Last Movie You Watched

[snyprrr]

North Star (1943)

WOW! What a piece of commie-inspired Hollywood propaganda! It really shows how far in the pocket Hollywood was. As I was listening to the dialogue, I... I... I'm hearing these same lines come out of our Beloved Leader's mouth,... haha, the peasants sound like TeaParty members, haha,... oy, what a pot! And, with awful music by commie Copeland. Ack, I just wonder what a fly on the wall...

This may be as good as that Rothchilds movie with Boris Karloff (from @1935).

[TheGSMoeller]

Hey, movie fans, go to this link at Apple Trailers and checkout the first look at the film, Cloud Atlas. The first videos is of the filmmakers and the bottom one is the trailer.

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/cloudatlas/

[eyeresist]

.[asin]B003Y5H5EW[/asin]UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING

The previous Underworld movies had something to them - even the second one - but this is junk. And with the clunky script and mediocre direction leaving her exposed, Beckinsale's acting limitations are all too apparent.

Excluding the 10 minutes of credits and 2 minutes of opening recap, it's 75 minutes long. It seems the original directors' cut was longer - would that make it better or worse, I wonder?

[snyprrr]

I always thought Ice Station Zebra had nice chilly looking arctic sets.

[snyprrr]

Black Lightning, anyone?

[eyeresist]

Black Lightning, anyone?

Do you mean this guy?

[Bogey]

Do you mean this guy?

Great reach on that one!

[Bogey]

I always thought Ice Station Zebra had nice chilly looking arctic sets.

Been meaning to snag the soundtrack to this one:

[Bogey]

Thread duty:

Road to Bali (1952)



The only "Road to" picture out of the seven they made that was in color.  Some fun gags and many references to the stars and Hollywood scene at the time.  Even Bogey was included in a scene.  A few of the movie references I did not know, so want to go back and find their context for the time. 

[George]

Great reach on that one!

Bill have you seen Black Dynamite? Not one for the kids, but more fun than a barrel full of monkeys.

[Bogey]

Bill have you seen Black Dynamite? Not one for the kids, but more fun than a barrel full of monkeys.

No, buddy.  I tend to stay away from the "R" movies unless they are older ones with stars I want to see and will make an exception for Oscar nominees. 

[Zizekian]

This is truly a masterpiece and I highly recommend it to everyone:


Even though she only had a minor role in the film, Yuval Scharf (who played the reporter) looked amazing!

[Drasko]

[Zizekian]

I just watched the 2008 documentary Karajan. I had only heard the recordings so the visual aspects gave me a much better understanding of his music!

[Gold Knight]

Via Netflix, an indie film called Primer about an "accidental" time machine being built and its unintended dire consequences for two of the engineers who built it--seemingly inadvertently--due to various factors such as causality and paradoxes. I found it to be rather tedious and muddled--perhaps because its concepts are too advanced for my puny brain--though interseting at times. I think I'll stick with the H.G. Wells treatment of the same topic, at least for the forseeable future.

[snyprrr]

Do you mean this guy?

No, it's a recent movie skewering baxploitation flix of the '70s like DOLOMITE!! Absolutely the most perfect movie you will ever see! I love when they scientifically study '70s bad acting!

[ibanezmonster]

First 40 minutes were just painfully boring, but it slowly got more and more interesting. A couple of hilarious scenes here and there (I couldn't stop laughing at the staircase scene), but the actual Exorcism at the end was pretty fascinating. I don't know how anyone could find this film "scary," or why it's the "scariest movie of all time" (and yes, I tried watching at night, by myself with the lights off)  . In that sense, I was let down, but as a film, it's actually pretty cool, as long as you skip the first 40 minutes.

Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

An interesting note... funny how I read this right before I posted this.

[Sammy]

First 40 minutes were just painfully boring, but it slowly got more and more interesting. A couple of hilarious scenes here and there (I couldn't stop laughing at the staircase scene), but the actual Exorcism at the end was pretty fascinating. I don't know how anyone could find this film "scary," or why it's the "scariest movie of all time" (and yes, I tried watching at night, by myself with the lights off)  . In that sense, I was let down, but as a film, it's actually pretty cool, as long as you skip the first 40 minutes.

It's best to keep in mind that the movie came out in 1973, almost 40 years ago.  I watched it back then, and it was easily the scariest movie I had seen up to that time.  Also, I found none of it boring.

[drogulus]

Via Netflix, an indie film called Primer about an "accidental" time machine being built and its unintended dire consequences for two of the engineers who built it--seemingly inadvertently--due to various factors such as causality and paradoxes. I found it to be rather tedious and muddled--perhaps because its concepts are too advanced for my puny brain--though interseting at times. I think I'll stick with the H.G. Wells treatment of the same topic, at least for the forseeable future.

     Primer Movie – Scene by Scene Explanation

     

[Ataraxia]

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Very good.