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Post by lj on Jan 4, 2005 4:23:59 GMT -5
Whatever you do, don't see "Soulplane". And don't make fun of me for renting it either. but can i say "i told you so"? ;D ;D
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Post by Valis on Jan 10, 2005 17:58:24 GMT -5
In the first post Jo Jo mentioned Kubrick and oh how I love his films.
I'll never forget the bombriding cowboy at the end of Dr Strangelove , or the Germanspeaking scientist, how telling.
And 2001 what an initiation, well some scientists are figuring out now that planetary alignments and earth/universe-changes do have something connected.
I love A Clockwork Orange which to me shows that normal society has the same motivations and methods of conduct as insane Alex, although society puts different labels to their own selfjustified atrocities.
I missed out on Barry Lyndon, and The Shining needs a separate discussion of it's own (well in a way they all do ;D )
I also missed Full Metal Jacket, but Eyes Wide Shut, now there we have a beauty. It might seem boring to some but for the eyes wide open people it's a very accurate portrayment of the modern day Rome.
Fidelio Jan
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Post by JoJo on Jan 10, 2005 18:12:48 GMT -5
All movies I love friend, you should see Full Metal Jacket, it will blow you away. I just watched Dr. Strangelove a couple of nights ago on Turner Classic movies, and oh man... there are so many funny lines in spite of the serious nature of the situation. ;D Precious bodily fluids...The president telling Dimitri that he loves to call just to talk, don't be hurt...Peter Sellers as the german scientist with the arm with a mind of its own...The executive assisstant who has to call with the codes, but he doesn't have enough change for the pay phone, and they won't accept a collect call... ;D ;D
Eyes Wide Shut, yes once I realized what was going on...spooky..
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Post by eyesbleed on May 21, 2006 11:50:08 GMT -5
Just ordered the Mystery Science Theater 3000 DVD Box #9 & was thrilled silly to see that one of the episodes is THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES.
WOW... one of my favorite episodes! & I haven't seen that in years!
So that's my movie-of-the-month! Just HAD to mention it! THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES.
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Post by TotalInformation on May 21, 2006 13:36:52 GMT -5
Interesting note in the wiki for this film, vis-a-vis the DORIS DAY thing:
Much of the movie was filmed in an old, long-empty Masonic temple in Glendale, California, owned by actor Rock Hudson.
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Post by noodles on May 21, 2006 14:01:09 GMT -5
Has no one seen V For Vendetta yet? I wasn't expecting much due to a poor trailer and a incredibly poor final Matrix movie but VFV is superb. Nice to have a movie like that set in England too.
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Post by eyesbleed on May 21, 2006 14:14:22 GMT -5
Interesting note in the wiki for this film, vis-a-vis the DORIS DAY thing: Much of the movie was filmed in an old, long-empty Masonic temple in Glendale, California, owned by actor Rock Hudson. ;DWhy am I not surprised ;D Looked it up at IMDB & thought this was funny: "SEE: the dancing girls of the carnival murdered by the incredible night creatures of the midway! SEE: the hunchback of the midway fight a duel of death with the mixed up zombies! SEE: the world's first monster musical!" The 1st monster musical..... must be one of the reasons why I like it so much.
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Post by JoJo on May 21, 2006 14:22:11 GMT -5
Has no one seen V For Vendetta yet? I wasn't expecting much due to a poor trailer and a incredibly poor final Matrix movie but VFV is superb. Nice to have a movie like that set in England too. Yes, loved it. How about how they supposedly had killed the "terrorist", and yet he was very much alive.. V blows up a building, and the media explains it as a "controlled demolition".. Read between the lines here, eh?
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Post by TotalInformation on May 21, 2006 14:33:46 GMT -5
V/Vendetta stood up very favorably with the original graphic novel; I might even argue it was superior, particularly with the addition of the bird-flu pretext for the fascist state. The final scene, though, with the entire Parliament exploding & collapsing due to bombs underground wasn't realistic, though. I would also strongly recommend "From Hell," another great Alan Moore graphic novel well-adapted to film (and relevant to the BEATLES story).
I saw DaVinci Code this weekend; it was good for a Ron Howard/Akiva Goldsman flick, which means it was okay. But the ideas involved were important; anything that gets people thinking about coded messages is a good thing. It's an odd contrast to a previous Opie Cunningham film, though -- in A Beautiful Mind they added a wholly gratuitous attack on finding coded messages. Nash's mental issues in real life had absolutely nothing to do with "finding" coded messages in media; that was an invention for the film.
