justin, who's expecting a child (after losing twins on the night of the death), tries to figure out all possible ways he can of getting the accused off, but Collette is running for D.A., so she needs to put someone away for the crime. If he can't get the jurors to acquit, if he hangs the jury, they'll just hold the trial again. But the more he tries to get the falsely accused off, the more he risks implicating himself.

So we start with a 12 Angry Men type premise, and go into an almost "Columbo"-style reverse engineering of a crime we already know all about, and then end up with the moral dilemma.

Very solid flick. Not a crowd-pleaser, but nowhere near as dark as, say, Mystic River. It's a shame that WB seems to have buried it. It was amusing to see Hoult and Collette reunited. (They played son and mother in About A Boy, speaking of Hugh Grant.)

Bogart: Life Comes In Flashes

Iconic.

I naturally adored this biography of Humphrey Bogart, which leans heavily on Bogie's own writings (read by someone doing a mild impression of Bogart). Lots of fun and interesting vignettes detailing his struggle as an actor, as an already thrice-married man whose last wife was literally insane and shooting at him—and whom he told the already smitten Lauren Bacall he had to give another chance since she said she had given up drinking.

He seems like a decent, hard-working guy who never believed his own press.

Biographies usually tend to linger too long after the deaths of their subjects, and I appreciated that this one didn't. (It didn't dwell overmuch on his death, though it was a horrible one.) I thought it spent too much time on things that weren't particularly relevant (like his mother being a suffragette and Prohibition) or which have been overdone and which weren't enlightening. Like, Bogie and Bacall objected to the HUAC and because Bogie was that famous, both the Communists and the anti-Communists decided he was a Red.

Meh. I would've liked to hear more about how the Hollywood power couple started the Rat Pack, and more about Bogie's lifetime friendships with John Huston, Leslie Howard, Hepburn and Tracy, and so on.

Still, if you're a Golden Age of Hollywood fan, it's a must see.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 07:31 PM

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1 Evening.

Posted by: Robert at November 23, 2024 07:32 PM (7IqBN)

2 Phew.

Hot off the presses. Excuse all the spelling errors, grammatical nonsense and generally bad opinions.

But I forgot until two hours ago I had this thread. 8-0

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at November 23, 2024 07:32 PM (asXVI)

3 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 23, 2024 07:34 PM (fwDg9)

4 I don’t consider myself a Bogart fan boy but he is the star in 5 of my all time top 10 movies.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 23, 2024 07:37 PM (D6PGr)

5 I don’t like dark or anti feel good movies but I was fascinated with The Human Stain and it’s the most anti feel good movie you can imagine.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 23, 2024 07:41 PM (D6PGr)

6 I'm not a fan of "The Human Stain", myself. I felt like it came from an ugly viewpoint.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at November 23, 2024 07:42 PM (asXVI)

7 Every thread is a movie thread until we get to the movie thread. Only at aos 😃

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 23, 2024 07:43 PM (D6PGr)

8 I looked up the Pamela Franklin nude scene.

Niiiiice!

Posted by: Robert at November 23, 2024 07:43 PM (4U8mP)

9 What I dislike about the modern movie world is not the movies (although I'm just as amused at Hollywood's suicide as anybody), but that I'm disconnected from MOST of the places you can see movies.

I don't like streaming services (have Netflix, just because my son uses it, I could live without it entirely), I'm not going to a movie theater... and Blurays are generally overpriced. By the time something that comes out of theaters gets released at a reasonable price, I've mostly forgotten about it.

I saw Prime of Miss Jean Brody years ago, and remember thinking it was good, but I thought I recalled she got what she deserved, in the end. Maybe not.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 23, 2024 07:44 PM (lH8E4)

10 Every thread is a movie thread until we get to the movie thread. Only at aos 😃
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 23, 2024 07:43 PM (D6PGr)

Unless it moves to boobs, guns, or food first.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 23, 2024 07:44 PM (VNX3d)

11 Was the Heretic ant-Christian or ambiguous?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 23, 2024 07:45 PM (D6PGr)

12 No blah blah blah

Posted by: Dr. Varno at November 23, 2024 07:46 PM (JoYo9)

13 Another fascinating dark movie is The Killer Inside Me.

Casey Affleck is a really good actor. His brother is a better director than actor though he was good in The Town. Maybe because he was directing himself.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 23, 2024 07:48 PM (D6PGr)

14 Jerome Weiselberry posted her end of the month "What Else I Saw" video for November.

https://youtu.be/KvmNpPy8zvc

Posted by: Robert at November 23, 2024 07:50 PM (0yHIW)

15 Nice, eclectic movie mix, 'Gique.

I forgave "Saturday Night" its sins because it captured the frantic pace of trying to pull off a live show with so many egos and moving parts threatening to bring it all crashing down. I did love TV dinosaur Uncle Miltie looking at SNL and thinking WTF is this?!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 23, 2024 07:50 PM (kpS4V)

16 Uh, yeah. I'm watching the end of "The Wild Bunch".

Posted by: fd at November 23, 2024 07:51 PM (vFG9F)

17 "Can you figure out who is supposed to be who in this picture?"

Other than Gilda? No.

Not sure why Huge Ackman's Wolverine would be in an SNL film.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 23, 2024 07:51 PM (lH8E4)

18 I would think since the atheist is a literal psycho it ultimately supports faith

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 23, 2024 07:51 PM (pGTZo)

19 Of course one could also read it on the absurdity and pointlessnesz of life your mileage may vary

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 23, 2024 07:53 PM (pGTZo)

20 || I saw Prime of Miss Jean Brody years ago, and remember thinking it was good, but I thought I recalled she got what she deserved, in the end. Maybe not. ||

There's almost no other possible conclusion. She's kind of a menace.

|| I looked up the Pamela Franklin nude scene.

