Southern Cross Posted October 28, 2012 Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Moon is a great movie (I have the DVD). I have recently discovered that the new Hammer has an official Youtube channel and spent part of my Sunday afternoon watching X-The Unknown, which was the late Jimmy Sangster's first full-length movie. One of the best 50's blob movies around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted October 28, 2012 Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? hellboy [fx version] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? My mom wanted to do a movie night, and I just got home from it. The movie she wanted to see was Argo, and with some initial trepidation (largely due to the R rating which I tend to avoid these days) I went along. Argo is a suspense film set during the Iranian hostage crisis of 1980. Six American diplomats had gotten off the embassy compound and were hiding out in the residence of the Canadian Ambassador. Argo is the story of an audacious and unlikely intelligence operation to bring them home, led by a maverick "exfiltration" specialist, by smuggling them out of the country disguised as a Canadian location scouting crew for a movie. Suspense is the operative word. The last twenty minutes are about as much tension as I've experienced at the movies in a very long time. I was literally shaking near the end. The most unlikely thing about the movie is that it's based on the actual rescue operation, the accounts of which were declassified seventeen years after the fact. At the time the Canadians got all the credit for the rescue (and took all the Iranian retribution). [And the rating? It's for language. People, especially the Hollywood types played by John Goodman and Alan Arkin, drop F-bombs like there's no tomorrow -- one particular context for which becoming a running gag throughout the Hollywood sections of the movie.] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? hell boy swordof storms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? The Hollow Crown. This is a series of four Shakespeare plays filmed for Television being Richard II, Henry IV parts 1 and 2 amd Henry V. Richard II has Ben Allershaw and Rory Kinnear playing Richard and Henry and they are both in Skyfall playing Q and Tanner respectively. Henry IV part 1 has Jeremy Irons playing the King with Tom Hiddleston playing Prince Hal. Alun Armstrong and his son play Northumberland and Hotspur respectively. Henry IV part 2 deals with Henry's decline and death with Hal taking the throne during which he forsakes Falstaff Henry V sees the action go into France but omits certain details like the traitors scene and Pistol's last speech. It is very good but I would say that you have to like Shakespeare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? i am number four Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer Posted October 31, 2012 Report Share Posted October 31, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? A Halloween double-feature event at a local theater: Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted October 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Iron Man 2. Not as good as the first, but fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer Posted October 31, 2012 Report Share Posted October 31, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Argo is a suspense film set during the Iranian hostage crisis of 1980. There's a Kickstarter for a documentary that claims to tell the true story behind this. It evidently involves Jack Kirby. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scifilandmovie/science-fiction-land-a-stranger-than-fiction-doc?ref=users Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted October 31, 2012 Report Share Posted October 31, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? kung fu panda the po who cried ghost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted November 2, 2012 Report Share Posted November 2, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? quantom of silence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 2, 2012 Report Share Posted November 2, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Much better that IJ:KotCS, and would be pretty good if it wasn't for that wretched woman screaming all the time ... Apocalypse Now: Redux, again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevelon Posted November 4, 2012 Report Share Posted November 4, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? The Man with the Iron Fists. I can't say it was good. It was very schlocky. And cheesy. And gore splattered. Parts of it came off like bad fan-fiction. The only reason I saw it was a friend of mine put the call out to go see a movie together as a group, and I had a gift card collecting dust. I think it would be greatly improved by a pair of beers. Which we had after the movie, when the lot of us tried out an english-style pub we had heard about. Mmmm... Shepherd's Pie.... (But the foodie threads are over there...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted November 4, 2012 Report Share Posted November 4, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? the man with the iron fists Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted November 15, 2012 Report Share Posted November 15, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? te expndables extened version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Jim Posted November 15, 2012 Report Share Posted November 15, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? chronicle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted November 15, 2012 Report Share Posted November 15, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Watched Hanna. Girl is trained in the wilderness by her father. She decides to go out in the bigger world. The problem is her mom was experimented on and the girl is a prototype super soldier that the project wants dead. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted November 16, 2012 Report Share Posted November 16, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? some 1080s herculoids episodes from space stars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted November 16, 2012 Report Share Posted November 16, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? The Desert Fox with James Mason as Rommel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted November 16, 2012 Report Share Posted November 16, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? street fighter round one fight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 16, 2012 Report Share Posted November 16, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? The Desert Fox with James Mason as Rommel. how was it? been thinking of watching that some day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted November 19, 2012 Report Share Posted November 19, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Oddly enough, there is an entire PlayOn chapter devoted to the 1960's Batman series (the campy one with Adam West). It can stream to my Xbox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted November 20, 2012 Report Share Posted November 20, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? a ppv of expendables two Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BNakagawa Posted November 20, 2012 Report Share Posted November 20, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I watched the Chicago Bears get crushed at the Stick. The weather was surprisingly pleasant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevelon Posted November 20, 2012 Report Share Posted November 20, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Just finished watching all the BBC's Top Gear on Netflix. Good stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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