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I never watched any of the Marx Bros. films.
Have you watched Woody Allen's Hannah & Her Sisters? If so, which Marx Brothers film is shown towards the end?
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I never watched any of the Marx Bros. films.
Have you watched Woody Allen's Hannah & Her Sisters? If so, which Marx Brothers film is shown towards the end?
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LetTigerIn
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I never watched any of the Marx Bros. films.
Have you watched Woody Allen's Hannah & Her Sisters? If so, which Marx Brothers film is shown towards the end?
I've seen it, but it's been way too long. Can't remember that.
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Butch 19
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We never spend the extra $$ for 3d, so can't help there. It looked just fine to us...
jerseydevil
I'llPutPenniesOnYourEyes
Not bad. Marketed poorly as an action flick. This is definitely more of a 'actors' piece. And Dwayne Johnson does well. You almost buy him as an everyman despite his physically imposing status. Good on you Rock. John Bernthal is actually really good in this. Susan Sarandon has a nice against type part as kinda a conniving c-word. Saw it free on cable...that's the best way to view. Oh...Barry Pepper is in it. Why is he NOT in everything????? SOOOOOOO good.
Again, saw on cable...so it may have colored my view, and this is movie-by-the-numbers stuff...terribly so, still, kinda charming just cause everyone is trying really hard. Coulda been so much more...but whatever. If I have to sit through movies made for people who have trouble counting to 10 I would rather watch this than Grown-Ups.
adgy-san
PJ Harvey is God
I'm way behind on this, gotta do it quick.
Mama - Has it's moments, but I was mostly underwhelmed by this. It's not bad, though. And I'll admit that seeing Jessica Chastain all goth-y was nice. Worth a rent, at least.
Godzilla - Hadn't seen this in forever and I got the Criterion Blu for X-Mas. It looks so ****ing good, you guys. Ooof. I like this movie a lot (the Japanese version), though it's definitely a little dated. Great atmosphere, great music and some nice black and white photography keep it worthwhile, even after all these years. For me, it has a lot of nostalgic value, as well.
The Fly - Another I hadn't seen in a really long time, but came up on an HD movie channel. ****in' awesome. The makeup work is insane. At some point, I'm going to have to buy it. I used to have it on DVD, but my DVD went missing. I think it was stolen by one of those crazy women.
Showgirls - I broke a bunch of Showgirls cherries with this viewing. 4 of them, I think. I would need to watch Troll 2 again to be sure, but I think this is probably my favorite terrible movie. Who can doubt the genius of Paul Verhoeven after this? The Blu-ray has some pretty great special features, as well, so you should buy it if you want to be cool.
The Skin I Live In - Solid little ****ed up movie. Nothing spectacular, but I liked it a lot. Would definitely watch again. I have to admit, I did not see what happened coming.
The Lady - Decent biopic of Aung San Suu Kyi, a freedom fighter in Burma. Not a real great movie, but if the idea was to spread the word about this woman and what she's done, I think it was wholly successful. It'll at least make you want to read her Wikipedia page and, honestly, I think that's reason enough. Michelle Yeoh is still awesome as ****, too.
Spider-Baby - Dafuq did I just watch? Man, I love all the Jack Hill movies I've seen up to this point and I loved this one, too. So weird. So great. It took a little while to get going for me, but by the time it was over, I was enjoying the **** out of it. Can't believe they show **** like this on Turner Classics sometimes.
Smashed - Aaron Paul and Mary Elizabeth Winstead are alcoholics, but Mary Elizabeth decides she wants to stop drinking and it's really hard. At first, I wasn't really buying it. Her acting like a drunk seemed kind of... forced? Or over the top? But as the movie went on and she started acting like a person dealing with an addicition, I was won over. She did that **** really well. Surprisingly well. Aaron Paul did a good job, too, although he didn't have nearly as much to do. I liked it a lot. I've never had to deal with addiction like that, so I can't say much more, but it felt pretty authentic to me and got me involved emotionally to a point. Can't really ask for much more than that.
Female Convict Scorpion: Beast Stable - 3rd in a 4 film series. When I want to watch one of the Sasori movies, I almost always watch the first or second one because they are light years better than the third or fourth, but I wanted to put up a webpage for this film on my Meiko Kaji website and I needed to watch parts 3 and 4 to re-familiarize myself with them. I think I've seen the first two at least a dozen times each, but the last two I've seen maybe 3 or 4 times and it had been a few years. Even though it is still a long ways away from either of the first two in terms of overall quality, this is still a pretty awesome movie. The opening scene is ****ing awesome as **** and the ending is pretty ****ing incredible, too. Definitely one that I would recommend after you've seen the first two, which everyone should.
