The "I'm watching/just watched *movie title* thread....

[onan]

Are the shows the same as the books or all new material just using the character?

I haven't read any books in that series, I don'y know how many, if any have been written. If you have read them, watching an episode would probably be your best answer.

[albrecht]

I haven't read any books in that series, I don'y know how many, if any have been written. If you have read them, watching an episode would probably be your best answer.

Weird, they are pretty popular books and a lot of them. "Geez" as Norry would say, you can hardly avoid them at a Hudson's Books or WHSmiths at airports. I like them but before buying the show on Amazon was just curious, far be it from me to download a torrent. So just wondering before investing.  I know the Mankell Wallander tv stuff was rehashed from the books and I liked the books better so that is why I was wondering.

[onan]

Weird, they are pretty popular books and a lot of them. "Geez" as Norry would say, you can hardly avoid them at a Hudson's Books or WHSmiths at airports. I like them but before buying the show on Amazon was just curious, far be it from me to download a torrent. So just wondering before investing.  I know the Mankell Wallander tv stuff was rehashed from the books and I liked the books better so that is why I was wondering.

My wife is the fiction reader. I am pretty much nothin but nonfiction. And I haven't bought a book at a brick and mortar in more than a decade.

[albrecht]

My wife is the fiction reader. I am pretty much nothin but nonfiction. And I haven't bought a book at a brick and mortar in more than a decade.

I hear you. I must admit it is a vice especially considering the prices...and I guess I could go the ebook route but still like books, even if cheap pulply recycle paperback types. And the airport gets a captive audience and, usually, also after those airport bars and want something easy to read on a flight etc Non-fiction is like tv to me. I could read one and you could ask next week and I wouldn't remember.I  can't read anything want to remember or appreciate on trains or planes so just want the easy time killer stuff. It is a racket and a seemingly cartel operated one considering the same booksellers outfits at every airport but, I guess, relatively harmless (though I wonder, if I wanted to smuggle goods I would operate a bookstore in every friggin airport at ridiculous prices just to keep access....hmmm)

[MV/Liberace!]

Just watched 12 Monkeys for the first time.

Yawn.

[albrecht]

2x on AMC watching "The Day After Tomorrow" in background (like the beginning stuff as opposed to the latter.) But, wondering, if Art and Whitley get any residuals? And I hope they do because I always put it on when it is on (usually AMC or FX it seems) just in case. Plus cool effects and government high-jinx politics at the beginning. Also a little wondering how this movie be played twice will go for those effected by the global warming like some family outside of Boston! Or does the local cable in those areas say.....no we aren't playing this one.

[bateman]

Independence Day was on USA. Goofy ass movie, but I'll still watch it.

"YOU'D ALL BE DEAD IF IT WEREN'T FOR MY DAVID!!!"

[zeebo]

Independence Day was on USA. Goofy ass movie, but I'll still watch it.

"YOU'D ALL BE DEAD IF IT WEREN'T FOR MY DAVID!!!"

Love that flick!  Seen it so many times...

Goldblum: "You really think you can fly that thing?"
Smith: "You really think you can do all that bullshit you just said?" 

[Evil Twin Of Zen]

bs. one of the many many reasons i killed the cable years ago. never happened in buckner, mo. it's where i live. maybe it shouldn't bother me, but it does.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/arts/television/gangland-undercover-and-outlaw-country-examine-biker-life.html?_r=0

[albrecht]

bs. one of the many many reasons i killed the cable years ago. never happened in buckner, mo. it's where i live. maybe it shouldn't bother me, but it does.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/arts/television/gangland-undercover-and-outlaw-country-examine-biker-life.html?_r=0

I think I'd rather just re-read "Hells Angels" by Hunter. One thing that has been nagging me with these under-cover and "reality" shows and what point is it legal to record illegal activities and not report it in a timely manner? And is the presence of the tv cameras or show facilitate more crimes? Even something as innocent as "moonshine" shows. That is illegal in most states and if they aren't paying federal excise taxes but they show the hillbillies brewing it, transporting it, etc. Now, I guessing much is fake (why would a criminal let someone record his crimes) but still I wonder what the law is.

[albrecht]

I love TCM. "Absence of Malice" and just "The Verdict" (though it seemed to cut out curse-words but but in both not the "war against women scenes.

[Eddie Coyle]

    Speaking of Lumet, watched The Offence today for the first time in awhile. The head games from Bannen always leading to his getting bloodied quite brutally.

[paladin1991]

Watching 'Peaky Blinders' on Netflix.  Enjoying it.

[Mind Flayer Monk]

American Hot Wax  1978
This movie did not have a DVD or VHS release.

http://youtu.be/JGJhaU6-6Qc

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

If you're in the mood for some seriously entertaining weirdness, Spider Baby just started on TCM. 