She's so gorgeous that the whole time Smith is talking up this other girl as the great beauty, I'm wondering why. I guess putting Franklin in glasses was supposed to be disqualifying.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at November 23, 2024 07:53 PM (asXVI)

21 So they potrayed carlin accurately

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 23, 2024 07:53 PM (pGTZo)

22 There’s a scene in Burmese Harp where Japanese prisoners of war and their British guards both sing “Be it ever so Humble There’s no place like Home”. Each in their own language. I always found that scene really touching. Both sides just want to see home.

Posted by: Blutarski at November 23, 2024 07:54 PM (Cp1vk)

23 Wicked made it to the top of the box office but thats knly because the competition is so lame no way it recoups the budget and marketing cost

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 23, 2024 07:55 PM (pGTZo)

24 So, after seeing Chris Gore and his buddy Ng's positive reviews of "Wicked" I decided to give it a go.

I read the book and liked it, saw the musical at the Fox Theater and was "meh", but I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this rendition. Warning: if you hate Broadway musicals, you will suffer mightily -- it is big, bold, sassy and brassy and most sincerely gay.

The two leads were very endearing in their roles, unlike their insufferable selves during press tours (at least Arivo). Movie stars need to stay off Twitter/X and stop with the press tours.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 23, 2024 07:56 PM (kpS4V)

25 You can have all the serious stuff you want but we are watching Minions here. Its a minions festival!

Boom
bang
sundry explosions!

hhehehehehe

Posted by: Maybe someday i'll choose a nick and stick with it! Today is not that day. Dangerous Radical at November 23, 2024 07:57 PM (89Sog)

26 In college we staged into the woods another inversion on the fairy tale tropes

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 23, 2024 07:57 PM (pGTZo)

27 Arivo should not so hard to be the witch in real life

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 23, 2024 07:58 PM (pGTZo)

28 11 Was the Heretic ant-Christian or ambiguous?

No. The expectations are subverted in a number of ways: First, the maniac--who is never sympathetic for even a moment and is far worse than we imagine at first--is basically modelling the most rock-solid anti-materialistic line possible.

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I forgave "Saturday Night" its sins because it captured the frantic pace of trying to pull off a live show with so many egos and moving parts threatening to bring it all crashing down. I did love TV dinosaur Uncle Miltie looking at SNL and thinking WTF is this?!
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Yeah, it doesn't try to be too realistic, which I'm fine with. Miltie was ultimately a host on SNL, but rubbed Lorne the wrong way.

J.K. Simmons, who's also in "Juror #2".

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at November 23, 2024 07:59 PM (asXVI)

29 || I read the book and liked it,

You did?!?!?!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at November 23, 2024 08:00 PM (asXVI)

30 The two leads were very endearing in their roles, unlike their insufferable selves during press tours (at least Arivo). Movie stars need to stay off Twitter/X and stop with the press tours.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 23, 2024 07:56 PM (kpS4V)

My wife is watching this movie tonight with a childhood friend and however many of her childhood's friend's buddies who are willing to cough up the ticket price on their own.

I suspect she will dislike the movie, though the others may feel required to enjoy it.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 23, 2024 08:01 PM (D7oie)

31 IDIC, Moviegique.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 23, 2024 08:02 PM (kpS4V)

32 Thx moviegique. The Prime of Mis Jean Brodie was a very good movie and Maggie Smith was awesome. She deserved the Academy Award because she made you interested in a character who basically was a jerk. And Pamela Franklin was super cute

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 23, 2024 08:02 PM (FxDm7)

33 Is Wicked the past tense of John Wick?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 23, 2024 08:02 PM (s72ew)

34 Itsca fairy tale an origin story about a misunderstood witch (is that a bad thing anymors) easy peasy

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 23, 2024 08:03 PM (pGTZo)

35 Uh, yeah. I'm watching the end of "The Wild Bunch".
Posted by: fd at November 23, 2024 07:51 PM (vFG9F)

To make it the boob thread... that Mexican woman William Holden was with in bed before she got shot was pretty darn good looking.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 23, 2024 08:03 PM (0eaVi)

36 Maggie Smith had an incredible career, and her role as Violet in Downton Abbey was the capstone of her career. At the end, they gave Violet a death scene which was a perfect Eulogy for Maggie Smith herself, who died not long after. It was magnificent.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 23, 2024 08:04 PM (W6hoT)

37 I feared Galinda blurting out "OMG, you're green!" upon seeing Elphaba for the first time was supposed to mean "OMG, you're black!", but no, there was no racism lesson -- the denizens of Oz were strenuously diverse so there were lots of black munchkins and gillikins and whatnot also being bitchy to Elphaba.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 23, 2024 08:05 PM (kpS4V)

38 Thank you moviegique!

I watched all 3 "August Underground" movies. They were good. I will watch them again.Basically serial killers filming themselves with a camcorder. The third was was anti-climatic after the brutality of the second film but they had nice scenes.

I've watched the first five 'Saw' movies and I'm really enjoying them and look forward to watching them again.

'Teeth' ...2007...free on Tubi. A teen girl has vagina dentata and bad things happen. It's a horror comedy which was a bit weird but it was still enjoyable. C'mon. Vagina teeth...

Everyone have a happy week.

Posted by: Stateless at November 23, 2024 08:06 PM (jvJvP)

39 35 Uh, yeah. I'm watching the end of "The Wild Bunch".
Posted by: fd at November 23, 2024 07:51 PM (vFG9F)

I watched the Wild Bunch recently, and realized it was far better than I had realized. Peckinpah was an incredibly good director, and Robert Ryan is incredible.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 23, 2024 08:06 PM (W6hoT)

40 So a natural response

Jeff goldblum is supposed to be the villain of the piece as in thor love and thunder

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 23, 2024 08:06 PM (pGTZo)

41 31 IDIC, Moviegique.

