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| lady wakasa |
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whiskeypriest wrote: I am somehow reminded (Mo!) that over the weekend, TCM ran Metropolis on its silent movie Saturday show. I saw it when I was in college, many many years ago, on a pretty bad print. My review of it after seeing it again?
Holy Crap! Holy, Holy, CRAP! I gotta see that again, like, now!
It was restored in 2000 or so, and they added back in quite of bit of material that had been edited out both during the original runs (German and US) and later.
The story is much much better for it, too. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 3:27 pm |
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That's good news, Lady.
I really wanted to watch it over the weekend, but it was on late and I find silent films are really difficult to watch when you're about to fall asleep.
I'll be renting it. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:37 pm |
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Marj wrote: I'll be renting it.
Definitely do that! Look for the restored version, 124 minutes. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:43 pm |
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Speaking of METROPOLIS, there was a good restoration with tinted portions that came out in the early '80's. The downside (I guess) was that it had a score by MORODER.
I saw it at a preview screening. I don't know what happened with it. It was aimed at the college audience. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:49 pm |
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JACKASS NO. 2 fans -- you're right. This movie isn't doing it for me. I don't think <movielover> would think much of this movie either. The big question is do I continue to watch or do I switch to fastforward?
The pranks remind me of a bunch of drunk guys on spring break. Was the first JACKASS any better?
I do like Wee Man, however. I've been watching the new reality TV show called "Armed and Famous," in which some second rate stars (La Toya Jackson, Erik Estrada, Wee Man, etc.) train and then go out with the Muncie, IN police dept. Being from Indiana originally, I find this humorous - as the regular Muncie cops seem pretty starstruck. For example, La Toya can do no wrong. Erik has a big advantage because he's probably the only bi-lingual cop on the force! |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:50 pm |
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| I like the current Kino Video version. Good documentary along with the movie, too. I wish, for nostalgia sake, the Giorgio Moroder version would get a DVD release. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:56 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: I like the current Kino Video version. Good documentary along with the movie, too. I wish, for nostalgia sake, the Giorgio Moroder version would get a DVD release.
Sorry, I mixed up Vangelis with MORODER.
I saw this version of "Metropolis" at the huge theater at MGM - with a flawless print and gt. sound. It was an awesome experience.
They also previewed "Buckaroo Bonzai" that nite! |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:30 pm |
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mo_flixx wrote: JACKASS NO. 2 fans -- you're right. This movie isn't doing it for me. I don't think <movielover> would think much of this movie either. The big question is do I continue to watch or do I switch to fastforward?
The pranks remind me of a bunch of drunk guys on spring break. Was the first JACKASS any better?
I do like Wee Man, however.
Don't fast forward... or at least too much. It really is mostly a guy movie.
Then you've got to catch some of the stunts that he does. The electic stool is funny, as is the one where he gets blown by a huge gust a wind with a parachute on. There's other stuff he does that's pretty funny, but those are standouts. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:49 am |
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Wee Man's best - the stunt hosted by John Waters??
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As I watched (did NOT fastforward) JACKASS NO. 2 to its conclusion, I continued to find very little that I thought was funny.
This a.m. I looked it up on the imdb.com . I see there are LOTS of JACKASS TV shows & the first movie - obvious hits for director Jeff Tremaine and writer Spike Jonz. "Writer" Knoxville, who appears NOT to get as good as he gives in NO. 2, actually was knocked out 3 times as well as being injured in the first movie. The first movie was shot in Japan because of looser laws. One scene in NO. 2 had to be modified to prevent the movie's getting an NC-17 rating.
I couldn't help but make a comparison between BORAT and JACKASS NO. 2 while I watched. Both are comedies. JACKASS NO. 2 seems to deal with humiliation (which has been one criticism leveled at BORAT). The difference - well, the Jackass guys all volunteered and knew what they were getting into. They didn't seem to mind that they might get injured (and from the imdb.com trivia, plenty of them did).
That being said, I didn't find it funny that some of the stunts were so intensely scary that participants urinated on themselves. One of the last stunts (the terrorist taxi ride) was the quintessential example. I found it particularly cruel. BTW, all of the humiliated participants react with good humor - but they almost HAD to. Again, it's that frat boy/ locker room kind of thing where a guy better be a "good sport?" "Take it like a man," right?
According to the imdb.com, Knoxville didn't even know who Lon Chaney was when he referred to him in the first movie. He'd seen the Chaney star on Hollywood Blvd. Knoxville's inspiration for many of the stunts come from Warner Bros. cartoons.
In conclusion, I found one stunt particularly pathetic. The filmmakers have ripped off the famous Buster Keaton stunt of the big house with tiny window falling on Keaton while the window misses him - leaving Keaton standing as if nothing had happened. This is one of the great classic moments of cinema.
In the JACKASS NO. 2 version, a house with a _huge_ window falls on Knoxville and the window misses him. Sorry folks, but it's already been done before; and KEATON DID IT BETTER. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:55 am |
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Joe Vitus wrote: A friend tells me the Jackass movies are the most homoerotic non-porn available. Any comments?
Joe, I DID make that observation while I watched. Just a little too much male bonding to be 100% straight IMO. |
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| bart |
| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:48 am |
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Saw "Stay" -- I think I've figured out why the Ambrose Bierce ending is so popular in psychological thrillers:
if you're a crappy writer/director, you can bandage all the plot holes and warts by the fact that the narrative is just a dream of a brain that is dying and running out of oxygen. Then, add lots of pretty SFX and spooky camera angles, and no one will complain too much.
Blech. |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:50 am |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:53 am |
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bart wrote: Saw "Stay" -- I think I've figured out why the Ambrose Bierce ending is so popular in psychological thrillers:
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Add to that episodic TV cliffhangers. The "it was just a dream" explanation has been used over and over and over again. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:35 am |
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mo_flixx wrote: Joe Vitus wrote: A friend tells me the Jackass movies are the most homoerotic non-porn available. Any comments?
Joe, I DID make that observation while I watched. Just a little too much male bonding to be 100% straight IMO.
To quote "Guy Love" from the Scrubs musical:
It's like I married my best friend
But in a totally manly way.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 12:22 pm |
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FYI - the online video rental store NicheFlix is going out of business, and selling off part of its stock.
Mostly - but not solely - multiregion DVDs. A few of these were limited edition versions of movies. The movies themselves are worldwide releases.
http://stores.ebay.com/The-Foreign-Region |
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