movies

[revbob]

12 Angry Men is on right now, one of those flicks that I can't not watch. It can be criticized for normalizing the power of white men and exaggerating rationality, and for its triumphalist take on values that are rarely upheld, but it's hard to think of a better example of promotion of liberal civic mythology (in a good way). Individuals coming together, using logic to overcome emotion and prejudice, to affirm institutions that maintain liberty.

love, love, love that movie

I remember seeing it for the first time as a kid and was amazed by how good it was. And yeah if you come across it you watch it.

[101Walterton]

Watched Heat again the other night, don’t make them like that any more.

[tepista]

12 Angry Men is on right now, one of those flicks that I can't not watch. It can be criticized for normalizing the power of white men and exaggerating rationality, and for its triumphalist take on values that are rarely upheld, but it's hard to think of a better example of promotion of liberal civic mythology (in a good way). Individuals coming together, using logic to overcome emotion and prejudice, to affirm institutions that maintain liberty.

love, love, love that movie

I remember seeing it for the first time as a kid and was amazed by how good it was. And yeah if you come across it you watch it.

great fucking movie

[Mimi]

I saw The Lion King. I loved the original and didn't have any expectations going into this one, but I was pleasantly surprised. The graphics were so realistic I often thought I was watching a documentary on lions. While I enjoyed it, I'm asking myself, what's the point? The remake didn't offer anything new other than the graphics. Still liked it, though.

[Dr. Medulla]

The Boss was kinda sorta watching Scent of a Woman, so I saw bits and pieces again. Enough of a reminder that, with the exception of Dog Day Afternoon, Al Pacino bugs me more than probably any other acclaimed actor. It's also a stupid goddamned obvious living-your-life-right movie.

[daredevil]

Targets (1968) Peter Bogdanavich's (Last Picture Show, Mask) classic directorial debut. The story goes that Boris Karloff owed Roger Corman a day or 2 of shooting, so he tells Bogdanovich to use that, along with footage of a Karloff throwaway flick called the Terror and and a week or so with other actors and do what you can. What we get is Karloff basically playing himself, Byron Orlack, a veteran horror actor who is tired of his profession because real life newspaper headlines are more terrifying than the Gothic horror roles he's been playing for decades. Bogdanovich himself plays a film director who tries to convince Karloff to make one more movie. Nancy Hsueh played Boris' secretary. Unfortunately, this lovely woman died in real life at the age of 39. In an unrelated plot based heavily on Charles Whitman (who shot and killed over a dozen people on the campus at the University of Texas), an all-American young man kills his family, then goes on a random shooting spree in the L.A. Valley. The two stories come together in the end in this classic of modern horror. It would have been nice for Karloff to call this gem his last film, but he has a few posthumously released cheapies he made down in Mexico following this. Highly Recommended.

Tep reviewed this one before and I made a note to watch it. Finally did and its hard to believe this was put together quickly, cause it's really well done.
Karloff is excellent in his storyline and the guy in the other is so unlikable, you're glad what happens to him in the end.

[tepista]

Targets (1968) Peter Bogdanavich's (Last Picture Show, Mask) classic directorial debut. The story goes that Boris Karloff owed Roger Corman a day or 2 of shooting, so he tells Bogdanovich to use that, along with footage of a Karloff throwaway flick called the Terror and and a week or so with other actors and do what you can. What we get is Karloff basically playing himself, Byron Orlack, a veteran horror actor who is tired of his profession because real life newspaper headlines are more terrifying than the Gothic horror roles he's been playing for decades. Bogdanovich himself plays a film director who tries to convince Karloff to make one more movie. Nancy Hsueh played Boris' secretary. Unfortunately, this lovely woman died in real life at the age of 39. In an unrelated plot based heavily on Charles Whitman (who shot and killed over a dozen people on the campus at the University of Texas), an all-American young man kills his family, then goes on a random shooting spree in the L.A. Valley. The two stories come together in the end in this classic of modern horror. It would have been nice for Karloff to call this gem his last film, but he has a few posthumously released cheapies he made down in Mexico following this. Highly Recommended.

Tep reviewed this one before and I made a note to watch it. Finally did and its hard to believe this was put together quickly, cause it's really well done.
Karloff is excellent in his storyline and the guy in the other is so unlikable, you're glad what happens to him in the end.

yeah, this was rehash review but I just adore this movie, and the story that goes with it.

[Silent Majority]

Love Targets

[Marky Dread]

Watched Heat again the other night, don’t make them like that any more.

Don't upset Medulla.

[Dr. Medulla]

Watched Heat again the other night, don’t make them like that any more.

Don't upset Medulla.

I'm an iceman, man.

[Marky Dread]

Watched Heat again the other night, don’t make them like that any more.

Don't upset Medulla.

I'm an iceman, man.

Heat melts ice. Is all I got.

[Dr. Medulla]

Watched Heat again the other night, don’t make them like that any more.

Don't upset Medulla.

I'm an iceman, man.

Heat melts ice. Is all I got.

Your shame is sufficient for me.

[Marky Dread]

Watched Heat again the other night, don’t make them like that any more.

Don't upset Medulla.

I'm an iceman, man.

Heat melts ice. Is all I got.

Your shame is sufficient for me.

Always a pleasure.

[tepista]

[Kory]

Saw Midsommar the other day (I think Tep did too). It was quite intense but very much of the horror variety that I prefer: sustained creeping dread rather than cheap jump scares.