The "I'm watching/just watched *movie title* thread....

[coaster]

All The Way. The story of LBJ's presidency and the civil rights movement. I wanted to watch it because I am a fan of Bryan Cranston, and I still enjoyed his performance even though I felt it was more a caricature of LBJ.

[Rix Gins]

'The Day The Sky Exploded' is a 1958 made in Italy movie that I watched for free on YouTube, but in all honesty, I almost quite watching it because it was bad, bad, oh so bad.   It got to the point though, where it became so bad that it kind of got good in a few small ways, so I watched it to the end.  Life is too short though.  I won't be watching this one again.

A bunch of nobodies acted in this film.  I think that most of them were Italian actors and actresses.  I did recognize one fellow who had a minor role playing a dedicated communications technician.  He's the same dude that played Vincent Price's friend and co-worker in 'The Last Man On Earth.'  I put a couple of comparison photos down below.

Please read the newspaper headline below and it will give you an idea of the movie's premise.  It began with scenes of scientific hustle and bustle, everyone running about like chickens with their heads cut off, trying to get the first rocket ship to circle the moon, off the launch pad.  The rocket's pilot, an American astronaut, was cool as a cucumber.  He consulted with some scientists, gave a tender goodbye to his wife and then calmly climbed up a ladder to his capsule.  Yes, a ladder.  Budget restraints, no doubt.

The rocket took off and everything was just hunky dory.  It completed one orbit of the earth and the technicians broke out the champagne and presented their leader with a golden, model rocket ship, the top of which could be unscrewed, revealing an interior filled with a mixture of three hard liquors.  The head honcho gladly took a drink and everybody returned to work.  They instructed the astronaut to turn on three booster motors.  He did...very, very slowly.  (Space had a very strange effect on the spaceman.  On Earth, he talked normally but in space he talked real slow, like he was drugged or something.  "Ground control to Major Tom?")  He flipped the switch for motor three and everything went to hell in a hand basket.  The atomic powered rocket went out of control and the astronaut had to disengage his cockpit and return to Earth.  The rocket meanwhile, continued to blast all it's atomic properties into space. 

They got the guy back ok and he was placed in a hospital bed.  His wife and a couple of scientists asked him what the heck went wrong and he answered, "When I switched on the third motor the rocket started to veer off course.  I did my breast to control it, but..."  Yup, the English dubbing in this movie left a lot to be desired.  (I also heard Russia pronounced as Rusher and Copenhagen  called Copenhogown.)  Then they asked him if he turned the atomic power off before returning to Earth and he said no, he hadn't received any orders to do so.  The two scientists eyes grew widely open and their chins dropped .  "Oh Oh!"

"Oh oh", is right.  The rocket's atomic activity caused some giant asteroids to head for Earth and not only that, big fires and floods ravaged the earth.  All was lost until somebody suggested that all nations of the world fire their defense missiles at the asteroids.  Did it work?  Well, watch the movie and see. 

There was one last part of the movie that was amusing.  When fires approached the rocket base, everyone was huddled into a massive bunker but then it started to burn inside and everyone stampeded back outside.  I heard the cry of a mob, a woman shriek "Ahhhkkk!" and then another woman moan, "My baby!"  Then I heard it again, again and again.  It was a tape loop and it continued to play as everyone made a mad dash for the outdoors.     

[akwilly]

All The Way. The story of LBJ's presidency and the civil rights movement. I wanted to watch it because I am a fan of Bryan Cranston, and I still enjoyed his performance even though I felt it was more a caricature of LBJ.

just watched this movie earlier. Way better than I expected and I actually didn't know that LBJ ran for office and won. I thought he just was pres for a short while after JFK was killed. Cranston i was great and I think his performance was Oscar or whatever worthy

[pate]

"Elstree 1976"

"Artic Manhunt: Hunt for the Mad Trapper"

"UFO: Target Earth"

All of these are cinematic tours de force, although I found I enjoyed the Bronson/Marvin "Death Hunt" more than the recent remake called "Hunt for the Mad Trapper" & find myself wanting to re-watch the Charles/Lee version.

[ItsOver]

Well, Spock's eyebrows were more emotional in the early episodes.

Ha!  Yeah, he looked like he could fly with those things.

[albrecht]

"Elstree 1976"

"Artic Manhunt: Hunt for the Mad Trapper"

"UFO: Target Earth"

All of these are cinematic tours de force, although I found I enjoyed the Bronson/Marvin "Death Hunt" more than the recent remake called "Hunt for the Mad Trapper" & find myself wanting to re-watch the Charles/Lee version.

