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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Memes n' stuff of the day
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Good Movies / Re: THE DEER HUNTER (1978)
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 07:48:46 PMI love that take, Allhallowsday. Every Thing is for Someone, right? I find the first hour of DEER HUNTER interminable... a test of my sanity on par with some Lovecraftian eldritch horror. As soon as they're in Vietnam, it gets me. Walken is truly extraordinary. I too struggle with what to think of the film in toto. Viva la difference!
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Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by bob - Today at 07:43:13 PM
How do you live with the second head on your neck?
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Good Movies / Re: THE DEER HUNTER (1978)
Last post by bob - Today at 07:39:51 PMreally really good
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Good Movies / THE DEER HUNTER (1978)
Last post by Allhallowsday - Today at 06:17:29 PMTHE DEER HUNTER (1978)
Recently watched on TCM. I love the first hour of the wedding. Then, it falls apart for me.
I saw when it was new and very powerful. Now I'm thinking... is it silly? Is it pointless? Okay... O K A Y AY AYAYAY ...
Recently watched on TCM. I love the first hour of the wedding. Then, it falls apart for me.
I saw when it was new and very powerful. Now I'm thinking... is it silly? Is it pointless? Okay... O K A Y AY AYAYAY ...
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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Allhallowsday - Today at 05:57:15 PMVAN HALEN II
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Picture of the day, part I...
Last post by lester1/2jr - Today at 05:19:38 PMSouth Boston space saver soldier
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by lester1/2jr - Today at 04:50:23 PMWarlock Moon (1973) - classic example of how a super low budget, home made horror movie can be as entertaining as anything else. They basically just had the actors and a bunch of weird old houses, but the story is decently well thought out and creepy, if not mind blowingly so.
Two college lovebirds poke around at a long since shuttered health spa of some kind and get to know a woman who lives there, but is everything as it appears??? I saw this maybe 20 years ago and didn't remember anything. Tubi's print is vhs level, but most of it is during the day and/ or interior shots so it doesn't really matter. The lead actress isn't super hot or nude ever, but she makes up for it with vivacious personality, like a wise cracking financial news anchor or something.
4.5 /5 it's not "Hereditary", but it's as good as it can possibly be.
Two college lovebirds poke around at a long since shuttered health spa of some kind and get to know a woman who lives there, but is everything as it appears??? I saw this maybe 20 years ago and didn't remember anything. Tubi's print is vhs level, but most of it is during the day and/ or interior shots so it doesn't really matter. The lead actress isn't super hot or nude ever, but she makes up for it with vivacious personality, like a wise cracking financial news anchor or something.
4.5 /5 it's not "Hereditary", but it's as good as it can possibly be.
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Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 01:30:46 PM
What kind of gun do you use?
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 01:18:13 PMJEOPARDY (1953):
A married couple - late 40ish Barry Sullivan and a woman apparently in her 50s or early 60s played by 46 year-old Barbara Stanwyck - drive to Mexico for a vacation w/ their very young son, who must've been a miracle of science or else was adopted. They spend a solid 25 minutes holidaying aimlessly, which is quite boring unless maybe you're Greg Bovino or Stephen Miller, in which case maybe the entire 25 minutes of three white people blithely traipsing around Mexico is unbearably suspenseful, though in director John Sturges' hands Mexico looks nice at times and empty/innocuous for the most part. Anyway, Sullivan is eventually trapped on a coastline by large rubble during high tide in a turn of events that defies my ability to even begin to rationalize it for you, and Stanwyck has to rush off to find the nearest available help, which happens to be... murderous escaped gringo convict Ralph Meeker!
Okay... Barbara Stanwyck has never been my jawn (as the kids are saying). Even as a young thing in her underwear in NIGHT NURSE she couldn't raise my temperature. Fourteen years later in DOUBLE INDEMNITY she and Fred MacMurray made for the least steamy "Steamy Noir Thriller" couple in "Steamy Noir Thriller" history. MacMurray had more chemistry in DOUBLE INDEMNITY w/ Edward G. Robinson, like Bogart had more chemistry w/ Rains in CASABLANCA, except I'll pay Ingrid Bergman in CASABLANCA a rare compliment here and say that Bergman's sexuality in CASABLANCA is a mere non-exisent sum, whereas Stanwyck in DOUBLE INDEMNITY is pure salt peter - a net-negative killer of all boners that might accidentally enter her cosmic orbit. I guess if you harbor a longing for your grade school lesbian gym teacher, Stanwyck might do it for you. But if I had to choose between a one-night stand w/ Mercedes McCambridge or a lifetime married to Stanwyck in JEOPARDY, I'd strap on my scapular and rosary and ask the Power of Christ to compel me!
