February 17, 2008

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 5:13 pm

Today is my wife's birthday. I took her and the kids to the New England Aquarium. It was a good day.

Question of the Day: What movie(s) are you watching these days? I just got Bubba Ho-Tep and The Triplets of Belleville from Netflix. Never seen the first, but Bruce Campbell as Elvis seems like a safe bet. The second was great, and I can't wait to re-watch it.

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 5:39 pm

I've decided that I really like movies made in the mid fifties to early sixties.

I saw two movies this past week that I really enjoyed - "Elmer Gantry" and "Fanny" (both from 1961).

Back in January, I saw a Japanese movie called "Kamikaze Girls" that I really liked (fairly recent).

Of all the movies I saw last year (admittedly not a whole lot), the two I remember liking the best were "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" and "Elevator to the Gallows," both French films from the 50s.

And I have this craving to watch "Giant" one of these days.

Then again, I also have this craving to watch "Labyrinth" again. But that's just the Jennifer Connelly kicking in...

Charles (KA)

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:03 pm

We started The Sound of Music last night, and will finish it tonight. This was remastered in 2006 and it looks amazing. Say what you like, but this is a great movie.

I just bought the BBC series Planet Earth on DVD, having seen some snippets on PBS. Looking forward to my hotel nights to watch it.

erik · Post by **erik** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:08 pm

qotd: Contact.

If you need a refresher, perhaps* you'd like to check out my sweded version, here: http://beta.filmmakingfrenzy.com/sites/ ... ?FilmId=22

*I am shameless in my pluggery.

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:09 pm

roymond wrote:We started The Sound of Music last night, and will finish it tonight. This was remastered in 2006 and it looks amazing. Say what you like, but this is a great movie.

I just bought the BBC series Planet Earth on DVD, having seen some snippets on PBS. Looking forward to my hotel nights to watch it.

http://glitterandtwang.org/songs/albums/rolf-is-a-nazi/

anti-m · Post by **anti-m** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 7:13 pm

erik wrote:qotd: Contact.

If you need a refresher, perhaps* you'd like to check out my sweded version, here: http://beta.filmmakingfrenzy.com/sites/ ... ?FilmId=22

Awww! This was great. It made me nostalgic for movie-making.

The best movie I've seen of late was Persepolis. I recommend both the movie and the book -- Although I suggest seeing the movie first.

Nothing else has really grabbed me in the last few months. Although I'm kinda hard to grab.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 8:30 pm

mkilly wrote:
roymond wrote:We started The Sound of Music last night, and will finish it tonight. This was remastered in 2006 and it looks amazing. Say what you like, but this is a great movie.

I just bought the BBC series Planet Earth on DVD, having seen some snippets on PBS. Looking forward to my hotel nights to watch it.
http://glitterandtwang.org/songs/albums/rolf-is-a-nazi/

Oh crap I forgot all about that (double crap I wasn't able to take part). Thanks!

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 8:51 pm

erik wrote:qotd: Contact.

If you need a refresher, perhaps* you'd like to check out my sweded version, here: http://beta.filmmakingfrenzy.com/sites/ ... ?FilmId=22

Alright Father! So I posted on the site that Venus would never rise in the evening, then wondered if this line was a spoof on something in the original movie, which I never saw, since Jodie Foster is enjoyed in small doses.

Ross · Post by **Ross** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:45 pm

Here,

QOTD: For valentine's day my wife and I saw the latest National Treasure Movie. I currently have 21 grams on DVD from netflix. It's been here for about 3 months.

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 11:12 pm

jimtyrrell wrote: I just got Bubba Ho-Tep

Really good movie, I highly recommend.

I saw Double Dragon the other week. Has Scott Wolf from Party of Five in it, and a really young Alyssa Milano. Well worth it, if just for all the shots of Alyssa's arse.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 11:28 pm

Bubba Ho-Tep: bizarre and strange, but also oddly enjoyable.

Recently we watched Labyrinth. It was actually a lot of fun and David Bowie has a fantastic voice.

Last night I showed Terminator to M as she had never seen it but we have been watching the Sarah Connor Chronicles. Unfortunately the disc has issues, there's some weird circular scratch on it that caused the last 5 minutes of the movie to have a lot of pauses in it while the DVD player tried to decide what to do. Yuk! My Terminator 2 is a VCR tape so that should play ok.

Technology is weird.

I love the New England Aquarium. That big middle tank is fantastic. We went there ... think it was the day after Christmas. That was a lot of fun.
-bill

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 11:33 pm

My Netflix queue is about 120 long. At the rate that I watch movies I may be done with everything that's currently in it within the next 3 years. Last night I watched I <3 Huckabees, which I did not <3.

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 12:18 am

roymond wrote:
mkilly wrote:
roymond wrote:We started The Sound of Music last night, and will finish it tonight. This was remastered in 2006 and it looks amazing. Say what you like, but this is a great movie.

