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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 12:55:09 PMUNDER EIGHTEEN (1932):
Perhaps the most self-consciously sleazy title I'll type all year adorns an absurdly tame pre-code romantic melodrama in which I'm reasonably sure all of the cast members are above the national legal age of consent. It's possible that one of the two sisters who get married at the beginning of the film are 17 at the time of their betrothal but then time passes and then they're adults who have been married for a while, thus - so much for that angle. I will confess my prurient interest in this film only to the extent that I'm always intrigued to find one of those legendary pre-code films that are shockingly naughty....... but I've yet to see one that truly earns such a reputation. (THE UNASHAMED and CHILD BRIDE are somewhat shocking in different ways, but both of those are from 1938, post Hays Code, and presumably not even submitted for approval/only screened to adults on tour for "educational purposes" or something).
Anyway, the opening wedding has some nice shots and some fun acting from cast members who may have actually gotten crocked on champagne. There's also a nice moment where the father of the bride sees his wife weeping at the altar during the ceremony and kind of sneers contemptuously at her emotional transparency....... then he looks at their daughter and he gradually starts choking up, too....... and then, to contrast this oddly affecting moment - the director shock-cuts to the father's grave.
Yup, a few years later he's dead and the rest of the movie is about the relationship travails of his two daughters, one of whom is married to an obnoxious wastrel and one of whom is partnered with a hard-working nice guy who delivers milk for a living. They seem in love but a milkman's salary just doesn't seem to satisfy her (even during the Depression) and so she tries to catch the eye of a rich guy. Catastrophe ensues!
There were some things about UNDER EIGHTEEN that were nicely handled. The characters talk about Black Monday 1929 as if it is still a huge influence upon their lives (which of course it would be), though the film isn't about the stock market or even about business or poverty, just people thinking about finances and making ends meet. (Often I feel like contemporary films are too afraid to reference epochal events of the 21st century unless the film is about those events.) The milkman also has an eloquent and somewhat insightful line to the (paraphrased) effect that "Rich people have all the same problems as poor people" and he only knows that because he gets to go around the back and visit their backdoors instead of only seeing their homes from the front. Of course he's right in some ways and also I'd totally disagree w/ him in other ways
but the screenplay is at least aware of artifice, appearances versus reality, class awareness, etc. All the romantic stuff did nothing for me, though.
3/5 The leads were competent, no one I'd heard of. Edward Van Sloan apparently has an uncredited bit part as one of the rich guy's attaches (I didn't spot him - he's one of like five dudes) - rather sad as he co-starred w/ Bela as Van Helsing only a year earlier!
Perhaps the most self-consciously sleazy title I'll type all year adorns an absurdly tame pre-code romantic melodrama in which I'm reasonably sure all of the cast members are above the national legal age of consent. It's possible that one of the two sisters who get married at the beginning of the film are 17 at the time of their betrothal but then time passes and then they're adults who have been married for a while, thus - so much for that angle. I will confess my prurient interest in this film only to the extent that I'm always intrigued to find one of those legendary pre-code films that are shockingly naughty....... but I've yet to see one that truly earns such a reputation. (THE UNASHAMED and CHILD BRIDE are somewhat shocking in different ways, but both of those are from 1938, post Hays Code, and presumably not even submitted for approval/only screened to adults on tour for "educational purposes" or something).
Anyway, the opening wedding has some nice shots and some fun acting from cast members who may have actually gotten crocked on champagne. There's also a nice moment where the father of the bride sees his wife weeping at the altar during the ceremony and kind of sneers contemptuously at her emotional transparency....... then he looks at their daughter and he gradually starts choking up, too....... and then, to contrast this oddly affecting moment - the director shock-cuts to the father's grave.
Yup, a few years later he's dead and the rest of the movie is about the relationship travails of his two daughters, one of whom is married to an obnoxious wastrel and one of whom is partnered with a hard-working nice guy who delivers milk for a living. They seem in love but a milkman's salary just doesn't seem to satisfy her (even during the Depression) and so she tries to catch the eye of a rich guy. Catastrophe ensues!There were some things about UNDER EIGHTEEN that were nicely handled. The characters talk about Black Monday 1929 as if it is still a huge influence upon their lives (which of course it would be), though the film isn't about the stock market or even about business or poverty, just people thinking about finances and making ends meet. (Often I feel like contemporary films are too afraid to reference epochal events of the 21st century unless the film is about those events.) The milkman also has an eloquent and somewhat insightful line to the (paraphrased) effect that "Rich people have all the same problems as poor people" and he only knows that because he gets to go around the back and visit their backdoors instead of only seeing their homes from the front. Of course he's right in some ways and also I'd totally disagree w/ him in other ways
but the screenplay is at least aware of artifice, appearances versus reality, class awareness, etc. All the romantic stuff did nothing for me, though.3/5 The leads were competent, no one I'd heard of. Edward Van Sloan apparently has an uncredited bit part as one of the rich guy's attaches (I didn't spot him - he's one of like five dudes) - rather sad as he co-starred w/ Bela as Van Helsing only a year earlier!
