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Matewis: I somehow didn't know about Nosferatu the Vampyre thanks. I only knew about the old black and white one. This one looks very interesting so I think I'm going to make a point of watching it. And Fright Night while I'm at it
Just take care to grab the original Fright Night! I know there was remeke recently. I know not all remakes have to suck, but I'd be surprised if it's half as good as the original.
Be sure to check out Shadow of the Vampire if you've not seen that vampire movie!!!

There's a rarer independent movie called "Habit" that is a great take on modern vampires.

added the imdb link to Habit
Post edited September 02, 2017 by drealmer7
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drealmer7: Be sure to check out Shadow of the Vampire if you've not seen that vampire movie!!!
Oh yes, that's a really good and unusual one. Dafoe is great. I remember expecting something much more silly when I first heard what it's about.
The Blob
Fantastic Voyage
The White Sheik
Mad Love
The Pit and the Pendulum
Haile Mary
Last Tango in Paris
Logan's Run

anything Luis Bunuel
most of Pasolini
a lot of John Ford

Drums of Fu Manchu
Cat Ballou
Bullitt
Viva Zapata
Go Ask Alice
WUSA
Nashville
The Thin Man
The Big Heat
Get Carter
Day of the Locust
The Philadelphia Experiment

so many
Ikiru
Chinatown
Blow Out
My Dinner with Andre
Eraserhead
Rope
Vertigo
I've always been curious about The Beast of Yucca Flats. I think it might be one of those 'so bad its good' type films. I mean, just look at what the narrator has to say:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054673/trivia?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu
And my favorite bit of trivia : to avoid dealing with sync problems no character ever faces the camera when speaking. Well either that or the woman that gets killed in the beginning which doesn't seem to have anything to do with the plot XD
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Matewis: I've always been curious about The Beast of Yucca Flats. I think it might be one of those 'so bad its good' type films. I mean, just look at what the narrator has to say:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054673/trivia?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu
And my favorite bit of trivia : to avoid dealing with sync problems no character ever faces the camera when speaking. Well either that or the woman that gets killed in the beginning which doesn't seem to have anything to do with the plot XD
MST3K used it for an episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRhGW53eoxY
Post edited September 03, 2017 by tinyE
Bladerunner

Yes, I'm one of those people. When I first got it on DVD I only watched a few minutes of it because I was convinced that my German DVD was censored (there's some really weird cut in the first minutes of the movie). Only last year, when I got a definitely uncensored version, it occurred to me that my German DVD wasn't censored to begin with, *sigh*. Then I started watching it but was interrupted halfway through and never got around to finish it. I have really no luck with this movie.

Others I'm looking forward to most are probably Conan: The Barbarian, Basic Instinct, 2001 and The Godfather. But I could really go on, there's more classics I haven't seen yet but really want to than I can count. At least I've seen Flash Gordon which is like the best movie of all time.
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tinyE: So anyway, the Professor could make a radio out of coconuts, but he couldn't fix a two foot hole in a boat.
It appears that the boat was destroyed in the "Goodbye Island" episode.

Been years since I've watched the show.
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F4LL0UT: Others I'm looking forward to most are probably Conan: The Barbarian, Basic Instinct, 2001 and The Godfather. But I could really go on, there's more classics I haven't seen yet but really want to than I can count. At least I've seen Flash Gordon which is like the best movie of all time.
Conan is great. I think even though it's a cult classic and all, it's still underrated just how good it really is. I'm still hoping to see that King Conan movie Schwarzenegger's been talking about get made.

And yes, Flash Gordon is superbly fun. There is a perfect universe somewhere where it's a whole trilogy.
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Matewis: I've always been curious about The Beast of Yucca Flats. I think it might be one of those 'so bad its good' type films. I mean, just look at what the narrator has to say:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054673/trivia?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu
And my favorite bit of trivia : to avoid dealing with sync problems no character ever faces the camera when speaking. Well either that or the woman that gets killed in the beginning which doesn't seem to have anything to do with the plot XD
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tinyE: MST3K used it for an episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRhGW53eoxY
Hmm wasn't aware of that channel. Looks interesting. But I think I'll see the film 'normally' first
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F4LL0UT: Others I'm looking forward to most are probably Conan: The Barbarian, Basic Instinct, 2001 and The Godfather. But I could really go on, there's more classics I haven't seen yet but really want to than I can count. At least I've seen Flash Gordon which is like the best movie of all time.
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Breja: Conan is great. I think even though it's a cult classic and all, it's still underrated just how good it really is. I'm still hoping to see that King Conan movie Schwarzenegger's been talking about get made.
Love the setting, the characters and especially the music, but the fighting sequences have aged poorly for me :( Well, except the bit where Conan punches a camel :P
Post edited September 04, 2017 by Matewis
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Breja: Conan is great. I think even though it's a cult classic and all, it's still underrated just how good it really is. I'm still hoping to see that King Conan movie Schwarzenegger's been talking about get made.
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Matewis: Love the setting, the characters and especially the music, but the fighting sequences has aged poorly for me :( Well, except the bit where Conan punches a camel :P
I still like them more than a lot of todays vapid CG fights. In a way todays big budget movies where often it's basically two CG projections "fighting" have sort of de-aged a lot of old movies for me. At least those old movies have the physicality of the fights on their side, which goes a long way.
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Matewis: Love the setting, the characters and especially the music, but the fighting sequences has aged poorly for me :( Well, except the bit where Conan punches a camel :P
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Breja: I still like them more than a lot of todays vapid CG fights. In a way todays big budget movies where often it's basically two CG projections "fighting" have sort of de-aged a lot of old movies for me. At least those old movies have the physicality of the fights on their side, which goes a long way.
True, but there are a lot of more modern non-CG fight scenes that have raised the bar too high for me to enjoy a lot of those old films when it comes to fighting. Roger Moore and Sean Connery's 007 hand-to-hand fights I find especially cringe worthy.
But I'm also bored with a lot of modern CG fight scenes, with a few exceptions here and there : 2003's Incredible Hulk, Batman vs Superman's fight against Doomsday, and even though the CGI isn't that good, I've always loved the fight scene of Neo vs all of Smith's copies in the 2nd Matrix film.
Post edited September 04, 2017 by Matewis
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Matewis: Batman vs Superman's fight against Doomsday
Snyder (who I think, despite missteps, is an underrated director) has great and rare talent for making fight scenes that steel retain that physical "feel" despite CG. All the fights in Man of Steel and BvS stand out from most other superhero movies for me for that reason. It all still feels like the punches have impact, and people are getting hurt and tired. I don't remember who it was, but someone once called it the "everything hurts aspect" of old school action, which is often missing now, but Snyder gets it.

Anyway, you are of course right, there have also been a lot of good, even great fights in modern cinema. I guess what I'm saying is that I don't really think of it as Conan having aged poorly, when it's still better than so many new movies (including the utter failure that was the new Conan a few years back).
Post edited September 04, 2017 by Breja
So he's great with fight scenes but he needs a lesson or two on flashbacks and dream sequences. :P