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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 23, 2021 6:27:48 GMT
GODZILLA'S REVENGE 1969 -- Not as bad as I remembered--compared to a Gamera from 1970 I watched recently, this is much better to revisit. It's silly and sometimes the kids are annoying but not that much.
THE LAND THAT TIMER FORGOT 1975 -- Such a classic. Well-made, good script and characters for this sort of thing. Some of the dinosaurs look a little uninspired due to them being hand puppets but many of the other FX and miniatures are pretty good--the use of rear projection especially when the dinosaur attacks the U-boat.
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 24, 2021 6:29:53 GMT
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 1996 - I never watched the tv show -- I didnt know the Phelps character was from the show. I still think Cruise overacts too much--he gets kind of spazzy. I also think that the spfx while still impressive, the chunnel sequence--it marks the shift from real stunts to complete fakery--it looks neat seeing them flying behind the train but it's truly impossible right--Cruise would be knocked off the train in no time. I noticed in the credits it said Hairstylist for Ms. Beart and Make Up artist for Ms. Beart--her hair definitely looked good in the train scene.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Apr 24, 2021 11:38:35 GMT
"Wrestling Ernest Hemingway" starring Richard Harris, Robert Duvall, Sandra Bullock, Piper Laurie and Shirley MacLaine, a poignant film abut 2 old men who share a brief but meaningful relationship. One is an old Cuban barber (Duvall) the other an old sea captain (Harris).
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Apr 25, 2021 2:15:20 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 25, 2021 7:54:59 GMT
MOONRAKER - 1979 I don't think it is as bad as its reputation. I haven't watch it in a long time. It is silly and comical but I was amused. That aerial stunt is amazing.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Apr 25, 2021 11:58:31 GMT
MOONRAKER - 1979 I don't think it is as bad as its reputation. I haven't watch it in a long time. It is silly and comical but I was amused. That aerial stunt is amazing. Yeah, a long, long shot away of "deserving" the title of being the "worst" Bond movie, as so many seems to have labeled it, over the years. Always thought it were one of the more underrated, of the Roger Moore era. I wrote a bit of the fantastic soundtrack, a few weeks/month ago, in another thread/section: While the film Moonraker (1979) might never end up as one of the more critical acclaimed Bond titles, it has always been a favorite of mine. Sure, sweet childhood memories of watching it as kid, back in the early 90s, probably has a thing or two, to do with that. But the more I browse through and look up all these clips and videos of either scenes from the film itself, or some of John Barry's outstanding work, I am always taken back at how great that movie sounded and how big impact the score really had on me. Some of the tunes, even the very short one, comes with so much nostalgia and is really powerful stuff, gives me the chills at times, and where a few of my favorites from Moonraker and Barry surely is: Flight Into SpaceCorrine Put DownI only wished the Corrine put down cut, had gotten a bit longer. As this underrated little John Barry theme, is heavily used in what is probably among some of the darkest and most nightmarish, yet visually stunning scenes, of the Roger Moore Bond era. Looked like it belonged in a horror movie, but then again, so did Jaws, specially the scene where he makes short use of an unlucky victim in the Egypt pyramids at night time.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Apr 25, 2021 12:25:18 GMT
"Night of the Hunter" starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish. This movie scared the shyte out of me when I was a kid - more than any monster movie. One of the top film noir.
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 25, 2021 17:00:15 GMT
The Barry music is really good--I remember that music for years even though I hadn't heard it recently.
