The Film Thread! - Page 2

Weiss Pinguin · 05-26-10, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I just picked up a cheap copy of Destination Tokyo, and watched it for the first time in probably fifty years.

Much to my surprise, it was a pretty good sub movie! Had some of the olde cliches, including the true story of an on-board appendix removal, and a 'man-goes-crazy-under-depthcharging' scene that predates Das Boot by almost forty years.

The plot is total BS, but the acting is good, the sub interiors are real and the modelwork and special effects are superb!

I highly recommend it.

I remember watching that on TCM a while back, nothing like a good classic movie before heading to bed. Definitely recommend this one too

Jimbuna · 05-26-10, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I just picked up a cheap copy of Destination Tokyo, and watched it for the first time in probably fifty years.

Much to my surprise, it was a pretty good sub movie! Had some of the olde cliches, including the true story of an on-board appendix removal, and a 'man-goes-crazy-under-depthcharging' scene that predates Das Boot by almost forty years.

The plot is total BS, but the acting is good, the sub interiors are real and the modelwork and special effects are superb!

I highly recommend it.

I remember my dad relling me about that film

My lasting memory was the anger I felt when a sailor got stabbed off a Japanese pilot (I think) when he rescued him.

ajrimmer42 · 05-26-10, 10:55 AM

hmm, my favourite film has to be Withnail & I. I'don't really know why I like it so much but i can watch it over and over again and not get bored of it

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Sailor Steve · 05-26-10, 11:10 AM

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My lasting memory was the anger I felt when a sailor got stabbed off a Japanese pilot (I think) when he rescued him.

What impressed me was Cary Grant's line about that incident. He talks about Americans giving their kids roller skates for their fifth birthday, and a Japanese kid gets a knife, and grows up knowing how to use it. The reason we're fighting this war isn't just to protect our own kids, but to guarantee that the next generation of Japanese kids are given roller skates too.

And this was made in 1943.

Jimbuna · 05-26-10, 11:18 AM

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What impressed me was Cary Grant's line about that incedent. He talks about Americans giving their kids roller skates for their fifth birthday, and a Japanese kid gets a knife, and grows up knowing how to use it. The reason we're fighting this war isn't just to protect our own kids, but to guarantee that the next generation of Japanese kids are given roller skates too.

And this was made in 1943.

Sorry Steve, it was so long ago that I watched it I can only remember the stabbing

Sailor Steve · 05-26-10, 11:20 AM

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Sorry Steve, it was so long ago that I watched it I can only remember the stabbing

As I said, I watched it just a few days ago. Before that all I remembered was that they went to Tokyo.

Anyway, the movies I put in and watch more than any others are The Thee Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, directed by Richard Lester and starring Michael York as D'Artagnan, Oliver Reed as Athos, Richard Chamberlain as Aramis and Frank Finlay as Porthos, with Christoper Lee as Rochefort, Raquel Welch as Constance, Faye Dunaway as Milady de Winter, Simon Ward as the Duke of Buckingham, Jean-Pierre Cassel as Louis XII, Geraldine Chaplain as Anne of Austria and Charleton Heston Richelieu.

Bad: Porthos is described in the book as a giant, and Finlay is the shortes actor in the movie. But he struts around like a giant, which is very funny.

The humor is British rather than French, which draws complaints from purists, of which I am one.

Good: While I have a few minor nitpicks, these two movies together are more faithful to the best-selling novel of all time than any other I have seen. And I've seen a lot.

They are thoroughly enjoyable. I usually put in the first one just to watch the first fifteen minutes, up to the fight in the convent. That is so close to the book that it's almost word-for-word. The problem is that by that point I'm hooked, and three hours is gone from my day. That said, my biggest complaint is that they aren't longer.

Jimbuna · 05-26-10, 04:03 PM

You left out Roy Kinnear and Spike Milligan....not major parts I know, but good supporting character roles.

I must confess to enjoying the later release (Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Tim Curry et al) almost as much.

TarJak · 05-26-10, 07:46 PM

Speaking of classics particularly Gregory Peck classics, I don;t think you can go past GP as Horatio Hornblower.

Some great model making and SFX for the time it was made.

Sailor Steve · 05-26-10, 08:05 PM

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I must confess to enjoying the later release (Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Tim Curry et al) almost as much.

Ewww! I hate that movie, partly because they threw out the whole book and wrote their own story, and partly because Curry mugged his way through the role of one of the most frighteningly intimidating characters in liturature. Heston really captures the spirit, especially in his 'spy' scene with Christopher Lee. The only one who compares is Vincent Price in the Gene Kelly version.

Sorry, I just can't stomach that one at all.

Sailor Steve · 05-26-10, 08:07 PM

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Speaking of classics particularly Gregory Peck classics, I don;t think you can go past GP as Horatio Hornblower.

Even though they combined three novels into one fairly short movie, I agree. They did a masterful job.

Speaking of Peck, Frau K already mentioned To Kill A Mockingbird, but don't forget Moby Dick.

Some amazing model work there, too.

frau kaleun · 05-26-10, 09:33 PM

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Even though they combined three novels into one fairly short movie, I agree. They did a masterful job.

