What was the last movie you saw?

[J-Sun]

Originally Posted by clovis-man

It was hard for him to overcome his natural Bronx accent. He's famous for a line in an early movie, The Son Of Ali Baba: "Yondah lies the castle of my faddah."

Okay - so it's a kind of Bronx/English? Or Bronx/"upper crust New English" (so to speak)? Makes sense. I guess it would be hard to try to speak one accent on top of another with neither being your natural one and the original might get involved.

[HoopyFrood]

Originally Posted by J-Sun

Inspired me to re-watch two of my three Wilder films which is also both my Marilyn Monroe movies. I agree that Some Like It Hot is a brilliant film but Curtis and Lemon in drag is kinda nightmare inducing. Seriously, I think that, while The Seven Year Itch could be paced a little more tightly, I prefer it. I think Ewell does a sort of amazing job (The Secret Sex Life of Walter Mitty) and Monroe is even more mesmerizing in Itch than Hot. But both are excellent.

Incidentally, is Curtis' millionaire voice in Hot just generic or abstract? He almost sounds like it's supposed to be some kind of Australian but it'd be even funnier if he was making fun of whatever it is that Cary Grant tried to speak.

It really is a difficult accent to place. I'm not always very good at pinpointing accents as it is and that one particularly so. All I know is that I love the sound of it!

Aw, Lemmon especially in drag is amazing!

And yes, if I watched the Seven Year Itch I'd probably end up saying that was my favourite instead. Then I'd watch Some Like It Hot and change again! I do love the closed nature of the Seven Year Itch -- I enjoy films based on plays, like Glengarry Glen Ross -- and I love the constant monologuing and little fantasies! Very funny.

And I could watch Marilyn in just about anything.

[Interference]

Curtis was indeed doing an impression of Cary Grant's slightly Americanised Bristol accent in SLIH, later parodied by numerous impressionists and in such popular entertainments as Fancy in Top Cat.

[Foxbat]

Fitzcarraldo Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski may have had a tempestuous working relationship but they made great movies together. Fitzcarraldo is a brilliant example of that fact.

[clovis-man]

Originally Posted by Foxbat

Fitzcarraldo Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski may have had a tempestuous working relationship but they made great movies together. Fitzcarraldo is a brilliant example of that fact.

A fascinating movie. The juxtapositioning of vastly divergent cultures is mesmerizing.

[James Beam]

Battleship.

Cool.

[monsterchic]

Hunger Games...good movie, but could have followed the book a little better

[Starbeast]

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

The Thing (2011)

Both of these movies were surprisingly good.

Geoffrey Rush is awesome as Captain Barbossa, even the character of Capt. Black Beard was great, and ol' Capt. Jack Sparrow was typical. I'm just glad this movie wasn't as weird as the third film.

The THING prequel was done rather well I thought, and since I didn't see any of the trailers for it, I didn't know what to expect. I liked the tension of not knowing who is the shape-shifting being from outer space, along with the bizarre transformation effects.

[JunkMonkey]

Originally Posted by Foxbat

Fitzcarraldo Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski may have had a tempestuous working relationship but they made great movies together. Fitzcarraldo is a brilliant example of that fact.

A mesmerising and wonderful film (marred only by a couple of really tatty model shots near the end). The whole boat winching (in the non Scottish sense) over the mountainside sequence is one of the most terrifying bits of film I know. Turns out the reason the sequence was so terrifying was because it was terrifying. The documentaryBurden of Dreams about the making of Fitcarraldo shows that the designer of the pulley system gave it a 70% chance of failing with a 'catastrophic' loss of life unless the film makers made changes. They didn't. He quit.

Tonight I watched Videodrome for the severalth time. I'd forgotten how funny it is.

[Foxbat]

Originally Posted by JunkMonkey

The documentaryBurden of Dreams about the making of Fitcarraldo shows that the designer of the pulley system gave it a 70% chance of failing with a 'catastrophic' loss of life unless the film makers made changes. They didn't. He quit.

They wouldn't get away with it nowadays. Health and Safety you know

Watched The Ghost Train (1941) Starring Arthur Askey. Thought it was mildly entertaining but didn't find Askey funny at all.

[Moonbat]

Watched Lebanon last night, was quite good, the claustrophobic nature of it all being filmed from within the tank was very good. I wasn't the most plotted film, but was different and an enjoyabe watch.

[Mouse]

Wall-e (I never thought that name worked properly for anybody other than the Americans. I sure as hell don't pronounce it how it's intended to be pronounced). But anyway, enjoyed what I saw of it - I missed the beginning and the end.

[Metryq]

Originally Posted by Mouse

Wall-e (I never thought that name worked properly for anybody other than the Americans. I sure as hell don't pronounce it how it's intended to be pronounced). But anyway, enjoyed what I saw of it - I missed the beginning and the end.

Then you may have missed the acronym: Waste Allocation Load Lifter—Earth model. Sounds like the name "Wally." The first part of the movie is the best. Telling a story with no dialog and a mechanical figure that does not have facial expressions can be a real challenge. Pixar "started" there with "Luxo, Jr."

[JunkMonkey]

Originally Posted by Foxbat

didn't find Askey funny at all.

You're not alone.

"Remember, people once laughed at Arthur Askey, and History has proved them wrong." - Alexie Sayle

[Foxbat]

Originally Posted by JunkMonkey

You're not alone.

"Remember, people once laughed at Arthur Askey, and History has proved them wrong." - Alexie Sayle

Good quote

Watched Copycat last night. This one never seems to get much of a mention (possibly because it was overshadowed by the release of Se7en a month earlier) but I like it.

On the downside, it's your common-or-garden serial killer flick. On the upside, it's got Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter in it and it holds its suspense quite well. Certainly worth a look.