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whoknew said:
Streets of Fire is now on Netflix. If you haven't seen it, I HIGHLY recommend. Its awesome. 
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Peak Diane Lane = dime spot.

This film is a piece of art.

Also, the theme song by Dan Hartman "I can Dream about you" is a timeless banger.   If you throw an 80s party and don't play that song you are doing something wrong.

 
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KarmaPolice said:
I started watching Streets of Fire. I think it was the 15min mark and all I had seen is a long musical number and the opening credits?  
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It doesn't help that Michael Pare has about as much acting range as Woody Allen or Pauly Shore.

 
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Mr. Mojo said:
It doesn't help that Michael Pare has about as much acting range as Woody Allen or Pauly Shore.
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I saw this thread and tried to watch but woof.  What the hell was that?  Fifties poodle skirts, cop cars, bad rendition of Marlon Brando's Wild Bunch, not good musical opening, horrifically bad action, just woof.  

 
Bracie Smathers said:
Mr. Mojo said:
It doesn't help that Michael Pare has about as much acting range as Woody Allen or Pauly Shore.
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I saw this thread and tried to watch but woof.  What the hell was that?  Fifties poodle skirts, cop cars, bad rendition of Marlon Brando's Wild Bunch, not good musical opening, horrifically bad action, just woof.
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I don't know how I missed that originally. seems like it's got a bit of early Besson's cinema du look (I was thinking of his movie, Subway) and some other early 80s punk/new-wave inspired films (Liquid Sky). 

I'm equal parts intrigued and skeert.

 
El Floppo said:
I don't know how I missed that originally. seems like it's got a bit of early Besson's cinema du look (I was thinking of his movie, Subway) and some other early 80s punk/new-wave inspired films (Liquid Sky). 

I'm equal parts intrigued and skeert.
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It’s been ages since I’ve seen this. Might have to check it out again soon.

ETA: Skip this movie (Streets of Fire). It’s garbage imo. 

 
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we watched both Quiet Places with floppinha (10yo). not usually my scene after the goofily bad Bird Box... and these had some holes, but were otherwise decent, taught story telling. the sound thing begins to beg lots of questions... but best not to think about that. and the movies start setting up endless sequels, even if it seems like they can easily turn into TWD.

 
Ilov80s said:
Gun Crazy

Pretty good movie and I can see how it was influential for movies like Breathless and Bonnie and Clyde. For 1950, I can imagine it was very edgy. However, B/C and Breathless were both better versions of this picture. 

Notorious

I hadn't seen this in awhile, but wow is this a great film. I put this just a shade below Casablanca (maybe it's Bergman/Rains, but I felt a lot of the same vibes). I might bump this ahead of North by Northwest as my favorite Hitchcock film. 
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Just watched North by Northwest on HBO. I haven't seen that many Hitchcock movies (and not Notorious) but I liked it quite a bit. Its the best Hitchcock I've seen so far.

 
Moonlight said:
N by NW is an enjoyable film with a good plot but the airplane assassin sequence is just ridiculous.
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can't agree with you there - waiting for hours @ cornfield bus stops is an integral part of international espionage, just as propellers are a weapon of choice. i thought the cinematic assassination attempt was outstanding in the field...

 
wikkidpissah said:
can't agree with you there - waiting for hours @ cornfield bus stops is an integral part of international espionage, just as propellers are a weapon of choice. i thought the cinematic assassination attempt was outstanding in the field...
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I'll never agree with you on this point. You use airplanes to bomb or strafe people. Sending an airplane to try to hit somebody on the ground with their propeller is insane and ridiculous, at best ,you are going to crash your plane into the ground with the person.

If you want to kill, send a person in a car with a gun to that isolated location. But common sense wasn't part of the plot.

 
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Moonlight said:
I'll never agree with you on this point. You use airplanes to bomb or strafe people. Sending an airplane to try to hit somebody on the ground with their propeller is insane and ridiculous, at best ,you are going to crash your plane into the ground with the person.

If you want to kill, send a person in a car with a gun to that isolated location. But common sense wasn't part of the plot.
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That's the suspense and dramatic effect of it.  You expect it be someone in a car; cars come by and build up the suspense because that's what you expect. And then it's some otherwise innocuous crop duster.

