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I watched "River of No Return" today starring Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe. The scenery was really great but overall it was just okay in my opinion.
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
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Frankie Lamb
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Last chance to see old Havana
Just got through watching the Alec Guinness film, "Our Man in Havana."
Aside from the usual treat of watching the great Sir Alec do his stuff, and seeing Ernie Kovacs in one of his rare serious roles, you have a chance to see the actual city of Havana just three months after Castro got his hooks in it.
The screenplay was written by Graham Green, who also authored the novel of the same name. Maureen O'hara did a credible job, albeit an odd choice of casting, and Burl Ives even managed not to ruin the film by playing an German expatriate with a southern accent! That's southern as in U.S.A., not southern Deutcheland.
Makes me wish I'd gone to Havana when I had the chance, before that boring buffoon took over. Oh well, it's a coulda, woulda, shoulda world I guess.
Frankie L.
Just got through watching the Alec Guinness film, "Our Man in Havana."
Aside from the usual treat of watching the great Sir Alec do his stuff, and seeing Ernie Kovacs in one of his rare serious roles, you have a chance to see the actual city of Havana just three months after Castro got his hooks in it.
The screenplay was written by Graham Green, who also authored the novel of the same name. Maureen O'hara did a credible job, albeit an odd choice of casting, and Burl Ives even managed not to ruin the film by playing an German expatriate with a southern accent! That's southern as in U.S.A., not southern Deutcheland.
Makes me wish I'd gone to Havana when I had the chance, before that boring buffoon took over. Oh well, it's a coulda, woulda, shoulda world I guess.
Frankie L.
BinkieBaumont
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"Bullshot Crummond"
"Not a typo! Bullshot Cummomd is a send up of "Bulldog Drummond" made in the 1980's this delightful picture is full of daring do, and cunning stunts, against a back drop of tweeds, and quaint English charm.
After finding a Bulldog Drummond novel in an antique bookstore in London, England, which she used as her inspiration, Diz White (who also plays Daphne) conceived a theater spoof entitled BULLSHOT CRUMMOND that she co-wrote, and in which she starred in New York, London and Los Angeles. the talking picture was made in 1983 .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bChO--5w8DE&feature=related
"Not a typo! Bullshot Cummomd is a send up of "Bulldog Drummond" made in the 1980's this delightful picture is full of daring do, and cunning stunts, against a back drop of tweeds, and quaint English charm.
After finding a Bulldog Drummond novel in an antique bookstore in London, England, which she used as her inspiration, Diz White (who also plays Daphne) conceived a theater spoof entitled BULLSHOT CRUMMOND that she co-wrote, and in which she starred in New York, London and Los Angeles. the talking picture was made in 1983 .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bChO--5w8DE&feature=related
Feraud
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Saw Fail-Safe for the first time. An excellent film. The similarities to Kubrick's masterpiece of dark humor Dr. Strangelove slightly distracted me from this film. However, the directing and acting in Fail-Safe make this a very watchable film. What an ending...
funneman
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Asphalt Jungle 1950
Saw this one for the very first time last week on TCM.
I really, really liked this movie. It has it all.
Gangsters, crooked cops, a jewel heist AND Marilyn Monroe.
Hubba, hubba.
I seem to really be drawn to the early fifties films:
The Killing, Dragnet, etc.
I think it's because a lot of those cars, buildings, and styles
were still around when I was young. When I was five those cars
were only eleven years old! lol
Saw this one for the very first time last week on TCM.
I really, really liked this movie. It has it all.
Gangsters, crooked cops, a jewel heist AND Marilyn Monroe.
Hubba, hubba.
I seem to really be drawn to the early fifties films:
The Killing, Dragnet, etc.
I think it's because a lot of those cars, buildings, and styles
were still around when I was young. When I was five those cars
were only eleven years old! lol
Dixie_Amazon
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Ninja Cheerleaders. 
It was really bad, but I did enjoy watching George Takei's overacting as the girls sensei.
It was really bad, but I did enjoy watching George Takei's overacting as the girls sensei.
chanteuseCarey
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finally watched "The Best Years of our Lives". Such a good film!!
