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Late but posting this anyway in case I delete my Notepad file

Movies I watched in October

Head (1968 - B. Rafelson)
They Drive By Night (1940 - R. Walsh)
The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022 - P. Farrelly)
The Sound of 007 (2022 - M. Whitecross)
Stay Hungry (1976 - B. Rafelson)
Bobby Deerfield (1977 - S. Pollack)
Operation Crossbow (1965 - M. Anderson)
38 At The Garden (2022 - F. Chi)
Five Easy Pieces (1970 - B. Rafelson)
Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity (2015 - R. Memos)
Let's Get Lost (1988 - B. Weber)
Hocus Pocus 2 (2022 - A. Fletcher)
Mountains of the Moon (1990 - B. Rafelson)
The Fog (1980 - J. Carpenter)
The Masque of the Red Death (1964 - R. Corman)
Drag Me To Hell (2009 - S. Raimi)
Angel Heart (1987 - A. Parker)
Anguish (1987 - B. Luna)
Blade (1998 - S. Norrington)
The Body Snatcher (1945 - R. Wise)
Blade II (2002 - G. del Toro)
The Demon Seed (1977 - D. Cammell)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948 - C. Barton)
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965 - N. Taurog)
Blade: Trinity (2004 - D. Goyer)
Nosferatu: The Vampyre (1979 - W. Herzog)
The Mummy (1959 - T. Fisher)
 
leftcoastguy7 said:
Top three you would recommend?
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Nosferatu - Of all the horror movies I watched, this is the one that's stuck in my head

Let's Get Lost - Revealing biography of trumpeter Chet Baker gorgeously shot by the great fashion photographer Bruce Weber

Mountains of the Moon: An epic tale of 19th century exploration that works on a very human scale.

The first Blade movie was pretty good too and everybody should see Head once.
 
Eephus said:
leftcoastguy7 said:
Top three you would recommend?
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Remind me to send you a dollar

Nosferatu - Of all the horror movies I watched, this is the one that's stuck in my head

Let's Get Lost - Revealing biography of trumpeter Chet Baker gorgeously shot by the great fashion photographer Bruce Weber

Mountains of the Moon: An epic tale of 19th century exploration that works on a very human scale.

The first Blade movie was pretty good too and everybody should see Head once.
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You didn't have Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine in the top three?
I kid but I do remember the catchy title tune from seeing that one as a child but maybe it got lodged in my brain because was traumatizing, lol.
Have never seen Herzog's version of Nosferatu. I always think of the original from 1922 with Max Shrenk that still holds up extremely well.
Nosferatu Original title: Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens 1922
 
Bracie Smathers said:
You didn't have Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine in the top three?
I kid but I do remember the catchy title tune from seeing that one as a child but maybe it got lodged in my brain because was traumatizing, lol.
Have never seen Herzog's version of Nosferatu. I always think of the original from 1922 with Max Shrenk that still holds up extremely well.
Nosferatu Original title: Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens 1922
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Dr. Goldfoot was dumb fun with a great opening credits sequence. It's crazy that the director Norman Taurog won the Oscar for best director 34 years prior.

I haven't watched Murnau's Nosferatu in decades but I thought Herzog's remake was pretty faithful to the original. I mentioned this earlier but I thought the 1979 film played a lot like a silent film in terms of limited dialog but Herzog did a masterful job of using music and environmental sound to heighten the tension.
 
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Movie I liked - Last Night In Soho...not perfect, but it looked and sounded cool.

Movie I thought was okay but won't watch again - Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Movie I fell asleep watching because it was supposed to be funny but simply wasn't - Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. I'm a fan of Al but not this parody of Al's life.
 
Eephus said:
Late but posting this anyway in case I delete my Notepad file

Movies I watched in October

Head (1968 - B. Rafelson)
They Drive By Night (1940 - R. Walsh)
The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022 - P. Farrelly)
The Sound of 007 (2022 - M. Whitecross)
Stay Hungry (1976 - B. Rafelson)
Bobby Deerfield (1977 - S. Pollack)
Operation Crossbow (1965 - M. Anderson)
38 At The Garden (2022 - F. Chi)
Five Easy Pieces (1970 - B. Rafelson)
Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity (2015 - R. Memos)
Let's Get Lost (1988 - B. Weber)
Hocus Pocus 2 (2022 - A. Fletcher)
Mountains of the Moon (1990 - B. Rafelson)
The Fog (1980 - J. Carpenter)
The Masque of the Red Death (1964 - R. Corman)
Drag Me To Hell (2009 - S. Raimi)
Angel Heart (1987 - A. Parker)
Anguish (1987 - B. Luna)
Blade (1998 - S. Norrington)
The Body Snatcher (1945 - R. Wise)
Blade II (2002 - G. del Toro)
The Demon Seed (1977 - D. Cammell)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948 - C. Barton)
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965 - N. Taurog)
Blade: Trinity (2004 - D. Goyer)
Nosferatu: The Vampyre (1979 - W. Herzog)
The Mummy (1959 - T. Fisher)
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I have only seen one of those movies (the Abbott and Costello one)
 
