Meanie220

I saw that they allow people to meet at cemeteries of the famous, almost as if it was a party. Hollywood is weird, weird, weird.

I saw this guy's movie "Playtime" a few years back, and it didn't make a whit of sense to me!!

> {quote:title=Film_Fatale wrote:}{quote} > Arkadin, > As Miss G. said, it's hard to mention some of those films when asked to name just THE best film by Huston. Of course many of us like those movies an awful lot. I just recorded *The Kremlin Letter* yesterday when it showed on FMC. I would also add *The Dead*, *Prizzi's Honor* and *The Red Badge of Courage* but now we'd be naming nearly 10 of Huston's best movies. I didn't intend for anyone to get stumped as far as the phrasing of my question asking for THE best film by John Huston. It was just intended as a "jump-off point"...a way for discussion to be stimulated.

Oh, I'll say *The African Queen* because it's just got this perfect blend of so many elements, among them acting, script, costumes and location. What say you?

This is that boring movie starring Ingrid Bergman isn't it?

Happy birthday, Greta.

"New is always good, but old was the best" That's what I'm talking about!

Man. That movie just feels so...Ann Arbor...I can see many freshpeople in that theatre dosing on acid while watching it. I really can!

Too bad for you. *Nixon* is one of Stone's better efforts; he seems to have a lucky streak when it comes to documenting presidents.....

Is *Aliens* starring Sigourney Weaver a classic? There's a scene toward the beginning where Ripley has coffee with Carter Burke from "the corporation" and I think it's Lieutenant Gorman. I was just thinking about this b/c I feel the first half of Aliens is like, superlative, and the second half barely holds up to it. Anyway, yeah, Ripley tells Burke she won't go back to the planet with the Aliens and everyone has a coffee cup in hand.

The only time "yesteryear's" special effects turn me off is when they're clearly compensating for the lack of technology...for example, in Alien, after the remaining ship's crew beat off the robot and they want to use him to get info out of him. You see them take what's left of his head and smack it down on a surface, so that the filmmakers can put the actor under a table and shoot his living head as if he's been decapitated. It's so obvious what they're doing when you look at that part.

RIP As disturbing as Bernie Mac's death was, to hear this just shocked me. Isaac Hayes is an iconic figure in the soul music world. How dare he die on us? I wonder if they found out anything about the cause of this great man's death.

RIP. He was such an original! I can think of the part in Ocean's Eleven when he and Matt Damon run some game on Andy Garcia about Mac's character being an ex-con, and LAUGH every time. It makes me think that Mac was probably a comic genius. I'll miss him.

I'm with spysmasher..... Message was edited by: Meanie220

I expect great things from the screenwriter, Diablo Cody. The director seems to feel that Juno will be his "ceiling" as far as his movies go, though.

Did anyone else find this film to be uncharacteristic of director Howard Hawks? I was surprised by it.

I know I frankly love this programming. I learn a lot from when they do it every summer, and also I tend to *adore* the music that they use when they advertise the SUtS programming. I do hope they use that same music again this summer, as it brings back many fond memories for me. Dang, that's how much TCM has become a part of my life in 3 years. Amazing!

So am I the only one who appreciated this movie??

Where I paid to see it, two blacks got into a fight and practically ruined the audience's viewing of the movie. I even saw a family of whites get up and leave the theater. Anyway, about the movie, the superhero spoof part was vastly superior to the mythological part, and the comedy went down to nothing. This makes the film feel rather uneven. I wasn't even disappointed about the stupid blacks affecting the film's climactic moment. I'm not in any hurry to see it again. Message was edited by: Meanie220

I often wonder what are the criteria (no pun intended) for what the station shows in the Imports slot...the choices seem kind of weird to me most of the time...and clench my fists in anger over their decision to show these movies on Sunday night! GRRRR...I have to be at my job on Monday mornings.....

I'll have to add that to my list of DVDs "to get," based on your comments. By the way, hi there, I'm somewhat new to the boards. Contempt is a favorite of mine by Godard......

I'm a Big Woody Allen fan and have been since I took a class about his films in college. My brother says he "absolutely cannot and WILL NOT watch a Woody Allen film." Your feeling about Allen reminds me of my brother - it seems that Allen's persona is so central to his movies that if you don't like the man, you'll loathe his films. My brother has an ego too, but ... really, I don't think Allen is very egocentric. He was just smart enough to put himself dead center in his movies because there was no other way to get the job done. He's too nebbishy to play second fiddle to anyone else. Anyway, Allen has efforts that don't come off so "Allen-ish." "Interiors" doesn't have Allen at its center doing his comedy thing (he's not in it at all). It's a serious drama that pays homage to Allen's idol, Ingmar Bergman. And there's his more recent effort, "Match Point," another drama without Allen in it. I'm just saying all this to say there are movies in Allen's oeuvre that you may like, even if you're not crazy about *the man*. Message was edited by: Meanie220 Message was edited by: Meanie220

Yes yes, this is a movie for those who are romantic at heart. Which I am...it was definitely like a new dimension for me that Coppola explored love and romance here. He really made you feel Dracula's longing for this woman, whom Winona Ryder's character physically resembled. To me, the love/romance dimension just gave the Dracula movie a totally different nuance that made it fresh and enjoyable. Also, the movie has its share of grisly moments that make it money for us gore and special effects hounds. The funniest of these moments to me were: 1.) When Keanu Reeves is in captivity with Dracula and Dracula lowers a crying, naked baby into a circle of hungry vampiresses to be consumed. NOOOO!!! Dracula titters. 2.) Drac catches up with Renfield (I think that's his name) played like Tom Waits and magically raises his body up in the air, then slams it into steel bars, killing him. I watch this movie whenever I can.

Isn't White Dog about this canine that's owned by a racist bigot, and it's trained to attack black people? I remember when it originally came out. I think the special effects are rather gory in this...shudder. Don't know if I'm up to it.

Maybe it's just me but the special effects for this film were uniquely gross. Something about the flesh of the made-up characters had this weird, moist quality. It's kind of hard to describe, but that was the most unnerving part of the whole film for me. Their pink, glistening flesh. Weird movie.