If I didn't have friends over, this was my night.noiseredux wrote: USA Up All Night
Also +1 on the show with the stand-in Norm.
What was the last movie you've seen?
Re: What was the last movie you've seen?
Also +1 on the show with the stand-in Norm.
Re: What was the last movie you've seen?
I saw Straight Outta Compton tonight, which was damn good! It is a (sadly) very politically relevant film for 2015, and the actors they cast to play both the NWA members and the rappers/producers/etc. from the rest of the late 80s/early 90s West Coast were all quite fantastic - well acted and cast, bangin' soundtrack, and well made. Highly recommended!
Re: What was the last movie you've seen?
Interesting.
FANTASTIC FOUR (2015) made 1/6th of what STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON made when comparing opening weekend box office numbers. The director hates the film, the producers hate the film, the actors hate the film, the critics hate the film, and I'd say the audience hates the film but it doesn't have a large enough audience to judge that by.
So what now? Could have this been failure by design so Marvel would get the rights? Does Fox want no part in Marvel movies?
I simply can't see a FF2 movie getting the green light, and the Four were supposed to transition back to Marvel for phase three. What a train wreck this is.
FANTASTIC FOUR (2015) made 1/6th of what STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON made when comparing opening weekend box office numbers. The director hates the film, the producers hate the film, the actors hate the film, the critics hate the film, and I'd say the audience hates the film but it doesn't have a large enough audience to judge that by.
So what now? Could have this been failure by design so Marvel would get the rights? Does Fox want no part in Marvel movies?
I simply can't see a FF2 movie getting the green light, and the Four were supposed to transition back to Marvel for phase three. What a train wreck this is.
Re: What was the last movie you've seen?
Yeah, apparently it's a real stinker. Kind of a shame, really, as this marks the third strikeout in film form.Luke wrote:Interesting.
FANTASTIC FOUR (2015) made 1/6th of what STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON made when comparing opening weekend box office numbers. The director hates the film, the producers hate the film, the actors hate the film, the critics hate the film, and I'd say the audience hates the film but it doesn't have a large enough audience to judge that by.
So what now? Could have this been failure by design so Marvel would get the rights? Does Fox want no part in Marvel movies?
I simply can't see a FF2 movie getting the green light, and the Four were supposed to transition back to Marvel for phase three. What a train wreck this is.
Certainly the venerable Fantastic Four deserve better?At this point, I'm thinking the cornball Corman version is the best of the three!
Re: What was the last movie you've seen?
The Four play a huge part in both Civil War and the Infinity War (at least in the comics) so I would imagine Marvel would want the rights to the F4. But Marvel is already shooting Civil War, and I don't know if Marvel even wants to pursue getting F4 back for their cinematic universe.BigLou wrote: Yeah, apparently it's a real stinker. Kind of a shame, really, as this marks the third strikeout in film form.
At this point, I'm thinking the cornball Corman version is the best of the three!
Put out my feelers so to say, and it seems that FOX is in disarray concerning their current situation. When asked "What's the deal with Fox, F4, and Marvel" all a friend of mine who works with Fox responded with, "Yikes! Just Yikes!".
As the article states, everyone is blaming each other, but at the end of it all, Fox could lose close to one hundred million on this, possibly more. Talking the whole shebang. Box office, tie-ins, merchandise, dvd/blu-ray sales, etc...They already released a date for the sequel, and that was before the reboot was even launched. No one batted an eye and decided "Let's announce the sequel...Everyone is going to love the new Fantastic Four". The studio totally thought that Marvel characters would equal bank, even with a rushed, shitty movie.
Fox is driven by profit. That's fine. All companies need profit to be sustainable in a competitive environment. But in an art driven industry, you also need to be creative. Fox doesn't seem to add that element of creativity to their super hero movies.
Shame on them.
Re: What was the last movie you've seen?
I've watched a lot of stuff recently, so this will be another relatively quick list of films.
