Man i haven’t heard that name in ages. I was recently in nicaragua and they absolutely adore him in that country, i saw him on TV over there. Amazing how countries have their own icons. From what i know he only made a few films in engllish one being 80 days around the world were he was david nivens sidekick. How about chespirito? As a kid i remember that his films and tv show could always brighten up my day. Thanks Carlos for bringing up that name. Not to mention that my whole family loved him and lived when he was a sensation, both cantinflas and chespirito.
Start saving and hold off on buying regular dvd’s cause it is going to be whirlwind when blu ray’s become affordable(which is still pretty far down the line). You can find a player on amazon for a little over $250.00 still expensive, and maybe not worth the price. But you will see the difference in the image. And i too am eager to see criterion blu ray’s but they are still two months away. Those films and the dark knight(christmas) are making the wait unbearable.
Very true. I remember not to long ago i was flipping through channels with my friend and lo and behold we tune into the ending of a chespirito movie. i don’t recall what it was about but as chespirito is leaving he trips over something and this leads to a domino effect of priceless artifacts being toppled over and all the people in the room look in amazement as chespirito literally can’t gain his ground and is topping over artifact after artifact. As he finally comes full circle around the room in the final shot the fin lettering is displayed directly on the screen and chespirito trips over one more time shattering the glass that reads fin. We could not stop laughing during the sequence which is about a minute long and for a full five minutes after. Hilarious.
Ted Demme’s Blow. Unfortunately this is not a very good film. Although Depp is likeable as George Jung the story is just to flawed for me to want to like him as a sympathetic character just for the love of his daughter. Liotta and Griffith do good work as his parents, but the movie shifts one to many times to try and convey the whole story. Demme really stretched it to give the film a real biopic kind of feel. He falls short, but only because the subject just didn’t warrant this kind of dramatization. Also Penelope looks horribly miscast. Sometimes fame and beauty should be passed over for the right actor. The film does have it’s moments, but at two hours the movie aims too high. Demme’s final film and a waste for he was growing into a fine filmmaker.
I purchased ugetsu not too long and it is a beauty of a film. A film that as a kid always got me excited was a neverending story. Also the straight story gets me every time also.
I just got a bunch of Bakshi films and although very crude. I must say that i am a fan.This man really liked to push the envelope of races and sex with what can come off as reckless abandon. But coming from the mind of a very accomplished artist. Though be fore-warned that he likes to push the boundaries to the point were some will be offended by both images and language. With titles like coonskin, this man is al sharptons worst nightmare.
Being that i am the only one who really talks about this materialistic topic that has nothing to do with the filmmaking process. I must say that i converted two people to purchase blu ray players. And although his could be constituted as bragging than so be it thumb me down. Because i got two thank you calls for this advice. People i don’t make the rules and if i can price down these players to an affordable price for us all i would, but this is not a perfect world. But i have stated before that you all must judge for yourself if it makes the viewing of your film any different. In my dorky opinion i think it makes the pleasure of viewing the film that much more exciting and mesmerizing. Try watching paprika and you will see what i mean.
Shallow Hal and Wyatt Earp. I know what a combo! You don’t have to thumb me down, i know they both suck. (though with shallow hal being a comedy the line between it being good and shitty is very thin.) (FYI: dislocated my finger so i am not in a very good mood)
Wyatt Earp has a great writer director behind it. But it is a very poor directed film and even worse written. How such a great filmmaker like lawrence kasdan can miss is beyond me. The problem begins with Kevin Costner and goes on for three hours.
For anyone who has never viewed a Kubrick film, you should work your way to each film. Don’t just go and watch Eyes wide shut. He is so unique that he is not for everyone. I didn’t recommend eyes wide shut to any of my friends and even warned them not to see it. For i had the feeling that they would not understand or appreciate the film, and they didn’t. i would follow his movie’s almost in chronological order. Starting with Killer’s Kiss and his first masterpiece The Killing.