 
Moonlight said:
I'll never agree with you on this point. You use airplanes to bomb or strafe people. Sending an airplane to try to hit somebody on the ground with their propeller is insane and ridiculous, at best ,you are going to crash your plane into the ground with the person.

If you want to kill, send a person in a car with a gun to that isolated location. But common sense wasn't part of the plot.
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It’s supposed to be fun you know? NxNW isn’t a serious movie. I think that scene was the basic genesis for the entire movie and they built the plot around that. Really no different than any of the crazy ways villains try to kill James Bond with when they could just shoot him in the head.

 
Granted it is a terrible plot point if judging the film from a story POV but the scene is Hitch being Hitch creating a unique attempted murder that no one would ever expect while simultaneously blocking/setting shots as he's directing and basically editing for dramatic effect. 

The plot point is basically a McGuffin of one of the all-time classic movie scenes.   

 
Finally got around to Bandersnatch. Should have left it unwatched.

And NxNW is bottom tier Hitchcock. But it's better than The Birds.

 
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Some good or interesting recent watches and rewatches

  1. Bacurau (2019): Brazilian movie, think The Most Dangerous Game set between rural Brazilians and a group of foreign hunters is worth checking out. 
  2. The Wrath of God (1972): Robert Mitchum western with him as a machine gun toting priest, it's got a great opening and feels like it's going to be a ton of fun but it doesn't take long before it all unravels. Not good. Interesting note as it has the last screen performance of Rita Hayworth 
  3. The Train (1964): described as the last action movie shot in B&W, this WW2 movie about a NAZI general trying to steal precious French art as the NAZIs flee France is right in line with movies like The Great Escape and The Dirty Dozen. Definitely recommend. 
  4. Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962): the trio of Anthony Quinn, Andy Rooney and Jackie Gleason as a boxer, trainer and promoter sounds like odd combo but it's really well acted and made. Script by Rod Serling as well. Good watch for boxing fans. 
 
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Been watching a bunch of things:

Forbidden Planet & Them
An early 60s sci fi double feature. Watched it in a theater as part of our local cult series. Forbidden Planet is by far the better film. It's easy to forget how rapey films were back in the day. Young handsome Leslie Nielsen as the captain tells a young woman, "My men have been is cooped up is space for 383 days!" (Implication being she better be careful because rape could be imminent.) You'll remember that before Lost in Space, the first appearance of Robby the Robot was in Forbidden Planet. All his scenes are hilarious, including a rare masturbation joke, "Forgive me. I was giving myself an oil job."

Succession
Mrs. Dogg and I are rewatching this with Dogg Jr. This is my third time going through the series, and it is INCREDIBLE. The acting, the sets, the writing, the improvisation. Awesome. 

Roadhouse
Watched this for the fifth time, and it's so great I felt like starting over the moment it was finished. Is the Swayze / Elliot relationship the greatest unrequited gay love story ever? 

Sweet Tooth
This new Netflix series is wonderful for kids or adults. I probably wouldn't show it to kids under 13 years old, but it's excellent.  

The 6th Day
Rewatching because my favorite podcast "How Did This Get Made?" covered the movie. This is definitely sub-par Arnold, and it's too long, but mostly entertaining. But that doll...#### THAT DOLL.

Get Him To The Greek
A comedy that makes me laugh every time I rewatch. Excellent soundtrack, as well.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Very funny. Jason Siegal playing the Muppet Show theme then bursting into tears is a laugh I'd completely forgotten. 

 
jdoggydogg said:
Been watching a bunch of things:

Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Very funny. Jason Siegal playing the Muppet Show theme then bursting into tears is a laugh I'd completely forgotten. 
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This is one that my love for has only grown over time.   Great mix of raunch/humor/sweetness - on the lines of Wedding Crashers, but WC bogs down a bit more.  

I haven't revisited Get Hit to the Greek since I first watched it, but remember not really liking it, but have 0 clue why.   

 
The teen emerged from his cave the other day and actually wanted to watch a movie.   Had some father/son bonding over Saw.   Yeah, it's as bad as I remember it being, but that's not the point.  Still had a blast.   I think next he wants to try TCM.  

We talked about seeing the new Candyman and Halloween movies in the theater this fall too.  :popcorn:   

 
KarmaPolice said:
The teen emerged from his cave the other day and actually wanted to watch a movie.   Had some father/son bonding over Saw.   Yeah, it's as bad as I remember it being, but that's not the point.  Still had a blast.   I think next he wants to try TCM.  

