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Movie Thread: Grab Some Popcorn, Enjoy The Show

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goldy_331 said:
There was more in that movie than hot chicks dancing on top of a bar?

That's all I ever caught when it was on cable. I guess I did see some scene with some talking in it, but I quickly changed the channel when that started.
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Heck, I had Coyote Ugly in my DVD collection in college just to give any women we had over a chick flick option if a movie was going to be watched. Came in handy a few times. I'm sure there's probably a few guys out there that had Flashdance out on VHS just for the same reason.
 
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bigmrg74 said:
Heck, I had Coyote Ugly in my DVD collection in college just to give any women we had over a chick flick option if a movie was going to be watched. Came in handy a few times. I'm sure there's probably a few guys out there that had Flashdance out on VHS just for the same reason.
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Bull Durham. Works like a charm.
 
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Brenthoven said:
The Bounty is on my list.

I can separate the actor from his/her personal life. Otherwise I'd never watch a Tom Cruise, Rosie O'Donnell, or Mel Gibson movie. Rosie, you ask? She was great in "Beautiful Girls" and "League Of Their Own." :)
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I usually can, but for some reason, with Mel I can't. Perhaps part of it is that he hasn't aged well at all, also, and it's hard for me to see him as he is now, grumpy old man, when I grew up with the young mulleted Mel. And I've seen the Road Warrior enough that even it has lost its charm. I like Mad Max better, anyway.

And Beautiful Girls is just a great movie. One of the few movies that I've actually bought on dvd; I usually just go for tv season sets.

It may be just me, but I think The Bounty is just an amazing film. I may actually have to buy this one. The only other Gibson film I would consider buying would be Gallipoli, another great movie.
 
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rufus said:
I usually can, but for some reason, with Mel I can't. Perhaps part of it is that he hasn't aged well at all, also, and it's hard for me to see him as he is now, grumpy old man, when I grew up with the young mulleted Mel. And I've seen the Road Warrior enough that even it has lost its charm. I like Mad Max better, anyway.

And Beautiful Girls is just a great movie. One of the few movies that I've actually bought on dvd; I usually just go for tv season sets.

It may be just me, but I think The Bounty is just an amazing film. I may actually have to buy this one. The only other Gibson film I would consider buying would be Gallipoli, another great movie.
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Get The Gringo with Gibson is a great movie, too. He plays a thief/grifter that gets caught and thrown in a unique Mexican jail: it's basically it's own city. He does what he can to get out and get his money back.
 
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Originally Posted by FadeToBlack&Gold

Life Itself

That awkward, stiff early footage of Siskel and Ebert when they really didn't like each other is pretty good.
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Watched Life Itself tonight. Very good, moving, meaningful, hopeful movie about "more than movies".
 
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Mission Impossible Rogue Nation was cromulent, however the Vienna Opera House sequence was the best action movie sequence I've ever seen. I hope action filmmakers study it for years -- everything about it was perfect.

Also: the lead actress was outstanding.
 
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Tucker and Dale vs. Evil. How did this thing not blow up at the box office? This movie is great! And the bit with the tea, it's a just a small thing, but where do they come up with this stuff? Hilarious!
 
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St. Clown said:
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil. How did this thing not blow up at the box office? This movie is great! And the bit with the tea, it's a just a small thing, but where do they come up with this stuff? Hilarious!
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I didn't know it came out in the box office, but I agree, it's friggin' awesome.
 
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Brenthoven said:
I didn't know it came out in the box office, but I agree, it's friggin' awesome.
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It might've been a direct to DVD release, but it's just too good for me to have not heard of it before. I was watching a series of horrible movies (I, Frankenstein - I had really low expectations and it failed to even meet them despite having Bill Nighy and Aaron Eckhart) when Tucker & Dale came up in the suggested viewings list. I read the synopsis, saw that it had Alan Tudyk and that guy who starred in Reaper (TV show), so I gave it a whirl. Freaking great!
 
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St. Clown said:
It might've been a direct to DVD release, but it's just too good for me to have not heard of it before. I was watching a series of horrible movies (I, Frankenstein - I had really low expectations and it failed to even meet them despite having Bill Nighy and Aaron Eckhart) when Tucker & Dale came up in the suggested viewings list. I read the synopsis, saw that it had Alan Tudyk and that guy who starred in Reaper (TV show), so I gave it a whirl. Freaking great!
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I heard of it from melmac and bbdl, IIRC (definitely melmac). Gave it a whirl, and all the love. Friggin' fantastic.
 
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Pixels - better than it had any right to be given so much of Sandler's work but I laughed often and there no extended dead spots.
 
