Saturday Evening Movie Thread

Saturday Evening Movie Thread - 10/03/26

Old Movies vs. New Movies

What is it about old movies that appeals to me so much? I almost watch exclusively old films, you know? Movies from decades before I was born, sometimes decades before my parents were born. It's my main focus. I absorb these movies in very chronological and systemic ways. I pick a director and watch them from beginning to end. More recently, I picked a studio and started watching it from beginning to end. And this excites me. It excites me in a way that new movies don't.

I'll be honest: I've tried to have this discussion before, and every time I did, I found myself constantly trying to intellectualize what I was feeling. I would try to come up with some grand theory about why old movies were better, or why I was somehow more interested in movies from the past than movies being made today. But that isn't really what I think. It's not that I think old movies are inherently better than new movies. There are plenty of films from the last twenty years that I genuinely love and that I think hold up. Moneyball is a great movie. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a great movie. There are great films being made recently. The difference is somewhere else.

When I look out into the future and see what is coming, I don't feel that much. When I look backwards and think about what I'm going to discover, I feel a lot more. That's the strange thing I've been trying to figure out. The prospect of discovering something that already exists is much more exciting to me than anticipating something that doesn't exist yet.

I've done some pretty big experiments with this. I watched all of the Best Picture winners. I watched all of John Ford. I watched all of Alfred Hitchcock. Right now, I'm watching all of Hammer Films-not just Hammer horror, but everything Hammer made. That's roughly 170 movies. And no, all of Hammer Films is not great. Most of it is mediocre. A lot of it is perfectly passable content. It's cheap, it's quick, and most of it isn't very good. There is definitely good stuff in there, and there are movies that I've really enjoyed, but there is also a tremendous amount of stuff that is simply bad. And that doesn't bother me.

The Journey

That's probably the most important part of this. I was never daunted by a bad Hammer movie because the point was never the individual films. The point was the overall journey. If I watch one terrible movie, that's not a failure. I simply move on to the next movie. Maybe that one is better. Maybe it's worse. Maybe I discover something completely unexpected. The individual movie matters, obviously, because I'm watching the movie and evaluating it, but it exists within a much larger experience.

That is really just a jumping-off point for why I tend to prefer older movies. It isn't necessarily that the movies themselves are better. It's the experience of discovering older movies. I see this journey through Hammer as a way to discover even more cinema. One movie leads to another. One actor leads to another. One director leads somewhere else. One studio leads to a completely different period of filmmaking. The further I go, the more there is to discover.

And how did I find all of this? It was just through exploration. Nobody told me what I was supposed to watch. There wasn't necessarily some algorithm deciding what I should see next. Ultimately, it came from myself, from this desire to go looking. I wanted to know what was there. I wanted to see the whole thing. That experience is fundamentally different from looking forward to a new movie.

If I decide that I'm going to discover Hammer Films, Hammer is not the dominant conversation. I can expose myself to as much or as little material beforehand as I want. I can read about the movie, or I can know absolutely nothing about it. I can see a poster and recognize an actor, or I can stumble into something completely blind. I have control over the experience. More importantly, there is an enormous amount of material waiting for me that I have never seen.

Anticipation

Compare that with something like Dune: Part Three. I'm looking forward to Dune: Part Three. I like Denis Villeneuve's Dune movies, and I want to see the next one. But the overall experience of looking forward to it doesn't produce a huge amount of excitement for me. Part of that is because of what happens around a major upcoming movie now.

If I spend my time looking forward to Dune: Part Three online, I'm going to encounter trailer breakdowns, behind-the-scenes information, casting speculation, interviews, theories, rumors, and people picking apart creative choices before anyone has actually seen the movie. As I'm writing this, in early August 2026, no one has seen the movie. The movie isn't finished. Everyone is arguing about a hypothetical. And that conversation doesn't interest me. I want to see the movie. Then I want to discuss the movie.

There is something strange about the way we talk about movies now, particularly the biggest movies. Cinema is so much bigger than opening weekend, but so much of the conversation around movies is built around opening weekend. How much did it make? How much did it make compared to the previous movie? Was it a success? Was it a disappointment? What does this mean for the franchise? What does this mean for the studio? What does this mean for Hollywood?

And at that point, we're not really talking about the movie anymore. We're talking about everything surrounding the movie. We're trying to rush into a conversation about something before we've actually had the opportunity to experience it. The movie becomes an event, and the event becomes more important than the movie itself. I don't find that particularly interesting. It feels like a distraction. That's why I tend to recede into my own little journeys.

I like being able to say that I'm going to watch all of John Ford. I like being able to start at the beginning and work my way through his career. I like seeing the early movies, the good movies, the bad movies, the movies that reveal something about where he was going, and the movies that seem like dead ends. I like watching a filmmaker change. I like discovering the actors who keep appearing. I like seeing genres develop and disappear. I like finding connections that I could never have known existed before I started.

That's what excites me. It's the journey. I kind of want the complete picture. I want that journey to be complete. I want to know what the whole thing looks like. Agonizing over whatever new detail gets released about The Batman Part II or whatever the next major movie happens to be simply doesn't interest me very much. I don't want to spend months constructing an idea of a movie in my head before the movie exists. I want the movie. What I care about is the movie.

What's Really Important

That might be why I spend most of my viewing time watching old movies. It isn't because I think everything old is automatically better. It certainly isn't because I think everything new is bad. It's because when I look backwards, I find an enormous avenue for discovery. I can move through decades of filmmaking and find things I've never seen before. I can discover movies that nobody is talking about anymore. I can watch the great films, the mediocre films, the terrible films, and everything in between.

And there is something liberating about that. I don't have to participate in the conversation. I don't have to know what everybody else thinks. I don't have to worry about whether something is going to be a hit, whether the studio is happy with it, whether the franchise is going to continue, or whether the opening weekend represents some kind of cultural referendum. The movie already exists. The conversation about it can wait.

In fact, the conversation can wait forever. I can just watch the movie.

That's why I keep finding myself drawn to old movies. It's an avenue for discovery, and I get to find out so much more by going backwards than I ever do by looking forwards. The past is enormous. There are decades of movies sitting there waiting for me, and every time I finish one, there is another one waiting. That is what I find exciting. Not knowing what is coming next, but knowing that there is still so much that I haven't discovered yet.

A Short Film

By me. Enjoy.