I just bought the BBC series Planet Earth on DVD, having seen some snippets on PBS. Looking forward to my hotel nights to watch it.
http://glitterandtwang.org/songs/albums/rolf-is-a-nazi/
Oh crap I forgot all about that (double crap I wasn't able to take part). Thanks!

Does your wife sing? You can take a shot at "Sixteen Going On Seventeen" if you want.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 12:39 am

I'm sorry I never got around to doing that one either

Billy's Little Trip · Mon Feb 18, 2008 12:51 am

As a matter of fact, I just added a thread in the movie section about "The Amateurs"
I really enjoyed this flick. First off, Jeff Bridges became very big on my radar in the Big Lebowski. I've always liked him, but him as "the dude" was his best in my opinion. His character in The Amateurs IS "the dude".

The cast was great, the story was great, the messages were great.
I got a kick out of the Mayberry names and references. I don't know how many there were, but I got a ton of them.

The lead characters name is "Andy", ha (Jeff Bridges) and he truly cares about his town and his friends. It's so refreshing to see a person like him.
I highly recommend this movie.

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:21 am

I loved Bubba Ho-tep. We watched King of Kong yesterday, a documentary about the quest for the top score in Donkey Kong. (I believe that H. Ross Durand mentioned it somewhere recently) A good tale about obssession, among other things, and worth the viewing. Jim Tyrrell note of interest: They hold the championship up at Weirs Beach.

I recently watched Barry Lyndon by Stanley Kubrick. Beautiful movie to look at, but Ryan O'Neal is horrible. He has the emotional depth of a bleached potato and nearly wrecks the movie.

I love movies of all kinds, but it has been many a moon since I've seen one in a theatre. An actual conversation I heard someone have on their funny phone while the movie was rolling: "Hello? Oh nothing, I'm watching a movie". Maybe I'm nitpicking, but there is a difference between watching a movie and being at the movies. Hang up shit-bag, and watch the movie you're at.

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:44 am

Yeah, I understand there's footage from Funspot in that movie. Haven't seen it yet. I'ma check Netflix right now.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:45 am

HeuristicsInc wrote: Recently we watched Labyrinth. It was actually a lot of fun and David Bowie has a fantastic voice.

I just bought the game Labyrinth for my kids. no relationship to the movie, though.

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:48 am

We hardly ever go out to the movies anymore (too many of the people in the theatre aren't watching the movie, either, they're talking, etc.; plus we can't take the dogs), but a few years ago I was making up a top ten movies list and I realized that EVERYTHING on the list was something I had seen first in the theater. So I think there is something to that.

This week, one of the local community colleges is having a film festival for Polish director / producer Krzysztof Zanussi - four of his films, Tuesday through Friday night, free, at a real theater, and Zanussi will be there in person to take questions, etc. I really should go a night or two.

A few years back, they did a similar festival of films by/about Iranian women, and I made it to every night because I was helping out with filming for a potential documentary. I still have here somewhere a poster for the festival, autographed by the two directors and the actress who were here for that festival, and I got to sit in on an interview with one of the directors (who, unfortunately for us, did the interview without her veil, which meant that we absolutely could not show it anywhere where it might get back to Iran...).

Oh, is David Bowie in Labyrinth, too? I hadn't noticed

Charles

erik · Post by **erik** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:36 am

roymond wrote:
erik wrote:qotd: Contact.

If you need a refresher, perhaps* you'd like to check out my sweded version, here: http://beta.filmmakingfrenzy.com/sites/ ... ?FilmId=22
Alright Father! So I posted on the site that Venus would never rise in the evening, then wondered if this line was a spoof on something in the original movie, which I never saw, since Jodie Foster is enjoyed in small doses.

Ha! The line is no spoof, we just needed something that sounded astronomeriffic to explain why she had to go to work at 2 AM.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 7:47 am

erik wrote:
roymond wrote:
erik wrote:qotd: Contact.

If you need a refresher, perhaps* you'd like to check out my sweded version, here: http://beta.filmmakingfrenzy.com/sites/ ... ?FilmId=22
Alright Father! So I posted on the site that Venus would never rise in the evening, then wondered if this line was a spoof on something in the original movie, which I never saw, since Jodie Foster is enjoyed in small doses.
Ha! The line is no spoof, we just needed something that sounded astronomeriffic to explain why she had to go to work at 2 AM.

Oops. Well, then it does little to promote SETI as anything other than spacey wackos

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:48 am

QOTD: Movies? None really, as the Deadwood series (via Netflix) has sucked the missus and me in something fierce.

Man, I love the New England Aquarium, have ever since I was knee-high. Have to go there whenever I'm in Boston. The strobe light/water stream-water drops display fascinated me the first time, and still does to this day.

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