This Is 40 - I don't really like the word "dramady", but this movie is really both a drama and a comedy. It's got some good funny bits, but there's a hell of a lot of bittersweet, sad stuff, too. I thought it was handled very well, though, and I liked the movie a lot.
Billion Dollar Brain - The third of, I think, 5 Harry Palmer movies and the first one I've seen. This is a ****ing bizarre little movie. Michael Caine gets blackmailed into going back to work for MI5 and his job is to stop this billionaire redneck with a billion dollar computer from starting world war three. It's like a James Bond movie directed by Ken Russell (it was actually directed by Ken Russell, too). I liked it a lot. Michael Caine ****ing rules.
This Is The End - For real, how could a movie with all these funny people in it (almost just) being themselves not be ****ing funny? I think Jonah Hill was probably the only one who had to do any actual acting. The argument between Danny McBride and James Franco about masturbating (titled Cum Battle in the special features) had me in tears from laughing, even after repeated viewings (it's on the movie channel a lot, so I have it on in the background a lot). Will be buying this for the special features, for sure.
To be continued...
Mama - Has it's moments, but I was mostly underwhelmed by this. It's not bad, though. And I'll admit that seeing Jessica Chastain all goth-y was nice. Worth a rent, at least.
Godzilla - Hadn't seen this in forever and I got the Criterion Blu for X-Mas. It looks so ****ing good, you guys. Ooof. I like this movie a lot (the Japanese version), though it's definitely a little dated. Great atmosphere, great music and some nice black and white photography keep it worthwhile, even after all these years. For me, it has a lot of nostalgic value, as well.
The Fly - Another I hadn't seen in a really long time, but came up on an HD movie channel. ****in' awesome. The makeup work is insane. At some point, I'm going to have to buy it. I used to have it on DVD, but my DVD went missing. I think it was stolen by one of those crazy women.
Showgirls - I broke a bunch of Showgirls cherries with this viewing. 4 of them, I think. I would need to watch Troll 2 again to be sure, but I think this is probably my favorite terrible movie. Who can doubt the genius of Paul Verhoeven after this? The Blu-ray has some pretty great special features, as well, so you should buy it if you want to be cool.
The Skin I Live In - Solid little ****ed up movie. Nothing spectacular, but I liked it a lot. Would definitely watch again. I have to admit, I did not see what happened coming.
The Lady - Decent biopic of Aung San Suu Kyi, a freedom fighter in Burma. Not a real great movie, but if the idea was to spread the word about this woman and what she's done, I think it was wholly successful. It'll at least make you want to read her Wikipedia page and, honestly, I think that's reason enough. Michelle Yeoh is still awesome as ****, too.
Spider-Baby - Dafuq did I just watch? Man, I love all the Jack Hill movies I've seen up to this point and I loved this one, too. So weird. So great. It took a little while to get going for me, but by the time it was over, I was enjoying the **** out of it. Can't believe they show **** like this on Turner Classics sometimes.
Smashed - Aaron Paul and Mary Elizabeth Winstead are alcoholics, but Mary Elizabeth decides she wants to stop drinking and it's really hard. At first, I wasn't really buying it. Her acting like a drunk seemed kind of... forced? Or over the top? But as the movie went on and she started acting like a person dealing with an addicition, I was won over. She did that **** really well. Surprisingly well. Aaron Paul did a good job, too, although he didn't have nearly as much to do. I liked it a lot. I've never had to deal with addiction like that, so I can't say much more, but it felt pretty authentic to me and got me involved emotionally to a point. Can't really ask for much more than that.
Female Convict Scorpion: Beast Stable - 3rd in a 4 film series. When I want to watch one of the Sasori movies, I almost always watch the first or second one because they are light years better than the third or fourth, but I wanted to put up a webpage for this film on my Meiko Kaji website and I needed to watch parts 3 and 4 to re-familiarize myself with them. I think I've seen the first two at least a dozen times each, but the last two I've seen maybe 3 or 4 times and it had been a few years. Even though it is still a long ways away from either of the first two in terms of overall quality, this is still a pretty awesome movie. The opening scene is ****ing awesome as **** and the ending is pretty ****ing incredible, too. Definitely one that I would recommend after you've seen the first two, which everyone should.
