Latest movie you watched (1-10 scale)

[featherboa]

Fellowship of the Reing - 10

[Geeheeb]

what are you some anti-bombadilian?

[THE KILL]

Earth VS the Flying Saucers (1956) - 6.5/10
Pleasently old-fashioned invasion film. Lots of nice SFX done by Ray Harryhausen.

Hell Comes to Frogtown - 6.5/10
Buck wild postapocalyptic low-budget farce starring Rowdy Roddy Piper.

[featherboa]

what are you some anti-bombadilian?

i used to be mad about these movies but i came around after 20 years

[Eight Bit Alien]

my gf got me The Terminator novelization for Xmas and I'm pretty excited to read it.

@Eight Bit Alien - did you ever read the making of Terminator? Apparently Cameron originally wanted it to be revealed at the end that it was actually Skynet that sent Kyle Reese back in time. It had grown a conscience and developed guilt for destroying humanity that it needed to set the stage for it's own abortion. Which sounds like it would've been a better post TS movie than what we got.

No I wasn't aware of any of that. Do you mean that was the original script for T1??

I wonder if that got folded into the T800's story in T2

[ThePhillyExperiment]

Hell Comes to Frogtown - 6.5/10
Buck wild postapocalyptic low-budget farce starring Rowdy Roddy Piper.

I'm proud to say I own that VHS.

[THE KILL]

Hell Comes to Frogtown - 6.5/10
Buck wild postapocalyptic low-budget farce starring Rowdy Roddy Piper.

I'm proud to say I own that VHS.

It's insane the kind of obscure stuff they give a remaster to and a rerelease on bluray nowadays, but this film absolutely belongs on VHS.

[FVBTVS]

the creator - 6

kinda pretty and design-y but mediocre until the end when the performances come together. way too fucking long though my god

[FVBTVS]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5711258/?r ... unrel_4_dr

[Eight Bit Alien]

Don't do that
Don't give me hope

[MPD]

The Disappearance of Shere Hite - 10

[Whee of the Dead]

my gf got me The Terminator novelization for Xmas and I'm pretty excited to read it.

@Eight Bit Alien - did you ever read the making of Terminator? Apparently Cameron originally wanted it to be revealed at the end that it was actually Skynet that sent Kyle Reese back in time. It had grown a conscience and developed guilt for destroying humanity that it needed to set the stage for it's own abortion. Which sounds like it would've been a better post TS movie than what we got.

No I wasn't aware of any of that. Do you mean that was the original script for T1??

I wonder if that got folded into the T800's story in T2

I think it was. I know Cameron said it was just too much story. It would've worked in T2 I feel because the first half of that movie is just a somewhat regurgitated version of part 1. I also liked the scrapped idea of having Michael Biehn play the T1000 cuz Skynet designed it as an easier way to reach Sarah Connor.

I need to rewatch part 1. It's such a fucking rage.

[Geeheeb]

modern times - 10/10

[Necrometer]

saltburn 6/10 but I’m open to it being better for some reason I’m missing

rear window 9/10 I’d never seen this and was floored by how good it was. obsessed with that set! i was distracted by jimmy stewart’s accent and couldn’t buy him as a rough & tumble photojournalist, but then i learned that he talks funny because he’s from the ohio valley / pittsburgh area (!) and he’s actually a brave guy who went to fly in WWII *after* he was already a movie star (!!!) - so i guess he’s not such a dandy.

disturbia 4/10 i thought this was a formal remake of RW but i guess they won a lawsuit saying otherwise. really embarrassing to see how wrong they got this, especially with a solid blueprint in place. my wife hated it with a passion…

batman forever 2/10 absolute horseshit aside from NK being iconic. my wife was BEAMING for like 24 hours after we watched this since she enjoyed it so much - no idea what’s wrong with her brain

