Also, I'm afraid that the fact that I put so much more thought into it than the people who made it means that I am incredibly lame.
Nice acronym, Mom!
Buffy ,'Showtime'
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Hayden - Nov 14, 2006 11:02:38 am PST #5693 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Polter-Cow - Nov 14, 2006 11:03:38 am PST #5694 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I didn't think X3 was as bad as I'd heard. I enjoyed it, at least.
Hayden - Nov 14, 2006 11:17:07 am PST #5695 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
In my rush to talk about X3, I forgot to give a hearty "hear hear" to Sean's statement about how great Lang was. I've seen M, Metropolis, Mabuse (the Testament of, at least - I think there were more), and Scarlet Street, and they were all extraordinary, especially the first three. Scarlet Street was still great, but not quite up there with the others, and I've heard that many of his Hollywood movies were, sadly, almost indifferent.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 14, 2006 11:20:15 am PST #5696 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
THE BIG HEAT is really good Lang as well. I think I have RANCHO NOTORIOUS on tape somewhere, but I haven't gotten around to watching it yet.
Hayden - Nov 14, 2006 11:23:25 am PST #5697 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Now that you mention it, I think I taped The Big Heat off TCM one night and never watched it.
Fred Pete - Nov 14, 2006 11:24:16 am PST #5698 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
X3 was fun mindless entertainment, but I wish they hadn't tried to stuff so many major plots into a 90-minute movie.
OTOH, it's Oscar caliber compared to the '80s remake of If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium that we saw last night. A so-called comedy that was neither funny nor acceptable as camp.
askye - Nov 14, 2006 11:24:25 am PST #5699 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
Metropolis is somewhere on my Netflix queue. I'm not sure where. I did some reorganizing this weekend when I was sick and didn't feel like doing anyting. Instead I added a profile to Netflix so I can have one profile for television stuff and one for movies because of all the tv series I hit the 500 disc limit on the queue.
Of course I'm not watching movies at a very fast rate, but I like to add anything I think looks interesting when I see it rather than trying to remmeber what it was.
Yesterday I watced To Have and Have Not on TMC, that's a great movie. Also this weekend I watched parts of Stalag 17 one of my favorite movies.I managed to catch my favorite parts -- Xmas celebration (with the dancing and "Betty" , the unveiling of the spy, the execution of the plan).
Frankenbuddha - Nov 14, 2006 11:27:38 am PST #5700 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Now that you mention it, I think I taped The Big Heat off TCM one night and never watched it.
One of Lee Marvin's early roles, and what nasty piece of work he is in the movie. Also, Gloria Grahame was awsome and heartbreaking.
Volans - Nov 14, 2006 8:00:58 pm PST #5701 of 10001
move out and draw fire
I think X3 may have been worse than Highlander 2.
Wow.
Metropolis was one of those movies I had to watch in college, and yet I loved it.
beekaytee - Nov 15, 2006 5:46:11 am PST #5702 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
I think X3 may have been worse than Highlander 2.
mmmmm. Really tough call. Completely fair assessment, imo. Hard to say though, which one falls more heavily or excruciatingly on the crap side of that razor thin line. If I had a gun to my head? H2 all the way, but very tough call.