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Post by kijii on Apr 24, 2023 17:43:49 GMT
David Copperfield /George Cuckor (1935)
While no movie or TV series can possibly capture the complete richness of Dickens' wonderful novel, this movie captures the major characters' wonderfully.---Mr. Dick (Lennox Pawle), Mr Heep (Roland Young), and Micawber (W.C. Fields) set character standards that have never been bested.
The plot of the movie was changed to meet the major conclusions from the novel.
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Post by london777 on Apr 24, 2023 18:00:56 GMT
Firecreek / Vincent McEveety (1968) James Stewart, as a small town peaceful farmer "Sheriff," is forced to facedown a group of outlaws led by Henry Fonda. This later western drama is pretty good and with a great cast too. Fonda as a baddy again, as in Once Upon a Time in the West dir: Sergio Leone and released the same year. I wonder which was released first, and whether Fonda made a conscious decision to switch to the dark side that year? Perhaps he got out of bed on the wrong side on Jan 1st? In which other movies did Fonda play the villain? Not many, I would think. I guess James Stewart never did. I don't count surly or grumpy as being a villain, despite what my ex-wives say about me.
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Post by gspdude on Apr 26, 2023 16:46:22 GMT
Playing God(1997) David Duchovny plays a surgeon stripped of his medical license for operating under the influence. He goes to work for psychopathic criminal Timothy Hutton and becomes attracted to Hutton's GF Angelina Jolie (who wouldn't be?). Trouble ensues and mayhem abounds. With a chaotic, almost comedic, climax. 6/10.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Apr 26, 2023 21:26:47 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Apr 29, 2023 18:18:29 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 30, 2023 6:30:24 GMT
RED SONJA 1985 - Been a fan of this since I caught it one lazy afternoon. I can't remember if I ever saw it on VHS. The production design is so good in this. The costumes and the ruins of strange monuments and a weird dragon bridge. It won me over when I saw the dragon bridge. The score is also memorable. It is a well-written film (one of the writers did the Flashman books). The cast does about as good a job as they can, between the newcomer in the title role and Sandahl Bergman - the evil queen of the story (her American voice seems out of sync with her underlings like Ronald Lacey but she has the dancer skills for the sword fight at the end). The sword fighting is really good in this--Brigitte Nielsen was given proper training to make it convincing--I couldn't tell who was doubling for her in the somersault bits. And Arnie does what I think is the closet match to REH Conan as Kalidor (for some reason they could not use the Conan name). The other two films burdened him with a string of sidekicks but here it is only a kid who I did not find irritating.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on May 1, 2023 7:01:00 GMT
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Post by brandomarlon2003 on May 2, 2023 3:18:52 GMT
Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
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Post by Prime etc. on May 2, 2023 5:46:03 GMT
SCORPIO 1973 - One of those "government hitman who wants out but can't" kind of stories that seemed to be run off an assembly line back then. Other than various cat and kitten closeups there isn't much to make this memorable. I must have seen it a couple of times and forgot most of it (other than the cats). One thing I noticed though is that the music for this is often very similar to the music from the Kolchak telelvision series and no surprise to learn Jerry Fielding was the composer. Another curio is that JD Cannon is a CIA agent who works for a man named McCloud. Premiered 50 years ago last month--it came out the same day as Soylent Green. I probably would have watched that if I had been keeping track of my premiere schedule.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on May 2, 2023 21:47:28 GMT
Forbidden Empire (2014)
Awful movie 1.5/10
Its very rare i will give a movie such a low ratings.
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Post by london777 on May 2, 2023 22:25:39 GMT
Forbidden Empire (2014) Awful movie 1.5/10 Its very rare i will give a movie such a low ratings. Highest grossing Russian movie of 2014. Do you not have confidence in Russian values?
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Post by Prime etc. on May 3, 2023 5:26:55 GMT
A THUNDER OF DRUMS 1961 - First time I saw this I was distracted by the implausibility of George Hamilton beating Charles Bronson in a fight. However, it wasn't as ridiculous as I had remembered it to be. As a cavalry in an outpost yarn it is ok. Typical stock melodramatics made palatable by Richard Boone as the crusty captain of the command post. The sequences with them searching for the victims of the hostiles and then setting up a decoy scheme to lure them into attack generates some decent suspense for what is likely a standard 60s studio western before the revisionist approach took over.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on May 3, 2023 6:54:20 GMT
Forbidden Empire (2014) Awful movie 1.5/10 Its very rare i will give a movie such a low ratings. Highest grossing Russian movie of 2014. Do you not have confidence in Russian values? I have seen good Russian movies, but this was not one of them.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on May 3, 2023 21:34:22 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on May 4, 2023 5:39:06 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on May 4, 2023 5:39:48 GMT
SOYLENT GREEN 1973 - A movie that has aged well which is not a good thing in this case because it suggests some of the dire predictions came true. During the opening montage we see people walking around in surgical masks. Two points for that right off the bat. On the tech front, Heston uses a cordless phone and there's an arcade video game. The sequence of going home with Edward G Robinson is very effective-especially with Heston seeing the footage of Nature and being moved by the fact that he had never known any of it. Released 50 years and two weeks ago.
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Post by Prime etc. on May 6, 2023 6:58:28 GMT
JACK THE GIANT SLAYER 2013 -- One I wish I could like better but it makes a lot of bad decisions. The big one is the use of motion capture cgi when the giants are so anonymous and human-like. They could have easily done it with make up and slowed the footage down for a lumbering effect and it would have looked more serious and real. Next problem--the casting. Other than Ewan McGregor who gets to be the Obi Wan Kenobi he could not be in the prequels, the cast is bland. Stanley Tucci seems to be doing an Alan Rickman character but he's no Alan Rickman.
The lead is not an actor I dislike but he's kind of wimpy and not convincing as a farmer's son. And the princess---you get the impression she is going to be a confident adult based on her intro but she ends up so underwritten and mild. I prefer the 1960s version. Another thing that is hard to take with modern movies besides bad writing and weak acting voices is the rapid editing. An average shot is 2 seconds.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on May 6, 2023 23:19:12 GMT
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Post by Feologild Oakes on May 7, 2023 9:03:39 GMT
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Post by louise on May 9, 2023 16:06:17 GMT
Always A Bride (1953). Peggy Cummins and her father Ronald Squire pose as a newlywed couple at hotels on the French Riviera in order to con guests into giving them money. Then Peggy meets Terence Morgan, an investigator for the British Treasury whose job is to spy on British guests to make sure they are not exceeding their currency restrictions. Quite an amusing comedy.
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