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FREAKY FRIDAY (1976)
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TAXI DRIVER
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1 hour ago, TopBilled said:
Not a fan of Costner as Ness? Or just not a fan of Costner in general?
Not a fan of him at all....period.
The only exception to the rule would be A PERFECT WORLD....I thought he was better than usual in that. Other than that one movie he's unbearable to me.
I can watch ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES, but only because of Alan Rickman's wicked performance as the Sheriff of Nottingham. Costner could never hope to hop into Errol Flynn's shoes, much less fill them.
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CLOCKERS
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1 hour ago, CinemaInternational said:
Doctor Sleep (2019)-- Otherwise known as the sequel to 1980's famed horror film The Shining. -- 8/10
Doctor Sleep faces a task that is hard for any film to face. It has to face the fact it is a sequel to one of the best known and best regarded horror films in screen history, The Shining (1980). Like the earlier film, this too is drawn from a book by Stephen King, and it too makes changes from the book it is based on (I kind of feel after reading the difference that one part of the book's ending would have a better idea than one element of the movie's ending, but that's a small quibble).
So how does it hold up? Well, Doctor Sleep is a very solid, very creepy and disturbing film, a superior horror film... even if it link to the earlier film seems somewhat tenuous (in spite of Ewan McGregor playing a grown up Danny Torrence and a prologue which recreates the look of one famous scene) until the final act of the film returns us to the notorious Overlook Hotel.
It is sort of interesting in a way as a semiotic experiment to see how film content has changed since 1980. This film is much gorier than the original film, but then again that can be somewhat expected. The Shining was very much a film in a tight, claustrophobic atmosphere in spite of the vast size of the hotel. That was a virtue as the tension kept rising, and by the end it was going at full steam. The film was taut, elegant, refined, and very effective. Doctor Sleep on the other hand is earthier, more rough and ready, and much more diffuse in its storyline.
That diffuse quality is probably the one thing that makes this not quite as good as the earlier film. It takes a little over an hour into this two and a half hour film for two of the three main characters to actually interact on screen, having given us so much backstory. The backstory helps us to understand how Danny has reconstructed his life from rock bottom, how the teenage Abra (Kyliegh Curran) has a very strong sense of the shining, and how disturbing Rose (Rebecca Ferguson) and her pack of vampiric, soul-sucking, child-killing reprobates are. But it also feels like all of this could have been slightly tightened as well. And a sadistic scene where the immortals bump off one of their prey really goes on too long, even though it is of critical importance to all in the film that comes after it.
But after that, the film hits its stride building as it goes, back to the places nightmares are made of. Even before this though, the film benefits from good acting all around, especially from McGregor and Curran (Kudos too to the casting director for finding somebody who emulates the late Scatman Crothers perfectly, and for the hairraising spectacle of seeing Henry Thomas look like a ringer for 1980 Jack Nicholson) and a general air of being carefully well-made.
is this a classic like the earlier film, no, but for what is is, its still a good journey into the macabre and a fine example of its genre.
I've been dying to see this movie, I've always liked Ewan McGregor and it would be interesting to compare it to Kubrick's film.
I didn't read the book DOCTOR SLEEP though, so maybe I should read that first then see the movie.
Hard to imagine the little boy Elliot as a dead ringer substitute for Jack Nicholson.....but then I've hardly seen a lot of Henry Thomas in any of his adult roles. I'll have to see it to believe it.
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32 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Saturday July 4, 2020
Let freedom ring...it's Independence Day on TCM
1776 with Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard & William Daniels
Great film, very suitable for the Fourth of July.
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QUIZ SHOW
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1776 is a good movie and I agree it's not shown often enough. But it does feel fitting that it should be shown on the Fourth of July.
And I agree it does boast fine performances from the main leads (William Daniels in particular, who always seems to me to be vastly underrated).
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SCHINDLER'S LIST
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Natasha Richardson
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Lynn Redgrave
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Bill Owen
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Richard Todd
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15 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Have you seen these classic films:
1161.
1162.
1163.
1164.
1165.
1166.
1167.
1168.
1169.
1170.
Seen just about all of these.
1161, 1163, 1167, 1168 and 1170 are the best of the bunch in these.
1169 I never cared very much for. The rest I can watch once in a while.
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Thorley Waters
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MISTER ROBERTS
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Burt Young
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Perry Lopez
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Dick Foran
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Sonny Tufts
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I love BRAVEHEART, TITANIC and FARGO (but I respect your right, Lorna, to dislike them), but I loathe SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE and THE ENGLISH PATIENT with a passion and AMERICAN BEAUTY left me cold.
I'll acknowledge that BEAUTY is well acted but not the sort of movie I'd want to watch over and over again.
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30 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Friday July 3, 2020
John Ford westerns on TCM
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE with Henry Fonda
THE SEARCHERS with John Wayne
STAGECOACH with Claire Trevor
Love all these movies, especially THE SEARCHERS.
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE would be a very close 2nd.
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Steve Cochran
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1 minute ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
I'm surprised I overlooked this team of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, they made so many films together. Cushing usually the force of good and Lee the evil. My favorite is Horror Of Dracula (1958). Lee as the evil Dracula and Cushing the stake pounding Van Helsing.
I can't believe I overlooked this pairing either, as I have several of their films they did together on DVD.
My favorite of their on-screen teamings is HORROR OF DRACULA as well. They were such good friends in real life too.
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