Caught Super Troopers 2 while I was out in Vegas.
Raunchy, inappropriate, and very funny!
Raunchy, inappropriate, and very funny!
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Hard Times (1975) ***1/2 Directed by Walter Hill
It's Depression era New Orleans, and a laconic drifter, played by Charles Bronson, decides to earn a living as a bare-knuckle brawler under the wing of James Coburn, a fast-talking hustler in hock to gangsters. Tough, no-nonsense, and damn near perfect entertainment all around, simply told with tight editing by future director Roger Spottiswoode, lean directing by Hill, and two great performances by Bronson and Coburn.
The Cassandra Crossing (1976) *** Directed by George Pan Cosmatos
The passengers of a train travelling from Geneva to Stockholm are exposed to a deadly virus in one of the better disaster films of the 1970s. Featuring a massive international cast of stars, the film may not always be logical, but makes up for it with a smart attitude and fast pace. Slick stuff.
It's Depression era New Orleans, and a laconic drifter, played by Charles Bronson, decides to earn a living as a bare-knuckle brawler under the wing of James Coburn, a fast-talking hustler in hock to gangsters. Tough, no-nonsense, and damn near perfect entertainment all around, simply told with tight editing by future director Roger Spottiswoode, lean directing by Hill, and two great performances by Bronson and Coburn.
The Cassandra Crossing (1976) *** Directed by George Pan Cosmatos
The passengers of a train travelling from Geneva to Stockholm are exposed to a deadly virus in one of the better disaster films of the 1970s. Featuring a massive international cast of stars, the film may not always be logical, but makes up for it with a smart attitude and fast pace. Slick stuff.
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Watched the 4k versions of The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises. The Dark Knight looked and sounded great but the 4k version of The Dark Knight Rises is another level of spectacular. I was home by myself so I could turn the volume up and let my Klipsch speakers rattle the windows. I probably should have worn earplugs for the explosion and gunfire scenes. 
Watched the 4k versions of The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises. The Dark Knight looked and sounded great but the 4k version of The Dark Knight Rises is another level of spectacular. I was home by myself so I could turn the volume up and let my Klipsch speakers rattle the windows. I probably should have worn earplugs for the explosion and gunfire scenes.
Yap. 4K is another Level of entertainment.
I use Clarion Speakers and a Yamaha Home Theater Systems
Independence Day: Resurgence
Terrible, terrible, terrible! Why did then even bother? The original was so good, the sequel was so bad.
Terrible, terrible, terrible! Why did then even bother? The original was so good, the sequel was so bad.
I saw The Cassandra Crossing in the theater when I was a wee lad. I loved it! Don't remember much about it other than it took place on a train and the train crashes.
Streaming:
Gifted (2017)-Chris Evans is a single guardian of his genius niece. Court battle between him and his mother over how the child should be raised. Gentle and good. I liked it a lot.
The Girl With All The Gifts (2017)-second watch of a very interesting British zombie movie.
On Screen:
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)-What a well done superhero movie! The Russos have this type of film DOWN. It was well written, and the large cast was managed well. No scenes that you just have to roll with because they really don't make sense. They did all the things, and every bit of it made sense. It made my writerly heart sing, even as my fangirl heart wept. Going to see it again tomorrow.
Gifted (2017)-Chris Evans is a single guardian of his genius niece. Court battle between him and his mother over how the child should be raised. Gentle and good. I liked it a lot.
The Girl With All The Gifts (2017)-second watch of a very interesting British zombie movie.
On Screen:
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)-What a well done superhero movie! The Russos have this type of film DOWN. It was well written, and the large cast was managed well. No scenes that you just have to roll with because they really don't make sense. They did all the things, and every bit of it made sense. It made my writerly heart sing, even as my fangirl heart wept. Going to see it again tomorrow.
Watch IT 2017. It was good for a movie. But not has close to the book has I thought it was going to be. Not a bad movie...but still like the book better.
Watched Rampage (2017). A A bioscientific lab in space crashes after a mutated virus gets loose. The crew dies but a little of the Virus survives in the escapedrone. It creates giant versions of a Gorilla, A wolf and an alligator. Doesn't make much sense but kind a fun to watch. The Gorilla is best, he has a fun sense of humor....