This Is 40 - I don't really like the word "dramady", but this movie is really both a drama and a comedy. It's got some good funny bits, but there's a hell of a lot of bittersweet, sad stuff, too. I thought it was handled very well, though, and I liked the movie a lot.
Billion Dollar Brain - The third of, I think, 5 Harry Palmer movies and the first one I've seen. This is a ****ing bizarre little movie. Michael Caine gets blackmailed into going back to work for MI5 and his job is to stop this billionaire redneck with a billion dollar computer from starting world war three. It's like a James Bond movie directed by Ken Russell (it was actually directed by Ken Russell, too). I liked it a lot. Michael Caine ****ing rules.
This Is The End - For real, how could a movie with all these funny people in it (almost just) being themselves not be ****ing funny? I think Jonah Hill was probably the only one who had to do any actual acting. The argument between Danny McBride and James Franco about masturbating (titled Cum Battle in the special features) had me in tears from laughing, even after repeated viewings (it's on the movie channel a lot, so I have it on in the background a lot). Will be buying this for the special features, for sure.
To be continued...
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LetTigerIn
Lurker
Verhoeven is a master of camp. A master. As Schwarzenegger once remarked,"genius-like." (pronounce "g" in "genius" as "ch" for full effect (be smoking a cigar for even fuller effect (yes, I did just nest parentheses)))
I think my favorite terrible movie may still be No Retreat, No Surrender. At least that's the first one that comes to mind.
I think my favorite terrible movie may still be No Retreat, No Surrender. At least that's the first one that comes to mind.
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roenick
Lurker
Saw this the past weekend with my wife and teenage daughter. We all thought it was great.
jerseydevil
I'llPutPenniesOnYourEyes
Hey Roenick...
We saw it on V-day and yeah...it was a lot of fun. 3d was unecessary, so save your pennies. It was amazingly creative and actually kinda touching without being predictable/manipulative. Parents could learn just as much as kids from this. Nice set up for a sequel at the end too.
We saw it on V-day and yeah...it was a lot of fun. 3d was unecessary, so save your pennies. It was amazingly creative and actually kinda touching without being predictable/manipulative. Parents could learn just as much as kids from this. Nice set up for a sequel at the end too.
jerseydevil
I'llPutPenniesOnYourEyes
Two words...GINA GERSHON. I would still drink her bathwater.
adgy-san
PJ Harvey is God
Orpheus, dammit. I will buy you a goddamn Blu-ray player and this movie on Blu-ray. Give me your goddamn mailing address.
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LetTigerIn
Lurker
As long as I'm posting about movies, TV shows and comic books that I'm reading and watching anywhere from 1 to 19 years past their releases, I should mention that I saw Whisper of the Heart last Sunday. It's a Studio Ghibli film I hadn't seen previously, and it's now not only one of my favorite Studio Ghibli films, but I think it's one of the best films of the '90s.
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roenick
Lurker
adgy-san
PJ Harvey is God
Continued.
Female Convict Scorpion: Grudge Song - The 4th in the series and the last starring Meiko Kaji. As mentioned above, it's totally inferior to all preceding entries in the series, but even still it has some worthy moments. Just not that many.
Silver Linings Playbook - Worthy of all the hype? I don't know, but I liked it. I thought it was pretty much just ok up until the last 15-20 minutes, which I liked a lot. Great job by Cooper and Lawrence.
Iron Man 3 - This has also been on cable a lot lately and I've watched bits and pieces of it repeatedly. As ridiculous as certain parts of it are, it's a LOT of goddamn fun. I don't care if the scene where all the people get sucked out of the plane is against science and making some jumps in logic that it maybe shouldn't, it's a great, thrilling scene.
Warm Bodies - Not a bad movie for what it is, but I have a lot of trouble with the concept from the get-go. Zombies are not still capable of thought. The end. Not buying into the premise kind of limited my enjoyment of it, but it had it's moments, including one laugh out loud line for Robb Cordry. And John Malkovich.
Chimpanzee - S'cute. The sad part wasn't nearly as traumatizing as I'd expected. The little chimp is totally adorbs. Tim Allen was a great choice for the voiceover, as well.
Get Carter - My favorite Michael Caine flick. Turner Classics did a little tribute to him and showed 5 of his films in a row. What am I gonna do, not record all of them? Psh. Still haven't gotten to the other ones. But this one, seriously, is badass. I'm pre-ordering this Blu right now, too.