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We saw Fletch an were massively disappointed. not funny at all. Weird to see so many positive reviews saying how funny it is. We are getting less and less interested in reviews these days.
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I just don't see Jon Hamm as Fletch. I did not have high expectations but planned to watch it anyway. He just doesn't have the same vibe as Chevy Chase in order to pull of Fletch. There aren't many actors that do. I am not sure if I could even come up with a current actor that I could see in that role. Maybe Vince Vaughn. It would be a bit different but he might be able to pull it off. Jason Segal? Paul Rudd? Jonah Hill? I don't think any of those guys are quite right. Anybody with a winner?


ETA: I think I thought of a winner........Ryan Reynolds
 
supermike80 said:
We saw Fletch an were massively disappointed. not funny at all. Weird to see so many positive reviews saying how funny it is. We are getting less and less interested in reviews these days.
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I do feel like there is a lot of cheerleading in movie reviews now. It’s a known fact now that negative reviews of Disney properties will get critics and outlets in the hot seat with Disney. Plus of course the fan boys will harass you online. I think this creates a reverse effect when’re anything that isn’t a super hero Star Wars Disney property can get inflated reviews because critics want those movies to be successful. Many critics are sick of the state of Fast and Furious Avengers Skywalker box office and desperately want to push people to see other movies.
 
I watched the Jon Hamm Fletch movie and I didn't think it was terrible, I just didn't think it was all that funny. The problem with Jon Hamm is that, to me, he's kind of a victim of his own success, he IS Don Draper. And I don't care if you put the man in a Laker's hat, he's Don Draper in someone else's clothes. I don't know why they didn't just call it something else because the movie, on its own, isn't horrible (certainly isn't great) but calling it or refencing "Fletch" and then using Jon Hamm (serious or dramatic actor) instead of someone like Paul Rudd or Ryan Reynolds (both comedic actors) was the most glaring issue with the movie imho. Overall, I give it a C-, I'm feeling generous and it had a couple of funny lines in it. I don't want to ruin anything but seeing John Flattery (Roger Sterling) with Jon Hamm at the bar drinking did make me smile. . . and made me reminisce about how much I miss Mad Men. . . I change my mind, D+ for making me miss Mad Men! :)
 
I watched the 1985 Fletch with Chevy Chase for the first time since the 80s. Compared to the current reboot, It was a formulaic action comedy with its resemblance to Beverly Hills Cop reinforced by the Harold Faltermeyer score. The comedy was much broader chiefly because of Chase's smirking, mugging portrayal of Fletch. I could take or leave that but have to admit the 80s version was a better more tightly plotted movie than the meandering script of Confess, Fletch.
 
Interesting in the Fletch convo is (and I haven’t read them so this is based on my dad’s recollection from 40 years ago) but the original book series wasn’t really comedic. It had funny parts but the real comedy of the original Fletch movie came from the casting of Chevy. The new movie attempted to stick closer to the book character.
 
I do like movies that are so unintentionally terrible that they're fun to watch, so here's one.

The Lost Continent (1968)
So there's this sailing ship, and it has a restaurant/bar/lounge, and passengers/crew including a piano-playing singer/drunk and 2 women who try to stay clad, and it ends up in dead winds and dead current and drifts into a bay covered with seaweed which slowly engulfs the ship. The seaweed also makes random attacks on passengers through portholes and wiggles around like a demented octopus. They're stranded for good, until they hear a voice. and some voluptuous woman with helium balloons attached to her shoulders (preventing her from sinking into the seaweed) walks over to talk to them. Yes, helium balloons. So the crew and passengers go with her to the island after all donning their own helium balloons, and meet a kid-looking idiot ruler whose subjects blindly obey him and there's a lobster/mucous monster, and the boat folks have to flee back to the ship where they still have booze and explosives, and then they blow the crap out of everything and the happy voluptuous woman leaves with them.

You don't get to see stuff this bad very often. Highly recommend.
 
I have been watching a lot of noirs and the big winner for me is Pale Flower. I had seen it before but it really jumped out to me this time. It's a super cool Japanese Yakuza gangster flick. Fresh out of prison, a gangster becomes obsessed with a beautiful young gambling addict.
 
fatness said:
I do like movies that are so unintentionally terrible that they're fun to watch, so here's one.

The Lost Continent (1968)
So there's this sailing ship, and it has a restaurant/bar/lounge, and passengers/crew including a piano-playing singer/drunk and 2 women who try to stay clad, and it ends up in dead winds and dead current and drifts into a bay covered with seaweed which slowly engulfs the ship. The seaweed also makes random attacks on passengers through portholes and wiggles around like a demented octopus. They're stranded for good, until they hear a voice. and some voluptuous woman with helium balloons attached to her shoulders (preventing her from sinking into the seaweed) walks over to talk to them. Yes, helium balloons. So the crew and passengers go with her to the island after all donning their own helium balloons, and meet a kid-looking idiot ruler whose subjects blindly obey him and there's a lobster/mucous monster, and the boat folks have to flee back to the ship where they still have booze and explosives, and then they blow the crap out of everything and the happy voluptuous woman leaves with them.

