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[Spencerdl]

I didn't realize how long it had been since I went to the movies and on a date for that matter...LOL . I was talked into going and seeing a "girly" movie and I must admit that I enjoyed myself. I actually learned something about American History. Segregation was a very sad time in our history. Good Movie...

 

[Apple fanboy]

Not a bad way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

 

[Queen6]

As promised time for something out of this world The Thing From Another World (1951) start of the trilogy. A typical film of the era, deviates from the originating short story (who goes there) all the same great yarn in it's own right. One of the best 50's Scifi classics. Great character interaction and a strong story, very much a solid favourite of mine.

More "Things" to come


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[ThisBougieLife]

I watched Whiplash last night and...wow. Chazelle is an amazing director. He's had two best picture nominees in his short career.

 

[RootBeerMan]

Sat down with the family last night and watched the rebooted Ghostbusters. As usual, the reviewers and fanboi's got it completely wrong. This was a thoroughly enjoyable and funny movie and took nothing away from the original. I loved the cameo's by the surviving originals and the fact that Akroyd was an executive producer on it gave it all the cachet it needed. Hope they get a sequel.

 

[Huntn]

Moonlight (2016)- Slow moving human interest story about the life of a young gay black man in the inner city. Subdued portrayal. Undecided about using the word poignant to describe this movie.

 

[RobinInOR]

Something for our Sunday. Tossup between Gods Must Be Crazy and Tank Girl. The rippers win

 

[ItsNotaTumor]

The Love Witch - a fun, sexy throwback to late 60s/early 70s schlock films. Really wonderful production and costuming.

 

[Queen6]

The Love Witch - a fun, sexy throwback to late 60s/early 70s schlock films. Really wonderful production and costuming.

Couldn't get into to this one, however everyone seems to like it so will give it another shot. Kind of lost it a little with the odd mix of 70's gear presented in the modern era.

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[Queen6]

Next in the line of "Things" The Thing from 1982, arguably the best of the three films based on the novella Who Goes There? One of John Carpenters best films, if not the best. Rob Bottin's practical effects still impress and stand out to this day. Sticking closely to the original story, the real terror is psychological with the team unable to know who to trust & believe. Tension & isolation is palpable throughout with solid performances by all, characters you can be invested in, pitted against an unimaginable "Thing"

Well recommend for all that enjoy the horror & Sci-Fi genres, absolutely a must see

All three "Thing" films are decent, however the 1982 release is the standout...


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[pachyderm]

I watched Whiplash last night and...wow. Chazelle is an amazing director. He's had two best picture nominees in his short career.

o.my. i love this film.

 

[kazmac]

Bunch of Shaws revists including Demon of the Lute. This one is so wonderfully off the wall it made me smile a lot last night.

 

[kazmac]

It's been a Ti Lung marathon here (really when it is not a Ti Lung Marathon)... Revisited Shatter (1974) Love Ti and Peter Cushing in this could have been great Hammer spy thriller, if only Stuart Whitman and the director didn't phone it in.

Finally watched the SB movies about Empress Cixi (in which Ti plays her hamstringed son, the new Emperor...the first film, The Empress Dowager (1975) was excellent, its sequel, The Last Tempest (1976 not so much despite Ti and Yueh Hua giving some very good performances. I wish they would have done a third that touched on the Boxer Rebellion and the son's poisoning.)

and a revisit to one of the worst movies Ti ever participated in, The Snake Prince (1976). This was my former contender for most awful Shaw Brothers movie I'd ever seen, but in rewatching this off kilter mix of Chinese mythology, Romeo and Juliette hippie communes with Chinese disco pop dance numbers, and Snakes good, Humans bad: I laughed it all off and wound up respecting Ti more for having the balls to participate.

 

[Suture]

Saw Logan (again). Not the typical superhero movie, and I like that. Hard to say anything without spoiling. Laura was hilariously cute... and vicious. I didn't care for those other 2 Wolverine movies, but I enjoyed this one. Also, don't waste your time at the end for a teaser after the credits -- there wasn't one.

 

[bradl]

Saw Moana for the first time over the weekend. Great movie, and I prefer that over Frozen, though Frozen will always take the spotlight... The Rock did well in that, and the actress who voiced Moana is the spitting image of that character, and gorgeous for her age.

