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Thanks logan! The Deer Hunter is one of my favorite movies- I watch it at least once a year. I will look for these at my library.
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Great choices. Dog Day Afternoon is my fave Pacino film You feel every minute of his stress in it. Excellent.
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Logan, every one of your choices is superb. Love them all.
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I finally just got around to watching War of the Satellites last week. While it's nowhere as good as Attack of the Crab Monsters or Not of This Earth, it is worth watching on a rainy day or just to kill 66 minutes. WOTS must have been a test run for D-i-c-k Miller by Roger Corman, as Miller gets to play the lead here, a full year before he starred in A Bucket of Blood.
One aspect of WOTS I did like was how the alien that ends up impersonating Dr. Van Ponder (Richard Devon) can astral project itself to make clones. The spaceship sets weren't too bad considering Roger Corman filmed the movie in eight weeks on a budget of $70,000. He really was the master of getting a lot out of a little. Isn't it funny how most of the low-budget black and white horror movies released by AIP, Allied Artists, and others in the 50s still look crisp today, yet a lot of bad low budget American 70s horror movies like Flesh Feast, Carnival of Blood, and Shriek of the Mutilated still look as bad as they did when they were first released?
Fun fact: War of the Satellites was released a full seven months after the launching of Sputnik 1.
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Can't decide if that movie is amazingly bad, or just sweet but tacky.
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just seen the terror on the mgm channel a little while ago, i liked it, wasnt crazy about the angle they revealed towards the end but still good
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yep, the one with jack. what was the deal with the boris karloff character at the end?
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GP, I don't know if you have heard the stories behind Roger Corman's "The Terror," but this was the infamous two-day film that Corman did because he finished up "The Raven" early and had Karloff under contract for two more days. Always the spendthrift, Corman decided to make another movie and started filming without a script before the studio tore down "The Raven" sets. Sometime later, Monte Hellman and Francis Ford Coppola filmed some stuff by the ocean. The bizarre plot angles were explained in an interview that I read with D-i-c-k Miller. Miller--love this guy, a wonderful character actor--said that the movie didn't hang together so there's a scene, filmed much later, where Jack Nicholson slams Miller against a wall and says something like "I've been lied to ever since I got to this castle," and Miller then spouts pages of expository dialogue in an attempt to create/explain the plot. Gotta love Roger Corman's ingenuity! It's still a nice looking, entertaining movie. Jack Nicholson as a French solider...that's pretty good by itself!
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that was really good to be done in two days, i was really into the story, just that switcheroo thing.
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It's an amazing achievement when you think about it, GP--a film as only Corman could do. It has that terrific cast, who while they had no clue what the lines meant during filming, did a nice job anyway. And it looks great too, so much better than most of the direct-to-DVD stuff made today. While not one of Corman's best films, I've always thought that folks should see it as an educational curio, just to see what the low-budget master Corman could do with basically NO budget.
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I'll move up a few decades. I re-watched "Murder by Decree" (1979), the Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper tale that I saw in the theatre back in the day and was not very enthusiastic about it. I hadn't seen it since the mid-80s, but I decided to look at it again after watching a recent documentary on late director Bob Clark called "ClarkWorld." Anyway, my opinion on "Decree" hasn't changed. The cast is unbelievable and unbelievably good, and the movie looks and sounds great. Nothing else works. It's too long, the screenplay isn't good--Sherlock Holmes contacing a psychic? Conan Doyle rolls in his grave. And Holmes doesn't seem to do much deducting either--and the editing just sort of limps along from setpiece to setpiece, usually involving the one big scene for each big star. (Hey, look at Genevieve Bujod! There's Donald Sutherland! John Gielgud's here too!)
I know a lot of folks really love this film, but I have to quote a friend of mine who has the exact same feelings I do: "It's like they were having a picnic and invited all these great stars who brought great stuff, but they never told anybody where the picnic was so the stars sort of wandered around and nobody really met up to do anything good."
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speaking of sherlock holmes, ever since i seen rathbone's version i concluded that in my mind this is the definitive holmes, even when i read the stories. he did a great job on that, as did robert newton in treasure island, i heard about charlton heston version but i cant imagine anybody else as silver
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seen bob clark's black christmas awhile back, liked it alot, as well as porkys and a christmas story, and it runs in the family aka my summer story
i wonder though if it was bob clark's doing or purely jean shepherd's or the combo, that made those movies really great.
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I'm sorry, I disagree with both of you. I watched the entire of Black Christmas twice, and it failed to live up to my expectations of a blaxploitation movie about Christmas both times.
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Speaking of, I watched Blacula last night. Love it I'll watch the sequel tonight I think.
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Too funny, Logan. I love the original "Black Christmas" very much. It's a lost classic. The phone calls are just so creepy and scary with all that crying, the multiple voices, the baby... And if you listen very carefully right before Margot Kidder hangs up on the nut, after he's just been going off the rails, you hear him say, calmly composed and quietly, "I am going to kill you." It's such a great horror film moment.
"Blacula" and "Scream, Blacula, Scream." Awww, the good old days. If you need another blaxploitation recommendation, how about "Sugar Hill" (no, not the 90s film with Wesley Snipes), but the zombie film with Marki Bey and Robert Quarry. It's great fun!
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