movies

[MrCrowesGarden]

Phil Hartman is perfect in Jingle All The Way.

[jim]

I honestly thought the Little Prince had one of the clearest and most powerful message of any piece of literature I have ever read. Very few pieces of literature have caused me to stop and think twice like that book has. I laugh at the invented silliness at work that makes people feel important in a grown up world because of that book, I despise narrow mindedness of people even more because of that book, and maybe more than anything I am reminded to try to look at the world without the prejudices built up in me like calluses over time.

I know this isn't a book thread, but since it was brought up I'll come to the defense of it. If the world could read that one book and soak the message in, it would be a much better place to live.

It's a really good book.

[IMADreamer]

The last Hobbit movie was long. Really long. It was basically 10 minutes of story and 2 hours of fighting.

[Michael]

Everyone should watch The Hustler on Netflix. My favorite gambling movie of all time.

[Famous Mortimer]

I'm doing the "Silent Night, Deadly Night" movies.

Part 1 was pretty bad, but part 2 is a so-bad-it's-good classic. Tonight is part 3 (directed by "Two Lane Blacktop"'s Monte Hellman).

I try to write film reviews too, so I gave this one a bash. Please have a read, if you like.

http://iscfc.net/2014/12/22/christmas-m ... ht-2-1987/

[JL21]

Oh man... that first one was so bad that I wouldn't dare tackle the sequels.

[Famous Mortimer]

Part 2 handily gives over its first 40 minutes to recap the first movie, in excruciating detail, too!

[JL21]

High five for this, sir:

I have a Ragdoll. His name is Yadier Miaow-lina

[Vidor]

Christ, I know we live in an era so cynical and banal that comic books have been labeled high art. I guess it makes sense then that The Little Prince and ET are now works worthy to be considered mature expressions of the human experience.

I can't speak about The Little Prince and I agree with you that the omnipresence of comic books in our culture is terrifying. But "E.T." is absolutely worthy of respect as an "expression of the human experience". Part of the human experience is having been a child once.

[Famous Mortimer]

High five for this, sir:

I have a Ragdoll. His name is Yadier Miaow-lina

Perhaps my greatest ever pet-naming moment.



I just watched "Silent Night, Deadly Night 3". Because it was made by a director with a bit of track record (Monte Hellman, who did "Two Lane Blacktop" and "Road to Nowhere") there's a tendency to give it credit where it's not due. But crush that tendency, because it's bloody awful. No wonder Hellman retired from directing for 17 years after it.

My next article idea - "film franchises where the same bit of footage is used three times or more". There's a bar fight in "Deathstalker" that's used in all the first three movies, and now that shot of the parents getting offed in the first "Silent Night, Deadly Night" has made it to three uses. Perhaps I've seen too many bad franchises lately.

I read threads like this and think about amazing-looking films like "The Babadook", but then I'm compelled by some force I don't understand to put on another low-budget 80s post-apocalypse movie.