What Movies Are You Viewing?

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Notaro said:

Rewatched, The Funhouse and Waterworld.

In Funhouse a group of teens get stuck in a ghost train ride overnight and witness a murder, now they have to make it out alive.




Waterworld, the polar ice caps have melted and dry land is now a myth. Tribal groups fight and kill each other for ever dwindling supplies. A young child may hold the secret to the whereabouts of dry land. This was much maligned before it was even released but its actually not that bad movie at all, it has some good action/adventure moments.

A novelization of the screenplay was written by Dean Koontz, under the pseudonym Owen West. As the film production took longer than expected, the book was released before the film. The novel contains a great deal of backstory and characterization which was not used in the film.

Kurben

Watched My Darling Clementine directed by John Ford with Henry Fonda and Victor Mature in the leads as Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday supported by Walter Brennan, Ward Bond and John Ireland. A Good OK Corral movie! These people can act. Made in 1946.

cat

Did you watch Reminiscence, @Hedda Gabler? We watched it, it was just ok for me. But I love watching Rebecca Ferguson. She is so beautiful and played Rose the Hat in Doctor Sleep so well. She is fun to watch. 

Looking forward to Malignant and Cry Macho, both on HBO max in the next few weeks. 

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Kurben said:

Watched My Darling Clementine directed by John Ford with Henry Fonda and Victor Mature in the leads as Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday supported by Walter Brennan, Ward Bond and John Ireland. A Good OK Corral movie! These people can act. Made in 1946.

...you just can't beat the old oat burners, and what a cast!.....

Hedda Gabler

cat said:

Did you watch Reminiscence, @Hedda Gabler? We watched it, it was just ok for me. But I love watching Rebecca Ferguson. She is so beautiful and played Rose the Hat in Doctor Sleep so well. She is fun to watch. 

Looking forward to Malignant and Cry Macho, both on HBO max in the next few weeks. 

No, started it but didn’t get far. It still intrigues me so I’ll get to it eventually . 

Kurben

Watched Tombstone with Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer. So-so. It is over two hours and it lacks a center. So many characters flows in and out of the story without no backstory whatsoever that in the end you wonder why things happen. The OK corral gunfight is the halfway mark here after that there is a lot of repititive horsechases and gunfights. This would have been much better as 6 or 10 episode miniseries where you can have the why and how in too. The leads are good thoigh, especially Kilmer as Doc Holliday. Made in 1993.

Hedda Gabler

Finished Escape From the Planet of the Apes.  This one I remembered for that final switch. Broke my heart then, broke my heart this time too. 

Also, I watched John Waters, Pink Flamingos on Criterion. Oh. My. God. I am seriously traumatized and dumbed down. 

This wasn’t edgy . This wasn’t cool. This was absolute trash. And it pains me to say that because I champion stepping out of the box. 

This was John and his messed up, drugged up friends being freaks. It’s porno, and bad acting and humiliating people he supposedly cared about. 

He’d probably say he was pushing mainstream sensibilities and uptight squares. Avant-gard. Whatever gets you through the night, John. 

I fast forwarded through the gross porn parts and suffered brain cells on the rest.

i felt sorry for them all. Players for some creepy little guy getting his rocks off. Divine actually, honestly ate dog crap. Not fake pretend stuff— REAL dog crap. Would you let someone you supposedly cared about do that?  No way i would. 

Now, having said all that, i saw an interview  with John Waters that was fascinating.  He’s smart, but broken. 

BevVincent

I loved ESCAPE -- I think it was the first POTA movie I saw, around the time the TV series first aired.

Hedda Gabler

I think it was mine too. I just loved that twist at the end.  Even as a kid, my head was thinking ahead to what that meant. And what a mother does for love. 

Just a side — my son used to tell people RicardoMontalban was his dad. 

I wish!

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...another series that my Dad and I bonded over....watched all those "damn dirty apes"....

Kurben

Saw The Long Riders by Walter Hill. About the James-Younger gang. Very competent, violent if episodic western. You see Hill has learnt from Peckinpah and Leone and still created something thats very Hill. It has style and i like the unique take of letting all four pair of brothers that appear in the movie be played by real brothers. So David, Keith and Robert Carradine are the Youngers, James and Stacy Keach are the Jameses, Dennis and Randy Quaid are the Millers and Nicholas and Christopher Guest are the Fords. Throw in Pamela Reed and James Remar in supporting roles and you have a good cast. It also has great music by Ry Cooder. So much to like but its episodic nature without any real bridges between the scenes makes it lose a few points storywise. So its real good without being great. Made in 1980.

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...you've become quite the movie reviewer Kurben.....nicely done!!.....

