Last Movie You Watched

[Todd]

Arnie's latest.  Here's a movie that delivers exactly what one expects.  The biggest disappointment is that the one-liners have declined in quality.  Director Kim Jee-Woon steals ideas from all manner of other directors, but he does so with style.  Suitable for one viewing.

[snyprrr]

Arnie's latest.  Here's a movie that delivers exactly what one expects.  The biggest disappointment is that the one-liners have declined in quality.  Director Kim Jee-Woon steals ideas from all manner of other directors, but he does so with style.  Suitable for one viewing.

You took the time to watch it AND Post? ggggaaaaahhhhh no scooby snack 4U!!!

From 1970, No Blade of Grass. A group of Londoners, good people, turn savage almost instantly while trying to make it to the safety of a farm in Scotland as they run from a civilization destroying virus. This was Lynne Frederick's first film (she was the gold-digging last wife of Peter Sellers and notable as the human queen ant in Phase IV. She also had a part in the Hammer film Vampire Circus). The film is very cheesy (especially the sixties music and the marauding bikers) but horrifyingly realistic.

Sarge

you just earned 17 snyprrr-points!!!

No Blade.... wow, that unlocked some old ganglia, haha!! flashback---flashback!!!

You know you're going to get a different kind of superhero when you cast Robert Downey Jr. in the lead role. And Iron Man is different, in welcome ways. Cleverly updated from Marvel Comics' longstanding series, Iron Man puts billionaire industrialist Tony Stark (that's Downey) in the path of some Middle Eastern terrorists; in a brilliantly paced section, Stark invents an indestructible suit that allows him to escape. If the rest of the movie never quit hits that precise rhythm again, it nevertheless offers plenty of pleasure, as the renewed Stark swears off his past as a weapons manufacturer, develops his new Iron Man suit, and puzzles both his business partner (Jeff Bridges in great form) and executive assistant (Gwyneth Paltrow). Director Jon Favreau geeks out in fun ways with the hardware, but never lets it overpower the movie, and there's always a goofy one-liner or a slapstick pratfall around to break the tension. As for Downey, he doesn't get to jitterbug around too much in his improv way, but he brings enough of his unpredictable personality to keep the thing fresh. And listen up, hardcore Marvel mavens: even if you know the Stan Lee cameo is coming, you won't be able to guess it until it's on the screen. It all builds to a splendid final scene, with a concluding line delivery by Downey that just feels absolutely right. --Robert Horton

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don't think I've heard of that one

[DavidW]

Pretty much what I thought about that movie too Todd.

For me I watched Antichrist, in which a tone of dread is created effortlessly creating an atmosphere of anguish and fear in which many directors (even established ones) try to do and fail.  It is an intelligent film with layers of meaning.  I think that Antichrist is awesome.  But I can't recommend it, since it is the most violent sadomasochistic film since Salo, and people not put off by that might still find it too artsy.

I also rewatched Rosemary's Baby, a classic.  Love it.

[snyprrr]

Escape from New York. (1981)

http://www.youtube.com/v/ckvDo2JHB7o

But that one's pretty good!

How bout Warriors of the Bronx 2183?


I found Stargate a bit annoying in the depiction of the tribes.

[Bogey]

Lone Ranger

Critics got it wrong.  Go see it!

[Karl Henning]

Revisited Casablanca last night. I think it just gets better each time.

[Bogey]

Revisited Casablanca last night. I think it just gets better each time.

Fine wine, Karl, fine wine.

[TheGSMoeller]

Revisited Casablanca last night. I think it just gets better each time.

When the plane starts up at the end, the look that Bogart and Bergman give each other is pure gold, so many emotions expressed just from a single look. Don't get that often anymore from modern actors.
One of the best films ever.

Is this out on blue ray? Anyone know? If so, hows the transfer?

[DavidW]

James, Karl when you switch to the Georgia font it reduces the size and makes it *less* readable.  I'm on a 13 inch laptop and I can't read what you write without zooming in.  The Georgia font was relevant for low resolution monitors back in the 90s and early 00s but it is a poor typeset to choose these days anyway (only relevant for low res ereaders).

[Todd]

Life of Pi.  Generally very beautiful, though some of the CGI is less than ideal, and quite entertaining.  Am I the only one who would have liked to see the grimmer, less fanciful version of events on film?

[Sergeant Rock]

Life of Pi.  Am I the only one who would have liked to see the grimmer, less fanciful version of events on film?

The tiger eats the dude? Yeah, I'd like to see that 

Sarge

[Todd]

The tiger eats the dude? Yeah, I'd like to see that

Nah. 

[VERY MILD SPOILER]: The ending offers an alternative narrative, which is not the movie, of course.  That alternative narrative is more realistic, if far grimmer.

[snyprrr]

James, Karl when you switch to the Georgia font it reduces the size and makes it *less* readable.  I'm on a 13 inch laptop and I can't read what you write without zooming in.  The Georgia font was relevant for low resolution monitors back in the 90s and early 00s but it is a poor typeset to choose these days anyway (only relevant for low res ereaders).

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[snyprrr]

DIAMOND HEAD (1962)

This Heston flick is on. QUESTION: there's this scene on the beach, with the two ladies speaking, and the dialogue certainly seems to have been recorded in a studio, since one can't her any wind or noise whilst they're speaking,... sooo,...

Is this what good 'voice-over' sounds like? They sit in a dark studio watching the film and delivering their lines to the screen,...

It's just that I was impressed that it didn't look like most voice-overs, it looked very natural.

Sometimes I forget about the Artifice of Film.

[Karl Henning]

James, Karl when you switch to the Georgia font it reduces the size and makes it *less* readable.  I'm on a 13 inch laptop and I can't read what you write without zooming in.  The Georgia font was relevant for low resolution monitors back in the 90s and early 00s but it is a poor typeset to choose these days anyway (only relevant for low res ereaders).

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Thread duty:

In the past day or so . . . Moonrise Kingdom (yes, again) . . . the groovy documentary of The Bobs, Sign My Snarling Movie . . . The 39 Steps (at long last, you may say) . . . a couple of featurettes which are extras on this or that Hitchcock DVD . . . and (first) the Class Reunion featurette, then Animal House itself.

[Brian]

Check.

Thread duty:

In the past day or so . . . Moonrise Kingdom (yes, again) . . . the groovy documentary of The Bobs, Sign My Snarling Movie . . . The 39 Steps (at long last, you may say) . . . a couple of featurettes which are extras on this or that Hitchcock DVD . . . and (first) the Class Reunion featurette, then Animal House itself.

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[Cato]

We saw this recently:




The movie is a too-close-to-reality satire, wherein the supposed adult characters are selfish, immoral, eternal adolescents, and the adolescents, knowing the adults in their world are morons, wander in a vacuum looking for an adult for guidance.

Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney steal every scene they are in!

Recommended, and certainly better than any of the $100 million superhero/robot/updated Western movies out there!

[George]

Sam Rockwell is awesome!!

[Cato]

Sam Rockwell is awesome!!

Amen!  Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was supposedly a George Clooney butchering of Charlie Kaufman's script: either way, Sam Rockwell was fun to watch!