the man with no name wrote:Ghostbusters 1 & 2
The girl Next Door
Old School
The Day Today
Classics i'm sure you'll agree!
Brocktune wrote:my copy of "stunt rock" just arrived via the mail yesterday. i was super pumped, untill i watched the fucker. one of the worst atrocities ever committed to a film, when they transferred it to dvd. they cut the fucking opening credits out. it goes from the fbi warning, straight to the movie. then, right when the opening titles are about to start, they cut to the fucking MENU?!?!?!?! then, when you select "play movie" it cuts to just after the credits. i was fuming! they butchered the movie, and my memories. bastards. criterion, where are you when i need you? actually, the concept of this movie being released as part of the criterion collection is utterly laughable. but, then again, they did do the rock, and armageddon.
The Vicar wrote:In the last week I acquired Lon Chaney Sr in Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Penalty, Shadows & The Unholy Three.
Thought I'd better collect what I could of the amazing Lon Chaney before they all blink out of existance.
Now I'm going to try to watch Phantom using Dark Side of the Moon as soundtrack.
I'll let you know.
HollywoodBabylon wrote:The Vicar wrote:In the last week I acquired Lon Chaney Sr in Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Penalty, Shadows & The Unholy Three.
Thought I'd better collect what I could of the amazing Lon Chaney before they all blink out of existance.
Now I'm going to try to watch Phantom using Dark Side of the Moon as soundtrack.
I'll let you know.
Have you ever seen Chaney in that silent expressionist masterpiece 'He Who Gets Slapped' where he plays a scientist cheated on by his wife and scientific patron? He then joins the circus as a clown so as to willingly suffer humiliation and ridicule to justrify that he's become a clown in body as well as spirit. It's a truly extraordinary film, a friend taped it off TCM some time ago so I don't know whether it's availabe on video or DVD. But if you're a Chaney fan (or a fan of unusual, one off films) this is essential. He's absolutely amazing in it.
Chaney is one of the films forgotten geniuses. He's the silent cinema's equivalent to Brando or De Niro or Pacino.
The Vicar wrote:HollywoodBabylon wrote:The Vicar wrote:In the last week I acquired Lon Chaney Sr in Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Penalty, Shadows & The Unholy Three.
Thought I'd better collect what I could of the amazing Lon Chaney before they all blink out of existance.
Now I'm going to try to watch Phantom using Dark Side of the Moon as soundtrack.
I'll let you know.
Have you ever seen Chaney in that silent expressionist masterpiece 'He Who Gets Slapped' where he plays a scientist cheated on by his wife and scientific patron? He then joins the circus as a clown so as to willingly suffer humiliation and ridicule to justrify that he's become a clown in body as well as spirit. It's a truly extraordinary film, a friend taped it off TCM some time ago so I don't know whether it's availabe on video or DVD. But if you're a Chaney fan (or a fan of unusual, one off films) this is essential. He's absolutely amazing in it.
Chaney is one of the films forgotten geniuses. He's the silent cinema's equivalent to Brando or De Niro or Pacino.
Absolutely goddam right!
I had a shot at He Who Gets Slapped on Ebay recently, but the price went a tad over my head. I really, really want to get that one. Chaney was a genius - a man more uniquely qualified than any other to be a silent film star. Chaplin, Lloyd, Murnow, Keaton...sure there were genuises in the Silent Era...but Chaney, the son of deaf/mute parents, was created for the silents. You never had trouble understanding what a Chaney character was thinking or feeling. His skills in makeup were years beyond his contemporaries. His Phantom makeup held up after an underwater scene...without losing a thing. The guy was special.
Nice to bump into someone else around here who thinks so too.
A History of Violence.
Dark Knight wrote:A History of Violence.
Great movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Should've gotten a best picture nod!
Flumm wrote:Some gimp from parcelforce left a stack of books I ordered from Amazon, lying on my bloody doorstep yesterday. For an hour they just sat there! Anyone could have ran off with em.
Man, what I wouldn't give just to have caught that motherfuck doing it. You just don't fuck around with another man's parcel like that. It's just not right. Boy, I wish I could've caught him doing it. I'd have given anything to catch that asshole doing it. It'd been worth him doing it just so I could've caught him doing it...
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Flumm wrote:Some gimp from parcelforce left a stack of books I ordered from Amazon, lying on my bloody doorstep yesterday. For an hour they just sat there! Anyone could have ran off with em.
Man, what I wouldn't give just to have caught that motherfuck doing it. You just don't fuck around with another man's parcel like that. It's just not right. Boy, I wish I could've caught him doing it. I'd have given anything to catch that asshole doing it. It'd been worth him doing it just so I could've caught him doing it...
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Flumm wrote:Some gimp from parcelforce left a stack of books I ordered from Amazon, lying on my bloody doorstep yesterday. For an hour they just sat there! Anyone could have ran off with em.
Man, what I wouldn't give just to have caught that motherfuck doing it. You just don't fuck around with another man's parcel like that. It's just not right. Boy, I wish I could've caught him doing it. I'd have given anything to catch that asshole doing it. It'd been worth him doing it just so I could've caught him doing it...
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Brocktune wrote:just picked up criterions "rebel samurai" box set.
i totally buted a nut right in my pants.
seppukudkurosawa wrote:Brocktune wrote:j ust picked up criterions "rebel samurai" box set.
i totally buted a nut right in my pants.
I got a good deal on e-bay for the Rebel Samurai flicks, and after watching them I would have paid twice that much for such great films. It's hard to say what my favourite is, maybe Sword of the Beast, maybe Samurai Rebellion. Although according to its director, Mifune wasn't running at full steam during Samurai Rebellion, because he was more interested in his new production company- but it doesn't show in the film, his performance is something that has to be seen to be believed: slow-burning for two hours until he just explodes come the the climax.
And a bit of advice if you haven't watched it yet, think of Kill! as being a really, really black comedy/Samurai movie spoof and you'll enjoy it more. I guess every genre's had its spoofs- from Westerns with Blazing Saddles to Bond-type flicks with Spy Hard, but I love Kill! the most because, unless you're concentrating hard, you almost don't realise it's a send-up.
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