You don't get to see stuff this bad very often. Highly recommend.
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I think that Mystery Science Theater did that one. If not, they should have! :laugh:
 
Mr. Mojo said:
fatness said:
I do like movies that are so unintentionally terrible that they're fun to watch, so here's one.

The Lost Continent (1968)
So there's this sailing ship, and it has a restaurant/bar/lounge, and passengers/crew including a piano-playing singer/drunk and 2 women who try to stay clad, and it ends up in dead winds and dead current and drifts into a bay covered with seaweed which slowly engulfs the ship. The seaweed also makes random attacks on passengers through portholes and wiggles around like a demented octopus. They're stranded for good, until they hear a voice. and some voluptuous woman with helium balloons attached to her shoulders (preventing her from sinking into the seaweed) walks over to talk to them. Yes, helium balloons. So the crew and passengers go with her to the island after all donning their own helium balloons, and meet a kid-looking idiot ruler whose subjects blindly obey him and there's a lobster/mucous monster, and the boat folks have to flee back to the ship where they still have booze and explosives, and then they blow the crap out of everything and the happy voluptuous woman leaves with them.

You don't get to see stuff this bad very often. Highly recommend.
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I think that Mystery Science Theater did that one. If not, they should have! :laugh:
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MST3K did a different Lost Continent. I wish they had done this one, too.
"To the balloons!"
 
Going through some more noirs and my next big winner is Brute Force. I had seen it before and wasn't that impressed. Not sure why but my impression was "just another prison movie". I don't know what I was missing because on rewatch, this movie is great. Some awesome performances from a deep cast and plenty of action.
 
Sudden Fear

A Joan Crawford vehicle also starting Jack Palance and Gloria Grahame. A bit too melodramatic, the pacing in the middle third is too slow, and the plot resolves with too much coincidence. Not my favorite noir.
 
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Andy Dufresne said:
Finally got around to The Killers.

Excellent noir movie. Definitely influenced Miller's Crossing.
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Don't think I've seen it, but I'm down with anything Lee Marvin.
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I think he’s referring to the 1940s The Killers with Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner. I’ve seen both and the 40s one is definitely then better version though like you said, nothing wrong with any Lee Marvin movie.
 
Ilov80s said:
jdoggydogg said:
Andy Dufresne said:
Finally got around to The Killers.

Excellent noir movie. Definitely influenced Miller's Crossing.
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Don't think I've seen it, but I'm down with anything Lee Marvin.
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I think he’s referring to the 1940s The Killers with Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner. I’ve seen both and the 40s one is definitely then better version though like you said, nothing wrong with any Lee Marvin movie.
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Yes, I meant the one with Lancaster. I'm interested in the remake, though.

Boy does Burt have screen presence. He's a great film star.
 
Andy Dufresne said:
Ilov80s said:
jdoggydogg said:
Andy Dufresne said:
Finally got around to The Killers.

Excellent noir movie. Definitely influenced Miller's Crossing.
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Don't think I've seen it, but I'm down with anything Lee Marvin.
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I think he’s referring to the 1940s The Killers with Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner. I’ve seen both and the 40s one is definitely then better version though like you said, nothing wrong with any Lee Marvin movie.
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Yes, I meant the one with Lancaster. I'm interested in the remake, though.

Boy does Burt have screen presence. He's a great film star.
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Definitely!
 
Eephus said:
KarmaPolice said:
Man, do I have a boatload of movies and Yellowjackets to talk about!!
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Welcome back
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Thanks. It was not a good month to get the boot. Besides missing the last few days of the PSF, there has been a lot of movie stuff that I have been wanting an outlet for in the last few weeks as my texts with @Ilov80s and @Raging weasel can verify. I am going to unleash a few posts now. :lol:
 
First off, since I have been getting into them more and more, I wanted to do some Noirvember. Nothing as crazy as 30 movies from the genre in a month like the month of horror, but I wanted to get to a handful of new flicks. The list I watched so far:

The Prowler, Blue Velvet, Nightcrawler, He Ran All the Way, Detour, U-Turn, The Third Man, Out of the Fog, The Long Goodbye, The Lady From Shanghai. The bolded were rewatches.

The only exception of me loving all the old B&W noirs was Out of the Fog. There was a pretty annoying character that kept me from getting into in and recommending it. All the others were great though from the older ones which woudl be all the unbolded titles besides Long Goodbye. I will get to this one in the next posts as it tied into something else I did at the start of the month.

I have a couple neo-noir at home that I want to watch in the next couple weeks: Destroyer and Twilight. I also want to get to at least 1 Japanese noir and told 80s I was going to get to Pale Flower.
 
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