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I recently watched Wes Craven's Wishmaster and Wishmaster 2, the first of which I saw in the theater when it first came out. They're about an evil djinn/genie granting wishes in order to be set free and bring his entire evil djinn race to Earth. Unfortunately, these movies aren't particularly scary anymore, mostly because they seem so dated.
I really enjoyed Dredd as well, despite never having seen the original (Judge Dredd) or read the comics. Your post makes me want to watch it again though.
I really enjoyed Dredd as well, despite never having seen the original (Judge Dredd) or read the comics. Your post makes me want to watch it again though.
I really enjoyed the movie, but it might put you off fava beans for a while!
Anthony Hopkins is incredibly menacing in that movie...
I recently watched Wes Craven's Wishmaster and Wishmaster 2, the first of which I saw in the theater when it first came out. They're about an evil djinn/genie granting wishes in order to be set free and bring his entire evil djinn race to Earth. Unfortunately, these movies aren't particularly scary anymore, mostly because they seem so dated.
I really enjoyed Dredd as well, despite never having seen the original (Judge Dredd) or read the comics. Your post makes me want to watch it again though.
Haven't seen Wishmaster in awhile. One of the nice things about Dredd was you did not have to see the previous film or read the comics. It is very self contained. I'll probably rewatch too.
I really enjoyed the movie, but it might put you off fava beans for a while!
Indeed. I seem to remember that he planned to serve the fava beans 'with a nice Chianti' along with a (perhaps unexpected?) dinner guest…..
Thoroughly enjoyed that movie, both Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster were excellent, but both are extremely good actors who take their craft seriously but remain grounded human beings. He was also superb in 'The Remains Of The Day' - an unusually superb adaptation of a brilliant book, and 'Shadowlands'.
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Yes, that sounds like an ideal mealin the circumstances..now, all you need is a bracingly clean espresso afterwards..
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I love liver (cow
) too bad it is so high in cholesterol. I still eat it once in a great while.
I love liver (cow
Cooked - rare - with sautéed onions, some sautéed bacon, and yes, served with a 'nice glass of Chianti' - it is a lovely occasional treat…….
Actually, on the topic of food, and on topic re the actual thread, has anyone seen the Danish movie 'Babette's Feast' - which I saw several years ago and thought excellent?
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Twilight: Breaking Dawn Pt 1 & 2- Ok adaption of the books, but instead of to the point, parts of it seemed to drag as if they took a book and made two movies out of it.
Just noticed that Michael Sheen of Masters off Sex is the bad guy among vampires.
Just noticed that Michael Sheen of Masters off Sex is the bad guy among vampires.
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watched Dogville with Nicole Kidman last night. It is one of the best movies I've seen in a long time, definitely in my top 10
Somehow I've overlooked this movie. Will have to see if it is available for streaming.
Watched The Long How Summer (1958) with Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Orson Wells, an enjoyable movie with splendid performances based on a compilation of William Faulkner stories about a domineering father, his children, and a drifter in a Southern town.
I've always enjoyed this era (1950-60s) of movies depicting the U.S. South. To my recollection, the first time you could see a black actor in a leading role. Movies made today don't tend to have the good vibe these older films have. Other examples are The Chase (Marlon Brando), To Kill a Mocking Bird (Gregory Peck), The Flim Flam Man (George C. Scott), In the Heat of the Night (Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger), The Defiant Ones (Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman), and maybe others from that time frame elude me at the moment. Two movies that captured this vibe, one made much earlier was Gone with the Wind (1939) and much later was Fried Green Tomatoes (1991).
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I saw it, and I know I enjoyed it, but between that and "Jean de Florette" and "Manon des Sources", I can't remember which made me hungrier. I'm pretty sure I saw all of them in the late '80s.
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captain america: the winter soldier > as this is my favorite Marvel storyline ever, I did like the tweaks to the insidious threat. While there was not enough Winter Soldier for me, his tweak made sense but I wish we saw more of his 'creation'. It was awesome to hear him speak Russian so I'm glad that aspect of his character remained intact to an extent.
I even enjoyed Black Widow this time. Mackie was terrific as Falcon too.
And another villain from that book and Captain America's past was very cleverly rethought in this. I won't say who.
It was a little long, the reunion scene with a particular character felt forced and not enough Winter Soldier, but that's minor.
I really enjoyed it and will see it at least another time or two theatrically. Fun to see WS creator Ed Brubaker in a cameo too - he deserves all the props he can get for that storyline.
My favorite Marvel yet.
captain america: the winter soldier > as this is my favorite Marvel storyline ever, I did like the tweaks to the insidious threat. While there was not enough Winter Soldier for me, his tweak made sense but I wish we saw more of his 'creation'. It was awesome to hear him speak Russian so I'm glad that aspect of his character remained intact to an extent.