Wow. I just thought it was misery. The least fun thing I'd read since, IDK, Handmaid's Tale or She Devil. And very similar.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at November 23, 2024 08:07 PM (asXVI)

42 The Godfather is on Prime. I first saw it when it opened in NYC, because my parents loved the book. I'm confused that Godfather II is considered a better movie, because it is not.

Notably, my father thought Brando overacted to the point of parody.
I think it was more dad had read the book before seeing the movie, but I've watched the film enough times that I can see where he was coming from.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at November 23, 2024 08:08 PM (wBaIH)

43 I might catch "Gladiator II" when it streams just to laugh at the sharks and rhinos.

Now they did stage naval battles in the coliseum, but how the heck do you wrangle sharks over to Rome?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 23, 2024 08:08 PM (kpS4V)

44 Bacall is the perfect answer to why women do not have to be classically beautiful to be hot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 23, 2024 08:08 PM (JQfE3)

45 Its the method style of acting

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 23, 2024 08:09 PM (pGTZo)

46 What other movies are coming out?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 23, 2024 08:10 PM (kpS4V)

47 Now they did stage naval battles in the coliseum, but how the heck do you wrangle sharks over to Rome?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 23, 2024 08:08 PM (kpS4V)

Maybe the sharks followed the galleys to nom on spent slaves?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 23, 2024 08:10 PM (s72ew)

48 As Anna Puma recommended, I watched the unification thing. I liked it, but ... it was more kind a 'huh, I like that' kind of thing than 'wow, that is amazing!'

Definitely better star Trek than anything since Undiscovered Country.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 23, 2024 08:11 PM (JQfE3)

49 Some channel is showing all Godfather films Thanksgiving

Posted by: Skip at November 23, 2024 08:11 PM (fwDg9)

50 Trying to decide to set alarm for 1am or not to watch Las Vegas F-+ race live

Posted by: Skip at November 23, 2024 08:12 PM (fwDg9)

51 42 The Godfather is on Prime. I first saw it when it opened in NYC, because my parents loved the book. I'm confused that Godfather II is considered a better movie, because it is not.
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I agree, II is good but the first is better.

Posted by: scampydog at November 23, 2024 08:13 PM (41CYW)

52 Theres Nosferatu on christmas what the heck

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 23, 2024 08:14 PM (pGTZo)

53 Either way been long day
Hope everyone has a great evening

Posted by: Skip at November 23, 2024 08:15 PM (fwDg9)

54 Theres Nosferatu on christmas what the heck
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A theme for my tree!

Who am I kidding, new kitten in the house -- no tree this year.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 23, 2024 08:15 PM (kpS4V)

55 I enjoyed Wicked, the musical stage production. Not sure whether the movie can do it justice. Trivia - Elphaba's name is a takeoff from the initials of L. Frank Baum, the author.

Further trivia - when making the 1939 Wizard of Oz, the actors went to a shop with out of style fashions for their wardrobe. Frank Morgan went to a second hand store to find what he thought was the perfect suit - during filming, he looked in the collar and found he had purchased an overcoat previously owned by L. Frank Baum. It was used in the film.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 23, 2024 08:16 PM (W6hoT)

56 Who am I kidding, new kitten in the house -- no tree this year.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 23, 2024 08:15 PM (kpS4V)

Maybe a Festivus Pole?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 23, 2024 08:16 PM (s72ew)

57 Moana 2 ok pass

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 23, 2024 08:17 PM (pGTZo)

58 Maybe a Festivus Pole?
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Festivus scratching post!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 23, 2024 08:18 PM (kpS4V)

59 The last film released in that way was dracula 2000 that somehow did not sink gerald butlers career

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 23, 2024 08:19 PM (pGTZo)

60 43 I might catch "Gladiator II" when it streams just to laugh at the sharks and rhinos.
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Rewatched Gladiator the other night and was entertained. Watched Replacement Killers last night. Once will be enough on that one. Peak Mira Sorvino, however.

Posted by: scampydog at November 23, 2024 08:20 PM (41CYW)

61 Watched Replacement Killers last night. Once will be enough on that one. Peak Mira Sorvino, however.
Posted by: scampydog at November 23, 2024 08:20 PM (41CYW)

I bought the Blu-ray a few months back. First time watching it since it was in the theater. I liked it!

And Sorvino was definitely delish.

Posted by: Robert at November 23, 2024 08:22 PM (0yHIW)

62 The Sniper - 1952
A Stanley Kramer production directed by blacklisted Edward Dmytryk. It won the 1952 Best Story Academy Award.

Amazon Prime

It was filmed on location in SF and that adds a certain West Coast grittiness that was SF before the Communists started taking over the place beginning in the 1970s.

Psychopath Eddie Miller (Arthur Franz) has an unrelenting hatred of women, that erupts in serial killer murders using his trusty folding stock rifle he carries around in a leather brief case. The character has a certain complexity because of his self-hatred for who he is and what he is doing.

After the shootings begin the plot moves primarily between Eddie and the SFP cops tracking him down. In between these two markers the movie propels itself through narrative bits and pieces added by the various characters. SF adds its magic.

Burnett Guffey's cinematography is first rate and captures Eddie's madness, the hunt for him, the beat of the city with aplomb (An AoSHQ recent power word).

Score: Double Plus Good psycho killer movie the sure appears to have been studied carefully for 1971's Dirty Harry film though Eastwood, being a camera hog, was the center of that film.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at November 23, 2024 08:22 PM (vO42M)

63 Nice movie pairing. "Resolution" followed by "The Endless." If you want to see Mike Flanagan slow-burn, character-centric horror on a Neil Breen budget.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 23, 2024 08:24 PM (9yUzE)

64 I'm going to watch Heretic and Juror because I'm on a horror/thriller binge lately.

Posted by: Megthered at November 23, 2024 08:24 PM (Mtips)

65 the end of "The Wild Bunch".

