What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)

[Idris2002]

Some Like it Hot.

Not as good as the more famous Nuns on the Run, but good stuff all the same (big joke).

While Tony Curtis makes a passable broad (it's his pre-raphaelite lips, I think) Jack Lemmon, who leads with his chin, is the least convincing man dressed as a woman ever. But if you can suspend your disbelief, it's very good indeed.

Marilyn Monroe, also, has never really got the credit she deserves for her comic timing in this one, I think.

 

[Reno]

Jack Lemmon, who leads with his chin, is the least convincing man dressed as a woman ever.

That's why it's funny.

 

[Idris2002]

That's why it's funny.

Yes, Reno, I noticed.

What say you concerning Miss Monroe and her comic timing?

 

[Reno]

Yes, Reno, I noticed.

Just making sure you were laughing !

 

[Idris2002]

Just making sure you were laughing !

Ah, yes, the famous German sense of humour. How I've missed it these past two months.

 

[Reno]

What say you concerning Miss Monroe and her comic timing?

I think she's great in it. Why ?

Ah, yes, the famous German sense of humour. How I've missed it these past two months.

My teutonic hilarity is not going anywhere.

 

[Idris2002]

I think she's great in it. Why ?

Just asking, because as I said, she's not credited as much as she should be. She's remembered mainly as a glamour pinup, but she had the acting chops as well. And that should be more widely acknowledged.

 

[Reno]

Just asking, because as I said, she's not credited as much as she should be. She's remembered mainly as a glamour pinup, but she had the acting chops as well. And that should be more widely acknowledged.

I think by now it's widely accepted that she was a very talented comedic actress. It's more questionable whether she was a great dramatic actress, which was what she aspired too, hence her studying with Lee Strasberg etc. There are people who make claims she was, but I'm not so sure. It's indisputable though that she had the charisma that makes an true film star and that there are few actors the camera loved so much.

 

[Idris2002]

I think by now it's widely accepted that she was a very talented comedic actress. It's more questionable whether she was a great dramatic actress, which was what she aspired too, hence her studying with Lee Strasberg etc. There are people who make claims she was, but I'm not so sure. It's indisputable though that she had the charisma that makes an true film star and that there are few actors the camera loved so much.

Huh, I didn't know that - the bit in bold I mean. Thanks.

 

[redsquirrel]

The first season of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. much less daft than it later became. The thing I found most interesting about it was it's positive nature, a belief that the world was better and was going to contiue to improve (partly through international co-operation). You don't get anything like made these days, the whole tone of the programme would be different.

 

[Idris2002]

The first season of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. much less daft than it later became. The thing I found most interesting about it was it's positive nature, a belief that the world was better and was going to contiue to improve (partly through international co-operation). You don't get anything like made these days, the whole tone of the programme would be different.

Yeah, the odd couple premise rested upon the idea that Soviet-US cooperation was at least in principle possible. Which was a pretty out there concept for the 1960s.

 

[redsquirrel]

At yet at the same time it seems to me that people had a greater belief in the possibility of co-operation and improvement than they do now.

It's not just Man From U.N.C.L.E., Star Trek has that same idea/tone - that there will be a bright new world. I read Shine a near-future optimistic sci-fi anthology a bit ago and that underlined just how rare such work (in book, TV or film) has become.

 

[TruXta]

At yet at the same time it seems to me that people had a greater belief in the possibility of co-operation and improvement than they do now.

It's not just Man From U.N.C.L.E., Star Trek has that same idea/tone - that there will be a bright new world. I read Shine a near-future optimistic sci-fi anthology a bit ago and that underlined just how rare such work (in book, TV or film) has become.

They did? I don't know that it was all that rosy. For counter-examples, consider that Fahrenheit 451, A Clockwork Orange and Stand on Zanzibar were all written (and filmed) in the 50s and 60s.

 

[DotCommunist]

there were competing strands in 50s/60s sci fi. (written and film) Some paranoiac and doomy- some utopian and optimistic.

 

[TruXta]

there were competing strands in 50s/60s sci fi. (written and film) Some paranoiac and doomy- some utopian and optimistic.

Still is.

 

[redsquirrel]

They did? I don't know that it was all that rosy. For counter-examples, consider that Fahrenheit 451, A Clockwork Orange and Stand on Zanzibar were all written (and filmed) in the 50s and 60s.

Sure such themes were about but as DC says there was competing strands. Compare that with today - I can't think of a modern sci-fi film/TV series which has the same optimism of Star Trek or The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

 

[TruXta]

Sure such themes were about but as DC says there was competing strands. Compare that with today - I can't think of a modern sci-fi film/TV series which has the same optimism of Star Trek or The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Idiocracy? Lemme think.

 

[Reno]

There is very little utopian scifi, mainly because Utopias are not very dramatically interesting. Star Trek got around it by frequently visiting dystopian planets and meeting all sorts of villains on their adventures, but if you are stuck on earth in a happy clappy world, it's going to be yawnsville. As proof watch Bicentennial Man with Robin Williams.

 

[Me76]

Probably the worst Cronenberg movie I've seen, and I'm a fan of his work. Eastern Promises was good. That said I've not seen A History of Violence or A Dangerous Method.

Is A Dangerous Method based on the Stephen King short story?

 

[Reno]

Is A Dangerous Method based on the Stephen King short story?

Nope.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Criminal - About two con men a remake of the Argentinian movie Nueve reinas ( Nine Queens )

 

[DexterTCN]

Is A Dangerous Method based on the Stephen King short story?

Isn't that Breathing Method? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Breathing_Method

 

[thriller]

Drive

Just seen it for the first time on small screen since watching it in the cinema when it came out. Great film.

 

[Me76]

Isn't that Breathing Method? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Breathing_Method

oh yeah.

 

[Idris2002]

Double Indemnity.

Crime does not pay - and then some.


This is a great movie made even better by Edward G. Robinson, in one of his rare roles as a good guy.

 

[avu9lives]

Bread and Tulips (Pane e tulipani) 2000

An everyday story of love and life one of the one of the reasons i love European films so much. Rosalba is beautifully portrayed by Licia Maglietta . Cant recommend it enough beautiful beautiful film

 

[Mapped]

Looper, really enjoyed it

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

First season of the tv Sherlock Holmes remake.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Apparently the BBC received over 100 complaints about Lara Pulver's nude scene in Season 2, episode 1.

 

[stethoscope]

Wild Side - quite slow getting going, at times all a bit bleak, but overall really moving and sensitively done. The Antony Hegarty cameo at the beginning was unexpected too.