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Forum: General Movie Discussion 13 hours ago
Replies: 53
Movies everyone seems to love that you do not get?
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: Movies everyone seems to love that you do not get?

I can see that Barry Lyndon is on Amazon Prime but you have to pay. I probably won't.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 13 hours ago
Replies: 53
Movies everyone seems to love that you do not get?
Posted By skizzerflake
Yeah, I'm with you on all three. At least, I can...

Yeah, I'm with you on all three. At least, I can appreciate the acting in Goodfellas, but for what? As for Fight Club and CW, both are lost on me. Clockwork Orange seemed downright nihilistic.

I...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 19 hours ago
Replies: 219
Clint Eastwood the director, appreciation thread
Posted By skizzerflake
See him in a cameo as a pilot, fire-bombing a...

See him in a cameo as a pilot, fire-bombing a giant spider in Tarantula.
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 19 hours ago
Replies: 219
Clint Eastwood the director, appreciation thread
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: Clint Eastwood the director, appreciation thread

Eastwood is a quandary to me. I definitely appreciate his ability as one of the ultimate, multi-faceted film makers, but, most of the movies I have seen seemed to reflect such a bleak view of life,...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 53
Movies everyone seems to love that you do not get?
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: Movies everyone seems to love that you do not get?

I love Dark City, but Barry Lyndon was downright painful to watch.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 53
Movies everyone seems to love that you do not get?
Posted By skizzerflake
Magnolia, Pulp Fiction, Mulholland Drive all are...

Magnolia, Pulp Fiction, Mulholland Drive all are not exactly lost on me, but I don't get why they are great. I just saw them as being derivative. Derivative is not exactly awful, but it definitely...
Forum: Games and Tabs 1 day ago
Replies: 3,051
Have you watched it?
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: Have you watched it?

Yes.

Plan 9 From Outer Space (no date needed; it's the only movie with THAT title.)
Forum: Games and Tabs 1 day ago
Replies: 3,082
Like or dislike?
Posted By skizzerflake
Like Raw Oysters

Like

Raw Oysters
Forum: Games and Tabs 1 day ago
Replies: 3,082
Like or dislike?
Posted By skizzerflake
Yeah, love it. I've cooked lots of them over the...

Yeah, love it. I've cooked lots of them over the years.

Steamed Crabs
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 55
Your personal favorite horror movie?
Posted By skizzerflake
That sounds really cool too. That movie seems to...

That sounds really cool too. That movie seems to have some sort of magnetic attraction to people who want to do creative things with it.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 76
Are rating systems worth having?
Posted By skizzerflake
Yeah, but, my shelf space is full enough that...

Yeah, but, my shelf space is full enough that some favorite movies, or, movies that I'd rate high but don't expect to rewatch are not there. Some movies that are ON my shelf are not movies I'd rate...
Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 2 days ago
Replies: 7
The 4:30 Movie - Kevin Smith's latest nostalgia trap
Posted By skizzerflake
I was about to argue that at 54, Smith is too old...

I was about to argue that at 54, Smith is too old to do "youth movies", but if it's a fictionalized version of his youth, I'd at least be curious. Unfortunately his star seems to have fallen, but,...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 55
Your personal favorite horror movie?
Posted By skizzerflake
One of my favorite movie nights ever was seeing...

One of my favorite movie nights ever was seeing Nosferatu on the big screen, accompanied by a small chamber ensemble that called itself Alloy Orchestra, performing original music that they wrote...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 76
Are rating systems worth having?
Posted By skizzerflake
That's the problem with ratings in a nutshell. ...

That's the problem with ratings in a nutshell. Having done rating scales for a living in one of my past lives, I know how weak they can be as well as the limitations of what you get from them.
...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 days ago
Replies: 55
Your personal favorite horror movie?
Posted By skizzerflake
Yeah, I liked that one too. In December, we will...

Yeah, I liked that one too. In December, we will have another Nosferatu re-make, directed by none other than Robert Eggers, who seems to be the current Horrormeister. I'm looking forward to that...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 days ago
Replies: 55
Your personal favorite horror movie?
Posted By skizzerflake
Yeah....Orlok is one of my all time favorite...

Yeah....Orlok is one of my all time favorite creeps. I recall reading that Max Shreck (apparently a pseudonym), appeared on the set in costume and in character, so he was a bit of an enigma, an...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 days ago
Replies: 76
Are rating systems worth having?
Posted By skizzerflake
Indeed I do and it's a matter of Friday night. ...

Indeed I do and it's a matter of Friday night. We want to go out, get some dinner, take in a movie and between 3 locally owned theaters that show non-mainstream movies with artistic pretentions, I...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 days ago
Replies: 1,801
Most Overrated Movies
Posted By skizzerflake
I agree, but the metrics and statistics guy in...

I agree, but the metrics and statistics guy in the back of my brain, who used to work in that field, still makes me wonder if there's a way, an objective measure of why Rick and
Ilsa are so...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 5 days ago
Replies: 84,969
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: Rate The Last Movie You Saw

Damn....it's Wicked, the new movie version. It might have been OK (just OK) if it had been an hour shorter, but it wasn't. It's a prequel to the Wizard of Oz, a back story on one of the witches,...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 6 days ago
Replies: 55
Your personal favorite horror movie?
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: Your personal favorite horror movie?

Another favorite is Bram Stoker's Dracula, Coppola's journey into gothic, victorian horror. It has elements of the usual vampire stories, a few elements of Bram Stoker's book (though not much) and...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 6 days ago
Replies: 76
Are rating systems worth having?
Posted By skizzerflake
The competency of the reviewer is what I do want...

The competency of the reviewer is what I do want to know. I don't have much faith in crowds nor their taste in movies. It's crowds that bring us prime time TV as it is.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 6 days ago
Replies: 28
When WAS the last time you saw a film?
Posted By skizzerflake
Ironically, the other half is our ears. Most of...

Ironically, the other half is our ears. Most of us have some damage and many (including me) have a significant amount of damage. The greatest of all $150K plasma-tronic nuclear speakers would...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 6 days ago
Replies: 76
Are rating systems worth having?
Posted By skizzerflake
That's the problem. Take a thousand numerical...

That's the problem. Take a thousand numerical ratings on anything, including frozen lasagna, weather or politics, and "average out" is just the mathematical certainty that there's a middle. Average...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 6 days ago
Replies: 76
Are rating systems worth having?
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: Are rating systems worth having?

The problem with ratings is raters. Having spent some occupational years in the business of surveys and ratings, I know that they need to be carefully concocted and then treated with some caution. ...
Forum: Movie Questions 6 days ago
Replies: 8
Answered: Giant asteroid flaming through the sky scene
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: Giant asteroid flaming through the sky scene

Id guess that it's cobbled together from several movies like Asteroid, Deep Impact and/or Armageddon. Asteroid seems pretty cheesy in that the promo picture seems to show rocks coming from different...

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