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You've undoubtedly had a nagging feeling of incompleteness. Be made whole, AA. Be one with nature. -
I’ve seen enough shitty movies in my day, Congo, Problem Child 3, Battleship Earth, Signs, National Treasure, Etc.
Don’t need another notch of that sort on my belt."The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham LincolnComment
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Problem Child 3? lol, did you skip the first two and go straight to that one?Comment
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I had free tickets. A PTA raffle. Won a large popcorn, 2 sodas, and 2 tickets to PC3. Walked out with the popcorn and soda in hand 15 minutes later.
The crown of the raffle (to me) was a signed 8x10 of Jack Nicklaus. Still pisses me off I didn’t get that."The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham LincolnComment
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I thought you perhaps chose to dive head first into the Problem Child cinematic universe, then work backwards to the origin story for the Problem Child, to see how it all began.Comment
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This is my first venture into this thread. It started out interesting but the Attack of the Chess Geeks really was an unexpected turn.
BTW- there is this whole subsection in this forum: https://www.detroitlionsforum.com/fo...-forums/movies. But if you feel things are rolling well here, I'm interested in seeing where this continues to go.
BTW Part 2: Since the pandemic started, I took on watching movie that won Best Picture in the Oscars. Since Netflix mostly only has these classics on DVD, it's taking me some time. I'm only through It Happened One Night, which I'd say is the best of the bunch so far. The Broadway Melody and Cavalcade have been the bottom two, in my opinion. It's amazing what other nominees Cavalcade beat out to win Best Picture (42nd Street, Little Women, State Fair, and more) as I thought there wasn't a character in the movie that I really cared about. There's also a character that likely gets killed off (on the Titanic!) and is never spoken of again, even by her mother. Diana Wynyard was as good as the performances got and even she was a bit wooden. The original Mutiny on the Bounty is next, and I'm expecting the overall quality to take a big jump up as I continue. That said, I was surprised about how good some of the aerial footage was both in Wings and All Quiet on the Western Front, which was 1918 before 1918! Crazy amount of explosions too. I have a feeling the safety regulations on movie sets back in this time were very lax.Comment
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Yes, there is a well-established movie thread on this forum. That’s why this is the chess thread and not some ersatz movie thread."The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham LincolnComment
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5+ years ago I went through all those old Best Picture winners too. Limiting it to just the 20's and 30''s:Originally posted by *JD* View Post
Good
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
You Can't Take It With You (1938)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Watchable
Wings (1928)
Grand Hotel (1932)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
Bad
Broadway Melody (1929)
Cimarron (1931)
Cavalcade (1933)
I don't think there's any reason to ever watch those bottom 3 except to say "I've seen every Best Picture winner". I think Broadway Melody won because it was one of if not THE first musical. But it's otherwise garbage. At least it's shorter than the others which are boring and wooden.
The Great Ziegfeld is a little borderline too. I have a soft spot for William Powell/Myrna Loy but that thing is 3 hours long with lots of musical numbers. However, the scene that takes place right before the Intermission is really worth watching. It's one of the most elaborate and expensive sets ever built for film. It's an art deco wonder and truly impressive from a technical standpoint. Really symbolic too of Depression-era studios wanting to really earn that dime from the theater-goer through spectacle.Comment
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So far, we're pretty much on the same page. I may have thought a wee bit more of Cimarron (impressively staged land run at the start) than you did but I wouldn't greatly dispute your assessment. Especially with how abruptly it ended. I guess I can just say it was the best of the bottom three.Originally posted by Dr. Strangelove View PostComment
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Yeah, that's true, I had forgotten about that opening. Impressive even today. Unfortunately for me it was the best thing in the film.Comment
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Multitasking again.
Watched a chess movie on Hulu. “Pawn Sacrifice” (2015). Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fischer. Liev Schreiber as Boris Spassky. Peter Sarsgaard as Bill Lombardy. Some issues and a few chess scene flubs, but generally well done and for the most part accurate. Worth a watch for those interested in the game and the life and backstory of the enigmatic Fischer."The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham LincolnComment
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Enigmatic/barking fucking insaneDan Patrick: What was your reaction to [Urban Meyer being hired]?
Brady Hoke: You know.....not....good.Comment
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Oh, he was insane, but his chess was pure physical poetry.
His insanity was an inescapable torment; however, the movie did a good job of detailing that some of his paranoia had a basis in fact - which really just served to exacerbate his delusions. The Soviet Chess Machine (aka the KGB assigned to aid the chess team) did bug rooms and there were prearranged draws for the Soviet team’s benefit, there can be no doubt. These facts paved the way for the rest of his delusions to take flight."The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham LincolnComment
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The Beastmaster (1982)
d. Don Coscarelli
Starring: Marc Singer, Rip Torn, Tanya Roberts, John Amos, Josh Milrad
Dar, the titular master-of-beasts, seeks revenge agaisnt the Jun horde, a clan of barbarians that destroyed his village, and also the evil priest Maax (Rip Torn) who runs a cult of child sacrifice. In this quest he's aided by his friends: an eagle, two ferrets, and a drugged-up tiger dyed black. Dar can telepathically communicate with animals for reasons that are never explained. He's real mystical and shit. Along his way he'll meet the lovely Tanya Roberts, the stoic John Amos, and a little pipsqueak that's going to be the next king.
Beastmaster came and went from theaters fairly quickly but gained a following by being shown incessantly on HBO and later TNT in the 80's and early 90's. So much so that nearly a decade after its release they finally made a sequel and then a tv series.
An odd thing about this movie is the tone. The movie was only rated PG. Although back in 1982, before PG-13 was a thing, that was a bit different. Apparently in a PG movie back then, for example, you could have Tanya Roberts completely topless. But despite many, many people being killed, it's largely bloodless. There's corpses impaled on poles, a little kid tossed in a fire, and creepy, gross bird monsters that digest people between their wings. And then there's those goofy, lovable ferrets.
Singer, Rip Torn, John Amos...all fine. Singer is definitely better than, say, Sam Jones in Flash Gordon. Tanya Roberts is a lousy actress but mercifully isn't asked to say much here. If I had complaints it would be that the action scenes are not shot terribly well and that the movie doesn't end where it should. Maax is clearly the main antagonist and once he's killed the movie should just about be wrapped up, right? No, it goes on for another 20-25 minutes as Dar must now confront the Jun horde and avenge his village. But all in all, very watchable and no question better than most of the low-budget Conan the Barbarian ripoffs that were being churned out at the time.
EDIT: One last note, this is available for free on Amazon Prime. That version looks pretty good, too. Better than the cable tv versions i vaguely recall.
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