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New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

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Holmes is a good popcorn flick. I enjoyed it. Pretty true to the character and Robert Downey Jr. is fantastic in the role. Seen tepid reviews, etc but has a 68% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Read all those stories in High School (25 years ago, ugh). I'm interested in rereading them all now.
 
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Brenthoven said:
The original "Stood Still" is excellent. And in case you haven't, I highly recommend going way back and watching all the original monster movies (Dracula, Phantom Of The Opera, Nosferatu, etc). I love 'em.
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Huge rep for the Murnau Nosferatu shout out. Scariest movie ever made.

Some other ancient greats: The Body Snatcher (1946), The Cabinet of Dr, Caligari (1919), Chloe, Love is Calling You (1934), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941).

If you want to go really far back and can deal with old style melodrama, try the Tod Slaughter movies like Murder in the Red Barn (1935).
 
Some of these posts bring back a lot of good memories.

I recall many a weekend growing up watching a lot of B&W stuff. Laurel & Hardy, 3 Stooges, Our Gang, the Bowry Boys, Tarzan movies on Sunday mornings (could never stomach Blondie) and on Sat nights old horror films such as the Mummy, the Mole People, Frankenstein this and that, Dracula this and that, Werewolf, etc. etc., many with Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karlof, etc. Some of it was campy and not in the class of films many have noted, but I was often mesmerized and couldn't get enough of it.

Another memory just popped in - to this day I wish that Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher received better treatment on film than it did. I was quite creeped out by the read but I actually turned off the movie (House of Usher with V Price) part way in.
 
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Slap Shot said:
Another memory just popped in - to this day I wish that Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher received better treatment on film than it did. I was quite creeped out by the read but I actually turned off the movie (House of Usher with V Price) part way in.
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They played that for us in our public Junior High when we were snowed in. Try doing that today; the Fundies would have an aneurysm. :rolleyes:

Price was also in a couple Roger Corman Faux Poes, where pretty much the only thing in common with the Poe story was the title. Pit and the Pendulum, the Raven (with an end-of-the-road Peter Lorre as pathetic comic relief).
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
Holmes is a good popcorn flick. I enjoyed it. Pretty true to the character and Robert Downey Jr. is fantastic in the role. Seen tepid reviews, etc but has a 68% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Read all those stories in High School (25 years ago, ugh). I'm interested in rereading them all now.
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Last I saw it was around 50% from the "Top Critics" on the site. Rex Reed was not very kind neither was the reviewer from the San Fran Chronicle...I mean they were downright mean!

I will most likely see it next week since it has been requested...I am not expecting much. Even the good reviews to tend to back up what I suspect about the movie so I am sure I wont hate myself for going :D
 
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Handyman said:
I am not expecting much. Even the good reviews to tend to back up what I suspect about the movie so I am sure I wont hate myself for going :D
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In our household this is known as "Freejacking." Expect a movie to be a steaming pile and the odd moment of competence will be a ray of sunshine.
 
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Kepler said:
In our household this is known as "Freejacking." Expect a movie to be a steaming pile and the odd moment of competence will be a ray of sunshine.
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Are you dissing on the movie FREEJACK?? Come on that movie is glorious! It not only has Buster Pointdexter (aka David Johansen of New York Dolls fame) but Mick Jagger! Add in an Estevez and the always sexy Renee Russo and you got yourself a classic!

:D
 
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Slap Shot said:
Some of these posts bring back a lot of good memories.

I recall many a weekend growing up watching a lot of B&W stuff. Laurel & Hardy,...
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I love Laurel and Hardy. Too bad they can't release/don't release a full DVD collection of their comedy shorts. :mad:

And Renee Russo was sexy 10 years ago. Not now. Ugh.
 
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Well she is safely entrenched in her 50's I think you can cut her a little slack...
 
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Handyman said:
Well she is safely entrenched in her 50's I think you can cut her a little slack...
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Some women age quite nicely: Ann-Margret, Sophia Loren.....Russo? Notsomuch.
 
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Wow...you know I tend to disagree with you anyways but on this one I don't even have the words. You have fun with your Grumpier Old Men poster...

;)
 
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Handyman said:
Wow...you know I tend to disagree with you anyways but on this one I don't even have the words. You have fun with your Grumpier Old Men poster...

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Yeah, it was on tonight. Sally Field also aged pretty well for a while.

C Zeta-Jones isn't doing too badly, either. I'm just saying when Renee lost it, she really lost it.
 
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bigmrg74 said:
Not saying that Renee couldn't use a little touch up work, but I really wouldn't need that many drinks in me to give her a go.

http://rene-russo.org/images/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=10
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http://images.askmen.com/galleries/actress/rene-russo/pictures/rene-russo-picture-4.jpg

Maybe I've seen some bad pics of the current her (like above). I just remember seeing her at some event in the past year or so and I was stunned.
 
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Rene Russo was in her 40's when she made Thomas Crown Affair. That's all anyone need know.

If you want to go old school about aging badly look at pictures of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis when they were young (both lookers) and then when they got older. Both aged terribly.
 
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Picked up District 9 on blu-ray today. Loved it in the theater.

Only my 2nd ever blu-ray disc. :D
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
If you want to go old school about aging badly look at pictures of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis when they were young (both lookers) and then when they got older. Both aged terribly.
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Big eyes + big forehead. They start out looking cute and cherubic and wind up Ayn Rand in drag. Angela Lansbury had it, and Susan Sarandon's got it too. Mena Suvari's going to look like a zucchini in 20 years.

That's not Russo's problem, though. Russo just looks like a man, man. What if you crossed Jamie Lee Curtis with Michael Landon?
 
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