Movies of Today

Opening in Theaters:

Digger

Verity

Movies I Saw This Fortnight:

The Woman in Black (Rating 3.5/4) Full Review "I have my small issues with the film, but, really, this is just quality horror entertainment." [Kanopy]

The Resident (Rating 0.5/4) Full Review "This was bad. More importantly, it was boring." [Prime]

Let Me In (Rating 3/4) Full Review "It's very solid, extremely well made and acted, and handsome. Just kind of icky at the same time." [Kanopy]

To the Devil a Daughter (Rating 1/4) Full Review "The script is a mess. The director does what he can. The lead is...not my favorite. But we do have efforts at style and Lee doing his professional best." [Hoopla]

The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires (Rating 2.5/4) Full Review "The script was in desperate need of a rewrite and those bookends needed to have never been filmed, but Baker did the absolute most with what he had. It's something that it's as entertaining as it is." [YouTube]

Shatter (Rating 1.5/4) Full Review "But, it does have some small entertainment here and there. It's not much, but it's something. I needed something." [YouTube]

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (Rating 2/4) Full Review "Still, it's a disappointing end to the film, a lesser repeat of a superior original." [Kanopy]

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (Rating 2/4) Full Review "Eh...Hammer has made a whole lot worse. This has some mild entertainment, but it is very mild." [YouTube]

Please check out my videos from the last few weeks:

Jacques Tati: The Definitive Ranking
Jacques Tati: The Directors Series
Tony Scott: The Directors Series
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1 ST

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 03, 2026 07:45 PM (vvRUZ)

2 Thats a ton of black diamonds, TJM.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 03, 2026 07:46 PM (zZu0s)

3 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 03, 2026 07:46 PM (Ia/+0)

4
Diamonds are a girl's best friend, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at October 03, 2026 07:47 PM (/QHx4)

5 Heavy sigh..

I don't want to fix that...

Posted by: TJM's phone at October 03, 2026 07:48 PM (cItmN)

6 Some one who shall remain nameless might have forgotten to change their file editor before posting!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 03, 2026 07:49 PM (NnhvP)

7
Shit happens, lol.

Still readable though.

Posted by: four seasons at October 03, 2026 07:50 PM (/QHx4)

8 Life is too short to watch crappy films or read crappy books.

Classics are classics for a reason.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 03, 2026 07:50 PM (36x1j)

9 I don't know why but every one of your apostrophes is showing up as an unknown character diamond.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 03, 2026 07:50 PM (6ydKt)

10 Contractions are a girl's best friend.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 03, 2026 07:51 PM (vvRUZ)

11 Isn't it Pixy's rules that those diamonds appear?

Posted by: Skip at October 03, 2026 07:51 PM (Ia/+0)

12 My daughter loves old tech. Doesn’t have to work, just old.
The original Snow White, early Tom and Jerry cartoons and anime from the 80’s. She loves the old stuff. Even Bolt is an old movie.
Of course, Apocalypse Now is a timeless classic reinterpretation of Moby Dick which is something we all can agree on.

Posted by: Accomack at October 03, 2026 07:51 PM (4qMiv)

13 TJM must use printer's apostrophes - typographic apostrophe (Unicode U+2019) - or something.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 03, 2026 07:51 PM (6ydKt)

14 There have been docs about John Ford. Maybe a semi fictional about his work, revolving around him and the "stock company"/drinking buddies. Some interesting characters there like Peter (Pierre) Ortiz and Jack Pennick.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 03, 2026 07:54 PM (gm9Sb)

15 Dialogue. Dialogue is one of the ways film craft has gone down the toilet.

Now, Thin Man movies or His Girl Friday were no realistic dialogue by any means, but you could follow it and it did not assume you were dumb. It allowed that the characters were smart and could think on their feet and helped establish a pace to the movie.

By contrast a lot of modern movies the dialogue is retarded. Often restating what just happened assuming you are listening to it on a second screen and did not see the pictures and are too stupid to know what happened. Plus, to write clever dialogue you have to be at least a bit clever and most writers today seem to be retards.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 03, 2026 07:54 PM (zZu0s)

16 Thanks TJM interesting essay.

I like watching old movies in large part because of their representation of the past and how people lived. For example, all the exterior shooting the Three Stooges did in pre-war L.A. show it was barely a town with lots of open space and agriculture.

But mostly I watch old movies to remind me of the way I lived and remind me of being a kid growing up in 70s NYC. I saw a lot of movies as a kid and those movies too I like to rewatch with an adult perspective.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 03, 2026 07:55 PM (RIvkX)

17 Heavy sigh..

I don't want to fix that...
Posted by: TJM's phone at October 03, 2026 07:48 PM (cItmN)

Just say it's a hidden skiing theme.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 03, 2026 07:55 PM (zZu0s)

18 Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 03, 2026 07:54 PM (zZu0s)
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I usually cannot hear or understand the dialog.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 03, 2026 07:57 PM (RIvkX)

19 "Capricorn One" (197

, "Dawn's Early Gleaming" (1977)
No sir, I don't like them.
youtube.com/watch?v=cDGlN6mluGA

Posted by: Mister Horse at October 03, 2026 07:58 PM (Jr5Lq)

20 I think the girl next door when I was a kid was named after Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 03, 2026 07:59 PM (vvRUZ)

21 I usually cannot hear or understand the dialog.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 03, 2026 07:57 PM (RIvkX)

Lol. TJM should do a thread on Christopher Nolan and the lost art of sound mixing. Its all horrific nowadays.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 03, 2026 07:59 PM (zZu0s)

22 Sounds like muddy, muffled shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 03, 2026 08:00 PM (zZu0s)

23 Always loved old movies, sad I lost TCM in my upgrade to Hi-Def

Posted by: Skip at October 03, 2026 08:00 PM (Ia/+0)

24 "The Goddess of Spring" (1934) A ten minute Silly Symphony with unbelievably vivid Technicolor.

Posted by: gp at October 03, 2026 08:01 PM (Jr5Lq)

25 I too love old movies. Maybe because I feel a kinship with earlier eras. I was born too late.

But I also love science fiction. Was I born too early?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 03, 2026 08:01 PM (kpS4V)

26 I've seen a few Hammer films on TCM but can't remember which ones exactly. I think they were vampire flicks.

Roman Polanski must have liked Hammer films because The Fearless Vampire Killers looks and feels just like a Hammer film except it has more comedy/naughty bits.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 03, 2026 08:03 PM (6ydKt)

27 My hearing has difficulty distinguishing between sounds, especially speech. I use sound to mask the fact that I am alone.

Posted by: Accomack at October 03, 2026 08:03 PM (28cZF)

28 Look at it this way, old war movies could have constant gunfire and explosions, but you could always hear and understand the dialogue clear as a bell.

Nowadays, the soundtrack screws the dialogue usually.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 03, 2026 08:05 PM (zZu0s)

29 Ooops, "Twilight's Last Gleaming."

Posted by: Mister Horse at October 03, 2026 08:06 PM (Jr5Lq)

30 TCM has been playing lots of Looney Tunes classics like "Duck Dodgers", "One Froggy Evening" (Everybody do the Michigan Rag! 🐸

, and "Feed the Kitty". These haven't aged a day. Genius!

And of course the greatest, "What's Opera Doc?"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 03, 2026 08:06 PM (kpS4V)

31 Anybody know why I can't get captions on TCM, and only TCM?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 03, 2026 08:07 PM (kpS4V)

32 Hollywood has coalesced around certain types of audio recording techniques using wireless mics attached to the body and hidden. Some think that's why dialogue sounds so muffled and hard to understand these days.

