What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

• Jul 28, 2013

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DeeDub

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Double feature, playing at a DVD player near me

I treated myself to a twofer:

The Last Detail (1973) It came out about the time I enlisted and I saw it then. There was a lot about it I could identify with then. Still is.

Avalon (1990) When Avalon was in theaters, I hadn't heard anything about it. One day I decided to take some time off from work and go to a weekday matinee. My plan was to see a movie I knew nothing about so I could watch it with no expectations. I walked into a nearby theater and it was playing Avalon. I thought it might be about Catalina Island. Far from it, and I was pleasantly surprised. I think I enjoyed it even more this time.

 

• Jul 28, 2013

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I also added "The Birds" to my Hitchcock run last night. I think that was a mistake.

 

• Jul 28, 2013

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McMurdo

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Miller's Crossing was just on. I've not seen it in years.

 

• Jul 28, 2013

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McMurdo said:

Miller's Crossing was just on. I've not seen it in years.

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A good flick. It has been a few since I last saw it as well.

 

• Jul 28, 2013

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Stir crazy on right now, nothin better than prior and wilder together.

 

• Jul 28, 2013

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DeeDub

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I just watched Fat Man and Little Boy with Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, John Cusack, and Laura Dern. Very intense. Now I need a rest. How about a mindless sitcom?

 

• Jul 28, 2013

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Just finished watching 'The Green Mile' for the first time.
Wow..what a movie.

 

• Jul 28, 2013

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HoosierDaddy said:

Just finished watching 'The Green Mile' for the first time.
Wow..what a movie.

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It was very entertaining and well done; almost as good as the book.

 

• Jul 28, 2013

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wsc said:

Stir crazy on right now, nothin better than prior and wilder together.

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Wilder said that Prior could be a real pain to work with because of the drugs. When he was clean he was fine but when he was on drugs......

 

• Jul 28, 2013

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I really do think they were funnier together though

 

• Jul 28, 2013

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wsc said:

I really do think they were funnier together though

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Maybe but it just wasn't meant to be. If he wasn't a Dopehead then they would have been together again for Blazing Saddles. I think Little and Wilder were pretty funny there though.

 

• Jul 28, 2013

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I think prior worked on the script Mel brooks said he wrote most of the mongo gags

 

• Jul 28, 2013

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wsc said:

I think prior worked on the script Mel brooks said he wrote most of the mongo gags

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He did work on the script until one day they expected him in and he called hours later. He was some place in the mid-west and didn't know how he got there. That was it. He was going to star in the film as well and he got canned from the lead by the film studio execs who said he was unreliable. Gene Wilder got the gig when Gig Young got sick and eventually died. So you had a replacement lead cast.

 

• Jul 29, 2013

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MissNathalieVintage

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Turbo
Snails, Snails, and more Snails.

 

• Jul 29, 2013

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Gregg Axley

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DOA (1950).
I've seen it before, but it's still worth a second viewing. :eusa_clap

 

• Jul 29, 2013

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jamespowers said:

He did work on the script until one day they expected him in and he called hours later. He was some place in the mid-west and didn't know how he got there. That was it. He was going to star in the film as well and he got canned from the lead by the film studio execs who said he was unreliable...

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It's more accurate to say that Mel Brooks wanted Pryor to star in Blazing Saddles, but the studio execs said no because of Pryor's controversial stand-up routines and unreliability; Pryor was never officially signed to play Bart. Pryor actually created the character Mongo, and wrote all of the dialogue for the character including the line, "Mongo only pawn in game of life."

 

• Jul 29, 2013

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Pacific Rim, just want you expect and want out of it: big, dumb, robot vs. monster smashing fun! Just like a live action anime or updated Godzilla/Ultraman show.
Also did I mention there is a cute Rinko Kikuchi who kicks ass in it? If you grew up on Godzilla movies,* what more could you want in a film "Big-O, Action!"

* When in second grade we had to write a paper about what you wanted to be when you grew up I wrote my paper on wanting to be the guy in the Godzilla outfit who got to destroy cities and beat up other monsters...

 

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• Jul 29, 2013

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Zlaté dno (1942)

 

• Jul 29, 2013

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Zombie_61 said:

It's more accurate to say that Mel Brooks wanted Pryor to star in Blazing Saddles, but the studio execs said no because of Pryor's controversial stand-up routines and unreliability; Pryor was never officially signed to play Bart. Pryor actually created the character Mongo, and wrote all of the dialogue for the character including the line, "Mongo only pawn in game of life."

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This is true. Mel Brooks kept him on as a writer as long as he could.

 

• Jul 30, 2013

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HoosierDaddy said:

Just finished watching 'The Green Mile' for the first time.
Wow..what a movie.

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I've seen it half a dozen times. A good movie