What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?

JGuy Grungeman · 02-07-2016, 07:28 PM

I never said it failed as a romantic comedy. Trailers were a little romantic, a little funny. Imdb files it under comedy, and the movie is about romance between two people. It was nominated for the Golden Globe for best motion picture - musical or comedy. Wikipedia has this movie in the "American romantic comedy films" category. Check the bottom of its Wikipedia page. I should logically assume the movie is a romantic comedy. I also think I'm correct in assuming that a movie going for a romantic comedy should make it clear of that before the first half-hour is gone, especially since it's only ninety minutes long.

innerspaceboy · 02-08-2016, 05:50 PM

The Trouble With Harry. An old favorite!

Ronny Lee · 02-08-2016, 06:01 PM

Got Straight Outta Compton on DVD,pretty good movie.

Tristan_Geoff · 02-08-2016, 09:03 PM

Watched the first few minutes of Surf Nazis Must Die then skipped around a bit.

What even is this?

JGuy Grungeman · 02-08-2016, 09:33 PM

OK, I want to watch something by Cecil B. DeMille, and I want to watch more 50's movies. What's a good movie to try that has actors I've already seen and want to get into more? Hmmm...

The Greatest Show On Earth. I've been wanting to watch more Jimmy Stewart and Charlton Heston. I've only seen two or three of each, but they're both wonderful. I don't care what the critics said about it, I don't trust critics a lot of the time. I'm generally more optimistic about the overall quality of a movie, but I can still be kind of picky. I would watch The Ten Commandments, but I don't have time for three and a half hours now.

**Frownland** · 02-08-2016, 09:39 PM

Get ready for slow burning first and possibly second acts if you want stuff from that time period. Touch of Evil is one of my favourites. I think you'd really like Ben Hur though, if you're a Heston fan (still a long ass movie though, it was more of a standard at that time).

Chula Vista · 02-08-2016, 09:49 PM

^^^^^

Absolute classic. Epic story. And that race

JGuy Grungeman · 02-08-2016, 10:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frownland

Get ready for slow burning first and possibly second acts if you want stuff from that time period. Touch of Evil is one of my favourites. I think you'd really like Ben Hur though, if you're a Heston fan (still a long ass movie though, it was more of a standard at that time).

I saw part of Ben Hur long ago. I plan to watch it again. I like Greatest SHow so far. It's all the fun of circuses in a Cecil B. DeMille drama.

Still, I'm slowly getting into the 50's. My top movies from the 50's are:

Sunset Boulevard
The Fly
Vertigo
12 Angry Men (best casting job ever)
Seven Samurai
Rashomon
Peter Pan
Singin' in the Rain
Alice in Wonderland
The Big Heat

I have a lot on my watchlist. North by Northwest, Touch of Evil, The Wages of Fear, I need to rewatch The Ten Commandments, Rio Grande, High Noon, some Rogers and Hammenstein movies, Ikiru, The Searchers, Othello, The Thief, Tokyo Story, Fear and Desire, Johnny Guitar, On the Waterfront (with Marlon Brando) Godzilla, etc.

**Frownland** · 02-08-2016, 10:06 PM

Definitely watch all of Kurosawa and Hitchcock's films from that period (and beyond). Ikiru ****ing brilliant, too.

JGuy Grungeman · 02-08-2016, 10:27 PM

Believe me. I know how awesome Kurosawa is. I've also seen Yojimbo. Great movie, but I think its unofficial remake A Fistful of Dollars was slightly better. Same goes for Hitchcock. I'd also like to get into David Lean and Billy Wilder.

02-07-2016, 07:28 PM	#16011 (permalink)
JGuy Grungeman Primo Celebate Sexiness Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 2,662	I never said it failed as a romantic comedy. Trailers were a little romantic, a little funny. Imdb files it under comedy, and the movie is about romance between two people. It was nominated for the Golden Globe for best motion picture - musical or comedy. Wikipedia has this movie in the "American romantic comedy films" category. Check the bottom of its Wikipedia page. I should logically assume the movie is a romantic comedy. I also think I'm correct in assuming that a movie going for a romantic comedy should make it clear of that before the first half-hour is gone, especially since it's only ninety minutes long. __________________ I'm a pretty nice troll if you ask me.

02-08-2016, 09:33 PM	#16015 (permalink)
JGuy Grungeman Primo Celebate Sexiness Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 2,662	OK, I want to watch something by Cecil B. DeMille, and I want to watch more 50's movies. What's a good movie to try that has actors I've already seen and want to get into more? Hmmm... The Greatest Show On Earth. I've been wanting to watch more Jimmy Stewart and Charlton Heston. I've only seen two or three of each, but they're both wonderful. I don't care what the critics said about it, I don't trust critics a lot of the time. I'm generally more optimistic about the overall quality of a movie, but I can still be kind of picky. I would watch The Ten Commandments, but I don't have time for three and a half hours now. __________________ I'm a pretty nice troll if you ask me.

02-08-2016, 09:39 PM	#16016 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Get ready for slow burning first and possibly second acts if you want stuff from that time period. Touch of Evil is one of my favourites. I think you'd really like Ben Hur though, if you're a Heston fan (still a long ass movie though, it was more of a standard at that time). __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

02-08-2016, 09:49 PM	#16017 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	^^^^^ Absolute classic. Epic story. And that race __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

02-08-2016, 10:06 PM	#16019 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Definitely watch all of Kurosawa and Hitchcock's films from that period (and beyond). Ikiru ***ing brilliant, too. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.* d e a f b o x

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Ronny Lee Groupie Join Date: Feb 2016 Posts: 22	Got Straight Outta Compton on DVD,pretty good movie.

02-08-2016, 10:27 PM	#16020 (permalink)
JGuy Grungeman Primo Celebate Sexiness Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 2,662	Believe me. I know how awesome Kurosawa is. I've also seen Yojimbo. Great movie, but I think its unofficial remake A Fistful of Dollars was slightly better. Same goes for Hitchcock. I'd also like to get into David Lean and Billy Wilder. __________________ I'm a pretty nice troll if you ask me.