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 25, 2021 17:32:40 GMT
The scene with Jaws in the carnival mask is rather creepy--when he is coming down the alley.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Apr 25, 2021 22:30:51 GMT
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Post by persistenceofvision on Apr 25, 2021 23:15:52 GMT
BRAIN CANDY (1996) Strange, sour feature-length black comedy from the team of Canadian comics whose TV show The Kids in the Hall I dimly remember watching a few times in the '90s, an assault on the antidepressant industry about a wonderdrug clearly inspired by Prozac. Some bits are laugh-out-loud funny, some are satirical in quite an intelligent way, and some are offensive just for the sake of it.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Apr 26, 2021 7:00:19 GMT
The scene with Jaws in the carnival mask is rather creepy--when he is coming down the alley. Sure was. I mean, for all the comedic and silly/goofy scenes in those films, (not saying that means they were any bad) there were also, some truly creepy and (for a kid, watching them for the first time) quite scary as well. And the Jaws scenes, the Kairo Pyramid at night time, the carnival clown scene, and of course the rather dark and grusome ending, to the sweet and innocent Corrine, in Moonraker, all felt like they came straight out of a horror movie, specially the last one, which were so beautifully and hauntingly shot, where the music of John Barry were the icing on the cake.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Apr 26, 2021 13:42:02 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 27, 2021 5:55:32 GMT
THE LAST RUN 1971 -- George C Scott is a former driver for criminal enterprises who after the death of his son and the infidelity of his wife--decides to take one last job just to see if he can still do it. I had seen it before--forgot much of it--while watching again--there's not a lot of tense moments despite it involving crime and murder. Actually come to think of it, for a post-Hayes code movie--there's no nudity in it. I am not even sure about swearing. I would say despite the cast, the characters are not sympathetic enough for one to really care what happens to them. It has the expected good performances and competent writing and direction and other elements of such a movie, it just doesn't resonate beyond the running time. I would be curious to know if a movie like this was paired with another movie in its showings and what else would have been included in terms of story and outcome. I have seen a few movies of this era which seems similar--there was one with Marlon Brando and Richard Boone--I am reminded of that film when watching this. So many films of this era had the same kind of fatalistic sensibility.
This film has an interesting history--John Huston originally was directing it and Scott wanted to emulate a Bogart role--which is how it feels at times. Another interesting aspect--his soon to be ex-wife appears in the film as well as his soon to be new wife!
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Post by teleadm on Apr 27, 2021 18:04:40 GMT
Catlow 1971 a western comedy/parody directed by Sam Wanamaker based on a novel by Louis L'Amour and starring Yul Brynner, Richard Crenna, Leonard Nimoy, Daliah Lavi, Jo Ann Pflug, Jeff Corey and others. It's incredibly fast-past but also have a very incoherent rambling plot that isn't very linear and is often hard to follow, as if scenes are missing. Some characters disappear for extended periods before unexpectedly reappearing, and there's little continuity between scenes. Yet everybody seems to be in such an incredibly good mood, it nearly affects the viewer, to forget all it's faults and short-comings and just enjoy a very bumpy ride. Even old star of the silent movies, Bessie Love, pops up as a not so nice old lady.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Apr 28, 2021 22:11:23 GMT
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Apr 28, 2021 22:28:15 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 29, 2021 5:59:05 GMT
Ah the bennies!
I think Death in Small Doses is pretty good as a noirish kind of story.
FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE 1978 -Saw this at a drive-in. This film came out at a time when they could really emphasize the movie connections of the cast: Robert Shaw of Jaws, Carl Weathers of Rocky, Harrison Ford of Star Wars, Barbara Bach (and Richard Kiel) of The Spy Who Lived Me...plus Franco Nero and Edward Fox. I think Ford gives one of his most self-assured performances--compared to the Star Wars or Indiana Jones films.
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Post by teleadm on Apr 29, 2021 17:59:44 GMT
Hell's Island 1955 directed by Phil Karlson. A kind of noir movie but made in color instead, with a plot that feels familiar. As if they took a little from here and there. Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack (John Payne) is hired for $5000 by wheelchair bound Barzland (Francis L. Sullivan) to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend (Mary Murphy). Offcourse nothing goes smoothly, Cormack soon finds himself in trouble, and his ex-girlfriend might turn out to be a very calculating femme fatal. Payne is actually rather charming, tough but not without humor. Sullivan plays a Sidney Greenstreet kind of shady character. Without being anything remarkable, it entertained for it's 85 minutes.
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 30, 2021 5:37:26 GMT
A DOLLAR BETWEEN THE TEETH aka THE STRANGER IN TOWN 1967 -- A collection of vignettes lifted from A Fistful of Dollars--re-arranged with no real point other than to go through the motions of repeating the Eastwood film, except being much lamer in result. Most of the cast are veterans of the genre, i.e. Frank Wolff has the "Ramon" part. The biggest problem with it is DOA lead Tony Anthony who one reviewer described as Rocky, if starring Frank Stallone. Ebert said he walked more like "a hairdresser than a gunslinger." Usually I can compliment the score but this one sounds like a repetitive electric guitar solo accompanied by Bubo the owl hooting every few seconds. There's also a sadistic Sue Lloyd doppelganger with a Vidal Sassoon hairstyle who likes to torture the hero. This is the worst spaghetti western I have seen. And the scary thing is that this the first of a trilogy.
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