Advise & Consent
The US Senate is trying to confirm a dying President's choice for Secretary of State. Unfortunately the candidate he has chosen previously flirted with Communism and a few years back managed to piss off a stalwart senator from South Carolina. The back and forth of political intrigue, blackmail, and Congressional hearings and voting isn't realistic whatsoever, but the star power backing up the film certainly is. This was Charles Laughton's last film, and Betty White's first, thus bridging two very different eras of film, from Laughton's earliest appearances in the silent era to the modern day. They are joined by the likes of Henry Fonda, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Gene Tierney(in her attempt at a comeback after being out of the industry for years), Burgess Meredith, Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, and the cast list goes on and on. Don't worry about the plausibility, watch this for the performances and the viciousness.
Timecop
Jean Claude Van Damme is a time traveling cop from the present/future which is now the past as I watch this movie in 2015. It's the highest grossing film he put out, and it's a remarkable piece of cheese that has him jumpkicking his way through time against a corrupt senator who is illegally using time travel to steal money to fund his political ambitions to be President. Yes, it's silly. Yes, it's ridiculous. Yes, it's a lot of stupid fun. Also, you can tell the bad guys because they wear suits with ponytails and have mullets. Good times.
Hercules and the Captive Women
Reg Park plays Hercules, who accidentally finds Atlantis while sleeping and ends up fighting an invasion force of Greek Aryans from Uranus. While it's better than Hercules Goes to New York, it's still a bad Hercules movie. What's more interesting is the back story: Reg Park was a close friend and a huge influencer of Arnold Schwarzenegger. He's the one who convinced Arnold to get into film and helped him get a rule in his own horrible Hercules movie. And here we get to see him make shocked faces and wear a toga. Hell yes.
Warning: that poster is huge.
The Cat and the Canary
This silent film from 1927 is an early influence on the old dark house horror subgenre that used to be pretty big back in the day. A family arrives at an old mansion twenty years after the death of the patriarch to find out who inherited the goods. It all goes to one woman, but with a rule that she must be sane by morning or else the fortune will be given to a different family member. And that family member happens to already know he's the winner. Plus there's a crazed madman on the loose! This is a comedy horror, so if you enjoy silent comedies and early horror, give this a shot as well as the remake a decade later with Bob Hope.
Gaslight
A man marries the niece of a world-famous opera singer who was murdered and then spends his time slowly driving her insane in the very house where she was killed. To say Charles Boyer's character is evil is an understatement, as he is vicious and cruel in a long game of madness, torment, and psychological abuse. I found this movie tough to sit through, watching an innocent woman be driven to paranoid insanity slowly and subtly by a swindler whom nobody doubts save for one star-struck detective who originally thinks Ingrid Bergman's character is her long dead aunt. It's very well done, but very tough to get through without cringing.
While the City Sleeps
The sleazy owner of a media company orders the three heads of his newspaper, news wire, and art departments to track down a serial killer for a promotion. In their frenzy, they call out a reporter who puts his own girlfriend on the line and in the process discovers the boss' wife is having an affair with one of the competitors. Nobody in this movie is a good person as they all do their best to one up each other and needle out what they want. It's exactly the kind of noir film I like.
The Wasp Woman
Roger Corman brings us a story of a cosmetics executive who hires a scientist working with wasps to create a de-aging formula. It just also happens to mutate people into wasp critters. This movie is silly, with cheap special effects and a silly plot, but it's still entertaining to see what Corman comes up with, even when it's not very good.
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I'm also in the midst of a fun project for TCM where I get to describe several thousand films in their vault. Woo, fun!
Advise & Consent
The US Senate is trying to confirm a dying President's choice for Secretary of State. Unfortunately the candidate he has chosen previously flirted with Communism and a few years back managed to piss off a stalwart senator from South Carolina. The back and forth of political intrigue, blackmail, and Congressional hearings and voting isn't realistic whatsoever, but the star power backing up the film certainly is. This was Charles Laughton's last film, and Betty White's first, thus bridging two very different eras of film, from Laughton's earliest appearances in the silent era to the modern day. They are joined by the likes of Henry Fonda, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Gene Tierney(in her attempt at a comeback after being out of the industry for years), Burgess Meredith, Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, and the cast list goes on and on. Don't worry about the plausibility, watch this for the performances and the viciousness.
