Let's talk movies

[MichelleHW101]

I watched Lincoln with Daniel Day-Lewis and I have to say that it’s a lol movie watching Tommy Lee Jones in it.  I mean him in a period piece?  But the role they gave him with the period piece name calling, yea that is definitely him.

[MichelleHW101]

You know when Jimmy Stewart was alive he was in charge of colorizing a lot of old movies (provided the colorization does not take away from the movie) in order to get a younger generation to watch the movie.  It’s a shame when he died his ideas died with him because when something was colorized such as Louis Hayward’s Man in the Iron Mask when preserved to DVD the copy that was saved was only the black and white.

[MichelleHW101]

I recently bought a hdtv and while I understand the vhs tapes aren’t going to look perfect anymore I prefer to watch them to their dvd copy simply because I own a lot of colorized vhs tapes of old movies that went to dvd only in their original black and white version.

[MichelleHW101]

I don’t get why colorized versions of old movies are hard to find in dvd if the vhs tape exsists.  I guess the only way I can get the colorized version on dvd of a movie such as Louis Hayward’s Son of Monte Cristo is to buy a vhs/dvd recorder with the dvd side being the recorder and make the dvd myself. 

[g0ku4life]

Ben-Hur is still the greatest movie ever.

[MichelleHW101]

My favorite Les Miserables version is the one with Fredric March.  I still can’t get over the gets sentenced to ten years in the gallies for stealing bread.  I call to mind a like in the Steve Reeves movie Last Days of Pompeii.  “He who steals bread is not a thief but a hungry man.”

[MichelleHW101]

I have to say that movies that start off really good then have four or five sequals end up gradually getting crappy by the end.  Psycho was great.  The sequal was okay but once you got to three it went downhill after that.  Chucky the same way.  One and even Two were really creepy (the way they were supposed to be) but once you get to three it just started getting stupid.  The last chucky (the son of) was better than four (the bride of) which was the worst of the lot but even then the last chucky was only ok at best.

[MichelleHW101]

I can’t recall a Shirley Temple movie I actually watch for her.  I don’t mind her but I really watch it for the actors she is with.

[MichelleHW101]

I can’t fault Vanessa Redgrave as Mary in Mary Queen of Scots but I actually perfer Anne of a thousand days to that.   

[healthfreedom]

I have not been to the movies lately; however, one of my favorites is "Negotiator" starring Samuel Jackson. I can watch it over and over again.

[nickylanena]

I want to see Iron Man 3 & The Great Gatsby!

[MichelleHW101]

I watched Jack Reacher, the new tom crusie movie.  I have to say that while it was mesmerizing I was slightly disappointed because it was build as an action movie (still has that label) but it’s too slow paced to be an action flick.  Of Course it’s too fast to be a drama too.

[MichelleHW101]

I Just got the That’s the way it is Elvis Las Vegas 2 disc dvd.  While I didn’t finish it just yet I am enjoying it immensely.  Especially that they don’t cut away to the Vegas strip when Elvis sings Heartbreak Hotel.  It stays on Elvis which is the point.  It’s an Elvis concert and people want to watch Elvis.  We couldn’t careless what Vegas looked like at the time.  We ain’t buying it because of where the concert takes place.  We are watching it to see Elvis in concert.

[MichelleHW101]

It’s so enjoyable to see Whitney Houston’s mom Emily ‘Cissy’ Houston and her band Sweet Inspirations as back up singers to Elvis in the Las Vegas concert.  Whitney looked so much like her mom it’s like watching Whitney when I see her mom in the Elvis concert. 

[MichelleHW101]

Have the blu-ray Dirty Dancing special Edition with the Live in Concert as a special feature.  I have to say that Bill Medley (the deeper voice of the duo The Righteous Brothers) does a great job with ‘Come on honey, let the good times roll’ and ‘Old time Rock and Roll,’ ‘You’ve lost that lovin’ feeling’ just isn’t the same without him singing with Bobby Hatfeild.  That song just needs the tenor vocals that Medley doesn’t have.