We talked about seeing the new Candyman and Halloween movies in the theater this fall too.  :popcorn:   
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I am curious about the Candyman movie. That was a favorite of mine as a kid. 

 
Ilov80s said:
I am curious about the Candyman movie. That was a favorite of mine as a kid. 
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I saw the trailer recently, and thought it looked just OK.  I am expecting a typical reboot, and will try to get him to watch the original before we watch this one.  

The newest Halloween did about as good as a sequel/remake/reboot/WTF it is as you can this many years and movies later.   As much as I grumble about the mass quantities of these known properties getting thrown at us, there are decent movies in there once in awhile, and I am not above getting sucked into watching them.  

 
Moonlight said:
I'll never agree with you on this point. You use airplanes to bomb or strafe people. Sending an airplane to try to hit somebody on the ground with their propeller is insane and ridiculous, at best ,you are going to crash your plane into the ground with the person.

If you want to kill, send a person in a car with a gun to that isolated location. But common sense wasn't part of the plot.
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Ummm, they shoot at him from the plane.  

Great scene, great movie.  

 
My rough Hitchcock rankings

  1. North by Northwest
  2. Rear Window
  3. Notorious
  4. Vertigo
  5. Psycho
  6. Strangers on a Train
  7. Shadow of a Doubt
  8. Rebecca
  9. The 39 Steps
  10. Dial M for Murder
  11. Marnie
  12. The Lady Vanishes
  13. Foreign Correspondant
  14. Frenzy
  15. The Lodger
  16. Sabotage
  17. Rope
  18. To Catch a Thief
  19. Spellbound
  20. The Man Who Knew Too Much (56)
 
Ilov80s said:
My rough Hitchcock rankings

  1. North by Northwest
  2. Rear Window
  3. Notorious
  4. Vertigo
  5. Psycho
  6. Strangers on a Train
  7. Shadow of a Doubt
  8. Rebecca
  9. The 39 Steps
  10. Dial M for Murder
  11. Marnie
  12. The Lady Vanishes
  13. Foreign Correspondant
  14. Frenzy
  15. The Lodger
  16. Sabotage
  17. Rope
  18. To Catch a Thief
  19. Spellbound
  20. The Man Who Knew Too Much (56)
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No Suspicion? one of my favorites...

i'd have Rebecca higher (To Catch a Thief too tho i understand where you placed it), Shadow (and TMWKTM) lower and would have included The Birds mostly because it introduced me to and began my lifelong love affair (asked my Mary for her hand there) w my favorite town in the US of A, Bodega Bay. All in all, tho, your list is right on. I understand NxNW's loss of esteem less than i do Vertigo's gain.

 
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wikkidpissah said:
No Suspicion? one of my favorites...

i'd have Rebecca higher (To Catch a Thief too tho i understand where you placed it), Shadow (and TMWKTM) lower and would have included The Birds mostly because it introduced me to and began my lifelong love affair (asked my Mary for her hand there) w my favorite town in the US of A, Bodega Bay. All in all, tho, your list is right on. I understand NxNW lost of esteem less than i do Vertigo's gain.
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The Birds just doesn’t do anything for me and this is from someone who does have a bit of a fear of birds. I don’t know why I find Suspicion so annoying. I’m a huge Cary Grant fan and the premise is great. Something about it just annoys me. Maybe I feel too much of the manipulation, feel it being guided. Not sure. 

 
Ilov80s said:
My rough Hitchcock rankings

  1. North by Northwest
  2. Rear Window
  3. Notorious
  4. Vertigo
  5. Psycho
  6. Strangers on a Train
  7. Shadow of a Doubt
  8. Rebecca
  9. The 39 Steps
  10. Dial M for Murder
  11. Marnie
  12. The Lady Vanishes
  13. Foreign Correspondant
  14. Frenzy
  15. The Lodger
  16. Sabotage
  17. Rope
  18. To Catch a Thief
  19. Spellbound
  20. The Man Who Knew Too Much (56)
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I would swap Strangers on a Train and Notorious and slot The Birds in right after.  But pretty close.  