[UnscreenedCaller]

Doubt
Filling the Void
The Secretary

[coaster]

So I visited IMDB to browse the new movies. I found a movie called "Black Sea" that looked interesting, so I watched the preview. It gave everything away. I wish they would stop doing that. When did previews start spoiling the entire movie? Lame.

[yumyumtree]

Doubt
Filling the Void
The Secretary

Was that Secretary or The Secretary?

[yumyumtree]

Killer's Kiss 1955
The Canterville Ghost 1944
A Star is Born 1937

I have changed my mind about 50 Shades of Grey and plan to see it.

[3OctaveFart]

In the English-speaking martial artisan movie genre, nary one, bar Jean-Claude Van Damme (who once pronounced 'world peace' warald piss), dared to enhance/ruin his or her reputation by dancing onscreen.

Kickboxer Jean Claude Van Damme Dance [HD]

There are many examples in non-English speaking martial arts films, but name recognition (viz., Sammo Hung) would be lost.

[pate]

For some reason tonight, after I finished listening to the very interesting (re?)broadcast of the John Batchelor Show, I decided to re-watch "Man On Fire" (the Denzel Washington version).  I think mainly so I could get this very memorable scene back in context in my mind:

Christopher Walken - Masterpiece

I have every intention of watching the original.  I think I found it late one night either on Cable (when I had it) or on Netflix, but was so sleepy I fell asleep.  I certainly hope that I didn't fall asleep because the original was boring, I knew the basic story-line so perhaps that explains it.  Nevertheless, anyone seen the 'original,' and can give reccomendations pro/con for watching?  Will not affect my commitment to eventually finding and watching it, but love to hear opinions (which I heard are like a certain body part)....

[b_dubb]

"Gentlemen Broncos". Has anybody me else seen this? I laughed so hard I thought I was going to have a heart attack.

[UnscreenedCaller]

Was that Secretary or The Secretary?

Secretary. The film with Maggie Gylensfjsdfjdf and James Spader.

[b_dubb]

Secretary. The film with Maggie Gylensfjsdfjdf and James Spader.

oh dear

Spader is playing wholesome roles now. Like the genocidal Ultron.

That movie opened my eyes to "cutting". Honestly that really freaked me out.

[UnscreenedCaller]

From what I've heard, people in the know object to the cutting part of the movie because it has nothing to do with the rest. It's unfortunate the screenwriter  chose to go there with it, and believe me, that part made me uncomfortable as well. If that part had been eliminated and the rest showed the two characters in a consensual relationship, it'd be a totally different film. I think they wanted her to go from victim to being in control of her life which the last scene sort of implied when she threw a dead roach on the floor, knowing what the consequences were, but there were better ways of doing that. Gyllenekdfndf and Spader really were very good, though. Tough roles to play. 

[b_dubb]

Are we going to discuss 50 Shades of The Walmartification of Porn?

[UnscreenedCaller]

Are we going to discuss 50 Shades of The Walmartification of Porn?

Ugh. A friend took the book away from her mother. 'Nuff said. 

[analog kid]

Are we going to discuss 50 Shades of The Walmartification of Porn?

But it's a trashy erotic novel (or based on one), and women are its target demographic. Therefore, it isn't porn, it's perfectly acceptable and doesn't create unrealistic expectations for women towards their men. Any equivalent for men, no matter how similar, is perverted and creepy and why shouldn't your woman be enough for you? Go sit on the bed so your woman can dress you, to go to the mall where you will be holding her purse.

/not bitter

[albrecht]

"Topper" on TMC and, yes, I've seen before. But a hilarious movie and lest you kids say old movies aren't funny or not risky just look at one thing, of the classic, that now is verboten. Drinking! And driving! Even a few decades ago, was a normal thing and indeed a source of much humor (and, of course, misery) but now that is something one can't even make jokes of. And the whole start of the movie! (I will not even mention the other sexual innuendos, the critique of both the rich and the working class, the bankers, the regimen of society, the hen-pecking wife, bumbling cops. etc.) Not to mention ghosts! Or I'm sure the controversy over the religious stuff (presumes a Catholic idea of "good works" towards heaven and purgatory etc.) Because in the past you could just make a funny movie. And laugh.

[Treading Water]

"Topper" on TMC and, yes, I've seen before. But a hilarious movie and lest you kids say old movies aren't funny or not risky just look at one thing, of the classic, that now is verboten. Drinking! And driving! Even a few decades ago, was a normal thing and indeed a source of much humor (and, of course, misery) but now that is something one can't even make jokes of. And the whole start of the movie! (I will not even mention the other sexual innuendos, the critique of both the rich and the working class, the bankers, the regimen of society, the hen-pecking wife, bumbling cops. etc.) Not to mention ghosts! Or I'm sure the controversy over the religious stuff (presumes a Catholic idea of "good works" towards heaven and purgatory etc.) Because in the past you could just make a funny movie. And laugh.

Yesssss.  A perfectly funny movie....I watch it every time I can.