I don't know about a new franchise. There would only so far you could take it.
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I'm glad they let her age properly. Loved seeing how she's been dealing with it all. Not just ho hum.
Even Haloween 3? Jeezum Crow that was Michaels biggest source of character development, how could they drop it?
Saw the new Halloween. I only saw Carpenter's original film a month or two ago. This new sequel is an absolute firecracker. I saw H20 some years back, as well as Rob Zombie's two remakes. The creative talents behind the new film went back to basics with John Carpenter's idea for the original: keep it simple. This is a heck of a great thriller and if Toni Collette manages to get Oscar attention for Hereditary, then I think Jamie Lee Curtis is also deserving of same. She is that good here. Please support this in your local theatre if you can.
I also hope they don't do anything stupid like make a sequel, but since this is a Blumhouse production, well...
I also hope they don't do anything stupid like make a sequel, but since this is a Blumhouse production, well...
Her Majesty's Secret Service
First time I've ever seen this one, and I really liked this George Lazenby.
Apparently he was offered 7 James Bond movies and turned them down!
First time I've ever seen this one, and I really liked this George Lazenby.
Apparently he was offered 7 James Bond movies and turned them down!
I watch Doom today. Somehow I went from watching C.h.u.d. last night to Doom. Both had guys in rubber suits being monsters.
Lazenby handled that role really well, in my opinion. From the documentary on 007's 50th anniversary, he basically admitted to foolishly paying attention to a lot of friends at the time (including some very famous ones like Mick Jagger) who were convinced that Bond was "on the way out," and that he should quit before it tarnished his potential acting career.
He was never heard from again in Hollywood.
When I saw it wayyyyy back when, I didn't think it was all that bad, and it was certainly no worse than any number of the Roger Moore lesserpieces that followed. But then again, I had a huge crush on Diana Rigg at the time. But then again again, when he didn't come back, I didn't miss him.
Dredd...again
Love this movie because slow motion had an actual purpose
Love this movie because slow motion had an actual purpose
So I finally saw the British anthology film Dead of Night from 1945, which was a weird experience.
(SEVERAL SPOILERS AHEAD.)
It was about a man experiencing severe déjá vu which gave me double and triple cases of déjá vu!
The framing sequence was so much like the great story "The Room in the Tower" by E. F. Benson I expected the old lady to say she had given the guy the room in the tower except he had already been told he was to sleep in a renovated barn.
First there was "The Hearse Driver," based on the 1906 story "The Bus-Conductor," by E. F. Benson. Not only was it an exact version of the Twilight Zone episode "Twenty-Two," (so much so that the Wikipedia entry for Dead of Night notes it), but my mom used to scare the living crap out of me when I was five or six with the same story about an elevator operator. There is a supposedly true story about the psychic Edgar Cayce being saved from an elevator catastrophe, but that was because he could always see auras around people and saw none around the occupants of that elevator. This one definitely featured a fearsome face. I was sure it was in one of Frank Edwards's books and leafed through all those and another ratty old paperback from back when but of course it wasn't in any of them, which makes me so mad when this happens.
Resorting to Google reveals the tale to be way old:
Premonitory Tales: From Dickens’ Signalman to the Radio Broadcasts of A. J. Alan (2/6).
It was obviously the Lord Dufferin version I heard, and of course completely believed, as a child.