They've also all started using digital cameras with excellent low-light capabilities so they have started shooting dark scenes in near, or actual darkness which is why so many scenes now, especially at night are so dark you can't see anything without a High Dynamic Range capable TV with a lot of brightness.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 03, 2026 08:07 PM (6ydKt)

33 30 The Nation would benefit from a "Talk Like Elmer Fudd Day".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 03, 2026 08:08 PM (gm9Sb)

34 Opera is a web browser sans commercials on YouTube.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 03, 2026 08:10 PM (vvRUZ)

35 I do like some older films, but some are too stage-acting style, if that makes sense.

An example of the evolution of stage acting vs. film acting is A Streetcar Named Desire. Vivien Leigh's classic stage acting clashed hard with Marlon Brando's style, imho. It really did not work well. Not that I am a big Brando fan. He was too far up his own butt.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wearing a Bill the Cat T-shirt at October 03, 2026 08:11 PM (0aYVJ)

36 Old movies, new movies: it's all good. I've got more than enough that's worth watching that I haven't seen yet.

Posted by: gp at October 03, 2026 08:11 PM (Jr5Lq)

37 Has TJM every done Bollywood movies?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 03, 2026 08:11 PM (l3cgK)

38 31 Anybody know why I can't get captions on TCM, and only TCM?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 03, 2026 08:07 PM (kpS4V)

It's working right now on my Dish network box.

Might be your box or cable company missing something.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 03, 2026 08:11 PM (6ydKt)

39 >>> Dialogue. Dialogue is one of the ways film craft has gone down the toilet.

This guy gets it

Posted by: Max Power at October 03, 2026 08:12 PM (TO3+g)

40 33 30 The Nation would benefit from a "Talk Like Elmer Fudd Day".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 03, 2026 08:08 PM (gm9Sb)

Stiwl Making fun of me...

Posted by: Elmer Fudd at October 03, 2026 08:12 PM (l3cgK)

41 Has anybody seen the Korean Monster Alien Invasion movie HOPE it looks really good haven't had a chance to see it, wondered if others have link to the trailer
https://tinyurl.com/ycyrjcwb

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 03, 2026 08:15 PM (ubCxQ)

42 I like your calm acceptance of interdimensional vacationing, David.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 03, 2026 08:15 PM (kpS4V)

43 I happened to watch an old movie just last weekend: "Secret of the Incas," from 1958. Charlton Heston plays a grifter living in Peru, who makes a somewhat-honest living serving as tour-guide and protection to American tourists visiting the country. But he's got a hidden seedy side, some underworld contacts, and he's just waiting for a chance to do some crime and make a big score.

The movie is most known for its protagonist. Heston wears a leather jacket, a beat-up fedora, and his 'big score' is recovering an ancient golden jewel-encrusted Incan artifact that only he knows the location of. In short, he is Indiana Jones without the veneer of respectability!

The movie was fun, but very much of its time. Limited action scenes, a lot of slow talking scenes, the plot occasionally took a break to show off a musical number, and a few teased character arcs that don't really get resolved... Still, I'll re-watch this movie before I watch the most recent official Indiana Jones movie...

Posted by: Castle Guy at October 03, 2026 08:16 PM (3v7ra)

44 Still watching Wizard of Oz

Posted by: Skip at October 03, 2026 08:18 PM (Ia/+0)

45 I think the oldest movies I really enjoy are in the early 60s, To Kill a Mockingbird and Lawrence of Arabia.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wearing a Bill the Cat T-shirt at October 03, 2026 08:19 PM (0aYVJ)

46 I like The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Coen brothers movies are always interesting.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wearing a Bill the Cat T-shirt at October 03, 2026 08:20 PM (0aYVJ)

47 "Has TJM every done Bollywood movies?"

I was a big fan of Sridevi. RIP. I like the older stuff where the female characters were more chaste and modest than they are today.

Posted by: gp at October 03, 2026 08:21 PM (Jr5Lq)

48 I get weird rejection notices from Pixie sometimes. I neve know why.

Had to split my last two comments.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wearing a Bill the Cat T-shirt at October 03, 2026 08:21 PM (0aYVJ)

49 I recently saw the 70's pirate movie "Swashbuckler" on TCM. Technically not a great film, but it had a great cast: Robert Shaw, James Earl Jones, Peter Boyle, Genevieve Bujold, etc. A fun flick that needed a better script.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 03, 2026 08:21 PM (kpS4V)

50 Buster Scrugs? The West Texas Twit!?

"I assume you meant West Texas Tit on account of that particular bird's mellifluous warble."

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 03, 2026 08:25 PM (iIyc0)

51 47 "Has TJM every done Bollywood movies?"

I was a big fan of Sridevi. RIP. I like the older stuff where the female characters were more chaste and modest than they are today.

Posted by: gp at October 03, 2026 08:21 PM (Jr5Lq)

Seems to also go for our society as well...

Posted by: Elmer Fudd at October 03, 2026 08:25 PM (l3cgK)

52 So, Hammer Films is the British version of Roger Corman.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 03, 2026 08:25 PM (CHHv1)

53 "The Ten Commandments" (1956) Rewatched it this week. Searching trivia, I found an anecdote that Anne Baxter had a cobra slither into her costume, and it took three hours to coax it out.

Posted by: gp at October 03, 2026 08:26 PM (Jr5Lq)

54 I have found some of TJM'S videos series director movies on YouTube.

Posted by: Skip at October 03, 2026 08:26 PM (Ia/+0)

55 48 I get weird rejection notices from Pixie sometimes. I neve know why.

Had to split my last two comments.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wearing a Bill the Cat T-shirt at October 03, 2026 08:21 PM (0aYVJ)

I tried to do Bugs Bunny with two "g"s for bugs and it got redacted...

Posted by: Elmer Fudd at October 03, 2026 08:26 PM (l3cgK)

56 53 "The Ten Commandments" (1956) Rewatched it this week. Searching trivia, I found an anecdote that Anne Baxter had a cobra slither into her costume, and it took three hours to coax it out.

Posted by: gp at October 03, 2026 08:26 PM (Jr5Lq)

"So let it be written, so let it be done!"

Posted by: Elmer Fudd at October 03, 2026 08:27 PM (l3cgK)

57 I recall watching some 60s era vampire flick that was odd and goofy, but, it had this actress that was gorgeous. Didn't recognize her right away. Movie was, well, 60s. I discovered that I had fallen for Sharon Tate. The movie was The Fearless Vampire Killers. She was a beauty.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 03, 2026 08:27 PM (AdHga)

58 53 "The Ten Commandments" (1956) Rewatched it this week. Searching trivia, I found an anecdote that Anne Baxter had a cobra slither into her costume, and it took three hours to coax it out.

Posted by: gp at October 03, 2026 08:26 PM (Jr5Lq)

Coax out her costume?

