Reyansh23

Thank You.

jadis

We had a bit of a Rosh Hashana movie marathon yesterday.

Dark City (1998): Enjoyable but I thought it was too cute and stylized, in the vein of the City of Lost Children and Delicatessen.

High-Rise (2015): Awful. Gets the tone all wrong. Painful to watch. Managed the feat of making me cringe at brilliant lines from the book expertly enunciated by fine actors because everything about it was inept and tryhard. I hate Ben Wheatley and feel stupid at trying to like A Field in England.

Existenz (1999): Rules. A Cronenberg classic. A tried and true palate-cleanser.

Drjohnrock

Saw Sam & Kate on hulu last night with Mrs. Drjohnrock. Dustin Hoffman, his son Sam, and Sissy Spacek are all fine actors but the movie was a somewhat predictable piece of fluff. Oh well, I've seen worse, and the location settings were nice.

BloodFoxTK

went to see Sonic 3 on the 27th. damn, that was really good!

Keanu Reeves was really good as Shadow.



also, Shadow looks super fluffy!

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mattrixs

I last saw ROMEO MUST DIE (2000) on VHS

Drjohnrock

That reminds me, I've got to see if a combo DVD/VHS player I have still works.

Anyway, about a week ago, Mrs, Drjohnrock and I saw That Hagen Girl
from 1947 on DVD. It was a Christmas gift from me to her. It stars Shirley Temple (as a teenager, no singing or dancing) and Ronald Reagan (!) in the lead roles. I got it because (1) the Mrs. used to like Shirley Temple's early films, and (2) I thought it might be good for a few laughs, since it was included in Michael and Harry Medved's book The Fifty Worst Films Of All Time. It isn't a great flick by any means but I wouldn't put it on a 50 worst list. Politics aside, I never thought much of Reagan's acting, but he does OK in this movie, even if he looks at times like he'd rather be facing a firing squad (he reportedly didn't like the film). Shirley does a good job in a mostly thankless role. There is a good performance by Lois Maxwell (later Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond films) in one of her first movie roles.

Psy-Fi

I have several that I've watched over the past 3 or 4 weeks, that I can list in this thread, so I'll start with this one...




B-movie action/adventure flick about a maniacal crime boss who smuggles guns and marijuana from a small Caribbean island and rules over his underlings and the locals with a sadistic iron fist. A few entertaining moments here and there but rather disappointing overall. A title like 'Fiend of Dope Island' could've been wildly entertaining in the right hands but, unfortunately, it was not to be.

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B&W action flick about a group of inmates serving time in prison for various offenses. The prison is a powder keg of pent-up frustration and anger which is only exacerbated by the actions of the manipulative and sadistic head of the prison guards. Much of the action seems like it came from a pulp fiction novel or a crime comic but even though it's a bit unbelievable, it's still an entertaining movie.

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Drjohnrock

Now I know what a certain band named one of their works after...

Psy-Fi

I'm familiar with The Cramps but for some reason I'd forgotten about that album. It was several days after watching that movie, that it dawned on me that they had an album by that same title.

Here's another one I've watched recently, while I'm here...




B&W crime drama about a life insurance fraud scheme between a married couple (an older man and a much younger woman), which goes awry under a cloud of suspicion over the widow while she's planning on taking all of the insurance money and running away with her young lover.

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