Nice mention Tom. Thank heavens for Actor’s like Heston, Stewart, Grant, Newman, Gables. Many more that have passed but without them acting would not be were it is today. Forgive me for leaving some names out but the list is infinite with the amount actor’s from the golden age and beyond.
Ah a Breath of fresh air. I was shocked at the way he just went head on with very taboo subject matter. And this motherfucker(which is how he would probably like to be called) is not scared to this day about making things his way. A true auteur!
I can pee with accuracy and distance though, but i don’t mean to say that i am the anonymous thumber. I concur with antoine on this, i too have been thumbed down for no particular reason. So please i think that we can all agree to disagree and we are ladies and gentlemen. So if you thumb away, please tell us why and if not well then that’s life then right. RIGHT.
Animation as tool for propaganda has been used since before the cold war. I’m sure we have all heard of even Disney contributing to the war movement in the thirty’s and forty’s. So you you are absolutely right of the power that animation has. The evolution of this format is going to go beyond what we could ever imagine. I mean i’m sure we all have imagined it, but the fact that it is here and film’s like wall-e are made and companies like pixar are mastering the format the sky is not even the limit. Outer space and other realms and dimensions are within our grasp.
I torture myself with crap like daredevil. A collector of comics it just disappoints me when hollywood studios cash in on our childhood imagination. A miscast ben affleck(whoa what a miscast), a horrible script, a horrible jennifer garner. about the only thing i could bear was collin farrel who goes so over the top he laughed his way to cashing the check he got paid to be in this piece of crap. I should sue tbs for paying this so often. I will now try and shake the devil with The assasination of jesse james by the coward robert ford. (second viewing)
The movie experience for me has changed considerably over the years. Unfortunately for me going less has become the norm. Though i always realize that nothing beats the expience of sitting in a packed house and watching a great film. So to help (i know we have a forum for what we are watching now be it on tv or theatre. This forum is for new release out in theatres, films that you are dying to see. Art houses or multiplexes just share with us what you loved without giving up to much) help convince us as to why i should spend ten dollars. Shit the last movie i saw in theatres was the dark knight, and i was plenty pleased. This week for example body of lies opens, if anyone goes and catches it drop me a line and let me know if it was worth your ten bucks. With this economy it’s extremely helpful to know.
Took down the mediocre “miami vice” and “the rookie” with eastwood and sheen. It was cops saturday night. First saw an episode of COPS then took those down. Miami Vice just follows in the long line of disappointing tv to movie transfers. Living in miami i tried to follow the making of it as close as i possibly could. The production ran through one of the worst hurricane seasons we had seen in a quite a while and i attest the movie moving it’s locations outside of miami as the reason for that. A friend of mine knew a production assitant for Mr. Mann and she said that he is an avid rewriter. So changes were done pretty much hourly. All in all i think the movie should’ve delved more into the drug trafficking and how it worked specifically in the streets of miami. In the tv show tubbs and crockett did travel outside of miami, but being a miamian and i admit i loved the tv show. I love how i could recognize about 99 percent of all the locations. Most of the time they never even traveled out of miami, they just dressed other miami locations to look like whichever third world country they were going into venezuela, colombia, haiti, etc… For that i was disappointed and found myself looking for a different movie. Still Michael Mann is a very good filmmaker so i was still entertained at times and at times i couldn’t help but roll my eyes. The second film on my double feature was clint eastwood’s the rookie just another old school cop going through the motions with his rookie partner who at the time was the still hot commodity at the time charlie sheen. A very cliche movie but at the time eastwood was still letting out his cop angst. He has become one of my favorite directors so you can see his immaturity as a filmmaker, but that man has always played by his own rules. And look how great he has turned out.
