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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jun 3, 2020 14:33:31 GMT
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019).
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Post by kijii on Jun 4, 2020 3:56:25 GMT
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Post by kijii on Jun 4, 2020 4:08:31 GMT
Popeye (1980) / Robert Altman The movie is quite boring, but I managed to pulled myself through it. Interesting how Altman was able to bring these cartoon characters to life.
Olive Oyl : Goochy goo. Popeye : None of that baby talk around me son. Me son is gonna be a man infink, not a baby infink. Come to poppa, me little Swee'Pea. You're me little Swee'Pea. Olive Oyl : Swee'Pea? You're bats. Popeye : I found him in Sweethaven, that's why he is me Swee'Pea. I am calling him Swee'Pea and that is his name. Ain't that the truth? Olive Oyl : Swee'Pea is the worst name I've ever heard on a baby. Popeye : Well what do you wants me to call him? Baby Oyl?
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Post by rudeboy on Jun 4, 2020 5:05:12 GMT
What Richard Did (2012) - Brooding Dublin-set film about a golden boy high school rugby star and all round canny lad who, in a drunken moment of rage, commits a thoughtless and terrible act. An early film by Lenny Abrahamson (who later made Room), this starts off slow and only picks up in the second half. Patchily engaging with the best scenes those between Jack Reynor as Richard and Lars Mikkelsen as his dad. Adapted from a novel which was in turn based on a real-life incident from 2000. 5/10
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jun 4, 2020 5:54:36 GMT
Christopher Robin (2018).
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 4, 2020 21:20:33 GMT
Watched The Invisible Man (2020) over the weekend. Nothing to do with Claude Rains other than the title, unfortunately. My full thoughts here; basically I thought it was OK but sure didn’t love it. Last night I watched Mystery House (1938). Don’t ask me why I watched Mystery House (1938). I have no idea. Other than Dick Purcell and Ann Sheridan, most of these people play no role in the story.OK, I guess it’s because the movie’s short and seemed fun and I just wanted to watch something light and not have to think too much. Be careful what y’wish for, I guess. Actually, Mystery House isn’t too bad, it’s just a forgettable little b-whodunit. Except for four things. 1. The set. It’s supposed to be a millionaire’s ski lodge, and it looks pretty great. Had to have been reused from something. I spent half the movie trying to figure out what on earth the inscription above the fireplace means (something about hunting means more than you’ve ever dreamt, which—wha?). 2. The murder method is kinda clever. Too bad it wasn’t used in a Charlie Chan or something. 3. Elspeth Dudgeon—a.ka. the million-year-old grand father in Whale’s The Old Dark House—plays the million-year-old Aunt Lucy, who rains fire and brimstone down on everyone else while accusing them all of murder and expecting everyone to attend to her needs. In other words, she’s wonderful. 4. The detective character is named Lance O’Leary. He’s played by Dick Purcell. I mention the character because he’s the worst detective in the history of fiction. Honestly, I can’t think of anyone worse. Philip Trent picked the wrong culprit, but his deductions were mostly accurate. Deconstructions like Erik Lönnrot (Borges’ “Death and the Compass”) and Jake Gittes were more on-the-ball than this guy! Remarkably, O’Leary jumps to one wrong conclusion after another, finds no clues of any particular value himself (the suspects just kinda helpfully confess), and only catches the correct killer because this person helpfully falls into a trap—based, again, on no detective work. He’s also a wimp: the killer fells him with a single blow and is only caught thanks to the victim’s German shepherd. Whew. Now, it may sound like I didn’t like the movie, but that’s not true: I kept wondering how ridiculous and wrong Lance O’Leary would be. He’s kind of a remarkable character, because I can’t think of a single thing he got right. He says after the fact how he worked it out—but, again, that’s after the fact. Because he does no detective work, also, he doesn’t really do anything for, well, the whole running time of the movie, despite supposedly being the main character. After O’Leary left a room with a literal deathtrap in it and didn’t put any guard on the door, allowing the killer to sneak in at his leisure and rearm the deathtrap, I decided to stop worrying and embrace O’Leary’s stupidity. It made the movie so much more fun.
