The Movie Thread

[Imperator]

This is what I had in mind, and in second thought, some other pics do look more flattering than that.

Either way, it's not Isabella Rossellini bad. But it's still a bit of a shock to see that stunning woman aged, even if gracefully.

Well, Rossellini has definitely not taken the years well, but still I find de Mornay a really attractive woman for her age. There's no accounting for tastes, I guess.

[JongWK]

Well, Rossellini has definitely not taken the years well, but still I find de Mornay a really attractive woman for her age. There's no accounting for tastes, I guess.

De Mornay is like Tilda Swinton: both of them have aged very gracefully.

[JongWK]

And now, for something completely different...

[Bedrockbrendan]

De Mornay is like Tilda Swinton: both of them have aged very gracefully.

I would add Sigourney Weaver to the aged gracefully list as well.

[Werekoala]

Love the Nazghul with umbrellas.

[Blazing Donkey]

ARRgggg! Nevermind.

[two_fishes]

Watched Roman Polanski's Pirates again last night. I had forgotten what a fun movie it is, and how much I enjoyed it.

[Aos]

Watched Roman Polanski's Pirates again last night. I had forgotten what a fun movie it is, and how much I enjoyed it.

I fucking love that movie. It very much reminds me of the 70's Musketeer movies. Is it on DVD or blue ray, because as far as i can tell its only available on VHS.

[two_fishes]

I saw it years ago on VHS, and more recently, got a copy via torrent. Yeah it reminds me a lot of the Lester Muskateer movies. It has the same sort of free-wheeling feel, and a lot of great lines delivered in a kind of throwaway manner without drawing special attention to them. And Walther Matthau is so good as the pirate captain. He could give Geoffrey Rush a run for his money.

[One Horse Town]

Watched Paul the other night - Nick Frost & Simon Pegg's last offering. Very disappointing. It's not a patch on Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz.

[Bedrockbrendan]

Saw Cowboys and Aliens last night. Strange but fun.

[Aos]

I saw the new Conan the other night. I liked the cast and the sets, and the direction wasn't bad either. While it was watchable, the whole movie just seemed like a missed opportunity to me. I think some of it comes down to Hollywood's contemporary obsession with origin stories- born i think to some degree out of the supers craze.  S&S movies should be approached more like westerns (a genre with which they have much in common imo). When I see High Noon, Shane, or Fistful of Dollars, for instance I don't need to know the lead's backstory, and it certainly does not have to be wired into the plot of the film.

FWIW, I think that while the 81 Conan was an admirable effort, but in my book, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad &The Golden Voyage of Sinbad are tied for the best S&S movies ever made, with the latter perhaps edging out the former by the breadth of Caroline Munro's glistening cleavage.

[Pseudoephedrine]

I saw Die Hard on Tuesday with a buddy of mine. It'd been about fifteen years or so since I'd seen it, and I forgot how good a film it is. Well paced, clearly shot. My buddy, who watches it fairly frequently remarked "There's a definite number of terrorists, they all have specific tasks that you understand, and you know where they are at almost all times".

IIRC, Shadowrun rips it off for an adventure in the Super Tuesday adventure collection, where the PCs go to meet a Johnson about a job on the top floor of a building, the building they're in is attacked by terrorists, and the Johnson immediately hires them to extract him.

[Bedrockbrendan]

Yeah Die Hard holds up pretty good after all these years. It is kind of funny because I remember when it came out we were laughing that the guy from moonlighting was trying to be an action hero, but he outlasted most of the action stars from that decade.

[Werekoala]

First movie I ever saw Alan Rickman in, and I've been a huge fan ever since.

Hans Gruber ftw!