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Post by JoJo on May 21, 2006 17:46:41 GMT -5
A Scanner Darkly is coming out this summer. A great line from the trailer: "What if they come in through the bathroom window like that infamous Beatles song?" Also note what the Robert Downey character has on his t-shirt..
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Post by DarkHorse on May 21, 2006 22:13:08 GMT -5
The summer of 1981 was a summer of hit movies. ;D All of these premiered in June of 1981: Superman II Raiders Of The Lost Ark For Your Eyes Only History Of The World Part I Stripes The Cannonball Run
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Post by luvleerita on May 22, 2006 17:43:21 GMT -5
Just the other night on Oxygen channel, "Valley of The Dolls"....I remember that was something I wasn't allowed to watch when it first came out, I was just a child, but I watched it and thought how tragic the story was that each main character faced, especially Sharon Tate's character, an actress who had to do "nudies" to afford to pay for the health care to her husband who had a debiliatating disease. She found out she had cancer and took a bottle of pills because she knew she wouldn't be able to afford to live without her career..
The story was good, but the costumes were really outrageous, something you may see in a Drag Queen show now.
Also one cameo by a very young Richard Dreyfeus.
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Post by Doc on May 22, 2006 18:23:56 GMT -5
The story was good, but the costumes were really outrageous, something you may see in a Drag Queen show now. lol one can well imagine...... My favorite moment: when Patty Duke's broken and down and out actress charactor has a nervous breakdown in a beer-soaked alley at the end of the flic, screaming prostrate in an alcoholic rage: "I'm Neely O'Hara, NEELY O'HARA!!!!!!!!!!!!" Such odd things we choose for role modeling. P.S. I am on the way for a viewing of "The DaVinci Code." Should be fun and engaging. I love a light, easy going "living room farce." Full report (sans spoilers) when I return. Meaning I can mention only the first half hour or so I guess. I will have my eyes peeled for clues. Maybe even for an anachronistic picture of a Beatle in a subway somewhere..................you never know. Ta-ta.
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Post by Valis on May 24, 2006 6:19:10 GMT -5
I'm really looking forward to Scanner Darkly. A Phil Dick story directed by Richard Linklater featuring Woody Harrelson and music by Radiohead...
English is not my first language but doesn't "infamous" mean famous in a negative way???
It's very interesting for the plot reminds me a lot of the split in reality after 66. A narcotic cop has to spy on and infiltrate the drugsscene, after a while he also starts taking more and more drugs and then he starts reporting on himself for he cannot recall that his druguserself is the same as the copself. He is even told that two hemispheres in his brain are competing.
The Cop=Sgt. Pepper The Junkie=the LSD interview and all that came after
I don't recall the exact quote but didn't Lennon in the Let It Be movie remark something like "The Queen doesn't like agents who do drugs"...not really sure on this one..have to see it again
I think it is also metaphoric on a higher level...we are all fighting ourselves these days in a way.
All Love Jan
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Post by Valis on May 24, 2006 6:25:08 GMT -5
She came in through the bathroom window Protected by a silver spoon But now she sucks her thumb and wanders By the banks of her own lagoon Didn't anybody tell her? Didn't anybody see? Sunday's on the phone to Monday, Tuesday's on the phone to me She said she'd always been a dancer She worked at 15 clubs a day And though she thought I knew the answer Well I knew what I could not say. And so I quit the police department And got myself a steady job And though she tried her best to help me She could steal but she could not rob Didn't anybody tell her? Didn't anybody see? Sunday's on the phone to Monday, Tuesday's on the phone to me Oh yeah.
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Post by Jai Guru Deva on Jul 9, 2006 17:36:38 GMT -5
So I was watching the Nutty Professor, the brilliantly funny 1963 classic starring Jerry Lewis. Now the plot is about a nerdish professor, who to improve his social life, drinks a potion that temporarily turns him into the handsome, but obnoxious, Buddy Love. No doubt, this is a movie John, George, Paul and Ringo probably loved, so as I was watching I was thinking of them, and whether they intended it to be so or not, several things stood out to me... We have a man making the transition from one person to someone completely different. The Nutty Professor, aka Julius Kelp becomes the piano playing musical genius "Buddy Love". Buddy Love--> I thought of the picture of the man on the White Album with glasses and his transition into a pop star. I also thought of "All You Need Is Love"---> as in "Buddy Love"! Julius Kelp--> I thought of Hey Jude, orginally titled "Hey Jules" (said to be for Julian Lennon). When Buddy Love is introduced at the prom, Principle Warfield (played by Del Moore) begins with his introduction with, "The world's greatest everything", kind of like Ringo Starr's song "I'm The Greatest". At the end, the Nutty Professor's parents come into class to sell bottles of their potion and they have a sign, "Be somebody, be anybody", I not only thought of PWR, but it also kind of reminded me of "A Little Help From My Friends"... Do you need anybody I need somebody to love Could it be anybody I want somebody to love.As for Jerry Lewis's co-star Stella Stevens who plays blonde bimbo "Stella Purdy", I'm not quite sure what to say about her--she might remind you of Doris Day a little bit. But She's a real delight in her role as the Nutty Professor's love interest. Jerry Lewis just cracks me up though! The Nutty Professor
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Post by lili on Jul 9, 2006 20:41:00 GMT -5
I thought about watching that today. In fact, as I was changing channels, I saw that it was on. I find your comparisons very interesting. You're right, that is one of Jerry Lewis's greatest roles. Buddy Love... Eddie Murphy totally changed both characters when he reprised the role...