Speaking of Peck, Frau K already mentioned To Kill A Mockingbird, but don't forget Moby Dick.

Some amazing model work there, too.

HH and MB - both awesome.

Actually Peck gave so many great performances that it's hard to remember them all.

Gentleman's Agreement, The Big Country (one of only a handful of westerns I've voluntarily sat through more than once), Roman Holiday, The Guns of Navarone, Captain Newman, M.D., Cape Fear...

One of my guilty pleasures is watching him in The Boys From Brazil. Especially since he's one performer I've always admired as an actor AND a human being... not that he hadn't played morally ambivalent or even downright unlikeable characters before, but Mengele? The very idea was mind-boggling.

Sailor Steve · 05-26-10, 10:06 PM

The movie was pretty mediocre, but Peck and Olivier gave their usual outstanding performances and made it worth watching. Once.

And it didn't hurt to have James Mason, Denholm Elliott, and Rosemary Harris, and...Anne Meara? A young Bruno Ganz? Good thing I looked at IMDB. I may have to watch it again just for the cast.

Ewww! Somebody's talking about a remake. Talk only so far.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0841010/

TarJak · 05-27-10, 02:21 AM

It's funny I never really worked out why James Mason was always cast as a nazi baddie either. He was very good at it but if you knew his background it was the antithises of a nazi being a conchie during WWII and brought up in 'Uddersfield.

I thought Mason was great as Rommel in The Desert Fox.

kiwi_2005 · 05-27-10, 02:48 AM

Didn't know about this thread.

Recent movies ive watched:

Valhalla Rising - Good, slow at times but worth a look.

Kick-ass. Why was this R18? Apart from the swearing ive seen R16 movies worse than this. Kick ass was okay if your looking for some laughs.

Cargo - German made movie: about humans now living on massive space stations where earth is just a memory, there is rumors of Rhea a earth like planet. Laura Portmann wants to get to Rhea but money is needed so she takes on a job in a cargo ship a 4 yr journey. The crew members spend the most time of the fully automated flight in deep sleep while, in 8 months shifts, always one person stays awake to monitor the space ship.

I enjoyed this movie apart from the last 15min it kinda dies. Still okay for space freaks.

IP Man 2 - If your seen the first one your like the 2nd as well. IP man is a Chinese movie about the treatment from the Japanese during world war 2, IP man has to fight Japanese Karate champs to stay alive type of thing. IP2 carries on after the war.

ajrimmer42 · 05-27-10, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by TarJak

Speaking of classics particularly Gregory Peck classics, I don;t think you can go past GP as Horatio Hornblower.

Some great model making and SFX for the time it was made.

Still not seen that. I'm a massive fan of the Ioan Gruffud ones though, he plays a good Hornblower.

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ajrimmer42 Royal Kinotropist Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Sheffield, UK Posts: 987 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	hmm, my favourite film has to be Withnail & I. I'don't really know why I like it so much but i can watch it over and over again and not get bored of it "We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here and we want them now!" __________________ Alex Don't judge a ship by the number of it's guns, but by the skill of it's crew.

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,938 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	You left out Roy Kinnear and Spike Milligan....not major parts I know, but good supporting character roles. I must confess to enjoying the later release (Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Tim Curry et al) almost as much. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	The movie was pretty mediocre, but Peck and Olivier gave their usual outstanding performances and made it worth watching. Once. And it didn't hurt to have James Mason, Denholm Elliott, and Rosemary Harris, and...Anne Meara? A young Bruno Ganz? Good thing I looked at IMDB. I may have to watch it again just for the cast. Ewww! Somebody's talking about a remake. Talk only so far. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0841010/ __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

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kiwi_2005 Eternal Patrol Join Date: May 2004 Location: Aeoteroa Posts: 7,382 Downloads: 223 Uploads: 1	Didn't know about this thread. Recent movies ive watched: Valhalla Rising - Good, slow at times but worth a look. Kick-ass. Why was this R18? Apart from the swearing ive seen R16 movies worse than this. Kick ass was okay if your looking for some laughs. Cargo - German made movie: about humans now living on massive space stations where earth is just a memory, there is rumors of Rhea a earth like planet. Laura Portmann wants to get to Rhea but money is needed so she takes on a job in a cargo ship a 4 yr journey. The crew members spend the most time of the fully automated flight in deep sleep while, in 8 months shifts, always one person stays awake to monitor the space ship. I enjoyed this movie apart from the last 15min it kinda dies. Still okay for space freaks. IP Man 2 - If your seen the first one your like the 2nd as well. IP man is a Chinese movie about the treatment from the Japanese during world war 2, IP man has to fight Japanese Karate champs to stay alive type of thing. IP2 carries on after the war. __________________ RIP kiwi_2005 Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

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TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	Speaking of classics particularly Gregory Peck classics, I don;t think you can go past GP as Horatio Hornblower. Some great model making and SFX for the time it was made.

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TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	It's funny I never really worked out why James Mason was always cast as a nazi baddie either. He was very good at it but if you knew his background it was the antithises of a nazi being a conchie during WWII and brought up in 'Uddersfield. I thought Mason was great as Rommel in The Desert Fox.