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  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
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    HEAT. I rewatched it because I love the movie, and because I'm preparing to do a little video tribute to it, and I wanted to see what things to use from the film. After this rewatch, my expert opinion is this (allow me this one cussword): Heat is the shit. Top notch movie.

    THE LOCAL STIGMATIC. I actually found this 50-minute movie on YouTube, which is fair since it appears to be hard to get otherwise. I thought the film was mesmerizing. Only by the end I managed to understand, to some extent, the eccentric worldview of the lead characters and the "game" they play. The quirky dialogue between Al Pacino and Paul Guilfoyle's characters is fantastic, full of curveballs and unfinished, fragmented thoughts, which creates a certain tension and gets you engaged, as you have to do a bit of work to keep up with the conversation. This is a movie about the spaces between things, about the stuff that's left unsaid. It's based on a play by English author Heathcote Williams, which Al Pacino had performed on stage on two occasions before turning it into a film (in fact, Pacino says it's a filmed play, rather than a film based on a play, and there is some truth to that). Here's a great interview with Pacino in which he discusses the project at length, among other things:

    https://bombmagazine.org/articles/al-pacino/

    And the movie itself, if a YouTube video doesn't bother you:

  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    Apparently written before The Exorcist was released, but the similarities do betray this (that is, when it doesn't feel like the Satanic movies that Hammer were releasing around this time). It's more talky than I was prepared for, with the exorcism taking place in the last 15 minutes or so, and then the film ends abruptly.

    1. Panic Beats (1983)
    2. Werewolf Shadow (1971)
    3. Human Beasts (1980)
    4. Horror Rises From The Tomb (1973)
    5. Crimson (1976)
    6. Dr. Jekyll vs. The Werewolf (1972)
    7. Frankenstein's Bloody Terror (1968)
    ***8. Exorcismo (1975)***
    9. Vengeance Of The Zombies (1973)
    10. Count Dracula's Great Love (1973)
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
    Posts: 7,546
    mattjoes wrote: »
    HEAT. I rewatched it because I love the movie, and because I'm preparing to do a little video tribute to it, and I wanted to see what things to use from the film. After this rewatch, my expert opinion is this (allow me this one cussword): Heat is the shit. Top notch movie.

    THE LOCAL STIGMATIC. I actually found this 50-minute movie on YouTube, which is fair since it appears to be hard to get otherwise. I thought the film was mesmerizing. Only by the end I managed to understand, to some extent, the eccentric worldview of the lead characters and the "game" they play. The quirky dialogue between Al Pacino and Paul Guilfoyle's characters is fantastic, full of curveballs and unfinished, fragmented thoughts, which creates a certain tension and gets you engaged, as you have to do a bit of work to keep up with the conversation. This is a movie about the spaces between things, about the stuff that's left unsaid. It's based on a play by English author Heathcote Williams, which Al Pacino had performed on stage on two occasions before turning it into a film (in fact, Pacino says it's a filmed play, rather than a film based on a play, and there is some truth to that). Here's a great interview with Pacino in which he discusses the project at length, among other things:

    https://bombmagazine.org/articles/al-pacino/

    And the movie itself, if a YouTube video doesn't bother you:


    Heat can’t be beat.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    edited September 2022 Posts: 45,489
    Buzz Lightyear (A. MacLane, 2022)
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    The animation is as good as it gets. The story is not.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    Just watched Top Gun Maverick, very very good.
  • ThunderballThunderball playing Chemin de Fer in a casino, downing Vespers
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    The Warriors, 1979.
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    Never seen it before. It was really good.
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    Yay!
    Another Lana Turner movie arrived in the mail today. :D



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    Heck. I should've done my research. :(
    Lana Turner's scenes had been deleted from this film leaving only about a second of screen time. :( :(

    C'est la vie. Still it's an entertaining romp as Dennis O'Keefe plays an attorney attempting to screw people over. Big Dennis O'Keefe fan.
    That said, there's an amazing publicity still of Lana from this film left.......................

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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    Spartacus (S. Kubrick, 1960)

    Still perhaps my favourite Kubrick, and Issur Demsky s greatest role ever. One of my favourite sequences is in the middle where Antoninus is reciting a poem, and the subsequent conversation between Spartacus and Varinia. Beautiful both visually and thematically.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 40,967
    Spartacus (S. Kubrick, 1960)

    Still perhaps my favourite Kubrick, and Issur Demsky s greatest role ever. One of my favourite sequences is in the middle where Antoninus is reciting a poem, and the subsequent conversation between Spartacus and Varinia. Beautiful both visually and thematically.

