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Last night, I started to watch "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" because I love Tim Roth. I am going to have to finish it tonight, though. I got too sleepy to watch the whole thing. It wasn't an edge of your seat thriller, for sure, but it was funny.
 
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I just checked Netflix and found The African Queen (1951).
In Africa during WW1, a gin-swilling riverboat owner/captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.
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D.T. said:
It’s best left there :D It’s not that it’s a particularly bad scifi/horror flick, it’s just such a retread with nothing added, and without the incredible cast/director of the ’82 movie.

I could summarize the prequel and it’s exactly what you can surmise from the opening of Carpenter’s flick: Norwegian base digs up Thing, thaws it, s*** goes bad.

Love Shaw Brothers Kung Fu movies, especially the ones with kind of fantasy/fantastical "Kung Fu powers".

36th Chambers of the Shaolin
Five Deadly Venoms
Flying Guillotine
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I never remember the names of the Shaw Brothers films, because i haven't seen them in decades. But parts still linger in the brain. The films with the fantasy/fantastical powers were fun from what I can still remember. Any time I saw a fellow sporting a long topknot wielding an iron foot or brass elbow while kicking butt in the Praying Mantis style, I smile. When funds permit, I may try to track a couple down.

Re: The Thing prequel. It was entirely unnecessary. I prefer the all men scenario for this particular storyline, I'll be anal in admitting that. This is the way the source material was written and that's what I'd prefer it to be in my imagination.

Huntn said:
I'll have to watch CAWS when it is available for streaming. I disliked the original.

I agree, The Thing prequel was not a bad movie, but it (what happened at the Norwegian camp) was all best left to the imagination.
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I hope you like it. Since you enjoy Three Days of the Condor there's a lot of the Condor character in Cap and his predicament here.

I'll most likely pick CATWS up on blu ray on 9/9 IF the iTunes digital HD version is included.

The Expendables 3 is calling my name (having not seen either of the earlier films. Must be Wesley Snipes :D)
 
bearwrestler said:
Last night, I started to watch "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" because I love Tim Roth. I am going to have to finish it tonight, though. I got too sleepy to watch the whole thing. It wasn't an edge of your seat thriller, for sure, but it was funny.
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Between Tim Roth and Gary Oldman, this was a marvelous take on Hamlet.
 
Beginning my marathon tonight of the Indiana Jones franchise to finish by week's end.

Last week was Harry Potter, next Monday ill commence Star Wars: Episode I
 
TheBeastman13 said:
Beginning my marathon tonight of the Indiana Jones franchise to finish by week's end.

Last week was Harry Potter, next Monday ill commence Star Wars: Episode I
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Harry Potter- read the series, loved it. The movies completely beat my expectations, probably the best young adult series ever made. :)
 
Huntn said:
Harry Potter- read the series, loved it. The movies completely beat my expectations, probably the best young adult series ever made. :)
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Completely agree. I was a bit tired of the whole thing towards the end, but hey. It made some people really really rich, right?
 
Watching Old Boy, the Korean version (the original). I saw the American remake and I was a little underwhelmed. A close friend told me that the Korean version is a masterpiece.

She was right.
 
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Saw Angel Heart again. Very, very creepy. Robert De Niro is my second favorite human take on ... well, I won't spoil it.

D.T. said:
I suggest skipping the 4th Indiana Jones movie, and the three Star Wars prequels :D
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I would agree with you, but I enjoyed Ewan McGregor in Ep II and III. Not much else though - oh wait the bird lizard thingy he rode in III... 2nd favorite Star Wars beastie. :D

And I hope to do this myself with the Mad Max trilogy this weekend if the Road Warrior blu shows up tomorrow.
 
kazmac said:
Saw Angel Heart again. Very, very creepy. Robert De Niro is my second favorite human take on ... well, I won't spoil it.



I would agree with you, but I enjoyed Ewan McGregor in Ep II and III. Not much else though - oh wait the bird lizard thingy he rode in III... 2nd favorite Star Wars beastie. :D

And I hope to do this myself with the Mad Max trilogy this weekend if the Road Warrior blu shows up tomorrow.
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D.T. said:
My favorite take on you-know-who is probably Viggo Mortensen in The Prophecy. :cool:
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kazmac said:
Mine too. :D I somehow saw the Prophecy in its brief theatrical run and walked out saying that guy stole the movie from Walken.
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I have not seen the Prophecy or Angel Heart but my guess Al Pacino played a similar role, which I really liked him in. :)
 
Huntn said:
I have not seen the Prophecy or Angel Heart but my guess Al Pacino played a similar role, which I really liked him in. :)
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You guess is correct sir. ;)

And shortly after I answered D.T., I was channel surfing and come across the Prophecy. Of course, I watched. Still love Viggo in that role (the first time I'd ever seen Viggo too.)
 
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