My kids and I actually had more fun finding the Easter Eggs in the movie, and that isn't taking anything away from the movie, because it totally captivated them! I won't spoil it, but let's just say that a few Disney characters make cameos in this in ways you wouldn't expect.

Bonus points: Maoi performed part of a Haka in the movie.

BL.

 

[ItsNotaTumor]

Kong: Skull Island

Pro: King Kong is awesome, has a personality and somewhat continues the solid ground Peter Jackson set for Kong.

Con: Script is garbage. Effects look OK but mostly eh. Kong is underutilized. Editing is choppy. Tom Hiddleston is badly cast and doesn't look like anyone from the 70s. Feels like it has the same problems as Jurassic World - great animals/dinos but everything else is unsatisfying.

Rent it with a redbox code four months from now if you absolutely must see this movie.

 

[Huntn]

Kong: Skull Island

Pro: King Kong is awesome, has a personality and somewhat continues the solid ground Peter Jackson set for Kong.

Con: Script is garbage. Effects look OK but mostly eh. Kong is underutilized. Editing is choppy. Tom Hiddleston is badly cast and doesn't look like anyone from the 70s. Feels like it has the same problems as Jurassic World - great animals/dinos but everything else is unsatisfying.

Rent it with a redbox code four months from now if you absolutely must see this movie.

I'll stream this.
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Next in the line of "Things" The Thing from 1982, arguably the best of the three films based on the novella Who Goes There? One of John Carpenters best films, if not the best. Rob Bottin's practical effects still impress and stand out to this day. Sticking closely to the original story, the real terror is psychological with the team unable to know who to trust & believe. Tension & isolation is palpable throughout with solid performances by all, characters you can be invested in, pitted against an unimaginable "Thing"

Well recommend for all that enjoy the horror & Sci-Fi genres, absolutely a must see

All three "Thing" films are decent, however the 1982 release is the standout...


Q-6

About 100x better than E.T. which stole it's box office in 1982.
[doublepost=1489534891][/doublepost]Swiss Family Robinson (1960)- Amazing what can be accomplished with a wrecked ship to salvage. Still a good movie! Filmed in Tobago.

 

[LizKat]

Documentary - women playing in jazz and big bands: The Girls in the Band

I rented it from iTunes but it's currently available for streaming on Amazon as well.

 

[Queen6]

About 100x better than E.T. which stole it's box office in 1982.

A shame really given how good a film The Thing is. Wish Hollywood would get back to making decent films for adults, as opposed to the current trend of nearly all being PG 13, like with all, theres a time and place for everything within reason, equally too much of the same adds up to a dull mix.

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[kazmac]

Having now digested most of Chang Cheh's youth movies for Shaw Brothers (made in and around his gory wuxia and Republic era martial arts flicks), yesterday's viewing of Young People (1973) killed any desire to see any more of Chang Cheh's attempts at this kind of story. While it was obviously a wink to the young audience, depressing young pop star Agnes Chen's ballads made me rethink how maudlin Goth music can be. Miss Chen was ridiculously popular in China (and especially Japan at the time), but her doom and gloom about fading youth (a sixteen year old (if that) singing about fading youth?!?) made me almost hit the fast forward. No surprise by the third number she performs in this awkward tale of scholastic brotherhood, I full throttled the fast forward button. Most of my faves in Death Metal might be disbanding (down to two bands now), but I have never liked acoustic ballads and these played for about three minutes more than my threshold could manage. I definitely felt like the King of Swamp Castle from Monty Python and the Holy Grail ("Stop that! Stop that! Shut your gob you!")

So, right, Chang Cheh's theme of brotherhood. The Music and Dance club led by cool drummer -and actually very good timekeeper- Hung Wai (David Chiang) are picked on by the Sports and Martial Art club captains (respectively led by a spectacularly obnoxious Lam Tat (Ti Lung) and almost mute Ho Tai (Chen Kuan Tai). Lam and Ho are fighting over the same status-seeking girl (Princess), when they aren't trying to up each other in their athletic prowess. As Princess hops from Ho to Lam and back to Ho, the tensions escalate, until the kung fu fight breaks out. Yes, well that had to happen (and thank goodness it did.) Stepping in as referee is our little drummer boy Hung Wai, who is actually a proficient martial artist himself (just like Lam and school Kung Fu captain, Ho.) Eventually the three club captains become best friends and leave the elitist Princess all by her lonesome.