    One of the few Kubrick films I've still yet to see.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Spartacus (S. Kubrick, 1960)

    Still perhaps my favourite Kubrick, and Issur Demsky s greatest role ever. One of my favourite sequences is in the middle where Antoninus is reciting a poem, and the subsequent conversation between Spartacus and Varinia. Beautiful both visually and thematically.

    One of the few Kubrick films I've still yet to see.

    The only one I don t care for is his first, Fear and Desire. I have all the others, and am going through them again. A Kubrathon.
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
    edited September 2022 Posts: 2,841
    To celebrate NASA’s DART mission, I think I’ll give this 1979 camp fest a spin!
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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    Lolita (S. Kubrick, 1961)
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    Another of my favourite Kubricks.
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    Southern Comfort (1981)
    Now that the great Walter Hill is back ( at 80 yrs of age!) I decided to watch one of his earlier films! This is still a fantastic movie, about a group of National Guards who run foul of some local cajun, after a joke goes wrong! Hill ratchets up the tension as the group try to survive! A stellar cast, Powers Boothe, Keith Carradine ( love his speech about how long it will take a search party to assemble and find them!), Fred Ward and Peter Coyte, beautifully shot by Andrew Laszlo on location ( never has a swamp looked so good!) And with a fabulous score by the legendary Ry Cooder, it also has some terrific cajun music accompanying the tense climax! Love this film! Bonus feature on the bluray has a great interview with Hill, dismissing those stories that the plot was an allegory of Vietnam!
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    2001: A Space Odyssey (S. Kubrick, 1968)
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    Dr Strangelove was the first Kubrick I watched, as a kid, but this is the one I have watched the most. I have lost count a long time ago. The blend of story, picture and sound here is genius. I never tire of it, and I can only say that about a handful of films. To think that this was a flop when it came out, and that the critics labelled it boring and unimaginative...They were the ones who were boring and unimaginative. At least it was a hit with the hippies and filmmakers.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    Hunchback Of The Morgue (1973)
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    Paul Naschy adds 'hunchback' to the list of characters that he played. Take The Bride Of Frankenstein, and cross it with The Hunchback of Notre Damme, and make the story bleak.
    Naschy is Goto, the hunchback of the title. Goto works as an assistant in a morgue, and he is bullied by everyone around him, man and child. Everyone expect the beautiful Ilse, who shows him affection. Goto falls in love with her, but any chance of a relationship is doomed, Ilse is terminally ill and succumbs to tuberculosis. Goto is befriended by a mad scientist who tells Goto that he can make (create) another Ilse using human tissue. The thing they end up creating develops an increasing taste for human flesh.

    1. Panic Beats (1983)
    2. Werewolf Shadow (1971)
    3. Human Beasts (1980)
    4. Horror Rises From The Tomb (1973)
    5. Crimson (1976)
    6. Dr. Jekyll vs. The Werewolf (1972)
    7. Frankenstein's Bloody Terror (1968)
    ***8. Hunchback Of The Morgue (1973)***
    9. Exorcismo (1975)
    10. Vengeance Of The Zombies (1973)
    11. Count Dracula's Great Love (1973)
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    cast iron classic plus takes me back to when my brother connected 2 VCRs so we copied our favourites and watched then over and over again once mum and dad had gone to bed...............Carpenter at his best..



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    patb wrote: »
    cast iron classic plus takes me back to when my brother connected 2 VCRs so we copied our favourites and watched then over and over again once mum and dad had gone to bed...............Carpenter at his best..



    Agreed, fantastic thriller!
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    edited October 2022 Posts: 25,089
    I am currently watching this on Prime Video...

    The Sound of 007 Documentary.

    Amazing.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16433236/
  • LucknFateLucknFate 007 In New York
    Posts: 1,644
    Watched one of my favorites on a flight from NYC to Nasheville, almost the perfect length.

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  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    I'm not one who ever finds himself deeming stuff to be "offensive" for no good reason but Andrew Dominik's Blonde is a perfect description of such. They should've titled it The Rape of Marilyn Monroe instead. It's three hours of disappointment, sadness, gaslighting, and endless rape and abuse. I don't know who this film is for but it's exploitative as hell and a complete waste of time.

