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Post by JoJo on Apr 5, 2004 21:38:49 GMT -5
Or, seen any good movies lately? ;D Could be new, could be you just saw a classic Hitchcock on cable the other night. I know I can't be clicking through the channels and pass by a Kubrick film. There's a good question, what film makes your finger just stop dead in its tracks on the clicker? Or how about a favorite scene? In the spirit of this board, who can forget the "Twist and Shout" scene from Ferris Bueller? ;D
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Post by xpt626 on Apr 6, 2004 20:37:26 GMT -5
...seen any good movies lately? no, but I had a grand time with the 48-hour Green Acres marathon on TVLand over the weekend ;D I always wanted to grow up to be Lisa....actually, I still do  ;D can we find a smiley with big hair and lots of eyeliner? ;D  |
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Post by JoJo on Apr 6, 2004 21:23:41 GMT -5
We must have been watching the same shows growing up, Xpt! ;D I wish TV land would put Gilligan back on, so i could record the "Mosquitoes" episode. Or you could call that: the Beatles (or a reasonable facsimile) get shipwrecked on Gilligan's Island.
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Post by eyesbleed on Apr 6, 2004 23:29:50 GMT -5
no, but I had a grand time with the 48-hour Green Acres marathon on TVLand over the weekend ;D I always wanted to grow up to be Lisa....actually, I still do ;D YEA! Me too! I've been complaining about Green Acres not being on TV Land for a long time... FINALLY it's back!! I think that's gotta be the best written TV comedy ever. After 2 days I had a good dose of G.A. & was ready for some more Munsters & Beaver & Mayberry & Mr.Ed. Movies... the only "current" movie I've seen in about a decade is Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses. Cool DVD if ya go for that sorta stuff. The DVD menu is hilarious. My crazy young'un doesn't know what to think about me. She's a movie nut & watches everything. The only DVD's I buy are all old movies in the form of either Mystery Science Theater 3000 (got'em all) or the original early 60's gore films by HG Lewis. So when she catches me watching a HG Lewis movie, she's like.... that looks so fake! Why the hell do ya watch those stupid old movies? Special FX's just weren't quite as good 40+yrs ago. And she doesn't get MST3K at all. I'm all buzzed right now coz I just got the new 4-DVD MST3K box #5! Y'all europeans aren't familiar with MST3K are ya? Too bad.! |
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Post by lj on Apr 7, 2004 4:03:50 GMT -5
well... if you guys know me a little by now, you know i'm a movie freak (or nut as eyesbleed said, which sounds better, btw ;D ;D) so i could be talking about movies for HOURS!! but i dont want to bore you guys so i'll just say that as a movie collector i like all kinds, from "my big fat greek wedding" to "plan 9 from outer space". yes, sometimes you gotta take a taste of what's reeeeeally baaaaaaaad to appreaciate what's goooooood. hhehehehehe
about my fav movies, i guess it depends on the mood i am, but i will just name a few so that you can laugh at me!! hhehehehe. "the matrix" would be one, of course. BUT only the first one, please. then "when harry met sally" is one of my fav too, i think it's time to watch it again. and then, i don't know... too many. i could be putting titles here for hours. oh, "breakfast at tiffany's" too. well, too many, too many... ;D ;D
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Post by Fun King on Apr 7, 2004 5:09:29 GMT -5
I like movies, but I'm not specially a freak.
My favourite movies is, probably, "Casablanca". And there, very close, "Blade Runner", "Ed Wood", "North by Northwest"... Many more, really.