“Kodachrome” on Netflix.
Surprisingly good performance from Jason Sudeikis. Ed Harris does a stellar job as always as Sudeikis’ dying father. The father is an world renowned photographer who is rapidly dying from liver cancer. He has 4 rolls of Kodak Kodachrome film that he wants to have developed but the only lab left that develops that type of film is in Kansas. The son can’t stand his father because Ed Harris plays a complete tool as far as being a dad goes. The son agrees to drive his dad to Kansas from New York and mainly the story is about them trying to mend fences before his dad dies. Well acted all around. Elizabeth Olsen plays Harris’ nurse who goes along on the trip to take care of Harris. I didn’t want to like the movie but ended up actually watching the whole thing and not hating it at all. My wife cried...lol, I wasn’t that affected by it...lol
Told my wife not to tell anyone I liked it but I’m safe letting you’ll know
Surprisingly good performance from Jason Sudeikis. Ed Harris does a stellar job as always as Sudeikis’ dying father. The father is an world renowned photographer who is rapidly dying from liver cancer. He has 4 rolls of Kodak Kodachrome film that he wants to have developed but the only lab left that develops that type of film is in Kansas. The son can’t stand his father because Ed Harris plays a complete tool as far as being a dad goes. The son agrees to drive his dad to Kansas from New York and mainly the story is about them trying to mend fences before his dad dies. Well acted all around. Elizabeth Olsen plays Harris’ nurse who goes along on the trip to take care of Harris. I didn’t want to like the movie but ended up actually watching the whole thing and not hating it at all. My wife cried...lol, I wasn’t that affected by it...lol
Told my wife not to tell anyone I liked it but I’m safe letting you’ll know
I think I'll watch this some time this week. Sounds interesting.“Kodachrome” on Netflix.
Surprisingly good performance from Jason Sudeikis. Ed Harris does a stellar job as always as Sudeikis’ dying father. The father is an world renowned photographer who is rapidly dying from liver cancer. He has 4 rolls of Kodak Kodachrome film that he wants to have developed but the only lab left that develops that type of film is in Kansas. The son can’t stand his father because Ed Harris plays a complete tool as far as being a dad goes. The son agrees to drive his dad to Kansas from New York and mainly the story is about them trying to mend fences before his dad dies. Well acted all around. Elizabeth Olsen plays Harris’ nurse who goes along on the trip to take care of Harris. I didn’t want to like the movie but ended up actually watching the whole thing and not hating it at all. My wife cried...lol, I wasn’t that affected by it...lol
Told my wife not to tell anyone I liked it but I’m safe letting you’ll know
Watched 'I Want To Live' (1958) Susan Hayward. Very good. Acadamy Award for Hayward.
Excerpt from Rotten Tomatoes:
Grim, almost unbearably intense, I Want To Live is the story of the life and execution of Barbara Graham (Susan Hayward) a perjurer, prostitute, liar and drug addict.
Excerpt from Rotten Tomatoes:
Grim, almost unbearably intense, I Want To Live is the story of the life and execution of Barbara Graham (Susan Hayward) a perjurer, prostitute, liar and drug addict.
Lmao.....exactly. Definitely worth watching, nothing surprising on the plot but well acted. I’ve always thought of Sudeikis as a wise cracking comedy guy and there is a some comic relief but he does a good job in a serious role.
Every Day
The Leisure Seeker
Avengers: Infinity War
The Leisure Seeker
Avengers: Infinity War
I came out of the cinema after watching the original absolutely furious. I couldn't believe a major film was so contemptuous of the intelligence of its audience.
Every Day - interesting high school romance with sci-fi-ish engine
The Leisure Seekers - ailing pensioners on touching road trip
Avengers: Infinity War - major Marvel bombast including kitchen sink - great fun, no spoilers!
The Leisure Seekers - ailing pensioners on touching road trip
Avengers: Infinity War - major Marvel bombast including kitchen sink - great fun, no spoilers!
Obviously an element of doubling up in those two posts. Sorry, chaps.
Two tv-movies from Dan Curtis.
