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[French Rage]

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Sort of, it's supposed to take place a few decades after the original, with the original Ghostbusters having retired, or something. I don't know much about most of those women cast, but Melissa McCarthy is just not entertaining. She's the same character in each movie, and it's just not an fun character to me. She has Vin Diesel range.

The one note she can hit, she hits very well, but beyond that it gets old. Plus she suffered from the "star in 10 movies with 2 years and everyone gets sick of you" syndrome a couple years back (which Kevin Hart is right in the middle of this year).

 

[The Rube]

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Get Low

Duvall plays a backwoods hermit, who decides to plan his own funeral party. He is known about by the townspeople, but they don't really care for him because of stories handed down over the years. Excellent movie. Highly recommend.

 

[MadTownSioux]

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We watched Captain Philips tonight. (Netflix DVD) Great movie. Of course, the real story is somewhat different, but still great performance by Hanks.

 

[manurespreader]

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With regard to american sniper, I'm already familiar with the horrors of war, and there are a lot of good movies that depict it. Letters from Iwo Jima being one of the better ones, and really I don't put this movie up there. I think if we are raising awareness of something, maybe we ought to raise awareness about alzheimers. So my vote would go to " Still Alice" for that.

And also other good movies I've seen lately, " Red Army" about hockey, imagine that, ( it's in limited release right now but will be more widely released soon) and " The imitation Game" very interesting and a high quality movie.

 

[bigmrg74]

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I just saw the cast of the new ghost busters movie. Pass.

Sacrilege!! Are we really going to believe that those women are going to be strapping on Unlicensed Nuclear Accelerators onto their backs and go around New York City with them??

 

[The Rube]

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A Night In Old Mexico

Duvall plays a rancher who lost his ranch, heads to Mexico with his grandkid for a fun time. Accidentally crosses paths with a drug dealer, and things go downhill. Decent movie, the acting was a little hammy/cheesy at times (the writing didn't help), but overall it was a fun little movie.

However...gave me the idea of the Robert Duvall Drinking Game. Every time he says "yeah" as a complete filler word, in whatever movie he's in, you drink. This might get you drunker than the Strange Brew "Eh" Drinking Game. Not. Kidding. Between "Get Low" and this movie....hoo boy.

 

[burd]

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For no particular reason, I pulled out The Big Lebowski last night. First rewatch.

"The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners"

 

[SteveP]

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I've got Rush on my tablet and will watch it on my flight to Madrid tonight....if we get out of Philly!

 

[aygwm2]

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A co-worker and I recently decided to watch the entire Criterion Collection (approx. 800 movies). He is going through it randomly; I'm approaching it chronologically (for the most part) and only watching what the Grand Rapids Public Library holds (approx. 600, all free because of my tax dollars).

Thought I'd post this to see if any of you may have done this or have thought of doing the same and to get your reaction to any of the movies you've seen. Following is what I've watched thus far along with some of the supplements which the DVDs include:

6 Short Films: W.C. Fields, Criterion Collection (2000) *
“Pool Sharks”, Edwin Middleton (1915)
“The Golf Specialist”, Monte Brice (1930)
“The Dentist”, Leslie Pearce (1932)
“The Fatal Glass of Beer”, Clyde Bruckman (1933)
“The Pharmacist”, Arthur Ripley (1933)
“The Barber Shop”, Arthur Ripley (1933)
The Bank Dick, Edward Kline (1940) *
Nanook of the North, Robert Flaherty (1922) *
Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist, Criterion Collection (2007) *
- Body and Soul, Oscar Micheaux (1925)
- Borderline, Kenneth Macpherson (1930)
- Sanders of the River, Zolton Korda (1935)
- Jericho, Thornton Freeland (1937)
- The Emperor Jones, Dudley Murphy (1933)
- The Proud Valley, Pen Tennyson (1940)
- Native Land, documentary, Leo Hurwitz & Paul Strand (1942)
Science is Fiction: 23 films by Jean Painlevé, Criterion Collection (2009) *
Disc One
“Hyas and Stenorhynchus” (1927)
“Sea Urchins” (1954)
“How Some Jellyfish Are Born” (1960)
“Liquid Crystals” (1978)
“The Sea Horse” (1933)
“The Love Life of the Octopus” (1967)
“Shrimp Stories” (1964)
“ACERA, or The Witches’ Dance” (1972)
“The Vampire” (1945)
“Freshwater Assassins” (1947)
“Sea Ballerinas” (1956)
“Diatoms” (1968)
“Pigeons in the Square” (1982)
- skipped “The Sounds of Science”
Disc Two – skipped most
“The Octopus” (1927)
“Bluebird” animated claymation (1938)
Disc Three – watched 5 of 8 episodes
“Jean Painlevé Through His Films” (1988)
Safety Last, Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, (1923) *
- in Introduction by Suzanne Llyod
- Locations and Effects
- Harold Lioyd: The Third Genius, Kevin Brownlow & David Gill (1989)
“Take a Chance”, Alfred J. Goulding (1918)
The Freshman, Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor (1925) *
Master of the House, Carl Theodore Dreyer (1925) *
“Interview with Casper Tybjerg, Dreyer historian”
“Visual essay on Dreyer’s innovations”, film historian David Bordwell
The Phantom Carriage, Victor Sjöstrom (1921) *
- Interview with Ingmar Bergman, excerpt from Victor Sjöstrom: A Portrait (1981)
- “The Bergman Connection”, visual essay Peter Cowie
- Footage of the construction of the Råsunda studio
The Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin (1925) *
- Presenting “The Gold Rush” with filmmaker Kevin Brownlow and Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance
- A Time of Innovation: Visual Effects in The Gold Rush
- Music by Charles Chaplin, with composer Timothy Brock
- Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush (2002), a short documentary
3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg, Criterion Collection (2010) *
- Underworld (1927)
“Underworld: How It Came To Be”, visual essay, UCLA film professor Janet Bergstrom
- The Last Command (1928)
“vonSternberg till ‘29”, visual essay, critic Tag Gallagher
- The Docks of New York (1928)
“Josef von Sternberg Interview”, Swedish Television (1968)
The Passion of Joan of Arc or La Passion de Jeanne D’Arc Carl Theodore Dryer (1928)*
Lonesome, Paul Fejos (1928) *
Pandora’s Box, G. W. Pabst (1929) *
The Blood of a Poet or Le Sang d’un Poète, Jean Cocteau (1930) *
Under the Roofs of Paris or Sous les Toits de Paris, René Clair (1930) *
People on Sunday or Menschen am Sonntag, Richard Siodmak & Edgar G. Ulmer (1930) *
- “Weekend am Wannsee”, Gerald Koll, documentary about POS (2000)
- “Into the Blue” or “Ins Blaue Hinein”, Eugen Schüfftan, film short (1931)
The Complete Jean Vigo, Criterion Collection (2011) *
- À propos de Nice, Jean Vigo & Boris Kaufman (1930)
- Taris or La natation par Jean Taris, champion de France, Jean Vigo (1931)
- Zéro de conduite or Zero for Conduct, Jean Vigo (1933)
- L’Atalante, Jean Vigo (1934)
Cinéastes de notre temps about Vigo, French Television (1964)
Les Voyages De L’Atalante, Bernard Eisenschiz, documentary (2001)
Le Million, René Clair (1931) *
- American Television Interview René Clair with Jim MacAndrews (1959)
A Nous la Liberté or Freedom for Us, René Clair (1931) *
The 3 Penny Opera or Die 3-Groschen-Oper, G. W. Pabst (1931) *
- “Fritz Rasp and Ernst Busch” introduce film 1956
- Brecht vs. Pabst: The Transformation of The Threepenny Opera, documentary (2007)
The Most Dangerous Game, Ernest B. Schoedsack & Irving Pichel (1932) *
Trouble in Paradise, Ernst Lubitsch (1932) *
- Peter Bogdanovich introduction (2002)
- Tributes to Lubitsch
- Das fidele Gefängnis or The Merry Jail, Ernst Lubitsch (1917)
Boudu Saved From Drowning or Boudu sauvé des eaux, Jean Renoir (1932) *
Island of Lost Souls, Erle C. Kenton (1932) *
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse or Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse, Fritz Lang (1933) *
- Mabuse in Mind, Thomas Honickel (1984), interview with actor Rudolf Schündler.
Design for Living, Ernst Lubitsch (1933) *

