Last Non Western You Watched

This morning I watched the first few episodes of Season 1, "Frasier". That's probably all the non-western viewing I'll be doing for the next several weeks or maybe even months as I bought the entire 11-season set of the series from DDDVD a week or so ago. Since there's about 12 hours of viewing in each season, I have my work cut out for me to watch all of it before I leave this earthly orb.

The 39 Steps starring Kenneth More. watched it yesterday afternoon and thought it was a good film. made in 1959 i think

"Fiend Without A Face"

Great 1950's Sci-Fi monster movie.

Every once in awhile my wife lays down her books and gets on a movie-watching kick. When she does I usually watch whatever she's watching.
Yesterday we watched "Rambo 3" with Stallone and "Commando" with Schwarznegger.

The kids and I had a weekend without mom, so we watched mindless movies that kids like and dad's appreciate once in awhile. We watched "Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D" with Brendan Fraser, "Scorpion King 2, and my son was beside himself to watch it, so we rented "Indy 4".

Quantum of Solace
The new James Bond Movie. IMO Daniel Craig is terrific as Bond but this Movie is not really a typical 007 Adventure. The Story from Casino Royale continues but with more Action and Violence. IMO it's a simple Vengeance Plot with some Character Development of Bond. If you miss the Gun barrel Sequence at the beginning wait until the end. Some friends of mine who are big fans of the Roger Moore and Sean Connery Bonds were highly disappointed. Somehow I missed the humour and the charm of the "old" Bonds. It's a good Action Movie with a new Bond.

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Just finished watching The Desert Rats with Richard Burton, James Mason, Chip Rafferty and Robert Newton,quite a good film. I can't remember if it was the prequel to Rommel Desert Fox, the sequal or they made one long film and cut it in half.

Regards

Arthur

Hi Arthur,

Not quite sure but IMO Desert Rats is something like a Prequel to The Desert Fox. Haven't seen both movies for a while but Desert Fox was also about the failed assault on Hitler 1944 and Rommels Time in France.

According to IMDB The Desert Rats were made 1953 and The Desert Fox 1951.

Hi John

Yes, Looking at it quite a time difference between the two films although apart from James Mason, they were both made by 20th Century Fox and I think both were narrated by Michael Rennie or someone who sounded very much like him.

Regards

Arthur

Ice cold in Alex. Every time i watch it it makes me want to have bottle of carlsberg lager !!! Any old excuse eh!

I watched "Without Reservations". I have had the movie for awhile and have scene bits nad pieces on tv but I finally watched the complete movie. Simple movie, simple plot. I would say it is simply forgettable as well but it has Duke in it, so I will say it was simply ok.

"Metro" with Eddie Murphy. So-so actioner.

The hubby and I went and saw I Chihuahua, the new Walt Disney movie. We have two chihuahuas at home. He told me when we sat down with the one other couple in the theatre "Now, this is a Walt Disney movie, no one will die and there will be a happy ending". But it didn't work, it still shed tears!!!! I know, I'm just a sucker when it comes to a little defenseless chihuahua, lost, dirty, tired and hungry walking down an empty street in the middle of the night and going to sleep in a box.

Journey to the Center of the Earth with Brandon Fraiser. It was pretty good movie.

Cheers

It has been long enough since we first acquired and watched season one of The Rockford Files that we are watching again, and not remembering some episodes at all (did we sleep through them the first time . . . ? Not because they were boring, we were just tired.), or just remembering enough to say, "Oh, yeah, I remember this one," but forgetting enough to be able to enjoy it again.

It's interesting to see Rockford go almost everywhere in a sport jacket, and in many of the episodes, notice the women in their VERY seventies clothing (our kids really comment on that!).

All in all, we probably enjoy watching Rockford more than any of the different detective shows we've watched over the years.

Chester

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The hubby and I went and saw I Chihuahua, the new Walt Disney movie. We have two chihuahuas at home. He told me when we sat down with the one other couple in the theatre "Now, this is a Walt Disney movie, no one will die and there will be a happy ending". But it didn't work, it still shed tears!!!! I know, I'm just a sucker when it comes to a little defenseless chihuahua, lost, dirty, tired and hungry walking down an empty street in the middle of the night and going to sleep in a box.

But even with the , was it a good movie?? I read a couple of reviews, and it sounded OK. And even with the , did it have a happy ending?

I'm always on the lookout for a decent movie I can watch with my kids, without being torture to me. For as much as a movie ticket is these days, I want to at least enjoy it.

Mrs. C

Leopard Man and Ghost Ship by Val Lewton. Two good movies

Well my wife and I went to "Quatom of Solace" over the weekend.
It was a good movie exceot for one major issue. The director must have watched the last 2 Bourne movies and thought the shaky camera was a good thing. I don't understand this new camera thing that these directors are employing at all. You have to wait till the end of the action to see who wins, and god forbide that you can see the action and understand how they get from point a to point b. That was the major issue thatI had with it. The other was just that at times it didn't feel like a "Bond" movie. I understand the reboot of the franchise but I like it to be familiar was well. Oh well, I am looking forward to the 3rd Craig film, I just hope they get a new director and use the traditional camera angles.

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Well my wife and I went to "Quatom of Solace" over the weekend.
It was a good movie exceot for one major issue. The director must have watched the last 2 Bourne movies and thought the shaky camera was a good thing. I don't understand this new camera thing that these directors are employing at all. You have to wait till the end of the action to see who wins, and god forbide that you can see the action and understand how they get from point a to point b. That was the major issue thatI had with it. The other was just that at times it didn't feel like a "Bond" movie. I understand the reboot of the franchise but I like it to be familiar was well. Oh well, I am looking forward to the 3rd Craig film, I just hope they get a new director and use the traditional camera angles.

Well said, I watched QoS a second time at the weekend. Now I really got what happened during the Action Scenes. The Action Scene with the plane could have been a classic but the shaky camera and the one cut every second Style destroyed it. I hope that the new Director will be Martin Campbell again.

I've watched a lot of Elvis lately. Most recent Blue Hawaii; one of the characters is a Welsh corgi called Duke

A couple of nights ago we watched We're No Angels, with Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray and a very young Peter Ustinov (I didn't recognize him at first!). A cute movie in some ways, but it justifies killing for convenience because of rather minor reasons (albeit in a light-hearted manner).

Last night, I watched a National Geographic documentary on finding PT-109 (famed mostly because JFK was on it when it run over by a Japanese destroyer). It was a very interesting show, in that it brought the history aspects together with the modern technology while searching for it, plus some of the people involved in the rescue were available for comment; they are now in their eighties. All in all, well worth the $4 rental fee at the video store.

Chester