What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Harp]

In Cold Blood


I shoulda gone instead to see "To Kill a Mockingbird" [/COLOR]

fftopic: Harper Lee is a proud Chicago Cubs fan. And she has a new book out or due to be released soon. :eusa_clap

 

[LizzieMaine]

"Whoopee!" (1930), the first of the Eddie Cantor extravaganzas for Samuel Goldwyn, and the most lavish. Filmed entirely in two-color Technicolor, it's an almost-literal translation of the 1928 Ziegfeld stage production, although most of the original score has been jettisoned in favor of several new songs. The plot, as with all twenties musical comedy, doesn't bear close examination, but Cantor gives his all. Best line in the show comes when the supposedly Native American romantic lead laments his failure to be assimilated into the white man's world. "I've even gone to your schools," he declares to Cantor. "Imagine that!" Eddie responds. "An Indian in a Hebrew school!"

Betty Grable has a bit part in the picture as the most raucous of the chorus girls. She was all of thirteen years old at the time.

 

[Touchofevil]

And?

I liked it.

 

[Zombie_61]

...Best line in the show comes when the supposedly Native American romantic lead laments his failure to be assimilated into the white man's world. "I've even gone to your schools," he declares to Cantor. "Imagine that!" Eddie responds. "An Indian in a Hebrew school!"

Indian Chief scene from Blazing Saddles

 

[jamespowers]

Indian Chief scene from Blazing Saddles

So that is what happened to him in the long run.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Maleficent. It had its moments, good production design, and a committed performance by Angelina Jolie. There's some pretty strange stuff in it for a big-budget fantasy film aimed at kids. Some things I think didn't really work included the allegedly amusing trio of good fairies, the terrible conception and playing of King Stefan, and some unnecessarily Lord of the Rings-like stuff, including very Ent-like tree creatures and the elder king being essentially a Théoden knockoff.

As far as where I'd rank it in the recent trend of remaking/prequelizing fairy tales/animated classics: better than Red Riding Hood, Alice In Wonderland, Mirror Mirror... but not as good as Oz The Great And Powerful or Snow White And The Huntsman, which I thought were more interesting reimaginings.

 

[Touchofevil]

The tail end of From Russia with Love. An underrated Bond flick. Now I've got to dig it out of my Bond collection and watch it from start to end.

 

[hatguy1]

Casablanca, baby! One of my favorites. Bring it out at least once a year around Valentines Day (if not more often too).

"Here's lookin" at you, kid."


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[Fading Fast]

The tail end of From Russia with Love. An underrated Bond flick. Now I've got to dig it out of my Bond collection and watch it from start to end.

Absolutely an under-rated Bond film. It's in my top three favorite Bond films which, not coincidentally, are also the first three (followed by Craig's "Casino Royale"). It's all there: solid story, Connery at the top of his game, Rat-Pac style, beautiful and smart women and none of the excess of even the later Connery Bond's to say nothing of what came after that. And the train scene is fantastic as is the closing fight scene with the shoe knife and chair (Bond is vulnerable and human) - so much better than the extravaganzas that came later.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Back in the days when I lived with two major James Bond fanatics - circa 1980 - and we had lots of all-night discussions, there was no question that From Russia With Love was the best Bond film.

I still feel it's the best Connery Bond film, though my appreciation for Dr. No ever continues to rise. Besides being the very first in the series, it does so much with hardly any gadgetry and a low budget, and it's got that exciting series-is-jelling sense that one of my friends used to refer to as "the Forbidden Planet tang of the earliest Star Trek episodes."

 

[Fading Fast]

Casablanca, baby! One of my favorites. Bring it out at least once a year around Valentines Day (if not more often too).

"Here's lookin" at you, kid."

It never disappoints. I still get a a pang in my heart when they sing the Marseillaise, I still enjoy the banter between: Rick and Louie, Rick and Sam, Rick and Ferrari, Rick and Strasser and Louie and Strasser, I still love all the tossed-off one liners, I still love the style and Bergman still glows as if lit from inside. It all works, it always works.

 

[Fading Fast]

Back in the days when I lived with two major James Bond fanatics - circa 1980 - and we had lots of all-night discussions, there was no question that From Russia With Love was the best Bond film.

I still feel it's the best Connery Bond film, though my appreciation for Dr. No ever continues to rise. Besides being the very first in the series, it does so much with hardly any gadgetry and a low budget, and it's got that exciting series-is-jelling sense that one of my friends used to refer to as "the Forbidden Planet tang of the earliest Star Trek episodes."

well said.

 

[hatguy1]

It never disappoints. I still get a a pang in my heart when they sing the Marseillaise, I still enjoy the banter between: Rick and Louie, Rick and Sam, Rick and Ferrari, Rick and Strasser and Louie and Strasser, I still love all the tossed-off one liners, I still love the style and Bergman still glows as if lit from inside. It all works, it always works.

Yeah, I agree with all you said. Claude Rains absolutely steals the show as Capt. Louis Renault. Far too many great lines and scenes with him in it to list here. As for the flippant one-liners, a couple of my favorites Rick/Bogart delivered is asked his nationality he says, "I'm a drunkard." And when the Nazi Major Strasser asks him if he is a New Yorker that couldn't imagine the Germans invading their beloved New York, he says, "Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade."

 

[cw3pa]

"The Dawn Patrol" (1930) on DVD. Directed by Howard Hawk. Good flying scenes with vintage aircraft (even for 1930). A lot of the flying scenes were reused for the 1938 remake. Mostly about dealing with the stress of command.

 

[Babydoll]

Sunset Boulevard. B&W version. Took until about 2/3 through to get interesting to me. Hubby had no interest in watching it with me.

 

[2jakes]

I took a few seconds to post the movie I just started watching

...on TCM

The general is in the middle of his speech...but I better get back...
I don't want to get my face slap ! :eeek:

 

[jamespowers]

I took a few seconds to post the movie I just started watching

...on TCM

The general is in the middle of his speech...but I better get back...
I don't want to get my face slap ! :eeek:

Face slapping builds character.

 

[Zombie_61]

Face slapping builds character.

And, if it happens often enough, callouses. Just ask Larry Fine.

 

[jamespowers]

And, if it happens often enough, callouses. Just ask Larry Fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZgVRJ-H8U
Fixes your neck too.

 

[2jakes]

And, if it happens often enough, callouses. Just ask Larry Fine.

It looks like Moe would be the one with the callouses on his hands
after all that "character building" ...


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