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Post by toshtego on Jul 27, 2023 11:26:55 GMT -5
I hope you enjoy the array of villains as much as I did. This series has great characters and they are well developed. Disappointed in the dark side of Ava, initially all of the ground rules she laid out for Boyd Crowder, she moved the goalposts for herself. Meanwhile, I like Boyd Crowder… the dude is a mess, but I like him, and I cannot offer an explanation why. That is an essential part of this drama series. The "bad guy" is also a sympathetic character. Worry not. Worse villains will soon be on scene. Then there is Dewey Crowe. A lovable dope and habitual foul up. Wait until you meet Wynn Duffy, the consummate bad guy.
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Post by Plainsman on Aug 10, 2023 17:10:09 GMT -5
Coupla weeks ago I watched Eastwood’s CRY MACHO. Disappointing. His weakest film in many years. You know its gonna be a rough row when a chicken is the hero. There are some endearing scenes in a Mexican cantina, but overall the film is a dead loss. Sorry to say…
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Post by trailboss on Aug 10, 2023 20:12:13 GMT -5
Coupla weeks ago I watched Eastwood’s CRY MACHO. Disappointing. His weakest film in many years. You know it’s gonna be a rough row when a chicken is the hero. There are some endearing scenes in a Mexican cantina, but overall the film is a dead loss. Sorry to say… Kinda the way I felt about Bridges of Madison County… Clint had some great movies, but like he rest of us, sometimes you cut a wet fart. I need to watch “Sing Misty For Me”, not so much for the movie, moreso what Cannery Row used to look like. It was ruined with all the commercialization.
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Post by Plainsman on Aug 10, 2023 20:17:46 GMT -5
The problem with BOMC was he played it with Meryl Streep. Maybe if he had replaced her with a chicken…
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Post by trailboss on Aug 10, 2023 20:53:58 GMT -5
The problem with BOMC was he played it with Meryl Streep. Maybe if he had replaced her with a chicken… A watershed moment for me. I realized that the cinema has the ability to make one have sympathy for a woman engaged in an illicit affair, when her husband by all means was a decent guy that took the kids to the state fair. Kinda changed my perception of how things work in Hollyweird
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Post by Plainsman on Aug 14, 2023 22:00:54 GMT -5
Watched THE ITALIAN tonight. Russian, with English subtitles. A 6YO orphan boy in a crowded, run down orphanage, Vanya, is adopted by an Italian couple but runs away to find his birth mom. A fine, sweet little film worth the trouble to find it.
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Post by toshtego on Aug 17, 2023 13:19:54 GMT -5
Watched "Behemoth, the Sea Monster", 1958
Large radioactive reptile attacks the west coast of England and then moves around into the Thames Estuary to attack London. With Gene Evans (Sergeant Rock in "The Steel Helmet"). Some actual science in this fiction. Good monster. Not Ray Harryhausen quality but works well enough to suspend disbelief. Andre Morrell also present and accounted for. If anyone likes the monster movies of the 1950s, this is a good one.
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Post by zambini on Aug 18, 2023 17:15:02 GMT -5
The Mother (2023) - Jennifer Lopez really went to the gym in preparation for the role. It's bad, bad, bad. Like several of her movies it feels as if it was 3 different ones that got stitched together leaving plot holes galore. The cinematography is pure Netflix i.e. weird jump cuts and cameras that over focus taking you out of the action. Garcia Bernal must really need the work to justify taking on such a cliched character and Ralph Fiennes fails to make you believe in his villainy. A real waste of time.
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Post by don on Aug 19, 2023 11:53:08 GMT -5
Watched this one again. One of my favorite Westerns of all time. Superb.
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Post by toshtego on Aug 19, 2023 13:30:22 GMT -5
Watched this one again. One of my favorite Westerns of all time. Superb. I will have to look for this one. Thanks for the tip. I get a kick out of Tim Blake Nelson. "Ballad of Buster Scruggs" and "Oh Brother, Where Art Though" being two of my favorite laughs. Yale School of Drama, as I recall.
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Post by username on Aug 19, 2023 13:52:33 GMT -5
Watched this one again. One of my favorite Westerns of all time. Superb. that looks good. I'll have to check it out as well looks like it's on paramount+
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Post by don on Aug 19, 2023 14:26:32 GMT -5
Watched this one again. One of my favorite Westerns of all time. Superb. I will have to look for this one. Thanks for the tip. I get a kick out of Tim Blake Nelson. "Ballad of Buster Scruggs" and "Oh Brother, Where Art Though" being two of my favorite laughs. Yale School of Drama, as I recall. He has been stellar in everything I have ever seen him in.
