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[Neil W]

Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation - throws mountains of stuff at you. Good fun for kids and adults.
Ant-Man And The Wasp - finally opens in the UK! Funny, superb super-heroing, as good as the original, maybe better.

 

[morgan]

I'm late to the party on this one. Watched Room (2015) on Netflix last night. This is one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. Brie Larson won an Oscar for her performance. I don't think I've ever been as impressed by a young actor as I was with seven-year-old Jacob Tremblay. Outstanding. IMDb rated it 8.2/10.

 

[Doc Creed]

I'm late to the party on this one. Watched Room (2015) on Netflix last night. This is one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. Brie Larson won an Oscar for her performance. I don't think I've ever been as impressed by a young actor as I was with seven-year-old Jacob Tremblay. Outstanding. IMDb rated it 8.2/10.

I agree. Watched last weekend.

 

[Dana Jean]

and coincidentally in a continuing Vampire theme

Mark of the Vampire

Mark of the Vampire - Wikipedia

 

[Spideyman]

and coincidentally in a continuing Vampire theme

Mark of the Vampire

Mark of the Vampire - Wikipedia

 

[mjs9153]

That is funny, I happen to be watching The Vampire Bat (1933) right now.. though this is a black and white film there is a sequence where Dwight Frye is chased by village locals carrying torches. For some reason the torches are in color, there are oranges and yellows, in conjunction with the black and white it's quite a striking effect..

 

[Spideyman]

That is funny, I happen to be watching The Vampire Bat (1933) right now.. though this is a black and white film there is a sequence where Dwight Frye is chased by village locals carrying torches. For some reason the torches are in color, there are oranges and yellows, in conjunction with the black and white it's quite a striking effect..

found this

At least one original release print had the torches in the Bronson Canyon sequence hand-colored by Gustav Brock. Thereafter, the film remained completely B&W until 2017, when UCLA digitally restored the color in its new preservation negative.

 

[Dana Jean]

That is funny, I happen to be watching The Vampire Bat (1933) right now.. though this is a black and white film there is a sequence where Dwight Frye is chased by village locals carrying torches. For some reason the torches are in color, there are oranges and yellows, in conjunction with the black and white it's quite a striking effect..

I recorded that one after The Mark of the Vampire!

 

[GNTLGNT]

I recorded that one after The Mark of the Vampire!

...to watch after camping?.....

 

[morgan]

Found another Jacob Tremblay movie on Netflix. Before I Wake (2016). Tremblay was amazing and Thomas Jane did a decent job. The story had promise, but just didn't come together for me. IMDb rating: 6.2/10.

Watched Tallulah (2016) last night. Allison Janney and Ellen Page rarely disappoint. Interesting plot and the acting was very good. IMDb gave it a 6.7/10.

 

[mjs9153]

found this

At least one original release print had the torches in the Bronson Canyon sequence hand-colored by Gustav Brock. Thereafter, the film remained completely B&W until 2017, when UCLA digitally restored the color in its new preservation negative.

Thank you Spidey!! I was wondering what happened there,but was too damn lazy to search it out myself..you are my favorite neighborhood webslinger!

 

[Spideyman]

Thank you Spidey!! I was wondering what happened there,but was too damn lazy to search it out myself..you are my favorite neighborhood webslinger!
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[Gerald]

Watching some Orson Welles movies. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), which he made after Citizen Kane, was changed a lot by the studio and even scenes were shot without him and added. I think you can tell. It's still quite good, but it feels kind of uneven.
It's basically about the youngest son of a wealthy family not accepting his mother always loved another man, which he finds out after his father dies. And the subsequent decline of the family fortune.

Also watched The Stranger (1946), with Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young and Welles himself. It seems Welles himself disliked it, but I can't see why cause it's quite good. It's a thriller/drama about a war criminal, Franz Kindler (played by Welles) hiding in a small American town, Harper in Connecticut. His former associate is set free from imprisonment to lead Robinson who's working for the War Crimes Commission to him. Welles' character is about to marry the daughter of the Supreme Court justice (Young), who has no idea about the past of her husband.
You can sort of tell the finale is gonna be set in the clocktower mentioned throughout, but apart from that predictability it's a nice film.

Netflix has also added Touch of Evil, Welles' 1958 film noir. Have only seen it once long ago, so it's due for a rewatch.

Another classic I watched: Wages of Fear/Le Salaire de la Peur (1953) from French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (also known for Les Diaboliques from 1955). It stars Yves Montand.
It's about four European men in a South American town in need of money, who get hired by an oil company to transport two trucks filled with nitroglycerine over treacherous mountain roads. It's a great idea for a story and the film is considered a classic. But it takes a long time before the journey starts with the men just hanging out in the poor village and not much happening - I suppose this was done to give them some background. The film has also a surprising amount of nudity for its time - not sex scenes, but nudity.
Finally the transport of the highly explosive content starts, but despite a warning on the trucks (as if you needed one) not to smoke in its approximation, the men smoke cigarettes constantly. It's hard to care for their lives, if they're so careless themselves. Even after being covered completely in oil Montand still lights a cigarette.
There are some moments of suspense, but overall the film is kind of slow. It was remade (or rather the novel filmed anew) by Willian Friedkin as Sorcerer in 1977, but I've never seen that unfortunately - it's one of his films that unlike The Exorcist or French Connection, is never on tv. I would like to see how it compares.

 

[Dana Jean]

The Vampire Bat

The Vampire Bat - Wikipedia

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Road House

So bad, it’s good.

 

[Baby Blue]

Mr. Blue and I watched Ideal Home a couple of nights ago. It was cute but was definitely one of those films where they should have hired gay actors to play gay characters. Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd are great but Neil Patrick Harris and John Barrowman or Sean Hayes and Ian McKellan would have been even better.

 

[Neesy]

Road House

So bad, it’s good.

Really? Are you a Patrick Swayze fan? I dunno - maybe I am in the minority here but Dirty Dancing did not interest me at all - I don't know why women swoon over him. Guess I am just a strange one.

I see he is attractive - just not "my cup of tea"

 

[Baby Blue]

Really? Are you a Patrick Swayze fan? I dunno - maybe I am in the minority here but Dirty Dancing did not interest me at all - I don't know why women swoon over him. Guess I am just a strange one.

I see he is attractive - just not "my cup of tea"

I never saw the attraction either though I do love this line from Dirty Dancing: "Nobody puts baby in the corner."

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Really? Are you a Patrick Swayze fan? I dunno - maybe I am in the minority here but Dirty Dancing did not interest me at all - I don't know why women swoon over him. Guess I am just a strange one.

I see he is attractive - just not "my cup of tea"

I liked his performances in several movies… Red Dawn, Road House, North and South, and The Outsiders (not to be confused with The Outsider).

They may take away your woman card for not liking Dirty Dancing. If you don't like Grease (the other ultimate chick flick) you may be booted from the club, altogether).

 

[Neesy]

I liked his performances in several movies… Red Dawn, Road House, North and South, and The Outsiders (not to be confused with The Outsider).

They may take away your woman card for not liking Dirty Dancing. If you don't like Grease (the other ultimate chick flick) you may be booted from the club, altogether).

It's official then - I am a guy in women's clothing (kind of like a wolf in sheep's clothing) yet I am 100% heterosexual