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What was the last film you watched?
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It's a weirdly intense film. Kind of like a more violent version of the last act of Scream, if they were all stuck on a boat in the middle of the ocean.
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The name Harpoon immediately rang alarm bells for me, so this is why I've been putting it off @Mel O'Drama
Think I'll just go watch Candyman and see people get taken apart with a meat hook instead.
Think I'll just go watch Candyman and see people get taken apart with a meat hook instead.
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Back From Eternity (1956)
This is one I’ve never seen before. It’s basically about a plane that crashes in the South American jungle with 11 people on board. Then the real fun begins as the locals start chasing them around. Not the greatest movie I’ve ever seen but I did find it highly entertaining. Picture Gilligan’s Island meets Survivor if you want an idea of what it’s like.
This is one I’ve never seen before. It’s basically about a plane that crashes in the South American jungle with 11 people on board. Then the real fun begins as the locals start chasing them around. Not the greatest movie I’ve ever seen but I did find it highly entertaining. Picture Gilligan’s Island meets Survivor if you want an idea of what it’s like.
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Spider-man: Homecoming (2017) 10/10 i hadn't seen that one yet i watched it late last night
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Days of Heaven (1978)
Set in early 1900s Texas, it’s mainly about the conning of a rich wheat farmer. This film didn’t do very well monetarily but it did win an Oscar for cinematography, which is pretty clear to see why. The images throughout the movie are quite stunning.
Set in early 1900s Texas, it’s mainly about the conning of a rich wheat farmer. This film didn’t do very well monetarily but it did win an Oscar for cinematography, which is pretty clear to see why. The images throughout the movie are quite stunning.
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Belonging (2004)
A nice little film. Poignant and human and with some nicely flawed characters. And a great cast including Peter Sallis, Rosemary Harris and Kevin Whately.
I don't think I've seen anything with Brenda Blethyn in before.
A nice little film. Poignant and human and with some nicely flawed characters. And a great cast including Peter Sallis, Rosemary Harris and Kevin Whately.
I don't think I've seen anything with Brenda Blethyn in before.
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A quirky, outlandish, Roald Dahl-esque thriller. It's been 25 years since I had watched this relatively unknown Aussie gem on television and now I got the chance to rewatch it in crystal clear picture quality on "that other website". (crystal clear by my standards, not the 4K HD Blu-ray crowd).
Fabulous sets, good camera work, twists & turns and a great performance by Phil Collins.
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Suddenly Last Summer (1959)
This was Montgomery Clift's 12th film and my 17th and last film in my journey through his entire filmography. A film about Catherine, a character played by Elizabeth Taylor who is traumatised after witnessing her cousin's violent death and she is committed to an asylum. Her aunt (the cousin's mother) played by Katharine Hepburn wants to cover up the events surrounding her son's death by asking a neurosurgeon, played by Monty Clift, to perform a lobotomy on Catherine. The film is adapted from a play be Tennessee Williams and it shows. The scenes are long and packed with dialogue and the action is limited to a few locations. The reason for all the secrecy is that the dead cousin was gay, although this is only hinted at and by not addressing this issue directly, the film does feel like it's dancing around the main point and this takes away from the drama. However, it's not a bad film.
This was Montgomery Clift's 12th film and my 17th and last film in my journey through his entire filmography. A film about Catherine, a character played by Elizabeth Taylor who is traumatised after witnessing her cousin's violent death and she is committed to an asylum. Her aunt (the cousin's mother) played by Katharine Hepburn wants to cover up the events surrounding her son's death by asking a neurosurgeon, played by Monty Clift, to perform a lobotomy on Catherine. The film is adapted from a play be Tennessee Williams and it shows. The scenes are long and packed with dialogue and the action is limited to a few locations. The reason for all the secrecy is that the dead cousin was gay, although this is only hinted at and by not addressing this issue directly, the film does feel like it's dancing around the main point and this takes away from the drama. However, it's not a bad film.
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The Arrangement (1969)
Kirk Douglass’s marriage to Deborah Kerr is falling apart and between that and his affair with Faye Dunaway he has a serious breakdown. Terrific acting performances all the way around. I’m just wondering how much worse the breakdown would’ve been for him had he met Faye about 12 years later when she was known as Mommie Dearest.
