It was too hot to sleep last night so my husband and I watched some films we saw when we were courting.
One of them was 'Come back to the Five and Dime Jimmy, Dean, Jimmy Dean' a film I never tire of seeing. It was scripted from a play and actually shot and acted like a play. A superb cast and a good story. You won't like this film if you like special effects - it's pure character and a touching story.
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For a long time I thought the theme of 'Chinatown' was extremely beautiful.Originally posted by Limehouse View Post
I recently watched a National Geographic 'series' on Machu Picchu on Youtube. Four parts and fabulous information about that mysterious city and it's origins. I really didn't know they knew so much about it:
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Thats an absolute classic, I was gobsmacked the first time I saw that.
I also watched some weird thing with Tommy Lee Jones solving a murder with the help of a ghost of a civil war southern general, on BBC1, wasnt that bad,although the murderer was pretty obvious, thing is I usually know something about films when they are shown but this one had completely passed me by, its only the comic book films that get promoted these days it seems.
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I watched Bronson again on Film4 the other night, Tom Hardy is astonishing, I can see why he got the Bane role,looking forward to seeing the Dark Knight Rises, they are still trailing it in the U.K., but I agree it is always going to be associated with that god awful thing.
My only gripe about Batman movies are that because of the need to get in as big an audience as they can, the movies are not as scary as they should be.
Thats the essence of The Batman for me, he should be absolutely terrifying.
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The Dark Knight Rises. As a lifelong Batman fan I waited two years for this movie and have never followed the making of a film as closely as I did this one. Now I've finally seen it, and though it couldn't possibly have ever lived up to that much anticipation, it did not at all disappoint. However I am mad as hell- and also very sad- that 71 people had to get shot by some maniac (12 of them fatally) in a movie theater in Colorado on opening night. That's going to be part of this movie's story forever now.
No spoilers for those who haven't seen it. But for those who have, anyone else have any comments?Leave a comment:
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I just finished watching "Iron Sky", a low-budget scifi/comedy from Europe.
What a great movie! It was funny (Americans may not thinks so) and for a low budget film it looked fantastic! One of the best dieselpunk films I've ever seen.Leave a comment:
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Just saw "The Avengers" tonight. Now I am an admitted comic book geek, but-- Oh. My. God. Total superhero overload. I am in geek heaven.
And oh by the way, I can't recall when the last time was that I heard an audience applaud at the end of a movie, but I heard it tonight.
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AngelHeart-just watched again. Great movie.
What i still cant figure out is: Is Mickey Rourkes charactor-- Johnny Favorites body/face and Harry Angels soul or the other way around?
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One of my favourite scenes from The Avengers, starting around 6.15 :
Bleached white by a laser. It's so wacky.Leave a comment:
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Hands of The Ripper
A 1971 classic from Hammer - it's so hard to imagine anybody taking it seriously now, though I suppose at the time it must have seemed scary! Premise for anybody who hasn't seen it is that Jack's daughter, Anna, witnesses him killing her mother as a child after her mother notices that her husband is covered in blood and of course must be the Ripper!
'You're the Ripper!' she cries, sensationally, in their dimly lit flat in Berner Street (!) And Jack has no option of course but to do her in there and then.
20 years later, Anna is posessed by the spirit of her father and develops a penchant for stabbing women with whatever comes to hand - pokers, swords, hatpins, whatever..
Great fun, especially the comedy prostitutes parading up and down Berner Street like Eliza Doolittles naughty sisters...
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Last night we watched From Hell. First of all, I want to say as a sidenote, I called my mother, who was interested in seeing any JTR movie, and told her it was on.
She said to me, "The movie from Hell is on and you want me to watch it?!" I may have to rephrase how I advise this movie is on to watch, lol.
Second of all, how in the world did they ever make all that up? Abberline was not a drug addict, worked after he retired from Scotland Yard, and was married to a woman till he died years later, and was middleaged.
Always like Depp, that girl playing Kelly was likeable, nice to see the scenes of the 1888 London they concoct so well.
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Wrath of the Titans.
Not having terribly high expectations of this sequel to the distinctly mediocre 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans, I was pleasantly surprised by this, the second in a planned trilogy of films.
The plot isn't a challengej - naughty but fairly dim gods Hades and Ares decide to make a Zeus-destroying deal with their imprisoned Tiatn dad Cronos in retrun for being allowed to keep their immortality in the face of weakening god powers as humanity learns not to believe in them.
Enter Perseus and his delightful steed Pegasus to save the day.
It's a well paced film, a great Chimera scrap in the first five minutes and non-stop action to the end. As it isn't overly long, there's not enough time to really start questioning the internal logic of the film.
Gods Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes seem to be enjoying themselves, and Rosamund Pike is suitably Amazonish to play the warrior queen Andromeda. The film also has a strong family theme which helps the creaky plot along nicely.
Other than the fact that Pegasus is (still) black, when of course he should be white; this film succeeds rather better than its predecessor.
And best of all, we get to see the best God toy ever, Bubo, who deserves his own movie
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