movies

[ghostrunner]

Scarface is mediocre, but Michelle Pfeiffer... wow

"ladyhawke" was on this morning.. she could fly in that movie

I love that movie.

Speaking of which, I saw Stardust with her and DeNiro and Claire Danes a few weeks back. I was worried it would be corny, which it was in parts. But overall a pretty well done and enjoyable fantasy film, I thought. I guess it's based on a Neil Gaman book.

De Niro is the worst part of it, actually.

why, because he's a gay, dancing captain of a flying ship?

The character is already bad, and he didn't do it any favors.

[cardinalkarp]

I've got Slumdog Millionare and Quantom of Solace on Bluray at home and still haven't been able to watch them yet.

Did anyone stop the bluray service from Netflix since they bumped it up to an extra $5 a month?

[Dillagii]

I've got Slumdog Millionare and Quantom of Solace on Bluray at home and still haven't been able to watch them yet.

Pay attention to music in detail

[Jocephus]

i watched "mchales navy" (with tommy arnold)...now that was a crapfest

[cardsfansince82]

Donkey Punch- I'm disappointed that the thought of watching this movie even crossed my mind in the first place.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that there's at least one thing wrong with the title.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0988849/

I remembered the trailer I saw awhile back looking like it had potential. But damn, that movie was horrid.

[ghostrunner]

I just watched Seconds (1966) with Rock Hudson - awesome!

I don't get why John Frankenheimer isn't more recognized. The camera work in his films is unlike anything else from American films at that time. There might be some precedent in European films of that era, but he definitely had his own style. Darren Aronofsky has ripped a couple things off this movie. There's a big use of the "attached" camera effect in this one - where the camera seems to follow exactly how the character moves and the rest of the world moves around them. Spike Lee uses it a lot, and I'm pretty sure it's in "Requiem for a Dream."

Plot-wise it's kind of like an extended Twilight Zone. The main character is a dissatisfied suburbanite who goes to a shady company that fakes his death and gives him a new face and name. Some of the visuals are a little too heavy handed - maybe this is where Aronofsky got it from. There's an interesting scene with a bunch of mid 1960's hippies having a Bacchanlia-style party/orgy. Much more nudity than you'll find in other movies of the time. That and a number of other scenes carry on too long, and the end is agonizing. But there's some nice quieter moments, particularly when he goes back to see his old house.

Also - the company is owned by a creepy old man played by Will Geer, who does a fantastic job. Much of the acting in the rest of the film is over the top, but he's very understated and it's a more modern style performance. I read up on Geer and he's an interesting fella. A gay, or maybe bisexual, communist radical who was blacklisted in the 50's. He also played - wait for it - Grandpa Walton.

Along with his lover, Harry Hay, who became an active member of the Communist Party of the United States, Geer became interested in communism. In 1934, Geer and Hay gave support to a labor strike of the port of San Francisco; the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike lasted 83 days. Though marred by violence, it was an organizing triumph, one that became a model for future union strikes.[1] Geer became a reader of the West Coast Communist newspaper, the People's World.....[2]

Geer was blacklisted in the early 1950s for refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. During that period, he built the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga, California, which he and his wife, Herta Ware, helped to found. He combined his acting and botanical careers at the Theatricum, by making sure that every plant mentioned in Shakespeare was grown there.

[Tambourine Man]

The Third Man is next in my queue. I'm looking forward to it quite a bit.

[The Third Man]

The Third Man is next in my queue. I'm looking forward to it quite a bit.

Looking forward to you too, darlin'.

[clake]

I just got back from Sugar. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809922998/info

My girlfriend saw the trailer for it a few weeks ago while seeing Sunshine Cleaning and made the suggestion. Pretty good moving that has a good story line behind it rather than just baseball. Highly recommend it if it's around...

[Freed Roger]

I just watched Seconds (1966) with Rock Hudson - awesome!

I don't get why John Frankenheimer isn't more recognized.

Thanks for the recommendation. queud at the library (the best way to get old movies).

Frankenheimer is great. Manchurian Candidate, I guess, is his most famous. Personally, I liked "Seven Days in May" just a bit more. Timeless classic. "Birdman of Alcatraz" is pretty good as well.

I recently watched "Night of the Hunter" . Really a good movie. Mitchum is, dare I say, "freakin awesome". One of the best performances of a villian/badmen of any era. the kids were central to the plot and they were pretty good, only one part or two where they looked too phony.

Mitchum pulls off a classic when

[SHOW]

he tells the cute little shirley temple girl something like "tell me where the money is or I'll rip your arm off, you silly little detestable wretch!"

and another classic when he

[SHOW]

dissed his new bride and browbeats her on their wedding night. what a psycho scene that is

My one criticism of the movie, the technical elements seemed a bit dated. Movie was 1955 - so they frequently seem to switch from realistic/natural settings to the more stagey type settings.

Double Indemnity is on the docket. I don't think Barbara Stanwyck is hot enough to kill for. But we'll see.