Kirk Douglass’s marriage to Deborah Kerr is falling apart and between that and his affair with Faye Dunaway he has a serious breakdown. Terrific acting performances all the way around. I’m just wondering how much worse the breakdown would’ve been for him had he met Faye about 12 years later when she was known as Mommie Dearest.
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Je T'aime Moi Non Plus (1976)
I was long aware of the Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin song with the same title but it wasn't until I was checking what films Gerard Depardieu had made for the Movie Top 10 thread that I became aware of this film's existence. The film is a bit of a mess. It's the story of an androgynous looking young woman who meets 2 gay truckers when they enter the café she is working in. One is attracted to her boyish looks and they start a relationship, much to the annoyance of his partner. The jealous boyfriend tries to kill her but is stopped by his partner only to be subjected to homophobic abuse from the woman. That is the thread bare plot which is padded out with some of what must be the least erotic sex scenes ever made for a feature film. The only thing I like about this film was the soundtrack.
I was long aware of the Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin song with the same title but it wasn't until I was checking what films Gerard Depardieu had made for the Movie Top 10 thread that I became aware of this film's existence. The film is a bit of a mess. It's the story of an androgynous looking young woman who meets 2 gay truckers when they enter the café she is working in. One is attracted to her boyish looks and they start a relationship, much to the annoyance of his partner. The jealous boyfriend tries to kill her but is stopped by his partner only to be subjected to homophobic abuse from the woman. That is the thread bare plot which is padded out with some of what must be the least erotic sex scenes ever made for a feature film. The only thing I like about this film was the soundtrack.
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Luxury Liner (1948)
A cruise ship captain’s daughter has dreams of becoming an opera singer so when she finds out that her father’s next voyage will coincidentally have some opera singers onboard she sneaks onto the ship. She gets caught and her father punishes her but she soon befriends one of the passengers and starts to play Cupid trying to fix her up with her father. All in all a pretty good movie.
A cruise ship captain’s daughter has dreams of becoming an opera singer so when she finds out that her father’s next voyage will coincidentally have some opera singers onboard she sneaks onto the ship. She gets caught and her father punishes her but she soon befriends one of the passengers and starts to play Cupid trying to fix her up with her father. All in all a pretty good movie.
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I've seen that one.
Jane Powell made a lot of great musicals, including Seven Brides For Seven Brothers with Howard Keel.
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May Contain Nuts (2009)
This was one of those films where I read the premise and wondered if I might not be the key demographic. And I came out of it feeling the same way.
Perhaps it's one of those films that resonates well with parents who can smile in recognition of some of the competitiveness and pretension that comes from interacting with other parents or the joy, truth and stress that raising children brings.
It wasn't entirely without its charming, heartwarming or funny moments, but overall it felt very much like an am dram reinterpretation of a Mike Leigh play, where wryness and bile - and humour - is lost in the mix. I'm fine with the characters being entitled and unlikeable, but I struggled with a subtext that suggests the audience is supposed to "get" them, and I just didn't. The woman was whiny while hubby had that aura where you can sense him trying (far too hard) to be natural and funny in his delivery. Imagine an hour and a half of watching that guy in the advert who asks Alexa about Mount Vesuvius married to one of those smug Oral B housewives and you have this.
It also had that Desperate Housewives dramedy tone prevalent at the time, where frenetically quirky music cues the audience in to which bits are supposed to be funny.
This was one of those films where I read the premise and wondered if I might not be the key demographic. And I came out of it feeling the same way.
Perhaps it's one of those films that resonates well with parents who can smile in recognition of some of the competitiveness and pretension that comes from interacting with other parents or the joy, truth and stress that raising children brings.
It wasn't entirely without its charming, heartwarming or funny moments, but overall it felt very much like an am dram reinterpretation of a Mike Leigh play, where wryness and bile - and humour - is lost in the mix. I'm fine with the characters being entitled and unlikeable, but I struggled with a subtext that suggests the audience is supposed to "get" them, and I just didn't. The woman was whiny while hubby had that aura where you can sense him trying (far too hard) to be natural and funny in his delivery. Imagine an hour and a half of watching that guy in the advert who asks Alexa about Mount Vesuvius married to one of those smug Oral B housewives and you have this.
