What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Mr Vim]

Yesterday I saw the Fighter with Mark Walhberg and Christian Bale for the first time, what an amazing movie!
It is a bit scary the lengths Bale will go for a role, the amount of weight he fluctuates at in this film is unsettling.

 

[Lady Day]

Ah, now..option is the one thing to which we are all entitled. No apology necessary! Within their framework of referencing the "rules" of the genre, it certainly is the next logical step for them, having doe the 'sequels' thing, to reference the recent trend for reboots.

Dude, don't overthink it. Its just a fun little horror movie.

LD

 

[rue]

People Will Talk starring Cary Grant.... absolutely loved it. It started slow, but at the end I just wanted to watch it all over again

It's on YT here.

 

[Monsoon]

I'm a bit surprised that people are enjoying Sucker Punch, I have heard nothing but negative comments about it. One reviewer said something along that line that it is a degrading movie towards women, and that the main character only shows she has any power when she begins stripping in front of men, and starts her seduction dance, and outside of this all the women are shown to be weak and abused creatures, well then men in this world exist only to rape said abused women.

Movie reviewers pretty much suck. I think any movie that's a "check your brain at the door" is a total loss for them. If it doesn't somehow make you a better person (??), it's not good.

"Suckerpunch" was about sacrifice. Are you willing to give it all up for someone elses freedom?

Plus, it did have some awesome gunplay. Room clearing, mag changes...very nice gun porn.

 

[Tomasso]

The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss

[video=google;-7896250984852369645]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7896250984852369645#[/video]




Click here for a larger screen.

 

[Berlin]

'For richer or poorer'
Hilarious.

 

[Widebrim]

[video=youtube;KkEHcB4y7R8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkEHcB4y7R8[/video]

And what did you think of it, Tomasso?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Coney Island (1917)
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton

An added treat are the views of Luna Park at Coney Island incorporating Edwin S. Porter's 1903 Biograph footage of Coney Island at night.

[video=youtube;qjgyF_NFMbU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjgyF_NFMbU&feature=channel_video_title[/video]

 

[Widebrim]

^^Love Fatty Arbuckle's and Keaton's works together.

 

[Doctor Strange]

"Coney Island" is also notorious(?) for being a film in which Keaton actually SMILES!

Even though he had already learned in his parents' vaudeville act that he got bigger laughs with less expression, he was still finding his way to his classic screen persona during his apprenticeship with Arbuckle.

 

[Wally_Hood]

The Adventures of Robin Hood, (1938) dir. by Michael Curtiz and William Keighly, with Errol Flynn, Olivia DeHaviland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, and too many to recount here. It was on blu-ray, and the colors were amazing. I don't know if the blu-ray folks upped the color digitally, but it was gorgeous. Hadn't seen this since about thirty years ago at a LACMA film series. They showed some home movies, color and b&w, of the making of the film, and those are repeated here with a commentary by Rudy Behlmer. It was interesting to read the data on the "clapper" boards, to note the large number of directors, who, as Behlmer points out, were contract workers and could be put on bits and pieces of the film. Shooting dates go all the way back to October 1937, run right up to Thanksgiving, and even on December 27; evidently Hollywood stopped for no holidays, plowing on through January of 1938.

Shot near Chico, California, the no-longer extant Busch Gardens in Pasadena, and the Warner Ranch, as well as sound stages, back lots, and special effects studios. Great movie~

 

[rue]

I watched Charlie Chaplin's The Kid again last night.

Today I watched Stage Door.... loved it A LOT.

Also My Man Godfrey which is now another beloved movie on my list of favorites

 

[Widebrim]

The Adventures of Robin Hood, (1938) dir. by Michael Curtiz and William Keighly, with Errol Flynn, Olivia DeHaviland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, and too many to recount here. It was on blu-ray, and the colors were amazing. I don't know if the blu-ray folks upped the color digitally, but it was gorgeous. Hadn't seen this since about thirty years ago at a LACMA film series. They showed some home movies, color and b&w, of the making of the film, and those are repeated here with a commentary by Rudy Behlmer. It was interesting to read the data on the "clapper" boards, to note the large number of directors, who, as Behlmer points out, were contract workers and could be put on bits and pieces of the film. Shooting dates go all the way back to October 1937, run right up to Thanksgiving, and even on December 27; evidently Hollywood stopped for no holidays, plowing on through January of 1938.

Shot near Chico, California, the no-longer extant Busch Gardens in Pasadena, and the Warner Ranch, as well as sound stages, back lots, and special effects studios. Great movie~

GREAT escapist film, Wally. I didn't know that part of it was filmed at Busch Gardens. If I recall correctly, free cups of Busch Beer were offered to adults when the gardens were operating.

