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Great suggestions. Personally I love Day of the Dead and the Night of the Living Dead remake too.
However, I would probably consider Lucio Fulci's Zombi as my favourite. Its emphasis on voodoo, its wacky Fabio Frizzi score, and Richard Johnson, I love it :p
Good call @Mathis1
I'm hoping i too get around to watching it again this weekend. One of my favourite British films.
That scene on the boat when Harold confronts Jeff is utterly gripping!
Agreed, and the violence that erupts was quite a shock, the first time I saw it! Casualty wasn't going to help Jeff there!! 😁
Definitely not :))
That scene was heavily cut when i first saw it on TV. It was only years later that i saw the full jugular glassing :D
It's one of those rare movies you really wish were a lot longer
The Lion In Winter first time watch in 4K. A microcosm of power, life and family. This film is extraordinary and I don't think I have seen many films on this level before, Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn give two of the greatest ever screen acting performances
Katharine Hepburn says one of the coldest lines of dialogue in cinema.
This movie is way ahead of it's time for 1968, the script is exceptional.
Don't forget two pre-fame acting debuts: Sir Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton! There's nothing to suggest that they would become the big names that they are.
Bee Movie (2007). Seen this one for the first time since it came out. It was unique. The comedy was high hits and low blows throughout the whole movie. Jerry Seinfeld is really a mixed bag, in terms of his comedy. Well cast, but it lacked sweetness (pun intended) or cuteness of other animated movies. Check out this video about the making of it!
Some of the best dialogue ever put to screen, imo.
... and it's a Christmas movie!
Well, what shall we hang... the holly, or each other? =))
As everyone was already noted, the script and the performances are great - as is the John Barry score. It's also a ton of FUN.
Dalton had a commanding presence in his screen debut acting against the powerhouse O'Toole, Dalton was definitely too young to play Bond back then IMO.
I have several pieces of music from The Lion In Winter soundtrack, I have loved JB's theme for decades though only just watched the film.
We chose one of my favourite movies of all times, the one that I (still) have seen the most times at a cinema (as a child), and umpteen times on all kinds of physical media: Disney's 1967 THE JUNGLE BOOK. For me, still a perfect kind of entertainment.
The next will be Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST - at the request of my sister-in-law who is here for Easter, but it is also my favourite Hitchcock film. I intend to return to watching Bond movies on a regular basis after that.
Very nice, @j_w_pepper! I love JB too :)
My latest watch:
SALEM'S LOT (1979)
I wanted to check this one out for some time, though I was suprised it was a miniseries. A long sit at almost 3 hrs, but very atmospheric and with excellent turns by David Soul, James Mason, Julie Cobb, Ed Flanders and Kenneth McMillan to name a few. Enjoyed it.
Always thought this was overlooked in Clint Eastwoods canon of films. Essentially a buddy road movie where he plays a veteran bank robber ( nicknamed Thunderbolt) who teams up with free spirited youth named Lightfoot ( Jeff Bridges, marvellous!) to carry out a bank job on a seemingly impregnable vault with the aid of his old comrades! Things of course don't go to plan! Eastwood and Bridges play off each other wonderfully well, with some nice comedic scenes, and it has brief, but well executed action( some of it quite violent!)! Nice songs, too on the soundtrack by Paul Williams! Written and directed by Michael Cimino no less ( though it's rumoured, Clint handled a lot of it himself!) It also has one of the saddest endings to a movie ever! Well worth a look if you haven't seen it!
I was going to upgrade my dvd of this, but it's wide-screen vistas look great, and it's pretty sharp for a dvd, so I will stick with this copy!
I agree 100% this and Eastwood’s “ A Perfect World “ are two under appreciated gems.
Brad Birds charming animated movie based on the famous Ted Hughes book. Set in the 50's during the whole bomb paranoia, it tells the tale of a youngster called Hogarth, who befriends the metal giant of the title, a gentle inquisitive robot, who really has been designed to be a killing machine, and tries to hide him from the authorities, mainly an over zealous agent! Bird co-wrote as well as directed, and the retro style animation is wonderful! A flop on release, undeservedly so ( it apparently was down to poor marketing!) it's a very entertaining film! I haven't heard much from Bird lately ( he helmed the only watchable Mission Impossible movie!) Wonder what he is up to now?
Definitely one I need to check, has been on my watchlist for a long time. Thanks for reminding me ;)
As for myself:
LISA FRANKENSTEIN (2024)
An adorable mélange of comedy, horror and romance, mixing 80's and gothic esthetics to become a wildly of-its-own kind of movie. Sometimes very funny, sometimes utterly gruesome, and at all times unapologetically outrageous and therefore quite entertaining. Includes also many affectionate references for the cinephiles amongst us, from the Universal Monster movies to Romero's Day of the Dead, to silent French sci-fi classic Voyage dans la lune, and probably quite a few other ones I did not pick up on. Might as well mention the great music throughout as well.
Certainly not for everyone, but, speaking just for myself, I rather enjoyed it.
So did I. It had a sense of humor similar to Jennifer's Body.