Posted by: Elmer Fudd at October 03, 2026 08:27 PM (l3cgK)

59 There are almost no new movies that I have any interest in seeing. I think the newest movie I have seen was the Godzilla Minus One movie, and that was Japanese dubbed in English.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 03, 2026 08:29 PM (0U5gm)

60 off cartoonish sock

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 03, 2026 08:29 PM (l3cgK)

61 Classics are classics for a reason.

You're right. I haven't watched 'Harley Davidson and The Marlboro Man' in a while. Maybe I'll do that this coming week! IT GOT ROBBED OF AN OSCAR!!! DANCES WITH WOLVES SUCKED!!! Ok, not suck. Overrated and it hasn't aged well.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 03, 2026 08:30 PM (AdHga)

62 Old film junkie here as well. I can't explain it, but ever since I was a kid, my favorite film of all time was "The Adventures of Robin Hood (circa 193

."

It's not a particularly "sharp" film by today's standards, but it was all about ENTERTAINMENT. The cast was stellar. Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patrick Knowles (a relative of mine), Alan Hale Sr....and I bet you didn't know this, but Maid Marian's horse was none other than "Trigger"...Roy Rodger's famous companion.

Another thing I enjoyed was that they music was an actual accessory to the what was taking place on the screen as opposed to a theme. It added to the excitement rather than creating its own niche importance.

Robin Hood has been recreated at least 50 times on screen. This one, IMO, it head and shoulders above them all. For a 1938 offering, that says something about its presentation.

The story was, arguably, pretty simple.

Posted by: Orson at October 03, 2026 08:31 PM (dIske)

63 Is this an ONT?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 03, 2026 08:31 PM (vvRUZ)

64 Anytime I try a BB connection it gets flagged as spam

Posted by: Skip at October 03, 2026 08:31 PM (Ia/+0)

65 The Short Film needs some cats.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 03, 2026 08:33 PM (AdHga)

66 There's an interesting trailer for a new Johnny Depp film coming out next year:"Day Drinker." It starts out simply enough with Depp playing a trouble making alcoholic layabout but as the trailer gets stranger and stranger you realize the title "Day Drinker" is possibly a double meaning for a vampire that can walk (and perhaps drink blood) in daylight.

Posted by: Max Power at October 03, 2026 08:33 PM (TO3+g)

67 "This one, IMO, it head and shoulders above them all."

It buckles swash better than any other.

Posted by: gp at October 03, 2026 08:34 PM (Jr5Lq)

68 So…into old movies, are you?

How about Kentucky Fried Movie?
Likely before your time…
Saw it when I was about 12. Never laughed so hard in my life before that..
Tried watching it again, a couple of years ago.
I’m a lover of low-brow comedies (many Mel Brooks’ works arguably fall into this genre) and are classics, but I just didn’t find KFM as funny as I remembered.
It wasn’t without laughs, but my sides didn’t ache after watching it so long after the first time I did.

Posted by: Gunslinger at October 03, 2026 08:35 PM (N91F8)

69 And at that point, we're not really talking about the movie anymore. We're talking about everything surrounding the movie. We're trying to rush into a conversation about something before we've actually had the opportunity to experience it. The movie becomes an event, and the event becomes more important than the movie itself. I don't find that particularly interesting
***
Agree What a great observation.

Posted by: LASue at October 03, 2026 08:36 PM (lCppi)

70 "The Ten Commandments" (1956) Rewatched it this week. Searching trivia, I found an anecdote that Anne Baxter had a cobra slither into her costume, and it took three hours to coax it out.

Posted by: gp at October 03, 2026 08:26 PM (Jr5Lq)

-------

Probably not the first time she had a snake slide up her dress.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 03, 2026 08:37 PM (wpRMV)

71 Now, Thin Man movies or His Girl Friday were no realistic dialogue by any means, but you could follow it and it did not assume you were dumb.

Someone (I think Movies!) recently broadcast all of the Thin Man movies. From the first to the last, they were fun, enjoyable, and left me wanting to see the next one.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 03, 2026 08:37 PM (z9/xM)

72 Spoiler Alert: every room in that hotel leads to a different place!

Posted by: Max Power at October 03, 2026 08:37 PM (TO3+g)

73 Anytime I try a BB connection it gets flagged as spam
Posted by: Skip at October 03, 2026 08:31 PM (Ia/+0)

For me it's anything referring to

c h u c k c u n n i n g h a m

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wearing a Bill the Cat T-shirt at October 03, 2026 08:37 PM (0aYVJ)

74 49 I recently saw the 70's pirate movie "Swashbuckler" on TCM. Technically not a great film, but it had a great cast: Robert Shaw, James Earl Jones, Peter Boyle, Genevieve Bujold, etc. A fun flick that needed a better script.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 03, 2026 08:21 PM (kpS4V)

I'll have to keep an eye out for that movie. Pirate flicks are few and far between, so even a mediocre one is worth seeking out.

On that note, a year or so back I watched a dubbed Spanish pirate movie ("Blackhawk"? I think it had that in the name) on Tubi. Being made in Spain, it naturally it took the Spanish side in the old Caribbean shipping conflicts. It was a little odd seeing the English pirates being treated as the unambiguous bad guys...

Posted by: Castle Guy at October 03, 2026 08:38 PM (3v7ra)

75 There are bearded dudes wearing skirts working at my Walmart.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 03, 2026 08:38 PM (vvRUZ)

76 46 I like The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Coen brothers movies are always interesting.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wearing a Bill the Cat T-shirt at October 03, 2026 08:20 PM (0aYVJ)

Pan shot!
I like that movie a lot but have to fast forward through the armless/legless chapter. Too tragic.

Posted by: LASue at October 03, 2026 08:40 PM (lCppi)

77 75 There are bearded dudes wearing skirts working at my Walmart.

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Do they have bagpipes?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 03, 2026 08:40 PM (wpRMV)

78 "Probably not the first time she had a snake slide up her dress."

They'd have to bait me with something more than dead rats to get me out of there.

The trivia lore goes on to say that many actresses were considered for that leading role, including Vivian Leigh, the lady I would have liked to have seen cast.

Posted by: gp at October 03, 2026 08:40 PM (Jr5Lq)

79 Watched a couple of the Tarkovsky movies, they are worth watching

Posted by: Skip at October 03, 2026 08:40 PM (Ia/+0)

80 Vivien.

Posted by: gp at October 03, 2026 08:41 PM (Jr5Lq)

81
I rarely look up movie plot reveals before seeing the movie, but "Digger" has gotten such terrible reviews combined with constant comparisons with "Dr Strangelove", which I think is a great movie.

That I couldn't quite decide if I wanted to take a chance or not, so I looked up the plot.

Wholley Kau! It isn't at all what you're expecting.

No spoilers below. But, this as Tom Cruise's big Oscar shot...well-

I don't know about the Oscar when the central message of the movie is -

entertainment is in it's own way foolish and evil because it distracts you from taking on "Global Weather Crisis"

The movie is literally telling you not to go to movies, not to go to plays, don't read, don't listen to music or watch TV because it distracts you from dedicating your life to whatever is important to Tom Cruise and Inkydink(or whatever the director/writer's name is).

This may be why the critics hate it so much because "Digger" is literally telling them lives are worthless and silly.