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Movies watch in August (* Criterion Collection)

Kiss Me Deadly, Robert Aldrich (1955) *
Selma, Ava DuVernay (2014)
Written on the Wind, Douglas Sirk (1956) *
And God Created Woman or Et Dieu…créa la femme, Roger Vadim (1956) *
Les Diabolique, Henri-Georges Clouzot (1955) *
Rififi or Du rififi chez les homes, Jules Dassin (1955) *
Jubal, Delmer Daves (1956) *
A Man Escaped or Un con****é à mort s’est échappé, Robert Bresson (1956) *
Masaki Kobayashi Against The System, Eclipse Series 38 (2013) *
- The Thick-Walled Room, Masaki Kobayashi (1953, released 1956)
- I Will Buy You, Masaki Kobayashi (1956)
- Black River, Masaki Kobayashi (1956)
- The Inheritance, Masaki Kobayashi (1962)
Late Ozu, Eclipse Series 3 (2007) *
- Early Spring, Yasujiro Ozu (1956)
- Tokyo Twilight, Yasujiro Ozu (1957)
- Equinox Flower, Yasujiro Ozu (1958)
- Late Autumn, Yasujiro Ozu (1960)
- The End of Summer, Yasujiro Ozu (1961)
Early Bergman, Eclipse Series 1 (2007) *
- Torment, Alf Sjöberg (1944)
- Crisis, Ingmar Bergman (1946)
- Port of Call, Ingmar Bergman (1948)
- Thirst, Ingmar Bergman (1949)
- To Joy, Ingmar Bergman (1950)
The Burmese Harp, Kon Ichikawa (1956) *
Crazed Fruit, Ko Nakahira (1956) *
Elena and Her Men, Jean Renoir (1956) *
The Red Balloon, Albert Lamorisse (1956) *
Bigger Than Life, Nicholas Ray (1956) *
Gervaise, René Clément (1956) *
The Seventh Seal or Det sjunde inseglet, Ingmar Bergman (1957) *
Wild Strawberries or Smultronstället, Ingmar Bergman (1957) *
Nights of Cabiria or Le notti di Cabiria, Federico Fellini (1957) *
The Cranes Are Flying, Mikhail Kalatozov (1957) *
Mr. Turner, Mike Leigh (2014)
12 Angry Men, Sidney Lumet (1957) *
Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa (1957) *
Life Itself, Steve James (2014)
Elevator to the Gallows, Louis Malle (1957) *
3:10 to Yuma, Delmer Daves (1957) *
The Lower Depths or どん底 Donzoko, Akira Kurosawa 黒澤 明 (1957) *
Le notti blanche, Luchino Visconti (1957) *
Kanal, Andrzej Wajda (1957)
Nikkatsu Noir, Eclipse Series 17 (2009), I Am Waiting, Koreyoshi Kurahara (1957) *

So, I had just typed out a bunch of comments on selected films watched in August...and then lost it all. So I'm simply posting the films.

All are worth watching, but the ones in bold I recommend.
 
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So after the Mel Gibson discussion we had last week, I decided I'd pick up The Bounty while it was still available. Did a little searching, and found there's a company called Twilight Time who come out with limited edition blu-rays of certain movies, and The Bounty was one of them. From one review I read, they say the regular dvd picture looks likes total crap when compared to this transfer by Twilight Time. Others with more blu-ray experience and better systems than mine have said that while it's better than the dvd, it's not comparable to true blu-ray quality. Good comparison site here, hold your cursor on the image for the dvd picture, and then move it off for the blu-ray image to appear.

http://caps-a-holic.com/hd_vergleiche/multi_comparison.php?art=part&x=470&y=268&action=1&image=5&hd_multiID=2410&cap1=55784&cap2=55796&disc1=5931&disc2=5932&lossless=1#vergleich

So I went ahead and ordered it. Only 3000 copies available, and yeah, it was a bit pricey, but not too bad.

The movie looks absolutely stunning to my eyes. Any time there's a long shot of the ship at sea, or framed against the island paradise, sunsets or clouded dusk skies, it's just absolutely gorgeous. The cinematographer on this film was a true artist.

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And the score by Vangelis is amazing as well, majestic and stirring, from the moment it starts in right after the MGM lion's roar(on the dvd, the roar comes in in the middle of the musical opening), and continues on after the credits end, not cut off as on the dvd.

Probably the best version you'll be able to find, unless they do a complete restoration for 4k digital, which seems unlikely. You can find it available here.

http://www.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/28645/THE-BOUNTY-1984/

They've also got a blu-ray of Breaking Away that I might have to pick up.
 
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geezer said:
I'll save you guys the trouble:
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I meant definition 1.

I re-watched Harper for about the 8th time, and I still enjoy it. My god it's a period piece for the 60s though. Among the highpoints:

+ Strother Martin ("See this quarter? It used to be a nickle.") in a serious role.
+ Lauren Bacall chewing scenery and still being lovely despite pushing 80*
+ Robert Wagner being completely gratuitous cheesecake
+ Shelley Winters playing Shelley Winters
+ A William Goldman script

The book it is based on is Ross MacDonald's The Moving Target, which was the first in his Lew Archer** series that is endless and outstanding if you like hard boiled self-parody. I've read most of them and Newman is actually a good Harper/Archer, though a little young.

Anyway, B+, won't ennoble you but won't kill too many braincells either.

* Holy crap, I looked it up and Bacall was only 42. She is lovely, but the mileage man, the mileage... :eek: She looks like an old actress playing a middle aged woman, but she's actually a middle aged actress looking like an old actress playing a middle aged woman.

** Fascinating bit from Wikipedia:
The script was originally called Archer. The name of the lead character was changed from Lew Archer to Harper because the producers had not bought the rights to the series, just to The Moving Target.
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Any intellectual property lawyers out there? That's interesting.
 
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