That's a long way around trying to say that this entire film seems to be one long thirst-trap manufactured to steam the girdles of middle-aged housewives (or "cougars" maybe in 21st century parlance). Meeker is still pretty young and studly here, and most of the rest of the film focuses on the question of whether he'll decide to help Stanwyck save Sullivan or just carry her over his shoulder to the hills and have his way with her. (Stanwyck's absurd voice-over is fraught with internal conflict.) Meeker was always an expert at playing big grinning oafs who could just as easily slap you on the back and buy you a beer as abruptly murder you in cold blood, so he makes it almost plausible that his character is hard-up enough to fall for Stanqyck's feminine charms.
I'll spare you the suspense: in the end, Meeker reveals more decency and integrity than one would expect. He helps rescue Sullivan and then lets the family go in peace with STanwyck unmolested. But really that's no surprise - I wouldn't even screw Stanwyck with Ralph Meeker's member!
2/5
Like Meeker, Sullivan is a good actor, and both better than Stanwyck. A simple demonstration of this: 75% of the film is driving, much of it before rear-projection but at least some on location. In all cases, Meeker and Sullivan even drive or act like they're driving more convincingly than Stanwyck - they behave like actual good drivers, with their gaze mostly steady ahead of them, whereas her eyes bounce around all over the place like she's touring Jurassic Park or something.
A married couple - late 40ish Barry Sullivan and a woman apparently in her 50s or early 60s played by 46 year-old Barbara Stanwyck - drive to Mexico for a vacation w/ their very young son, who must've been a miracle of science or else was adopted. They spend a solid 25 minutes holidaying aimlessly, which is quite boring unless maybe you're Greg Bovino or Stephen Miller, in which case maybe the entire 25 minutes of three white people blithely traipsing around Mexico is unbearably suspenseful, though in director John Sturges' hands Mexico looks nice at times and empty/innocuous for the most part. Anyway, Sullivan is eventually trapped on a coastline by large rubble during high tide in a turn of events that defies my ability to even begin to rationalize it for you, and Stanwyck has to rush off to find the nearest available help, which happens to be... murderous escaped gringo convict Ralph Meeker!
Okay... Barbara Stanwyck has never been my jawn (as the kids are saying). Even as a young thing in her underwear in NIGHT NURSE she couldn't raise my temperature. Fourteen years later in DOUBLE INDEMNITY she and Fred MacMurray made for the least steamy "Steamy Noir Thriller" couple in "Steamy Noir Thriller" history. MacMurray had more chemistry in DOUBLE INDEMNITY w/ Edward G. Robinson, like Bogart had more chemistry w/ Rains in CASABLANCA, except I'll pay Ingrid Bergman in CASABLANCA a rare compliment here and say that Bergman's sexuality in CASABLANCA is a mere non-exisent sum, whereas Stanwyck in DOUBLE INDEMNITY is pure salt peter - a net-negative killer of all boners that might accidentally enter her cosmic orbit. I guess if you harbor a longing for your grade school lesbian gym teacher, Stanwyck might do it for you. But if I had to choose between a one-night stand w/ Mercedes McCambridge or a lifetime married to Stanwyck in JEOPARDY, I'd strap on my scapular and rosary and ask the Power of Christ to compel me!
That's a long way around trying to say that this entire film seems to be one long thirst-trap manufactured to steam the girdles of middle-aged housewives (or "cougars" maybe in 21st century parlance). Meeker is still pretty young and studly here, and most of the rest of the film focuses on the question of whether he'll decide to help Stanwyck save Sullivan or just carry her over his shoulder to the hills and have his way with her. (Stanwyck's absurd voice-over is fraught with internal conflict.) Meeker was always an expert at playing big grinning oafs who could just as easily slap you on the back and buy you a beer as abruptly murder you in cold blood, so he makes it almost plausible that his character is hard-up enough to fall for Stanqyck's feminine charms.
I'll spare you the suspense: in the end, Meeker reveals more decency and integrity than one would expect. He helps rescue Sullivan and then lets the family go in peace with STanwyck unmolested. But really that's no surprise - I wouldn't even screw Stanwyck with Ralph Meeker's member! 2/5
Like Meeker, Sullivan is a good actor, and both better than Stanwyck. A simple demonstration of this: 75% of the film is driving, much of it before rear-projection but at least some on location. In all cases, Meeker and Sullivan even drive or act like they're driving more convincingly than Stanwyck - they behave like actual good drivers, with their gaze mostly steady ahead of them, whereas her eyes bounce around all over the place like she's touring Jurassic Park or something.