Just strange.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 03, 2026 08:42 PM (YSUhf)

82 Maybe we can get Ace to write a 2500 word review of a 4 minute film.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 03, 2026 08:43 PM (vTZFs)

83 I recently watched the movie of We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Given the nature of the book, it was a very faithful adaptation. They had to simplify the story a bit, and give Mary Katherine some external influences that could be shown on screen, which had the effect of making her a bit less sui generis and more influenced by outside craziness, but other than making the whole movie be a narration something like that had to give.

And I’m not sure who could have played Uncle Julian better than Crispin Glover outside of Jeremy Irons.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 03, 2026 08:43 PM (z9/xM)

84 68 So…into old movies, are you?

How about Kentucky Fried Movie?
Posted by: Gunslinger at October 03, 2026 08:35 PM (N91F

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Two things come to mind on that film. 1. First time I saw boobs out front and center in a movie. I want to say that the fim wasn't rated R, but it could have been. and 2. I remember one of the skits was a little girl doing a cooking oil commercial, and she was cooking her cat.

Posted by: Orson at October 03, 2026 08:43 PM (dIske)

85 No Bagpipes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 03, 2026 08:44 PM (vvRUZ)

86 There was nothing more 80’s than Golan Globus. I am surprised TJM never mentions them. They produced Runaway Train.

Posted by: Accomack at October 03, 2026 08:44 PM (RBD82)

87 "I just didn’t find KFM as funny as I remembered."

The humor paradox: comedy is hard, yet highly perishable.

Posted by: gp at October 03, 2026 08:45 PM (Jr5Lq)

88 Two things come to mind on that film. 1. First time I saw boobs out front and center in a movie. I want to say that the fim wasn't rated R, but it could have been. and 2. I remember one of the skits was a little girl doing a cooking oil commercial, and she was cooking her cat.

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I remember the talking dick and balls. It sounds kind of vulgar but it was done in good taste.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 03, 2026 08:45 PM (wpRMV)

89 85 No Bagpipes.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 03, 2026 08:44 PM (vvRUZ)

++++++++++++++++

Bagpipes? That's aisle 7.

Posted by: Orson at October 03, 2026 08:45 PM (dIske)

90 I remember the talking dick and balls. It sounds kind of vulgar but it was done in good taste.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 03, 2026 08:45 PM (wpRMV)

______________________

PHRASING!!!! or.....That's what she said.

Take your pick.

Posted by: Orson at October 03, 2026 08:46 PM (dIske)

91 There are bearded dudes wearing skirts working at my Walmart.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 03, 2026 08:38 PM (vvRUZ)
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Are you in Scotland?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 03, 2026 08:46 PM (RIvkX)

92 Southwest Vagina.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 03, 2026 08:47 PM (vvRUZ)

93 82 Maybe we can get Ace to write a 2500 word review of a 4 minute film.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 03, 2026 08:43 PM (vTZFs)

Of what? "Busty Lesbians: Scissor Hill"?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 03, 2026 08:47 PM (l3cgK)

94 "There was nothing more 80’s than Golan Globus."

I rewatched "Cobra" last week. Much better than I remembered. I tried to label Cobra's style, and came up with 'guido rockabilly.' The two main villains were very well cast.

Posted by: gp at October 03, 2026 08:48 PM (Jr5Lq)

95 I read about the twist in "Digger". I originally wasn't going to see it because it looked like Eurofagulous gaseous bloviating on climate change, but I am now slightly interested in renting it for free from the library in about six months.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 03, 2026 08:48 PM (kpS4V)

96
I have a real love hate relationship with Hammer.

"Brides of Dracula" was the first one I ever saw, and I was glued to the screen.

It and "Godzilla" sold me on horror movies for life.

After that though, so many Hammer movies disappointed me. I think based on the great movie posters they had and trailers which both were generally much better than the movie.

I have the same issue with American International and Roger Corman.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 03, 2026 08:48 PM (YSUhf)

97 I just didn’t find KFM as funny as I remembered.

Part of the problem is that the news media still does the “End of the World: Film at 11” bit fifty years past that skewering. And United Appeal for the Dead’s continued relevance is no longer as funny as it once was precisely because it is still relevant.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 03, 2026 08:49 PM (z9/xM)

98 "I remember the talking dick and balls. It sounds kind of vulgar but it was done in good taste."

Wasn't that "Groove Tube" (1974)? (Lore sez the dick and balls belonged to Chevy Chase.)

Posted by: gp at October 03, 2026 08:49 PM (Jr5Lq)

99 Of what? "Busty Lesbians: Scissor Hill"?

You made it four minutes? Braggart.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 03, 2026 08:50 PM (vTZFs)

100 There's an interesting trailer for a new Johnny Depp film coming out next year:"Day Drinker." It starts out simply enough with Depp playing a trouble making alcoholic layabout but as the trailer gets stranger and stranger you realize the title "Day Drinker" is possibly a double meaning for a vampire that can walk (and perhaps drink blood) in daylight.
Posted by: Max Power

I'll wait to see it on air cable for free in a decade. Probably sooner.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 03, 2026 08:50 PM (6XDXn)

101 Just watched the second season of Chad Powers. Just as good as the first season. Now I have to wait another year for the 3rd and last season.

Posted by: polynikes at October 03, 2026 08:50 PM (KC5Lt)

102 98 "I remember the talking dick and balls. It sounds kind of vulgar but it was done in good taste."

Wasn't that "Groove Tube" (1974)? (Lore sez the dick and balls belonged to Chevy Chase.)

Posted by: gp at October 03, 2026 08:49 PM (Jr5Lq)

So Chevy Chase is dickless and ball-less?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 03, 2026 08:50 PM (l3cgK)

103 62 Old film junkie here as well. I can't explain it, but ever since I was a kid, my favorite film of all time was "The Adventures of Robin Hood (circa 1938.)

Robin Hood has been recreated at least 50 times on screen. This one, IMO, it head and shoulders above them all. For a 1938 offering, that says something about its presentation.

Posted by: Orson at October 03, 2026 08:31 PM (dIske)

That's my favorite Robin Hood movie as well. Still a worthwhile flick, despite (or perhaps because of) all it's of-its-time-isms. The only Robin Hood movies I have watched even close to as many times at the Flynn version is "Men in Tights" (because it's a good parody movie) and Disney's animated "Robin Hood" (which I no doubt watched many, many, many times as a child).

I have old DVD of Robin Hood that included a bunch of the pre-movie shorts and newsreels that appeared before the film in its initial release. That's a bit of a time capsule... One of the shorts (on that movie, or another in the same DVD set) was an orchestral performance that included a solo-ocarina. That caught me off-guard, because I didn't even know what an ocarina was until I played "Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time"...

Posted by: Castle Guy at October 03, 2026 08:51 PM (3v7ra)

104 Chevy Chase was never funny.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 03, 2026 08:51 PM (vvRUZ)

105 Has anybody seen the Korean Monster Alien Invasion movie HOPE it looks really good haven't had a chance to see it, wondered if others have link to the trailer
https://tinyurl.com/ycyrjcwb
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 03, 2026 08:15 PM (ubCxQ)

I saw it and was not a fan.