Next was "The Christmas Party," again total déjá vu. A girl playing a hide-and-seek type game at a party stumbles into a room to find a little boy crying. He says his name is Francis Kent and he is afraid of his sister Constance Kent who is so mean she would like to kill him. On returning to the party the girl learns Francis was murdered by Constance back in 1860. I was startled because this was an absolutely real case! Francis Savill Kent was killed on June 30, 1860 in the infamous Road Hill House murder mystery by his older half-sister, Constance Kent, in a manner similar if not identical to that described in the movie. What is more, Constance Kent lived until 1944, just past her hundredth birthday, so this film was released not long after her death. I wondered why they would possibly use the real names from such a case when they could have used any names. That was the single déjá vu. The double one was it reminded me so of a story I read back in Junior High School about someone playing hide-and-seek in a huge old English manor and encountering a little ghost. Unlike the elevator operator story, I went immediately to the correct book, Small Shadows Creep, edited by Andre Norton, and the correct story, titled, appropriately enough, "A Little Ghost," by Hugh Walpole. There were some differences, this ghost being a girl lost and lingering from an earlier time, not a murdered boy, but so like this story as to immediately remind me of it. My faith in my excellent memory would have been restored, but I was in for another shock. In the same book, which I unquestionably read from cover to cover, was the story "Lost Hearts" by M. R. James, which I could have sworn on a stack of Bibles I never read until reading his complete works and seeing it in another anthology five years ago! I remember many other stories I read in school, even earlier than Junior High, vividly! How could I forget such a story as "Lost Hearts," of all things, for crying out loud? I was quite provoked at this.
For "The Haunted Mirror," I had not, as far as I could recollect, seen the Twilight Zone episode or read the story, so no déjá vu, same for "The Golfer's Story." "The Ventriloquist's Dummy" was of course so like two Twilight Zone episodes as to also be noted in the Wikipedia article. Overall an enjoyable and recommended movie.
(SEVERAL SPOILERS AHEAD.)
It was about a man experiencing severe déjá vu which gave me double and triple cases of déjá vu!
The framing sequence was so much like the great story "The Room in the Tower" by E. F. Benson I expected the old lady to say she had given the guy the room in the tower except he had already been told he was to sleep in a renovated barn.
First there was "The Hearse Driver," based on the 1906 story "The Bus-Conductor," by E. F. Benson. Not only was it an exact version of the Twilight Zone episode "Twenty-Two," (so much so that the Wikipedia entry for Dead of Night notes it), but my mom used to scare the living crap out of me when I was five or six with the same story about an elevator operator. There is a supposedly true story about the psychic Edgar Cayce being saved from an elevator catastrophe, but that was because he could always see auras around people and saw none around the occupants of that elevator. This one definitely featured a fearsome face. I was sure it was in one of Frank Edwards's books and leafed through all those and another ratty old paperback from back when but of course it wasn't in any of them, which makes me so mad when this happens.
Resorting to Google reveals the tale to be way old:
Premonitory Tales: From Dickens’ Signalman to the Radio Broadcasts of A. J. Alan (2/6).
It was obviously the Lord Dufferin version I heard, and of course completely believed, as a child.
Next was "The Christmas Party," again total déjá vu. A girl playing a hide-and-seek type game at a party stumbles into a room to find a little boy crying. He says his name is Francis Kent and he is afraid of his sister Constance Kent who is so mean she would like to kill him. On returning to the party the girl learns Francis was murdered by Constance back in 1860. I was startled because this was an absolutely real case! Francis Savill Kent was killed on June 30, 1860 in the infamous Road Hill House murder mystery by his older half-sister, Constance Kent, in a manner similar if not identical to that described in the movie. What is more, Constance Kent lived until 1944, just past her hundredth birthday, so this film was released not long after her death. I wondered why they would possibly use the real names from such a case when they could have used any names. That was the single déjá vu. The double one was it reminded me so of a story I read back in Junior High School about someone playing hide-and-seek in a huge old English manor and encountering a little ghost. Unlike the elevator operator story, I went immediately to the correct book, Small Shadows Creep, edited by Andre Norton, and the correct story, titled, appropriately enough, "A Little Ghost," by Hugh Walpole. There were some differences, this ghost being a girl lost and lingering from an earlier time, not a murdered boy, but so like this story as to immediately remind me of it. My faith in my excellent memory would have been restored, but I was in for another shock. In the same book, which I unquestionably read from cover to cover, was the story "Lost Hearts" by M. R. James, which I could have sworn on a stack of Bibles I never read until reading his complete works and seeing it in another anthology five years ago! I remember many other stories I read in school, even earlier than Junior High, vividly! How could I forget such a story as "Lost Hearts," of all things, for crying out loud? I was quite provoked at this.
