TV/Movies Megathread

[CountDeMoney]

Omega Man is awesome. Heston talks to himself and shoots vampire hippies while wearing a track suit.

IIRC, first on-screen interracial kiss.

I believe that was Rachel and Jim in 100 Rifles, actually.

[katmai]

Both wrong

[11B4V]

Star trek maybe for TV, for the big screen havent a clue.

[Admiral Yi]

Both wrong

Spit it out then mang.

[Sheilbh]

Star trek maybe for TV, for the big screen havent a clue.

Yeah, Kirk and Uhuru for TV. Don't know for film.

[Eddie Teach]

No kissing in Sayonara?

[katmai]

Both wrong

Spit it out then mang.

Island In The Sun (1957)

[11B4V]

Omega Man is awesome. Heston talks to himself and shoots vampire hippies while wearing a track suit.

A fav actor growing up. For Hetson I rank

1. Omega man
2. Soylent Green
3. El Cid
4. Mountain Men. -cant beleive I forgot this one.

[Tonitrus]

Don't forget "Khartoum" and "55 Days at Peking" for his imperialist epics.

[Eddie Teach]

1 Planet of the Apes
2 Touch of Evil
3 Ben Hur

[11B4V]

Don't forget "Khartoum" and "55 Days at Peking" for his imperialist epics.

A good one, just dont remember all that much.

[CountDeMoney]

Love Khartoum.  Also loved Touch of Evil.  And 55 Days In Peking.  And so on.

Unfortunately, Chuck destroyed all his previous works with Midway.   Barf.

[11B4V]

To those talking shit about the Fast and Furius movies a few pages back. They are entertaining movies, not works of art.

Vin Diesel is an abomination that must be stopped.  Same goes for destroying American muscle cars, a precious and increasingly rare resource that needs to be preserved.

It would appear not in 2013. There's a new Riddick movie coming out. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1411250/

[jimmy olsen]

Oh, and MB: Ben Hur totally came with it!  I'll be watching that tomorrow, or whenever.  Happy Easter everyone!

You may want to read this than

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/history/2013/03/ben_hur_and_lew_wallace_how_the_scapegoat_of_shiloh_became_one_of_the_best.html

[The Larch]

Omega Man is awesome. Heston talks to himself and shoots vampire hippies while wearing a track suit.

Good point.

I think my problem is that Heston's in a lot of epics with someone else who's kind-of out-acting him. He just needs to be stoic and heroic while they've got a lot of work to do, and God do they do it (Brynner especially).

It's the thing with Larger than life heroic characters, they're just there looking impressive, but don't actually *do* much stuff. Baddies and sidekicks allow many more opportunities to ham it out in character and make memorable acting. Take Spartacus, for instance, who do you remember? Laughton, Ustinov and Olivier. Kirk Douglas is there just looking the part.