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Subject: Movies

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Date: Mon Sep 22 06:21:39 2008
User: Snowguy
Message:
I remember when my daughter was quite young. (Perhaps a pre-teen?) She and some friends were was invited to an overnight (birthday?) party at one of their houses. She called abouit ten o'clock at night and wanted to come home. It seems they were showing "Nightmare on Eln Street" and it was too upsetting for her.

We were happy she did that. We still don't like "Slasher" movies. Do you?

Date: Mon Sep 22 07:16:54 2008
User: Mistiq
Message:
My favorite kind Snowy. I know I'm weird. Even as a teen I have always loved horror movies. I used to be a renting horror movie queen. I have seen probably all the old ones. All the Elm streets, Halloween, Friday the 13th(all 5,000 of them! Ha), even the weird ones with all the killer bees and rats and birds and whatever else they could think of. I am strange, I know.

Date: Mon Sep 22 07:36:29 2008
User: Snowguy
Message:
My son likes them, too. He's also into the off-beat ones like "Blackula."

Now, THERE's a classic!

Date: Mon Sep 22 09:33:35 2008
User: Snowguy
Message:
I remember a movie I was watching in a theater in Germany (I was in my twenties, back in the mid-sixties.) It might have been called "The Lake" or something like that. Anyhoo, this attractive woman was swimming in a lake at night, and as she was climbing out of the water onto the lake's bank, she looked up just as a hatchet came down onto her face or head. The hatchet came down several times, very violently and graphically. I walked out.

Another time, early in our marriage, my wife and I had just seen a viewing of some movie or other, when we were surprise by a "sneak preview" of another movie, so we settled back into our seats. It was probably after 11:00 pm. The movie started out with a beautiful woman who was naked, or nearly so, walking through the woods. We were pleased that we might see something sexy.

Somebody grabbed her and swiftly hung her by her feet from a tree. They then cut her throat so the blood would fall into a bucket. It happened very fast. We walked out, outraged, along with most of the rest of the audience.

Call me old-fashioned.

Date: Mon Sep 22 10:04:41 2008
User: firenze
Message:
A real horrible movie was "Last Tango in Paris".

What's that?

Horror movies?

Nevermind.

Date: Mon Sep 22 15:06:01 2008
User: Katzby
Message:
I am so with you on this one, snow. I can't even bear to watch trailers for scary--I mean REALLY scary--films. My son keeps trying to harden me but I really do get freaked. Maybe it's the music, or the gutteral background voice. I don't know. Whatever, it sure isn't entertainment for me!

Date: Mon Sep 22 18:33:10 2008
User: Songcutter
Message:
I like scary movies, but not the in-your-face-slasher ones. I loved The Sixth Sense, for example. I like the long, slow build-up to a roaring, surprising ending. (We're still talking movies, right? Whew...I need a cigarette.)

Date: Mon Sep 22 18:55:32 2008
User: lilshedvl
Message:
I love them all of them!!!! The scarier the better. Besides, it's a good excuse to cuddle........ :)


XOXO Lils

Date: Mon Sep 22 21:20:00 2008
User: StarGazer
Message:
ahh I am not a slasher fan.
But I do like movies that have a story and scare me.
Like The Exorcist, The Stand well you get the picture.
SG

Date: Wed Sep 24 06:06:43 2008
User: dede
Message:
If you like scary movies go rent "wolf Creek" The sad thing is it's based on a true killer over here

Date: Wed Sep 24 06:29:26 2008
User: itdontmatta
Message:
deepthroat..............scareist movie ever

Date: Wed Sep 24 09:05:07 2008
User: lindalovelace
Message:
You thought you were scared!

Date: Thu Sep 25 06:59:22 2008
User: dede
Message:
lol that is so funny......

Date: Mon Sep 13 00:30:01 2021
User: Klepp
Message:
I hadn't followed this line before, but "Movies" is fitting...I'm enjoying "The Dead Zone" for the first time in a while...

Date: Sat Oct 2 22:08:37 2021
User: Klepp
Message:
Joaquin Phoenix as "The Joker"--I suspect he'll lose status as protagonist later in the film...violence can only be tolerated to certain extents, and never when (un)civilly propagated...

Date: Sat Oct 2 22:13:49 2021
User: Klepp
Message:
I apologize, no article in title "Joker"...

Date: Sun Oct 3 20:17:44 2021
User: Klepp
Message:
After viewing this violent, compelling film, what struck me most was the writer/director's clear juxtaposition of the horrors through which one youngster already lived (Fleck's maternal abuse...tied to a radiator?) and the horror that has now befallen young Bruce Wayne, the witness of his own parents violent death...it seems these difficulties must be the life's work of mental health professionals: treating unstable, high-risk patients...demands another viewing...(New York City was a ****ing zoo back in the seventies and eighties, no lie).

Date: Mon Apr 18 11:43:16 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
Superior early work from Darren Aronofsky (best known for Black Swan (2010)):

Link: π

Date: Tue Sep 13 21:17:55 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
Godard, seminal New Wave film director...