Dracula (1974)
The seventies had an amazing amount of Dracula films (more than any decade it seems). There were the last four Christopher Lee films (two in 1970 alone!), Jess Franco's Count Dracula from 1970 also with Lee (Lee's favourite), Count Dracula - a British tv-movie from 1977 with Louis Jourdan, the wonderful Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979) from Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinski, the John Badham Dracula with Frank Langella also from 1979, and this one from Dan Curtis, adapted by Richard Matheson.
I like Jack Palance a lot as Dracula. The film as a whole looks like it could have used more money - Dan Curtis never seemed to get a lot of money to make his films, although he always manages to give them enough atmosphere and mood. You can see on the outside of Hillingham stairs that look too modern for the age and the voyage of the Demeter is missing (although that can be said too about the Hammer Dracula's). You never get the sense that Whitby is a coastal town.
There are no bats, but there are plenty of wolves.
In this version as opposed to others (like Coppola's), Dracula's romantic interest is Lucy rather than Mina. He only turns on Mina as revenge for Van Helsing staking Lucy. There's also a scene in a hotel that's not reminiscent of any other version. And Renfield is missing entirely, while Harker returns as a vampire.
It's always amazing that every Dracula film version highlights other sides of the story, but that makes them so fun to watch them all, because it never gets predictable.
Dead of Night (1977)
Confusing title, because it has nothing to do with the 1945 British film, but it is also an anthology movie. It is very, very similar to the 1975 anthology Trilogy of Terror, also from Curtis/Matheson, in that the first two stories are okay-ish, yet the third and last one by far the best. Also the third story in both cases is similar in that it features a woman alone menaced in her own house by an assailant, in one case an African doll, and in this case her own son, who she brought back from the dead herself. I think the third story in this film is probably more shocking because it's her own son.
There is one scene reminiscent of the famous bashing-through-a-door scene from The Shining, but now it's a child doing it. It makes you wonder if Kubrick watched Dan Curtis films, because the ending of Burnt Offerings (my favourite Dan Curtis film) is also similar to the ending of The Shining.
Watched also Crimson Peak with commentary by Del Toro. Usually the best commentaries are those by film historians, because some of them by filmmakers can get a bit repetitive if there is not enough to say for the whole duration.
But Del Toro is also pretty much a film historian (as well as every other form of art), so his are always fascinating, because you get both that and the making of the film. Plus he puts in a lot of anecdotes from his childhood.
This seems not the most appreciated film by him, but I totally got it and loved it, and was moved especially by the ending.
Dracula (1974)
The seventies had an amazing amount of Dracula films (more than any decade it seems). There were the last four Christopher Lee films (two in 1970 alone!), Jess Franco's Count Dracula from 1970 also with Lee (Lee's favourite), Count Dracula - a British tv-movie from 1977 with Louis Jourdan, the wonderful Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979) from Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinski, the John Badham Dracula with Frank Langella also from 1979, and this one from Dan Curtis, adapted by Richard Matheson.
I like Jack Palance a lot as Dracula. The film as a whole looks like it could have used more money - Dan Curtis never seemed to get a lot of money to make his films, although he always manages to give them enough atmosphere and mood. You can see on the outside of Hillingham stairs that look too modern for the age and the voyage of the Demeter is missing (although that can be said too about the Hammer Dracula's). You never get the sense that Whitby is a coastal town.
There are no bats, but there are plenty of wolves.
In this version as opposed to others (like Coppola's), Dracula's romantic interest is Lucy rather than Mina. He only turns on Mina as revenge for Van Helsing staking Lucy. There's also a scene in a hotel that's not reminiscent of any other version. And Renfield is missing entirely, while Harker returns as a vampire.
It's always amazing that every Dracula film version highlights other sides of the story, but that makes them so fun to watch them all, because it never gets predictable.
Dead of Night (1977)
Confusing title, because it has nothing to do with the 1945 British film, but it is also an anthology movie. It is very, very similar to the 1975 anthology Trilogy of Terror, also from Curtis/Matheson, in that the first two stories are okay-ish, yet the third and last one by far the best. Also the third story in both cases is similar in that it features a woman alone menaced in her own house by an assailant, in one case an African doll, and in this case her own son, who she brought back from the dead herself. I think the third story in this film is probably more shocking because it's her own son.