Oblivion - Pretty decent for a movie that borrows almost every single thing in it from previous sci-fi movies. The CG looked fantastic and so did Olga Kurylenko. Zoe Bell even had a real small part. Can't complain.
Belle De Jour - I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm shallow enough to have watched this almost solely because Catherine Deneuve plays a bored housewife who prostitutes herself. It was a pretty decent little film. I liked the way it ended a lot.
Synechdoche, New York - Wanted to watch a Philip Seymour Hoffman flick after hearing about his death and I hadn't seen this since I bought it. It didn't hit me as hard as I remember it hitting me the last time I watched it, but I still think it's a ****ing fantastic movie.
Stake Land - Solid apocalyptic vampire flick. Not something I'd buy, but I wouldn't mind watching it again at all.
Mimic - I had never seen this. It wasn't the director's cut, unfortunately. I liked it ok and would be interested in seeing the director's cut, but I'm not going to be in any huge hurry to do so. Not at ALL surprised to find out that the reason it wasn't too much to Guillermo Del Toro's liking was because of the ****ing Weinsteins. From IMDB:
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa - Pretty goddamn funny, though I came away feeling that it wasn't as funny as I'd expected. It was a better movie than I'd expected it to be, though. I honestly wasn't really expecting it to have any kind of plot or storyline and it did, so that was cool.
Rust & Bone - A sad romantic drama. Marion Cotillard loses her legs in an accident and has to learn to live without them and she meets this guy who has a bunch of his own problems. It was pretty slow at first, but by the halfway point I was into it. I liked it, but don't care if I never see it again.
Female Convict Scorpion: Grudge Song - The 4th in the series and the last starring Meiko Kaji. As mentioned above, it's totally inferior to all preceding entries in the series, but even still it has some worthy moments. Just not that many.
Silver Linings Playbook - Worthy of all the hype? I don't know, but I liked it. I thought it was pretty much just ok up until the last 15-20 minutes, which I liked a lot. Great job by Cooper and Lawrence.
Iron Man 3 - This has also been on cable a lot lately and I've watched bits and pieces of it repeatedly. As ridiculous as certain parts of it are, it's a LOT of goddamn fun. I don't care if the scene where all the people get sucked out of the plane is against science and making some jumps in logic that it maybe shouldn't, it's a great, thrilling scene.
Warm Bodies - Not a bad movie for what it is, but I have a lot of trouble with the concept from the get-go. Zombies are not still capable of thought. The end. Not buying into the premise kind of limited my enjoyment of it, but it had it's moments, including one laugh out loud line for Robb Cordry. And John Malkovich.
Chimpanzee - S'cute. The sad part wasn't nearly as traumatizing as I'd expected. The little chimp is totally adorbs. Tim Allen was a great choice for the voiceover, as well.
Get Carter - My favorite Michael Caine flick. Turner Classics did a little tribute to him and showed 5 of his films in a row. What am I gonna do, not record all of them? Psh. Still haven't gotten to the other ones. But this one, seriously, is badass. I'm pre-ordering this Blu right now, too.
Oblivion - Pretty decent for a movie that borrows almost every single thing in it from previous sci-fi movies. The CG looked fantastic and so did Olga Kurylenko. Zoe Bell even had a real small part. Can't complain.
Belle De Jour - I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm shallow enough to have watched this almost solely because Catherine Deneuve plays a bored housewife who prostitutes herself. It was a pretty decent little film. I liked the way it ended a lot.
Synechdoche, New York - Wanted to watch a Philip Seymour Hoffman flick after hearing about his death and I hadn't seen this since I bought it. It didn't hit me as hard as I remember it hitting me the last time I watched it, but I still think it's a ****ing fantastic movie.
Stake Land - Solid apocalyptic vampire flick. Not something I'd buy, but I wouldn't mind watching it again at all.
Mimic - I had never seen this. It wasn't the director's cut, unfortunately. I liked it ok and would be interested in seeing the director's cut, but I'm not going to be in any huge hurry to do so. Not at ALL surprised to find out that the reason it wasn't too much to Guillermo Del Toro's liking was because of the ****ing Weinsteins. From IMDB:
What a ****ing shock!
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa - Pretty goddamn funny, though I came away feeling that it wasn't as funny as I'd expected. It was a better movie than I'd expected it to be, though. I honestly wasn't really expecting it to have any kind of plot or storyline and it did, so that was cool.