Link: 1930-2022

Date: Tue Sep 13 21:39:20 2022
User: ix
Message:
i don't think i saw your pi post earlier, i own it, and yeah it is superior, good on ya

Date: Tue Sep 13 21:42:21 2022
User: ix
Message:
klepp, have you ever seen A Serious Man, seems like something you would like

Date: Tue Sep 27 14:23:47 2022
User: outskirts
Message:
There was a time she didn't turn the world on with her smile. She showed her serious acting skills though. I have not watched this since it came out, 40+ years ago. But I still remember despising that woman.



Link: https://youtu.be/HQKEdiQ79OM

Date: Fri Sep 30 19:01:55 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
"A Serious Man" Coen written and directed? The Coen brothers make great film, over and over and...(maybe now that you mention, I'll re-watch)...

Date: Fri Sep 30 19:31:27 2022
User: ix
Message:
my thought that you would like it was mere surmise sir, but now i feel certain

Date: Fri Sep 30 20:35:27 2022
User: ix
Message:
wow, that's a real blackboard from st. olaf college


Date: Tue Oct 4 04:22:31 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
Years ago I began to draw up a list (I like lists) of the best films I'd ever seen, me possessing the gumption to do so since I'd had a widely free subscription service to a video provider for a decade or so, allowing watching of around 2.5 films/day...I'm quite sure a few comprising the list:

Fritz Lang's "M"
Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange"
Victor Erice's "Spirit of the Beehive"
Alain Resnais' "Last Year at Marienbad"
Ingmar Bergmann's "Persona"
Attenborough's "Gandhi"
Petersen's "Das Boot"
Scorsese's "Taxi Driver"
G. W. Pabst's "Pandora's Box"
Robert Altman's "Three Women"
David Lynch's "The Elephant Man" and "Mulholland Drive"
Coen Brother's "Fargo"
Agnès Varda's "Vagabond"
Polanski's "The Pianist"
Robert Hendrickson's "Manson"

...to be continued...

Date: Tue Oct 4 04:32:36 2022
User: HopDiriDiriDattiriDittiriDom
Message:
"watching of around 2.5 films/day"

Wow. I think my average per year is less than your average per day. So it comes as no surprise that I only watched Coen Brother's "Fargo" from your list.

It's good to have your list though.

Date: Tue Oct 4 18:32:33 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
I've wasted a great deal of time in my life...I suppose I'll someday deeply regret it, but for now...

Date: Tue Oct 4 21:00:47 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
...Robert Wiene's "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"
Panos Cosmatos' "Beyond the Black Rainbow"
Godard's "Hail Mary"
Tony Richardson's "Mademoiselle"
Leos Carax' "Pola X"
George Sluizer's "The Vanishing"
Pier Paolo Pasolini's "The Gospel According to St. Matthew"
Tarkovsky's "Solaris"
Luis Buñuel's "Tristana"...[tbc]...

Date: Fri Oct 7 16:55:28 2022
User: ix
Message:
couple of Kubricks: The Shining, Dr. Strangelove (whose title-igraphy were revisited in MIB, you probably knew that)
a Coen: Hudsucker Proxy (in addition to everything else they've ever done)
couple of Kieślowskis: Trois Couleurs (Juliette has always given me that warm, pithed feeling), Dekalog (technically a tv series, but i'm the one who's been drinking and making decisions here)
and a Ridley Scott: Blade Runner

Dr. Strangelove disturbing relevant right now

Date: Fri Oct 7 17:03:54 2022
User: redberet
Message:
Only two movies come to mind that I'll never reach the saturation point. One where I'll catch a scene or two it it's on. The Longest Day and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World, the latter of which is always relevant.

Date: Mon Oct 10 03:48:36 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
I've loved Juliette Binoche since like, a long, long time ago...

Date: Mon Oct 10 03:58:22 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
To: ix
From: Klepp

I follow your deep knowledge of good film, and I disagree nowhere in what I've read of yours...I'm now considering zoning out on some prescribed medications, and pulling up from the FireStick one of the films I recalled earlier...https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1534085/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0...I recall watching this with copy from the video place's (Four Star Video, Madison (Ebert visited, even)) first copy...I kept it for six weeks and watched it three dozen times...

Link: Panos Cosmatos

Date: Mon Oct 10 19:59:09 2022
User: ix
Message:
i will definitely check out Beyond the Black Rainbow, if the meds are doing their job you should line up Paprika. do not watch straight.

Date: Tue Oct 11 01:19:09 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
I'll look into it.

Date: Tue Oct 11 02:11:51 2022
User: ix
Message:
i'm not vouching, just thought that, after the first time i saw it, then the second time, that maybe someday someone could explain it to me, then you came along. i do not expect an expanation. any more than that time that i connected with a grasshopper, on the hills surrounding Guernsey reservoir, in Wyoming, in the middle of the night, on mushrooms, when one of my cohorts explained to me that the grasshopper in our flashlights was just "trying to catch a little sleep" but that doesn't follow, as it was an excellent explanation. never mind.