There is one scene reminiscent of the famous bashing-through-a-door scene from The Shining, but now it's a child doing it. It makes you wonder if Kubrick watched Dan Curtis films, because the ending of Burnt Offerings (my favourite Dan Curtis film) is also similar to the ending of The Shining.
Watched also Crimson Peak with commentary by Del Toro. Usually the best commentaries are those by film historians, because some of them by filmmakers can get a bit repetitive if there is not enough to say for the whole duration.
But Del Toro is also pretty much a film historian (as well as every other form of art), so his are always fascinating, because you get both that and the making of the film. Plus he puts in a lot of anecdotes from his childhood.
This seems not the most appreciated film by him, but I totally got it and loved it, and was moved especially by the ending.
Neesy
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"Chaps" - oh - I say!
Let's not forget the chapettes as well
Glad you enjoyed those movies
Actually the Dracula films I mentioned are just the main ones, because there were also things like Blacula and its sequel (1972/73), Blood for Dracula aka Andy Warhol's Dracula (Paul Morrissey/1974), Count Dracula's Great Love with Paul Naschy (Javier Aguirre/1974), and the inevitable 'versus' film that somehow constantly returns in the horrorgenre, Dracula versus Frankenstein (Al Adamson/1971). Probably more.
I don't know why the seventies had so many Dracula films. Why everyone was suddenly making them. Perhaps the directors that grew up on the Christopher Lee films were old enough to make their own versions.
I was so disappointed with Dario Argento's Dracula. It was to be expected it would be poor, because his films started to decline from the nineties on (with Sleepless as positive highlight, at least for me). His Phantom of the Opera had already shown he was not very good with classical horror, but at least that still had some production value and was atmospheric. Dracula 3D has almost no production value, very poor effects and worst of all no atmosphere. It also doesn't do anything interesting with the story at all.
I had hoped it would have an Italian flavour to it and have Dracula move to Rome rather than London, but Dracula never moves AT ALL, he just stays in the village where he is.
The only thing where you can see it's Argento is that it has insects, which always featured in his films. But here even that becomes laughable in one scene.
The only actual Italian Dracula film that I know of, is a mini-series with Patrick Bergin from 2002. It's set in the modern age and they drive to the castle with a red Porsche - probably not for everyone, but I quite like that one.
I don't know why the seventies had so many Dracula films. Why everyone was suddenly making them. Perhaps the directors that grew up on the Christopher Lee films were old enough to make their own versions.
I was so disappointed with Dario Argento's Dracula. It was to be expected it would be poor, because his films started to decline from the nineties on (with Sleepless as positive highlight, at least for me). His Phantom of the Opera had already shown he was not very good with classical horror, but at least that still had some production value and was atmospheric. Dracula 3D has almost no production value, very poor effects and worst of all no atmosphere. It also doesn't do anything interesting with the story at all.
I had hoped it would have an Italian flavour to it and have Dracula move to Rome rather than London, but Dracula never moves AT ALL, he just stays in the village where he is.
The only thing where you can see it's Argento is that it has insects, which always featured in his films. But here even that becomes laughable in one scene.
The only actual Italian Dracula film that I know of, is a mini-series with Patrick Bergin from 2002. It's set in the modern age and they drive to the castle with a red Porsche - probably not for everyone, but I quite like that one.
It seems the Paul Morrissey Blood for Dracula with Udo Kier is set in Italy too, or at least shot there. I haven't seen it though.
And I forgot: even Dracula's DOG got a film in the seventies (Albert Band/1977). Here it was known as Zoltan, the Dog of Dracula, but the original title seems to be just Dracula's Dog. Haven't seen that yet either.
Reggie Nalder is in it, who played Kurt Barlow in Salem's Lot.
And I forgot: even Dracula's DOG got a film in the seventies (Albert Band/1977). Here it was known as Zoltan, the Dog of Dracula, but the original title seems to be just Dracula's Dog. Haven't seen that yet either.
Reggie Nalder is in it, who played Kurt Barlow in Salem's Lot.
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