posted on July 21, 2004 06:32:58 PM
The weather's hot,
Ebay's slow,
Time to watch
A Video
So not much on TV, getting tired of watching Lance pedal up hills in France.
Had a good day today at the local Thrift store, found boxed VHS sets of Lonesome Dove, the complete Shogun saga, and the complete Godfather saga, so my summer movie viewing schedule is now more than fully booked.
I love old movies. How about you? What have you watched lately that really satisfied your movie-viewing pleasure?
Share it with the rest of us videophiles.
I picked up a copy of Our Man Flint recently with James Coburn, very enjoyable & funny.
Looking around at yard sales hoping to find a copy of Cat Ballou, haven't seen that one for years!
posted on July 21, 2004 09:14:03 PM
Viva La Lance!
I sat down about six months ago outside at a local pizza joint (Mangia's on Lamar, Austin, TX where Lance lives) and guess who sat down at the other table ours was facing? Lance, a blond woman (ex-wife?), one child, one set of grandparents. They arrived in 3 separate vehicles. I was pretty sure it was him, then the blond pulled out a Forbes magazine and opened it to an article with a large picture of him. As they are looking at it, a city bus drives by with Lance on his bike painted on the side. A surreal moment!
Favorite movies? Yes, Ferris Bueller, Singing in the Rain, Quigley Down Under, The Man From Snowy River, Last of the Mohicans (got the CD of the great music), Working Girl. Brain dead and can't think of more. Hmm...
I really like the 40-50's musicals and all the old war movies and westerns. The Halls of Montezuma, The Sands of Iwo Jima, West Side Story, On the Town, South Pacific, Brigadoon, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Cowboys, The Searchers, The Sons of Katie Elder.
I'll rent and enjoy most anything with Harrison Ford, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Tom Selleck, Cary Grant, William Holden, Melanie Griffith, Julia Roberts, or Sandra Bullock. Unless of course it's gotten terrible reviews or turned old, cheesy, and silly now like some of the early Dirty Harry ones with hippies.
By the way, ladies, If the version of Oklahoma that Hugh Jackman did in England is available, rent it. It is the absolute best version and he's awesome.
We are watching the cable series Band of Brothers on DVD rental right now. Very good. But then I love war movies.
Yeah, I've seen Cat Ballou like 7 times. Our Man Flint is James Coburn's best.
I do the Netflix thing and we've been watching 3 DVDs per week. They arrive a lot faster than they used to.
Recently, we watched Kill Bill 1. You must have a strong stomach and will enjoy it best if you are a movie buff, and notice Tarintino's use of little bits from a lot of other movies, many times quietly poking fun.
We recently watched and liked Secondhand Lions, Big Fish, Mystic River, Last Samurai, Mona Lisa Smile, and Spy Game.
posted on July 21, 2004 09:37:08 PM
My top picks that I watch over & over.
Caddy Shack (I've probably watched this 95 times)
My Fair Lady
Ferris Bulers Day Off
The Breakfast Club
Dirty Dancing (Bad title)
Working Girl
Twins
Pulp Fiction
Grease
A Chrous Line
Any MGM Musical
& many, many more. Specially if they are old movies.
posted on July 21, 2004 10:34:07 PM
I'm a throwback to the 1970's I'm afraid. I've been on a Hammer horror tear lately. My wife calls them all "boobs and blood" but I'll watch just about anything with Peter Cushing in it. If I can score a real deal on eBay, I'll pick some good DVDs up; if not, I go to DeepDiscountDVD.com--you can't beat their prices and free shipping. So far I scored with...
FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL
CAPTAIN KRONOS VAMPIRE HUNTER
THE CREEPING FLESH
THE VAMPIRE LOVERS
X THE UNKNOWN
QUATERMASS 2/ENEMY FROM SPACE
and I'm anxiously awaiting the release of the double DVD of COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE and RETURN OF COUNT YORGA.
Armageddon
High Road To China
Vanishing Point
The Goonies
Dr. No
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Lifeforce
Alien
Highlander
Romancing The Stone
Matrix
Bladerunner
Tora Tora Tora
Paper Moon
Back To The Future
The Wizard of Oz
An Officer And A Gentleman
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Sting
Roger Rabbit
And just about anything with Sir Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, or Johnny Depp. Female lead favorites are Jamie Lee Curtis, Kathleen Turner, and Marisa Tomei.
Great movie list! I regularly watch Turner Classic movies.
1) Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
2) Hush, Hush, Sweat Charlotte. Or, anything with Betty Davis
2) Sound of Music
3) Anything with Kathryn Hepburn and Spencer Tracy
4) Singing in the Rain
5) Rear Window
6) Hunt for Red October
I love old movies and will watch almost all of them! There are far too many to mention!
My boyfriend prefers Sci-Fi. That's one class of movies like Star Trek that I really don't get into. I prefer staying home with a good old movie and cooking up my own popcorn. Especially during the winter months. Nothing like a good old movie and hot chocolate!