Hedda Gabler

I love hearing everyone’s reviews— helps me pick and choose, revisit something, in the sea of choices. 

cat

We watched Cruella last night, with Emma Stone. We all liked it! Not the Cruella from the cartoon movies, for sure. Emma Stone does a fabulous job, I wish they would have let her go full on villain but she did a great job of skirting right up to the edge and running with it, then pulling back when she needed to. Lots of comedic moments, the little dog with a patch on one eye stole all his scenes. And Emma Thompson was great too. 

Even Scott enjoyed it. But I think because...Emma Stone. 🤫🙄😄

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cat said:

We watched Cruella last night, with Emma Stone. We all liked it! Not the Cruella from the cartoon movies, for sure. Emma Stone does a fabulous job, I wish they would have let her go full on villain but she did a great job of skirting right up to the edge and running with it, then pulling back when she needed to. Lots of comedic moments, the little dog with a patch on one eye stole all his scenes. And Emma Thompson was great too. 

Even Scott enjoyed it. But I think because...Emma Stone. 🤫🙄😄

Hedda Gabler

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cat said:

We watched Cruella last night, with Emma Stone. We all liked it! Not the Cruella from the cartoon movies, for sure. Emma Stone does a fabulous job, I wish they would have let her go full on villain but she did a great job of skirting right up to the edge and running with it, then pulling back when she needed to. Lots of comedic moments, the little dog with a patch on one eye stole all his scenes. And Emma Thompson was great too. 

Even Scott enjoyed it. But I think because...Emma Stone. 🤫🙄😄

It actually looks like her!!!!

cat

Oh and I meant to mention, about Cruella, it had a killer soundtrack! I have commented more than once about movies not really having soundtracks anymore, and missing that piece of watching movies. 

I guess you could say Disney consistently has soundtracks in their movies. But I very much enjoyed the music in Cruella. Songs we all know, classic rock, and they were well placed within the story. 

Hedda Gabler

The Man Who Would Be King

most excellent. 

Notaro

Rewatched an old one, Shockwaves, a boat runs aground just off the shore of an island. The passengers and crew discover a sole occupant of a dilapidated hotel, a former nazi scientist he tells them a tale of his experiments during the war during which he used zombies as an elite strike force. Unfortunately it seems the elite force have been unleashed once again. This was very low budget, with veteran stars Peter Cushing and John Carradine having stretched out cameos. Still it's a good idea which I think Peter Benchley partially borrowed for his novel White Shark. I enjoyed it, it is quite rough around the edges and slow moving but Cushing always elevates whatever he appears in and it has a young Brooke Adams in a lead role.

Hedda Gabler

Notaro — have you seen the movie Bone Tomahawk?  Anyone seen this? It’s a cannibal western from 2015 with kurt russell. I listened to someone give a little think about it and it sounded intriguing. But i don’t have the service to see it. 

Notaro

Hedda Gabler said:

Notaro — have you seen the movie Bone Tomahawk?  Anyone seen this? It’s a cannibal western from 2015 with kurt russell. I listened to someone give a little think about it and it sounded intriguing. But i don’t have the service to see it. 

I saw it a few years ago Hedda, I enjoyed it, it was pretty savage though, lots of gore. 

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Notaro said:

Rewatched an old one, Shockwaves, a boat runs aground just off the shore of an island. The passengers and crew discover a sole occupant of a dilapidated hotel, a former nazi scientist he tells them a tale of his experiments during the war during which he used zombies as an elite strike force. Unfortunately it seems the elite force have been unleashed once again. This was very low budget, with veteran stars Peter Cushing and John Carradine having stretched out cameos. Still it's a good idea which I think Peter Benchley partially borrowed for his novel White Shark. I enjoyed it, it is quite rough around the edges and slow moving but Cushing always elevates whatever he appears in and it has a young Brooke Adams in a lead role.

...I really liked this one....cheesy enough for a hamburger or not....

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Notaro said:

Hedda Gabler said:

Notaro — have you seen the movie Bone Tomahawk?  Anyone seen this? It’s a cannibal western from 2015 with kurt russell. I listened to someone give a little think about it and it sounded intriguing. But i don’t have the service to see it. 

I saw it a few years ago Hedda, I enjoyed it, it was pretty savage though, lots of gore. 

Notaro

Rewatched, Phantasm and Death Line.

In Phantasm a young boy suspects a strange undertaker is stealing corpses for nefarious purposes. This holds up reasonably well, it has a few creepy moments.



Death Line, people are dissappearing from a certain underground tube station, it seems a long hidden group of subterranean cannibals might be responsible. This was ok, slow moving, Donald Pleasence is in fine form as the detective assigned to the case.

BevVincent

We watched the Broadway production of COME FROM AWAY on Apple TV+ last night. So good.