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  1. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Fading Fast said: I recorded it and am now more excited based on your review - although, depressing isn't what I'm looking for today. Then my work here is done. Just kidding! I've also always been very impressed with A Face in the Crowd. And re Elia Kazan, his politics regarding the...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    King & Country, a 1962 British film directed by Joseph Losey, via TCM. About a simple-minded WWI deserter (Tom Courtney) quickly court-martialed in a makeshift court in the trenches. Dirk Bogarde plays the captain assigned to defend him, who argues that he was shell-shocked and disoriented...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I watched that doc a couple of weeks ago, and ended up recording and watching Berkeley Square (1933) afterwards. Here was a fantasy film from the thirties I'd somehow missed in my youthful passion for that era's classic horror and fantasy in the late sixties. (Apparently it was a lost film...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I just finished watching Patrick Melrose last night. Excellent... but rough and unsettling, with parts that were difficult viewing (though it's balanced with laugh-out-loud moments). An outstanding production with a great top-to-bottom cast. No doubt Cumberbatch will get an Emmy nom, he's...
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    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    I've got b/w film loaded in three cameras at the moment - Nikon F2, Olympus Stylus Epic, and Minox IIIs. (Also unloaded: another F2, two Olympus OM bodies, a half-dozen lenses for each system, another Minox, and many other cameras, including Yashica TLRs and Graphic 4x5s.) But I never actually...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I recently watched it and liked it too. My initial thought was how can a doc on Leslie Howard be worth more than an hour (it's a 1:45 timeslot)? But it definitely held my interest. One thing I hadn't realized was that his performance as Ashley Wilkes - which I always felt was too restrained...
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    Fedoras & facial hair: are they mortal enemies?

    It was Frank Brunner when I was an active comics reader in the seventies, but of course, Steve Ditko's work is even more brilliant. I treated myself to the Marvel Masterworks paperback collecting all of Ditko's Doctor Strange comics shortly before the movie came out. It takes a while for the...
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    Fedoras & facial hair: are they mortal enemies?

    Thanks, nvilletele! I've been Doctor Strange (or some variation of it: DoctorStrange, Dr.Strange, etc.) here and on many other forums/sites now for going on twenty years. Way before Cumberbatch made him a household name. He was always my favorite Marvel character because he studied to gain...
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    Hats on TV

    Re The Alienist, I liked it more for the hats than the story. The production quality is wonderful, but not so much the writing and acting. A lot of the things that made the source novel special back in the nineties (before so many other psychological, serial killer profiling...
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    Fedoras & facial hair: are they mortal enemies?

    Yes. I actually wish the shade were a hair darker, because it reads as off-white rather than light gray in most light. Of course, in b/w, it really looks like something from 1931!
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    Fedoras & facial hair: are they mortal enemies?

    Huh, I don't know why I didn't reply on this thread back in 2012. I've been a bearded hat guy since around 1973 - and I was a hat guy long before I could grow a decent beard. Of course, I reject all "fashion rules" as pretentious bushwa anyway, and wear whatever I want. Personal style is...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Left Hand of God - 1955 drama in which Humphrey Bogart is an ex-GI who'd been leading raiding parties for a Chinese warlord who'd captured him during WWII, and who disguises himself as a priest in order to escape the warlord. The experience of being a missionary, while a giant lie, makes him...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Lizzie, you're right, of course. I only didn't bother pointing out that First Contact was the one actually really good TNG film simply because I think it's pretty common knowledge!
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I watched Star Trek: Nemesis, which has the distinction of being the only (pre-Abramsvese) Star Trek film I don't know cold backwards and forwards. I saw it in a theater just once with my kids back in 2002, and it's never shown up on any cable system I've had until now. Wow, it's considerably...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I can't argue with any of that, it's a wonderful film. And these days it's perversely entertaining to watch the PC police fretting over "Bojangles of Harlem".
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    (Addendum: D'oh! You beat me to it while I was writing this post, Lizzie.) Wow, you're right! Especially the way Namor was drawn in the in the golden age, with that triangular head. Jack Kirby bulked him up and de-triangularized his head when the character was reintroduced in the sixties...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I noticed they were showing it, along with other great Warners/Berkeley musicals like Dames and Gold Diggers of 1933. I can't argue with anything you said, Lizzie, it's a classic I've loved since I was a kid. I'm glad you mentioned Warner Baxter, whose dying director Julian Marsh adds an ironic...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    As I indicated a couple of days ago, I felt very similarly. He did a lot better channeling Tennessee Williams in Blue Jasmine than he does with Eugene O'Neill in this film. Cate Blanchett unraveled movingly a la Blanche DuBois, but Winslet's beaten-down wife is no Mary Tyrone. And he's...
  22. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I thought I expressed myself pretty clearly. Care to amplify your wtf into something I can respond to?
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Yes, "Allen's off-screen reputation" is a problem. I find it especially sad that a vast amount of young people are totally closed-minded, thinking him only a worthless pervert. Separating the person from the artist has always been a problem, and it's often the case that genius in one area...

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