 

[Widebrim]

Journey Into Fear and The Bribe at the L.A. Film Noir Festival. The first was entertaining and a bit intriguing, with Joseph Cotton hitting the mark as a slightly pompous American abroad, and Orson Welles standing out as a Turkish general. The fact that it was heavily editing after production does show, though. The second was nearly stolen by Charles Laughton, but Robert Taylor showed (as he did in High Wall) that he was capable of an excellent performance when given the right director, and Ava Gardner exuded simmering sexuality without having to shed a shred of clothing.

 

[John in Covina]

The Adventures of Robin Hood, (1938) dir. by Michael Curtiz and William Keighly, with Errol Flynn, Olivia DeHaviland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, and too many to recount here. Great movie~

My uncle Arthur had told me that one of the horses used was actually the original Trigger. Wiki lists this: Golden Cloud made his movie debut as the mount of Maid Marian, played by Olivia de Havilland in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). A short while later, when Roy was preparing to make his first movie, he was offered a choice of five rented "movie" horses to ride. He chose Golden Cloud. Roy bought him that same year, 1938, and renamed him Trigger for his quickness, not only of foot but of mind. Trigger had 150 trick cues and could walk 50 feet on his hind legs (according to sources close to Roy Rogers). They were said to have run out of places to cue Trigger.

 

[Kirk H.]

Journey Into Fear and The Bribe at the L.A. Film Noir Festival. The first was entertaining and a bit intriguing, with Joseph Cotton hitting the mark as a slightly pompous American abroad, and Orson Welles standing out as a Turkish general. The fact that it was heavily editing after production does show, though. The second was nearly stolen by Charles Laughton, but Robert Taylor showed (as he did in High Wall) that he was capable of an excellent performance when given the right director, and Ava Gardner exuded simmering sexuality without having to shed a shred of clothing.

Spot on on The Bribe Widebrim. I have always enjoyed that movie. I have not seen Journey Into Fear and it looks like I need to check it out.

Regards

Kirk H.

 

[fluteplayer07]

Just got back home from watching Robert Redford's The Conspirator. Slow, stagey, drawn out... It's not an action movie or a roundhouse shootout film; but from the perspective of a courtroom drama, it's one of the most exciting I've seen in a while.

The dialogue felt very out of place for the time period, especially at the beginning of the film; I could have sworn I even heard an 'ain't'. The characters seemed like they felt uncomfortable in their wardrobes. Everything looked a little too new and costumey for my liking. But the last film I saw was The King's Speech, so I may be a bit biased.

Overall, a well-done film. The beginning of the film felt a bit disjointed as the plot tried to gain its footing (I had trouble distinguishing the message it was trying to get across until the half-way point, when the layers of emotion were peeled back a bit more), but by the end, I was totally absorbed. Not an impeccable masterpiece, but still a show worth seeing.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Greed (1924)

This segment introduces the main characters and is my favorite part of the musical score.

[video=youtube;lFtBusOQ_7o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFtBusOQ_7o&playnext=1&list=PLF97E091B543E7247[/video]

Frank Hayes, the actor who played Old Grannis in the film, was the son of Colonel Michael Hayes who built the Victorian building on Laguna Street where much of the scenes in Greed was shot and for whom that section of San Francisco, Hayes Valley, is named.

 

[Bernie Zack]

I dowloaded The Sting this morning from ITunes. LOVED that movie then, love it even more now. About ready to watch The Way We Were. Obviously, I'm a Redford fan.

 

[Wally_Hood]

My uncle Arthur had told me that one of the horses used was actually the original Trigger. Wiki lists this: Golden Cloud made his movie debut as the mount of Maid Marian, played by Olivia de Havilland in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). A short while later, when Roy was preparing to make his first movie, he was offered a choice of five rented "movie" horses to ride. He chose Golden Cloud. Roy bought him that same year, 1938, and renamed him Trigger for his quickness, not only of foot but of mind. Trigger had 150 trick cues and could walk 50 feet on his hind legs (according to sources close to Roy Rogers). They were said to have run out of places to cue Trigger.

Yeah, they mentioned that in one of the features~

If an FL'ers get a chance to rent the blu-ray edition, it is packed with extras- newsreels, cartoons, making of feature, and various observations by Rudy Behlmer, of whom I had never heard, including the filmed-but-discarded ending of a long-shot of Robin and Marian riding away over the gentle rolling sward, followed by a medium shot of R and M giggling and hugging and grinning just before the end credits.