I even enjoyed Black Widow this time. Mackie was terrific as Falcon too.
And another villain from that book and Captain America's past was very cleverly rethought in this. I won't say who.
It was a little long, the reunion scene with a particular character felt forced and not enough Winter Soldier, but that's minor.
I really enjoyed it and will see it at least another time or two theatrically. Fun to see WS creator Ed Brubaker in a cameo too - he deserves all the props he can get for that storyline.
My favorite Marvel yet.
Where Eagles Dare (1968) WWII espionage/rescue mission behind enemy lines starring Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton. Just go with the flow and accept that the good guys can't miss and the German's can't hit much of anything. Still enjoyable plot and acting with great Bavarian scenery.
I'll take your word on that! Captain America is one of the least appealing superheros pulp fiction brought alive to me - and there are quite a few. The first movie was an utter dissapointment imo.
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Saw Paul Morrisey's Flesh For Frankenstein yesterday, although I rate its back to back comrade Blood For Dracular slightly higher, it was an extremely entertaining movie. Great cast featuring young Udo Kier. Very watchable and highly recommended for those interested in intelligent but hammy b-movie flics, beautifully shot and a remarkable soundtrack.
Oh, and it features lots of bloody bodyparts of course - but I'd say that's quite appropriate considering it's a about Baron Frankenstein.
I agree that the first Captain America was seriously underwhelming. But Captain America: Winter Soldier was much better. While they're entertaining, I'm not a huge fan of the Avenger's movies in general, but this was probably the best one in the series so far.
However, I did not like Falcon. His portrayal was as bad as Banshee's in X-Men: First Class.
I found myself watching Streetdance (2010) with my wife, set in London, where a group of student ballet dancers are forced to share space with kids practicing for a street dance competition and they (ballet dancers) decide to compete in the street dance competition. It was ok. Both of these styles are far from my favorite.
While I admit that street dancing is physically impressive, it seems to be mostly robot-moves, athletic punching and kicking, consequently it's never done anything for me as compared to other dance genres such as tap, free style, and even ballet, although in the spectrum of dancing, Ballet is hemmed in by tight non-innovative constrictions at least what I am familiar with. Besides if you've seen one ballet, you've seen them all.
While I admit that street dancing is physically impressive, it seems to be mostly robot-moves, athletic punching and kicking, consequently it's never done anything for me as compared to other dance genres such as tap, free style, and even ballet, although in the spectrum of dancing, Ballet is hemmed in by tight non-innovative constrictions at least what I am familiar with. Besides if you've seen one ballet, you've seen them all.
Here's some recent movies I've seen....
Wolf of Wall Street
I rate it 8.5/10. Highly enjoyable, very well done, great story, and for a 3 hour film it's not drawn out like you'd think it would be.
American Hustle
I rate it 7/10. Well done, but I did get a little bored.....could've had to do with being 2 bottles of red wine in, I got pretty tired....may have to watch it again.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
I rate it 8/10. I recently just watched it for the first time and I'm a big fan. Will have to watch it again very soon.
My all time favorite movie will always be.....
Fight Club
I rate it 10/10. It's spectacular in every way, I've seen it 30+ times and every time I get something new out of, a new perspective, another subtlety. I'm not much of a reader, but this movie made me pick up the book which the movie is based off of. Both very enjoyable.
Wolf of Wall Street
I rate it 8.5/10. Highly enjoyable, very well done, great story, and for a 3 hour film it's not drawn out like you'd think it would be.
American Hustle
I rate it 7/10. Well done, but I did get a little bored.....could've had to do with being 2 bottles of red wine in, I got pretty tired....may have to watch it again.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
I rate it 8/10. I recently just watched it for the first time and I'm a big fan. Will have to watch it again very soon.
My all time favorite movie will always be.....
Fight Club
I rate it 10/10. It's spectacular in every way, I've seen it 30+ times and every time I get something new out of, a new perspective, another subtlety. I'm not much of a reader, but this movie made me pick up the book which the movie is based off of. Both very enjoyable.
Where Eagles Dare (1968) WWII espionage/rescue mission behind enemy lines starring Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton. Just go with the flow and accept that the good guys can't miss and the German's can't hit much of anything. Still enjoyable plot and acting with great Bavarian scenery.
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Yes, I have seen that film, and yes, as something to pass an evening over, it is okay. But, while I accept that many American movies are just vapid entertainment, - while great on excitement, bombs, pyrotechnics, special effects, and more than a bit limited in terms of plot and character - whenever a movie takes as its story an element of European history, I am a lot less tolerant.
Even as a child, (okay, the sort of earnest bespectacled child who devoured adult history books), from a very early stage I grew to deeply dislike the sort of movie cliché where all Germans were morons and all Allied officers were exemplary role models, blessed with judgement, luck and intelligence.
