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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Apr 25, 2012 18:11:18 GMT -5
I watched British horror film The Wicker Man for the first time. This was a great movie the acting all around was great particualrly Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee. The celtic folk soundtrack was also great. Glad I finally watched this movie it has a creepy vibe most of the movie ,but the cop should've know pretty quickly to GTFO and call for backup.
JAS-37
Anyway yeah I heard about that giant French wold I was watching some special where they think it was a hyena that had escaped from a zoo.
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 25, 2012 18:51:21 GMT -5
Congrats JAS for losing your The Wicker Man cherry. That is my favorite British movie, and what a coincidence. Thirty minutes ago I picked up a movie that was shat on by seemingly everyone, the recently released The Wicker Tree. I'll be watching it next.
And the beast was too big to be a hyena. Plus it was from the French countryside. Probably some nobleman's escaped wolf/mastiff hybrid, or a similar feral mix of a wolf and a wolf hound or some giant breed of Mastiff.
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 25, 2012 19:10:00 GMT -5
Mystery solved, my guess is it was a hybrid of a wolf and feral Dogue de Bordeaux or French mastiff. Some of the eyewitness accounts said it was a red-hued animal with a long tail. ..or a Tibetan Mastiff, nah, but what a scary looking pooch! One more pup....
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Apr 25, 2012 20:16:24 GMT -5
I remember them saying it was an especially large hyena that had escaped from some rich guy.
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 26, 2012 0:14:15 GMT -5
It makes sense if it was some rich douchebag's private zoo/collection in the middle of the countryside. I just didn't think hyenas got anywhere close to the size of wolves. Did they find the carcass?
Just watched part two of the soon to be Wicker Man Trilogy. The Wicker Tree.
Same writer/director as the classic. Even a cameo by Sir Christopher Lee. So why did it feel like a 1950s Vincent Price vehicle when the movie shifted to horror? Oh, awful portrayal of Texans, Jesus Freaks, Dallas chicks, and good-old-boy cowboys. Every Texan in Dallas wears a cowboy hat? I had no idea, must have missed that while I lived there. I think I saw more prostitutes on the streets than cowboy hats while in Deep Elum.
LOB-40
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 27, 2012 0:58:12 GMT -5
Drunken Master. I'm not kidding, this movie made me dizzy watching it. I thought I was going to have a seizure.
Jackie Chan, first off, is one bad motherfucker. Watch him train. Read up on his long list of injuries. Second, he is Slapstick Comedy Royalty to me, up there with Charlie Chaplin, Lucille Ball, and John Ritter. And that is a compliment to his performances. He has a circus background, I believe possibly he was a clown. And it shows, and once again that is a compliment.
This was the first Kung-fu comedy. And it makes me smile, my third viewing in twenty years. The Tiger Lager from Singapore I just drank is good drinkin'. Cheers!
LOB-41
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 27, 2012 2:17:55 GMT -5
Drank a strong-ass Sierra Nevada Hoptimum Whole-Cone (hopcone, that is) Imperial India Pale Ale weighing in at, experienced guess here, 9.0+ ABV, while trying to watch an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Normally those words would be incomprehensible.
I just can't compare "The Lodger", Hitchcock's first thriller, a silent film from 1924 to Rear Window, North by Northwest, The Birds, or Psycho. Or even his immortal shorts from Alfred Hitchcock Presents. But I'll try this movie again before the end of the month.
Instead, "This train will stop in Tucumcari". Back to drinkin' Tiger. Cheers!
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 29, 2012 0:10:31 GMT -5
Lee Van Cliff is the goat.
For a Few Dollars More. Part of the Leone/Eastwood Trilogy. Part one is great. This movie is better. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly is epic.
I love that this movie takes place in a Spanish version of El Paso, the city of my childhood. That said a Salud! to Ciudad Juarez, the beseiged Sister City across the Rio Grande. Arriba!
LOB-42
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 29, 2012 16:50:27 GMT -5
Hammer's follow-up to their version of Frankestein was Horror of Dracula.
Cushing and Lee delivered another knockout. And this movie uses all of Bram Stoker's characters but changes the relationship of Harker and Von Helsing. Much better gothic horror than Tod Browning's version. Much, much better. And no armadillos or possums or spiderwebs everywhere.
Vampires are not shape shifters here (Hide your weaknesses, special effects, and showcase your strengths, sets and actors/actresses), so Dracula has to be a more vicious and savage fiend. And more sneaky, cunning, and vengeaful. Hammer ruled.
LOB-44
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Apr 29, 2012 17:04:24 GMT -5
Watched Roman Polanski's Macbeth which I'd been meaning to see for awhile. For realism he has the characters long monologues done in their heads instead of them actually speaking. Even though he might be the bad guy Macbeth is a man and doesn't back down fighting to the end even though the rest of his army deserts him. The blood and gore effects were pretty good as was the final fight which was realistic with anything and everything being used while Macbeth and Macduff tried to kill each other.
JAS-38
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Apr 29, 2012 19:05:39 GMT -5
Watched The Whistle Blower a british spyish thriller starring Michael Caine. This movie was ok, the soundtrack was horrible and most of the plot was ok. Michale Caine freaking out was definately the best part of the movie.
JAS-39
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 30, 2012 0:55:08 GMT -5
Watched a movie produced by Universal and a Mexican movie company. Two Mules for Sister Sarah, about a merceneray, Clint Eatwood, and a nun, Shirley Maclain, who assist the Juarista revolution against colonial France. A saucy and racy film, and a great second watch. Filmed in Mejico, and an early Feliz Cinco de Mayo!
LOB-45
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Apr 30, 2012 3:08:25 GMT -5
Watched Crossplot a British movie starring Roger Moore about an advertising executive who gets set up. This wasn't a bad or good movie ,but it does flow fast and I enjoyed the 60's soundtrack.
JAS-40
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 30, 2012 9:18:50 GMT -5
Danny Boyle's Sunshine. A classic sci-fi film up there with 2001 and the new Star Trek (yes, I did love Star Trek, and I ain't ever been a Trekkie). This movie is also a thriller and arguably a horror film, but I'll score it as a single point because it is more sci-fi.
LOB-46
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Post by loverofbeers on May 1, 2012 0:04:04 GMT -5
Two minutes ago, Time Bandits.
End of the month, LOB-47
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