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[Name]

I am going old skool and watching my X-files DVD's

[Ghoulish Delight]

We just watched the DVD of the restored 1920's sci-fi movie Metropolis. I was blown away by it. It was truly epic, and spectacularly put together, espeically for 1927! And the story was excellent, compelling, and insightful. What's sad is that a quarter of the movie has been lost for all time. They found and restored what they could, but they had to fill in chunks of missing plot with explanatory text. It's really too bad, because the footage they have rescued has been restored to an absoluely pristine condition. It was so clean, in fact, that it was hard to believe that it was over 70 years old. It almost looked more like a modern movie being shot to LOOK like a '20s film. Astounding.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

We just watched the DVD of the restored 1920's sci-fi movie Metropolis. I was blown away by it. It was truly epic, and spectacularly put together, espeically for 1927! And the story was excellent, compelling, and insightful. What's sad is that a quarter of the movie has been lost for all time. They found and restored what they could, but they had to fill in chunks of missing plot with explanatory text. It's really too bad, because the footage they have rescued has been restored to an absoluely pristine condition. It was so clean, in fact, that it was hard to believe that it was over 70 years old. It almost looked more like a modern movie being shot to LOOK like a '20s film. Astounding.

I love this film and have been watching "new and restored" version for about 15 years now, even buying a few on the way. It's been encouraging to see this film being put back together over this time, with variety of sound tracks and treatments. Fritz Lang is a genius. Perhaps some day all the footage will finally be resotred.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Metropolis

Fine film. I've seen it in a couple of different editions. The orginal, new soundtrack and colorized (ugh). It's a movie that teaches a great lesson then and now.
Thumbs up.




On another note, I just watched the documentary 'The Control Room'. I found it interesting, infuriating and intriguing all at the same time. A lot of it a I bought, some of it I didn't. If you watch this DVD, make sure you look at the deleted scenes. They should have included some of these clips.
Highly recommended.

[AllyOops!]

Last weekend, we watched Sideways & The Notebook.

Sideways was really, really enjoyable. A wonderful little movie! I was pleasantly surprised! I thought I might enjoy it, but had no idea I would enjoy it that much. Everyone did a fantastic job. Thomas Hayden Church (or "Lowell" as I still call him ) was awesome!

And The Notebook? If you know me, you know that's my very favorite novel & movie. I'm obsessed with it! In fact, I'm gonna go start a Thread based on my very, very favorite movie!! *Dreamy sigh*

[AllyOops!]

Originally Posted by Name

I am going old skool and watching my X-files DVD's

Another Old Skooler here! I watched 3 discs of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 6 the other day when my DirecTV was out temporarily.

I can never, ever get enough of the musical episode, Once More With Feeling. (I can never, ever get enough of Buffy! It's my favorite! )

[Claire]

Been a busy week.....we watched all ten episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 2. OMG--even funnier than the first season!!! We have Seinfeld, Seasons 1-3 sitting there staring at us.....but I can't seem to get motivated to watch them!!! CYE is so damn funnnnny and smart-- Seinfeld is like a G-rated CYE.

Last night we watched Vertigo after the kids went to bed. I'm not sure I've ever seen it! I thought it would seem familiar, but I think I had it mixed up with North By Northwest. I looooved it, especially the music. The ending was awesome--I didn't read the description on the back of the DVD, so everything was a surprise.

We're taking the girls to see The Incredibles again tonight! It's playing at the pub theaters, so we just have to decide which one to go to....most likely will be the Baghdad, because the tables are more plentiful. We're making it a dinner event--pizzas and pitchers!! MMmmmmmm!

Afterward, we're most likely watching The Westside Story at home with the girls. And after they're off to bed, it'll be Citizen Kane or The Women or The Maltese Falcon. I'm loving these old movies so much!!!

And during the Super Bowl, my friend Dawn and I are ditching our husbands and my kids at my sister's party, and we're hitting the theater!! We still need to see Kinsey, Bad Education, and I must see my Javier.......:elsigh:

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Originally Posted by Claire

Been a busy week.....we watched all ten episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 2. OMG--even funnier than the first season!!!

Yeah, I think that is about the funniest show I have ever seen on TV.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

I actually saw a couple great movies:

Before Sunset: This is a sequal to Before Sunrise and I remember it being a really good movie that no one really saw. I was happy to see them back doing a sequal. Seeing where everyone is. Kind of like a HS reunion. I guess they're going to do another in a few years. Great idea.

Mary Poppins: I saw this so many years ago, and I finally broke down and bought the DVD. I remembered it as being sort of dull. I think seeing it and being older sort of cleared up some of that. Plus I was just reading the Disney bio and how much he loved the Feed The Birds song. The whole movie takes on a whole knew meaning. The old bird woman's behind the scene story was quite moving.

Phantom of the Opera: The Phantom was pretty bad. I wish they had a guy who can actually put across in his vocals, some sort of emotion. There was very little emotion during the parts I thought should have had it. Especially at the end - the "Masquarade" rehash." Christine I love you." I was just dying to have that exposure of emotion that's needed and it fell short.

Past the Point number was probably the best all around. There was a real tention in the song between Phantom and Christine. She's quite a singer and I was truely impressed. The "Wishing" song was extraordinary. Both in the cinematography and her performance. I think the directing was fair, but it was the Cinematography that took the prize. The actual "staging" of the scenes were fairly dull. "All I ask" was probably my second favorate scene. The snow falling and the relationships between the 3. The Phantom hiding, listening in. The crane shot was great.

I think had they chosen an actor to play Phantom who had something in his voice that had some feeling, some emotion that Crawford had. The guy didn't have a bad voice, it was just didn't have that sensativity that I think was nessesary.

Phantom gets 8 bornieo's out of 10.

[Claire]

Okay, we watched......

The Incredibles.....my husband loved it. He's the only one who hadn't seen it twice.

We also watched Network and The Maltese Falcon and The Apartment.

Network was really good.....amusing, and timely. The thing could have been made last year, it was still so relevant.

The Maltese Falcon got some belly laughs out of us. We had the giggles at some of the acting/slick lines. We were also disappointed in the ending. Oh well.

The Apartment was lovely. Jack Lemmon is so good. I've seen parts of it from time to time....but this was my first all-the-way through viewing and I loved it. Shirley MacClaine was gorgeous....loved her cute 'do and Fred MacMurray as a cad.....funny to me.