What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Fading Fast]

Puddin' can't stand this guy. Can't look at him... say's his mouth reminds her of "The Joker" as his smile extends way beyond his lips. I don't find him that creepy but he does strike me as a bit "off" as it were. Mebbe he'll grow on us... who knows?

Worf

I'm meh on him so far. I've learned, though, it takes me awhile to come around to new hosts.

I was just starting to like Tiffany Vazques and, then, she disappeared.

I now enjoy Eddie Muller on Noir Alley, but that took time.

And the jury is still out on, as my girlfriend calls her, "the Aussie Chick" Alicia Malone.

 

[Touchofevil]

Puddin' can't stand this guy. Can't look at him... say's his mouth reminds her of "The Joker" as his smile extends way beyond his lips. I don't find him that creepy but he does strike me as a bit "off" as it were. Mebbe he'll grow on us... who knows?

Worf

No one can replace Robert Osborne. It will take us time before anyone can step into his spot and be accepted as his heir. I like Ben, but for now, he is no Osborne.

 

[Touchofevil]

I'm meh on him so far. I've learned, though, it takes me awhile to come around to new hosts.

I was just starting to like Tiffany Vazques and, then, she disappeared.

I now enjoy Eddie Muller on Noir Alley, but that took time.

And the jury is still out on, as my girlfriend calls her, "the Aussie Chick" Alicia Malone.

Eddie, I like enough, but he is not TCM leadership material. I am happy that he is on TCM, but think that he needs to stay in Noir Alley.

 

[Worf]

Tried to watch the "Billy Jack" marathon on TCM tonight. 10 minutes into the first film my mind was gasping for air. I could feel brain cells diving out my earholes! How could folks have fallen for this low brow, low budget dreck back in the 70's? Were we really that naïve or were we fools for anything that smacked of Kung Fu? Yipes was that crap awful!

Worf

 

[LizzieMaine]

The early 70s were the golden age of that kind of "lone vigilante vs. The System" picture. I always wondered what would happen if they had Billy Jack meet that guy with the two-by-four from "Walking Tall."

The "Billy Jack" sequels were even more demented.

Why does it feel like his martial arts teacher was Captain Kirk?

 

[MisterCairo]

My wife and I managed to get in a grownup film finally, for fun and the noir look we took in a repeat of Sin City.

 

[Formeruser012523]

I'm meh on him so far. I've learned, though, it takes me awhile to come around to new hosts.

I was just starting to like Tiffany Vazques and, then, she disappeared.

I now enjoy Eddie Muller on Noir Alley, but that took time.

And the jury is still out on, as my girlfriend calls her, "the Aussie Chick" Alicia Malone.

Tried to watch the "Billy Jack" marathon on TCM tonight. 10 minutes into the first film my mind was gasping for air. I could feel brain cells diving out my earholes! How could folks have fallen for this low brow, low budget dreck back in the 70's? Were we really that naïve or were we fools for anything that smacked of Kung Fu? Yipes was that crap awful!

Worf

What happened to TCM? I watch it so rarely these days, but seems I still check on it every day like clockwork and find nothing.

Seems I had a bad first impression of Eddie Muller. He hosted a night of Buster Keaton a while back and all his information was WRONG! I was practically yelling at my tv. Glad he does Noir Alley because he belongs there and knows that genre very well.

"The Aussie Chick" is right. Alicia Malone? Okay, I'll try to remember her actual name. She does grate on my nerves a bit, but I'm trying to give her a chance, as well. I still don't understand what happened to Tiffany Vasquez. It seemed like a media blitz with her, when she was first introduced and then she was just *poof* gone. Remember one of you kind folks saying she runs social media for TCM. Hope that's still the case and she still has a job there.

They do seem to be showing quite a bit of dreck these days and with the death of Filmstruck I wonder where those films will go. Back to the network? Into obscurity? Let's hope not.

 

[ChiTownScion]

Tried to watch the "Billy Jack" marathon on TCM tonight. 10 minutes into the first film my mind was gasping for air. I could feel brain cells diving out my earholes! How could folks have fallen for this low brow, low budget dreck back in the 70's? Were we really that naïve or were we fools for anything that smacked of Kung Fu? Yipes was that crap awful!

Worf

Nuance and subtlety were never part of the equation in that genre, as I recall. Particularly with the bad guys.

 

[Touchofevil]

Tried to watch the "Billy Jack" marathon on TCM tonight. 10 minutes into the first film my mind was gasping for air. I could feel brain cells diving out my earholes! How could folks have fallen for this low brow, low budget dreck back in the 70's? Were we really that naïve or were we fools for anything that smacked of Kung Fu? Yipes was that crap awful!

Worf

I watched these (Billy Jack) as a kid and found the “Kung Fu” aspect entertaining. I was a kid. Now, I find them to be exceptionally annoying.