[Whee of the Dead]

saltburn 6/10 but I’m open to it being better for some reason I’m missing

rear window 9/10 I’d never seen this and was floored by how good it was. obsessed with that set! i was distracted by jimmy stewart’s accent and couldn’t buy him as a rough & tumble photojournalist, but then i learned that he talks funny because he’s from the ohio valley / pittsburgh area (!) and he’s actually a brave guy who went to fly in WWII *after* he was already a movie star (!!!) - so i guess he’s not such a dandy.

disturbia 4/10 i thought this was a formal remake of RW but i guess they won a lawsuit saying otherwise. really embarrassing to see how wrong they got this, especially with a solid blueprint in place. my wife hated it with a passion…

batman forever 2/10 absolute horseshit aside from NK being iconic. my wife was BEAMING for like 24 hours after we watched this since she enjoyed it so much - no idea what’s wrong with her brain

I recall semi enjoying Batman Forever as the Adam West era Batman as seen through the lens of 90's high budget idiot Hollywood.

I miss Tommy Lee Jone's flamboyant psycho streak he had in the 90's as well.

[Whee of the Dead]

Seven Samurai (on 35mm at Austin Film Society - 10. Always perfect.

[Eight Bit Alien]

rear window 9/10 I’d never seen this and was floored by how good it was. obsessed with that set! i was distracted by jimmy stewart’s accent and couldn’t buy him as a rough & tumble photojournalist, but then i learned that he talks funny because he’s from the ohio valley / pittsburgh area (!) and he’s actually a brave guy who went to fly in WWII *after* he was already a movie star (!!!) - so i guess he’s not such a dandy.

It's so so fucking good.
Jimmy also stole a Yeti hand from Buddhist monks, and smuggled it back to America in his girls panties.
That is an absolutely 100% true story, you can look it up and not be disappointed I promise.

I went on a Jimmy Stewart binge a little while ago, I should rate them all here. Normal people made some weird fucking movies before 1970, when all the weird people started making normal movies....

[Whee of the Dead]

follow up Rear Window with De Palma's Body Double. A nice sleazoid neo-noir riff on it.

[Necrometer]

I recall semi enjoying Batman Forever as the Adam West era Batman as seen through the lens of 90's high budget idiot Hollywood.

that's spot on. I don't have much of a soft spot for the tv show, and the camp charm sort of evaporates when it's got that schlocky 90s aesthetic. so so so many dutch angles

(I just learned that "dutch" is a corruption of "Deutsch", in reference to the German filmmakers who popularized the shot. I'm still telling my kids verhoeven invented it.)

follow up Rear Window with De Palma's Body Double. A nice sleazoid neo-noir riff on it.

IFL on that yeti hand tale

[Toilet Fleet]

Stewart emerging in contrast to the boilerplate transatlantic affectation of many leading men is part of what made people connect with him. He sounded like he was from somewhere, rather than just existing in the medium itself.

You Can't Take It With You is absolutely excellent, as is Destry Rides Again (which I only watched the first time because Marlene Dietrich, but Stewart is nevertheless excellent in it)

And honestly, Vertigo might be in the same echelon as Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons? And sure that's largely on Hitchcock being an all time visionary, but Stewart makes you connect to his character as the film itself mystifies and bewilders you

[Necrometer]

right, I was ignorantly thinking JS "sounded like old hollywood", and conflating his accentwith the mid-atlantic phantom accent, but then I realized that - like you said - his accent must have felt like a breath of fresh, rustbelt-y air.

(even though clark gable typically used a fakey accent on screen, he and JS were both born about an hour from pittsburgh... which is so insane to me)

[FVBTVS]

i liked disturbia

[Eight Bit Alien]

I've been repeating lines from this for 25 years

[Whee of the Dead]

Last year I watched The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and it fucking killed. Probably my favorite John Ford flick? Clearly was the one that influenced Sergio Leone the most.

Imagine a time when you had actors with strong screen presence doing different genres and working with different heavyweights like Hitchcock and Ford.

[FVBTVS]

yeah but now we have john krasinki have you thought about him