For "The Haunted Mirror," I had not, as far as I could recollect, seen the Twilight Zone episode or read the story, so no déjá vu, same for "The Golfer's Story." "The Ventriloquist's Dummy" was of course so like two Twilight Zone episodes as to also be noted in the Wikipedia article. Overall an enjoyable and recommended movie.
Not only was George Lazenby good but I think it's one of the better Bond movies. It's kind of cool that it's so different from the other movies. It's the oddball in the series but in a good way. The ending is a shocker.
Cell with John Cusack & Samuel L Jackson. I have to say I kinda liked it. It had a few familiar tropes but it was well written and held my attention. Anyone out there who didn't like it?
Lean On Pete (2017) Charlie Plummer (currently on Amazon Prime)
An excellent movie about a 16 year old boy (Charley) that lives with his single father in a poor situation and takes a job with a man who races horses (Steve Buscemi) on the lower quality racing circuit. Charley becomes friends with one of the horses that has come to the end of his racing days and is about to be sold (for slaughter in Mexico). That's all I'm going to say because if you watch this movie without knowing much about it, it goes where you don't expect. Keep on eye on this Charlie Plummer kid, he's very talented. He played kidnapped Paul Getty in All The Money In The World and was in another good movie called King Jack.. Lean On Pete is a movie about a 16 year old's journey is well worth seeing.
An excellent movie about a 16 year old boy (Charley) that lives with his single father in a poor situation and takes a job with a man who races horses (Steve Buscemi) on the lower quality racing circuit. Charley becomes friends with one of the horses that has come to the end of his racing days and is about to be sold (for slaughter in Mexico). That's all I'm going to say because if you watch this movie without knowing much about it, it goes where you don't expect. Keep on eye on this Charlie Plummer kid, he's very talented. He played kidnapped Paul Getty in All The Money In The World and was in another good movie called King Jack.. Lean On Pete is a movie about a 16 year old's journey is well worth seeing.
On her Majesty's Secret Service is among the best Bond movies, imo. But I never really could warm to Lazenby. He is too lanky, I think. I find his performance kind of wooden too, maybe if he had done more films he would have been better.
I think it's also a mistake that at the very start he looks at the audience and says: 'This never happened to the other fellow.' It makes it kind of hard to take him serious from the get go. On the other hand, the ending is quite emotional for Bond, but it works I think.
I think it's also a mistake that at the very start he looks at the audience and says: 'This never happened to the other fellow.' It makes it kind of hard to take him serious from the get go. On the other hand, the ending is quite emotional for Bond, but it works I think.
It's mainly different because of Lazenby and the fact that Bond marries in it. Apart from that it's a fairly regular Bondfilm. To me Skyfall is the one that feels least like a Bondfilm: the dark, almost depressing tone of Skyfall and the slow pace is such a difference from the usual fun-type adventure that Bondfilms are. Skyfall is my least favourite, even though it was loved in general. It's amazing though when you see the superb, spectacular actionscene in Istanbul that opens it, that it subsequently becomes such a dull, dreary film.
Yes! It was. Because I was thinking all the way up to the end...
how is James Bond married? We don't see him married in the next installment, how are they going to explain this? What's going on? BOOM!
Questions answered.
Questions answered.
And poor
Miss Moneypenny! Apparently she pined for James from the get go. I haven't seen all the Bond movies, does she ever get to tap the Bond?
I watched 2 over the weekend. Deepwater Horizon, a true story with Kurt Russell and Mark Wahlberg. Excellent movie
The other one was The Equalizer with Denzel Washington. Which I thought was great.
Both were action movies, my favourite
The other one was The Equalizer with Denzel Washington. Which I thought was great.
Both were action movies, my favourite