Agreed, and how many other movies can boast that their very title has become a figure of (everyday) speech? Impressive.
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Agreed, and how many other movies can boast that their very title has become a figure of (everyday) speech? Impressive.
While watching it yesterday I was reading some of the trivia notes on imdb.com.
Luster (2002)
First watched movie of 2015: Luster
My review at IMDB: Reminiscent, funny, quirky, symbolic, thought-provoking, enjoyably ridiculous – relax, watch it
First watched movie of 2015: Luster
My review at IMDB: Reminiscent, funny, quirky, symbolic, thought-provoking, enjoyably ridiculous – relax, watch it
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Fail Safe - I love this movie, still rattles me. Probably my favorite Cold War movie ever. So underrated and well acted/written.
The Heroin Busters - ditto. I wish David Hemmings and Fabio Testi would have made another film together.
What Have you Done to Solange? Terrific giallo, I hope this eventually gets the blu ray treatment.
Shoot First, Die Later - excellent 1970s Italian crime film with Luc Merenda's bike mechanic fighting the mob.
The Heroin Busters - ditto. I wish David Hemmings and Fabio Testi would have made another film together.
What Have you Done to Solange? Terrific giallo, I hope this eventually gets the blu ray treatment.
Shoot First, Die Later - excellent 1970s Italian crime film with Luc Merenda's bike mechanic fighting the mob.
Saw this for the first time a few weeks back. Great film I thought.
That's a really great movie! I saw it for the first time a few months ago on TCM.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
A substance, designed to help the brain repair itself, gives rise to a super-intelligent chimp who leads an ape uprising.
A substance, designed to help the brain repair itself, gives rise to a super-intelligent chimp who leads an ape uprising.
Except for the part where the gorgeous lady gets all hot & bothered over Walter Matthau. I mean c'mon, Walter Matthau?
I got to see Failsafe at the movies with my Dad when I was 11 years old. It left an impression, listening to a phone melt.
Tillsammans (Together) (2001)
Tonight for me it'll be 'Together'
My favourite film: Together (Tillsammans) | Film | The Guardian
– but that's not why I got the DVD. I can't recall what caught my eye about the film … maybe it was amongst the items on offer when I last ordered some stuff from Amazon.
Tonight for me it'll be 'Together'
My favourite film: Together (Tillsammans) | Film | The Guardian
– but that's not why I got the DVD. I can't recall what caught my eye about the film … maybe it was amongst the items on offer when I last ordered some stuff from Amazon.
Well, as quite a few of my online compadres are watching old movies, (or 'oldish' movies) I thought it only fair to mention the movie diet of my mother over this Yuletide Season.
Mother has pretty advanced dementia and has developed a touching, and beautifully absurd attachment to the 'Indiana Jones' franchise, which, most fortunately, seems to have been on several of the TV channels - and indeed, some of the same movies have been repeated on different channels, which didn't matter at all, as the finer points of plot development and possible plot repetition quite eluded mother - over the past week.
I must confess to some - quite considerable - gratitude to Harrison Ford for putting a soppy grin on my mother's face for most of this past week.
Mother has pretty advanced dementia and has developed a touching, and beautifully absurd attachment to the 'Indiana Jones' franchise, which, most fortunately, seems to have been on several of the TV channels - and indeed, some of the same movies have been repeated on different channels, which didn't matter at all, as the finer points of plot development and possible plot repetition quite eluded mother - over the past week.
I must confess to some - quite considerable - gratitude to Harrison Ford for putting a soppy grin on my mother's face for most of this past week.
That movie bombed at the cinema, but I kind of liked it.
Currently watching The Dark Knight.
I remember that! But I've always like it too.
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Budget
[B]$175,000,000 (estimated)[/B]
Opening Weekend
$21,171,780 (USA) (30 July 1995)
Gross
$88,246,220 (USA)
£7,823,233 (UK) (12 September 1995)
£1,645,454 (UK) (13 August 1995)
$12,649,200 (UK)
[B]$264,218,220 (Worldwide)[/B]
$175,972,000 (Non-USA)
$267,575 (Czech Republic)
DEM 32,388,597 (Germany)
$6,690,000 (Italy)Mothman Prophicies (2002)- Kind of a slow but atmosphere heavy story based on a reported sighting of a large winged creature near Pt Pleasant, West Virginia in the 1966-67 time frame. The movie gives it a ufo vibe, they really ran with it. If you want to be really amazed is that they actually have newspapers scanned from the boondocks available online from 1966! (news.google.com).
The Real Story of the Mothman Prophicies.
(news.google.com). The Real Story of the Mothman Prophicies.
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Water World tried to be epic but, in the end lesser of a movie than The Postman which was not great, but better.
Currently watching 'Django Unchained', a movie I have long wanted to see.
As someone who loves spaghetti westerns, and rather likes the earlier oeuvre of Quentin Tarantino, this is proving to be a thoroughly enjoyable evening's viewing.
As someone who loves spaghetti westerns, and rather likes the earlier oeuvre of Quentin Tarantino, this is proving to be a thoroughly enjoyable evening's viewing.
I think you'll you'll enjoy, I did when I saw it for the first time
I'm about to watch The Spiral Staircase (1945)
"Set in early 20th century New England, the film is about a serial killer who murders disabled young women in the community. His next victim apparently is Helen (McGuire), a mute girl working as a live-in companion for the wealthy, bedridden Mrs. Warren (Barrymore).
Mrs. Warren urges her to leave the house, as does Dr. Parry, who knows the reason for Helen's loss of speech and hopes to help her get her voice back. Rounding out the household are Mrs. Warren's son and stepson, her verbally abused nurse, a secretary, a handyman and his wife, a housekeeper with a taste for brandy."
"Set in early 20th century New England, the film is about a serial killer who murders disabled young women in the community. His next victim apparently is Helen (McGuire), a mute girl working as a live-in companion for the wealthy, bedridden Mrs. Warren (Barrymore).
Mrs. Warren urges her to leave the house, as does Dr. Parry, who knows the reason for Helen's loss of speech and hopes to help her get her voice back. Rounding out the household are Mrs. Warren's son and stepson, her verbally abused nurse, a secretary, a handyman and his wife, a housekeeper with a taste for brandy."
"Waterworld" got a bad rap at the time. I really enjoyed it and thought it had been drastically underrated. The Yondu Udonta character in "Guardians of the Galaxy" was a direct lift from that of Dennis Hopper in "Waterworld", seemed to me.
I discovered it a couple of years ago on TCM myself. I need to buy it, I am riveted every single time.
LOL. Um, well there's no accounting for taste, right?
I got to see Failsafe at the movies with my Dad when I was 11 years old. It left an impression, listening to a phone melt.
Wow. Seeing how much this leveled me as an adult, I cannot imagine how scary this must have been at such an impressional age while the nuclear threat was very real. And agreed on the listening to a phone melt.
I may have to pick up the novel too.
Thoroughly enjoyed "Django Unchained" - Christoph Waltz was superb, and Jamie Foxx, Samuel L. Jackson, and Leonardo di Caprio were all characteristically excellent.
Normally, I am vehemently opposed to Marxism. However, when it comes to "Night at the Opera," I make an exception.
Turner Classic Movies is showing Marx brothers movies back to back right now.
Turner Classic Movies is showing Marx brothers movies back to back right now.
Just yesterday watched 12 Years a Slave. Couldn't follow some of it, namely the kidnapping, but the ending nearly brought me to tears.
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One of my favorites, love the film. I still have to get around to seeing the other Tarantino films.
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One of my favorites, love the film. I still have to get around to seeing the other Tarantino films.