What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[AmateisGal]

The Flying Leathernecks with John Wayne.

Boy, it's been a LONG TIME since I've been around this joint!

 

[jamespowers]

The Flying Leathernecks with John Wayne.

Boy, it's been a LONG TIME since I've been around this joint!

A good choice!

 

[AmateisGal]

A good choice!

I'm trying to decide what to watch tonight...maybe Laura or Double Indemnity...

 

[jamespowers]

I'm trying to decide what to watch tonight...maybe Laura or Double Indemnity...

I vote for Laura--one of my all time favorites.

 

[AmateisGal]

I vote for Laura--one of my all time favorites.

Mine, too!

 

[jamespowers]

Mine, too!

Of course. It is a good movie
Then again, Gene Tierney was the draw for me at first.

 

[Worf]

The Flying Leathernecks with John Wayne.

Boy, it's been a LONG TIME since I've been around this joint!

Ahem... Ahem ah say.... Where HAVE you been???? The only acceptable excuse would be you making a movie of your own... for us to see... and discuss... and pick apart... Good to see you back!!!! Though I must admit Flying Leathernecks would NOT be my first call.

Worf

 

[Renault]

My maw and I are watching Gene Autry tonight. "The Strawberry Roan". Maw loves all the old cowboy movies. She's 88 and here with me in hospice care. A couple of weeks ago we watched the old series "Centennial". She had never seen it and enjoyed it. Most all her uncles were real Cowboys from back in the day. I think I have some photos I need to find. I'll post em up in the appropriate thread.

 

[Big Man]

I just got through watching "The Wizard of OZ" on TCM with my five year-old granddaughter. I told her, that when I was a little boy about her age, I was scared to death of the flying monkeys. She just looked at me and said, "Oh Granddaddy, the flying monkeys are my favorite part." Go figure. [huh]

 

[jamespowers]

I just got through watching "The Wizard of OZ" on TCM with my five year-old granddaughter. I told her, that when I was a little boy about her age, I was scared to death of the flying monkeys. She just looked at me and said, "Oh Granddaddy, the flying monkeys are my favorite part." Go figure. [huh]

lol lol lol
The Flying monkeys were my favorite part too.

 

[dh66]

lol lol lol
The Flying monkeys were my favorite part too.

Something wrong with you

 

[AmateisGal]

Ahem... Ahem ah say.... Where HAVE you been???? The only acceptable excuse would be you making a movie of your own... for us to see... and discuss... and pick apart... Good to see you back!!!! Though I must admit Flying Leathernecks would NOT be my first call.

Worf

Thanks, Worf! So good to be back!

I landed a new job about two years ago and sort of got lost in it for awhile. (In a good way. ) Plus had some great things happen on the writing front - had a history book published and landed a literary agent for my fiction.

 

[dh66]

'White Zombie' (1932)
Bela Lugosi as a Haitian witch doctor.......maybe not so much. BUT...folks knew what's up back in the day. The undead being forced by the bokor to toil in the sugar cane fields is far more legit than a bunch of brain eating geeks staggering around like a Phish concert just let out on Halloween. George Romero made a classic with 'Night of the Living Dead' back in '68, but the genre's been all downhill since.

 

[jamespowers]

Something wrong with you

I like the idea of some really interesting skeet shooting---what can I say?

 

[Worf]

Thanks, Worf! So good to be back!

I landed a new job about two years ago and sort of got lost in it for awhile. (In a good way. ) Plus had some great things happen on the writing front - had a history book published and landed a literary agent for my fiction.

Wow.... Kudos for living life and not spending all day here gabbin' about it! What was your history book about? I love to hear of folks DOING things! Outstanding!

Worf

 

[AmateisGal]

Wow.... Kudos for living life and not spending all day here gabbin' about it! What was your history book about? I love to hear of folks DOING things! Outstanding!

Worf

Thanks, Worf! I must say, though, that coming back to the lounge feels like "coming home." I've really missed this place. Plus, I've spent way too much time on FB and Twitter lately. Getting tired of the vapidness of social media.

My book is about the POW camps in Nebraska during World War II - they held Germans and Italians. Here's the link if you're interested:

Nebraska POW Camps: A World War II History of Prisoners in the Heartland

 

[Fading Fast]

Thanks, Worf! I must say, though, that coming back to the lounge feels like "coming home." I've really missed this place. Plus, I've spent way too much time on FB and Twitter lately. Getting tired of the vapidness of social media.

My book is about the POW camps in Nebraska during World War II - they held Germans and Italians. Here's the link if you're interested:

Nebraska POW Camps: A World War II History of Prisoners in the Heartland

Congratulations on your success at your job and in your writing career.

I read the first few pages on Amazon and am impressed (had to be quite an interesting conversation for the Brits to first broach with the US: "I'm, well, I'm, uh, we were just thinking, I'm, if you would like, uh, well no, consider, I'm, maybe, perhaps, housing a few, uh, let's call them, umm, people for us in your country...").

I'm also excited to hear about your fiction. As Worf said, very neat to see you turning your passion for things past - that we all chat about here - into something so productive.

 

[kaiser]

I like the idea of some really interesting skeet shooting---what can I say?

Good one with the skeet shooting

 

[Bushman]

The Wizard of Oz. Loved this movie since I was a child, and I'm always up for a showing.

 

[Wally_Hood]

The Big Country (1958) with Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, and Burl Ives; dir. William Wyler. Long, slow shots of people thinking, epic vistas of mountains and plains and canyons, with some long, slow shots of people thinking, interspersed with some long, slow dialogue. When Burl Ives recites his lines the tempo picks up. Check out his false eyebrows, made from kiddy toy bat wings.

All the move-making gimmicks are here to make you think you're watching an epic: ponderous pacing, static placement of extras while the principals stare at each other to stretch out the time, crane shots, long-distance shots of riders on horseback traveling across dramatic terrain (think of Lawrence of Arabia trekking across endless lunar-like landscapes). The thing clocks in at 2 hours and 40-some minutes but it seems like about a week.

Here's the synopsis from IMDB: A New Englander arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land.