Saw a Takashi Miike picture called The Great Yokai War. "Yokai" is a Japanese term for monsters from folklore, as opposed to the more familiar kaiju. It's a kids' picture, about a young boy from Tokyo sent out to live in the countryside with his older sister and his intermittently senile grandfather. When a vengeful spirit appears, the boy gets caught up in a war between warring groups of yokai and must find his courage to become the "Kirin Rider", the hero who will set everything to rights. It's not a bad picture - nothing deep, but an amusing story. Some of the yokai are really trippy, Japanese folklore can get pretty "out there", apparently.
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Saw The Twelve Monkeys yesterday. I thought it was pretty good. I hadn't known that Frank Gorshin was in that picture.
12 Monkeys is an awesome movie! I love it!
Just saw Saints and Soldiers. Another good movie. Although I am partial to WWII movies, this one bordered on being a spiritual movie like Facing the Giants. Good action scenes, also.
JD DeLuzio > Mark StanislawskiSeptember 17, 2023 at 7:43am
I'm a huge fan of 12 Monkeys the film and followed the TV series to its uncertain end.
JD DeLuzio > JD DeLuzioSeptember 17, 2023 at 9:02am
And I only posted this because, somehow, after my current post at this thread, I ended up bounced back to here. Time travel apparently works at the new Captain Comics board!
Finally saw The Incredible Hulk. I liked it better than Ang Lee's Hulk. I loved the Tony Stark cameo at the end. Nice way to show the movies are all in the same "Universe."
I saw X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Decent. Not sure if I like the way he lost his memory, though. Kind of lame. Definitely don't like what they did to Deadpool at the end. Other than those two things it was an all right movie.
I recently picked up a copy of the 1931 Fritz Lang film, M. Without giving too much away, it features a young Peter Lorre as a serial killer who terrorizes a German town when he begins murdering small children. (That's not a spoiler, by the by, his identity as the killer is revealed to the audience very early in the picture.) The suspense in the picture derives from the massive manhunt as the police desperately try to uncover and capture him. The police crackdown disrupts the criminal element so much that the local syndicate launches their own hunt for the killer, and Lang makes good use of showing the comparison and contrast between the "legitimate" and "illegitimate" segments of society. This was apparently, Lang's first sound picture, but you'd never've known it, he uses sound very well.
Lorre is unbelievable in this picture. It occurred to me me while watching that I've more imitations of Lorre, than I have films with him in them. But this picture by itself would establish him as a top-level actor. You really believe in Lorre's character as someone capable of doing unspeakable things. There's next to know overt violence in the picture, but Lang uses suggestion so well that you shudder watching this film. The cover copy describes this picture as the seminal psychological thriller movie, and I can believe it.
The picture is in German with subtitles - I mention that only because I know a number of people that can deal with subtitles.
Also, there's at least three guys in this picture who sort of vaguely remind me of Kenneth MacDonald, the guy who was always playing the Three Stooges' crooked lawyer. Must've been a common look back then - I keep waiting for someone to say, "The estate of Uncle Ambrose Rose - and we thank you."
Anyway, I heartily recommend this picture - both as an "historical document", and as a very interesting movie to watch.
I recently picked up a copy of the 1931 Fritz Lang film, M. Without giving too much away, it features a young Peter Lorre as a serial killer who terrorizes a German town when he begins murdering small children. (That's not a spoiler, by the by, his identity as the killer is revealed to the audience very early in the picture.) The suspense in the picture derives from the massive manhunt as the police desperately try to uncover and capture him. The police crackdown disrupts the criminal element so much that the local syndicate launches their own hunt for the killer, and Lang makes good use of showing the comparison and contrast between the "legitimate" and "illegitimate" segments of society. This was apparently, Lang's first sound picture, but you'd never've known it, he uses sound very well.
Lorre is unbelievable in this picture. It occurred to me me while watching that I've more imitations of Lorre, than I have films with him in them. But this picture by itself would establish him as a top-level actor. You really believe in Lorre's character as someone capable of doing unspeakable things. There's next to know overt violence in the picture, but Lang uses suggestion so well that you shudder watching this film. The cover copy describes this picture as the seminal psychological thriller movie, and I can believe it.
The picture is in German with subtitles - I mention that only because I know a number of people that can deal with subtitles.
Also, there's at least three guys in this picture who sort of vaguely remind me of Kenneth MacDonald, the guy who was always playing the Three Stooges' crooked lawyer. Must've been a common look back then - I keep waiting for someone to say, "The estate of Uncle Ambrose Rose - and we thank you."
Anyway, I heartily recommend this picture - both as an "historical document", and as a very interesting movie to watch.
Its a total classic. That scene with the mother setting the table for her little girl is just terrible! I'm affected just thinking about it sitting here.
Those guys knew what they were doing.
I pointed out recently that Morrison stole the set-up of this movie as the back-story for his Batman 'Gothic' story. The idea of the gangsters tracking down the serial killer out of nessecity rather than any moral reasons.
And it ends in that weird moral-philosophical debate. The equivalence of the gangsters' society and so-called civilised society.
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12 Monkeys is an awesome movie! I love it!
Just saw Saints and Soldiers. Another good movie. Although I am partial to WWII movies, this one bordered on being a spiritual movie like Facing the Giants. Good action scenes, also.
I'm a huge fan of 12 Monkeys the film and followed the TV series to its uncertain end.
And I only posted this because, somehow, after my current post at this thread, I ended up bounced back to here. Time travel apparently works at the new Captain Comics board!
I saw X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Decent. Not sure if I like the way he lost his memory, though. Kind of lame. Definitely don't like what they did to Deadpool at the end. Other than those two things it was an all right movie.
Lorre is unbelievable in this picture. It occurred to me me while watching that I've more imitations of Lorre, than I have films with him in them. But this picture by itself would establish him as a top-level actor. You really believe in Lorre's character as someone capable of doing unspeakable things. There's next to know overt violence in the picture, but Lang uses suggestion so well that you shudder watching this film. The cover copy describes this picture as the seminal psychological thriller movie, and I can believe it.
The picture is in German with subtitles - I mention that only because I know a number of people that can deal with subtitles.
Also, there's at least three guys in this picture who sort of vaguely remind me of Kenneth MacDonald, the guy who was always playing the Three Stooges' crooked lawyer. Must've been a common look back then - I keep waiting for someone to say, "The estate of Uncle Ambrose Rose - and we thank you."
Anyway, I heartily recommend this picture - both as an "historical document", and as a very interesting movie to watch.
Its a total classic. That scene with the mother setting the table for her little girl is just terrible! I'm affected just thinking about it sitting here.
Those guys knew what they were doing.
I pointed out recently that Morrison stole the set-up of this movie as the back-story for his Batman 'Gothic' story. The idea of the gangsters tracking down the serial killer out of nessecity rather than any moral reasons.
And it ends in that weird moral-philosophical debate. The equivalence of the gangsters' society and so-called civilised society.
They don't make em like that anymore.
You can never go wrong with Clint
WELCOME TO HELL - indeed!
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