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Post by pinkadilly on Jan 9, 2007 15:23:19 GMT
the last thing for me was Revenve of the pink panther
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Post by benjaminballon on Jan 14, 2007 11:54:41 GMT
I watched The Omen yesterday, with Martin Benson in the role of a priest. What a film! Not an ordinary horror picture, with religious questions, but still so thrilling...
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Post by Clouseau on Jan 15, 2007 20:38:35 GMT
yesterday, i watched Being There again... the day before that, i watched Steve Martin in The Out-of-Towners for the first time... it was decently funny... not his best work, but not a total waste of time...
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Post by ben on Jan 15, 2007 21:26:00 GMT
The last Pink Panther movie I watched was "Revenge of the Pink Panther", I don't watch that one alot. Always fun.
Yesterday in the post I received two related DVDs... "Around the world in 80 days" starring David Niven, and the big one... finally, I got the german dvd of "The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu".
I was feeling rather tired from work yesterday, I sat down and watched about 15 minutes of "Around the world in 80 days", and I thought I'd leave it at that and resume watching and finishing this movie before I went on to Fu Manchu, but I couldn't hold back any longer - I put Fu Manchu on and watched about 15 or 20 minutes of it.
I don't know what all the bad reviews are about. It's not going to make you gag from laughter like Clouseau or anything like that, but its fun, and its silly. If you can appreciate stupid humour, or if you smoke too many..er..'herbs', then you will find merit in it lol. Will have a better review though when I watch it at a time that I'm not half asleep.
Next I'm going to try track down some of Dreyfus' movies, a significant number of them appearing to be cult horror movies. I'm particularly interested to see "The Dead Zone", which stars Christopher Walken as well
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Post by Clouseau on Jan 19, 2007 6:22:43 GMT
just watched Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom in The Ladykillers last night... i'd seen it once before, but now i proudly own the DVD, and it was so nice to see it again! very cool film!
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Post by Clouseau on Jan 20, 2007 16:06:18 GMT
last night i watched Clive Owen in Closer... one of my favorite movies of all time, i think... it's so dysfunctional, but it's very good, IMO... oddly enough, the first time my wife and i saw it, we didn't like it that much, but the second time we saw it, it was much better, and ever since then, it's one of those that no matter where i come in on it, i just can't turn it off!
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Post by ben on Jan 24, 2007 10:48:28 GMT
I watched "The Dead Zone" last night, helps if you have the book, but by itself, the movie does have a nice dark edge to it, but the storyline seems really rushed, they cut out so much of it, alot of the most significant conversations and encounters were left out or left too brief, but good movie, and Christopher Walken and, of course, our man Mr Herber Lom, save the movie with great performances.
"King Solomon's Mines" has arrived in the post, featuring Mr Lom, so I'll watch that later this week.
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Post by Clouseau on Jan 25, 2007 1:39:58 GMT
i forgot to mention it at the time, but not too long ago, i did recently watch Derailed, starring Clive Owen... Owen is such a phenominal actor! i also recently rewatched Revenge of the Pink Panther...
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Post by Clouseau on Jan 28, 2007 5:01:09 GMT
earlier tonight i watched The Three Amigos, starring Steve Martin... it was a nice pick-me-up after a not-so-nice middle of the day...
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Post by ben on Jan 28, 2007 10:29:53 GMT
Today I watched "Curse of the Pink Panther" again. Last night I watched part of "King Solomon's Mines", but I'll watch it all again tonight, a great movie, with Herbert Lom. This is the 1985 edition with Richard Chamberlain, there's about three different versions I think so make sure you look out for the right one if you ever want to find it. The movie gets dismissed as being a direct rip off from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" but it's almost like a parody and has great adventure and comedy as well. Even the introductionary theme music, before the movie even properly begins, is a highlight because it's such a rip off of the Indiana Jones theme.
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Post by Clouseau on Jan 29, 2007 1:20:43 GMT
today i watched TPP63 and Blake Edwards' "10"...
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Post by Clouseau on Mar 3, 2007 10:04:54 GMT
a couple days ago, i watched TPP63 with both the director's commentary and the trivia track turned on... that was fairly interesting, i think...
and last night, i watched the Tom Hanks remake of The Ladykillers... that was interesting, too, but i much prefer the original version with Sellers and Lom... i think i might not have minded the newer version so much, the the amount of swearing in the film kinda turned me off, plus i just thought the original had more substance... i did like the new crime scheme in the newer one, though, and it did have a couple interesting characters!
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Post by Dreyfus on Mar 3, 2007 19:07:05 GMT
I did not the Ladykillers remake (I've not seen the original though). I did think the only decent member of the gang was Tom Hanks as the Professor , all the others annoyed me.
I watched the end of the Pink Panther on Friday , I just saw the last 5 minutes but I do like the end. Good stuff.
I also watched The Man With the Golden Gun starring Roger Moore. One of my top 5 favourite Bond films.
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Post by Clouseau on Mar 4, 2007 5:02:42 GMT
i'll agree that Hanks' professor was about the best character in the remake of The Ladykillers... a lot more of the characters from the original seemed more credible to me...
i'm surprised, though, to hear that you're such a fan of TMWTGG... that's always been one of my favorites, as well, but i typically find that i'm in the minority on that!
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Post by Dreyfus on Mar 4, 2007 20:48:13 GMT
I like all the Bond films everyone seems to hate, TMWTGG, AVTAK, NSNA, DAF or YOLT. I'd gladly watch any of these over FRWL.
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