Temper your expectations and you should do okay.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 03, 2026 08:51 PM (YSUhf)

106 Groove Tube. Yeah, I think that was it. Similar format to Kentucky Fried Movie.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 03, 2026 08:52 PM (wpRMV)

107 Chevy Chase was never funny.

L.A. Story. But that’s because we were laughing at him, not with him.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 03, 2026 08:53 PM (z9/xM)

108 KFC buffet was good.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 03, 2026 08:53 PM (vvRUZ)

109 Chevy Chase was never funny.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 03, 2026 08:51 PM (vvRUZ)

I'll give him Fletch.

Posted by: polynikes at October 03, 2026 08:53 PM (KC5Lt)

110 I just rewatched Mighty Aphrodite this week. Mira Sorvino really steals that film. No other reason to watch it other than her performance.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 03, 2026 08:54 PM (syz1S)

111 “Two things come to mind on that film. 1. First time I saw boobs out front and center in a movie”

Yeah, the shower door scene. Front and center, pressed against the shower door.
I mean, what 12 year old kid didn’t appreciate that?!!? Couldn’t have been rated an R…
And the villain, “Klahn”, with the detachable implements for his prosthetic hand?
Side splitting. At the time…

Posted by: Gunslinger at October 03, 2026 08:55 PM (N91F8)

112 "Mira Sorvino really steals that film."

I don't remember much from Oscars broadcasts, but I'll always remember how her dad cried his eyes out when she won.

Posted by: gp at October 03, 2026 08:58 PM (Jr5Lq)

113 Older movies (big generalization coming up) wanted to entertain the audience. They didn't always do it very well, but they wanted to do it so that the audience wouldn't be too sorry they'd laid down their $$$ and so that they'd still be inclined to lay down some $$$ next Friday when the theater lineup changed.

Too many of the flicks now want to be important instead of entertaining, and too many that want to be entertaining just don't seem to do it as well as the older ones did.

I can think of exceptions and no doubt you guys can think of plenty more. But that's just my impression, and why I haven't gone to many movies in the theater in the last 15 or 20 years while I used to spend a good chunk of every weekend in the theater from the time I was 12. YMMV.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 03, 2026 08:58 PM (q3u5l)

114
I'm currently watching "Handsome Guys" on Roku, which is a Korean remake of "Dale and Tucker VS Evil".

It's pretty funny, they mix a bit of "Evil Dead" into the movie.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 03, 2026 08:58 PM (YSUhf)

115 “Chevy Chase was never funny.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 03, 2026 08:51 PM (vvRUZ)

I'll give him Fletch.”

Yeah, me too in that one. On my list of favorite low-brow comedies. Ultimate smart-ass with more than a few repeatable quotes.

Ryan Reynolds tries this, but fails repeatedly.

Posted by: Gunslinger at October 03, 2026 09:00 PM (N91F8)

116 I have multiple movies from every decade starting in the 30's that I really like. But my top ten list doesn't have anything less than 20!years old.

Posted by: polynikes at October 03, 2026 09:01 PM (KC5Lt)

117 Polynikes…
You must be a little older than 29 unlike the rest of us…

Posted by: Gunslinger at October 03, 2026 09:03 PM (N91F8)

118 Decided to look at a few of the old Universal horror classics that I hadn't watched in eons. Dracula's Daughter ain't too dusty. Started to watch Werewolf of London and was about a minute in when I remembered it was time for the movie thread. But that minute...

Opens on map showing Tibet and slowly zooms in, closes in on a bunch of people dressed for bad cold weather. Full moon. In the background is...I think the place was called Vasquez Rocks but maybe not. It was however the same place where Kirk tried tossing the rocks down at the Gorn. Those people must have been roasting while they shot that scene.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 03, 2026 09:04 PM (q3u5l)

119 I thought Chase was good in National Lampoon Christmas Vacation. Wasn't necessarily a laugh riot, but he played well off of Quaid and the family.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 03, 2026 09:04 PM (sDWtc)

120 Put it on the Underhill bill.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 03, 2026 09:05 PM (6XDXn)

121 The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires, discovered early on that the more attractive the title the crappier the movie.

Movie title; High Noon, El Cid, Tremors, Goldfinger.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 03, 2026 09:05 PM (iLKq8)

122 Fletch was fun, but I think that was due more to the script than Chase. I don't recall all the disguise/novelty teeth stuff in Gregory McDonald's novel.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 03, 2026 09:08 PM (q3u5l)

123 Since it is the season: Best 3 Zombie movies. I'll go first.

1. Train to Busan
2. Sean of the Dead.
3. One Cut of the Dead

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 03, 2026 09:10 PM (f0sNM)

124 115 “Chevy Chase was never funny.
Posted by: Boss Moss
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Always rubbed the wrong way.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 03, 2026 09:10 PM (iLKq8)

125 “ Put it on the Underhill bill.”
There’s one!

“Come on guys, it’s all ball bearings these days!”
“Manure spreader jacknifed on the Santy Any”
“ John Cocktostoyen”

I could go on…

Posted by: Gunslinger at October 03, 2026 09:10 PM (N91F8)

126 112 "Mira Sorvino really steals that film."

I don't remember much from Oscars broadcasts, but I'll always remember how her dad cried his eyes out when she won.
Posted by: gp at October 03, 2026 08:58 PM (Jr5Lq)
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Wasn't Mira Sorvino one of the actresses that got blacklisted courtesy of Harvey Weinstein?

Posted by: Orson at October 03, 2026 09:11 PM (dIske)

127 I liked her in The Replacement Killers with Chow Yun Fat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 03, 2026 09:13 PM (zZu0s)

128
I just rewatched Mighty Aphrodite this week. Mira Sorvino really steals that film. No other reason to watch it other than her performance.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous

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She got an Oscar for that and then never got a great starring role again. Why? Rumor has it that she said No to Harvey Weinstein.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 03, 2026 09:13 PM (mmrXZ)

129 AI sez: "Yes, Mira Sorvino was blacklisted by Harvey Weinstein after she rejected his sexual advances in the 1990s."

Posted by: gp at October 03, 2026 09:13 PM (Jr5Lq)

130 Wasn't Mira Sorvino one of the actresses that got blacklisted courtesy of Harvey Weinstein?
Posted by: Orson at October 03, 2026 09:11 PM (dIske)

Yup. "Hard to work with."

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 03, 2026 09:13 PM (syz1S)

131 Wasn't Mira Sorvino one of the actresses that got blacklisted courtesy of Harvey Weinstein?
Posted by: Orson at October 03, 2026 09:11 PM (dIske)

I think that was the rumor.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 03, 2026 09:13 PM (zZu0s)

132 Actually, I'd have kinda liked to see what Tim Matheson would have done with the lead role in Fletch.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 03, 2026 09:13 PM (q3u5l)

133
Great minds, Orson.

She was also quite good and not much noticed in Quiz Show.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 03, 2026 09:14 PM (mmrXZ)

134 Meanwhile Jennifer Lawrence was accommodating and still does not have a career now. While blowjobs are a talent, evidently they only get you so far.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 03, 2026 09:14 PM (zZu0s)

135 I discovered that I had fallen for Sharon Tate. The movie was The Fearless Vampire Killers. She was a beauty.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 03, 2026 08:27 PM (AdHga)

She is a little hottie in that movie.