 
Ilov80s said:
My rough Hitchcock rankings

  1. North by Northwest
  2. Rear Window
  3. Notorious
  4. Vertigo
  5. Psycho
  6. Strangers on a Train
  7. Shadow of a Doubt
  8. Rebecca
  9. The 39 Steps
  10. Dial M for Murder
  11. Marnie
  12. The Lady Vanishes
  13. Foreign Correspondant
  14. Frenzy
  15. The Lodger
  16. Sabotage
  17. Rope
  18. To Catch a Thief
  19. Spellbound
  20. The Man Who Knew Too Much (56)
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Good list.  I like Psycho a bit more than NxW, so personally would switch those a bit.    Have you seen Lifeboat? 

 
i am so-so-so-so-SOOOOO happy right now!!!!!

have you ever spent years looking for sumn from your youth online and not been able to find it? my white whale has been my favorite movie as a kid, a film that my church, oddly enough (twas wildly inappropriate for kids under 10), had a 16mm copy of and would show us at the community center when there was nothing else to do. it was magnificent - wizards, evil sultans, invisible monsters, elephant headcrushings, sexy Tinkerbells!  i thought sure it was a Sinbad movie but looked unsuccessfully for years before the internet. i was sure the web would help me find it, but nothing for 20 years.

til just now, and it immediately became apparent why. TCM has been showing neo-noir films every Friday of July and i just went to look at what this week's lineup would be (pretty good - Blood Simple, Night Moves, Cutter's Way) and, at the same time, i noticed that the daytime lineup Friday had a bunch of Sinbad flix bak2back. so i read the synopsis of each and not only found my beloved childhood fave but why i couldnt find it in all my searches. the movie is 1963's Captain Sindbad. the producers apparently didnt want to pay royalties on the Sinbad character so they added a "d" in the middle of his name. that' move saved them dough and kept me from re-discovering my boyish delight for almost 60 yrs.

at 6:30 this Friday, i will be the happiest man in America. i hope i will be as happy @ 8. the other cheapo-movie favorite from my boyhood, The Crawling Eye, turned out to be a stinkburger. treat yourself and DVR this masterpiece. or come over for pizza & gelato and watch it wimme.

 
wikkidpissah said:
i am so-so-so-so-SOOOOO happy right now!!!!!

have you ever spent years looking for sumn from your youth online and not been able to find it? my white whale has been my favorite movie as a kid, a film that my church, oddly enough (twas wildly inappropriate for kids under 10), had a 16mm copy of and would show us at the community center when there was nothing else to do. it was magnificent - wizards, evil sultans, invisible monsters, elephant headcrushings, sexy Tinkerbells!  i thought sure it was a Sinbad movie but looked unsuccessfully for years before the internet. i was sure the web would help me find it, but nothing for 20 years.

til just now, and it immediately became apparent why. TCM has been showing neo-noir films every Friday of July and i just went to look at what this week's lineup would be (pretty good - Blood Simple, Night Moves, Cutter's Way) and, at the same time, i noticed that the daytime lineup Friday had a bunch of Sinbad flix bak2back. so i read the synopsis of each and not only found my beloved childhood fave but why i couldnt find it in all my searches. the movie is 1963's Captain Sindbad. the producers apparently didnt want to pay royalties on the Sinbad character so they added a "d" in the middle of his name. that' move saved them dough and kept me from re-discovering my boyish delight for almost 60 yrs.

at 6:30 this Friday, i will be the happiest man in America. i hope i will be as happy @ 8. the other cheapo-movie favorite from my boyhood, The Crawling Eye, turned out to be a stinkburger. treat yourself and DVR this masterpiece. or come over for pizza & gelato and watch it wimme.
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That is awesome. I've randomly flipped on TCM once or twice and found an odd movie that I totally remember renting from the library (or my dad renting from the library) that I never in a million years would have pieced together what it was. 

 
KarmaPolice said:
This is one that my love for has only grown over time.   Great mix of raunch/humor/sweetness - on the lines of Wedding Crashers, but WC bogs down a bit more.  

I haven't revisited Get Hit to the Greek since I first watched it, but remember not really liking it, but have 0 clue why.   
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Surprised you liked Marshall and didn't like Greek. Very similar. 

 
The lack of sports on right now has me movie watching.

Escape from New York - Another one I have never seen. This may be an unpopular opinion but I think this is a movie that would be a lot better if made now. The special effects were quite primitive. So it was a fun movie to watch, but I'd love to see what James Cameron could do with it now.

 
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