Tonight I watched A Family Thing (1996) starring Robert Duvall and James Earl Jones. I just lucked into it, I'd never heard of it til tonight. I can't recall the last time I enjoyed a movie so much. It was just me and the tv. Gentle humor, without being sappy. The sort of movie the whole family can enjoy. Can't recommend it enough.

Originally Posted by Drago

Originally Posted by Wadeb_21

Snatch is a great flick Drago.

I was flipping through the channels last night and saw Horton Hears a Who was on HBO figured I would give it a watch since I didn't have anything else to do. I actually enjoyed it thought it was pretty funny.

i took my daughter to watch horton & thought it was really good, my daughter loved movie as well

i watched an hour of new nic cage film 'fallen' thought it was ok just gotta watch second half but downloaded series 6 of two & a half men & i love that show so maybe a while before see second half of film.

apologies the new nic cage film was called 'Knowin' not fallen & i finished watching it & it was crap a waste of 2 hrs! it was just a piontless film & stupid! nic cage aint made a decent film for ages think last one i enjoyed was ghost rider

I watched Lostboys1 last night.I dont get sick of wtching this great film.

Originally Posted by Drago

Originally Posted by Lyle

I watched The Thin Man, great old film! And I just ordered Warner Gangster Collection vol. 1 which includes White Heat, Little Caesar, Angels With Dirty Faces, The Public Enemy, The Petrified Forest, and The Roaring Twenties...can't wait until that comes to the house

never seen any of them, u like your older films dont ya Lyle

They are classics for a reason....it gives you a good sense of the times what was ok to do and say and so on....hell you can look at Monster Squad which was made in 1987 and hell you couldn't make that film today, 13 year olds smoking and talking about who's a virgin and who isn't and 4 year olds cursing...no way that could be made today, but I still love that movie.

I love good movies and bad movies but they have to be REALLY bad for me to like them. I like trying to figure out if the people working on that film actually figured they would make some kind of masterpeice or if they totally phoned it in.

As for these gangster movies I ordered, hell those were made during the time of a real big gangster era: Capone, Lucciano, Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, etc. So the films might try to show gangsters in a positive light OR try to be Public Service Propaganda to get people to steer away from lives of crime due to the War On Crime which started around that time. I just think it will be cool to see #1 some badass actors like Bogart, Cagney, and Edward G. Robinson and #2 See what went on in the movies and compare it to today's gangster films.

Watched again Men of Honor yesterday at Star Movies starring Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding Jr. Great film. Brings tears to my eyes!!!

Originally Posted by The_Infinite

Watched again Men of Honor yesterday at Star Movies starring Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding Jr. Great film. Brings tears to my eyes!!!

Men of Honor great movie man, I haven't seen it in forever though, need to watch that one again sometime.

Originally Posted by Lyle

Originally Posted by Drago

Originally Posted by Lyle

I watched The Thin Man, great old film! And I just ordered Warner Gangster Collection vol. 1 which includes White Heat, Little Caesar, Angels With Dirty Faces, The Public Enemy, The Petrified Forest, and The Roaring Twenties...can't wait until that comes to the house

never seen any of them, u like your older films dont ya Lyle

They are classics for a reason....it gives you a good sense of the times what was ok to do and say and so on....hell you can look at Monster Squad which was made in 1987 and hell you couldn't make that film today, 13 year olds smoking and talking about who's a virgin and who isn't and 4 year olds cursing...no way that could be made today, but I still love that movie.

I love good movies and bad movies but they have to be REALLY bad for me to like them. I like trying to figure out if the people working on that film actually figured they would make some kind of masterpeice or if they totally phoned it in.

As for these gangster movies I ordered, hell those were made during the time of a real big gangster era: Capone, Lucciano, Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, etc. So the films might try to show gangsters in a positive light OR try to be Public Service Propaganda to get people to steer away from lives of crime due to the War On Crime which started around that time. I just think it will be cool to see #1 some badass actors like Bogart, Cagney, and Edward G. Robinson and #2 See what went on in the movies and compare it to today's gangster films.

good post lyle & if i get chance i may download a few i always fancied angels with dirty faces! for some reason

Originally Posted by yvonne

I watched Lostboys1 last night.I dont get sick of wtching this great film.

i watched a few months back me & the mrs love that film

Just watched the Punisher2.Great fun,plenty of gore and great wacky violence


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sQuMiKF-hA

Death wish 2, free to air.
I can't resist watching a Bronson movie.
Or an Eastwood one.

Originally Posted by Drago

good post lyle & if i get chance i may download a few i always fancied angels with dirty faces! for some reason

That's a good one Cagney and Bogart....I watched The Public Enemy, Little Caesar, and The Roaring Twenties yesterday. Long damn movies, but very good I wish gangsters still talked like that

Here's some Little Caesar for ya' understand, you're gonna watch it, and you're gonna like it see!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js6mgxdFLE4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY04-588yZY

And a trailer of Angels With Dirty Faces
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OruJBWVaY8Q

An Korean movie called Old Boy. It was disturbing to say the least, but very good. I'm a big fan of foreign movies.

I just saw Public Enemies yesterday, quality film, but it doesn't do the book justice.

It has a different feel to it than most films as it was shot 100% digital and it had points where it jumped around from Dillenger to FBI to Dillenger's girl to Melvin Purvis and it seemed as though the director didn't know how to fit that much information in the time given.

Quality action packed movie though, a must see....I also STRONGLY suggest you read the book

Originally Posted by Lyle

I just saw Public Enemies yesterday, quality film, but it doesn't do the book justice.

It has a different feel to it than most films as it was shot 100% digital and it had points where it jumped around from Dillenger to FBI to Dillenger's girl to Melvin Purvis and it seemed as though the director didn't know how to fit that much information in the time given.

Quality action packed movie though, a must see....I also STRONGLY suggest you read the book

I have actually heard a few people complaining about the camera that was used for filming.

I'm gonna check this out probably next week I really wanna see it, I didn't have a chance this past weekend with it being a holiday.

Yeah, the camera didn't really do all that much for me and the action/focus(of the movie, not the actual camera) kind of jumped around...it even got me jumbled a bit and I read the book. It's got quality action in it, but all in all I think it could have been done better, but I had such high hopes for the film, it's not like when I read Gangs of New York and then saw the movie they were 2 different things.

In all honesty I wish it had been a bit more graphic with the violence and a bit more descriptive of exactly what locations certain events happened in, and for the love of God they didn't show the taking of the Barker-Karpis Gang which was one of the more gory events in the book and one of the biggest fuck ups in FBI history which caused them to back pedal and cover up in a way which wouldn't give you cause for feeling safe about them.