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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Jun 20, 2020 16:24:41 GMT
House of 1,000 Corpses - Rob Zombie
Classic 'we turned down the wrong road' flick and are in the wrong part of town - 4 out of towners are in for a night of horror
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 20, 2020 16:33:32 GMT
"Timecop" (1994), with Jean-Claude Van Damme. Waste of time even for this big fan of time travel stories.
I just finished 36 Quai des OrfΓ¨vres (2004). It stars GΓ©rard Depardieu & Daniel Auteuil. I think I really enjoyed this film Given that you know French I assume you must be watching more French movies than people of English speaking countries? Have you seen Clouzotβs original? I have it in a box set and watched it a few years ago. Didnβt like it nearly as much as Le Corbeau or Diaboliques. EDIT: oops, itβs not a remake at all. Totally different plot. Clouzotβs film was just called Quai des Orfevres. Sorry!
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Post by Aj_June on Jun 20, 2020 17:32:43 GMT
I just finished 36 Quai des OrfΓ¨vres (2004). It stars GΓ©rard Depardieu & Daniel Auteuil. I think I really enjoyed this film Given that you know French I assume you must be watching more French movies than people of English speaking countries? Have you seen Clouzotβs original? I have it in a box set and watched it a few years ago. Didnβt like it nearly as much as Le Corbeau or Diaboliques. EDIT: oops, itβs not a remake at all. Totally different plot. Clouzotβs film was just called Quai des Orfevres. Sorry! Is there one by Clouzot? This seemed a very modern day movie. It was an excellent film by all means. I will be searching for more of modern day French crime movies.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 20, 2020 19:24:33 GMT
Have you seen Clouzotβs original? I have it in a box set and watched it a few years ago. Didnβt like it nearly as much as Le Corbeau or Diaboliques. EDIT: oops, itβs not a remake at all. Totally different plot. Clouzotβs film was just called Quai des Orfevres. Sorry! Is there one by Clouzot? This seemed a very modern day movie. It was an excellent film by all means. I will be searching for more of modern day French crime movies. www.imdb.com/title/tt0039739/referenceAs per my edit theyβre totally different plots.
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Jun 20, 2020 19:48:03 GMT
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jun 20, 2020 22:45:01 GMT
"Timecop" (1994), with Jean-Claude Van Damme. Waste of time even for this big fan of time travel stories.
I just finished 36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004). It stars Gérard Depardieu & Daniel Auteuil. I think I really enjoyed this film Given that you know French I assume you must be watching more French movies than people of English speaking countries? I am pretty sure I watch more French movies than ten average English-speaking film-goers put together. Under normal circumstances I go to the movies very often, and since I live in Montreal I do get a chance to see all the main releases from France (and the French-language Canadian ones as well).
This one however, I missed, even though it features two big stars of French cinema.
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Post by Aj_June on Jun 21, 2020 4:37:50 GMT
Is there one by Clouzot? This seemed a very modern day movie. It was an excellent film by all means. I will be searching for more of modern day French crime movies. www.imdb.com/title/tt0039739/referenceAs per my edit theyβre totally different plots. We are having solar eclipse over here right now. I wonder if there's a movie on that.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 21, 2020 8:12:35 GMT
We are having solar eclipse over here right now. I wonder if there's a movie on that. I watched a move called LβEclisse a few weeks ago. Nothing to do with eclipses though! Pretty good film by Antonioni. was it a total one where you were?
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Jun 21, 2020 15:36:16 GMT
NatGeo Wild - Wild Sri Lanka - Monkey in the Clouds
'Sri Lanka's forests rise above the rest of the country and are home to unique species'
Whales so close to the Sri Lanka shore - Sri Lanka is commonly known as the 'Teardrop of India' - did you know this folks?
Fascinating stuff.
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Post by Aj_June on Jun 21, 2020 16:47:38 GMT
We are having solar eclipse over here right now. I wonder if there's a movie on that. I watched a move called LβEclisse a few weeks ago. Nothing to do with eclipses though! Pretty good film by Antonioni. was it a total one where you were? 77% eclipse for us. But many Indian cities had a full one.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 21, 2020 16:53:36 GMT
I watched a move called LβEclisse a few weeks ago. Nothing to do with eclipses though! Pretty good film by Antonioni. was it a total one where you were? 77% eclipse for us. But many Indian cities had a full one. Cool. Did it get noticeably darker?
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Post by Aj_June on Jun 21, 2020 16:56:17 GMT
77% eclipse for us. But many Indian cities had a full one. Cool. Did it get noticeably darker? It did but we had dark clouds too so it was also attributable partly to clouds. I tried to watch memento today which many people I appreciate had spoken very highly about. I failed to like it. Didn't even see further than 50 mins.
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Post by Winston Wolfe on Jun 21, 2020 17:03:02 GMT
In honor of Ian Holm, rewatched Alien last night.
Been binging South Park. Got rid of Comedy Central a few months ago and now I found out itβs leaving Hulu on Tuesday, so watching as much as I can.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 21, 2020 17:06:35 GMT
Cool. Did it get noticeably darker? It did but we had dark clouds too so it was also attributable partly to clouds. I tried to watch memento today which many people I appreciate had spoken very highly about. I failed to like it. Didn't even see further than 50 mins. Yeah, I didnβt enjoy Memento either.
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Post by Rufus-T on Jun 21, 2020 18:21:08 GMT
I caved in and watched "Tiger King". I don't think it needed 7 episodes to tell the story, but it was an entertaining freak show. Joe Exotic is some character. I sense there will be a follow-up season.