 

[Touchofevil]

The early 70s were the golden age of that kind of "lone vigilante vs. The System" picture. I always wondered what would happen if they had Billy Jack meet that guy with the two-by-four from "Walking Tall."

The "Billy Jack" sequels were even more demented.

Why does it feel like his martial arts teacher was Captain Kirk?

Buford Hayse Pusser would knock his block off. Buford was real, not some barefoot hippie.

 

[1967Cougar390]

I just finished watching Marty staring Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair. It’s a great romantic drama.

Steven

 

[Julian Shellhammer]

Unbroken, based on our reading of the book.

 

[Fading Fast]

I just finished watching Marty staring Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair. It’s a great romantic drama.
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Steven

It captures a time period very, very well. Growing up in the late-'60s/'70s, I saw a lot of that type of thinking and approach to life in many of the middle-aged and older people in my town (those who would have been about Marty's age and older in the '50s).

 

[1967Cougar390]

It captures a time period very, very well. Growing up in the late-'60s/'70s, I saw a lot of that type of thinking and approach to life in many of the middle-aged and older people in my town (those who would have been about Marty's age and older in the '50s).

I laughed at how many times Marty said his father was an ugly man but his mother adored him. When he told Clara they were “dogs” but she had a pretty face I about fell out of the chair laughing. It really seems like a simpler time period from watching older movies. If you tell a young lady today that she’s a “dog” you probably won’t get a date but you’ll more than likely get hit with some kind of lawsuit.

Steven

 

[Fading Fast]

I laughed at how many times Marty said his father was an ugly man but his mother adored him. When he told Clara they were “dogs” but she had a pretty face I about fell out of the chair laughing. It really seems like a simpler time period from watching older movies. If you tell a young lady today that she’s a “dog” you probably won’t get a date but you’ll more than likely get hit with some kind of lawsuit.

Steven

By the '80s, kids like I were ignoring their parents' attempts to fix them up (my parents never did that - just wasn't their thing, but my friends' parents tried), but the thinking by parents that they would help their child "find a nice girl and settle down / find a good man who'll take care of you " was still a very live meme [] to many of those over forty despite how dated it feels today and, even then, to most of the young kids. That's just one of the things that felt very real to me in "Marty."

And the little things, like dressing up for a date (again, not something most of us were doing in the '80s, but something our parents were telling us to do) or "did you go to Mass today" were all still echoing into the '80s. While they were more grandmothers than mothers by the time I was a teenager, I knew plenty of grandmothers who were just like Marty's mom.

 

[Touchofevil]

Bullet for Joey (1955) on the MGM HD channel. Sometimes I watch a movie just to see the world as it appeared during the time period it was filmed. The shots of the big city, the theatre, the streets, the shops can all be as entertaining (if not more) as the story being told.

 

[HanauMan]

Bullet for Joey (1955) on the MGM HD channel. Sometimes I watch a movie just to see the world as it appeared during the time period it was filmed. The shots of the big city, the theatre, the streets, the shops can all be as entertaining (if not more) as the story being told.

I quite agree on that. I often watch older films, like D.O.A. (1949), just to catch a glimpse of that everyday vibe of a bygone era in the background.

 

[Fading Fast]

Bullet for Joey (1955) on the MGM HD channel. Sometimes I watch a movie just to see the world as it appeared during the time period it was filmed. The shots of the big city, the theatre, the streets, the shops can all be as entertaining (if not more) as the story being told.

I do the exact same thing - which is why so many shot-on-location only-okay noir movies are worth watching.

 

[Worf]

Yeah... back when men AND women wore hats. A time where women wore gloves, jeans weren't allowed in school... only in the factories and the fields. I'm not "nostalgic" for those times... there were uglier, deadlier aspects of those era's for me and mine... but I do love a fine double breasted suit topped off with a man sized fedora.

Worf

 

[Julian Shellhammer]

Yeah... back when men AND women wore hats. A time where women wore gloves, jeans weren't allowed in school... only in the factories and the fields. I'm not "nostalgic" for those times... there were uglier, deadlier aspects of those era's for me and mine... but I do love a fine double breasted suit topped off with a man sized fedora.

Worf

My wife commented while watching a 1940s movie taking place at a baseball game how the people dressed more classily than they do now, even for going to a sporting event. The mindset for how you presented yourself in public was remarkably different from the torn-jeans, sweat pants, t-shirts, and so on from now-a-days.
I can remember my folks dressing up like they were going to old-fashioned church to go to Disneyland, and the menfolk wearing ties for Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas dinner.
My mother recollected, in the 1970s, how when she went into San Francisco ("The City") for shopping in the 1940s and 1950s she wore her best and made sure to wear gloves.