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Post by toshtego on Aug 19, 2023 22:24:06 GMT -5
I watched "Old Henry" this evening. Yep, she's a good one, this old role of celluloid. The story works well with a nice surprise embedded a ways in. Nice and dark, heap big atmosphere. The principal actors do a fine job. Nelson in particular. Stephen Dorf, the chief villain was great. If you like Westerns with a twist, this is one you want to see.
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Post by trailboss on Aug 19, 2023 22:39:05 GMT -5
For those that do not have paramount+
There is Old Rivers.
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Post by Plainsman on Aug 21, 2023 21:42:12 GMT -5
I just watched EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE AT ALL ONCE. This film won the Best Picture Academy Award. This steaming pile of unintelligible poo won the Academy Award for best picture. I don’t know whether I deserve an award for patience and forbearance or a place in the loony bin for sitting through the whole two hours and twelve minutes. If Hollywood is not dead it is certainly on the last stages of life support to give this bucket of drivel its highest award. Watch it at your peril. You’ll never get those 132 minutes back.
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Post by don on Aug 22, 2023 22:11:35 GMT -5
I just watched EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE AT ALL ONCE. This film won the Best Picture Academy Award. This steaming pile of unintelligible poo won the Academy Award for best picture. I don’t know whether I deserve an award for patience and forbearance or a place in the loony bin for sitting through the whole two hours and twelve minutes. If Hollywood is not dead it is certainly on the last stages of life support to give this bucket of drivel its highest award. Watch it at your peril. You’ll never get those 132 minutes back. Do your penance and go watch “Old Henry”. All will be forgiven.
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Post by Plainsman on Aug 22, 2023 22:43:39 GMT -5
OLD HENRY arrives Thursday, so dvd.com says. I look forward to it. Tonight I watched KHARTOUM. I’ve never thought of Heston as much more than a capable work-horse actor. But in this film he did a very, very fine job.
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Post by trailboss on Aug 22, 2023 23:25:04 GMT -5
I just watched EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE AT ALL ONCE. This film won the Best Picture Academy Award. This steaming pile of unintelligible poo won the Academy Award for best picture. I don’t know whether I deserve an award for patience and forbearance or a place in the loony bin for sitting through the whole two hours and twelve minutes. If Hollywood is not dead it is certainly on the last stages of life support to give this bucket of drivel its highest award. Watch it at your peril. You’ll never get those 132 minutes back. Them people live in a bubble that informs them on what deserves recognition. Pretty sure that actors I respect would agree with you, Bob.
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Post by toshtego on Aug 23, 2023 16:10:16 GMT -5
OLD HENRY arrives Thursday, so dvd.com says. I look forward to it. Tonight I watched KHARTOUM. I’ve never thought of Heston as much more than a capable work-horse actor. But in this film he did a very, very fine job. Olivier was a hoot playing The Mahdi. Every time he said "Oh, my beloved" I would howl with laughter. He did a fine job. Poor old Billy Hicks, eh? Some Englishman never learn. A few years earlier it was Lord Chelmsford at Islandlwana.
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Post by Plainsman on Aug 23, 2023 16:25:10 GMT -5
Yes, but Michael Caine avenged him at Rorke’s Drift. (All that heroism in pursuit of a truly smarmy goal.)
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Post by toshtego on Aug 23, 2023 19:41:17 GMT -5
Yes, but Michael Caine avenged him at Rorke’s Drift. (All that heroism in pursuit of a truly smarmy goal.) "...and a bayonet with some guts behind it." -Colour Sergeant Frank Bourne.
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Post by Plainsman on Aug 25, 2023 11:17:06 GMT -5
Watched OLD HENRY last night. (Thanks for the recommendation.) It was OK, but won’t be high on my list of great westerns. My affliction of obsessive historicity and story probability alerted me to several points-of-order. But I still enjoyed it and thought the performances all-around were very good. (Why would a guy trying to hide use a well-known name instead of, say, Bill Smith? The answer of course is ‘The plot needed it, dummy!’)