The belt fed MG is a bit of an anachronism for the time. And it ejects no brass, a gas fired movie prop, not blank adapted.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 23, 2024 08:27 PM (3SJzV)

66 I bought the Blu-ray a few months back. First time watching it since it was in the theater. I liked it!
And Sorvino was definitely delish.
Posted by: Robert
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I didn't hate it, just not one I would watch again. Saw that it was Antoine Fuqua's directorial debut and gavi it a go.good. I do like many of Fuqua's movies.

Posted by: scampydog at November 23, 2024 08:28 PM (41CYW)

67 Whoops on typos. Dang phone.

Posted by: scampydog at November 23, 2024 08:29 PM (41CYW)

68 Now they did stage naval battles in the coliseum, but how the heck do you wrangle sharks over to Rome?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

I tried not to think about how. Just reveled in how fun and SO many sharks!

Posted by: She Hobbit at November 23, 2024 08:32 PM (ftFVW)

69 Whoops on typos. Dang phone.
Posted by: scampydog

I approve of phone typos from personal experience.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at November 23, 2024 08:32 PM (vO42M)

70 Whoops on typos. Dang phone.
Posted by: scampydog at November 23, 2024 08:29 PM (41CYW)

Embrace me.

Posted by: Autocorrect at November 23, 2024 08:33 PM (0yHIW)

71 63 Nice movie pairing. "Resolution" followed by "The Endless." If you want to see Mike Flanagan slow-burn, character-centric horror on a Neil Breen budget.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 23, 2024 08:24 PM (9yUzE)
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yes, thumbs up for both of these movies.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 23, 2024 08:35 PM (kpS4V)

72 Just watched Princess Bride. It is such a good movie, I can't believe Rob Teiner had anything to do with it. It's quoted quite a lot at my house.

Posted by: Megthered at November 23, 2024 08:35 PM (Mtips)

73 "by 1969, the grossly simplistic Boomer world-view was being ensconced"
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That is the sort of ridiculous thing I read all the time. By 1969, only the oldest boomers could have "ensconced" their world view. It was the view of pre-Boomers.

I'm not trying to defend my generation. But the whole picture is just warped. We didn't make it up. What was wrong with the Boom was that, while thinking ourselves independent thinkers and rebels, we were mostly teachers' pets. Swallowed everything that was fed to us.

But a bunch of pimply faced adolescents didn't change the world. We were used as a tool by those who manipulated us. Idiots, yes. And useful only to the Commies. But not the earthshaking force portrayed.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 23, 2024 08:40 PM (1bNHn)

74 Reiner>Teiner

Posted by: Megthered at November 23, 2024 08:40 PM (Mtips)

75 Just watched Princess Bride. It is such a good movie, I can't believe Rob Teiner had anything to do with it. It's quoted quite a lot at my house.
Posted by: Megthered at November 23, 2024 08:35 PM (Mtips)

Always heard the quotes and how funny it was. Finally able to watch it about a year ago. Meh.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 23, 2024 08:42 PM (0eaVi)

76 Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, though is a very good movie. Immeasurably better - and more honest - than Dead Poets.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 23, 2024 08:42 PM (1bNHn)

77 Just watched Princess Bride. It is such a good movie, I can't believe Rob Teiner had anything to do with it. It's quoted quite a lot at my house.
Posted by: Megthered at November 23, 2024 08:35 PM (Mtips)

One of my all time favorites.

Strangely, it hit me one day after watching it again a few years back that my favorite movies aren't usually directed by my favorite directors.

Posted by: Robert at November 23, 2024 08:45 PM (0yHIW)

78 77 Just watched Princess Bride. It is such a good movie, I can't believe Rob Teiner had anything to do with it. It's quoted quite a lot at my house.
Posted by: Megthered at November 23, 2024 08:35 PM (Mtips)

One of my all time favorites.

Strangely, it hit me one day after watching it again a few years back that my favorite movies aren't usually directed by my favorite directors.
Posted by: Robert at November 23, 2024 08:45 PM (0yHIW)

Second Hand Lions... directed by a guy who no one ever heard of...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 23, 2024 08:46 PM (QAkQ3)

79 Just watched Princess Bride. It is such a good movie, I can't believe Rob Teiner had anything to do with it. It's quoted quite a lot at my house.
Posted by: Megthered
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I really enjoy this movie.

Posted by: scampydog at November 23, 2024 08:48 PM (41CYW)

80 Well... I'll be damned.

I never figured they'd let regular jagoffs visit the spallation neutron source or the high flux isotope reactor or the supercomputing laboratories at ORNL, but they totally do, as long as you call ahead and schedule a tour.

I know what I'm doing next summer. I'm going to watch them fire a hydrogen anion beam through a foil and then ram the naked protons into liquid mercury.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 23, 2024 08:50 PM (7oYYI)

81 Always heard the quotes and how funny it was. Finally able to watch it about a year ago. Meh.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 23, 2024 08:42 PM (0eaVi)

I’m with you . Just okay for me.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 23, 2024 08:51 PM (D6PGr)

82 I think the strength of Princess Bride is how it surprises and delights. If youve heard all the lines, and the hype, it's not as impactful as going in fresh.
There are many fine movies I can only watch once because of diminishing returns: Field of Dreams, ET, Up.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at November 23, 2024 08:52 PM (wBaIH)

83 Just watched Seven Psychopaths again.

Sam Rockwell is s very likable actor.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 23, 2024 08:54 PM (D6PGr)

84 Recently watched (dvd) - Speak No Evil
I liked it

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 23, 2024 08:54 PM (Wx316)

85
Maybe the sharks followed the galleys to nom on spent slaves?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

They still swim that route to this very day.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 23, 2024 08:55 PM (63Dwl)

86 Second Hand Lions... directed by a guy who no one ever heard of...
Posted by: Romeo13
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A friend, whom we refer to as 'Archie Bunker,' keeps asking if I’ve seen it yet.