 

[The Rube]

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The only thing I have done that is similar to that is watch the Akira Kirosawa collection (25 movies) that Amazon has for sale. The set cost just as much as if I bought the movies I wanted separately.

 

[Kepler]

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A co-worker and I recently decided to watch the entire Criterion Collection (approx. 800 movies).

Wow, that's truly impressive. I made a list of the horror movies I've seen and it was well over 1000, and most of those were awful, so my time could have been better spent doing what you are.

 

[rufus]

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I'm not a movie classics kind of guy by any means, but there's some stuff on there that I definitely love. Repo Man will blow your mind. Quadrophenia. Head, the Monkees movie? I'm amazed that's on this list. Paris, Texas? I have Dazed and Confused. You young kids wanna know what the 70's was like? Here ya go.

Short Cuts? Monterey Pop. Gimme Shelter. Do The Right Thing. The Big Chill.

 

[aygwm2]

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Vampyr, Carl Theodor Dreyer (1932)

Eerie effects, imagery and symbolism. Focused on the visual rather than dialogue. Limited "talkie". Seems like this maybe was originally meant to be a silent picture, not sure.

I've watched Dreyer's Master of the House and The Passion of Joan of Arc as well. Joan and Vampyr are the most impressionable.

After watching The Most Dangerous Game, Island of Lost Souls and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse it was interesting to see several movies that have inspired the "horror" genre.

The silent film The Phantom Carriage is also very good.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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Seal Team Six - could have cut the first hour off and the last five minutes and it would have been better. God that's some terrible acting.

Act of Valor. Now that's a very good military movie. STS is not worth the time.

 

[The Rube]

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I'm not a movie classics kind of guy by any means, but there's some stuff on there that I definitely love. Repo Man will blow your mind. Quadrophenia. Head, the Monkees movie? I'm amazed that's on this list. Paris, Texas? I have Dazed and Confused. You young kids wanna know what the 70's was like? Here ya go.

Short Cuts? Monterey Pop. Gimme Shelter. Do The Right Thing. The Big Chill.

Re: Dazed And Confused.

Also watch "The Stoned Age." It's the "other" crowd featured in that movie. Not the jocks/popular crowd. It's the headbangers, so to speak. Totally a B version of Dazed. I love the movie.

 

[Handyman]

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Stoned Age is lots of fun

The Judge...further proof that you should spend less money on big name actors (great cast) and more on a script. Paint by numbers movie making at its finest. So much potential wasted on a second rate Hope Floats.

 

[Jimjamesak]

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In a similar vein to Dazed and Confused, anybody remember PCU?

I watched it again the other day before work, spent the whole day quoting lines...

 

[The Rube]

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In a similar vein to Dazed and Confused, anybody remember PCU?

I watched it again the other day before work, spent the whole day quoting lines...

Hell yes. I have the PCU/Airheads combo DVD that I got for $5 from Target.

And I'm sad to read that about "The Judge." Is it really THAT bad? Is it worth a watch just for the cast? Or is it puke-worthy?

 

[bigmrg74]

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In a similar vein to Dazed and Confused, anybody remember PCU?

I watched it again the other day before work, spent the whole day quoting lines...

Ah yes, PCU. That movie is so underappreciated. And then to turn around about 10 years later to see Droz has sold out to the Man and become the Man, it was a little hard for me to deal with that.

 

[Jimjamesak]

Hell yes. I have the PCU/Airheads combo DVD that I got for $5 from Target.

Now that is DVD combo worth owning!

PCU is one of those movies where people either go "huh, don't remember it" or "The Birdshow! The Amazing Birdshow!"