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Post by eyesbleed on Apr 7, 2004 7:38:33 GMT -5
"plan 9 from outer space". yes, sometimes you gotta take a taste of what's reeeeeally baaaaaaaad to appreaciate what's goooooood. Oh ya... now yer talkin'! I lost my copy of that.... must get the dvd! The movie "Ed Wood" is good. Johnny Depp did a great job of portraying Mr.Wood. |
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Post by Fun King on Apr 7, 2004 8:36:35 GMT -5
The movie "Ed Wood" is good. Johnny Depp did a great job of portraying Mr.Wood. Well, I haven't seen any real footage from the original Wood, but I don't think the vision of Tim Burton is too reallistic. It seems to me he gives a "romantic" point of view to Wood's entusiasm and the joy of making movies. I don't believe the last "Premiere" of the movie, with all the people aplauding "Plan 9 from Outer Space" is true at all ! |
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Post by eyesbleed on Apr 7, 2004 18:51:29 GMT -5
I don't believe the last "Premiere" of the movie, with all the people aplauding "Plan 9 from Outer Space" is true at all ! Ya really. Looking under yer seat for a barf-bag would be more appropriate! |
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Post by JoJo on Apr 7, 2004 21:25:33 GMT -5
Someone mentioned North By Northwest, yes what an awesome movie! That music, wow! Even when you know what's going to happen, it's such a pleasure to watch, every scene. Another good one, and not just because of AFI voting it #1, Citizen Kane. I recommend taking a film class at your local college, because you learn so much about all the littlle details that go into making a movie. I remember the prof going frame by frame and discussing the lighting, what it may mean, how the shadows fall, you name it. Some movies are hard to take, like a long Fellini film, oh boy! |
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Post by lj on Apr 8, 2004 5:15:25 GMT -5
i took two film classes, one included classic films like "citizen kane". i must say that from the "study" point of view, it's amazing what he did what that film (orson welles, i mean, not the teacher hehe) but no matter what a classic it is, i just can't watch the whole thing from beginning to end. i've got it anyway, but it's there, waiting for me to take some daiquiris ( ;D ;D) and try to look at it with different eyes. it's the same that happened to me with "metropolis". a friend of mine was CRAZY about it, and recommended it so bad, i had to take a look. i'm not going to say the exact word i would use, but let's say.... i didn't like it. i guess it's part having high expectations and part personal taste. but in general, "classics" are over rated (IMHO). well, except "gilda", that i liked. well, and a lot more, of course. what i don't like is when just because you don't like some classic they tell you you're an idiot. (i know not everyone is like that, of cooooourse) but this teacher asked the first day of class who didn't see "casablanca" and one (silly) girl (not me hehe) raised her hand. the teacher looked at her shocked and yelled "what an ignorant!! you are a complete ignorant!! what are you doing here?". some people  |
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Post by JoJo on Apr 8, 2004 10:49:39 GMT -5
Oh wow!!  My prof was not too exciting, but nothing like that! Of course, at my politically correct school a prof who made a comment like that would probably not be teaching for a little whille.. (and that's completely UNprofessional!) I've never been interested in seeing Metropolis either, but CK has layers of meaning all mixed together at once if that makes any sense. Other fun movies we saw in class was one by Buster Keaton, for example. You can see where a lot of physical comedy came from. Battleship Potemkin...Boring!! There's an overrated classic for sure! |
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Post by lj on Apr 8, 2004 15:35:18 GMT -5
hahahaha well, yes, we don't know much about "politically correct" here. and yes, that teacher was rude, but you would be surpised at the things some teachers say. i don't want to bore you with examples, but he wasn't one of the worst. anyway, i agree about CK. we spent weeks analyzing all that you can get from that movie. and we watched it over and over again. hey, maybe that's the reason i don't enjoy it. hehehe. btw, i would recommend "RKO 281" if you haven't seen it. i liked it a lot. which brings me to a related topic. ;D name movies in which they talk about movies and filmakers. examples we've mentioned: "Ed Wood" and "RKO 281".  |
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Post by Doc on Apr 9, 2004 2:14:38 GMT -5
Citizen Kane is an amazing piece of work. The lighting, the line up of shots, the symbols, the plot line----all genius efforts. Welles the hyper gifted bad boy of the cinema world. The world could not totally grasp his work. Too bad. Wat was the last film, The Fabulous Andersons, or Alderbees or something like that? I want to see it.
I viewed Metropolis expecting to be bored and found it fascinating. Part of that was the overwhelming linkage I percieved in it to the legends and folklore of the ancient world; so much of Mystery Babylon, anti-diluvian gods, Wagnerian underworld, dreams of world domination, the absolute corruption of those with absolute power, and the ability of love to cause redemption or at least start one on the road to it. The camera tricks are a textbook for EVERY EFFECT used today, done with primitive devices that, given the time and place, are astonishingly effective to the eye. No one expects digital perfection from such an old piece, yet the soft focus diffuse approach in the old style sometimes work better to the viwer than new technology---it is "fantasy" or story telling visuals, not accurate scientific ones we get in "Lord of the RIngs." Now, LOTR is GREAT, but I have room in my special effects pallette for the old and the new.
Orson Welles was another Shakespearian cypherer. We may never know all the little things he cleverly slipped into the film. Orson could have been a useful creative force for the Beatle clue machine................(not saying I thought he was).