AmateisGal
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My daughter and I went to go see Up today. What a wonderful movie. Loved it!
MisterCairo
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Jack R. said:
All hail Mr. Cairo.
And Gutman, too, of course.....
Hondo
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Warden said:
Like wise Harry, enjoyed not just the story but the clothes and Amy Adams
Truly a Fedora Lounge film 
Feraud
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The Hangover is hilarious!
Shirin
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I just watched "The Wife and the Secretary" with Myrna Loy and Jean Harlow. I had never seen it before but I really liked it. I especially liked the final quote by James Stewart, he says " Don't go looking for trouble where there isn't any, because if you don't find you'll make it."
I thought that was a very intelligent line and a great ending.
I thought that was a very intelligent line and a great ending.
Havana Joe
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AUSTRALIA
I just saw Australia and I loved it! Great film! Lots of romance, good action, humor, and beautifully shot. It made me cry a couple of times! And I love the little kid, Nala!
I just saw Australia and I loved it! Great film! Lots of romance, good action, humor, and beautifully shot. It made me cry a couple of times! And I love the little kid, Nala!
Ethan Bentley
One Too Many
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In The Loop (again)
Slumdog Millionaire
The International
Total Recall
Last Chance Harvey
Slumdog Millionaire
The International
Total Recall
Last Chance Harvey
bloodandmood
New in Town
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Today I watched:
La Strada (1954) - First time I've seen this one, a real downer, but a beautiful film none the less. 9.5/10
and
The Brother From Another Planet (1984) - I really liked this one, a strange social commentary science-fiction film. 8/10
La Strada (1954) - First time I've seen this one, a real downer, but a beautiful film none the less. 9.5/10
and
The Brother From Another Planet (1984) - I really liked this one, a strange social commentary science-fiction film. 8/10
Wally_Hood
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Paths of Glory
Watched Paths of Glory, dvr’d from MGM HD. Looks amazing in HD. Having seen it numerous times on tv and in a revival house, I am always drawn into the story and Kubrick’s direction. His prowling, swirling, tracking camera is never showy, never drawing attention to itself. The long tracking shot of General Mireau (George MacCready) pausing periodically to ask French soldiers “Are you ready to kill more Germans?” is virtually seamless. The meeting between General Broulard (Adolf Menjou, at the top of his game, in complete control of his character) and Mireau, when Broulard woos Mireau into commanding a foregone disastrous attack, is filled with the two actors almost in a dance, pacing around furniture, pausing, then moving ahead, all the while with the camera peeking over shoulders, almost eavesdropping. Unimaginably fluid choreography.
The most memorable performance is that of Ralph Meeker, who just two years before was a semi-psychopathic Mike Hammer in the shockingly brutal Kiss Me Deadly. Here he is completely different as Corporal Phillipe Paris, a fully human being in a fully inhuman war. He is almost unrecognizable with goatee, and a firmly fixed gaze.
This is one of my all time favorites; I never fail to choke up at the closing. If you haven’t seen it, try to catch it if you can.
Watched Paths of Glory, dvr’d from MGM HD. Looks amazing in HD. Having seen it numerous times on tv and in a revival house, I am always drawn into the story and Kubrick’s direction. His prowling, swirling, tracking camera is never showy, never drawing attention to itself. The long tracking shot of General Mireau (George MacCready) pausing periodically to ask French soldiers “Are you ready to kill more Germans?” is virtually seamless. The meeting between General Broulard (Adolf Menjou, at the top of his game, in complete control of his character) and Mireau, when Broulard woos Mireau into commanding a foregone disastrous attack, is filled with the two actors almost in a dance, pacing around furniture, pausing, then moving ahead, all the while with the camera peeking over shoulders, almost eavesdropping. Unimaginably fluid choreography.
The most memorable performance is that of Ralph Meeker, who just two years before was a semi-psychopathic Mike Hammer in the shockingly brutal Kiss Me Deadly. Here he is completely different as Corporal Phillipe Paris, a fully human being in a fully inhuman war. He is almost unrecognizable with goatee, and a firmly fixed gaze.
This is one of my all time favorites; I never fail to choke up at the closing. If you haven’t seen it, try to catch it if you can.
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