Last Movie You Watched

[SonicMan46]

Two new blu-ray releases and arrivals in the last few days - two films from my boyhood:

Mighty Joe Young (1949) w/ Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, & Robert Armstrong; 'stop action' specials by Ray Harryhausen - excellent restoration (see rating below - Source).

Them! (1954) w/ James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, & James Arnes - loved those '50s monster movies - yes, 'cheesy' specials typical of the times but quite enjoyable to a youngster from that era! (also restored well - see rating - Source).  Dave

 

[NikF]

Two new blu-ray releases and arrivals in the last few days - two films from my boyhood:

Mighty Joe Young (1949) w/ Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, & Robert Armstrong; 'stop action' specials by Ray Harryhausen - excellent restoration (see rating below - Source).

Them! (1954) w/ James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, & James Arnes - loved those '50s monster movies - yes, 'cheesy' specials typical of the times but quite enjoyable to a youngster from that era! (also restored well - see rating - Source).  Dave

 

Good stuff. 

[lisa needs braces]

Your thoughts?

Here is Ebert's very outraged review of the film:

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/revolver-2007

[lisa needs braces]

The Hateful 8 Trailer 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_UI1GzaWv0

I prefer the 90s Tarantino but I will make sure to catch this in theaters. It might be 3 hours long.

Even though I feel that "Kill Bill" and "Inglorious Basterds" aren't films that work well cohesively, I found myself over the years endlessly revisiting sequences from them on youtube, something I rarely do with other films.

Speaking of Tarantino, he got denounced in Congress this past week because of his politicking against police violence.   

And now some police organization is threatening him:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/05/the-police-s-war-on-quentin-tarantino.html

[listener]

YATTERMAN    Japan 2009    dir. Takashi
I can't raise enough interest to research this.  It looks like it might be a concatenation of three episodes of a tv series based on a kids SF/Fantasy manga.   It's hard to get involved with comic
book characters, the pacing is at the mercy of displaying the colorful and imaginative sets, sort of DR.T gone wild.  It is not the usual Miike style.  If you are predisposed to this sort of thing and can stand teen-aged angst you'll definitely be impressed by the visuals.   The 38 minute 'Making Of...' looks like the better part for me although it has no English subtitles.  I take the liberty of two caps to give you the some of the flavour of the film.

[Brian]

I prefer the 90s Tarantino but I will make sure to catch this in theaters. It might be 3 hours long.

In fact, it IS three hours long - one version is 176m, another 182.

I haven't really liked a Tarantino movie since Kill Bill, and Django was my least favorite of all, but this one looks like the kind of premise Tarantino should knock out of the park.

[Karl Henning]

I haven't really liked a Tarantino movie since Kill Bill, and Django was my least favorite of all [....]

Viz. Django, why?  I haven't watched all that many Tarantino movies, and we share an enjoyment of Kill Bill . . . I wasn't mad for Django, but I don't remember thinking all that poorly of it . . . .

[Artem]

I'm the same. It's very much a Tarantino movie. I caught it on TV and thought it was fine.

[Bogey]

First one is top shelf.  The next two are very good.  The fourth one is "meh".

[Karl Henning]

An old friend (who, as it turns out, will be visiting Boston this spring) took me to see The Enforcer when it was in the cinemas.

[Bogey]

I have to also say that the bluray mastering is absolutely stunning to see in the first movie.  Especially the daytime shots. 

[listener]

a few bits from a defective Blu-Ray of Sasha Baron Cohen's BRÜNO, worst film since IT'S PAT!  It was on a markdown overstock clearance table, not worth getting a replacement.
THE JADE-FACED ASSASSIN  HK 1970   - A lady-warrior raises the son of the swordsman who scorned her, but arranges to have his sister raised her sworn enemy, hoping to have the unknowing twins kill each other in a death duel.  All rhis over and done in a tight 100 minutes.
Lily Ho, Kao Yuen, Pan Yin-tzu, Chang Pei-shan and Essie Liu Chia with Fan Mei-Sheng.  Directed by Yen Chuan

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Saw 007 Spectre a week ago. It was ok. They completely ruined one character, though. The opening scene was extremely well filmed.

[Bogey]

I have this edition on my wish-list, the transfers are the same, but it includes The Dead Pool  ..

Just spend the $15 and get the first four Harry movies and not the $89 to net a movie that one really does not need on the shelf IMO, James.  However, if you are a completest on your Dirty Harry collection, I get it.  But for an extra $70 I would take a pass unless it plummeted in price.

[Bogey]

You can get this complete set of films for 22 dollars (or less in the marketplace).

Much more reasonable.

[SonicMan46]

 

First one is top shelf.  The next two are very good.  The fourth one is "meh".

Hey Bill - enjoy the earlier Dirty Harry films, too - I went w/ the two-pack above and agree w/ the blu-ray restorations.  Dave

[SonicMan46]

Best of Enemies (2015) - documentary on the Buckley-Vidal 1968 debates - streamed last night from Amazon in SD and watched w/ Susan; we both enjoyed - 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (source of quote below) - the video quality was quite poor, as expected - cannot imagine that the blu-ray disc could clean it up much, but would be curious?  Dave

In the summer of 1968, television news changed forever. Dead last in the ratings, ABC hired two towering public intellectuals to debate each other during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. William F. Buckley, Jr. was a leading light of the new conservative movement. A Democrat and cousin to Jackie Onassis, Gore Vidal was a leftist novelist and polemicist. Armed with deep-seated distrust and enmity, Vidal and Buckley believed each other's political ideologies were dangerous for America. Like rounds in a heavyweight battle, they pummeled out policy and personal insult-cementing their opposing political positions. Their explosive exchanges devolved into vitriolic name-calling. It was unlike anything TV had ever broadcast, and all the more shocking because it was live and unscripted. Viewers were riveted. ABC News' ratings skyrocketed. And a new era in public discourse was born - a highbrow blood sport that marked the dawn of pundit television as we know it today.

[Karl Henning]

Went back to watch Lost in La Mancha, both a wonderful documentary, and yet, painful to watch a Gilliam project suffer the death of a thousand misfortunes.

[Todd]

Best of Enemies (2015) - documentary on the Buckley-Vidal 1968 debates - streamed last night from Amazon in SD and watched w/ Susan; we both enjoyed - 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (source of quote below) - the video quality was quite poor, as expected - cannot imagine that the blu-ray disc could clean it up much, but would be curious?  Dave

Didn't know it was streamable yet.  Will have to take a peek, methinks.

[Bogey]

Thanks for the heads up, Dave on this set.