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Even thought it is respected, it still qualifies, IMHO, as an underrated movie. Hardly a bad scene.
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Even thought it is respected, it still qualifies, IMHO, as an underrated movie. Hardly a bad scene.
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Mad Max : Fury Road
Terrible.
Terrible.
Oh, my mistake. I thought you were talking about the Tarantino one with Christoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Samuel L Jackson. Let's just say it involves a lot of humor Quentin Tarantino's over the top gore humor (including a scene where Tarantino blows himself up with dynamite). Ever see Inglorious Bastards, from 2009? Same guy. I'm not sure exactly if it's a direct remake, but it was very well done. It's also very very similar, apparently, as I mistook it for the remake.
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I watched Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows on the laptop.
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That's a great little flick that should be much better known! I saw it back in its original run and have fond memories of it.
Last night I watched another silent film - Laugh Clown Laugh - an excellent melodrama with Lon Chaney and (14-year-old) Loretta Young. The thing that's surprising about Chaney if you only know him from his monster roles is how much he underplays in less-exotic parts. His style is much subtler and more naturalistic than most twenties actors, conveying tremendous feeling in small gestures and expressions.
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In the middle of It Happened One Night. I've never seen it.
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Crimson Peake and the second Avengers movie.
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" The Peanuts Movie”
My all-time favorite hero !
I wonder if Lucy has a sister in Maine ?
My all-time favorite hero !
I wonder if Lucy has a sister in Maine ?
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" The Peanuts Movie”
My all-time favorite hero !
Best Peanut character / best cartoon dog - as I kid (and adult), I loved his out-there imagination and, when he let's himself go, his sheer joy for life - it's infectious. And the Red Barron is his best persona.
Crimson Peake and the second Avengers movie.
Touchofevil, did you enjoy Crimson Peake? It's on my list of movies I want to watch.
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I just started "The Children" from the late 70s. I know all the stores have Christmas full-stop, but my brain is still on Hallowe'en and I'm doing horror movies this week. Sunday afternoon might be a horror-thon while I do my weekly cooking/sewing/laundry-thon (the true horror, haha).
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I found it terrible, predictable, full of plot holes and thoroughly unconvincing.... Didn't last a week here...
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Charade on TCM.
The greatest pilot of all times!" The Peanuts Movie”
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It was visually more entertaining than was the story. I expected much more from Guillermo del Toro, but felt the horror, the story, and its believability to be lacking. I was okay with watching it. I just hoped for more.
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I am a HUGE Snoopy collector, so it was hard to choose between SPECTRE and the Peanuts Movie since they both premiered today, but I chose Bond because it's kind of my tradition to go to Bond movies on the night they open.
So, yes. SPECTRE is terrific. I have to see it a few more times before I really make up my mind about it, but so far, I'd say Skyfall and Casino Royale are slightly better, though not by much.
So, yes. SPECTRE is terrific. I have to see it a few more times before I really make up my mind about it, but so far, I'd say Skyfall and Casino Royale are slightly better, though not by much.
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"Earth vs. the Flying Saucers"
For mid-'50s Sci-fi camp this one pushes most of the buttons. A good looking young couple - he's a brilliant scientist, she's his adoring wife (it's the '50s and that's the stereotype) - are at the vanguard of the defense of earth. The aliens who want to conquer earth have flying saucers that spin (while making a gyroscopic sort of sound), shoot a kinda juiced-up flame and aren't impacted by conventional weapons. The aliens from the ship that land are kinda clunky and - outside of their force field - can be killed by conventional weapons, but they - like their ship - have a souped-up flame throwing capability.
Things look bleak, the special effects look cool for their time / cheesy by today's standards, and (spoiler alert if you have never, ever seen one of these type of movies) earth is saved by, in this case, some sort of ray gun that our brilliant young scientist invented in the 56 day warning period the aliens were kind enough to give earth before their attempted conquest.
The only thing the movie lacked - the reason it's just camp and a by-the-numbers '50s Sci-fi - is something extra in the story, either a more complex relationship between the aliens and earth or a more three-dimensional response form some on earth to its pending doom - something that breaks the simple good-vs.-evil comic book story and brings a more nuanced philosophical aspect to the narrative. Fun for its predictable camp - but misses at being anything more.
For mid-'50s Sci-fi camp this one pushes most of the buttons. A good looking young couple - he's a brilliant scientist, she's his adoring wife (it's the '50s and that's the stereotype) - are at the vanguard of the defense of earth. The aliens who want to conquer earth have flying saucers that spin (while making a gyroscopic sort of sound), shoot a kinda juiced-up flame and aren't impacted by conventional weapons. The aliens from the ship that land are kinda clunky and - outside of their force field - can be killed by conventional weapons, but they - like their ship - have a souped-up flame throwing capability.
Things look bleak, the special effects look cool for their time / cheesy by today's standards, and (spoiler alert if you have never, ever seen one of these type of movies) earth is saved by, in this case, some sort of ray gun that our brilliant young scientist invented in the 56 day warning period the aliens were kind enough to give earth before their attempted conquest.
The only thing the movie lacked - the reason it's just camp and a by-the-numbers '50s Sci-fi - is something extra in the story, either a more complex relationship between the aliens and earth or a more three-dimensional response form some on earth to its pending doom - something that breaks the simple good-vs.-evil comic book story and brings a more nuanced philosophical aspect to the narrative. Fun for its predictable camp - but misses at being anything more.
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