Equlibrium by kurt wimmer is a modest attempt, and show us what a tamed budget can give us. Aim high and you might hit something even on the way down. Good cast and passable script make for a decent hour and forty minutes. Now i have attacked the last indiana jones and i yet took another dive to take a look, and it still stinks. This time though ….oh know i noticed that early too. the lines sounded so so so monotone. “your making me look bad” Harrison Ford never looked this bad. Indy looked like he needed a face lift. I hear now they are considering a fifth. “GREED is god” for these guys it seems. I hope maybe this time they let Mr. Lawrence Kasdan back in the house and helps them write the ship. They should’ve for the star wars trilogies and we all saw how they ruined even that unbreakable gem. Let me drown out the sound of cash register’s with four hours of bertolucci’s Novecento.
With Volver Almodovar has fooled me again, i start to sense i am not going to like this film and by the end i am in love with the way he has woven this story. This man’s name belong’s next to all the greats, but i’m sure we all knew that before this film. He has been on a tremendous creative hot streak. Please Mr. Alomodovar we can keep up! Keep on shooting em!
Try catching faces, opening night and the killing of a chinese bookie. Criterion has them in a box set and will be releasing them in single discs soon. All must see cassavetes films.
Some Movies that always lifts You up are... over 4 years ago
Seabiscuit, Lethal Weapon Saga, Dr. Strangelove, Blade Runner, Top Gun, many more to come.
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Some Movies that always lifts You up are... over 4 years ago
Man i haven’t heard that name in ages. I was recently in nicaragua and they absolutely adore him in that country, i saw him on TV over there. Amazing how countries have their own icons. From what i know he only made a few films in engllish one being 80 days around the world were he was david nivens sidekick. How about chespirito? As a kid i remember that his films and tv show could always brighten up my day. Thanks Carlos for bringing up that name. Not to mention that my whole family loved him and lived when he was a sensation, both cantinflas and chespirito.
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Criterion junkies here? over 4 years ago
Start saving and hold off on buying regular dvd’s cause it is going to be whirlwind when blu ray’s become affordable(which is still pretty far down the line). You can find a player on amazon for a little over $250.00 still expensive, and maybe not worth the price. But you will see the difference in the image. And i too am eager to see criterion blu ray’s but they are still two months away. Those films and the dark knight(christmas) are making the wait unbearable.
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Some Movies that always lifts You up are... over 4 years ago
Very true. I remember not to long ago i was flipping through channels with my friend and lo and behold we tune into the ending of a chespirito movie. i don’t recall what it was about but as chespirito is leaving he trips over something and this leads to a domino effect of priceless artifacts being toppled over and all the people in the room look in amazement as chespirito literally can’t gain his ground and is topping over artifact after artifact. As he finally comes full circle around the room in the final shot the fin lettering is displayed directly on the screen and chespirito trips over one more time shattering the glass that reads fin. We could not stop laughing during the sequence which is about a minute long and for a full five minutes after. Hilarious.
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What are you watching now? over 4 years ago
Ted Demme’s Blow. Unfortunately this is not a very good film. Although Depp is likeable as George Jung the story is just to flawed for me to want to like him as a sympathetic character just for the love of his daughter. Liotta and Griffith do good work as his parents, but the movie shifts one to many times to try and convey the whole story. Demme really stretched it to give the film a real biopic kind of feel. He falls short, but only because the subject just didn’t warrant this kind of dramatization. Also Penelope looks horribly miscast. Sometimes fame and beauty should be passed over for the right actor. The film does have it’s moments, but at two hours the movie aims too high. Demme’s final film and a waste for he was growing into a fine filmmaker.
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Which film has changed your life forever? over 4 years ago
I purchased ugetsu not too long and it is a beauty of a film. A film that as a kid always got me excited was a neverending story. Also the straight story gets me every time also.
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Best of Animation over 4 years ago
I just got a bunch of Bakshi films and although very crude. I must say that i am a fan.This man really liked to push the envelope of races and sex with what can come off as reckless abandon. But coming from the mind of a very accomplished artist. Though be fore-warned that he likes to push the boundaries to the point were some will be offended by both images and language. With titles like coonskin, this man is al sharptons worst nightmare.
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What are you watching now? over 4 years ago
The Godfather part 2 and The Leopard. It doesnt get any better than these two films which are keeping me up. Six hours of epic pleasure.