Posted by: scampydog at November 23, 2024 08:56 PM (41CYW)

87 This would be a good movie.

Mark Cuban Goes Full BlueAnon Accusing Elon Musk of Having Bot Army

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 23, 2024 08:57 PM (L/fGl)

88 I also watched Jo Jo Rabbit again for the 4th time when I had no intention at all to watch it when it was first released.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 23, 2024 08:58 PM (D6PGr)

89 I think it was on Netflix that I saw the Sisters Brothers. It’s a pre civil war western about two brothers that “fix” things for a wealthy man. It wandered into places I didn’t expect. After a few days I’ve come to the conclusion that I liked it.

Posted by: Blutarski at November 23, 2024 09:01 PM (Cp1vk)

90 Another excellent movie about hardcore atheists is Black Death. Spoiler: Sean Bean gets brutally killed.

Posted by: Boulder Terlit Hobo at November 23, 2024 09:01 PM (mbIG2)

91 Some SciFi show on a pay network keeps showing up in my YT feed. I checked some of the clips out and it's trippy, convoluted, and weird. 'Raised by Wolves'. I watched a review of it and the guy's description of it was funny (not Critical Drinker). Think I'll take a pass on it.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 23, 2024 09:03 PM (6PUpl)

92 Sean Bean gets brutally killed.
Posted by: Boulder Terlit Hobo at November 23, 2024 09:01 PM (mbIG2)

He should have worn three masks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 23, 2024 09:04 PM (s72ew)

93 Okay, I do love "cinema" the art of motion pictures, but I'm not a snob.

I LOVE just good dumb fun, like "The Meg" That movie was fucking fantastic in it's shittiness in a way that "GeoStorm" completely missed the mark, I can appreciate the artistry of "Citizen Kane," while still know that it's a ham fisted in your face effort at using EVERY SINGLE thing about story telling without remorse, and without any real respect for the audience, while at the same time thinking that "Weird Science" is one of the greatest movies of the 80's.

Last night, I watched, "Deadpool and Wolverine."

My wife summarized it within just a few seconds of the movie starting, "Oh! They tapped right into your psyche didn't they." I loved that movie. The actual story parts of the movie turned me off. I don't care about Wade Wilson, I don't I never cared about X-force, and wade was a late installment, I was into the earlier timeline Cable stuff, which sucked to be honest, the omega progression of the maximoff's and the Summers family that was interesting, but that's comic nerd shit.

WHICH IS WHAT MADE THE MOVIE GREAT! EVERY single tick that happened throughout my entire time collecting comics

Posted by: Wickedpinto at November 23, 2024 09:05 PM (XKj0h)

94 Sean Bean gets brutally killed.

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Speaking of limey actors, I see they've found a skeleton believed to be Julian Sands

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 23, 2024 09:05 PM (L/fGl)

95 And, they claim they're doubling the power of the spallation source, and adding more beam lines. So it ought to be *even cooler* by the time I visit it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 23, 2024 09:06 PM (7oYYI)

96 Princess Bride is the best fairly tale ever written, bolstered by the fact that almost every line is tongue in cheek.

I've read that Billy Crystal as Miracle Max shut down production because everyone on the set was falling down laughing, but that 3/4 of his adlib dialog had to be cut because it was too raunchy and vulgar to ever put on film.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 23, 2024 09:06 PM (W6hoT)

97 And, they claim they're doubling the power of the spallation source, and adding more beam lines. So it ought to be *even cooler* by the time I visit it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 23, 2024 09:06 PM (7oYYI)

Do you have to wear a lead jockstrap to watch it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 23, 2024 09:07 PM (s72ew)

98 Eeyore --

You're correct. I'm not blaming the Boomers for it, but the worldview I'm talking about was one the one they were buying, even if they were too young to have made it.

The Boomers are no more responsible for the older generation's indoctrination than any other generation.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at November 23, 2024 09:08 PM (asXVI)

99 A lot of fun backstory about Princess Bride. Wallace Shawn was terrified he’d be seen as not worthy of the part, practiced fanatically, and you can hear the tension in his voice.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 23, 2024 09:11 PM (W6hoT)

100 Guys,

Whatever Reiner has become, he was, for a while, one of the best directors in Hollywood.

He had a great run: Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men...

...and then North. And he never recovered.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at November 23, 2024 09:11 PM (asXVI)

101 Last night, I watched, "Deadpool and Wolverine."

My wife summarized it within just a few seconds of the movie starting, "Oh! They tapped right into your psyche didn't they." I loved that movie. The actual story parts of the movie turned me off. I don't care about Wade Wilson, I don't I never cared about X-force, and wade was a late installment, I was into the earlier timeline Cable stuff, which sucked to be honest, the omega progression of the maximoff's and the Summers family that was interesting, but that's comic nerd shit.

WHICH IS WHAT MADE THE MOVIE GREAT! EVERY single tick that happened throughout my entire time collecting comics
Posted by: Wickedpinto at November 23, 2024 09:05 PM (XKj0h)

I wouldn't have watched it, but my 12 year old grandson talked me into taking him. And damn, that was an incredibly funny movie, and also the most shockingly vulgar movie I have ever seen.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 23, 2024 09:11 PM (W6hoT)

102 almost, was referenced in that movie, and then you talk about the other sub sub sub meta, I recognized all of it, because, I'm a genuine, or was, collector of that genre. I literally have more Captaim America comics than there are Captain America comics (at the time) because I'm a collector, I'm not a fan, I'm a fantatic in certain ways.

