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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 22, 2014 9:27:14 GMT -5
I've seen him in a couple of (non-major, of course) horror movies fairly recently. Never seen Tombstone. I'm sure it's a fine movie, but nothing about it sounds at all like anything that would interest me. My loss, undoubtedly. I thought the same. I'm not really a fan of the genre, but it was THAT GOOD. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 22, 2014 9:30:21 GMT -5
I think I'm the only person in the world who really, really liked Twixt. What did you think of it, Icc? (Apologies if you've posted that, here or elsewhere, & I missed it ... no caffeine yet this a.m.) Wow, I never heard of the movie Twixt. My movie watching has diminished over the years., I'm afraid. My brother even gave me bootleg copies of the last X-men movie and the Noah movie which I haven't gotten around to seeing. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2014 9:33:32 GMT -5
Oh, crap -- sorry. It was adam who was watching Twixt last night, not you.
Caffeine ... STAT!
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 22, 2014 9:56:05 GMT -5
Oh, crap -- sorry. It was adam who was watching Twixt last night, not you. Caffeine ... STAT! I liked it. It turned into a much different movie than what I thought it would start out being. The vague netflix synopsis hinted a bit of supernatural, but the start of the movie gave me a completely different impression of what I was about to view. I in particular found the liquor swigging Poe dream guide the most entertaining part of the movie. And referring to your past comment on Tombstone, to be honest Val Kilmer is the highlight of the movie. That's why I posted what I did about his role. Otherwise it's an okay movie. Not bad by any means but nothing that not watching it is not going to change your life. But I'm also NOT a western fan and certainly not a MODERN western movie fan. |
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Post by The Captain on Nov 22, 2014 10:11:36 GMT -5
Just finished the weekly grocery shopping and am enjoying a cup of coffee before heading to the basement to start getting it cleaned out ahead of our contractor coming in to finish the room and add approximately 400 feet of living space to the house.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2014 10:20:46 GMT -5
Oh, crap -- sorry. It was adam who was watching Twixt last night, not you. Caffeine ... STAT! I liked it. It turned into a much different movie than what I thought it would start out being. The vague netflix synopsis hinted a bit of supernatural, but the start of the movie gave me a completely different impression of what I was about to view. I in particular found the liquor swigging Poe dream guide the most entertaining part of the movie. Well, cool! I pick at you (& I apologize ... FWIW, I tend to do that with people I really like, as I'm sure is obvious around here) for supposedly not "getting" horror, but the fact of the matter is that the hardcore horror fans I know, both IRL & online, didn't like this one at all. Heck, Rue Morgue, the best genre mag on the 'stands ( Fangoria has improved by leaps & bounds the last couple of years under the guidance of a former RM editor, but it's plagued by erratic publishing & distribution patterns that would put a fly-by-night indie comics outfit to shame), savaged the movie, though a couple of issues later they did publish a letter from me registering my difference of opinion. Said letter also noted my fondness for another movie they (& seemingly just about everyone else) also hated, Gallowwalkers. If you haven't seen that, I'd love to know what you think of it as well. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 22, 2014 10:54:27 GMT -5
Gallowwalker is in netflix instant so I'll give it a viewing sometime this weekend.
I liked Twixt because I like horror that doesn't use gore as it's only tool to horrify. Twixt had more than that.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 22, 2014 13:59:26 GMT -5
I'm getting ready to watch a local theater production of West Side Story with my wife.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2014 14:23:10 GMT -5
Watching TV and having a lazy Saturday ... Had a busy week
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 22, 2014 22:45:16 GMT -5
I'm getting ready to watch a local theater production of West Side Story with my wife. My condolences. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2014 23:18:19 GMT -5
Yeah. Sort of sounds like hell to me, but then I don't watch musicals except on the rarest of occasions. (One would be, of course, Rocky Horror; more recently, there's also Hedwig & the Angry Inch. Damn Yankees comes to mind as well.)
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Post by berkley on Nov 23, 2014 0:20:11 GMT -5
I grew up watching old Hollywood musicals, along with all kinds of other old movies, on tv and learned to like them pretty early on. I also like the musical interludes in all the Marx Brothers films, and Abbot and Costello.
There are still a bunch of famous ones I haven't seen, though. Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, for example. One of these days I'll make watching them a project.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Nov 23, 2014 1:01:50 GMT -5
I grew up watching old Hollywood musicals, along with all kinds of other old movies, on tv and learned to like them pretty early on. I also like the musical interludes in all the Marx Brothers films, and Abbot and Costello. There are still a bunch of famous ones I haven't seen, though. Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, for example. One of these days I'll make watching them a project. You might enjoy Gold Diggers of 1933, a lavish pre-code Warner Bros. musical with choreography by the legendary Busby Berkeley and starring Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell, with appearances by Ginger Rogers and a very young Billy Barty.
Among the musical numbers is "We're in the Money," which you may remember from every Warner Bros. cartoon where some character strikes it rich.
As if that weren't enough, "Pettin' in the Park" features dwarf actor Billy Barty as a baby, and rain-soaked actresses who undress in silhouette and emerge in armor. The male actors' attempts to remove the armor fail until Barty's baby gives them a can opener! Yeah, that really happens.
It's surreal, salacious, and sublime.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 23, 2014 7:41:01 GMT -5
I'm getting ready to watch a local theater production of West Side Story with my wife. My condolences. Not at all. My favorite musical and one of my favorite all time movies is West Side Story. The play was pro level down to the choreography. |
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Post by mrc1214 on Nov 23, 2014 9:53:03 GMT -5
Getting ready to go to Target to go Christmas shopping or whatever else catches her fancy with the girlfriend. Then maybe watching football the rest of the day.
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