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"Who would have thought a whale would be so heavy?" - Moe Sizlak
Did you wind up hanging Chad?
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Suspiria 1977....ummm......ok. The music was cool, but overall just cheeseball dipped in fake melted cheese.
I saw it in the theater! lol
We watched Brooklyn tonight. A beautifully shot and acted film about a young girl who leaves Ireland in the early 1950s for America, and is torn between staying there and returning to her home country. Very touching story.
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Last night we watched the 1931 Dracula.
No, not the one with Bela Lugosi -- the one with Carlos Villarías as Conde Dracula, Lupita Tovar as Eva Seward, Barry Norton as Juan Harker, and Pablo Álvarez Rubio as Renfield. It was filmed on the same sets as the Lugosi, but where the English-language team used the sets in the daytime, the Mexican(ish) team filmed at night. They would watch the Americans' dailys and then try to do something better...
...and to a great extent, they succeeded. Villarías is no Lugosi, but he's good, and I would say that the other major cast members -- I forgot to mention Eduardo Arozamena as van Helsing and José Soriano Viosca as Dr. Seward -- are all at least as good as their Norteamericano equivalents. Renfield in particular is wilder, more lunatic, and ultimately more convincing than Dwight Frye ever could have been, and that's saying a great deal.
The movie is actually about half an hour longer than the Tod Browning picture, and uses the time well: the whole plot, vital to the book, in which Lucy Westenra (here Lucia Weston) rises as a vampire and preys on the children of London, was elided from the Browning film; it's here, and the final scenes in the catacombs of Carfax Abbey are tenser and more fraught than the familiar film.
There are flaws (aren't there always?): in particular, Villarías sometimes, when striking a dramatic pose, gets some really goofy, almost Pee-Wee Herman-ish looks on his face, possibly caused by the effort to keep in false teeth that weren't fitted properly:
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But overall, I like it at least as much as the -- I can't say original since they were made together, but you know what I mean.
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^ He looks like someone plugged him into the wall.
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He looks like a crazy prog fan on Portuguese bath salts and fermented broccoli.
Backcountry--2014 sort of Jaws, black bear story about a couple camping in the woods. It took a while to get going, and I didn't like the boyfriend of the couple. He was written as kind of a jerk. But once the bear showed up it was interesting. Based on the true story of Jacqueline Perry and Mark Jordan, who in 2005 were attacked by a bear at a campsite in Missinaibi Lake provincial park about 80 kilometers north of Chapleau, Ontario.
Ah man, this is a horror classic! Probaby something better to have seen when it was new though as it was acceptable to enjoy cheeseball dipped in fake melted cheese back then
"Who would have thought a whale would be so heavy?" - Moe Sizlak
When I was a kid, this trailer was legitimately scary!Ah man, this is a horror classic! Probaby something better to have seen when it was new though as it was acceptable to enjoy cheeseball dipped in fake melted cheese back then
Hustle (2022) Adam Sandler - NBA Scout. I tell ya! He can act.
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it brings forth a sound (2112)
I really enjoyed that. Of course, the Philly references certainly didn't hurt, either.
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Yeah, I thought it was really well done. I don't like a lot of Sander's comedy but he is a solid serious actor.
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it brings forth a sound (2112)
I am looking for a movie. I picked up the used dvd in a store and was going to buy it, but it turned out not to have the correct disc inside. Now, I can't remember the name of the movie. The cover claimed it was banned in the US. What I recall of the cover notes said it was about union labor in New Mexico. It was likely banned during the McCarthy anti-communist scare of the 1950s because of course it was. Anyone know what the title might be?
Licorice Pizza. 2021. Probably already mentioned here. I saw it the other day and highly recommend. Had my total attention throughout , though not much happens relative to most movies today. Set i the early 70s , a love affair between a girl in her mid 20s and a 16 year old. Not as creepy as it sounds . Wonderful cameos by Sean Penn and Bradly Cooper. I really liked it.
Sounds like Salt of the Earth. I've never seen it but my dad, a union man, told me about it. It's available on YouTube if you want to watch it.
BTW, when I was looking it up I ran across this interesting article: The Best Labor Union Movies Of All Time
Which reminds me of On the Waterfront. I know it's considered a great movie, and I liked it to a degree, but the problem I had with it is that it portrayed only one aspect of unions: the corruption. Now I'm more than familiar with how the Mafia got its hooks in unions, especially in the NYC metro area, but that is only one part of the history of labor unions. There are plenty of other stories of how companies fought against unionization, often violently. There are iconic photos of thugs – hired by Henry Ford – beating up union organizers. And then, of course, is the story of the Battle of Matewan in WV, where coal miners got into a shoot out with the infamous Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency who were hired by the owners of the local coal mine to shut down union organizing efforts by the UMWA. That story was depicted in John Sayles' movie Matewan, which is really good if you've never seen it. So in light of all that, and given how Elia Kazan named names at the McCarthy hearings, On the Waterfront, imo, is nothing but propaganda. None other than Orson Welles said Kazan was a traitor and that the movie was a "celebration of the informer."
But I digress.
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Saw it in IMAX. It was not very good IMO, but I can get where one might enjoy it.
I enjoyed it, but just kept thinking........if that were a 20 something guy going after a 16 year old girl it would been very creepy. Kind of double standard.
That may very well be it. Thank you. Since I was unable to purchase the dvd, I was hoping I might find it on youtube. It does sound like something I want to see, and it will be easier to find now that I have a title to work with.
I recently snagged a used copy of On The Waterfront, so all I have to do is get it out and watch it. Of course I've heard of it and may have seen it before, but if so, it's been quite a while.
I've seen several of the movies on that list, but certainly not all of them.BTW, when I was looking it up I ran across this interesting article: The Best Labor Union Movies Of All Time
Isn't "Liquorice Pizza" the name of a rekkid store in LA?
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By all objective criteria, it was a poor movie. I don't know why I liked it but it was very enjoyable.
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it brings forth a sound (2112)
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