Movies to Help Pass the Time

[gerhard1]

finally broke down and picked the blue-ray of Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny. After hearing some pretty bad stuff about it, I was leery of buying it, but once I watched it, I didn't think that it was nearly as bad as people were saying it was.

Now, it was far from my favorite IJ film, but it was very watchable and even though the Nazis-as-the-bad-guys theme wore very thin a long time ago, it was a very entertaining movie.

 

[Jason Freeland]

Just got in the Bluray for an oldie but goodie, Enemy Mine. It's a 1985 SciFi war movie, where the "hero" and an enemy pilot have to learn how to live with each other after both crashing on the same planet. Very well done film by Wolfgang Peterson, makes sense I had to get it from Germany. Stars Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr.

 

[gerhard1]

If anyone is intersted in an absolutely outstanding Civil War courtroom drama,, the 1970 play The Andersonville Trial is on youtube. Directed by George C. Scott, the acting by such people as William Shatner, Jack Cassidy, Richard Basehart and Cameron Mitchell, was absolutely superb. Mitchell played General Lew Wallace who later was governor of the New Mexico Territory, and wrote the novel Ben-Hur. Shatner is one of the very few credited cast members (Michael Burns, and Martin Sheen are the only others) who, more than fifty yers later, are still alive.

Watch it on youtube if you like historic dramas.

 

[elwoodtrix]

If you like horror movies, Talk to me.
Can't wait for part 2

Talk to Me (2023) | Rotten Tomatoes

When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

www.rottentomatoes.com

 

[gerhard1]

In case you folks don't know it, there are a lot of good movies on youtube. I just got through watching a couple of them, one being the 1931 German classic M with Peter Lorre. Lorre played a psychopathic child-killer. My German, while I do know some, is not good enough to follow the story (my hearing adds to the problem) so the English subtitles really helped me out.

The second film I watched tonight was a 1989 tv-movie called The Case of the Hillside Stranglers, with Richard Crenna giving a very good performance as LAPD Sgt Bob Grogan who was one of the police people who cracked the case.

Good movies both, and if you don't have anything better to do, give one or both of them a try. I doubt that you will be disappointed.

 

[TedKennedy]

"M" is fantastic. Creepy movie, and kind of ahead of it's time in the profiling aspect of the perpetrator.

 

[TANSTAAFL]

If you like horror movies, Talk to me.
Can't wait for part 2

Talk to Me (2023) | Rotten Tomatoes

When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

www.rottentomatoes.com

My wife and I saw this a few months back, very good. Did see the new Salem's Lot, much better than its ratings on IMDB. I would however recommend the original with David Soul. The 2024 Salem's Lot has a cameo of Christine, The 1958 Plymouth Fury. You really need to be a car guy to recognize the vehicle, as they only show a small portion of it.

 

[gerhard1]

"M" is fantastic. Creepy movie, and kind of ahead of it's time in the profiling aspect of the perpetrator.

There is an amusing story about Peter Lorre. Bela Lugosi was a Hungarian-born actor who played the evil vampire Count in the 1931 film Dracula. He died in 1956 and Lorre and Vincent Price went to the viewing. Lugosi was dressed in the costume that he wore in Dracula, and Lorre is siad to have asked Price if they shouldn't drive a stake through his heart just to be sure.

I don't know if the story is true, but many of Lorre's roles especially later in his career were comedic, and I got a good laugh out of it.

 

[aarondhgraham]

Most of you guys will chuckle at me,,,
But I'm a huge Marvel comics fan from my childhood.

When Netflix discontinued their DVD service,,,
I decided that I really needed to buy the Marvel Cinematic Universe DVD set.

22 movies that all tie in with each other,,,
That ends with a climactic battle and bittersweet victory.

Not all of the movies were "great",,,
But enough of them were to make an incredible 22-movie saga.

Anything after Avengers - Endgame is just Marvel making money,,,
The first 22 movies revived "all" of my childhood heroes,,,
And made a Saga that I'll watch over and over again.

So if you're a Marvel superhero fan like I definitely am,,,
This series is well worth the effort to watch them,,,
Several times.

Aarond

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[gerhard1]

Just downloaded a 1979 two part TV movie called To Kill A Cop. It was the pilot for the NBC series called Eischied, with Joe Don Baker as the NYPD Chief of Detectives. It and the series was something that I had been looking for for decades.

TKAC concerned a group of Black 'revolutionaries' who were determined to assassinate as many police officers as they could. The plot, though fictional, reminds me of a series of real-life incidents from the early 1970's where precisely that happened, in New York City, and San Francisco, among other places.

I thoroughly enjoyed the pilot and it brought an amusing incident to mind on the day of my recent heart attack. As I was riding the ambulance from the hospital in Derby, where the local EMS had taken me, to St. Francis in Wichita, I told the paramedic about my quest for the movie and that I hoped to see the rest of the movie. She took her iPhone and found the movie on you-tube and I watched it as we rode to St. Francis. I thought that was a very nice thing for her to do.

Anyway, thank goodness for you-tube!!!!