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Post by stratego on Jun 5, 2020 0:16:06 GMT
Alien (1979)
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Post by kijii on Jun 5, 2020 4:56:58 GMT
Sleepers (1996) / Barry Levinson This a very good movie which I only discovered while watching it here. Barry Levinson masterfully wrote the screenplay and directed the movie based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's controversial book about 4 young boys growing up in Hell's Kitchen (the Lower West Side of Manhattan) in the mid 60s: Lorenzo [narrating the opening of the movie : This is a true story about friendship that runs deeper than blood. This is my story and that of the only three friends in my life that truely mattered. Two of them were killers who never made it past the age of 30. The other's a non-practicing attorney living with the pain of his past - too afraid to let it go, never confronting its horror. I'm the only one who can speak for them, and the children we were....Hell's Kitchen was a place of innocence ruled by corruption.
This is the story about coming of age in a community of corruption; one good priest who serves as a father figure for the boys; the NY state reform school system; and. later, revenge of the system, with the help of the corrupt neighborhood. Fat Mancho is a minor character who acts as sort of a Greek Chorus narrator to further describe the neighborhood: Fat Mancho : The street is the only thing that matters. Court is for uptown people with suits, money, lawyers with three names. If you got cash you can buy court justice. But on the street, justice has no price. She's blind where the judge sits but she's not blind out here. Out here the bitch got eyes.So, where does the title of the movie fit into the overall story? Only once in the movie are these former inmates paradoxically called "Sleepers." The paradox lies in the fact that they never really had a good night's sleep, in peace, since they were always worried that one guard of another would pay them a visit during she night : Lorenzo : A number of the inmates, as tough as they acted during the day, would often cry themself to sleep at night. There were other cries, too. Diffrent from those full with fear and lonelyness. They were low and muffled, the sounds of pain and anguish.Those cries can change the course of a life. They are cries that once heard, can never be erased from the memory. On this one night those cries belonged to my friend John, when guard Ferguson paid him a visit. Fat Mancho : You want a Rolls-Royce, you don't come here, no no. You go to England, or wherever the fuck they make it. If you want champagne, you go see the French. If you need money, you find a Jew. But, if you want dirt, or scum buried under a rock somewhere, or some secret nobody wants anybody to know about, there's only one place to go: right here, Hell's Kitchen. It is the lost and found of shit. They lose it and we find it. Forget about it, man.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jun 5, 2020 9:50:49 GMT
Fantasy Island (2020) - 'Unseen Version'.
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Post by teleadm on Jun 5, 2020 18:03:40 GMT
Another American classic that I had never seen before, A Face in the Crowd 1957, directed by Elia Kazan. This is the absolute opposite of James Stewart's idealistic Jefferson Smith as possible in Mr Smith Goes to Washington. A folksy person that becomes a national power beyond entertainment, but he is a Dr Jekyll when microphones are on, a Mr Hyde when microphones are off. Maybe it's because I'm not that familiar about how politicians are "created" in America, that I wasn't too familiar with the subject that I'm not too sure of what to think of it, though still a good satire of what populism can create, and a well thought out story and well executed by master Kazan. Said to have been based on a real story, but I know a real story that happened in Sweden, though no politics or populism was involved. A very popular gramophone and popular male vocalist of the 1940s sung a sentimental song about a mother going blind, blue violets, old cottage in the woods, the old family home, and once the song was ended, without knowing that the microphone was still on said something like "Well there the old hags and bitches got what they wanted, and old others who believes in those damn shit songs"
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Post by kijii on Jun 5, 2020 19:57:33 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jun 6, 2020 2:27:51 GMT
Mary Poppins Returns (2018).
