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@Shardlake, absolutely, sir. Oldman's Dracula is very close to Stoker's original, much more so anyway than Lugosi's or Lee's. Those two brought a lot of charisma and claimed the part in their own way, but if we're making comparisons to Stoker's novel, then I guess we can't get much better. Incidentally, I also like what Langella, Jordan and Lee (in the Italian film) brought to the part. Udo Kier is where things got weird. :D
I killed the whole theatre.
Riddick 3 is bloody
A film that always resonated with me excellent performances, the score and cinematography are very good.
I did a quick Jack Arnold-athon yesterday. Revenge of the Creature and The Incredible Shrinking Man plus the one named above.
Needless to say, Black Lagoon is a timeless classic and the prototype for so many future "monster" movies. The movie holds up perfectly in High Definition and 3D, and it's an original 3D movie as it was shot in 3D back then. The creature's costume is a work of art, unrivalled almost really.
Julie Adams who is the lead actress was stunningly beautiful. Of course later she became Eve Simpson in Murder, She Wrote, one of my most beloved side-characters of all time in a TV-Show and she still was looking good!
Incredible Shrinking Man may just be Arnold's masterpiece. Everything is just bloody brilliant and the special effects are fantastic. Only in the few scenes where the lead actor is put on the film artificially running across the screen don't look so good in High Definition. But that's a minor complaint regarding the master work done by the set department who build larger than life furniture, tableware or scissors.
Furthermore Shrinking Man has one of the best endings to any movie I've ever seen.
I got a fabulous steelbook of Creature, sadly Shrinking Man didn't get that treatment.
Also, it isn t first and foremost a war movie. That is just part of the story, although a very important one.
I have seen about 1450 different titles.
Edit: Full length movies
I've tried sort of the same thing for the year: every time I watch a movie, I write down the name, date, and method of viewing. Just hit 150 movies today for the year so far, as sad as it is, though plenty of them are movies I've watched countlessly. Only 41/150 have been movies I've seen for the first time.
I keep all mine, too, minus a few I misplaced as a kid. My very first one is for 'South Park: The Movie,' went to see it at the ripe age of eight years old with my Dad and spent the entire movie crying from laughing.
Didn't realise that you are a fan :)
Jack Arnold's movies were amongst the first movies I was allowed to watch on TV back in the mid-eighties. Before 1983 I really hadn't seen any movie except for Disney at the cinema.
It's entirely possible that Creature, Shrinking Man, Outer Space etc. are amongst the first 20 movies I had seen outside Disney. Also Yentl, Octopussy, Hello Dolly, The Thrill Of It All belong to those first movie experiences.
That's why I'm such a Barbra, Doris, Jack Arnold and musical movies fan, I guess. Also Charlie Chan movies was the first movie-series I ever saw, hence I'm the biggest Charlie Chan fan and happily own all of them on DVD (Oland, Toler and Winters).
@DarthDimi
I'm writing down everything that I watch (episodes of TV-Shows, movies, cinema) since 1997.
11 years ago I put it all into a numbers (mac) file and still keeping track of everything I watch.
Furthermore I have an inventory list as well for movies and TV-Shows.
It looks like this:
@Creasy47, I rate everything i watch on my IMDB account. I have 1457 ratings there. Most of them are for full length movies. Movies i watched when i was little or can't remember too much of i haven't rated. Therefore i assume i would be at maybe 1550 different movies perhaps.
My ratings in categorys:
Documentary (12)
Feature Film (1412)
Mini-Series (3)
Short Film (12)
TV Episode (1) (Casino Royale 1954)
TV Movie (7)
TV Series (6)
Video (4)
Edit: You can also see how many movies from each genre and year you have watched, it is quite brilliant.