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Good Movies / Re: 100 COLOR movies
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 11:44:02 AM50. THE GREEN INFERNO (1988)
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Bad Movies / Re: Friday Night Rentals: Whic...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 11:29:39 AMI haven't seen the MULHOLLAND pilot - was that ever legitimately distributed on VHS or any other format, or is this video store okay w/ gray market dubs?
I was sorely tempted to watch FEMALE TROUBLE again, though. Those of you who rented REFLECTING SKIN or SNOW WHITE are also in for a good time.
I was sorely tempted to watch FEMALE TROUBLE again, though. Those of you who rented REFLECTING SKIN or SNOW WHITE are also in for a good time.
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Bad Movies / Re: Friday Night Rentals: Whic...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 11:22:11 AMI own several of these... if CRIMES OF PASSION is the uncut version, I'll check out that one.
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Bad Movies / Re: Friday Night Rentals: Whic...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 10:56:52 AMI own CREATURE on VHS (total epic classic) so I'm curious about THE OUTFIT........ Duvall, J. Don Baker, Robert Ryan, and Timothy Carey in a Parker adaptation, sounds good!
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Good Movies / Re: Candice Bergen's banned mo...
Last post by Trevor - Today at 10:55:22 AMQuote from: M.10rda on Today at 10:39:33 AMI hope for South Africa's sake they banned the MISS CONGENIALITYs as well.
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By 2000 the old censor board had long been replaced by the Film and Publications Board.
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Bad Movies / Re: Friday Night Rentals: Whic...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 10:52:20 AMI have TWIN PEAKS EuroPilot at home, so I'll go w/ AFTER DARK MY SWEET.
BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY'S TOMB is a fun one, though!
BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY'S TOMB is a fun one, though!
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Good Movies / Re: Candice Bergen's banned mo...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 10:39:33 AMI hope for South Africa's sake they banned the MISS CONGENIALITYs as well.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Alex's even longer post th...
Last post by Trevor - Today at 09:17:32 AMQuote from: Alex on Today at 07:13:13 AMManaged to get two games of Bolt Action in this week. The first was a three player with two Soviet armies racing to take Berlin (first one to take the Reichstag). We had two narrow roads (wide enough for two tanks to go side by side, barely) and lots of barricades manned by a mixture of desperate fanatics, veterans and hurriedly conscripted boys plus old men. Our armoured tanks smashed through the defences and we managed to pin down or outright destroy the defenders.
The other was a much smaller affair set during the North African campaign with a small detachment of British troops holding a village which comes under attack from an advance element. The British side is reinforced by a recce patrol. Anyway, the Germans mostly got gunned down in that one, even losing an armoured vehicle despite the defenders lacking any anti-armour weapons.
Things have reached an impasse with Kristi's treatment. The original cancer has been dealt with. The secondary cancer is either gone or more than 99% of the way gone, and they are going to keep giving her the lowest possible dosage of chemo going onwards. On her last scan they found a lump beside her stoma that has been identified as cancerous. Where is it, they don't want to use chemo or radiation therapy to treat it, and surgeons don't want to operate to remove it. It hasn't grown any between the previous two scans, so for the moment they are going to leave it, keep doing scans regularly to see if it starts changing and then take it from there. Kind of feels like she is being left in limbo there, but it is still better than the alternative. I spend a lot of time being very grateful that we aren't under the US health system or something similar. I'd hate to have to rely on a GoFundMe for someone's healthcare, or be at risk of bankruptcy thanks to an illness, although we've not heard anything from either the healthcare company, the debt collector or the insurance company for the treatment Kristi did get over there for some weeks or months now.
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Good Movies / Re: 100 COLOR movies
Last post by chainsaw midget - Today at 08:26:14 AM49. Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold