What's on your Daily Viewing List? (6 Viewers)

[DFurr]

Re-watching DRIVE ANGRY tonight. 35mm, 3D, SDDS/DTS.

 

[Toronto Argonauts]

Tonight:

 

[John Sparks]

The SD of I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE so I wouldn't have to buy the BD. This viewing should last me the rest of my life.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Originally Released: 12/10/1993
Watched: 06/07/2020
1080P HD digital streaming on Disney+, upscaled to 4K via Roku Ultra

I watched this movie many, many times when I was younger and I wanted to see if it still held up.

While it commits just about every cardinal sin of bad sequels, for the life of me I can't understand why it's only at 9 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Maybe our expectations have simply been lowered in the more than quarter-century since this came out.

Yes, it's incredibly contrived that Whoopi's character ends up again pretending to be a nun. Yes, the movie's attempt to capture inner city vernacular and teenage slang mostly falls flat. Yes, Maggie Smith is wasted here.

But Whoopi still has charisma for days as Deloris Van Cartier/Sister Mary Clarence. And the kids in her choir, a pre-Fugees Lauryn Hill first and foremost among them, are incredibly talented. The musical numbers that punctuate the film are a lot of fun. It has the same rhythyms as a sports movie, only in this case the big game is the statewide choir competition.

So while all of the flaws are very apparent, it's still a plenty enjoyable time at the movies.

 

[Mysto]

[QUOTE="John Sparks, post: 4875426, member: 28644
The SD of I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE so I wouldn't have to buy the BD. This viewing should last me the rest of my life.
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Wound up watching the Ray Harryhausen retrospective last night on Amazon Prime and thought about you. (Don't take this the wrong way)

 

[John Sparks]

Thanks Marv...gonna look it up and watch it!!!

 

[bujaki]

I Know This Much Is True (HBO) 2020. Penultimate chapter. I hope that there will be some hope at the end for these characters. What a depressing tale! If it weren't for the fact that it's so well acted...
Man of the World (TCM) 1931. A new one for me and worth watching for early Powell and Lombard. Good Guy Kibbee performance. Minor footnote.

 

[bujaki]

Tonight:



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I remember liking this one. Does it hold up?

 

[Dave Moritz]

June 8th, 2020 Monday

Jaws (45th Anniversary)
4K UHD Blu-ray / Dolby Vision
Native 4K
Dolby Atmos 7.1.4

 

[Toronto Argonauts]

Tonight:

 

[Toronto Argonauts]

I remember liking this one. Does it hold up?

Hello Jose yes it holds up very well. It's the first time I have watched it on my 4K display and the picture quality is very good.

 

[DFurr]

Tonight was an old John Carpenter flick.....They Live. To me a 4 or maybe 5 out of 10. My first screening. It didn't really seem like Carpenter movie. 2:35:1 Digital

 

[JohnRice]

Re-watching DRIVE ANGRY tonight. 35mm, 3D, SDDS/DTS.

I told you it was fun. They Live is kind of silly fun too. Sorry you didn’t care for it.

 

[DFurr]

They Live is kind of silly fun too. Sorry you didn’t care for it.

I don't know John. To me it had a slow start and it just didn't hold up toward the end with all the shooting and killing. I found myself almost asleep two or three times. However, we did enjoy watching Drive Angry again. I would say it about the best 3D I've seen in a long time. I have a number the Technicolor 3D prints from 2010 and up most are in 3D. They really got this one right!!

 

[JohnRice]

I don't know John. To me it had a slow start and it just didn't hold up toward the end with all the shooting and killing. I found myself almost asleep two or three times. However, we did enjoy watching Drive Angry again. I would say it about the best 3D I've seen in a long time. I have a number the Technicolor 3D prints from 2010 and up most are in 3D. They really got this one right!!

Yeah, it’s a spotty movie. I just get a kick out of the Roddy silliness.

 

[DFurr]

Yeah, it’s a spotty movie. I just get a kick out of the Roddy silliness.

I couldn't decide who was going to win the fist fight in the alleyway, Keith or Roddy. I was thinking they might kill each other. It went on forever. I was worn out when that was over.

 

[dana martin]

Sat-Sun-Monday Morning, 3 Episodes a day



Damon Lindelof's updated squeal, is as on point topical as Moore/ Gibbons original, powerful, thought provoking

Monday Evenings Feature

 

[Mysto]

Tom Conway returns again as the Falcon. An interesting breezy mystery with lots of pretty ladies and Goldie comes back courtesy of Edward Brophy.

 

[Robert Crawford]

On TCM with Eddie Muller and Monty Alexander before and after commentary:

 

[bujaki]

Fitzcarraldo (Shout BD) 1982. Werner Herzog, an obsessive film director, tackles another film about a man with a single-minded obsession to bring opera to the Amazonian jungle in the first decade of the 20th century, the actor playing him being none other than the obsessed Klaus Kinski. Incredible location images give life to this incredible tale of two cultures meeting (European and Jivaro) via the extraordinary recordings of Enrico Caruso, the miracle of the human voice lifted in glorious song.
Marco Polo (VAI DVD) 1956. A live telecast of an original musical mining the themes of Rimsky-Korsakov, and with a book co-written by Neil Simon. It reunites the stars of Broadway's Kismet: the inestimable presence and gorgeous voices of Alfred Drake and Doretta Morrow. It's great to have these kinescopes preserved; it's just too bad that they've come down to us in B&W versions. They must have been an eyeful in color.
Man in the Shadow (Kino BD) 1957. Done on the cheap but packs a wallop. Strong performance from Jeff Chandler taking on the cause of social injustice. The "invisible" Mexican man in the sheriff's office is a strong visual indication of the value of a bracero's life in such a town. Will Chandler go against Big Daddy and the town? Excellent B&W visuals and strong stuff even today.
Song of Norway (Kino BD) 1970. I had to watch this. Lovely transfer. Lovely music. Lovely scenery. Lots of running around by the trio of actors. Lots of quick cuts. No overture, no intermission but there is exit music. It really isn't much good, but I managed to sit through it, I remembered many songs from the Broadway cast album from the '40s, and the scenery IS beautiful. I don't know whether I could sit through it again.
All these were first viewings for me.