That movie was a love letter to ME. I felt every moment of that movie. I didn't just recognize the comic references, I recognized the movie references, the tv show references, I recognized the Personal references when there is a subtle joke about Singer being a pedo, there is a reference to the comic artists OTHER works with DC, there is so MUCH packed into that movie, it was like Ryan, who is the driving force behind those movies, I don't care who gets the credit, there would be no deadpool without Ryan, got in touch with every single one of his friends, and said, "Lets Meta the FUCK out of this movie!"

And that's what it was, there were very few moments that I didn't get the subtext of what they were saying, and I absolutely LOVED IT.

Also, the ACTION was great, the settings were great, I could without so many CGI backgrounds, those

Posted by: Wickedpinto at November 23, 2024 09:11 PM (XKj0h)

103 I don't even get how they sell tickets to Disney World, when the US government is telling people "you can dip your arrogant little toes into G-d's domain in the scenic Tennessee Valley, FOR FREE."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 23, 2024 09:14 PM (7oYYI)

104 Also, the ACTION was great, the settings were great, I could without so many CGI backgrounds, those
Posted by: Wickedpinto at November 23, 2024 09:11 PM (XKj0h)

There were so many things in the Void that were hilarious - things that had been cast off from the primary timeline. One of the best was the 20th Century Fox logo in the sand.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 23, 2024 09:14 PM (W6hoT)

105 Posted by: Eeyore at November 23, 2024 08:40 PM (1bNHn)

Good comment.

One of the dumbest things that has become common on this place recently is that generations or regions are to blame for everything.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 23, 2024 09:15 PM (LkLld)

106 always bug me, but Pick a standard for a great film, and that movie filled those requirements. It wasn't a game changer it wasn't "profound" in the artistic sense, But what DeadPool and Wolverine was.

It was Ryan and all of the creative team telling ME

"I love you, you deserve this, and I understand."

And Goddamn did they give it to me. The number of times my wife paused the movie when I was laughing at something that didn't seem to make any sense, and had me explain it was maybe every ten minutes. That was the most joy and emotion in general, that I have experienced in a film, compacted in a form that serviced a person exactly like me, that I have ever seen.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at November 23, 2024 09:15 PM (XKj0h)

107 I remember seeing a movie “Virus” (1980).
It is a Japanese movie known in Japan as Fukkatsu no Hi (復活の日, lit. "Day of Resurrection")

There is this scene where the protagonist arrives at a church somewhere in South America and has a non-verbal “conversation” with Jesus on the cross.

It was chilling

Posted by: SMOD at November 23, 2024 09:16 PM (GITLP)

108 I don't even get how they sell tickets to Disney World, when the US government is telling people "you can dip your arrogant little toes into G-d's domain in the scenic Tennessee Valley, FOR FREE."
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I couldn't agree more, but please stop telling people about this. Let's keep it our little secret.

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 23, 2024 09:16 PM (IQ6Gq)

109 One of the dumbest things that has become common on this place recently is that generations or regions are to blame for everything.
Posted by: JackStraw

I blame the millennials in Paris, TX.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 23, 2024 09:17 PM (L/fGl)

110 Good evening! "Saturday Night" sounds watchable.

Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs at November 23, 2024 09:18 PM (5G6LU)

111 Posted by: Eeyore at November 23, 2024 08:40 PM (1bNHn)

Good comment. JackStraw
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The truth. Older now, but wiser....

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 23, 2024 09:19 PM (IQ6Gq)

112 || I blame the millennials in Paris, TX.

You blame the...there was just the one boy and even HE'D be late X!

||One of the dumbest things that has become common on this place recently is that generations or regions are to blame for everything.

This is an incorrect interpretation. I'm not blaming the Boomers, and what's more I don't think they're as homogenous as they've always been portrayed.

But there is a worldview associated with that generation, just like there is with every other. And with the Boomers it was all counter-culture and subversion.

shrug.emoji

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at November 23, 2024 09:20 PM (asXVI)

113 "Tom Servo at November 23, 2024 09:11 PM (W6hoT) "

In '99, my SNCOIC took his 7 year old to "South Park:bigger longer and uncut." He had kinda the same reaction.

I told him, "And you didn't ask any of us if that was a good idea? That is NOT a childrens Movie."

He said, "NO SHIT! I know that now!"

Posted by: Wickedpinto at November 23, 2024 09:21 PM (XKj0h)

114 100 Guys,

Whatever Reiner has become, he was, for a while, one of the best directors in Hollywood.

He had a great run: Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men...

...and then North. And he never recovered.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!)

When you filter every aspect of human existence through one's politics, it wrecks you.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 23, 2024 09:22 PM (6PUpl)

115 YD, I am jealous, and hoping for vicarious thrills in the form of an after-action report to the blog.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 23, 2024 09:22 PM (KcwUg)

116 "There were so many things in the Void that were hilarious - things that had been cast off from the primary timeline. One of the best was the 20th Century Fox logo in the sand.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 23, 2024 09:14 PM (W6hoT) "

The mad max BLATANT ripoff's, and sitting with Wolvie's skeleton and talking in an australian accent, and being defensive about canadians, even though Deadpool is American.

META META META

Posted by: Wickedpinto at November 23, 2024 09:23 PM (XKj0h)

117 >>I blame the millennials in Paris, TX.

Topical.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 23, 2024 09:24 PM (LkLld)

118 "Every generation, blames the one before"

youtu.be/5hr64MxYpgk

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 23, 2024 09:24 PM (6PUpl)

119 You can be a brilliant entertainer and still intellectually retarded . Hollywood proves that everyday.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 23, 2024 09:24 PM (c1bWo)

120 You are talking about an animal with a memory that lasts about two minutes, is dumb enough to chew on itself in a feeding frenzy so i doubt very seriously it would remember wich trade routes that slave ships took hundreds of years ago. If sharks do follow the same routes it prabably has more to do with their natural migration parterns just like birds who fly south for the winter.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 23, 2024 09:25 PM (M9b5y)

121
'One of the dumbest things that has become common on this place recently is that generations or regions are to blame for everything.'

