'Time Bomb'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
FYI. 1981 Best Director/Best Picture noms. Last time there was a perfect match-up.
Warren Beatty, Reds
Hugh Hudson, Chariots of Fire
Louis Malle, Atlantic City
Mark Rydell, On Golden Pond
Steven Spielberg, Raiders of the Lost Ark
Chariots of Fire won Best Picture. Warren Beatty won for Director.
Sound of Music is an excellent musical. The problem is, (1) not everyone cares for musicals (Disclaimer: which is a fair point of view), but even more significant, (2) it came out just before that type of old-fashioned musical became, well, old-fashioned.
Anyway, The Set-Up has been added to my queue.
An excellent decision. If you've never seen THE HAUNTING (and I mean the Wise version, not the incredibly well casted yet truely vile recent atrocity - talk about a waste of resources) add it in too. First film that SERIOUSLY scared the shit out of me as a kid. It's all implication, sound and style (with one freaky exception) that makes it scary, and very little has topped it since for keeping me up at night.
Oh, yes, I think "The Haunting" was one of my first rentals because it had been on my must-see list for a while. And yes. Brr. I still need to read the book, too. Actually, I need to hit the used book store this weekend. Let's see if I remember to look for it.
I'm also good on "The Day the Earth Stood Still." Plus I've got a bunch of stuff from Joe Bob's "Profoundly Erotic" that I need to see. I think I'm confusing the hell out of Netflix's recommendation logic.
The Haunting & The Day The Earth Stood Still are two of my fave-raves, too.
Robert Preston
"Greetings, Starfighter!"
Robert Mitchum
Gregory Peck
::speechless with the white-hot lust::
"...the Andes is mere foothills!..."
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I'm pleased Amy Adams got nominated. Michelle Williams would beat her, but I really recommend Junebug-- her performance is wonderful.
Robert Preston
"Greetings, Starfighter!"
One of my all-time favorites! Yes, objectively, The Last Starfighter only rates 3 stars, max, but the casting of Robert Preston puts it into Personal Favorite category. Also, I love the character of Louis, the little brother, and Dan Herlihy as Grig, who I didn't realize until he passed away was the same guy who played the CEO of the megacompany in Robocop.
Veronica Mars' Kristen Bell, Jay Baruchel, Chris Marquette and Sam Huntington are in final negotiations to play Star Wars geeks in Fanboys, a comedic drama that Kevin Spacey's Trigger Street is producing for the Weinstein Co., according to The Hollywood Reporter. Kyle Newman is making his directorial debut on the feature.
The movie, written by Adam F. Goldberg and Ernest Cline, follows four Star Wars fanboys from the Midwest who drive across the country to honor the wish of their dying friend: to see the yet-unreleased Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace in its most optimal setting, George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch. Dan Fogler already has been cast as one of the geeks, a hot-headed pizza boy. Shooting is scheduled to begin Feb. 22 in New Mexico.
So at the end, does the dying fanboy say, "That sucked!" just as he dies?
“Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.”
I can't read this line out loud without choking up. TKaM may be the most perfect movie adaptation of a book.
Although the original The Haunting is pretty close also.
I got the DH the Val Lewton collection for Xmas, but he's been unthrilled to watch it - keeps saying "It's not really my kind of horror." Not that he's seen any Lewton. And I've yet to find the old horror movie he doesn't like. *sigh*