Date: Tue Oct 11 02:53:02 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
I just noticed Netflix has "A Clockwork Orange" so I'll watch again...(maybe I oughta read the book again...to sharpen me up for the old ultra-violence...naw, 'taint no kiddie no more...

Date: Thu Oct 13 08:25:11 2022
User: sgmsgmsgm
Message:
Catch 22 the movie is surprisingly true to the book. Very underrated IMO. Great cast including Orson Welles. Stunning cinematography. Made in 1970 but still seems so fresh.

Unfortunately MASH the movie had beaten it to the box office so it flopped and faded into obscurity.

Link: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0065528/

Date: Thu Oct 13 11:59:51 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
Maybe the dudes who made M*A*S*H* a sit-com took something from this for their Klinger character.

Date: Mon Oct 24 18:05:19 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
"Class of 1984"...rather young Michael J. Fox...and a great role portrayed by Roddy McDowell...

Link: Class of 1984

Date: Thu Jan 26 13:49:25 2023
User: Klepp
Message:
These two were a match made in heaven.

Link: The Honeymoon Killers

Date: Mon Mar 13 00:09:00 2023
User: Dr.Bombay
Message:
FWIW, the best movie of 2022 is Women Talking (imho). I’m thankful to Amazon Prime Video for making it available to stream without any extra fee as part of their service for the four days leading up to this year’s Oscars. Obviously, the hot mess that is Everything, Everywhere, All At Once has dominated the show but it is not a good piece of cinema. Ms. Bombay and I watched Women Talking during the middle third of the Oscar broadcast and it is a unique and intense work. I’m guessing it is based on an Aussie novel as there is a key reference to the Southern Cross constellation. Without that, if you live in the USA, you would swear it was set in Amish America. We are both a bit perplexed after seeing it why it has been so under the radar.

Date: Mon Mar 13 08:50:24 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:
Short films have a difficult time getting the same exposure as full-length features. Winning an Oscar or two helps...

As for the setting, you were on track. It's about a Mennonite colony in Bolivia.

(A local theater was showing all the short features as a single run once per day for the past two weeks. I was frustrated that I could not bend my schedule to meet theirs. Hopefully, I can stream most or all of the nominees.)

Date: Sat Nov 2 17:04:58 2024
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
Message:

I wanna see the Bullitt chase scene like at IMAX in VR (or something).


Date: Tue Nov 12 13:37:13 2024
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
Message:

"The best thing I did was abuse myself when younger - I dabbled in everything, cocaine, booze, women - because now I don't have to do it anymore."--

Malcolm McDowell...


Date: Tue Nov 12 13:39:20 2024
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
Message:

A Clockwork Orange...one of the THREE best films ever made (one man's opinion).


Date: Tue Nov 12 13:53:53 2024
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
Message:

Review:


"I've seen this film three times over the years. The first time I saw it, I was completely blown away by how awful it was. Surely I was missing something, right? I mean, after all, it's considered to be not only one of the best films of the 1970's (no slouching decade) but of all time! I asked a friend of mine who was studying film in California what I was missing, and his answer was, "Well, it's a Kubrick film, so you may have to watch it more than once." And so, that following year, I sat down and watched this film two more times waiting for the reveal to finally wash over me. Today, I can tell you that was easily the worst piece of advice I've taken so far in my life. This film makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, and any "underlying themes" people speak of is a load of hogwash. It's just bad. Period.

So, why did this film become so popular over the years? Probably because people LOVE to bow down to Kubrick as being the greatest filmmaker of all time, and nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, the only movie I've seen from him that's actually good is Full Metal Jacket.

Although I've never read the book, I'm sure it's much better than this film. People were a lot less likely to bandwagon books pre-Harry Potter. If a book got a lot of attention back then, it probably deserved it. My recommendation would be to read the book and not waste your time on this pretentious, illogical, downright frustrating film."--Analog_Devotee, April 13, 2020.


Yes, read Burgess' work, I'd say.


Date: Fri Nov 29 10:58:26 2024
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
Message:

Viridiana...(Buñuel working as cinematic craftmaster)...in pace requiescat, bella bella!


Date: Fri Nov 29 11:41:11 2024
User: outskirts
Message:

I read 🕓🍊 first. Knew the words and all. Not long after, the movie came out. I didn't like it so much. 


Date: Sun Dec 1 12:41:07 2024
User: BuzzClik
Message:

Trying to understand why certain movies are designated "best of all time" (or on the short list) can be befuddling. I walked out of Citizen Kane more than a tad puzzled why this is the greatest movie ever made. I saw Casablanca at about the same time in my life, and I had no trouble understanding the high regard for that one.

Clockwork Orange was fine, but not one of my top 100. We all see things differently. 



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