Random Movie Discussion

[Butters]

I liked Dracula: Dead and Loving It as well as the Get Short movie.

 

[Deezy]

He tried doing a Spaceballs cartoon......it was terrible.

 

[Kairi HoHo]

Francis Ford Coppola has released Al Pacino’s audition tape for The Godfather.

On YouTube, Coppola’s official account released video footage of Pacino auditioning to play the role of Michael Corleone in 1972’s The Godfather.

Al Pacino The Godfather Audition Tape Released by Francis Ford Coppola

The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola releases Al Pacino's audition tape to play the role of Michael Corleone.

www.comingsoon.net

 

[Deezy]

 

[Y2Jayne]

I had not seen Training Day in more than a decade and I forgot how great it was.

 

[Tommy Shelby]

Hadn't seen Masters of the universe since I was a kid and didn't realize how good Frank Langella portrayed Skeletor in the movie.

 

[JakeYourBooty]

Here’s the cast from Revenge of the Nerds doing a panel for the 40th anniversary it’s very entertaining

 

[Tommy Shelby]

Percy Jackson and The Sea of Monsters. Had never seen it before and wished I had of not seen it. What a waste of time. I hear the new TV show is pretty good. Anyone watched it yet?

 

[Chris]

@Grimoire Lenin moving here instead of the election thread but trying to remember everything I watched in the class.

For sure:
A trip to the moon (what in my research I'd also agree is the first true "film" that had a cohesive narrative)
Intolerance (the not Birth of a Nation film by that guy)
Cabinet of Caligari
Metropolis (the most complete version which I hadn't seen before that class, I didn't even know more was recovered)
Un cien andalou (avant garde short film with a famous eye slicing clip that I was told I legit had to stop posting when WWE did the eye for an eye match gimmick bc it made people too uncomfortable)
Clips of the jazz singer bc of relevance for sound but not the whole movie bc racist
Duck Soup
Wizard of Oz
Great dictator
Tokyo story

I think we watched:
The general (we talked about buster Keaton, I've seen this a couple times, can't remember if once was in the class)
Modern times/city lights/the kid (maybe two of these three, we had a Chaplin section. I also had a Chaplin phase, hard to remember when I watched what)
Vertigo (can't remember if on my own time or class again lol)

Also we watched a ton of footage from like the 1910s and some before the 1900s of just the first uses of recording video bc they were technically relevant having survived to present day, definitely not films though, but I believe they're technically classified as short ones

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

All very solid films

 

[Chris]

Yeah I was very impressed tbh lol I took it as an elective but she taught it pretty strict which pissed people off but I didn't really care that the exams were kinda hard when she picked good movies

 

[Chris]

Also for the final project we had to write an extended essay on a film from the time frame of the class that we didn't watch, I don't even remember what options I wanted but I remember being pissed that the random order she drew for the film draft had me miss like 5 I wanted before I settled for King Kong which I still like so I guess that's fine lol

 

[Fuji Vice]

I don't really review movies anymore, and pretty much everything from when I did has been lost to history, but I watched Midnight Special (2016) today for the first time since I saw it on release day. I'm not about to write a lengthy review, but I will say that it's worth your time if you haven't seen it. I'd give it a 7.5/10 on the old Fuji scale and it may (a big MAY) have inspired me to at least consider writing short form reviews for this forum down the road. For whatever that's worth.

 

[Wang Chung]

I don't really review movies anymore, and pretty much everything from when I did has been lost to history, but I watched Midnight Special (2016) today for the first time since I saw it on release day. I'm not about to write a lengthy review, but I will say that it's worth your time if you haven't seen it. I'd give it a 7.5/10 on the old Fuji scale and it may (a big MAY) have inspired me to at least consider writing short form reviews for this forum down the road. For whatever that's worth.

I do believe wing Kong exchange one.thst you did is still here. @Smart Marx would know that.

 

[Tommy Shelby]

Darkest Hour is well worth a watch on Netflix with Gary Oldman Starring as the finest orator of his generation Sir Winston Churchill. He got elected as many will know due to Neville Chamberlain not having Great Britain prepared for war and Churchill had been warning of The Rise of The Nazis and was as long back as 1932 which fell on deaf ears.

Lord Halifax could of had the job as Prime Minister but was a pacifist according to historical documents and in the movie it showed , how devious and sly he was in the movie. He kept saying he would resign and in the end Churchill told him he had to do what his mind told him. The speech at the end of the movie showed true British spirit of never giving in and fighting with all our might.

One of the best War movies I've ever seen in recent times.