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BLU RAY GOOD OR BAD FOR MOVIE BUYERS over 4 years ago
Being that i am the only one who really talks about this materialistic topic that has nothing to do with the filmmaking process. I must say that i converted two people to purchase blu ray players. And although his could be constituted as bragging than so be it thumb me down. Because i got two thank you calls for this advice. People i don’t make the rules and if i can price down these players to an affordable price for us all i would, but this is not a perfect world. But i have stated before that you all must judge for yourself if it makes the viewing of your film any different. In my dorky opinion i think it makes the pleasure of viewing the film that much more exciting and mesmerizing. Try watching paprika and you will see what i mean.
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Film quotes you love over 4 years ago
“My ass may be dumb, but ain’t no dumb-ass.” Ordell Robbie(Samuel L. Jackson)- Jackie Brown. i can use this quote today at work!
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What are you watching now? over 4 years ago
Shallow Hal and Wyatt Earp. I know what a combo! You don’t have to thumb me down, i know they both suck. (though with shallow hal being a comedy the line between it being good and shitty is very thin.) (FYI: dislocated my finger so i am not in a very good mood)
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What are you watching now? over 4 years ago
Wyatt Earp has a great writer director behind it. But it is a very poor directed film and even worse written. How such a great filmmaker like lawrence kasdan can miss is beyond me. The problem begins with Kevin Costner and goes on for three hours.
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What are you watching now? over 4 years ago
Mr. Arkadin or The Confidential Report or which ever version you are watching.
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K.U.B.R.I.C.K. over 4 years ago
For anyone who has never viewed a Kubrick film, you should work your way to each film. Don’t just go and watch Eyes wide shut. He is so unique that he is not for everyone. I didn’t recommend eyes wide shut to any of my friends and even warned them not to see it. For i had the feeling that they would not understand or appreciate the film, and they didn’t. i would follow his movie’s almost in chronological order. Starting with Killer’s Kiss and his first masterpiece The Killing.
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Charlton Heston over 4 years ago
Nice mention Tom. Thank heavens for Actor’s like Heston, Stewart, Grant, Newman, Gables. Many more that have passed but without them acting would not be were it is today. Forgive me for leaving some names out but the list is infinite with the amount actor’s from the golden age and beyond.
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Best of Animation over 4 years ago
Still no takers on Bakshi. Maybe this will become my running gag Bakshi anyone? Ha!
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Best of Animation over 4 years ago
Ah a Breath of fresh air. I was shocked at the way he just went head on with very taboo subject matter. And this motherfucker(which is how he would probably like to be called) is not scared to this day about making things his way. A true auteur!
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Charlton Heston over 4 years ago
Judah Ben Hur!
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Who do you read? over 4 years ago
I can pee with accuracy and distance though, but i don’t mean to say that i am the anonymous thumber. I concur with antoine on this, i too have been thumbed down for no particular reason. So please i think that we can all agree to disagree and we are ladies and gentlemen. So if you thumb away, please tell us why and if not well then that’s life then right. RIGHT.
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Best of Animation over 4 years ago
Animation as tool for propaganda has been used since before the cold war. I’m sure we have all heard of even Disney contributing to the war movement in the thirty’s and forty’s. So you you are absolutely right of the power that animation has. The evolution of this format is going to go beyond what we could ever imagine. I mean i’m sure we all have imagined it, but the fact that it is here and film’s like wall-e are made and companies like pixar are mastering the format the sky is not even the limit. Outer space and other realms and dimensions are within our grasp.
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What are you watching now? over 4 years ago
I torture myself with crap like daredevil. A collector of comics it just disappoints me when hollywood studios cash in on our childhood imagination. A miscast ben affleck(whoa what a miscast), a horrible script, a horrible jennifer garner. about the only thing i could bear was collin farrel who goes so over the top he laughed his way to cashing the check he got paid to be in this piece of crap. I should sue tbs for paying this so often. I will now try and shake the devil with The assasination of jesse james by the coward robert ford. (second viewing)
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the hate corner over 4 years ago
You’re not secretly PT Anderson are you?