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Post by LOVELYRITA on Jul 9, 2006 21:26:03 GMT -5
It's interesting that in those 1960's "cult" films, that there are things that are Beatle-esque, whether it's the way the guys dressed, or the background music, or things that remind you of something they sang about....so why not have something that might imply something in their personal lives, but so disguised that it does not appear to be about them, but really is. You know what I mean? I hope so, because I don't want to have to act it out in Indian Smoke signals....
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Post by Doc on Jul 14, 2006 15:55:36 GMT -5
I just viewed "Thru a Scanner Darkly" at an afternoon matinee. Sad, scary, alarming, and also a whole lot of fun at the same time........ Robert Downey Jr. and Keanu were razor sharp i their roles; Woody Harrelson added great comic zest to the "tweakery" in Reave's life........he plays an undercover drug cop who gets sucked into his situation......effects are amazing. And the ending credits begin with a poignant dedication from PKD to al the friends he lost, I suppose, to drug influences. media.filmforce.ign.com/media/670/670907/vid_1578458.htmlThis url includes 3 short interview clips (Ryder, Keanu, the director, a supporting actor) and the first 24 minutes of the film.
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Post by JoJo on Jul 16, 2006 0:27:37 GMT -5
Glad you got to see it Doc, it's still not quite in my area yet, although within an hour's drive. Saw Superman Returns today tho.. Set my symbology-dar off..Of course the obvious one is the one all the reviewers are discussing, how Kal-El is sent to earth by his father, "his only son", to save the people of earth. (Marlon Brando was raised from the dead via special effects to reprise hs role from the original movie) Superman as MessiahSuperman returns after a five year trip in space to search for remnants of Krypton, and finds Lois Lane with a man she refuses to marry and their five year old son... It's a fun movie, if you are a fan of the old stuff, you won't be disappointed. And we'll love you like Superman..
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Post by Doc on Jul 16, 2006 2:51:00 GMT -5
Glad you got to see it Doc, it's still not quite in my area yet, although within an hour's drive. Saw Superman Returns today tho.. Set my symbology-dar off..Of course the obvious one is the one all the reviewers are discussing, how Kal-El is sent to earth by his father, "his only son", to save the people of earth. (Marlon Brando was raised from the dead via special effects to reprise hs role from the original movie) Superman as MessiahSuperman returns after a five year trip in space to search for remnants of Krypton, and finds Lois Lane with a man she refuses to marry and their five year old son... It's a fun movie, if you are a fan of the old stuff, you won't be disappointed. And we'll love you like Superman.. Very interesting writing on the parallels. Will see the movie.
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Post by JoJo on Jul 16, 2006 12:40:57 GMT -5
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Post by Jai Guru Deva on Aug 29, 2006 17:25:19 GMT -5
I've been told by my cousin to spread the word about a movie her husband produced. It's called "Trapped Ashes", 5 different directors directed, and it's about 7 people stuck in a room and each one has to tell their scariest story in order to get out (4 different stories in all). Anyway, it played at Cannes and it's showing at a film festival in Toronto. My cousin told me there's a place on myspace about it, but I couldn't find it. Trapped Ashes
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Post by Jai Guru Deva on Sept 15, 2006 0:45:52 GMT -5
VH1 was showing BackBeat the other night (it's about the Beatles' early years). However, it was at the ungodly hour of 1:00am. I'm sure they'll show it again at a decent hour. I remember seeing, for example, the Def Leopard and Rock Star movies on at various hours. So they usually repeat them again.
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Post by lili on Sept 15, 2006 12:51:33 GMT -5
I recently saw a video of "Backbeat" in a discount bin at the local Hollywood Video store. I was tempted to buy it... ;D
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