Cheryl
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country. - Benjamin Franklin
[ edited by CBlev65252 on Jul 22, 2004 05:08 AM ]
posted on July 22, 2004 07:01:14 AM
This is a good thread. I was trying to think of my favorite movies, but most I've liked I can't remember the names of them!
For old movies:
1. Carnival of Souls
2. Rebecca (?) of Manderly/something like that.
3. Sound of Music
4. The Christmas the almost wasnt
Theres more but I cant think of them right now. Contemporary movies I like and can watch over and over:
1. The Fisher King
2. The Grifters
2. Most any Tom Hanks film
3. Most Sandra Bullocks film
4. Most Jim Carrey films]
5. Almost anything with Merryl Streep and or Robert DiNiro.
Then theres some good foreign films I've seen, but no way can I remember the titles of those. The one i recall the name was a french film called "The Lovers on the bridge" with Juliette Binoche. That was good movie, if a bit long!
The foreign films do not always have happy endings like many of our films do.
posted on July 22, 2004 12:17:48 PM
Old films I've re-watched in the past month or two:
No Name on the Bullet (Audie Murphy western)
The President's Analyst (James Coburn)
Schindler's List
Evil Roy Slade (John Astin)
several Charlie Chan films
Touch of Mink (Cary Grant/Doris Day)
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Big Sleep (Humphrey Bogart)
Curse of the Demon (great 60s British horror film)
Blacula
Victory Through Airpower (fantastic Disney WWII propoganda film)
Follow Me Boys (Fred MacMurray)
This Gun For Hire (Robert Wagner version)
all three versions of Death Takes a Holiday
____________________
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. -- John F. Kennedy
Then you must have loved The Great Gatsby! My favorite film with him in it. Mia Farrow was fantastic in it as well.
Cheryl
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country. - Benjamin Franklin
posted on July 22, 2004 01:48:05 PM
watch paradise road and tell me who is a bigger jerk??
watch Original sin ,it shows you how the cuban bordello looks like, pre castro days
-sig file -------we eat to live,not live to eat.
Benjamin Franklin
GREAT choices for films...especially NIGHT/CURSE OF THE DEMON. With the advent of DVD, I just realized that I had been watching a highly edited version for U.S. television for years. They cropped quite a bit out of the original film.
BLACULA...OK, it's blaxplotation, but my gosh, what a great actor William Marshall was. Even better was SCREAM, BLACULA, SCREAM...Love it when the two street hoods try to mug Blacula for money. "I don't have any...'bread' as you call it. As for taking it out of my black a$$....I highly suggest you reconsider your actions!" And then he bites them.
posted on July 22, 2004 07:15:59 PM
OK I'll play lol Some not so old but I will watch over and over for a life time
The Breakfast Club
Back To The Future
The Goonies
Pretty Woman
The Sound of Music
Labyrinth with David Bowie
Interview with the Vampire
Both Men In Black
All the Harry Potter Movies
Practical Magic
Flash Dance
Big
Willie Wonka
Platoon
Disney-Finding Nemo,Cinderella,The Little Mermaid,Beauty and the Beast,Aladdin..etc etc lol
X-men
Brave Heart
Better Off Dead ...lol micmic66 that movie cracks me up !
posted on July 22, 2004 10:05:50 PM
My Favorites include:
The War of The Worlds
Patton
My Cousin Vinney
Speed
Back To School
Star Wars(the first one)
Back to The Future
The Buddy Holly Story
Vanishing Point
We also like watching "Film Noir" the old black and whites from the 30's and 40's.
We also love watching The Untouchables episodes starring Robert Stack and Topper episodes starring Leo G Carroll,Robert Sterling,Anne Jeffreys and their "alcholic
St Bernard" Neil--to make this ebay related I got about 40 episodes of Topper and over 100 episodes of the Untouchables..all on Ebay.
posted on July 22, 2004 10:52:59 PM
Petpost: yes, "Demon" is one of my favorites, and I like the fact that the DVD has both the British & the American cuts on it.
I notice you have Quatermass II on your list--I LOVE the Quatermass films. The DVD for Quatermass & the Pit (5 Million Years to Earth, here in the US) has both of those films on it. And a couple of years ago I was able to buy a VHS dupe from a collector of the original BBC-TV serial of Quatermass & the Pit that aired in the 50's & which the film was based on. The quality is 2nd rate, being a VHS dupe of PAL tape made from an old kinetoscope, but worth it to see such a rarity.
____________________
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. -- John F. Kennedy
posted on July 22, 2004 10:59:18 PM
OMG...Meadowlark!
Did you ask for his autograph????
I'd be a wreck. Lance is amazing. They all make it look so easy, but after one day of biking 125 odd miles I am toast, but continuous and RACING! Holy crap then to have the chops to have a kick like at the end of todays stage!!!