"Death Hunt" was a good one, haven't seen this latest remake. "The White Buffalo" can be an interesting movie. It depends on my state of mind/imbibing on whether I like it or not. A weird movie but good dialog and setting.

[pate]

"Death Hunt" was a good one, haven't seen this latest remake. "The White Buffalo" can be an interesting movie. It depends on my state of mind/imbibing on whether I like it or not. A weird movie but good dialog and setting.

I make funny, in my wild and crazy way.  Apologies.


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"Artic Manhunt: Hunt for the Mad Trapper" is actually a documentary where they dig the guy up, cut a few chunks of perma-frozen bone, steal some teeth from the corpse only to conclude "...we still don't know who he really was..."

[Camazotz Automat]

South Park Season 17

[TigerLily]

Is Kenny still dead?

[21st Century Man]

I watched tick...tick....tick for the first time and I really enjoyed it.  Its about racism in the South.  Brown beats Kennedy during an election and becomes sheriff and trouble follows. Good acting from Jim Brown and excellent turns from George Kennedy and Fredric March lift this little film up. 

     Clifton James played one of the good ol' boys who also happens to be a member of the Klan but becomes a bit of a hero by the end of the film.  I had thought this good ol' boy actor would be long dead at this point since he was fat but that is not the case.  He is 95 years young and still acts occasionally.  You might remember him as the Southern sheriff in several Roger Moore Bond films like Live and Let Die and The Man With The Golden Gun.

[akwilly]

Watched Sausage Party the other day. It sucked but I liked the orgy scene at the end.

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

Uncle Buck. Forgot how funny that movie is.

"Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face." 

Candy is the king, and a neighbor from the North. 1994 was a sad year.

[Camazotz Automat]

Is Kenny still dead?

He continues to endure. 

[ItsOver]

Uncle Buck. Forgot how funny that movie is.

"Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face." 

Candy is the king, and a neighbor from the North. 1994 was a sad year.

He was a great match with Steve Martin.

[21st Century Man]

He was a great match with Steve Martin.

And Steve Martin was a good match with Michael Caine.

[Rix Gins]

The Cosmic Man is a 1959 movie that I watched for free on YouTube.  Note, I said for free, and you might wonder why I write that down all of the time.  Most of you probably know that YouTube has tons of free stuff to view but there are a number of movies that you have to 'rent' to view. and I don't concern myself with those.  I only review the stuff that we can view for free.

The Cosmic Man starts off in typical, 1950's style with a super fast object swooping down on Earth at super speed.  It lands on a hillside and the military is quick to cordon off the area.  A scientist (Bruce Bennett) is also called in and he examines the object.  It looks like a giant floating ping pong ball.  Actually, it's the cosmic man's spacecraft. 

Enter a fairly attractive lady (Angela Greene) who owns a nearby lodge and romantic sparks fly between her and the scientist.  She opens up her lodge to the military.  It's off season so there is plenty of room for everybody...including the cosmic man, as played by the great John Carradine. He manages to rent a room at the lodge without the military or the scientist being any worse the wiser. 

The scientist guy and a military man are at loggerheads with one another.  The scientist wants to understand the cosmic man and the military wants to destroy him.  The story pretty much progresses from there.

Bruce Bennet was a star athlete in the 1920's.  If you are a fan of Bogart's Treasure of the Sierra Madre, then you saw Bruce playing the fellow that crashes the group's mining spot, just in time to join in the fight against Mr 'I don't need no stinking badge!' Mexican Bandit and Company.  He lived to be 100 years old before dying in 2007.  Angela Greene starred in several other sci-fi films.  She once dated John F. Kennedy when he was an officer in the Navy.   

The Cosmic Man is an okay movie, all in all.  Especially if it's raining outside and you have an hour plus of free time on your hands.

[pate]

Not So'or:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky0EsgO0sbc

Raleigh, Raleigh wont these two beeShore.

[akwilly]

Not So'or:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky0EsgO0sbc

Raleigh, Raleigh wont these two beeShore.

thanks Pate! I will add this to my porn collection.

[pate]

I am Hoffa-weigh anger thru:

Outpost Eleven the masturbating Kernal with the "habit" has me laughing.  I paused this notional Steam-Punk movie in midstrIde.  No spoilers, puh-lease!

Doofus & Derp'd haz no muffinz.

Dredg'd two muck?

[albrecht]

ALERT: some Cinemarks via TCM are showing Kubrick's master comedy/satire "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964) with amazing actors on the big screens tomorrow and Wednesday (Sunday, September 18 and Wednesday, September 21.) During these times of nuclear threats and escalation the timing is even better to get some laughs and thoughts over it. One of my favorite movies.

