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Both films deserve more praise than they're getting.
This was my first trip back to the cinema since I saw Tenet last summer. I thought the film was pretty tense throughout and I think it is definitely worth a watch but it is not something I can see myself watching again.
Things seem to be opening up again with the vaccines being rolled out, I hope we will be seeing Bond on the big screen in October.
Saturday a DC double bill.
Birds of Prey. As much as i love Margot Robbie? OMG why did i bother. X_X
Joker. Wow! What a performance from Phoenix! Fantastic movie! :-bd
Sunday.
Sicario 2 Soldado. Another engrossing movie. Loved it, Del Toro and Brolin make such a brilliant partnershipo.
Geostorm. Love Butler in this popcorn fest of a disaster movie. :-bd
Tuesday.
Bloodshot. Vin Diesel being Vin Diesel! \m/
Haven t seen Bloodshot. Geostorm was ok, but forgettable. About the others, completely agree.
Classic early horror in ethereal two-color Technicolor, with eerie green and florid red tones. The restoration on the new Warner Archive Blu-Ray is probably the best the film has ever looked. Michael Curtiz's fluent direction and Ray Rennahan's masterly cinematography show that two-color Technicolor was better suited to horror than any later color process.
Not that Doctor X is all-out horror. The hero is a wisecracking reporter, played by Lee Tracy, investigating a "full moon killer" with ties to a medical institute run by Lionel Atwill, whose daughter is Fay Wray. The plot complications involve cannibalism, a host of creepy professors, a spooky mansion, and some jaw-dropping but very cinematic pseudo-science. It all climaxes in the uncanny and unforgettable revelation of the killer's face. Those used to modern horror might find the proceedings slow or familiar, but those whippersnappers need to understand where so many of those old tropes were originated or perfected.
Curtiz, Rennahan, Atwill, and Wray reunited a year later for a follow-up, Mystery of the Wax Museum, also in two-color. I slightly prefer that film to Doctor X but if you see one you should see the other.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Watched it for the first time yesterday. What an absolute, frickin' masterpiece! I was mesmerized!
I heartedly recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it!
Definitely my favorite samurai film of all time and probably nests in somewhere in my Top 25 or Top 50 films of all time. Simply perfection, heartbreakingly so, from start to finish, and the way the tension slowly builds before finally exploding in violence is so masterful.
Bonus points for Bond's very own Tetsuro Tamba with a cold, intriguing performance.
Indeed. I thought nothing could top Seven Samurai, but Harakiri is definitely up there, perhaps even superior. I will be checking out more of Kobayashi's works now.
When it comes to Tetsuro Tamba, it took quite a while for me to pinpoint who he was. I knew I had seen him before, but it was only very late in the film it dawned on me that it was the Tiger himself! ;) Together with Nakadai he is the film's standout performer.
It really is the best for me. I try to watch it at least once a year, really hits me every time.
Indeed, Tamba does look quite different here, and is much nastier than his role as Tiger would let on. I loved it!
And yes, Tatsuya is a real legend, love that he's still alive and well today.
Starring Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale Sr., and Arthur Kennedy. Not Oscar worthy overall, though it was nominated for the Oscar for Best Special Effects, but a good popcorn movie. It's about some Allied airmen whose bomber is shot down in Germany and what they do afterward. Often serious and occasionally comedic.
A standard sci-fi thriller set in a future 1989 ! a Villain has produced a chip that makes Robots evil, killing people and stuff like that. Tom Selleck stars with Gene Simmons as the bad guy. Unfortunately another Robot film came out in 84,
with a Mr Schwarzenegger which was much more successful.
Wing and a Prayer, 1944
Starring Don Ameche, Dana Andrews, with smaller parts from Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Harry Morgan (MASH) and Richard Jaeckel (The Dirty Dozen).
WWII action drama about an American aircraft carrier on a decoy mission after the attack on Pearl Harbor and leading up to the Battle of Midway. I rate it highly. I'd made a note to watch in because of Memorial Day. It made me think about the sacrifices made by so many in WWII and the need to keep building on the freedom those men and women secured for us, to use the time we have today to make life better for ourselves, others and the world in whatever way we can, however small we may think those improvements are--to live boldly and creatively, as they did, including those who weren't able to live beyond the battles they fought in, many at a young age. Though it isn't entirely accurate historically, it's another example of how battles can be won through temporary deception or feigning--brings to mind fictions like The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Mark of Zorro.
I haven t read the book or seen the Robert Aldrich movie from 1965, but this was rubbish. Everything and everyone completely annoying.
The Wrath of Khan and The search for Spock.
Damn good movie. I now have a deeper love and respect for Naomie Harris.
Great films, The Search for Spock is one of the most eagerly anticipated films in my life, after watching The Wrath of Khan and the cliff hanger ending I was counting the days until The Search for Spock was released.
I was incredibly emotionally invested in The Wrath of Khan as a kid it was one of my favourite movies and still is.
Credit to Nick Meyer he really pushed Shatner to the point of stripping away a lot of Shatner's usual surface performance and got Bill digging deep within the role.
TWOK is for me Shatner's greatest acting performance.
Today it will be The voyage home and The Final Frontier, I have to say they look brilliant on Blu-ray, I think The last time I watched them it was on old VHS.
The last one I watched was Seize the Day, a 1986 adaptation of the Saul Bellow novel starring Robin Williams. I loved it, especially Williams' performance, a gut-wrenching portrayal of anxiety and desperation. In one of the last scenes of the film, after his financially-stricken, insecure character asks his father for help and affection, only to get turned away, he does this grimace just before leaving the room that I thought was so sad; it's just filled with infinite pain, tension and sorrow. Remarkable acting.
The father, incidentally, is played by Joseph Wiseman, in another fine performance.
Quite a few A-list effects artist worked on this, some anonymously. One was the great Jim Danforth, who also assisted Ray on Clash of the Titans .
Star Trek The Final Frontier. Not as good an outing after the last three movies. Although Once again from watching a few documentaries on YouTube. They had budget and special effect problems.
Star Trek V despite obvious issues has some interesting ideas, if only ILM had returned, if I remember correctly they were doing Indy 3 at the time. It would also have been dream casting for me if Connery took on the Cybok role, Shatner and Connery would have been awesome. At least they still named a planet after Sir Sean.