So where does this leave the young Miss Chen? To play more songs and drive yours truly up a tree. While it was great fun to see David Chiang really play the drums (not just faking it. He was quite good) and Chen Kuan Tai and Ti Lung bust out the kung fu, watching this movie was more than a little painful because how forced it seems (unlike Chiang and Ti's own youth films which truly understand their audience and were quite good.) If there is one positive thing to take away (besides how much I dig Ti and Chiang and those rocking early 70s clothes), it's fighting never solves the problem. Peace is the answer. That doesn't stop me from enjoying a cracking good fight and wishing for a much better script.

Even my inner teeny bopper who has reemerged while watching some Shaw Brothers movies said, "Ewwwwwww! This is now the worst Shaw Brothers movie you have ever seen."

 

[RobinInOR]

Last week was all of the Tremors movies 1-5. Not sure which one I liked best (after the original). They're all entertaining in their own way. 2 expanded the species, 3 was kind of a dumb return to Perfection and another expansion of the species, 4 was the prequel Wild West version, and 5 was Africa

Monday was Skyjacked - typical for the first of the airline hijacking movies. Don't read the IMDB page because it gives away the baddie.

Last night was 'The Hidden'. Eh... some good pieces and I like Kyle McLaughlin but it was a little too much like an urban new Thing 'who is it now' and I really didn't like the choice of music lol... violence was a little over the top for me but husband found some new guns that he hadn't seen before (he always looks up movies in imfdb.org)

 

[marley9]

 

[Huntn]

Lavender (2016)- Murder mystery, supernatural thriller. I don't remember this in theaters. Seemed like sometimes it was heavy on the atmosphere for atmosphere's sake. It was watchable.

 

[Queen6]

Last of the Thing's The Thing (2011) set as a prequel to John Carpenters The Thing (1982) comes off as rather more a remake than a prequel, adding a female protagonist into the mix. Expands, or possibly just spells out more of the Things lore, not a bad Sci-Fi film by any means, however for me it lacks the deep underlying psychological terror that the 1982 can generate in ones mind. Over all worth a watch if your into the genre.

[doublepost=1489680129][/doublepost]Andrzej Zulawski's Possession (1981) a highly polarising film to say the very least, nor a film, one would watch frequently. Possession deserves it's R rating, however be warned this is very far from the average horror film, being far more focused on drama; a character study of madness and self loathing. Very far from the mainstream, yet not classically arthouse; bizarre, cruel, disturbing, frenetic, powerful, traumatic, loaded with visual symbolism.

The best way to sum up Possession is you will either get it or you wont, even if you do you'll still be thinking what have I just watched, nor will you forget in a hurry...

For me Possession is a film to be watched, yet in some respects it repels. Watch and see for yourself, however don't blame the messenger


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[Huntn]

Last of the Thing's The Thing (2011) set as a prequel to John Carpenters The Thing (1982) comes off as rather more a remake than a prequel, adding a female protagonist into the mix. Expands, or possibly just spells out more of the Things lore, not a bad Sci-Fi film by any means, however for me it lacks the deep underlying psychological terror that the 1982 can generate in ones mind. Over all worth a watch if your into the genre.

[doublepost=1489680129][/doublepost]Andrzej Zulawski's Possession (1981) a highly polarising film to say the very least, nor a film, one would watch frequently. Possession deserves it's R rating, however be warned this is very far from the average horror film, being far more focused on drama; a character study of madness and self loathing. Very far from the mainstream, yet not classically arthouse; bizarre, cruel, disturbing, frenetic, powerful, traumatic, loaded with visual symbolism.

The best way to sum up Possession is you will either get it or you wont, even if you do you'll still be thinking what have I just watched, nor will you forget in a hurry...

For me Possession is a film to be watched, yet in some respects it repels. Watch and see for yourself, however don't blame the messenger


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While not the same, they are exploring something like this in the FX TV show: Legion. A hitchhiker who takes control of a host. The first season seems to be devoted to this theme.