That and Rosemary's Baby are the only Polanski movies I've seen, that I can remember anyhow.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 03, 2026 09:15 PM (6ydKt)

136 Since it is the season: Best 3 Zombie movies. I'll go first.

1. Train to Busan
2. Sean of the Dead.
3. One Cut of the Dead
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 03, 2026 09:10 PM (f0sNM)

I'd probably stick Zack Snyder's "Dawn of the Dead" at #3 with OCotD at 4 or 5.

Yes, I know...fast zombies. But that movie takes Romero's DotD strips it down, throws out the lame-ass 60's hippie stuff and turns it into a fast sport car of zombie horror.

BONUS! Use of Cash's "When the Man Comes Around" in the credit sequence is *chef's kiss*

Posted by: naturalfake at October 03, 2026 09:15 PM (YSUhf)

137 Put it on the Underhill bill.”
There’s one!

“Come on guys, it’s all ball bearings these days!”
“Manure spreader jacknifed on the Santy Any”
“ John Cocktostoyen”

I could go on…
Posted by: Gunslinger

"Why don't you two go down to the gym and pump each other."

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 03, 2026 09:16 PM (6XDXn)

138 Actually, I'd have kinda liked to see what Tim Matheson would have done with the lead role in Fletch.

“Irwin Fletcher, private dick, damned glad to meet you.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 03, 2026 09:16 PM (z9/xM)

139 Chinatown is a Polanski film.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 03, 2026 09:17 PM (syz1S)

140 Actually, I'd have kinda liked to see what Tim Matheson would have done with the lead role in Fletch.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 03, 2026 09:13 PM (q3u5l)

eh. Peter Reigert.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wearing a Bill the Cat T-shirt at October 03, 2026 09:17 PM (0aYVJ)

141 BONUS! Use of Cash's "When the Man Comes Around" in the credit sequence is *chef's kiss*
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I like the use of Richard Cheese's cover version of "Down with the Sickness" when the guy is banging the chick

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 03, 2026 09:18 PM (f0sNM)

142 Zombie movies? Haven't watched very many in recent years (didn't see One Cut of the Dead, for instance), but of the ones I've seen, I'm still kinda partial to the original Romero trilogy and Tom Savini's remake of the first one. Train to Busan a very close runner up, as in hate-to-have-to-live-on-the-difference close.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 03, 2026 09:18 PM (q3u5l)

143 Chinatown is a Polanski film.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 03, 2026 09:17 PM (syz1S)

So is "The Tenant" which if you're in the right mood for it is creepy as hell.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 03, 2026 09:18 PM (YSUhf)

144 "Chevy Chase was never funny."

Finally, somebody agrees with me!

Posted by: Will Robinson at October 03, 2026 09:19 PM (dCMJG)

145 Also the wrecking crew (small part) yes she was luminous beauty which margot robbie somewhat conveyed

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 03, 2026 09:19 PM (5NDio)

146 Just watched Lynch's Dune. I saw in the opening credits that Toto did the music. I was trying to figure out what music.

Posted by: polynikes at October 03, 2026 09:20 PM (KC5Lt)

147 The dunaway twist came from the production staff who had a noah cross thing in their family ew

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 03, 2026 09:20 PM (5NDio)

148 Who remembers the old Charlie Chan movies starring Warner Oland? IMO, good fun. Always entertaining and surprisingly funny at times. I liked how they worked Charlie Chan's family into the cases. They were very Americanized young actors, and of Chinese lineage. But, Charlie was old school Chinese on the screen, and a Swedish born actor named Johan Verner Ölund before changing his name to Warner Oland. Not Chinese blood in him, and he didn't use much make-up to present a convincing Chinese character.

Apparently, he was a master at contorting his face to present the appearance.

Posted by: Orson at October 03, 2026 09:21 PM (dIske)

149 Fletch is a fine watch for a funny gumshoe type flick.
The sequel sucks.

I haven't seen the remake that came our a few years ago but people said it was more serious than the original.

I also like the Vacation movies and the two movies Chevy Chase did with Goldie Hawn in the late 70s.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 03, 2026 09:22 PM (6ydKt)

150 And Snyder's DotD remake right behind Train to Busan. And just as close.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 03, 2026 09:22 PM (q3u5l)

151 Way past my bedtime
Have a good night everyone

Chevy wouldn't say unfunny but mediocre

Posted by: Skip at October 03, 2026 09:22 PM (Ia/+0)

152 It didnt sound like toto

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 03, 2026 09:22 PM (5NDio)

153 139 Chinatown is a Polanski film.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 03, 2026 09:17 PM (syz1S)

I've seen three of his movies then.
Didn't even realize that was his.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 03, 2026 09:22 PM (6ydKt)

154 He was the gangster that cut nicolsons nose

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 03, 2026 09:25 PM (5NDio)

155 146 Just watched Lynch's Dune. I saw in the opening credits that Toto did the music. I was trying to figure out what music.

Posted by: polynikes at October 03, 2026 09:20 PM (KC5Lt)

It's not hard to hear Queen in the 80s Flash Gordon.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 03, 2026 09:25 PM (6ydKt)

156 Boyscouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Omega Man ( Heston)

28 Days Later

Posted by: polynikes at October 03, 2026 09:25 PM (KC5Lt)

157 Agree on The Tenant; there are stretches in that flick just about as creepy as his work in Rosemary's Baby.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 03, 2026 09:25 PM (q3u5l)

158

Just watched Lynch's Dune. I saw in the opening credits that Toto did the music. I was trying to figure out what music.

Posted by: polynikes at October 03, 2026 09:20 PM (KC5Lt)

Didn't you hear the song at the climax?

*sings*

I bless the rains
Of the Kwisatz Haderach
...

Posted by: naturalfake at October 03, 2026 09:26 PM (YSUhf)

159 My theory about why old things are often better than new: old thing have been sifted over the years, the bad things forgotten, the good things promoted. Are they making things worse nowadays? Maybe, but probably they made an array of good and bad things then as now, and we simply have had the time to sort out the good from the bad with older things. That’s all.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 03, 2026 09:27 PM (LWsa7)

160
Meanwhile Jennifer Lawrence was accommodating and still does not have a career now. While blowjobs are a talent, evidently they only get you so far.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

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Theory: She entered in the post-movie-star age -- which this is. Too many platforms, too many stars, too many formats, too many genres for any One to shine. In the 1950s, the entire world knew who Jimmy Stewart was. In this era, only the small but passionate gang who watched The Sopranos know who James Gandolfini was -- even though he dominated a series that almost redefined episodic tv.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 03, 2026 09:29 PM (mmrXZ)

161 Flash! ---- AHHyaaHhHH Savior of the universe!

https://youtu.be/hYTYqs-ytSk

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 03, 2026 09:31 PM (6ydKt)

162 Chevy wouldn't say unfunny but mediocre
Posted by: Skip at October 03, 2026 09:22 PM (Ia/+0)

_________________________

I thought he came across pretty funny in "Three Amigos", but it might have just been Martin Short and Steve Martin presenting the opportunities.