Fucking Boomers. Always making excuses.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 23, 2024 09:27 PM (3wi/L)

122 "This is an incorrect interpretation. I'm not blaming the Boomers, and what's more I don't think they're as homogenous as they've always been portrayed. " @movieQ

individuals are never homogeneous, BUT their cultural influence IS.

BOOMERS abandoned Vietnam, Iran, Lebanon etc. BOOMERS may as individuals not be homogeneous, but as a collective representation in culture they are, and they are terrible.

My father was a boomer and he blamed himself for reagan not winning 50 states.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at November 23, 2024 09:27 PM (XKj0h)

123 I think the following quote is accurate. Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.

Whichever generation grew up in the good times is probably to blame.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 23, 2024 09:28 PM (c1bWo)

124 @114, 100 after North Reiner did Ghosts of Mississippi which managed to piss off everybody. His political beliefs were all over that and it didn't help

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 23, 2024 09:28 PM (FxDm7)

125 @puddlegum

my dad died last year, but we had been intermittently estranged for about 15 years. It was always hard having that separation, but I always loved him, and that song always breaks my heart, especially now.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at November 23, 2024 09:29 PM (XKj0h)

126 Speaking of limey actors, I see they've found a skeleton believed to be Julian Sands
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 23, 2024 09:05 PM (L/fGl)
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Ugh, poor Julian. I rewatched "A Room With a View" and he was a beautiful man.

Never saw "Warlock". Worth it?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 23, 2024 09:30 PM (kpS4V)

127 "La Fin du monde" (1931) Earth-destroying comet threatens, unleashing a frenzy of avarice, and entrenching globalists. Very peculiar movie; I saw a 95 minute cut on Kanopy. It's based on this novel: tinyurl.com/3rmnrduj In this genre, I'd compare it first to "Melancholia" (2011), because of its focus on the psychological aspects of imminent disaster, but "Deep Impact" (199

is the movie I'd pick if I was looking for just the plain uncomplicated pleasure of total human extinction.

"The Phenix City Story" (1955) Vicious gangsters run the vice capital of the AL-GA border. Eager vigilantes raring to wipe out the gangsters are repeatedly stymied by pussified civic do-gooders, who want to wait until the gangs kill even more innocent kids and women before doing anything about it. The uncredited singer is Meg Myles, busty 1950s pin-up: tinyurl.com/54knxr

"Empire of Dust" (2011) Superb documentary shows how difficult it is for a Chinese construction company to build infrastructure in Congo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOkrYW3vF0o

Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs at November 23, 2024 09:33 PM (5G6LU)

128 You are talking about an animal with a memory that lasts about two minutes
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Wait.... I have better snack choices!!!!

Posted by: scampydog at November 23, 2024 09:33 PM (41CYW)

129 Wickedpinto,

I'm very sorry, WP.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 23, 2024 09:33 PM (6PUpl)

130 >Never saw "Warlock". Worth it?

Warlock 1 and 2 are pretty good.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 23, 2024 09:34 PM (lhenN)

131 Julian Sands was very funny playing the professor to John Goodman's exterminator in Arachnophobia.

@126 Warlock was ok, worth a rainy afternoon viewing

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 23, 2024 09:35 PM (FxDm7)

132 The boomers exported jobs. Now there are 1.4 jobs for their 2.1 grandchildren.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 23, 2024 09:36 PM (lhenN)

133 >>>Notably, my father thought Brando overacted to the point of parody.
I think it was more dad had read the book before seeing the movie, but I've watched the film enough times that I can see where he was coming from.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov,
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You can't have an Italian Godfather and understatement in the same frame.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 23, 2024 09:37 PM (yZqjq)

134 Ghosts of Mississippi may have been what did Reiner in. Or rather before North he could do no wrong, and Ghosts might have been his apology.

Posted by: Moviegique at November 23, 2024 09:37 PM (asXVI)

135 Trying again with Meg Myles:
https://alchetron.com/Meg-Myles

Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs at November 23, 2024 09:38 PM (5G6LU)

136 I know that prayer works. I've seen literal physical miracles result from prayer (and the Good Lord providing). Thing is, if you have no faith and the one you're praying for has no faith, what does science expect would result?

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 23, 2024 09:39 PM (SSBCb)

137
"Every generation, blames the one before"

Yo Mama!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 23, 2024 09:39 PM (63Dwl)

138 Flags of Our Fathers is on FLIX right now.

I just learned they misidentified one of the Flag Raisers and the real guy never said anything and the guy who was in the famous photo realized to late it wasn't him ( he was involved in the original planting of the smaller flag) .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 23, 2024 09:39 PM (c1bWo)

139 "Boomers?"

Wait, I thought we're all *29* here.. Doesn't that make us ALL Millenials? Or?

Posted by: JQ at November 23, 2024 09:39 PM (njWTi)

140 137
"Every generation, blames the one before"

Yo Mama!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 23, 2024 09:39 PM (63Dwl)

I blame the commies and socialists. Does that count?

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 23, 2024 09:40 PM (SSBCb)

141 (Missed the hobby thread)

I bought the board game Massive Darkness 2 and one expansion, which is full of unpainted miniatures.

I started painting the enemies, going from shortest to tallest. The little minions are maybe 1" tall, which I am used to painting already. The big boss is 6" and elaborate.

There are five heroes that I am saving for last.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 23, 2024 09:41 PM (lhenN)

142 139 "Boomers?"

Wait, I thought we're all *29* here.. Doesn't that make us ALL Millenials? Or?

Posted by: JQ

I'll let you in on a little secret. We're inside a simulation. NOTHING IS REAL!!!!! (adjusts tin foil hat)

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 23, 2024 09:41 PM (6PUpl)

143 139 "Boomers?"

Wait, I thought we're all *29* here.. Doesn't that make us ALL Millenials? Or?

