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.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
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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"
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 15, 2006 8:13:15 am PST #5703 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I think several people (Patrick Stewart, Kelsey Grammer, Anna Paquin, Ian McKellen in his flashback scene with Stewart) had good performances in X3 amidst all the crap. If there was a single moment worth watching in Highlander 2 aside from Connery's resurrection scene, it's been wiped from my memory by the trauma.
§ ita § - Nov 15, 2006 3:50:49 pm PST #5704 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Lee - Nov 15, 2006 3:53:40 pm PST #5705 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
From ita's link:
25. Sarah Michelle Gellar
You’re currently stuck in horror-maiden territory (“The Grudge,” “The Return”). Check under your kitchen table for a creepy kid, because the real “grudge” may be your career.
Anti-Freeze: What number is Joss Whedon on your speed dial?