Posted by: Orson at October 03, 2026 09:31 PM (dIske)

163 113 Older movies (big generalization coming up) wanted to entertain the audience.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 03, 2026 08:58 PM (q3u5l)

Agree. Older movies (pre 1970) generally were earnest, sincere and respected the audience.

Posted by: Joemarine at October 03, 2026 09:32 PM (y171U)

164
Agree. Older movies (pre 1970) generally were earnest, sincere and respected the audience.

Posted by: Joemarine at October 03, 2026 09:32 PM (y171U)

And the vast majority of the time had a clear moral distinction between right and wrong and hero or villain.

Where as post-code Hollywood decided to muddy the moral waters and introduce the anti-hero. Which wasn't all bad but led us to where we are today.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 03, 2026 09:35 PM (6ydKt)

165 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 03, 2026 09:29 PM (mmrXZ)

I kind of think she's not that great an actress. Does not have that likeable charisma, imo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 03, 2026 09:37 PM (zZu0s)

166 148 Who remembers the old Charlie Chan movies starring Warner Oland? IMO, good fun. Always entertaining and surprisingly funny at times. I liked how they worked Charlie Chan's family into the cases. They were very Americanized young actors, and of Chinese lineage.
Posted by: Orson at October 03, 2026 09:21 PM (dIske)

Yes, and Keye Luke (Master Po on Kung Fu) was also Charlie's Number One Son.

Posted by: Joemarine at October 03, 2026 09:38 PM (y171U)

167 164 And the vast majority of the time had a clear moral distinction between right and wrong and hero or villain.

Where as post-code Hollywood decided to muddy the moral waters and introduce the anti-hero. Which wasn't all bad but led us to where we are today.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 03, 2026 09:35 PM (6ydKt)

Agree 100%

Posted by: Joemarine at October 03, 2026 09:40 PM (y171U)

168 148 Who remembers the old Charlie Chan movies starring Warner Oland? IMO, good fun. Always entertaining and surprisingly funny at times. I liked how they worked Charlie Chan's family into the cases. They were very Americanized young actors, and of Chinese lineage. But, Charlie was old school Chinese on the screen, and a Swedish born actor named Johan Verner Ölund before changing his name to Warner Oland. Not Chinese blood in him, and he didn't use much make-up to present a convincing Chinese character.

Apparently, he was a master at contorting his face to present the appearance.
Posted by: Orson at October 03, 2026 09:21 PM (dIske)

I have a box set of 4 dvds of Warner Oland movies. (Opera, Olympics, Circus, and Race Track) They were enjoyable enough. It's kind of ironic, the usual suspects complain about non-Chinese Oland playing a very stereotypically-Chines Chan, yet Number One Son was played by a Chinese American actor, but was portrayed as complete assimilated; as American as any other character in the movies of the day. You'd think they would appreciate that aspect of the movie, but, no, they focus only on the first item...

Posted by: Castle Guy at October 03, 2026 09:40 PM (3v7ra)

169 For all the cat owners in the house:

How a cat works

https://youtu.be/sZkB11pO9R8

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 03, 2026 09:40 PM (6ydKt)

170 I like a lot of movies made by Keanu Reeves and Matthew McConnaughey but they've been around for over 30 years now.

Posted by: polynikes at October 03, 2026 09:41 PM (KC5Lt)

171 And then there are some of the remakes and movies based on old TV shows. Not only don't they seem to have any respect for the audience, they don't even seem to respect their sources. I skip most of these on general principle, having been burned (3d degree, almost fatal) by the first 30 minutes of the garbage fire that was the Eddie Murphy/Owen Wilson I Spy.

Even the one that's probably the best of the lot, The Fugitive, goes with the tiresome-even-then evil corporation conspiracy plot. Without Tommy Lee Jones & Harrison Ford, and director Andrew Davis who knows how to keep things moving fast, that one could have been a garbage fire too.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 03, 2026 09:42 PM (q3u5l)

172 How a cat works part 2

https://youtu.be/nBwA4JTSro4

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 03, 2026 09:43 PM (6ydKt)

173 "And the vast majority of the time had a clear moral distinction between right and wrong and hero or villain."

I think comparing the original Cape Fear with Scorsese's remake gives a terrific example of the difference.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 03, 2026 09:44 PM (q3u5l)

174 Has the movie Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare been discussed?

We liked it tonight.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 03, 2026 09:46 PM (hzuYO)

175 It was great

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 03, 2026 09:51 PM (5NDio)

176 "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare"

I saw a trailer or outtake. It seemed to me like they were going for campy gay.

Posted by: gp at October 03, 2026 09:52 PM (Jr5Lq)

177 Most of guy ritchies stuff is except king arthur

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 03, 2026 09:52 PM (5NDio)

178 And outta here for the evening.

TJM, thanks for the thread.

Have a good one, gang.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 03, 2026 09:55 PM (q3u5l)

179 Grew up with b/w television until the early-ish 70's. Watched a metric boatload of movies on Chicagoland television without benefit of colour. Johnny Weissmuller ftw!

Posted by: Nazdar at October 03, 2026 09:59 PM (NcvvS)

180 ONT is up!

Posted by: Nazdar at October 03, 2026 10:00 PM (NcvvS)

181 I've mentioned this before. I'm mentioning it again.

Thanks to the Morons who suggested Sheep Detectives. Kept me watching to the end. Silly, fun, touching.

Posted by: mindful webworker - baaa at October 03, 2026 10:01 PM (sVrIn)

182 179 Grew up with b/w television until the early-ish 70's. Watched a metric boatload of movies on Chicagoland television without benefit of colour. Johnny Weissmuller ftw!

Posted by: Nazdar at October 03, 2026 09:59 PM (NcvvS)

I lived so close to the border that I watched old movies on Mexican stations with subtitles in Spanish...
The closer to the end of the movie, the more of the remaining time was taken up by commercials...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 03, 2026 10:01 PM (l3cgK)

183 nood'

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 03, 2026 10:02 PM (iLKq8)

184 176 "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare"

I saw a trailer or outtake. It seemed to me like they were going for campy gay.
Posted by: gp at October 03, 2026 09:52 PM (Jr5Lq)

Not what we expected and based on a true story. Very funny murder scenes of killing Germans.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 03, 2026 10:03 PM (hzuYO)

185 181 I've mentioned this before. I'm mentioning it again.

Thanks to the Morons who suggested Sheep Detectives. Kept me watching to the end. Silly, fun, touching.

Posted by: mindful webworker - baaa at October 03, 2026 10:01 PM (sVrIn)

The trailer looks pretty good.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 03, 2026 10:05 PM (l3cgK)

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