To be honest, this narrative blueprint began to bore me; it lacked nuance, subtlety, any sort of intellectual challenge, not to mention any resemblance to historical accuracy, or any recognition that real life is full of variegated shades of grey, rather than the monochrome of absolute moral certainty portrayed by the emphatic characters or ciphers of these sketched in undemanding but blunt shades of black and white.
Indeed, I remember thinking that if real history in any way resembled these sort of movies where the Germans were so perennially stupid that they would have lost the war in 1939. Indeed, it might be argued that - historically - it was something of a mystery why it took the world - more or less combined - the best part of six years to annihilate them by way of defeating them, a fact made inexplicable by movies such as these where all one can ask is, 'If they were so reliably imbecilic, why did it take the world so long to actually defeat them?'.
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Of all the historical WWII movies, I'm familiar with, I believe The Longest Day does a fare job of showing the German perspective. Where Eagles Dare is a fictional story and although the Germans seem competent, in shoot outs they were always terrible shots.
The most blatant example of Germans as morons was a 60's era U.S. TV show called Hogan's Heroes which was a comedic farce. I enjoyed it as a kid, but now it strikes me as an embarrassment.
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Falcon's dialog when he was with Cap was awful 1990s Will Smith bad. Mackie overcame that for me in the quiet moments and in his use of the suit.
Yes, Banshee was terrible in First Class. Thought that was just me.
I'm not a huge fan of the Avengers films despite being a Marvel geek (Thor and the Iron Man sequels have been atrocious and I'm not a Joss Whedon fan at all.) That said, Thomas Kretschmann's involvement might get me to the theatre to see Avengers 2. I hope I'll remember more of that than the first Avengers.
Cap 2, yeah I vote it so high because of the Winter Soldier (he's my favorite Marvel character above and beyond Moon Knight and Wolverine whom I also love.) I will definitely see this again because of Sebastian Stan's portrayal.
I'll take your word on that! Captain America is one of the least appealing superheros pulp fiction brought alive to me - and there are quite a few. The first movie was an utter dissapointment imo.
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Saw Paul Morrisey's Flesh For Frankenstein yesterday, although I rate its back to back comrade Blood For Dracular slightly higher, it was an extremely entertaining movie. Great cast featuring young Udo Kier. Very watchable and highly recommended for those interested in intelligent but hammy b-movie flics, beautifully shot and a remarkable soundtrack.
Oh, and it features lots of bloody bodyparts of course - but I'd say that's quite appropriate considering it's a about Baron Frankenstein.
When those Morrisey films become affordable I will definitely take a look. I like Udo and the Frankenstein film sounds like great fun. Glad you enjoyed it.
First Cap: awful villain and pacing. The Red Skull was a joke and he should not have been so. I do think they nailed who Captain America is as a person and hero. Same for Bucky and Doctor Erskine. But yeah, the last third of that film is an utter mess. Still, I watch.
I finally had the pleasure of watching The Maltese Falcon for the first time, after having read about it so much from members here. I thought it was terrific, from the acting and dialogue to the storytelling and pacing.
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I'm also not a big fan of Joss Whedon or the first Avengers movie, despite all the positive reviews. It was entertaining, but overhyped, in my opinion.
To be honest, I know very little of the Avengers besides what's presented in the movies (I was a much bigger X-Men fan growing up), so I miss many of the connections that others would pick up on. Perhaps thats one of the reasons the Avengers' movies don't 'wow' me.
One thing I would've liked to see in Captain America 2 is more of the backstory of The Winter Soldier. Without going into spoiler territory, I'll say that he was just there, and they didn't really go in depth to explain what happened.
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I'm also not a big fan of Joss Whedon or the first Avengers movie, despite all the positive reviews. It was entertaining, but overhyped, in my opinion.
To be honest, I know very little of the Avengers besides what's presented in the movies (I was a much bigger X-Men fan growing up), so I miss many of the connections that others would pick up on. Perhaps thats one of the reasons the Avengers' movies don't 'wow' me.
One thing I would've liked to see in Captain America 2 is more of the backstory of The Winter Soldier. Without going into spoiler territory, I'll say that he was just there, and they didn't really go in depth to explain what happened.
The Maltese Falcon is one o f my favorite films.
I consider the Avengers to be a well made ensemble movie, but it did not click for me.
Just to break my annoying and repetitive pattern, I won't say anything about The Maltese Falcon...except I'm always glad when someone discovers this incredible film.
I just watched Man Of Steel. For what it was, a CGI dominated action film, it was OK. The SFX were undeniably well done.
I thought it was about ½ hour too long, and the final fight with Zod became boring. And after all that crashing through buildings stuff, the fatal vulnerability was breaking his neck!?
Aside from being too long, I suppose if you want a no-brain-need movie, this one is OK.