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Post by melkur on Jul 26, 2020 21:20:27 GMT
Last night, 'Sherlock Holmes; The Woman In Green'. Moriarty's defeat could have been better but, you know, there are worse ways to start winding down after work... This evening? The first of the (currently) two Robert Downey Jr 'Sherlock Holmes' films, which is a pleasant enough way of spending a Sunday evening with one's mother (even if the ITV seem to have cut some parts...). Three films in the space of a week starring England's greatest detective? Yeeeah, I guess I have a soft-spot for him... The Rathbone & Bruce movies are great. I've (slowly) been making my way through them over the past month or two (I think I still have a few more left to watch) and I've been enjoying them.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2020 1:05:26 GMT
Don't make em this good anymore a true classic this film & i agree it was a obvious influence on Buffy. No, they don't make em like this anymore, sadly. Studio funding for mid-budget features has all but dried up, nowadays your choices are "extremely cheap" or "billion dollar blockbuster." Yes, this has been the biggest downfall in cinema for me. Indies are fine, blockbusters are fine. It's the ones in the middle that have dried up and that's where so many classic films came in that would never be made now, or would go straight to Netflix. Spike Lee and Scorsese make films for streaming now. Film itself is alive and well but cinema as the medium we view it is indeed dying.
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Post by Ela on Jul 27, 2020 1:39:39 GMT
Have you seen Ran? Kurosawa's version of King Lear? Well worth watching. It is one of my (numerous) glaring cinematic holes, which I'll be looking to fix as I go through these movies. Lots to look forward to, and that's definitely one of them. Ran is fantastic.
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Post by Digi on Jul 27, 2020 4:27:52 GMT
A double-bill today of Yojimbo and Sanjuro.
Yojimbo I've seen many times (including just a couple of weeks ago, which kicked this journey off), and love just how much fun a movie it is. Sanjuro I'd seen maybe once a long time ago and had largely forgotten. Good, and it has some great funny stuff in it, but on the whole it feels way heavier than the first one and is not nearly as enjoyable as a consequence IMO.
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There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
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Post by shutupbanks on Jul 27, 2020 4:59:01 GMT
Sick day (a dose of man flu) today so I’m lying on the couch watching a couple movies. Have finished Richard Lester’s Three Musketeers - immense fun and full of beautiful detail and wonderful performances - and am most of the way through Time Bandits. Still brilliant.
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Post by Timelord007 on Jul 27, 2020 7:09:39 GMT
Don't make em this good anymore a true classic this film & i agree it was a obvious influence on Buffy. No, they don't make em like this anymore, sadly. Studio funding for mid-budget features has all but dried up, nowadays your choices are "extremely cheap" or "billion dollar blockbuster." Another vampire movie i recommend checking out is Near Dark starring the late great Bill Paxton & Lance Henriksen this movie is a underrated gem.
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Jul 27, 2020 14:05:26 GMT
X the Unknown. Basically a Quatermass movie without Quatermass! Very average.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2020 14:11:50 GMT
X the Unknown. Basically a Quatermass movie without Quatermass! Very average. Quite literally a Quatermass movie without Quatermass - Hammer asked Nigel Kneale for permission to do original material with the character and he politely (for Kneale) told them to shove it. So they went ahead and made it changing basically just the name with Dean Jagger replacing Brian Donlevy, which at least is an acting upgrade. To me it's that film more than either Quatermass that feels like Jon Pertwee era Who. People often say Season 7 is Quatermass like but the UNIT family feel is much, much more evident in X where you spend more time with the soldiers and squaddies as well as the scientists and big bosses. Plus we get wee tiny Frazer Hines as one of the two kids in the film.
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Jul 27, 2020 14:14:13 GMT
X the Unknown. Basically a Quatermass movie without Quatermass! Very average. Quite literally a Quatermass movie without Quatermass - Hammer asked Nigel Kneale for permission to do original material with the character and he politely (for Kneale) told them to shove it. So they went ahead and made it changing basically just the name with Dean Jagger replacing Brian Donlevy, which at least is an acting upgrade. To me it's that film more than either Quatermass that feels like Jon Pertwee era Who. People often say Season 7 is Quatermass like but the UNIT family feel is much, much more evident in X where you spend more time with the soldiers and squaddies as well as the scientists and big bosses. Plus we get wee tiny Frazer Hines as one of the two kids in the film. I would have actually preferred Brian Donlevy in this! I found it quite dull, not much happened & the characters uninteresting.
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Post by polly on Jul 27, 2020 18:50:43 GMT
Another vampire movie i recommend checking out is Near Dark starring the late great Bill Paxton & Lance Henriksen this movie is a underrated gem. You are the second person to recommend that to me in the last few days. I will put it on the to-do list!
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Post by melkur on Jul 27, 2020 19:53:46 GMT
This afternoon I've been watching the two 'The Kissing Booth' films...
"This is why I drink, this is why I drink."
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Post by grinch on Jul 27, 2020 20:01:29 GMT
This afternoon I've been watching the two 'The Kissing Booth' films... "This is why I drink, this is why I drink." ...That got a sequel?
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Post by melkur on Jul 27, 2020 20:25:33 GMT
This afternoon I've been watching the two 'The Kissing Booth' films... "This is why I drink, this is why I drink." ...That got a sequel? They've shot the third one too...
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Post by grinch on Jul 27, 2020 20:30:27 GMT
They've shot the third one too... Blimey. What a strange world we’re living in at the moment.
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Post by melkur on Jul 27, 2020 20:38:33 GMT
They've shot the third one too... Blimey. What a strange world we’re living in at the moment. It certainly is, yes! ' Teaser' for the thirdI'm nearing the end of the second one at the moment aaaaaaand whilst I'm not in the demographic for them, they're... Ok? They look good, they're cohesive (the first one's problematic in places, but -), yeah, I've seen worse... There's a gay (minor) subplot in the second one, so it's at least got that going for it.
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Post by mark687 on Jul 27, 2020 20:49:02 GMT
Dust
(A series of short Sci-Fi Films by Film 4 each a different angle on the near future, various Performers involved include Constance Wu, Robert Picardo, Mackenzie Cook, and a pre Royal Megan)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2020 21:12:40 GMT
Re-Animator and Bride Of Re-Animator
A perfect duology. The much later Beyond Re-Animator is fun but these two are genuinely great darkly comic horrors with terrific dialogue, great practical effects and a stunning lead performance from Jeffrey Combs, one of the Kings Of Cult Cinema.
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Post by Hieronymus on Jul 28, 2020 5:23:00 GMT
Movie: The Dunwich Horror (2009)
Review: Budget Constantine meets Lovecraftian horrors. Cheaper than the DC film with Keanu Reeves (with acting almost as wooden) but with a marginally better story.
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Post by Hieronymus on Jul 28, 2020 5:28:43 GMT
Have you seen Ran? Kurosawa's version of King Lear? Well worth watching. It is one of my (numerous) glaring cinematic holes, which I'll be looking to fix as I go through these movies. Lots to look forward to, and that's definitely one of them. Ran was the first Kurosawa film I ever saw. It is spectacular in every sense, and is one of the greatest films ever made.
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Post by masterdoctor on Jul 28, 2020 18:49:25 GMT
My copies of Marriage Story, Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Wildlife all came from Criterion today, so my plight to figure out which one is watched first begins.
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