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Just some home viewing this week.



The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) - After viewing, I was reading the discussion at imdb and some people take this shit very seriously. Hell it's overall rating is 7.1 which is pretty high. It was alright I guess. Unintentionally funny in bits but the effects are over 50 years old. The basic story is classic and solid. 5.5 out of 10.



Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) - We were in a Halloween mood and watched this double feature of horrors from the Hammer company on TCM. This one is 5.4 out of 10.



Blow (2001) - I hadn't seen this since it came out. I had forgotten how reminiscent (derivative ??) it was of Goodfellas in style. By the end I was mentally calling it Goodfellas Light. Blow is basically entertaining. By-the-numbers but absorbing enough. 6.5 out of 10.



Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) - I had a hard time settling on a rating for this. Finally I decided that the songs I really like and camp value outweigh the weak points such as Susan Sarandon's singing. 6.8 out of 10.
 
I've been slacking posting these, but a few of note over the past several weeks:

Pootie Tang - I love Pootie Tang. Robyn and I now try to speak Pootie language as much as possible my damie. Wasata!


Here After - We went to see this during the day before the crazy Castle night a couple weeks ago. After the movie ended I stated my dislike for it. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a slow movie for most of the viewing (the opening tsunami scene was pretty awesome though). I think I threw in the towel as soon as I learned that Matt Damon's main character was a psychic who talked to the dead. I have no patience for such characters (I'm talking to YOU Whoopi Goldberg!)

But as the day and evening wore on I started to realize the beauty of Eastwood's latest offering. I was embarrassed at my short-sightedness. 'Here After' is not about contacting the dead at all, although that is how it would appear on the surface. It's a story about people, and interesting stories about people are what I'm all about. I think I'll enjoy it much more upon a second viewing sans any wacky expectations.

Magnolia - I hadn't seen this in almost a decade. Talk about a movie about interesting people - wow. The cast is jam-packed top to bottom with great performances. Tom Cruise might've been nominated for Best Actor for his sleazy performance, but for me it was Jason Robards dying character who completely mesmerized me. I didn't realize until today that he died just a couple of years after 'Magnolia' of lung cancer, the same disease as his character. In a film about random coincidences, I find that to be pretty amazing.

Robard's scene on his death bed where he decides to unleash all of his life's regrets upon his nurse (Philip Seymour Hoffman in yet another stellar performance) is a pretty dynamic exchange. I wish I could find it online somewhere, but nope. It's good to be reminded as much as possible how utterly useless this all is, and 'Magnolia' captures the futility of it all quite splendidly, IMO.
 
Interesting thing running on TCM right now. It's a 7 part series - 1 hour episodes - called Moguls and Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood. They'll be showing 1 a week.

They ran the first part this week. It was called Peepshow Pioneers and covered the years 1888-1907 and the birth of the industry. I believe the plan is to follow up each episode with samples from the period they cover that week. That part is probably hit and miss. This week they showed a bunch of Thomas Edison's early motion pictures. I started watching and it was interesting as a curiosity but I wasn't going to watch 2 hours of them. Later they were showing a bunch of D.W. Griffith's developmental stuff.

Anyway the series itself looks like it will be absolutely excellent for the movie buff.
 
kato
amby- help me understand which roles she was god AWFUL in...

thanks
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I was wondering about that too. Amby actually said she was in some godawful movies, not so much that she was awful.

The only movie I recall ever thinking she was bad in was her small supporting role in the pretty awful movie I'm Not There.

She did some dogs early in her career. Body of Evidence with Madonna. That thing with Stallone (Assassins?)

The Hours was a pretty bad movie IMO but she was excellent in it. The Forgotten was pretty forgettable.

See what I did there?
 
Mudcat
I was wondering about that too. Amby actually said she was in some godawful movies, not so much that she was awful.

The only movie I recall ever thinking she was bad in was her small supporting role in the pretty awful movie I'm Not There.

She did some dogs early in her career. Body of Evidence with Madonna. That thing with Stallone (Assassins?)

The Hours was a pretty bad movie IMO but she was excellent in it. The Forgotten was pretty forgettable.

See what I did there?
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Yes Body of Evidence and Assassins are a couple others. I never saw The Hours....so can't comment on that
 
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I've been slacking posting these, but a few of note over the past several weeks:

Pootie Tang - I love Pootie Tang. Robyn and I now try to speak Pootie language as much as possible my damie. Wasata!
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I gots to say na nay no.


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Here After - We went to see this during the day before the crazy Castle night a couple weeks ago. After the movie ended I stated my dislike for it. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a slow movie for most of the viewing (the opening tsunami scene was pretty awesome though). I think I threw in the towel as soon as I learned that Matt Damon's main character was a psychic who talked to the dead. I have no patience for such characters (I'm talking to YOU Whoopi Goldberg!)

But as the day and evening wore on I started to realize the beauty of Eastwood's latest offering. I was embarrassed at my short-sightedness. 'Here After' is not about contacting the dead at all, although that is how it would appear on the surface. It's a story about people, and interesting stories about people are what I'm all about. I think I'll enjoy it much more upon a second viewing sans any wacky expectations.
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The movie was about three main characters and their very personal experiences in facing death and the afterlife (which was never clearly defined as heaven). I really liked this movie...excellent character development.

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Magnolia - I hadn't seen this in almost a decade. Talk about a movie about interesting people - wow. The cast is jam-packed top to bottom with great performances. Tom Cruise might've been nominated for Best Actor for his sleazy performance, but for me it was Jason Robards dying character who completely mesmerized me. I didn't realize until today that he died just a couple of years after 'Magnolia' of lung cancer, the same disease as his character. In a film about random coincidences, I find that to be pretty amazing.

Robard's scene on his death bed where he decides to unleash all of his life's regrets upon his nurse (Philip Seymour Hoffman in yet another stellar performance) is a pretty dynamic exchange. I wish I could find it online somewhere, but nope. It's good to be reminded as much as possible how utterly useless this all is, and 'Magnolia' captures the futility of it all quite splendidly, IMO.
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Ugh, the monologue of Earl Partridge's confession tore the heart out of me. Such selfish human beings we are.

I completely forgot Robard's was in The Day After.

AMBy
Children of Men

The Forgotten

Hannibal
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Children of Men is a good movie. Worthy of another viewing.
 
The Forgotten was hilariously bad. It started off as a solid drama/suspense, then that black bitch got sucked away into the sky. lolz

Not a big Julianne Moore fan either. Sexy bitch but not much of an actor by my taste.
 
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