g.man wrote:

Raiziel wrote:

I love every languorous frame of Once Upon a Time in the West.  I wouldn’t change a bit of it.

Razzle knows.

Watched Frankenstein (1931) last night. I had zero memory of the plot and I'm guessing my memory is made up of seeing the various spin offs when I was a kid.

What is outstanding about it is the overall look of it and the sets and lighting. It's an incredible looking film - at times surreal. The acting is of the time and genre -  and so is hammed up - and there's even a stock comedy relief character - but it's more than just a curio even though there are extremely odd shots of 1930s impedimenta such as one young lady using a monocole in one early scene. Karloff isn't quite as wooden as I thought he would be either in the role of the creature.

The death of the creature is extremely effective and feels very modern - I find it hard to believe it didn't inspire The Wickerman's ending (the 70's version of course).

It isn't just the pulp horror I thought it would be - it throws up questions about scientific advance and its consequences. It's an intelligent film and portraying the death of a child must have been extremely shocking then. It's still disturbing now.

Young Frankenstein did such a good job of riffing on this material but it doesn't make it unwatchable (unlike what Airplane did to the Airport films) as it is clear it was made with a deep love of the original.

This must have been quite something to have seen in the cinema.

I remember the flower / river scene from my childhood and it still gives me the absolute fear.

Ana ontmoet het monster van Frankenstein. Which of course is Dutch for "Speaking of which, Spirit of the Beehive is fab too in my humble o and you might like it in your humble o too if you haven't seen it here clip spoils obv. yeah."

Cosby wrote:

I watched The Predator this morning and hoo boy, that's a mess. There's some great lines in there which was the only real saving grace but even that was tainted with the odd terrible throwback ('get to the choppers' when pointing at a load of motorbikes).

The rest was dumb but not even in a fun way, even the gore is just too OTT. Don't know what Shane's working on next but can't turn out worse than this.

I'm curious to know what happened with this. It's so so bad that it smacks of a very troubled production

Raiziel wrote:

Coherence tonight.  Great little film, that.

I watched this recently and also really enjoyed it. Definitely on the recommend to a friend list.

I did wonder if Black's connection to the original was a factor in his involvement. He's generally been a solid writer so surprising this was quite so bad.

4500 posts later, I return. 

With more time and an enforced game break, watched some filums.

Mortal Engines. That's a lot of money to spend on a fucking ropey idea. Terrible.

The Dark Tower. I lasted 20 minutes. A travesty.

The Informer. Gritty thriller thing. Watchable. First of a Clive Owen as FBI Brass double header I didn't know I was in for.

Gemini Man. Ang Lee. Oh how the mighty have fallen. Clive playing basically the same guy. Dumb as a bag of rocks. 

John Wick 3. Also dumb as a bag of rocks, but at least it knows it.

Onwards. Disney do solid kids stuff hey. More enjoyable than most of the above.

Halfway through Cool World (1992) Gabriel Byrne, Brad Pitt and Kim Bassinger. Only because of How did this get made pod. Jesus. What a mess.

Facewon wrote:

Halfway through Cool World (1992) Gabriel Byrne, Brad Pitt and Kim Bassinger. Only because of How did this get made pod. Jesus. What a mess.

Thanks to Bowie, I just found out this exists.

12 Angry Men.

Still great.

GooberTheHat wrote:

Eurovision.

I've just finished watching it and I've got a stupid grin on my face. A silly feel good film that could have easily been quite mean spirited but wasn't at all. Almost the perfect movie if you're feeling a bit fed up with everything right now.

"yaya ding-dong!"

It's become one of my go to happy movies now when I need a pick me up. Alongside Mamma Mia and Mary Poppins Returns.

I just love camp musical numbers it seems

I didn't mind Bad Boys FL but wholly heck Face you're scraping the barrel in terms of film choices. There's been lots of good recent stuff, stop torturing yourself.

The Daddy wrote:

Re: Once upon a time, I've got time on Monday for a proper film, I've narrowed it down to OUATITW or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. I'm leaning towards the latter.

Well I decided to go with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, which I managed to watch all of in one day (albeit in three sittings). I wasn't aware of Morricone's passing until the lunch interval, but finding out only served to focus my attention on the quality of the score. That scene near the end where The Ecstasy of Gold kicks in was quite a thing. 

Great film overall, can't believe I've never seen it. Will find time (maybe, hopefully) to watch the other two in the trilogy (apparently it works pretty well as a trilogy watching this one first), and Once Upon a Time...

The Daddy wrote:

The Daddy wrote:

Re: Once upon a time, I've got time on Monday for a proper film, I've narrowed it down to OUATITW or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. I'm leaning towards the latter.

Well I decided to go with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, which I managed to watch all of in one day (albeit in three sittings). I wasn't aware of Morricone's passing until the lunch interval, but finding out only served to focus my attention on the quality of the score. That scene near the end where The Ecstasy of Gold kicks in was quite a thing.  Great film overall, can't believe I've never seen it. Will find time (maybe, hopefully) to watch the other two in the trilogy (apparently it works pretty well as a trilogy watching this one first), and Once Upon a Time...

The truel scene is a highlight.

Was that the mad cartoon thing?