Anyone seen any good movies lately?

I just saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It was pretty good. Johnny Depp was great in it and the Umpa lumpas were great. It wasnt as sappy as the original version. A lot of fun.

They showed the trailer for the Corpse Bride, now that looks good.

 

Saw "Mean Machine" the other night, good recommendation.

 

You know what Nephilim? I went to the local rental store, and stocked up on the Peter Sellers Pink Panther series. Was in for a weekend [here in the heat]of enjoying the hilarity of that great comedy. It was know where near as funny as I remembered it to be. The same with Benny Hill series, big disapointment. But if you have access to a comedy series called Rowan & Martin's laugh in, it is just as funney as it was when i watched it 30 years ago.

 

AHHHH..."Laugh-In"--a great TV show--even Richard Nixon did a cameo. Although a lot would not make sense because it was about recent history at that time. It's wierd--Goldie Hawn looks the same as she did back then...I guess Kurt Russell keeps her in good shape. At the end of the show remember that wall of boxes that opened and various comedians said funny stuff...BUT--let's be honest--was there ever a better show than "Shindig" hosted by Bobby Sherman?

 

A fun movie with Peter Sellers was the 1964 Woody Allen scripted "What's New Pussycat" and the title song by Tom Jones. Peter O'Toole, Capucine, Romy Schnieder (an absolutely gorgeous actress who killed herself later).

 

Fortunately all of them won't go that way, at least in my case: There's indeed lots of films I saw when I was a kid and when I've watched them again lately they have been very big dissappointments, but some of them still have that good old magic. For example The Terminator left me permanent memories along with many sleepless nights but I still like it very much: I know it looks like 80's and effects are severely outfated, but it has so intense feeling through whole movie that many other films cannot approach that. I also remember when I was about 10 and there was series of classic Hammer horror movies shown on TV - Dracula hunting innocent victims, Frankenstein with bolts on his neck, the mummy rising from the swamp and stuff like that - they were something different and scary as hell, now I see them in another way enjoying their visual delight and magnificent actor work of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.

I know, I know, my babblings are always consentrating to horror (and modern action) movies but they aren't the whole truth, actually most of the movies that I liked then and like now are from other genres: Smokey And The Bandit and Convoy still gives me good feeling, Animal House and King Frat makes me laugh my ass off, Where Eagles Dare and First Blood ties me tightly in the chair... ...and Monty Python group drops me off from there.

 

Hammer Films--I would love them all remastered to DVD. I like the old Dracula--which had no music if you remember. I bought a new version of it with a soundtrack by someone that was god-awful. The one line that may surpass them all...is when the Count (Bela Lugosi) finally has Mena under his stare and says to her..."Come heeere" I tried to spell out the way he said it, but it was in vain I think.

 

There's already quite bunch of them available, and it seems that situation is going even better all the time. These movies still have plenty of fans, so it would be pure stupidity from production companies not to re-release those movies again. I just hope that they won't consentrate only to Hammer's horror movies, there's also lots of fantastic another genre's representers.

I just bought 8 DVD box set of Universal chillers including Dracula, Frankenstein, Creature From Black Lagoon and many other classic horror films: I'm sure I'll have good time with those, I'm just waiting for correct moment for watching then since they must be honored with peaceful atmosphere.

Thx Blade Runner is really unique piece of science fiction history (I like the director's cut over normal version) because it wasn't like most of the same kind of movies in those times - just fooling with effects without even a clue about plot. Another masterpiece, althought a very different one, is Alien because it didn't fall into seen-thousand-times space splatter consept but it has very tense "cat and mouse"-scheme in the most claustrophobic and isolated environment. Too bad that sequels didn't followed that way, second one is good movie as it's own way but it's too straightforwarding to match original movie and later ones are just mess.

 

creaky, were you being sarcastic with the pooh comment?

 

YEah I liked constantine for the most part.. I jumped out of my seat when that car hit that guy.. it blew out my friends home theatre

 

Regarding the "Terminator" series--I think this is one of a very few where all 3 movies were excellent. I like the 'liquid metal' part the best. The "Pooh" movies were fun...I have always liked the book because it uses characters that represent our emotions and personalities. And if you notice, Winnie is the one with simple common sense (see "In Which We Are Completely Surronded by Water"). The guy who wrote this A. A. Milne--his heirs still make a HELL of a lot of money from royalties.

 

I forgot a question--What do all of you think about John Waters' "Pink Flamingos", "Female Trouble" and "Desperate Living". I LMAO whenever I watch "Female Trouble", so many good scenes like the opening scene where Dawn Davenport does NOT receive her 'Cha-Cha Heels' for Christmas. I use Netflix--how many of you use it?

 

Pink Flamingos along with all John Waters's early movies is something really different even compared with whole sleaze genre. His movies aren't definetely for everyone since they might be very disturbing experiences for some viewers, and his taste of humour is so gross and anarchistic that only few can stand it. For me they are very good entertainment

 

John Waters' movies are just hilarious. When Connie and Raymond Marvel were "rejected" by their own couch...pretty damn funny. Not for everyone is true--but people without complicated inhabitions will probably laugh. Dawn Davenport is a hoot in Female Trouble". There is a nice DVD collection of his stuff...I'll get one...getting tired of VHS here.

 

White Noise, not bad, kind of a different ending. I have always enjoyed M. Keeton.