Timecop
Jean Claude Van Damme is a time traveling cop from the present/future which is now the past as I watch this movie in 2015. It's the highest grossing film he put out, and it's a remarkable piece of cheese that has him jumpkicking his way through time against a corrupt senator who is illegally using time travel to steal money to fund his political ambitions to be President. Yes, it's silly. Yes, it's ridiculous. Yes, it's a lot of stupid fun. Also, you can tell the bad guys because they wear suits with ponytails and have mullets. Good times.
Hercules and the Captive Women
Reg Park plays Hercules, who accidentally finds Atlantis while sleeping and ends up fighting an invasion force of Greek Aryans from Uranus. While it's better than Hercules Goes to New York, it's still a bad Hercules movie. What's more interesting is the back story: Reg Park was a close friend and a huge influencer of Arnold Schwarzenegger. He's the one who convinced Arnold to get into film and helped him get a rule in his own horrible Hercules movie. And here we get to see him make shocked faces and wear a toga. Hell yes.
The Cat and the Canary
This silent film from 1927 is an early influence on the old dark house horror subgenre that used to be pretty big back in the day. A family arrives at an old mansion twenty years after the death of the patriarch to find out who inherited the goods. It all goes to one woman, but with a rule that she must be sane by morning or else the fortune will be given to a different family member. And that family member happens to already know he's the winner. Plus there's a crazed madman on the loose! This is a comedy horror, so if you enjoy silent comedies and early horror, give this a shot as well as the remake a decade later with Bob Hope.
Gaslight
A man marries the niece of a world-famous opera singer who was murdered and then spends his time slowly driving her insane in the very house where she was killed. To say Charles Boyer's character is evil is an understatement, as he is vicious and cruel in a long game of madness, torment, and psychological abuse. I found this movie tough to sit through, watching an innocent woman be driven to paranoid insanity slowly and subtly by a swindler whom nobody doubts save for one star-struck detective who originally thinks Ingrid Bergman's character is her long dead aunt. It's very well done, but very tough to get through without cringing.
While the City Sleeps
The sleazy owner of a media company orders the three heads of his newspaper, news wire, and art departments to track down a serial killer for a promotion. In their frenzy, they call out a reporter who puts his own girlfriend on the line and in the process discovers the boss' wife is having an affair with one of the competitors. Nobody in this movie is a good person as they all do their best to one up each other and needle out what they want. It's exactly the kind of noir film I like.
The Wasp Woman
Roger Corman brings us a story of a cosmetics executive who hires a scientist working with wasps to create a de-aging formula. It just also happens to mutate people into wasp critters. This movie is silly, with cheap special effects and a silly plot, but it's still entertaining to see what Corman comes up with, even when it's not very good.
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I'm also in the midst of a fun project for TCM where I get to describe several thousand films in their vault. Woo, fun!
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Re: What was the last movie you've seen?
I haven't seen all of those, but I think Gaslight is great. If you are looking for something similar, I recommend Shock (1946), Shock Corridor (1963), and Witness to Murder (1954). All three of them have similar themes, and all three of them are very good.
Re: What was the last movie you've seen?
Seeing the poster for Hercules and the Captive Women got me thinking, all those countless "weaklings" who didn't make it long enough to spread their seed, what if they had got offspring like we do today in crazy abundance. Certainly hipsters would be more ubiquitous for one thing 
Thy ban hammer shalt strike 
Re: What was the last movie you've seen?
Ack wrote:Gaslight
I agree. The remake is pretty good, too. Of course, it doesn't quite measure up to the original, but it's very interesting to compare the differences.prfsnl_gmr wrote:I haven't seen all of those, but I think Gaslight is great.
I watched this a week or so ago on Prime, except it was the Cinematic Titanic version. Probably one of the funnier ones they had up. Good, awful stuff.The Wasp Woman
Roger Corman brings us a story of a cosmetics executive who hires a scientist working with wasps to create a de-aging formula. It just also happens to mutate people into wasp critters. This movie is silly, with cheap special effects and a silly plot, but it's still entertaining to see what Corman comes up with, even when it's not very good.
Re: What was the last movie you've seen?
Next year Mortal Kombat will be of legal drinking age. Makes me feel ancient.
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