Rust & Bone - A sad romantic drama. Marion Cotillard loses her legs in an accident and has to learn to live without them and she meets this guy who has a bunch of his own problems. It was pretty slow at first, but by the halfway point I was into it. I liked it, but don't care if I never see it again.
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LetTigerIn
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On the subject of Verhoeven: Starship Troopers will screen Friday at midnight at Cinefamily.
Friday Night Frights | The Cinefamily
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Oh my f***ing GOD I love Starship Troopers. It's in my top ten "Movies when you're high as f***" list, and slotted slightly lower in the "Movies when you're drunk as f***" list. Never seen it cold sober, so not sure where it'd rank in the "Movies when you're sober as f***" list. Almost afraid to try.
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jerseydevil
I'llPutPenniesOnYourEyes
If you are enjoying the renaissance of Matthew McConaughey on True Detective...this is where it really started. This is just sooooo ****ed up. William Friedkin is a seriously twisted man.
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KingInTheWest
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Since I was pretty much caught up on dramas on my DVR (except for the ones I watching while running), I alternated my comedies with a couple of movies while the Olympics were on. The three movies I watched were all ones I had recorded ages ago (the only things keeping the 2012 Stanley Cup Finals from being at the end of my DVR list), and they were all films I thought would be average but had the chance to surprise me.
I remember when this came out and I thought they were trying to capitalize off of the success of Taken. Liam Neeson in Europe kicking ass, released in January... I said no thanks, I'll wait for Taken 2. Ha! Not only was I wrong to wait for Taken 2, I was wrong to not see Unknown. Very good action thriller with a fantastic twist that generally makes sense and some of my favorite villain deaths in a while. I watched it a second time to see everything again knowing what was up and also for those sweet, sweet deaths. Neeson and January Jones were both excellent, as were supporting actors Frank Langella and Bruno Ganz. In a perfect world, some of the dramatic implications would have been explored more, but it was a blast.
B+/A-.
Sporadically funny, but it seemed like the filmmakers were way more concerned with the throwaway plot than the actual comedy. Carrel and Fey both give it their best and definitely have their moments (outtakes at the end indicate there was a lot of successful improvisation), but at the end of the day, the movie is exactly 90 minutes long, and movies that are exactly 90 minutes long are exactly 90 minutes long for a reason, and that reason is not a surplus of great material. Extra points for Mila Kunis being such a filthy lowlife.
C-.
This one really surprised me. It was a lot better than I expected. Mysterious, has some tension, features a few good turns of the plot (only one of which I fully expected), Adrien Brody actually pulls off being an action badass, Shane Vendrell / Boyd Crowder appears in a supporting role, totally ridiculous but still awesome samurai duel, great opening moment. This movie would have worked even better if they had given it a different name and surprised the audience with the predators, but "Sci-fi action/horror starring Adrien Brody' is probably a tough sell.
B.
In summary, I am totally seeing Non-Stop now.
I remember when this came out and I thought they were trying to capitalize off of the success of Taken. Liam Neeson in Europe kicking ass, released in January... I said no thanks, I'll wait for Taken 2. Ha! Not only was I wrong to wait for Taken 2, I was wrong to not see Unknown. Very good action thriller with a fantastic twist that generally makes sense and some of my favorite villain deaths in a while. I watched it a second time to see everything again knowing what was up and also for those sweet, sweet deaths. Neeson and January Jones were both excellent, as were supporting actors Frank Langella and Bruno Ganz. In a perfect world, some of the dramatic implications would have been explored more, but it was a blast.
B+/A-.
Sporadically funny, but it seemed like the filmmakers were way more concerned with the throwaway plot than the actual comedy. Carrel and Fey both give it their best and definitely have their moments (outtakes at the end indicate there was a lot of successful improvisation), but at the end of the day, the movie is exactly 90 minutes long, and movies that are exactly 90 minutes long are exactly 90 minutes long for a reason, and that reason is not a surplus of great material. Extra points for Mila Kunis being such a filthy lowlife.
C-.
This one really surprised me. It was a lot better than I expected. Mysterious, has some tension, features a few good turns of the plot (only one of which I fully expected), Adrien Brody actually pulls off being an action badass, Shane Vendrell / Boyd Crowder appears in a supporting role, totally ridiculous but still awesome samurai duel, great opening moment. This movie would have worked even better if they had given it a different name and surprised the audience with the predators, but "Sci-fi action/horror starring Adrien Brody' is probably a tough sell.
B.
In summary, I am totally seeing Non-Stop now.