This has been on my watchlist for a long time now. I hope to get to it soon. I got the Michael Cimino book: Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision by Charles Elton. Maybe this will clear up some details about his part in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. We all know how truthful he was about everything, (sarcasm, he always told conflicting stories about everything in particular himself).
An underrated movie at its time. It also showed the Warner Bros doesn’t know how to market traditional animation. The best thing about its box office failure is that Brad Bird left WB for Pixar. And with that, we got The Incredibles (2004). Great movies either way. Speaking of Brad Bird @mathis he’s apparently working on Incredibles 3 now. At least the story ideas. He was also apparently the top choice to direct Star Wars Episode 7, but turned it down for TomorrowLand (2015). Oops, but TomorrowLand is underrated slightly. So we haven’t heard the last of Brad Bird for now it seems. He just likes to take time with his projects.
Personally I'd rather he stick with animation, 'The Iron Giant' and 'The Incredibles' are two classics!
SOAT is a great movie (among my favorite Hitchcocks), for those who don't know it. Robert Walker as the psychopathic Bruno Antony is creepy beyond compare, and one wonders why Farley Granger's protagonist Guy Haines puts up with him so long in the first place. Brilliant black-and-white cinematography, great acting, a riveting story (by Patricia Highsmith, albeit somewhat changed here, AFAIK)...what more does one want?
While GMK has its detractors, it has generally become a fan favorite in the years since its release and it is a personal favorite of mine. In addition to the monster action, I really appreciated the father-daughter relationship between Admiral Taizo Tachibana (Ryudo Uzaki) and Yuri Tachibana (Chiharu Niiyama). The influences of this film on GODZILLA:MINUS ONE are fairly obvious IMO.
As I posted on the “Last Movie You Bought” thread, Norman England's “Behind The Kaiju Curtain: A Journey On To Japan's Biggest Film Sets” is a good day by day account of the making of this film. I was especially curious to read about this film in the context of the terrorists attacks of 9/11 (which happened while GMK had just completed filming) as it became a discussion point between Mr. England and the Japanese crew.
BTW: The girl in the hospital was played by singer/actress (celebrity) Tomoe Shinohara. Apparently, Ms. Shinohara is a kind of Japanese version of Paris Hilton and that scene was meant to be more humorous than anything. She also played the “air-head” girl on the talk show in GODZILLA: FINAL WARS.
Yes, they are! I also really like Ratatouille and Incredibles 2. Incredibles 3 is a rare sequel that I am looking forward to. But you are right about Brad Bird and animation, he belongs there. He helped get The Simpsons off the ground, and helped design Sideshow Bob, one of my favorite cartoon characters.
I want to additionally mention Pete Townshend put together a musical version of the story as The Iron Man (1989). Assisted by Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle, Nina Simone, John Lee Hooker, and others.
I've always liked it, below are three standout tracks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Man:_The_Musical_by_Pete_Townshend
I Won't Run Anymore (4:51)
Dig (4:08)
A Friend Is A Friend (4:46)
Another inspiration for the writers was the fact that there is a strong current in Japan to gloss over the horrors perpetrated by the country during the Pacific War (now, there's an oxymoron for you) if not denying them altogether.
Speaking of Godzilla, I've finished watching them all, with Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla. A really great movie, with very good characters, and it made me think : is it me, or do the Milleniumera movies feature some kick-ass female characters ? At least more than the Showa and Heisei eras combined ? Granted, most are part of the JSDF, but we also get two intrepid reporters who let nothing stands between them and a story. Quite a change from the Showa era movies, don't you think ?
Now, I have ordered the three anime movies in the german edition (funny that all Godzilla movies are available in Germany, while in France, only fourteen of them have been released as DVDs). They should arrive in my mailbox this week. But as far as live action goes, all there is to do is to rewatch them in order, now.
Since I've never seen the three anime movies (or the Singular Point series for that matter), you'll have to let me know if they are worth picking up.
PS: Good observation about the number of "kick-ass" female characters in the Millenium era films. I do think, however, that the series has generally had fairly strong female figures all along - just not the kick-ass variety.
cool-film.....Im-gonna-see-more-zombie-films
reminded-me-of-MOTU-as-zombies-has-already-invaded-when-film-starts.....kinda-like-Skeletor-already-captured-Grayskull-when-the-film-started
there-was-gonna-be-a-scene-where-someone-gets-hit-by-chopper-blade.....which-almost-happened-to-Karin-on-YOLT,zoinks
Which-zombiefilm-has-a-scene-where-a-man-gets-torn-apart.....saw-it-in-a-docu-or-something......
Coming off the blockbuster success of 'Jaws', another Peter Benchley aquatic novel is filmed. Unfortunately, despite the presence of Robert Shaw, it's nowhere near Spielbergs masterpiece! Peter ( Bullitt) Yates directs, as two divers, Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset, come across sunken treasure, unfortunately they also discover a cache of morphine, which villain Lou Gossett and his gang want to steal. It's all rather bland, an eye opener fight sequence with Robert Tessier ( which I think is always cut for Telly) and some impressive underwater photography by Al Giddings is it's only highlight, and at the end of the day the films only claim to fame is Jackie Bisset in a wet t-shirt!! And you'll get no argument from me! 😁