Excuse me I am gushing.
Movies:
Hmmmm...
Old is good. Hitch during his American Heyday, you can't go wrong with Notorious, North By Northwest, Rear Window, Strangers on a Train, Shadow of a Doubt or his passport to this country, The Lady Vanishes. All deliciously wonderful. I used to teach scriptwriting classes and storyboarding using him.
OTOH I'm the type who counts the edits in Rope.
Suggestion for summer fun: Down By Law
If you haven't seen it, it's a must, if you have then you know.
A pair of great movies: My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle. French, but splendido.
Summer in Provence. Does it get much better? (I suppose watching a stage with Lance and George "Domestique Extraordaire" Hincapie.
posted on July 22, 2004 11:23:13 PM
Back with more:
So many great movies are listed, love this thread.
Moonstruck
Father Goose
Blazing Saddles
The Bishops Wife (old version)
Funny Farm
All Fletch Movies
Animal House
Doc Holiday (Michael J Fox)
War Games
The Longest Day
Trading Places
Arthur
Victor Victoria
S O B
The Party (Funniest Peter Sellers ever, don't miss the beginning.)
All Pink Panther Movies
House of Games (If you missed this, rent it.
Full of surprises, you'll think you have it figured out, but you don't)
Naw, I just let Lance eat his darned pizza in peace. He did look at me once, knowing he was being watched. I tired to be discreet, but I'm sure he has eyes on him all the time and felt it.
I guess I know I saw him, and didn't need to prove it to anyone. Oh! I see, maybe I could of sold it on eBay? LOL!
He has been a hometown Austin hero for some time, gaining worlwide attention as his fame has grown. I hear he's dating Cheryl Crowe. The woman at the pizza place was a "soccer mom" looking person and definitely not her.
He's not the first celebrity I've seen up close in person, so I guess I am somehwat jaded and am content to let them have their "space". Hmmm... I've been within a few feet of Kevin Spacey, Kirstie Alley, Jenna Elfman, Julia Louise Dryfuss (from Seinfeld), spoken to Marg Helgenberg (the lead actress on CSI) and Walter Koenig (Ensign Checkov - Star Trek), had dinner with Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura - Star Trek). Just a matter of right place, right time.
I met Robert Horton of Wagon Train when I was 5 years old and asked him if he was Roy Rogers. I was real disappointed he was not, and said so. My dad (a musician) was working with him at the time for the Houston Rodeo and played for Brenda Lee's singing that year too. I'm sure I embarressed the hell out of my parents who were trying to impress him!
My dad was a minor local celebrity in Houston until his untimely death on the treadmill at the health spa at about age 50. He played at parties/restaurants in Houston for John Glenn, other astronuats, John Wayne, Ryan O'Neil, Gabby Hayes (Roy Rogers' big sidekick with the gravelly voice) worked briefly with Count Basie (have an old Christmas card from him), Pete Fountain (jazz musician), more. My dad was a pool (billiards) hustler on the side too and played a few rounds with Minnesota Fats.
So I guess I don't go all gaga like some may do over celbrities. But if Leonard Nimoy was to walk into the room, watch out! LOL!
posted on July 23, 2004 03:59:46 AM
Wow! You lot have good taste in movies. I can't believe that nobody nominated Groundhog Day or the Long Kiss Goodnight. How about the Alien series?
Coneheads?
By the Sword.(Eric Roberts)
Bicentennial Man? Undercover Blues?
Four Weddings and a Funeral.
African Queen.
These are in addition to movies already listed, not instead of.
Regards,
Adrian
I almost forgot. Dusk till Dawn.
[ edited by zircon4 on Jul 23, 2004 04:02 AM ]
posted on July 23, 2004 05:24:21 AM
One of our favorites is Midnight inthe Garden of Good and Evil. Last year we had a very extensive driving vacation and went through Savannah,. They have all sorts of tours based on the movie.
There is a web site that has all the movies made in New Mexico, so I have been collecting (and watching) them for my husband. It's fun seeing all the scenery. Sorta makes us homesick. Convoy is one of them which by the way has the music done by the very early Mannheim Steamroller (my absolute all time favorite music group).
Other favorites - old Columbo shows; Somewhere in Time; Tarzan - Lord of Greystoke; Chocolat; and I'm afraid to admit - Harry Potter. Just watched The Last Samuri and Mystic River.
Anybody doing any reading? Just finished the DaVinci Code!!!! Louise
[ edited by herbscraftsgifts on Jul 23, 2004 05:25 AM ]
posted on July 23, 2004 05:29:35 AM
If you like the last samurai,consider two japanese movies -Yojimbo and Omnibaba.
Omnibaba is about 2 women in ancient Japan who made a living selling samurai garbs stripped from dead/live samurais,they would make the ebay powerseller list!!
-sig file -------we eat to live,not live to eat.
Benjamin Franklin