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Post by kijii on Jun 6, 2020 4:13:36 GMT
Wag the Dog (1997) / Barry Levinson
re-viewed An old movie that is as relevant now as it was satirical then.... Stanley Motss (Dustin Hoffman) : I'm in show business, yes? Why come to me? Conrad 'Connie' Brean (Robert De Niro) : Well I'll tell you why, Mr Motss. '54-40-Or Fight', what does that mean? Stanley Motss : It's a slogan, it's from the, uh... Conrad 'Connie' Brean : 'Remember the Maine'! Stanley Motss : Oh yeah, that's from - that's gotta be from the, uh... Conrad 'Connie' Brean : 'Tippecanoe and Tyler Too'! Stanley Motss : No, that's not, uh... Conrad 'Connie' Brean : They're war slogans, Mr. Motss. We remember the slogans, we can't even remember the fucking wars. You know why? That's show business. That's why we're here. Naked girl covered in Napalm. 'V for Victory'. Five Marines raising the flag, Mt. Suribachi. You remember the picture 50 years from now, you'll have forgotten the war. The Gulf War, smart bomb falling down a chimney. 2500 missions a day, 100 days. ONE video of ONE bomb Mr. Motts, the American people bought that war. War is show business - that's why we're here. Stanley Motss : And what do you for the President?
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Post by Prime etc. on Jun 6, 2020 8:40:12 GMT
COUNTDOWN 1968 - I watched MAROONED in December and expected to see James Caan in it. Now I know why. Got the space movies confused. It's interesting that prior to THE GODFATHER we have Robert Duvall and Caan together but their personalities are reversed. Duvall is more of the aggressive hot head while Caan is the quiet thoughtful one. The depiction of the moon is not quite accurate. Also a bit jarring to see Ted Knight!
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jun 6, 2020 21:44:55 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jun 6, 2020 22:08:19 GMT
Swallows and Amazons (2016).
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Post by spiderwort on Jun 6, 2020 22:13:55 GMT
Another American classic that I had never seen before, A Face in the Crowd 1957, directed by Elia Kazan. This is the absolute opposite of James Stewart's idealistic Jefferson Smith as possible in Mr Smith Goes to Washington. A folksy person that becomes a national power beyond entertainment, but he is a Dr Jekyll when microphones are on, a Mr Hyde when microphones are off. Maybe it's because I'm not that familiar about how politicians are "created" in America, that I wasn't too familiar with the subject that I'm not too sure of what to think of it, though still a good satire of what populism can create, and a well thought out story and well executed by master Kazan.
Glad you got to see this, teleadm. A prescient film, as I've said elsewhere. And for the record, its main character was supposedly based upon Arthur Godfrey, though I've never known exactly why. It was quite the debut for Andy Griffith, but of course director Kazan was known for discovering great talents - Brando, James Dean, Warren Beatty, Lee Remick, Carroll Baker, Jo Van Fleet, and Griffith among others.
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Post by teleadm on Jun 6, 2020 23:34:39 GMT
spiderwortSomewhere in the back of my head, I think I've heard about an Arthur Godfrey incident, that one of his regulars got too popular, a singer named Julius La Rosa had managed to get a recording contract behind Godfrey's back. Once Godfrey found out, and on live TV said something like "that's the last time You ever see him" , though the remark might not have been too harsh it destroyed Godfrey's television persona. Trying to remember were I've read it, or it's maybe something I just heard somewhere Does it ring any bell?
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Post by persistenceofvision on Jun 7, 2020 5:13:18 GMT
J. Edgar (2011). How do you cram 50 years of American history into two hours and make a Hoover biopic without offending anyone? You can't. 6/10
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 7, 2020 5:20:22 GMT
spiderwort Somewhere in the back of my head, I think I've heard about an Arthur Godfrey incident, that one of his regulars got too popular, a singer named Julius La Rosa had managed to get a recording contract behind Godfrey's back. Once Godfrey found out, and on live TV said something like "that's the last time You ever see him" , though the remark might not have been too harsh it destroyed Godfrey's television persona. Trying to remember were I've read it, or it's maybe something I just heard somewhere Does it ring any bell? Sure does ...MomBat was a regular watcher of the Arthur Godfrey Show and until the Julius incident.
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