It also had that Desperate Housewives dramedy tone prevalent at the time, where frenetically quirky music cues the audience in to which bits are supposed to be funny.
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Seconds (1966)
This in an interesting film but not a great one. Apparently it was one of Rock Hudson's favourite performances and he is good in it and it's a departure from the light comedies and romantic leads that audiences were more familiar seeing him in.
The plot concerns a man who is dissatisfied with life and is convinced to go to a company to create a new life for him with a totally new identify and physical appearance. There's an unexpected scene in which Rock Hudson's character witnesses a group of people taking off all their clothes and jumping in a big vat of grapes to crush them, presumably to make wine. The scene contains full frontal male and female nudity and towards the end they rip off Rock's clothes and he joins in the grape crushing. It's not the kind of scene you find in a mainstream film with a major Hollywood star back in the 1960s. It's a clever story with a nice twist at the end.
This in an interesting film but not a great one. Apparently it was one of Rock Hudson's favourite performances and he is good in it and it's a departure from the light comedies and romantic leads that audiences were more familiar seeing him in.
The plot concerns a man who is dissatisfied with life and is convinced to go to a company to create a new life for him with a totally new identify and physical appearance. There's an unexpected scene in which Rock Hudson's character witnesses a group of people taking off all their clothes and jumping in a big vat of grapes to crush them, presumably to make wine. The scene contains full frontal male and female nudity and towards the end they rip off Rock's clothes and he joins in the grape crushing. It's not the kind of scene you find in a mainstream film with a major Hollywood star back in the 1960s. It's a clever story with a nice twist at the end.
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The truth is I’ve never been a big fan of musicals for whatever reason but I really liked this one. I’m glad I gave it a chance.I've seen that one.
Jane Powell made a lot of great musicals, including Seven Brides For Seven Brothers with Howard Keel.
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Bicentennial Man.
Robin Williams and Embeth Davidtz (in both roles as Portia and Little Miss) give performances that are without equal.
Visually stunning and accompanied by an original score that aurally sweeps you off your feet and into the lives you Andrew and Little Miss/Portia.
Excellent in every conceivable way.
Robin Williams and Embeth Davidtz (in both roles as Portia and Little Miss) give performances that are without equal.
Visually stunning and accompanied by an original score that aurally sweeps you off your feet and into the lives you Andrew and Little Miss/Portia.
Excellent in every conceivable way.
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I watched this film and thought it was interesting. Not sure Steve Coogan was the best choice for the lead. When the character is all about what he sees as being important American values it seems kind of strange to employ a Brit to play that part. However, he just about pulls it off. The real star is the girl that played his niece, such a charismatic and engaging screen presence, I hope she goes on to achieve big things in films. Nice film which on the surface is about what people think American values should be but fundamentally is about family and personal values.Hot Air (2019)
Steve Coogan as a Trump/Farage type (with something of the Greg Sumner to him). Taylor Russell was incredibly endearing as his niece. I kept seeing Bobby Simpson from Home and Away, and there was more than a little of the Jodi Foster about her.
Steve gave an absolutely blinding speech about 21st Century American values in the last third of the film. Sadly, I can't find it as shown, but I did find a bizarre remix (note Judith Light opening things up as Coogan's Hillary Clinton type nemesis):
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Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Terrific performances by Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis but something just seemed to be missing for me.
Lancaster plays a powerful gossip columnist who is so overprotective of his younger sister that he hires a press agent, played by Curtis, to break her up with her boyfriend at all costs.
I liked the premise on paper but it just fell flat for me.
Terrific performances by Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis but something just seemed to be missing for me.
Lancaster plays a powerful gossip columnist who is so overprotective of his younger sister that he hires a press agent, played by Curtis, to break her up with her boyfriend at all costs.
I liked the premise on paper but it just fell flat for me.
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Yes, it's a strange one. He did convince me, though. He certainly looks the part.
She was very likeable and yes: charismatic and engaging covers it well. Very watchable indeed.