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Jun 22, 2020 0:20:58 GMT
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 22, 2020 0:26:23 GMT
Watched a nice little film noir, The City that Never Sleeps (1953) last night. Third viewing I think.
Set in Chicago (no, not NYC!) it stars Gig Young as a fed up cop who is thinking of jacking everything in and moving to California with his stripper mistress, Mala Powers.
Nice performance by William Talman as the villain of the piece. He also played the hateful hitch-hiker in the film The Hitch-Hiker which also came out in 1953.
Best of all though is the great location work in some seedy parts of Chicago, including a chase scene on the βLβ.
Bill Murray movie St. Vincent that came out a few years ago. Murray plays a curmudgeonly neighbour who finds himself babysitting a young boy. Murray is the same as always .. the guy has zero range but he knows how to play these types of parts. The actor who plays the young kid is excellent. First half of the film is much stronger and funnier than the second. Basically peters out into schmaltz.
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Post by tristramshandy on Jun 22, 2020 2:57:23 GMT
Cool. Did it get noticeably darker? It did but we had dark clouds too so it was also attributable partly to clouds. I tried to watch memento today which many people I appreciate had spoken very highly about. I failed to like it. Didn't even see further than 50 mins. Blasphemy!
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Jun 22, 2020 2:59:04 GMT
Watched a nice little film noir, The City that Never Sleeps (1953) last night. Third viewing I think. Set in Chicago (no, not NYC!) it stars Gig Young as a fed up cop who is thinking of jacking everything in and moving to California with his stripper mistress, Mala Powers. Nice performance by William Talman as the villain of the piece. He also played the hateful hitch-hiker in the film The Hitch-Hiker which also came out in 1953. Best of all though is the great location work in some seedy parts of Chicago, including a chase scene on the βLβ. Bill Murray movie St. Vincent that came out a few years ago. Murray plays a curmudgeonly neighbour who finds himself babysitting a young boy. Murray is the same as always .. the guy has zero range but he knows how to play these types of parts. The actor who plays the young kid is excellent. First half of the film is much stronger and funnier than the second. Basically peters out into schmaltz. irn bru?
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Jun 22, 2020 13:02:29 GMT
I had a mostly disappointing viewing weekend. I rewatched Clear and Present Danger for the first time in at least 20 years, and I have to say it hasn't aged well. Poor direction, inconsistent writing and the performances left a lot to be desired. Everyone other than Dafoe felt like they were reading cue cards, including Ford. Wooden performances all around except for the villains. The guy playing the Escobar stand-in was really going for it, and the prick deputy director of the CIA went so over the top he set a world record. He was in his own straight to video B movie. Still a fun flick, but not half as clever as I thought it was in my younger days. I don't say this about many Harrison Ford films, but I could go for a remake.
Next, I finally got around to watching Contagion the other night. Maybe I would've appreciated it before the pandemic, but I didn't like this flick. One of my biggest pet peeves in movies is when a character (for the sake of exposition) explains something to another character who would clearly be aware of this information. It often happens in scenes involving technology, but in this case it was epidemiology. You could have Matt Damon's character (or create another character to follow through the chaos, the film only has a runtime of 1:46) put into situations where doctors would have to explain how a virus spreads or how it affects its host etc., without having employees of the CDC explaining it to state health officials or even their own superiors! Just lazy writing.
The film introduces a kind of worst case scenario for a pandemic and scatters a few scenes throughout, but never explores them. For example, Matt Damon and his daughter visit a looted grocery store but end up leaving without anything after being confronted by a sick woman. Later he's in line where the military is handing out MREs but again a riot breaks out before he can get his hands on anything. So... what did they eat? The movie never explains this, he simply toughs it out for months at home with his daughter. A violent break in occurs across the street from his house at one point, but apparently the looters ended their reign of terror there, because he never had to deal with it. (Though comically, he investigated the next day, took a shotgun from the house, and proceeded to leave it right inside the glass back door of his home-- where it would surely be the first thing taken by the crooks who would almost certainly use that door to gain entrance.) What's more, garbage is piling up in the streets, and banks and stores are looted and burned at will for months at a time as if the nation's entire infrastructure has collapsed... but the nightly news is broadcast as usual, and nobody loses electricity and are driving their cars with unlimited fuel. Again, this is actually the kind of movie that could've had a 2:15 runtime to explore these elements of chaos, they just chose not to.
Contagion lacked focus. The race to find a vaccine was fast tracked, Lawrence Fishburne's ethical quandary is glossed over, and I'll be honest, I'm not sure I understood the Jude Law subplot. Was he lying to his viewers about being sick? What was his endgame? Marion Cotillard apparently had Stockholm Syndrome at the end, but that plot line was never resolved, either. It's a shame because this movie actually asks some interesting questions (though ironically I think the most interesting stuff is the Damon wraparound story which has less to do with a pandemic and more to do with how shitty it would feel to find out after their death that your significant other was cheating on you), but doesn't spend enough time with any of these concepts. I know it's an expansive topic but I can't stress enough the film is well under two hours long. Surely more time could've been devoted to these ideas.
The good news is I ended up watching Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade for the millionth time on Saturday night. You can't not enjoy an OT Indy movie. Though I will say the sheer volume of slapstick in TLC caught my attention this time. I think the increasing cynicism of audiences would've led to much more criticism had the identical film come out 10 years later than it did. Anyway, you know you love a movie when you've seen it countless times and you still laugh out loud at the humor. The Last Crusade is the antithesis of the previously mentioned films in this post. It knows exactly what it wants to be and executes it to perfection.
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