Posted by: JQ at November 23, 2024 09:39 PM (njWTi)

I'm marked with an X.
Now, why anyone would purposefully do that is another question.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 23, 2024 09:42 PM (SSBCb)

144 nood

Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs at November 23, 2024 09:42 PM (5G6LU)

145 I'll let you in on a little secret. We're inside a simulation. NOTHING IS REAL!!!!! (adjusts tin foil hat)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work
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Strawberry fields forever!

Posted by: JQ at November 23, 2024 09:43 PM (njWTi)

146 "129 Wickedpinto,

I'm very sorry, WP. "
@puddlgum

Life is, and it ends, my father had a good schedule, and he was happy in the way that made him happy. He was always proud of us boys, and we were always proud of who he was as a father. Everything else doesn't matter.

I miss him, but that's selfish, I probably would only talk to him ever two months, but I remember all of the good of him and that's what matters, now that he's gone, I go through the same cycle. Every couple months I think of the times that I loved with him, and the times that I will miss with him from now until the end of my life, and I do try to tell the stories so that others remember him, as I hope that I'm remembered, though I know it's all a faded picture that will fade further with the retelling.

Unless you are Achille's, the memories of you die within a generation or two.

Dad was a good guy who didn't know how to be good, but he was my dad, and the experiences he allowed me to have were GLORIOUS, and that's my memory of him.

I DID tell him "In The Living Years." But that doesn't change the fact that it hurts when I remember he's not there anymore.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at November 23, 2024 09:45 PM (XKj0h)

147 Ugh, poor Julian. I rewatched "A Room With a View" and he was a beautiful man.

Never saw "Warlock". Worth it?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 23, 2024 09:30 PM (kpS4V)

Warlock 1 & 2 are fun.

Sands had almost entered the "Well, fuck it. I'm never going to be a thing again, am I" phase of his career and gives a hammy performance that fits the movie. Though after that he did get a role of a giant sodomizing centipede in Cronenberg's "Naked Lunch".

Too bad he died before Tarantino "rediscovered" him.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 23, 2024 09:45 PM (eDfFs)

148 "
Wait, I thought we're all *29* here.. Doesn't that make us ALL Millenials? Or?
"

Well FUCK, I thought 49 was the new middle age, Can I get Kamala to do my mather for me and make me 29?

Posted by: Wickedpinto at November 23, 2024 09:46 PM (XKj0h)

149 I don't blame the generations before. My generation maintained their proud tradition of fucking everything up, and my kids will transmit that legacy to their own whelps.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 23, 2024 09:47 PM (7oYYI)

150 Mentioning Julian Sands.

Random fact, my wife loves World of Warcraft. I liked the RTS games, and I played Wow a few times before we got married, and I max speced everytime Ace had a promo, but I don't like grinders.

But I would play with my wife and her family on wow, and I was okay, whatever, don't care about the game, but my wife would make fun of me; because, I would use real people's full names for my characters.

My Priest was "Cisco Cotto" a radio personality from chicago who built an appostolic church in chicago, and a few others that were selfish, my undead I forget the class, was "Rich Koz" another Chicago personality, who was Son of Svengooli, and my Warlock was "Julian Sands"

She named our icemaker "Val Chilmer."

Posted by: Wickedpinto at November 23, 2024 09:51 PM (XKj0h)

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"The Prime of Miss Jean Brody" was a very good novel written by Muriel Sharp before It was a movie.

Sharp was greatly admired by Evelyn Waugh and wrote several great novels.

If you're curious give "The Girls of Slender Means" a whirl. It's a good intro to what she's all about.

She has that same dark Catholic humor that informs the writings of Evenlyn Waugh and Flannery O'Connor.

Yeah, yeah, I know...not the book thread.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 23, 2024 09:53 PM (eDfFs)

152 I'm a simple man with simple needs..Luaghter is good. Tropic Thunder was hilarious. Could not make it today for widescale distribution. Robert Downey Jr in black face? "Never go full 'Tard'? Not today. folks. Funny as hell but incorrect at the edge of the tsunami of the leftist onslaught of Orwellian language control. It's like Blazing Saddles. Un-remakeable. Sad times.

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at November 23, 2024 09:54 PM (hftn9)

153 "119 You can be a brilliant entertainer and still intellectually retarded . Hollywood proves that everyday.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth "

Give me just one of those days in the last 10 years Sebastion. That would be interesting.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at November 23, 2024 09:55 PM (XKj0h)

154 "152 I'm a simple man with simple needs..Luaghter is good. Tropic Thunder was hilarious. Could not make it today for widescale distribution. Robert Downey Jr in black face? "Never go full 'Tard'? Not today. folks. Funny as hell but incorrect at the edge of the tsunami of the leftist onslaught of Orwellian language control. It's like Blazing Saddles. Un-remakeable. Sad times.

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender a"

you can make it, you just cant get distribution. The stories still exist, and many people are writing them, they are just affraid of the REAL black list that is lefty dominance, and that will die soon thanks to people like ACE.

That's why Breitbart praised ace, if you don't know the history. At a convention Ace met breitbart, and breitbart wasn't reading Aces post, he was reading OUR comments, and Ace said he was told, "You have the best commenters."

Posted by: Wickedpinto at November 23, 2024 09:58 PM (XKj0h)

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Ah, well. Looks like the movie thread is developing rigor mortis.

Saw "Abigail" last night on Max.

It's a horror comedy about some criminals who kidnap a girl and hold her for ransom, only to find out things aren't what they seem.

If you can manage to not see any trailers, etc, you'll probably enjoy it more.

I liked it quite a bit. Very bloody though not gory in a tortuous way. Lots of fun. some good laughs. Good action. Good acting.

Not particularly scary. More like they wanted the audience to have a fun ride.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 23, 2024 10:00 PM (eDfFs)

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