My spouse tried watching The Apple last night (since they just reviewed it on How Did This Get Made) and couldn’t get past the first 20 minutes of the movie. It looked like a giant stinker when we watched the Electric Boogaloo doc, so I’m glad I wasn’t awake to experience it last night.
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That honestly looks like it could be a fun with friends, commentary and definitely recreational mood enhancers otherwise PASS.
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my friend couldn’t believe I hadn’t seen it and we watched it at his house several years ago. oy, what a stinker. some of the Eternia mis-en-scene actually captured me, and (I want to say) Dolph Lundgren (?) was a great choice. But, in an obvious ploy to shoot cheap locations rather than a bunch of elaborate sets, they dimension-hopped to the then-present day US. I wanted He-Man, not He-Man goes to SoCal and stumbles around with a bunch of bratty kids.
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The guy playing the police detective stole the movie I thought.
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however bad it may be from a film standpoint, if I’m flipping channels and I land on either of the Breakin’ movies, i’m laying down the remote. As young li’l B-boys in Ann Arbor, we idolized Shabadoo and Boogaloo Shrimp (BKA their roles Ozone and Turbo.)
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Ah, most recently in Bone Tomahawk. Now there’s a movie I can’t unsee.
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Again I am late at getting to this. Burn Witch Burn! (Night Of The Eagle) a 1962 version of the Fritz Leiber story Conjure Wife with a screen play by Twilight Zone greats Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont. The wives of English medical school professors are using witchcraft to further their husbands careers. Definitely one to see, with Peter Wyngarde as the hero of the story.
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Has anybody seen The Loved One ?
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Me! That was an… interesting movie.
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One of my favorite movies of all time. I semi regularly use the line ‘I gotta see a man about a dog’.
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Oh yeah, lots of fun. Easily my favorite Liberace film.
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Just got done with Mr. Hulot’s Holiday and it is wonderful. If you have not seen Tati go out now and rent/borrow/buy this film. His films are modern silent cinema and just amazing.
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Excellent film. I would just like to add that Tati’s Playtime is one of my very favorite films, although it might not be the best introduction to Tati for most. Actually, I would recommend Mon Oncle for a Tati beginner. None of Tati’s features has a strong III act plot structure, but Mon Oncle has enough of an obvious message to give newcomers something to hang on to.
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Just putting eXistenZ on the list. It has to be underrated it’s Cronenberg.
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A lot of fun. On first viewing, it seemed a bit second rate, Cronenberg re-hashing ideas he’s already given us. On repeat viewings, it’s easier to notice that he’s taking the piss. Not self-parody, but poking a bit of fun at his obsessions.
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I have already seen that and Mon Oncle and yet to see Trafic. Playtime I really want to see on a big 70mm screen.
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Yeah, I’d love to see Playtime in the theater myself. Trafic is good fun, even if it’s the weakest of the Hulot’s.
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And getting right to it for this weeks ‘schlock cinema 101’ film.
Night Walker with Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck. Screenplay by Robert Bloch and directed by William ‘Hitchcock Fanboy’ Castle. A really good thriller/noir about a widow haunted by dreams of a lover and her disfigured and deceased spouse. The pacing is a bit slow by modern standards but it moves steadily along to a very good ending.
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Road trip to Bellingham WA today for the 1916 silent Sherlock Holmes based on a stage play. The movie was considered lost till a copy was found 2 years ago. The restoration looked good. It was a mixing up of a few different stories and add in some silent era melodrama but still very good where Holmes get the girl at the end of this one. With live music from the mighty wurlitzer as well.
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Saw that one popping up in my Netflix recommendations. I’ll add it to the queue.
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