Spoilers What Movie Are You Watching?

[mariefuller]

To the comments posted earlier about paying attention to the 1930's-1950's, I completely agree.
But there are still some of those movies being made today; they are just a little hard to find. I found a movie in a discount store called "Bass Ackwards" and it was an indie movie of sorts. I bought it because it was a dollar, and why not?

Honest to God, that was an excellent movie. Completely captured exactly what you were talking about, with identifying with characters, feeling pain, and the glorious feeling of being alive.

I would check out that one for sure, and I know that IFC and Sundance Film Festival all put out some low budget masterpieces. I enjoy some of the new things that are in the theaters (Xmen, and other Marvel things) but I really enjoy the indie movie scene as well. There is a ton of enjoyment to be had there.

 

[rhett7660]

I think its one of tom's best since at least minority report.

I agree 100%...........

 

[Shrink]

To the comments posted earlier about paying attention to the 1930's-1950's, I completely agree.
But there are still some of those movies being made today; they are just a little hard to find. I found a movie in a discount store called "Bass Ackwards" and it was an indie movie of sorts. I bought it because it was a dollar, and why not?

Honest to God, that was an excellent movie. Completely captured exactly what you were talking about, with identifying with characters, feeling pain, and the glorious feeling of being alive.

I would check out that one for sure, and I know that IFC and Sundance Film Festival all put out some low budget masterpieces. I enjoy some of the new things that are in the theaters (Xmen, and other Marvel things) but I really enjoy the indie movie scene as well. There is a ton of enjoyment to be had there.

Certainly true! And some wonderful actors, too...who are more like character actors of old than "stars".

But I still enjoy watching, over and over, many of the older films. I find they draw me to multiple viewings somewhat more than the more current films...even those, that you point out, are really worth seeing.

 

[mariefuller]

Certainly true! And some wonderful actors, too...who are more like character actors of old than "stars".

But I still enjoy watching, over and over, many of the older films. I find they draw me to multiple viewings somewhat more than the more current films...even those, that you point out, are really worth seeing.

http://www.amazon.com/Bass-Ackwards...&qid=1402672339&sr=8-2&keywords=bass+ackwards

Try this one out, if you get the chance. It is worth it.

 

[Shrink]

http://www.amazon.com/Bass-Ackwards...&qid=1402672339&sr=8-2&keywords=bass+ackwards

Try this one out, if you get the chance. It is worth it.

Thanks for the recommendation!

 

[mariefuller]

Thanks for the recommendation!

You might have a different impression, though, since I've recommended it now...I watched it with intent of watching it and then giving it away, so I wasn't really expecting much of anything. Sometimes, that's the best way to watch a movie: when you are expecting nothing. Haha If you watch it, I hope you enjoy

 

[kazmac]

Caught Eastern Promises again last night, I think for the first time since I saw it theatrically.

It's an excellent film that's held up well. For someone who isn't a fan of mob movies (but is something of a Russia-phile), that says something.

Naomi Watts' nurse (who has Russian relatives) delivers a baby from a dying teenaged Russian Prostitute. The plot thickens when Watts' discovers the girl's diary and starts reading the translation. The local Russian mob start poking around. They want that diary and the baby.

Viggo Mortensen was one of the mob's drivers who is a lot more than he seems. He was fantastic (this is in my top 3 Viggo perfs - no Aragorn is not among those )

I really do hope the long proposed sequel happens.

 

[twietee]

Haha, wasn't he in some horror flic too? I recall seeing him lately rather unexpectedky. Leatherface if I recall that right...not that good a movie.

Tenebrea was amazing btw!!

 

[juliehrobak]

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053750/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

great movie!!

 

[S.B.G]

Currently watching The Crimson Pirate (1952) with Burt Lancaster on TCMHD (Turner Classic Movies HD).

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s.

 

[S.B.G]

^^ That movie is over now and TCM is having a pirate themed Friday evening. Up now is The Pirate (1948) with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly.

A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate.

 

[S.B.G]

Watching Next Time I Marry (1938) with Lucille Ball and James Ellison.

Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money.

 

[S.B.G]

Recorded from last night on TCM HD, it's now The Pirates of Blood River (1962).

A group of ruthless pirates attack a 17th Century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain it.

 

[Shrink]

Currently watching The Crimson Pirate (1952) with Burt Lancaster on TCMHD (Turner Classic Movies HD).

Lancaster was a circus performer, an acrobat, prior to his film career, and in most of his films did all, or almost all, of his own stunts at a time when "stars" never did their stunts.

He is so comfortable in his body...just watching him walk across the room is a delight of grace and strength.

 

[S.B.G]

Lancaster was a circus performer, an acrobat, prior to his film career, and in most of his films did all, or almost all, of his own stunts at a time when "stars" never did their stunts.

He is so comfortable in his body...just watching him walk across the room is a delight of grace and strength.

I was very impressed with his physical ability in that film. I made a mental note of it and was becoming tired just watching him on screen dancing all of those numbers. They looked exhausting, but he was, obviously, very physically fit.

 

[S.B.G]

Now I'm on to another recorded film from overnight on TCM, The Princess and the Pirate (1944), with Bob Hope and Virginia Mayo.

Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man her father has betrothed her to. On the high seas, her ship is attacked by pirates who know...

 

[jlsm511]

Just watched Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and Non-Stop. Jack Ryan was not too bad, but Non-Stop was you typical Liam Neeson movie.

As an aviation nut, I couldn't watch much of Non-Stop. Jack Ryan was better then I expected though, and it was good to see Chris Pine out of his Starfleet uniform hah.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Lancaster was a circus performer, an acrobat, prior to his film career, and in most of his films did all, or almost all, of his own stunts at a time when "stars" never did their stunts.