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now playing in a theatre near you over 4 years ago
The movie experience for me has changed considerably over the years. Unfortunately for me going less has become the norm. Though i always realize that nothing beats the expience of sitting in a packed house and watching a great film. So to help (i know we have a forum for what we are watching now be it on tv or theatre. This forum is for new release out in theatres, films that you are dying to see. Art houses or multiplexes just share with us what you loved without giving up to much) help convince us as to why i should spend ten dollars. Shit the last movie i saw in theatres was the dark knight, and i was plenty pleased. This week for example body of lies opens, if anyone goes and catches it drop me a line and let me know if it was worth your ten bucks. With this economy it’s extremely helpful to know.
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now playing in a theatre near you over 4 years ago
If it’s still palying in an IMAX near you please go and see the dark knight in IMAX. out of this fucking world!
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What are you watching now? over 4 years ago
Took down the mediocre “miami vice” and “the rookie” with eastwood and sheen. It was cops saturday night. First saw an episode of COPS then took those down. Miami Vice just follows in the long line of disappointing tv to movie transfers. Living in miami i tried to follow the making of it as close as i possibly could. The production ran through one of the worst hurricane seasons we had seen in a quite a while and i attest the movie moving it’s locations outside of miami as the reason for that. A friend of mine knew a production assitant for Mr. Mann and she said that he is an avid rewriter. So changes were done pretty much hourly. All in all i think the movie should’ve delved more into the drug trafficking and how it worked specifically in the streets of miami. In the tv show tubbs and crockett did travel outside of miami, but being a miamian and i admit i loved the tv show. I love how i could recognize about 99 percent of all the locations. Most of the time they never even traveled out of miami, they just dressed other miami locations to look like whichever third world country they were going into venezuela, colombia, haiti, etc… For that i was disappointed and found myself looking for a different movie. Still Michael Mann is a very good filmmaker so i was still entertained at times and at times i couldn’t help but roll my eyes. The second film on my double feature was clint eastwood’s the rookie just another old school cop going through the motions with his rookie partner who at the time was the still hot commodity at the time charlie sheen. A very cliche movie but at the time eastwood was still letting out his cop angst. He has become one of my favorite directors so you can see his immaturity as a filmmaker, but that man has always played by his own rules. And look how great he has turned out.
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What are you watching now? over 4 years ago
Equlibrium by kurt wimmer is a modest attempt, and show us what a tamed budget can give us. Aim high and you might hit something even on the way down. Good cast and passable script make for a decent hour and forty minutes. Now i have attacked the last indiana jones and i yet took another dive to take a look, and it still stinks. This time though ….oh know i noticed that early too. the lines sounded so so so monotone. “your making me look bad” Harrison Ford never looked this bad. Indy looked like he needed a face lift. I hear now they are considering a fifth. “GREED is god” for these guys it seems. I hope maybe this time they let Mr. Lawrence Kasdan back in the house and helps them write the ship. They should’ve for the star wars trilogies and we all saw how they ruined even that unbreakable gem. Let me drown out the sound of cash register’s with four hours of bertolucci’s Novecento.
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What are you watching now? over 4 years ago
With Volver Almodovar has fooled me again, i start to sense i am not going to like this film and by the end i am in love with the way he has woven this story. This man’s name belong’s next to all the greats, but i’m sure we all knew that before this film. He has been on a tremendous creative hot streak. Please Mr. Alomodovar we can keep up! Keep on shooting em!
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What are you watching now? over 4 years ago
Amarcord and still watching novecento! Damn.
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now playing in a theatre near you over 4 years ago
Should i waste my money on W.
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What are you watching now? over 4 years ago
Try catching faces, opening night and the killing of a chinese bookie. Criterion has them in a box set and will be releasing them in single discs soon. All must see cassavetes films.
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