TV/Movies Megathread

[Ed Anger]

I know this will make me unamerican or something but......


I don't care for the spaghetti westerns.

Meh, I don't like them very much, either.

You both suck.

Eat a dick

[Admiral Yi]

you hate the original too?

Haven't seen it.

[Admiral Yi]

Also watched most of a movie called Anonymous.  Terrible title.

Yet another Queen Elizabeth story, in this one half the English are bastards of Liz and Shakespeare is a phony who is handed his stuff by some noble dude.

Really well done CGI scenes of London.

[Ideologue]

I really hope Spellus is annoyed that I gave another Kurosawa Klassic a B+.

[Tonitrus]

I know this will make me unamerican or something but......


I don't care for the spaghetti westerns.

Meh, I don't like them very much, either.

You both suck.

They're just moving into that old, curmudgeon "everything sucks" phase of life. 

[Barrister]

I know this will make me unamerican or something but......


I don't care for the spaghetti westerns.

Meh, I don't like them very much, either.

You both suck.

Eat a dick

Cock sucking sounds like something a hater of spaghetti westerns would know a lot about.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I know this will make me unamerican or something but......


I don't care for the spaghetti westerns.

Ditto.  Not something I'd seek out.

[11B4V]

I really hope Spellus is annoyed that I gave another Kurosawa Klassic a B+.

Probably not. Your ratings suck. 

[Ideologue]

I dunno.  It could be an A on quantity, kinda like The Ten Commandments or Ben-Hur.  Really long movies that manage to stay entertaining have a very immersive quality to them.

P.S. Mifune is a blast as always.

[11B4V]

P.S. Mifune is a blast as always.

[CountDeMoney]

They're just moving into that old, curmudgeon "everything sucks" phase of life. 

And we like it that way.  Harrumph.

[Ideologue]

P.S. Mifune is a blast as always.

The more I've been thinking about, the more I think I underrated Sanjuro too.  I said then that I was conflicted between a B+ and an A.  Of the three Kurosawa jidaigeki movies I've so far watched (does Rashoman count? I guess it's a "period drama"), it's really the one most legitimately lauded as great (the irony being that it seems to be often included only along with Yojimbo and as an afterthought).

Btw, the BD transfer of Sanjuro is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a lot better looking than my the copy of the copy my dad pirated off TCM.   No RGB tracers, for one thing.

[11B4V]

P.S. Mifune is a blast as always.

The more I've been thinking about, the more I think I underrated Sanjuro too.  I said then that I was conflicted between a B+ and an A.  Of the three Kurosawa jidaigeki movies I've so far watched (does Rashoman count? I guess it's a "period drama"), it's really the one most legitimately lauded as great (the irony being that it seems to be often included only along with Yojimbo and as an afterthought).

Another remake I enjoyed was, Hara Kiri. Well done. I need to find the 1962 original.

[Ideologue]

P.S. Mifune is a blast as always.

The more I've been thinking about, the more I think I underrated Sanjuro too.  I said then that I was conflicted between a B+ and an A.  Of the three Kurosawa jidaigeki movies I've so far watched (does Rashoman count? I guess it's a "period drama"), it's really the one most legitimately lauded as great (the irony being that it seems to be often included only along with Yojimbo and as an afterthought).

Another remake I enjoyed was, Hara Kiri. Well done. I need to find the 1962 original.

I want to see that as well.  It's available on disc on Netflix.  The remake appears to be on Instant Watch.

Have you ever seen any of the unofficial/non-Kurosawa Sanjuro films?  I have Incident at Blood Pass coming as soon as it's available, and Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (I hope Abbott and Costello show up) is on my queue somewhere.

[Savonarola]

If you are serious about Samurai movies check out the works of Masaki Kobayashi and Kihachi Okomoto.  Kobayashi did the original "Hara-Kiri" and "Samurai Rebellion;" both with compelling plots and crappy sword-fighting.   Okomoto's "Sword of Doom" is incredible and he made a movie based on the same novel as "Sanjuro" called "Kill!"