TV/Movies Megathread

[The Brain]

I saw that.

[Josquius]

kick-ass 2: I  have a problem. I never get to see films when they're at the cinema and then I totally forget they were ever made. The other day I only just remembered this one existed and I wanted to see it.
Its very good. I like it. It also features the funniest rape scene ever.

[The Brain]

It also features the funniest rape scene ever.

I find this very hard to believe.

[Savonarola]

Also watched Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928).  At turns extremely funny, but what raises this up to the status of a genuine classic is that amazing, I mean amazing, tornado sequence that climaxes the film.  I don't even know how they did some of it, and I'm pretty sure Keaton could have died for some of those gags.  Movies are rarely if ever made like this anymore, but they were made like this once, and they were awesome.

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The house falling on Buster Keaton is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.  That was a full weight wall which would have killed Buster if it had been slightly off.  IMDB says that half his production crew walked off the set rather than be part of such a dangerous stunt.

[viper37]

Rewatched Das Boot after reading the book. I really liked it the first time so figured it would still be fine now. It's not 

149, 209 or 293 minutes version?

[Savonarola]

True Heart Susie (1919)

This is a pastoral film directed by DW Griffith and starring Lilian Gish as a plain country girl.  In order to be plain Lilian has only the front of her lips painted and sucks in her cheeks; which makes it look like she's giving us Blue Steel throughout the picture.  She and Robert Harron are childhood sweethearts in a small town.  She sells her cow so that she may send him to college (which she does as an anonymous benefactor.)  He returns and falls for a "Fast" girl from Chicago.  They have a miserable marriage and the fast girl dies of pneumonia after sneaking out to a party.  Robert eventually realizes that he always loved Lilian and they live happily ever after.   

The very first inter-title card reads:  Do men look for the true heart in women? Or are most of them caught by the net of paint, powder and suggestive clothes?  The film teaches us that it's what's inside that counts and not glitz or glamor; a truly wonderful message coming from Hollywood, CA.

Despite the maudlin story and dubious message the film is enjoyable.  Griffith and Gish give the film the sparkle it needs.

[The Brain]

John Carter

Å - What the fuck did I just watch??!?

But seriously, it was totally decent.

[Savonarola]

Hoodoo Ann (1916)

Mae Marsh ("Little Sister" from "Birth of a Nation") is Ann an orphan who was brought to the orphanage on a Friday the 13th.  All the other orphans pick on her (and when you're being bullied by orphans you know you're a loser.)  The African-American maid tells her that she has a hoodoo on her that won't be lifted until she's married; after which Ann will have trouble enough without a hoodoo.  Meanwhile in the town a married couple is fighting and drinking hard cider.  Meanwhile in another part of the town a boy longs to be an cartoonist, but his father says no.  Meanwhile in still another part of the town an older couple mourns their lost daughter.

Somehow all these threads tie together; first the orphanage catches fire, Ann saves one of the girls (who was her worst tormentor) and she's adopted to the older couple.  The older couple lives next door to the young artist who begins courting Ann.  They go to the movies and see a western.  The next day Ann dresses up as the heroine and plays around with a gun she finds lying around (it's the Florida school of gun safety.)  The gun goes off in the direction of the cider drinking couples house (also a next door neighbor as it turns out.)  Ann thinks she's shot the man of the house and hilarity ensues but everything works out in the end.

There's way too much going on, and none of it seems to connect together until well into the films 60 minute run time. 

[Barrister]

Hoodoo Ann (1916)

Mae Marsh ("Little Sister" from "Birth of a Nation") is Ann an orphan who was brought to the orphanage on a Friday the 13th.  All the other orphans pick on her (and when you're being bullied by orphans you know you're a loser.)  The African-American maid tells her that she has a hoodoo on her that won't be lifted until she's married; after which Ann will have trouble enough without a hoodoo.  Meanwhile in the town a married couple is fighting and drinking hard cider.  Meanwhile in another part of the town a boy longs to be an cartoonist, but his father says no.  Meanwhile in still another part of the town an older couple mourns their lost daughter.

Somehow all these threads tie together; first the orphanage catches fire, Ann saves one of the girls (who was her worst tormentor) and she's adopted to the older couple.  The older couple lives next door to the young artist who begins courting Ann.  They go to the movies and see a western.  The next day Ann dresses up as the heroine and plays around with a gun she finds lying around (it's the Florida school of gun safety.)  The gun goes off in the direction of the cider drinking couples house (also a next door neighbor as it turns out.)  Ann thinks she's shot the man of the house and hilarity ensues but everything works out in the end.

There's way too much going on, and none of it seems to connect together until well into the films 60 minute run time.

A hoodoo?

[Maladict]

Rewatched Das Boot after reading the book. I really liked it the first time so figured it would still be fine now. It's not 

149, 209 or 293 minutes version?

209. After reading the book I can understand why the author didn't like it.

[Savonarola]

A hoodoo?

Hoodoo is also a collection of folk beliefs and magic; in the case of the film it's used to mean a curse.  Hoodoo is usually found in the American south and as such has a connection with blues music and later some variants of rock and roll.  Chuck Berry says that he's going to have a gypsy woman send out a worldwide hoodoo in "30 Days" and CCR says that they're "Chasing a hoodoo down there" in "Born on the Bayou."

[Viking]

John Carter

Å - What the fuck did I just watch??!?

But seriously, it was totally decent.

psst, non-scandies don't know that Å is the last letter of the alphabet.
psst2, scandies don't know that F is the worst possible character

[The Brain]

John Carter

Å - What the fuck did I just watch??!?

But seriously, it was totally decent.

psst, non-scandies don't know that Å is the last letter of the alphabet.
psst2, scandies don't know that F is the worst possible character

Sigh.

[Ed Anger]

Rewatched Das Boot after reading the book. I really liked it the first time so figured it would still be fine now. It's not 

149, 209 or 293 minutes version?

They all suck

[Caliga]

I saw Anchorman 2 last week.  I liked it.  The first one was better though.