list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

Sometimes his show ain't bad either ~

^ just rewatched Shadow of a Doubt

What I mean when I say that cinema has not aged well is not that it was of poor quality back then but rather that it is less appealing to a younger audience than say, an album of the same time because of the  technological gap between now and then. Technological advancements don't show that much in music but it does show a lot in cinema.

Edited by Larkstongue41 - September 17 2017 at 12:15

^ I don't get it. What is it you disagree with? I basically have the same point of view as you. If I were to make a top 100 of my favourite movies, at least 90 of them would be pre-2000 and probably about 30 of them would be before 1960 which is what I consider to be "old" in cinema.

Edited by Larkstongue41 - September 17 2017 at 11:58

The Gospel According to St. Matthew - Pier Paolo Pasolini (1964)

Atavachron wrote: Maybe--  all I know is very few people I talk to are interested in old films.   Unless of course they're old.

Modern US movies are mostly crap. There are of course exceptions, but 99% of what comes out of the United States is pure schlock. The European, Asian and African movie scenes are much more interesting.

But why would one NOT watch these old movies? Do prog lovers not listen to these old recordings as well?

Atavachron wrote: A Bucket of Blood Though never one for Roger Corman, I must admit 1959's A Bucket of Blood is his brand of low-grade schlock at its best as a disturbed sculptor finds success by murdering his subjects before covering them in plaster and impressing the local beats with his uncanny reproductions.   Peppered with ratty tenements, spoken word poetry jams, stream of consciousness dialog, wicked humor and an eye for human pathology, ABoB is one of the strangest and funniest black comedies in American film.

Jean and I love old horror movies. today's so-called "horror movies" are actually what we call "terror movies". The difference is: Horror is what creeps up your back, terror is what jumps you in the face.

We recently re-watched "House on Haunted Hill" from 1959 starring the great Vincent Price. Wonderful movie combining horror and humour.

Split (2016 Directed by M Night Shyamalan)



For once, the studio's vaunted description of a movie inspired by one of psychiatry's most controversial diagnoses (dissociative identify disorder) is quite apt re 'psychological horror-thriller.'  Glaswegian James McAvoy was brilliant in the adaptation of Irvine Welsh's Filth and he is equally brilliant here. Shame however, that his talents are squandered on a plot that slowly descends from a fascinating opening premise to reach it's nadir as Martyrs v the Incredible Hulk.  How to explain why one body can alter its chemical composition between purported multiple personalities? e.g. one is right handed the other left handed, one has allergies the other does not, one needs corrected vision the other does not etc. These are interesting phenomena certainly but the film never really goes after any serious investigation of the answers. Despite these reservations I enjoyed this but someone please bitch slap the director for 1 - creating a Hitchcock cameo for himself as a security guard and 2 - shoehorning Bruce Willis into the final scene as a clumsy link to Unbreakable and inveigling a sequel.


Edited by ExittheLemming - September 16 2017 at 02:58

Atavachron wrote: The Car In one of the most underrated drive-in schlock horror pictures of the 1970s, James Brolin leads a Mayberry-like small town against a homicidal and seemingly driver-less Lincoln Continental as it blasts down desert highways, runs over hitchhikers, plows into women & children and plagues a community with Biblical retribution.   Sometimes called 'Jaws on the road', The Car is much more than just a shark with wheels and features great stunts, innovative driving, and, in hindsight, is one of the scariest B-movies of the era.