He is so comfortable in his body...just watching him walk across the room is a delight of grace and strength.

I agree about his physical grace and effortless strength; however, I must admit that I had him down simply as an unusually physically gifted specimen until I saw him play a brilliant, haunting, spell-binding Prince Fabrizio Salina in Luchino Visconti's magnificent movie The Leopard (Il Gattopardo), based on Giuseppe di Lampedusa's superb and elegiac book of the same name (The Leopard).

Actually, Burt Lancaster's interpretation of the complex character of this bitterly self-aware, brilliant, dissolute, dissipated, despairing and doomed prince from the Sicilian nobility set during the time of the Risorgimento was simply spell-binding. I would never, ever have viewed him as remotely suitable in this role (and I had read the book well before I saw the outstanding movie), and yet he was superb. An utter revelation. And, for movie buffs, this is one utterly magnificent movie - a rare case of an outstanding screen interpretation of a literary masterpiece.

Now I'm on to another recorded film from overnight on TCM, The Princess and the Pirate (1944), with Bob Hope and Virginia Mayo.

You seem to be on something of a a pirate roll at the moment, going on recent viewings. Any female pirates in this lot? I'm partial to strong female role models, and I cannot think of anything stronger than a seriously swaggering female pirate captain…...

 

[S.B.G]

You seem to be on something of a a pirate roll at the moment, going on recent viewings. Any female pirates in this lot? I'm partial to strong female role models, and I cannot think of anything stronger than a seriously swaggering female pirate captain…...

Nope, no lady pirate movies were being shown on TCM that I could see.

TCM had a theme of pirate movies last night which is why I was watching them.

 

[Shrink]

I agree about his physical grace and effortless strength; however, I must admit that I had him down simply as an unusually physically gifted specimen until I saw him play a brilliant, haunting, spell-binding Prince Fabrizio Salina in Luchino Visconti's magnificent movie The Leopard (Il Gattopardo), based on Giuseppe di Lampedusa's superb and elegiac book of the same name (The Leopard).

Actually, Burt Lancaster's interpretation of the complex character of this bitterly self-aware, brilliant, dissolute, dissipated, despairing and doomed prince from the Sicilian nobility set during the time of the Risorgimento was simply spell-binding. I would never, ever have viewed him as remotely suitable in this role (and I had read the book well before I saw the outstanding movie), and yet he was superb. An utter revelation. And, for movie buffs, this is one utterly magnificent movie - a rare case of an outstanding screen interpretation of a literary masterpiece.



You seem to be on something of a a pirate roll at the moment, going on recent viewings. Any female pirates in this lot? I'm partial to strong female role models, and I cannot think of anything stronger than a seriously swaggering female pirate captain…...

Geena Davis played a swashbuckling pirate in 1995 "Cutthtroat Island". Not a particularly good movie...

 

[kryten2]

I'm partial to strong female role models, and I cannot think of anything stronger than a seriously swaggering female pirate captain…...

The Pirate Fairy?

I started watching Judgment at Nuremberg last night. Star studded movie by Stanley Kramer.

Info : http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Judgment-at-Nuremberg-Blu-ray/49205/

 

[S.B.G]

Now for a non-pirate movie.

Red Planet (2000) recorded from the SyFy HD channel.

Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Well, I hope you enjoyed all of the pirate pictures. The female pirate captain I had in mind was more modelled on the splendid Captain Zamira Drakasha from the excellent US writer Scott Lynch's "Red Skies Over Red Seas" (the second volume of his 'Gentlemen Bastard' series).

A few pages, or posts, back, Shrink wrote about the features, or qualities which went into what he thought made a good movie. The only area where I might differ (a little) with him is on the issue of black and white versus colour. Some classics were made in colour, indeed had to be made in colour 'The Four Feathers' (1939 version comes to mind), and the utterly brilliant movie I referred to a few posts ago, Luchino Visconti's 'The Leopard'.

Seriously, if you wish to view a movie that is cinematic, and literary perfection, that is historically outstanding, beautifully shot, superbly acted - and based on an utter masterpiece (Giuseppe di Lampedusa's book of the same name), I beseech, implore, entreat of you to watch this superb movie. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

And, if you do get it, make sure you get the later re-mastered version (with sub-titles). Inexplicably, the earlier version was butchered...

 

[S.B.G]

A few pages, or posts, back, Shrink wrote about the features, or qualities which went into what he thought made a good movie. The only area where I might differ (a little) with him is on the issue of black and white versus colour. Some classics were made in colour, indeed had to be made in colour 'The Four Feathers' (1939 version comes to mind), and the utterly brilliant movie I referred to a few posts ago, Luchino Visconti's 'The Leopard'.

Seriously, if you wish to view a movie that is cinematic, and literary perfection, that is historically outstanding, beautifully shot, superbly acted - and based on an utter masterpiece (Giuseppe di Lampedusa's book of the same name), I beseech, implore, entreat of you to watch this superb movie. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

And, if you do get it, make sure you get the later re-mastered version (with sub-titles). Inexplicably, the earlier version was butchered…...

Excellent, I will have to look for it and report back what I think of it.

Right now, however, I'm watching Enter the Dragon (1973) with Bruce Lee.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Excellent, I will have to look for it and report back what I think of it.

Right now, however, I'm watching Enter the Dragon (1973) with Bruce Lee.

I think you will enjoy it; this is a movie made for slow - almost languid - watching, - it is sheer class - and the final ballroom scene is stunning.

Oh, and don't just take my word for it; Rotten Tomatoes gives it a score of 100%..