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Post by don on Aug 25, 2023 12:02:38 GMT -5
Watched OLD HENRY last night. (Thanks for the recommendation.) It was OK, but won’t be high on my list of great westerns. My affliction of obsessive historicity and story probability alerted me to several points-of-order. But I still enjoyed it and thought the performances all-around were very good. (Why would a guy trying to hide use a well-known name instead of, say, Bill Smith? The answer of course is ‘The plot needed it, dummy!’) You have to overlook some things, but I found it very entertaining. I have been a student of Western history since I was a young boy and of course started off being fascinated by outlaw history. There was plenty of that still being discussed and written about as I was growing up in OK, TX and KS. I eventually became far more interested in the history of the various tribes and then mining history after that. Any historical fiction will take liberties to make a plot work. I think by 1907, in a remote country setting in Oklahoma, which had only recently been Indian Territory, and in an out of the way farming setting, no one from the Lincoln County War would be running across Henry there. He mostly was known by his more famous alias in his time anyway. But, I think they had him use the name to give the audience some foreshadowing. Henry McCarty meant nothing to people I watched the movie with. I enjoyed mention of towns and places I am familiar with. I was more bothered by the brass framed SAA replica he was using and one scene where he fanned off his last couple of rounds. But, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I can’t think of another recent Western that I really enjoyed as much. Most are preaching something, and annoy me as a result.
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Post by Plainsman on Aug 25, 2023 12:41:20 GMT -5
Remote, and then suddenly his cabin becomes a Ft Sumner rendezvous site! I noticed the brass-framed SAA, and the fact that the invaders were mostly using modern DA revolvers. At first the Mexican seems to be carrying a pair of long-barreled S&W #3s and in the final scenes he, too, has a DA revolver. Not a big deal, it’s 1906 after all. Fun to watch. Like many war movies, it would do verisimilitude good if the cast went thru a kind of boot-camp so they would look competent. Alec Baldwin could sure have used one. There was one comment that I appreciated, from the villain, on how Henry “didn't handle his revolver like a farmer.” You can tell almost everything you need to know about someone’s gun-savvy by how they handle a SAA. It’s a special skill that only comes with lots and lots of experience.
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Post by jeffd on Aug 25, 2023 13:23:55 GMT -5
I just watched EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE AT ALL ONCE. This film won the Best Picture Academy Award. This steaming pile of unintelligible poo won the Academy Award for best picture. I don’t know whether I deserve an award for patience and forbearance or a place in the loony bin for sitting through the whole two hours and twelve minutes. If Hollywood is not dead it is certainly on the last stages of life support to give this bucket of drivel its highest award. Watch it at your peril. You’ll never get those 132 minutes back. I don't mind if a movie is boring, or distasteful. But this was a movie that was deliberately incoherent.
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Post by jeffd on Aug 25, 2023 13:39:39 GMT -5
I just saw Last Voyage of the Demeter.
I liked it. A lot. What I loved most is that Dracula is no weenie wimp Twilight Series hero vampire seducing young girls' hearts. He is what vampires were meant to be from the beginning, a horror.
They did a difficult thing - they took one chapter from the book, the captain's log of the Demeter's passage from Europe to London, and filled in blanks and made it the whole movie. Like a 10 Little Indians murder mystery, except it was no mystery. Everyone in the audience knows more about what is going on than every character in the movie.
I have in my mind a lot ways I (in my never to be humble opinion) think it could be better, but damn it was pretty good, and as I think about it, very good.
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Post by don on Aug 25, 2023 14:46:28 GMT -5
Remote, and then suddenly his cabin becomes a Ft Sumner rendezvous site! I noticed the brass-framed SAA, and the fact that the invaders were mostly using modern DA revolvers. At first the Mexican seems to be carrying a pair of long-barreled S&W #3s and in the final scenes he, too, has a DA revolver. Not a big deal, it’s 1906 after all. Fun to watch. Like many war movies, it would do verisimilitude good if the cast went thru a kind of boot-camp so they would look competent. Alec Baldwin could sure have used one. There was one comment that I appreciated, from the villain, on how Henry “didn't handle his revolver like a farmer.” You can tell almost everything you need to know about someone’s gun-savvy by how they handle a SAA. It’s a special skill that only comes with lots and lots of experience. I think a lot of guys would have taken up the early double action revolvers as they became available. I think only Henry and the wounded, crooked sheriff were from Ft. Sumner. No one else claimed to be from there as far as I recall. On the other hand, lots of the notable gunmen constantly ran into each other over and over in the next boom-town. Cattle shipping and mining towns attracted those characters for a reason.
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Post by trailboss on Aug 26, 2023 14:19:44 GMT -5
It is remarkable on how such a narrow a slice of time in our history, that the western plays such a dominant role in cinema, novels, biographies and such… I get it though!
My grandparents were all born in the late 1800’s, and it always fascinated me that they knew people from that time. I watched the landing of Apollo 11 with my grandma that saw a lot in her lifetime.
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Post by Plainsman on Aug 26, 2023 16:18:54 GMT -5
I don’t know that he was FROM there but the villain knew the place well and recognized Henry’s name.
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Post by don on Aug 26, 2023 18:58:26 GMT -5
I don’t know that he was FROM there but the villain knew the place well and recognized Henry’s name. You know why? Because it was in the script.🤪
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