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LawrenceA
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2 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
I'm not sure, the movie is about an insurance investigator (Sam Neill) who is searching for a missing horror story writer whose book drives people crazy. Which still doesn't explain the title, I never saw the movie so maybe that would help explain things.
The movie and the title are an homage to the works of H.P. Lovecraft, whose books/stories included such florid titles as At the Mountains of Madness and The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
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4 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
Ugh whatever happened to a handsome, clean looking hero? I'd rather look at THIS vvv for two hours instead of THAT ^^^
Bilbo Baggins isn't supposed to be a hunk. He's a dopey little gnome who gets thrown into an adventure.
If you need some guys to ogle, Orlando Bloom and Luke Evans show up later on, but the Hobbit movies are generally about gnomes and dwarfs, and casting someone that looks like Errol Flynn in those roles would be silly, although there are a few of the dwarf characters played by guys who are normally considered handsome (Richard Armitage and Aidan Turner for example), outside of their dwarf-character make-up and costumes.
All that being said, while I love the Lord of the Rings movies, I thought the Hobbit movies were far inferior.
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My thoughts on the above list:
Several of them I have listed as being from previous years: Tigers Are Not Afraid, One Cut of the Dead, High Life, etc.
I really liked Tigers Are Not Afraid and Midsommar.
I really disliked One Cut of the Dead, High Life, and Glass.
I thought The Dead Don't Die, Climax, Crawl, Godzilla, In the Tall Grass, Velvet Buzzsaw, and Us were pretty good and worth a see.
I thought Child's Play, Brightburn, and Hellboy were passable.
I'd skip Eli, and Nightmare Cinema.
I haven't seen the others.
I'm surprised by the omission of the highly-praised The Lighthouse and The Lodge. I haven't seen either of them, but look forward to.
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Another year, another questionable "best of" list. Perhaps one or two missed your attention, and now you'll give them a look.
- Tigers Are Not Afraid
- Parasite
- Us
- Midsommar
- One Cut of the Dead
- Velvet Buzzsaw
- High Life
- It: Chapter Two
- Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
- Doctor Sleep
- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
- The Perfection
- Lifechanger
- In the Tall Grass
- Happy Death Day 2 U
- The Hole in the Ground
- The Head Hunter
- Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse
- Bliss
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters
- Boar
- Little Monsters
- Ready or Not
- Harpoon
- Kindred Spirits
- The Wind
- Luz
- Crawl
- All That We Destroy
- Ma
- Climax
- Satanic Panic
- Eli
- Sweetheart
- Depraved
- Culture Shock
- Girl on the Third Floor
- Rabid
- Brightburn
- Darlin'
- Pilgrim
- The Banana Splits Movie
- Child's Play
- Haunt
- Nightmare Cinema
- Pet Sematary
- Glass
- Rattlesnake
- 47 Meters Down: Uncaged
- Hellboy
- Belzebuth
- Fractured
- Annabelle Comes Home
- Escape Room
- The Dead Don't Die
- The Field Guide to Evil
- Thriller
- The Prodigy
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/best-horror-movies-2019
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8 minutes ago, cigarjoe said:
It's a Christmas Action Film, like Reindeer Games, I'm sure there are others
The first Lethal Weapon is set during Christmas.
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I watched Valley of the Dragons in the past year or two. I thought it was pretty awful. It may have been better in 1961 and if I was 11 years old. Co-star Joan Staley passed away two weeks ago at age 79.
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3 hours ago, sagebrush said:
Aw- I really enjoyed YESTERDAY. It was a fun flick to see in an A/C theater on a very hot summer day.
I liked it, too.
However, I agree with the critic that Glass and Serenity were awful.
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1 hour ago, TomJH said:
Again, I never watched Mr. Rogers and I did watch Captain Kangaroo. I have no desire to re-visit any of his shows (actually, that's not quite true- I did look at one for a few minutes on You Tube about a year ago). But I must be honest inasmuch as, nostalgically, I will always keep a small warm spot in the corner of my heart for the Captain. Likewise, of course, the Mr. Rogers generation I'm sure will feel similarly him. But would they feel it enough to spend a few bucks to see Hanks play him in the theatre? I have my doubts.
This movie, as good as it might be (I haven't seen it), seems to be following the bad box-office trend of other recent scripted films based on or at least following hit documentaries on the same subject. The Walk (2015), based on Man on Wire (2008), and Welcome to Marwen (2018), based on Marwencol (2010), both failed at the box office. This new Mr. Rogers movie may not be a direct film version of the very successful and critically acclaimed Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018), but many viewers will find the new film redundant. It used to be generally regarded that most of the paying audience wouldn't likely see a documentary, as even the most successful in that genre had a far smaller paying audience than scripted films. But in the streaming age, documentary viewership has skyrocketed, and they are just as much a part of the zeitgeist conversation as scripted films. Thus the later scripted versions seem pointless.
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Those weren't strange, just bad.
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4 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Christmas in Connecticut DVD $8.99
Miracle on 34th Street DVD $6.69
It's a Wonderful Life DVD $3.96
For roughly $20 you could buy all three and then never have to rely on TV to show them again.
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5 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
I'm curious what type of response you will get here; It is my understanding that when most users here say "I wish TCM would show this film" they have the film on DVD . I.e. it isn't about them wishing to see the film but about the impression that TCM isn't showing "respect" for said film.
You may be right, but I can't say that I'd understand such a sentiment. "Showing respect"? That's just silly. Don't misunderstand, I don't mean that you're silly, but the idea that someone would need to feel validation from a cable channel in regards to a movie they liked and already owned a copy of that they could watch at their leisure. But people have expressed other baffling emotional nonsense, so this wouldn't be the first or only instance. And I've always been a "show me something new" viewer, rather than a "show me the same things over and over again" type viewer.
