What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Zombie_61]

I didn't know till recently that Riccardo was outfitted with prosthetic errrrr... boobies for that role. Sigh...

Worf (there is NO Sanity Clause)

Well, that sweet mullet HAD to be fake.

The mullet was fake, but the chest was real. The prosthetic rumor started because people found it hard to believe the 61-year-old Montalban could be in such good physical shape, but Director Nicolas Meyer confirmed Montalban was a "very muscular man who worked out".

 

[Fading Fast]

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I didn't know till recently that Riccardo was outfitted with prosthetic errrrr... boobies for that role. Sigh...

Worf (there is NO Sanity Clause)

Oh dear God - I did not need to know that.

 

[Fading Fast]

The mullet was fake, but the chest was real. The prosthetic rumor started because people found it hard to believe the 61-year-old Montalban could be in such good physical shape, but Director Nicolas Meyer confirmed Montalban was a "very muscular man who worked out".

I guess I feel marginally better than when I wrote my last post - if I could just burn the brain synapse that recorded the thought.

In 1950's "Mystery Street," Montalban was very muscular and that was in an era when not that many men were - so maybe he was just genetically built that way.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I still think he's wearing a push-up vest.

 

[Fading Fast]

I still think he's wearing a push-up vest.

 

[Formeruser012523]

I still think he's wearing a push-up vest.

https://66.media.tumblr.com/abec38badcae2b393c75b9711cc4faca/tumblr_ml667vLFi71qg67hco1_500.png

 

[Touchofevil]

https://66.media.tumblr.com/abec38badcae2b393c75b9711cc4faca/tumblr_ml667vLFi71qg67hco1_500.png

I use that phrase all the time.

 

[DavidJones]

Russian movie called "The Edge" watched it on youtube. Great story about Russian train engineer at a work camp in Siberia late 1945.

 

[Zombie_61]

I still think he's wearing a push-up vest.

 

[The Fedorable]

Raiders of the Lost Ark... having already seen it the week before. I don't know why, but I'm without a doubt on a bit of an Indiana Jones kick right now. It worries me since I've always liked Indy, but this is a new. Even for me.

 

[Fading Fast]

"Footsteps in the Dark" 1941 with Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshal, Lucile Watson, Ralph Bellamy and Alan Hale

Since I've already made a bold statement on FL this morning (see my putting-sugar-on-grapefruit "pronouncement" over in the "Wonderful Foods of the Golden Era" thread), I'll say this: Errol Flynn should have been a bigger star than he was as he can do everything - comedy, drama, romance, war and adventure while heaving an average picture up, slinging it over his shoulder and carrying it along - but away from his swashbucklers and two or three other movies, he was given mediocre to horrible material.

With better scripts, he could have been everything Cary Grant was, but so many of the movies he made - like "Footsteps in the Dark" - were B movies with A stars. "Footsteps in the Dark" tries to be another version of "The Thin Man -" a pairing of a sophisticated husband and wife who solve crimes with coruscating banter, witty observations and funny asides held together by the chemistry of the leads.

Flynn more than does his part, but the drab script isn't funny, witty or original and Brenda Marshall as his wife is no Myrna Loy. Even Lucile Watson (an actress I love) as the smart, anti-stereotype mother-in-law can't provide enough of a spark with her poorly written dialogue. It's a shame as Flynn has that Cary Grant ability to be approachable, friendly - even bumbling at times - despite being ridiculously handsome.

The movie felt two and a half hours long despite its one-and-a-half-hour runtime with Flynn (and Alan Hale) being the only reason(s) to watch.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Our "Robin Hood" screening went extremely well -- a lot of young people got to see their first-ever silent picture and emerged suitably impressed. I gave Fairbanks a big buildup in my introduction, but I guess the comparatively sedate first half of the film didn't quite live up to the hustle: I heard one kid in the lobby during intermission saying "but when does the swash-buckling start??" He got his answer in spades in the second half.

Watching the film again for the first time in quite a while, it struck me how much it has in common with the structure of modern superhero pictures. You wait almost an hour and a half before the Earl of Huntingdon emerges in costume as Robin Hood, and the buildup and release of audience excitement is precisely the same as you get the first time Batman or Captain America shows up in costume for the first time in a modern film. Fairbanks knew what it was all about long before anybody else did.

 

[vitanola]

Just watched "The Gang's All Here" for the first time in some years.

I had always thought that this WWII Technicolor souffle of girls, Goodman and bananas was notable only for the infamous "tutti-frutti hat", and the rather disturbing disembodied heads in the finale, but this time I found it utterly engaging. It was cracking good entertainment!

Pardon me. I'm off to drain my passbook so that I can buy War Bonds...

 

[Worf]

"Cube" - There's a guy on Youtube helping folks find movies to watch on Netflix which... let's face it, is a bear to find stuff on sometimes. He recommended this film from 1997 due to it's influence on later films like "Saw", "The Circle" etc... I'd never heard of it. I gave it a go night before last. Disturbing, not overly gory but real interesting. Interesting enough that we watched both the sequel and the prequel. Those that run afoul of "The Man" in this dystopian world wake up to find themselves inside a cube that is connected on 6 sides to other cubes. You might find your way out but some of the cubes are booby trapped and the cubes also shift position rubik like periodically. Scary stuff.

Worf

 

[Worf]

"How It Ends" - A new Netflix Original staring Forrest Whitaker. Simple premise kinda... young man secretly engaged to ex-marines daughter now living in Seattle visits her parents in Chicago when something happens out west. No one knows if it's nuclear, alien, "the big one" or what. Whitaker asks his daughters beau one question:

"Are you coming with me?"

For the next hour and 45 they pilot Dad's Cadillac 2000 plus miles in an attempt to rescue the now pregnant young woman. As you'd expect the ride is quite harrowing and suspenseful. Not a lot of answers as to "who, what or why" but it kept us on the edge of our seats. Kinda like "The Road" but with more horsepower.

Worf

 

[3fingers]

^^^ Thanks. I've been wondering if I should waste the time on that one.

 

[belfastboy]

I still think he's wearing a push-up vest.

Where do I go to buy one of those?

 

[belfastboy]

Watched "Baby the Rain Must Fall" def not one of Steve McQueen's better efforts. Lee Remick was her usual good self BUT the little girl was a revelation. I checked her out on IMDB and that was the only movie she ever made....she was about 7 or 8 during the filming. What a great natural actress....one and done.

 

[Formeruser012523]

Where do I go to buy one of those?

Why would you want to?

 

[Worf]

Why would you want to?

Errrr.... GRAVITY!

Worf