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Post by JoJo on Nov 28, 2004 12:41:39 GMT -5
I just saw a movie on the Sundance channel, and I was going to recommend you see it if you get that channel, but I guess I cought the last showing. It called "Tom Dowd and the Language of Music" This was a guy who produced music since the late 40's until his passing about 2 years ago. He worked with some of the greats, Ray Charles, Cream, LedZep, it goes on and on. He was the first to use an eight track machine, for a good ten years before The Beatles were first able. (or pretty much everyone else)
This movie shows the role of "lone genius", without whom there would not be a lot of the improvements in music production everyone takes for granted.
A summary from the Sundance site:
Appeared at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival While his work may be obscure to those who don't memorize the credits on classic CDs, in the music business Tom Dowd is legendary. A recording engineer and producer who transformed the sound of American music, Dowd influenced many all-time great albums by John Coltrane, The Allman Brothers Band, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk and Otis Redding. Mark Moormann's inspiring documentary features interviews with Dowd and musicians including Ray Charles, Eric Clapton and Aretha Franklin, to recount the work of this unsung hero of the recording studio.
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Post by pennylane on Dec 4, 2004 0:07:37 GMT -5
 i watched ella enchanted lasy night i did like it i did *nods*
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Post by Girl on Dec 4, 2004 8:52:17 GMT -5
I thought the Hellboy character was great. The film itself seemed like a lot ended up on the cutting room floor. Pretty good, but I feel some scenes could have been fleshed out a little more. Van Helsing was awesome. 'Fess up now, how many times have you watched Titanic, or am I the only hopeless romantic around here? (Maybe this is more of a question for the ladies.) BTW, do you know I have a replica of that necklace? (I would!  ) I don't get to wear it a lot, it is a bit much... think I put it on that New Year's... |
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Post by JoJo on Dec 4, 2004 9:04:27 GMT -5
Haha, yeah that's for sure! ;D I watched it once, and it was ok, but I just didn't get why everyone was so emotional about it. Well, I mean, I was having a discussion with a group of people and one of the guys made a point of saying he cried. (what a wuss, just kidding, hahah!) I can get teary eyed though, don't get me wrong, when the kid in "Old Yeller" has to kill his dog because he realizes it has rabies, oh man! I'm like ->  |
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Post by Girl on Dec 4, 2004 9:08:01 GMT -5
Old Yeller... man, that takes me back. And yes, I still cry at that one... still traumatized from the first time I saw it as a youngster...  |
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Post by eyesbleed on Dec 4, 2004 18:04:50 GMT -5
Old Yeller... man, that takes me back. And yes, I still cry at that one... still traumatized from the first time I saw it as a youngster... Animal stories will get me every time! Kill & torture people all ya want.... I'm not a "people-person", but when they start doin' **** to animals I simply can't take it. I'll crack up in a split second if it involves animals. Titanic? Would ya believe zero? But I don't watch many movies; unless it's on a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode. Most recent movie dvd's bought around here are: Dawn of The Dead, The Forbidden Zone (Danny Elfmans soundtrack is nuts! I love it), House of 1000 Corpses, Eraserhead, Frankenhooker, 2000 Maniacs, & Help! |
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Post by Girl on Dec 5, 2004 20:56:53 GMT -5
I'm with you, kill and torture people all you want, but man... those animals'll get ya every time... I watched Dawn of the Dead, and LMAO...  |
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Post by JoJo on Jan 1, 2005 23:14:00 GMT -5
Starz is having a James Bond month, yes! ;D Just watched Diamonds Are Forever, there's even a double/lookalike subplot.. First scene, the doctor is saying: Now we come to the most delicate part of the operation, the nose.. |
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Post by Doc on Jan 2, 2005 0:13:51 GMT -5
Egypt is the face, the Great Pyramid, the Nose.
A nose is pure architecture (funny as this sounds). It's the only high rise on the skyline.
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Post by DarkHorse on Jan 2, 2005 18:19:18 GMT -5
Whatever you do, don't see "Soulplane". And don't make fun of me for renting it either. |
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Post by eyesbleed on Jan 2, 2005 20:03:45 GMT -5
And don't make fun of me for renting it either. Now that's kinda askin' a lot isn't it? |
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;D
My prof was not too exciting, but nothing like that! Of course, at my politically correct school a prof who made a comment like that would probably not be teaching for a little whille.. 
