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When it comes to "strange", Moon isn't even in the running; I've seen some truly strange movies. :twitch:
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
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Finally saw "Grand Budapest Hotel," which begins a three-week run on our screen this Friday.
Wes Anderson is Wes Anderson, but something has got to be done about his gratuitous scenes of animal abuse. Yeah, yeah, I know it's cartoony and high-concept and all that crap, but I've had enough of it. Shooting the dog with an arrow in "Moonrise Kingdom" was bad enough, but throwing a cat out the window is over the line. If we were showing it on film, I'd be sorely tempted to have an "accident" with that particular sequence that would make it necessary for me to cut it out of the print.
Wes Anderson is Wes Anderson, but something has got to be done about his gratuitous scenes of animal abuse. Yeah, yeah, I know it's cartoony and high-concept and all that crap, but I've had enough of it. Shooting the dog with an arrow in "Moonrise Kingdom" was bad enough, but throwing a cat out the window is over the line. If we were showing it on film, I'd be sorely tempted to have an "accident" with that particular sequence that would make it necessary for me to cut it out of the print.
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Saw "Railway Man" (with Colin Firth) this Saturday last. Very well done movie dealing with wartime experiences, survival, and forgiveness. The torture scenes were quite disturbing- especially those dealing with waterboarding the protagonist prisoner of war during interrogation. But that was the reality in building the Death Railway between Thailand and Burma.
I couldn't help but compare the film with "Bridge on the River Kwai" which deals with the same historical events. I enjoyed Alec Guinness and Sessue Hayakawa in that film, but it really downplayed the conditions of the POWs. I think that a movie like "Railway Man" that was so graphic could not have been made at that time when so many who had suffered through that horrible and costly war were still trying to rebuild their lives. Just my hypothesis, of course.
I couldn't help but compare the film with "Bridge on the River Kwai" which deals with the same historical events. I enjoyed Alec Guinness and Sessue Hayakawa in that film, but it really downplayed the conditions of the POWs. I think that a movie like "Railway Man" that was so graphic could not have been made at that time when so many who had suffered through that horrible and costly war were still trying to rebuild their lives. Just my hypothesis, of course.
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I have not yet seen Grand Budapest Hotel but am disappointed to read this. For a guy who tries to present himself as a higher-brow-than-thou director he has taken the lowest common denominator more than once to make a mostly pointless cinematic point.
In thinking about it, in The Royal Tenenbaums the family dog gets run over by Owen Wilson. In the Life Aquatic there is a three legged dog left by pirates that Jeff Goldblum whacks with a rolled up magazine. None of these scenes do anything to further the storyline other than to show "how quirky" Anderson's characters are. It's all beginning to come off as less quirky than a bad reflection on Anderson.
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Got into a Jimmy Stewart run tonite.. The Stratton Story & also The Glenn Miller Story.
Very interesting movies, I guess it never dawned on me what happened to Glenn Miller. Course, preferred the suit shots more than the uniforms. 8)
Very interesting movies, I guess it never dawned on me what happened to Glenn Miller. Course, preferred the suit shots more than the uniforms. 8)
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Either this is A. a quote from Yogi Berra, B. an inadvertent jumbling of opposites to great effect, or C. the remark of one clever gent!
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The Reluctant Dragon (1941) starring Robert Benchley, and a mixture of Disney staff and Hollywood actors. Bob visits the Disney studios to pitch a book to Walt, and spends most of the picture giving us a tour of how cartoons are made. We see Goofy showing us how to ride a horse, and the titular dragon, but the most interesting thing was to see Alan Ladd play a cartoonist explaining a storyboard. If I'm not mistaken we can see John Dehner pretending to be an animator.
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Believe it or not, John Dehner actually *was* an animator, or at least an in-betweener, for a few years in the early forties before turning to radio. He was a man of many talents.
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I never knew that. Thanks for the insight.
That means that possibly Dehner was not from Central Casting but a Disney staffer who was playing a Disney staffer.
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Didn't want to start a new thread, but I thought Loungers might get a laugh out of this.
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^ That's an unusual but surprisingly accurate synopsis of the movie, with one exception--Dorothy didn't have a chance to meet the Wicked Witch of the East before the house landed on her, so she didn't kill "the first person she meets". 
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"Island of Terror" - I saw this Hammer Horror as a kid. It gave me nightmares for weeks and wasn't able to each chicken soup for years afterwards. Anybody's that seen the flick knows what I mean...
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Finally watched GRAVITY this weekend. Entertaining story and fantastic SFX, as was expected. But kinda like watching OPEN WATER set in space.
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