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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

Bigger Don

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TCM tonight.

Film by F.W. Murnau
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Based on the 1897 Bram Stoker Gothic novel Dracula.
When Bram Stokers widow received word that a German film
company
made a movie based on her husbands novel.
She filed a class-action lawsuit and won.

All copies of the film including the negatives were destroyed.

Some prints survived.
This version has been restored to the original
directors cut from 1922.
That makes two of us.
 

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Uncertain Glory, an Errol Flynn movie set in France during WW2. Not too bad.

Right now I'm watching Dial M for Murder.
 
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Julian Shellhammer

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TCM tonight.

Film by F.W. Murnau
2exskqx.jpg

Based on the 1897 Bram Stoker Gothic novel Dracula.
When Bram Stokers widow received word that a German film
company
made a movie based on her husbands novel.
She filed a class-action lawsuit and won.

All copies of the film including the negatives were destroyed.

Some prints survived.
This version has been restored to the original
directors cut from 1922.
I saw the film in a revival house in Anaheim, near Disneyland, about 1972. What a creeeeeeepy movie.
 

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I saw the film in a revival house in Anaheim, near Disneyland, about 1972. What a creeeeeeepy movie.

Yep.
It’s considered a classic even though this vampire casts a reflection in the mirror
towards the final scene.

And you would think that after being around for several hundred years,
he would know it’s not healthy to walk by a window,
especially when the sun is rising.

Dummy. :mad:
 
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Unsung Glory, an Errol Flynn movie set in France during WW2. Not too bad.

Right now I'm watching Dial M for Murder.

I think you might mean "Uncertain Glory," if so, a decent Flynn flick, with Paul Lukas as always doing a great job. I really enjoy Flynn as an actor and think he so shined in a few early action adventure movies, that his other movies and broader acting talents get over looked.

"Dial M for Murder," I just enjoy it from beginning to end.
 

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We watched Captain America: Civil War with the girls, as we bring them through the Marvel universe as they're old enough now! We'll take them to the theatre to see the next instalment, as we'll have caught them up by then.
 

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I think you might mean "Uncertain Glory," if so, a decent Flynn flick, with Paul Lukas as always doing a great job. I really enjoy Flynn as an actor and think he so shined in a few early action adventure movies, that his other movies and broader acting talents get over looked.

"Dial M for Murder," I just enjoy it from beginning to end.

Ah! You're right. I will go edit it now.
 

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We watched Captain America: Civil War with the girls, as we bring them through the Marvel universe as they're old enough now! We'll take them to the theatre to see the next instalment, as we'll have caught them up by then.

My 16-yr-old daughter is a HUGE Marvel fan. We loved Captain America: Civil War. I'm looking forward to Thor 3, the next Ant Man, and of course, the next Avengers.
 

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My 16-yr-old daughter is a HUGE Marvel fan. We loved Captain America: Civil War. I'm looking forward to Thor 3, the next Ant Man, and of course, the next Avengers.

We need to catch the girls up on the Ironman trilogy and the two Thors. They saw Antman on a flight last year (I was deployed), so I need to catch up on that!
 

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We need to catch the girls up on the Ironman trilogy and the two Thors. They saw Antman on a flight last year (I was deployed), so I need to catch up on that!

Ironman 1 and 2 are good - but the 3rd? So, so awful. I wouldn't even bother with that one.

Antman is fantastic!!! I went into it with low expectations and was very pleasantly surprised.
 
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Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
The making of the film “Nosferatu” starring John Malkovich.

Just as creepy but interesting as to how filming was made back then.
I work with video cameras for a news station.
Just to clarify for anyone who hasn't seen or heard of it, Shadow of the Vampire is a fictional account of the filming of Nosferatu (1922) with the premise that Director F.W. Murnau has found a real vampire to play the lead role of Graf Orlok. Regardless, I consider Shadow of the Vampire to be a must-see for fans of Nosferatu.
 

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^^^^^
One synopsis describes it as a 2000 metafiction comedy horror film directed by E. Elias Merhige.

My interest is the technical aspects of how the process of film making was achieved in
the silent era before sound movies.
 
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"Paths of Glory" which is probably the third or fourth time I've seen it and it only gets better with each viewing. This time, I focused in on just a few characters.

Adolphe Menjou as the insanely immoral but "able to see the game completely for what it is" general was frighteningly good at his role. This is also my favorite Kirk Douglas role as he keeps his over-the-topness in control and delivers a powerful performance.

And the scene where the artillery battery commander refuses the order from the general to fire on his own troops was impressively acted by both the melting-down general and the preternaturally calm-under-intense-pressure commander. While the novel was written in '35, assuming this scene was in the book, it foreshadows one of the huge moral questions of WWII - when is it right for a soldier to refuse an order?

I'll be ready to watch this one again in a year or so.
 

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"Paths of Glory" which is probably the third or fourth time I've seen it and it only gets better with each viewing. This time, I focused in on just a few characters.

Adolphe Menjou as the insanely immoral but "able to see the game completely for what it is" general was frighteningly good at his role. This is also my favorite Kirk Douglas role as he keeps his over-the-topness in control and delivers a powerful performance.

And the scene where the artillery battery commander refuses the order from the general to fire on his own troops was impressively acted by both the melting-down general and the preternaturally calm-under-intense-pressure commander. While the novel was written in '35, assuming this scene was in the book, it foreshadows one of the huge moral questions of WWII - when is it right for a soldier to refuse an order?

I'll be ready to watch this one again in a year or so.

Having joined the Army AFTER the My Lai massacre.... we discussed the point of "unlawful orders" at length in basic and AIT. It is a question I hope a soldier is never forced to face. But one that many will.

Worf
 

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We need to catch the girls up on the Ironman trilogy and the two Thors. They saw Antman on a flight last year (I was deployed), so I need to catch up on that!

Ironman 1 and 2 are good - but the 3rd? So, so awful. I wouldn't even bother with that one.

Antman is fantastic!!! I went into it with low expectations and was very pleasantly surprised.

Agree to disagree on Iron Man 3. Of them all it's my favorite. We know the character of Tony really well by this point & it's cool to see him dealing with what he goes through (trying to be spoiler free as much as I can here, lol). Anyway, I wouldn't totally write it off.

Still need to see Antman. Glad to hear it's better than I've anticipated. :D
 
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Agree to disagree on Iron Man 3. Of them all it's my favorite. We know the character of Tony really well by this point & it's cool to see him dealing with what he goes through (trying to be spoiler free as much as I can here, lol). Anyway, I wouldn't totally write it off.

Still need to see Antman. Glad to hear it's better than I've anticipated. :D
We too have yet to see Antman. I also enjoyed the version of the Mandarin of Iron Man III. I wanted the version I read as a kid, but found this version to be entertaining.
:D
 

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