    Ana de Armas, however, was brilliant in the role, expectedly so.
  • CharmianBondCharmianBond Pett Bottom, Kent
    Posts: 557
    Kiki's Delivery Service. I've been slowly making my way through the Studio Gibli films but it was somewhat coincidental I picked the one with the witch for spooky season. It's just a really wholesome coming-of-age story, with wonderful visuals and gorgeous score, as one comes to expect. I did watch the American dub because I was too lazy last night to read subtitles, so it was a weird but not unpleasant feeling to hear a couple of The Simpsons guest stars, Phil Hartman and Tress MacNeille voicing the characters.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
    Posts: 7,546
    The only Gibli film I've seen is Spirited Away, which I thought was great. I want to see Porko Rosso, Howl's Moving Castle, and the rest at some point.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
    Posts: 4,617
    Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014). A enjoyable time. A bit too formulaic.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    A couple of weeks ago, I had watched The Addams Family again after so many years because I had forgotten most of the (meagre) plot and thought it was necessary to remember when also re-watching Addams Family Values, which I wanted to do mostly for the Ken Adams set that was used. Well, I could have spared myself the effort, although I enjoyed it nonetheless.

    I was really surprised as to how much funnier I found the sequel as compared to the original AF movie. I loved about every line spoken (maybe amplified by my third glass of wine, but hey...) and even forgot about Ken Adams' achievements... Some of the scenes (especially those with Pugsley and Wednesday at the summer camp) are really priceless. I'm still chuckling writing this. Shows that a sequel can be better than the original.
  • patb wrote: »
    cast iron classic plus takes me back to when my brother connected 2 VCRs so we copied our favourites and watched then over and over again once mum and dad had gone to bed...............Carpenter at his best..



    Still one of Carpenter's best despite all the bigger, more polished fare he would get into in the 80s. You just can't beat the atmosphere of this film. It actually feels a lot like a zombie film without the zombies. Just one line of dialogue and it very easily could have been a zombie film.
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    A couple of weeks ago, I had watched The Addams Family again after so many years because I had forgotten most of the (meagre) plot and thought it was necessary to remember when also re-watching Addams Family Values, which I wanted to do mostly for the Ken Adams set that was used. Well, I could have spared myself the effort, although I enjoyed it nonetheless.

    I was really surprised as to how much funnier I found the sequel as compared to the original AF movie. I loved about every line spoken (maybe amplified by my third glass of wine, but hey...) and even forgot about Ken Adams' achievements... Some of the scenes (especially those with Pugsley and Wednesday at the summer camp) are really priceless. I'm still chuckling writing this. Shows that a sequel can be better than the original.

    I agree, Family Values improved upon the first, and the summer camp scenes, especially the revised, historically correct Thanksgiving play, are really what give this film the edge. But I think the first film is still pretty good in its own right. I'm curious, what did Ken Adams do for the second film?
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    edited October 2022 Posts: 9,026
    I'm curious, what did Ken Adams do for the second film?

    What he (Ken Adam, not Adams - I misspelled myself in my previous post by putting the apostrophe in the wrong place - now corrected) always did...he was the production designer. It was one of his final works. Some of it was at an exhibition in Munich that I saw in 2015. See his view of the Addams Family mansion below, which was created for the overhead scenes. (It's a model in a glass showcase, and the flash of my camera is reflected).)

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  • I had no idea that was Ken Adam, but it's certainly an impressive design and very appropriate for the Addams Family (and given the topic of conversation, mixing up Adam with Adams is more than understandable I think on both our parts ;) ).
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    I went in to this film as a fan of the games, although I have fallen in and out of love with them over the years. I wasn't expecting an adaption, but once I got passed my mindset of "that's not the Animus, the Animus looks nothing like that", I started to enjoy the film.
  • redherringredherring Netherlands
    Posts: 15
    talos7 wrote: »
    The Northman (R. Eggers, 2022)
    I feel I should have liked this more than I did. It has great cinematography, fine actors and interesting storylines and surroundings. I just felt a bit underwhelmed, but at least I enjoyed it a lot more than The Lighthouse.Maybe I was just too sober.

    I felt exactly the same; the film had so many good elements but ended up being somewhat underwhelming.

    Personally I thought it was a masterpiece, but I'm in love with all Robert Eggers films. To be honest, I think the general audience isn't used to Ingmar Bergman-style directing and pacing anymore. Which is understandable, but I hope Eggers finds enough funding for many more arthouse projects in the future after losing money on The Nortman... He's currently working on a Nosferatu remake. Both previous versions are very near and dear to my heart, so I hope he does the legacy justice.

    Can we discuss series as well in this topic? Because I watched The Dropout with Amanda Seyfried and I wanna share my enthusiasm with someone.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    Posts: 13,978
    In The Blood (2014)
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    A loved one going missing abroad isn't a new concept in movies, but Gina Carano can dish out a beat down, and look convincing doing so (not a surprise).
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