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March 2020
Bug (1975) March 10
Inseminoid (1981) March 10
Masked and Anonymous (2003) March 10
Universal Horror Collection Vol. 4 March 17
- Night Key (1937)
- Night Monster (1942)
- The Climax (1944)
- House of Horrors (1946)
April Fool's Day (1986) March 24
Frankenstein: The True Story (1973) March 24
The Wizard (1989) March 24
Bones (2001) March 31
Munster, Go Home! (1966) March 31
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Christmas in Connecticut DVD $8.99
Miracle on 34th Street DVD $6.69
It's a Wonderful Life DVD $3.96
For roughly $20 you could buy all three and then never have to rely on TV to show them again.
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46 minutes ago, Bogie56 said:
I have a story about a film where a man was named "Sally." I was working in a cutting room about 1980/81 and we used to get boxes of 35mm release prints of films that we would use as "spacing" in the sound track lay. Most of our prints came from a lab in Montreal and there was lots of soft core porn. So at lunchtime some of us would run the prints on the moviola before putting them on the rack to be cut up as spacing.
I ran a film called "Kid Sally." It was a circus picture and it was God awful. It was directed by Brian de Palma and starred Robert De Niro in the lead as a clown named Kid Sally. Years later I tried to find some reference to this film that probably never saw the light of day because it was so bad but found nothing. And it was a timed release print with full soundtrack that I watched. I now wished that I had kept that film. Anyone know of anything about this film?
Well, De Palma directed several early films with Robert De Niro, including The Wedding Party , Greetings, and Hi, Mom.
De Niro appeared in The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, where the star was Jerry Orbach playing a character named "Kid Sally". James Goldstone was the director.
However, in none of them did De Niro play a clown, as far as I remember. And none are circus pictures. An intriguing mystery, to be sure...
4 hours ago, Gershwin fan said:One thing that initially confused me is that the main characters name was Sally. I had never heard of a man being named Sally before.
Sally was a common nickname for men named Salvatore.
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3 minutes ago, Hibi said:
The Most Posts section is inaccurate. It has me down for 24,000 and something and I have over 27,000. WTH?
I also have a difference of over a thousand.
Maybe the count under our avatars is the total, and the Most Posts section subtracts for deleted posts, or those from threads that were deleted.
1 minute ago, Hibi said:Apparently so! I can't even find the section where I saw that......
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Stand clear of My Activity Streams.
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I don't have the channel anymore, but I'll still indulge in my annual tradition of listing the only films during February that I haven't seen:
- Little Women (1949)
- Lassie Come Home (1943)
- Lady Be Good (1941)
- Cimarron (1960)
- The Princess and the Pirate (1944)
- All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953)
- Back Street (1941)
- None Shall Escape (1944)
- Mister Buddwing (1966)
- The Red Danube (1949)
- The Spanish Main (1945)
- Strike Up the Band (1940)
- The Facts of Life (1960)
- The Merry Widow (1952)
- Rich, Young and Pretty (1951)
- The Chocolate Soldier (1941)
- Vacation from Marriage (1945)
- Experiment Perilous (1944)
- The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
- Too Young to Kiss (1951)
- Kisses for My President (1964)
- The Perils of Pauline (1967)
- Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
- Varsity Show (1937)
- My Wild Irish Rose (1947)
- Green Dolphin Street (1947)
- Music in Manhattan (1944)
- Hot Millions (1968)
- I Want You (1951)
That's about three times more than usual that I haven't seen. However, I'm not really interested in seeing any of those, either.
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Just now, Arsan404 said:
so I think I'm going to wait until The Irishman is released on DVD.
Roma is being released by Criterion next year, and that will be the first Netflix feature on disc, as far as I know. I hope it means more will follow, as there is one or two others I'd like to own on disc, including The Irishman.
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1 minute ago, CinemaInternational said:
So what grade does the film get from you overall? An 8 or a 7?
8/10
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38 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
How would you rank the film compared to others directed by Scorsese?
I know you didn't ask me, but here's my answer anyway. Ranked from favorite to least favorite.
- Taxi Driver (10/10)
- Raging Bull
- Goodfellas
- The King of Comedy
- Mean Streets (9/10)
- Casino
- Silence
- The Age of Innocence (8/10)
- The Departed
- Cape Fear
- Gangs of New York
- The Irishman
- After Hours
- The Aviator
- The Last Temptation of Christ
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- The Color of Money (7/10)
- Kundun
- Shutter Island
- Hugo
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- Who's That Knocking at My Door
- New York, New York (6/10)
- Bringing Out the Dead
- Boxcar Bertha
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51 minutes ago, SansFin said:
What of: Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988)? It does rather stand the story on its head.
Yes, I liked that. In fact, I enjoyed a few versions of the story at one time. But the number of adaptations from film and television (TV movies, mini-series, and standalone episodes or specials, like the Black Adder one you mention) has grown excessive and tiresome, and I've grown to dislike the story.
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1 hour ago, kingrat said:In the real world, money doesn’t change people;
Yeah.
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8 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
So are you confirming that her 'look' in that photo is a result of make-up preparation for her role as a 16th century women?
Yes, she's made up for the role of Queen Elizabeth I.
Your Favorite Role Of These Character Actors/Actresses
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William Bendix - The Blue Dahlia (1946)
Elisha Cook Jr. - The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Howard Da Silva - 1776 (1972)
Ruth Gordon - Harold & Maude (1971)
Beulah Bondi - Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Gladys George - Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936)