(I know this is a double-post but wanted to ensure the BG audience took advantage of this rare opportunity to see a great movie on many levels on the big screen. Lest I get in trouble by double-posting. Praise MV.)

[TigerLily]

/double reported     praise mv 

[Rix Gins]

ALERT: some Cinemarks via TCM are showing Kubrick's master comedy/satire "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964) with amazing actors on the big screens tomorrow and Wednesday (Sunday, September 18 and Wednesday, September 21.) During these times of nuclear threats and escalation the timing is even better to get some laughs and thoughts over it. One of my favorite movies.

(I know this is a double-post but wanted to ensure the BG audience took advantage of this rare opportunity to see a great movie on many levels on the big screen. Lest I get in trouble by double-posting. Praise MV.)

Thanks.  It would look absolutely great on the big screen.  Same with Psycho when I went to see it.  I actually felt like I was back in 1960 for awhile.  I have to kick myself though, when I missed seeing The Good, The Bad and The Ugly up on the big screen, earlier this year.  It will never come around again... in my lifetime, anyway. 

[albrecht]

Thanks.  It would look absolutely great on the big screen.  Same with Psycho when I went to see it.  I actually felt like I was back in 1960 for awhile.  I have to kick myself though, when I missed seeing The Good The Bad and The Ugly up on the big screen, earlier this year.  It will never come around again... in my lifetime, anyway.

I'm lucky in that we have a local old theater that during summers always has a summer classic movie series and TGTBTU is usually one of the films. Lawrence of Arabia and Hitchcock classics are always shown and then other movies based on some theme, new released archive copies, or historical anniversaries, etc. Also some of my local Alamo Drafthouses show old movies (they are a chain now and show normal movies) but the local ones often play camp, classic, etc movies and often with a gimmick- like for TGTBTU is all you can eat spaghetti, etc. But I like that the TCM/Cinemark deal happens because it allows people who only have 'normal' movie theaters an opportunity to see classics on the big screen.

[ItsOver]

Speaking of great theaters, just a reminder of the art theater festival a week from today.  I'll be at one in my area to catch a remastered "Phantasm."

Oh!

[albrecht]

Speaking of great theaters, just a reminder of the art theater festival a week from today.  I'll be at one in my area to catch a remastered "Phantasm."

Oh!

Now you are going to shame me into trying to get a wristband and attend the premier of the new one? But why isn't the remastered one being showed here?? wtf?
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/02/fantastic-fest-lineup-2016
http://phantasm.com/?p=150

[21st Century Man]

Saw Sully last night.  It was a nice change of pace from all the negativity happening in the world right now.  A movie about a real hero that is positive and uplifting.  Hanks was very good as Sully and Eastwood did a great job in the director's chair. I also though Aaron Eckhart  did a nice job as Sully's co-pilot.  4 stars out of 5.

[ItsOver]

Saw Sully last night.  It was a nice change of pace from all the negativity happening in the world right now.  A movie about a real hero that is positive and uplifting.  Hanks was very good as Sully and Eastwood did a great job in the director's chair. I also though Aaron Eckhart  did a nice job as Sully's co-pilot.  4 stars out of 5.

"Sully" is definitely on my list to catch on the big screen.  I don't usually get the pleasure of enjoying TCM but I'm on the road and caught "Tammy and the Bachelor" last night.  I've been oblivious to the Tammy series all these years but seeing Debby Reynolds and Leslie Nielsen together was very charming.  Ms. Reynolds is fantastic and delightful, singing her big hit from the 50's.  Another one of those, "they sure don't make'em like this anymore." 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew3mtNZFrMY

[Astrid Galactic]

At the moment, my very favorite movie, airing on TCM right now.

"Mon Oncle"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050706/

*West Coast feed may not have started yet.
** Just checked. The West Coast feed starts at 11pm.

[ItsOver]

Now you are going to shame me into trying to get a wristband and attend the premier of the new one? But why isn't the remastered one being showed here?? wtf?
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/02/fantastic-fest-lineup-2016
http://phantasm.com/?p=150

I'll leave a proper shaming to the illustrious Phantasm fan of all-time, Mr. Camazotz Automat.  I'll just be ashamed of you.

That is somewhat puzzling.  Why not show the remastered original prior to the newest and apparently final one?  Probably some kind of legal Bravo Sierra or just the usual incompetence of non-true believers in the powers of The Tall Man, may he R.I.P.

[21st Century Man]

LOL.  Paramount loses big money on turkey, Monster Trucks, and it isn't even out until January.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/paramount-takes-115-million-write-down-for-movie-that-isnt-released-yet-1474577856

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQrj2M-2Uiw


Oh man, this is going to be bad.