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msidoh
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 Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 5:51 am Post subject: Random Movie Watching |
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Been watching some good ol'fashioned movies the past few days. The past three nights, we chose three random movies: 'A Beautiful Mind' - (Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly, 2001), 'The Cat and the Canary' - (Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, 1939) and 'The Bodyguard' - (Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston, 1992). Nothing mind-blowing there; three very diverse topics, but all of them good entertainment just before bedtime.  |
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Dr. Nürburg
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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Good call. I have been watching a number of old 1950's scifi movies lately. It's nice to remember before when scifi really was scifi.
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msidoh
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 2:31 am Post subject: |
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| Dr. Nürburg wrote: | | Good call. I have been watching a number of old 1950's scifi movies lately. It's nice to remember before when scifi really was scifi. |
Ha, don't get me started on 50's sci-fi movies. I love 'em!
Them! (about giant ants), Forbidden Planet (wasn't that one re-titled as "The Id" in the UK?), and one of my all-time favourites... Journey to the Center of the Earth (the James Mason version, not Brendan Fraser one).
I even remember watching "The Blob" one summer's evening at an open-air cinema in Forio d’Ischia during the early 70's. Steve McQueen dubbed into Italian, no less! Aah, the memories!  |
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Dr. Nürburg
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 10:54 am Post subject: |
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| msidoh wrote: | | ...and one of my all-time favourites... Journey to the Center of the Earth (the James Mason version, not Brendan Fraser one). |
Yes, one of the best movies of that age.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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Bela Lugosi in 'The Bat' has always been one of my favourites. He had the best appearance of any Dracula. Admittedly, it wouldn't have worked in colour, but b/w has always created more atmosphere for 'horror' movies.
Other than that, I can watch pretty much any of the Herbert Lom chiller style movie any day of the week and Lon Chaney Jr as Wolfman. |
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Bomber
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 9:35 am Post subject: |
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I never watched movies in a Cinema, only a few exceptions,
Woodstock, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, and Hannibal.... |
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akeo
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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In my teens I used to go to the cinema once maybe twice a week depending on the film but through the late 80's I think I saw pretty much every film released. Most of them were actually rubbish but, it was something that a lot of people did.
It was really cheap back then though and cinema's only used to have one screen (who else remembers those days) so couldn't show more than 3 films in any one week. |
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msidoh
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| Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:30 am Post subject: |
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| akeo wrote: | | It was really cheap back then though and cinema's only used to have one screen (who else remembers those days) so couldn't show more than 3 films in any one week. |
I know what you mean. Where I grew up, there was only one cinema with one screen, and they would show one film per week. They would change the movie on a Thursday or Friday. It was really frustrating when a successful movie was shown: they would hold it over for a second week!
I heard a few years later, they turned it into a bingo hall...  |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 10:02 am Post subject: |
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| Exactly the same here. One cinema got pulled down to make way for a new ring road and the other ended up being a bingo hall although that's derelict as well now and no-one seems to know what's happening with it. |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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| I try not to watch old movies anymore because it ruins my perception on how good I thought they were the first time I watched it. Couple of exceptions are Ghost Busters, Stripes, Somewhere in Time and The Amytiville horro |
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| I've been watching the sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr. And in the mornings I watced the 1960 Producer's movie. |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2015 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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been watching allot of movies on the el rey network especially Chinese classics.
the lizard comes on at 10, will miss that since I will be at the gym.
1979 classic The Magnificent Ruffians comes on at 12:30 then it's Shaft and another classic Rats of terror 1984 horror.
then it's Outland from 1981.
Sci-fi thriller, with Sean Connery, Peter Boyle and Frances Sternhagen
that's at 9 pm.
so that's my movies for the day
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| Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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| I watced the original 1960's Producers with Gene Wilder. It was probably a lot better than the original. No constant singing every twenty minutes. |
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Lonny
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 2:11 am Post subject: |
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I watched another Mel Brooks movie, High Anxiety. It's a spoof off of a bunch of Alfred Hitchcock's movies, Vertigo, Birds and psycho. The main theme is closest to Vertigo, as Mel Brooks has an unnatural fear of a great many things. It turns out to be from his parents arguing with one another over how to treat the younger version of Mel Brooks.
The second movie that I watched was Jim Henson's Dark Crystal. I haven't seen it before, but it was a decent movie. |
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