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Excalibur (1981)

I can't believe this movie escaped my attention for so long.

It does a good job of compressing a massive amount of Arthurian legend into a reasonable running time. Though many early scenes seem to end abrubtly, it flows quite well.

I was not expecting to see Patrick Stewart and Liam Neeson in it, Neeson in his first major acting role and Stewart very early in his film career. Very cool to see for that alone.

Some of the location shooting is absolutely gorgeous, and though the combat can be clunky and awkward, it just adds to the realism in my opinion.

Merlin (Nicol Williamson) was excellent, serious, cheeky and droll, often at the same time. Clearly the standout to me.

9/10 knights of the Round Table

TheBoost said:

Tobar said:

TheBoost said:

Wish there hadn't been two random black people in the background of one scene.

 

 So Disney made another cracker-as-cracker movie, all white folks having a good time. But they insert two black people into the back of one crowd shot. This instantly makes me think two things.

• Cracker-ass-cracker Disney plainly knows this is a cracker-ass-cracker movie, and they think throwing in these two colored folks make it all ok.
• In this fictional world black people plainly exist, which just draws attention to the fact they don't even speak and all the characters who even get a close-up are more cracker-ass-crackers. 

 I wasn't aware the movie took place down South. ;)

This is hardly a new problem with most fairy tales, as the source material is largely old and European. And it's not like Disney didn't try doing something different a few years back.

'The Princess and the Frog' rocks. Georgous hand drawn animation, lovely characters, soulful music and none of the big loud 4th-wall-breaking modern razzamatazz pop-culture-in-jokes nonsense. An old-fashioned Disney film in a very good way. Disney needs to stick to the pledge it made to make more traditionally animated films like it.

But it's been 4 and a half years since 'Princess and the Frog' and they still haven't done a single full-length hand-drawn movie (Unless you count the hour long 'Winnie the Pooh' limited theatrical release).

I understand they indefinitely have no plans.  Frog did well, but not well enough.

Hand drawn animation seems to be thriving on television at least.

Now I really want to see Black Angel. There was one sequence in Excalibur which had all the same elements of the cave scene in ESB, the snake, the lizard, all that subconscious symbolism, and I thought that one of them clearly took that from the other.

Muppets Most Wanted

*sigh*

Kermit spends most of his time in a Siberian gulag.

The songs mostly feel pro forma, as does the long parade of guest stars.

There isn't much charm.

I am looking forward to The Boxtrolls.

Thought about going to see it. I still fret Disney really doesn't know what to do with the Muppets. (It was Eisner who really pursued them for much of his reign.) Thank goodness they didn't get Fraggle Rock.

Any unintentional laughs in MMW because of the current political situation? ;)

Mrebo said:

Muppets Most Wanted

*sigh*

Kermit spends most of his time in a Siberian gulag.

The songs mostly feel pro forma, as does the long parade of guest stars.

There isn't much charm.

I was hoping the Muppets might really make a come back. And no unintentional current event jokes, they seemed to steer clear of anything that might pick on, let alone identify, various international locations (aside from bad accents and location names). I was anticipating a borscht joke, which never came. The Russian prison guards showed up out of the blue in other foreign countries to make arrests on two occasions (not often or funny enough to make it some kind of running joke). The single Muppety moment for me - which was a very small thing - was when Animal clamped his jaws on Constantine and declared, "Bad Frog! Bad Frog!" and later affectionately declared Kermit "Good Frog." Other parts felt cheap and patronizing, like hearing Rainbow Connection for a few seconds coming through a TV. The gulag scenes were visually dreary with insufficient wit or jokes to make it worthwhile.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Madhouse (1974) - 7.5/10

Starcrash (1978) - 4/10

You clearly haven't seen Starcrash in a theater full of bad movie aficionados. Then it would undoubtedly be a 9/10 at least.

NeverarGreat said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Madhouse (1974) - 7.5/10

Starcrash (1978) - 4/10

You clearly haven't seen Starcrash in a theater full of bad movie aficionados. Then it would undoubtedly be a 9/10 at least.

 Nor the fan made MST3K version. ;)

https://archive.org/details/MFT3K_Ep_F03

Starcrash is also one of those slightly obscure movies that's received more love on Blu Ray than the 1977 movie that likely inspired it.

There's not a better Cinema experience than seeing a bad movie with a good crowd ;-)

Melvin and Howard (1980)

Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards, and one helluva script make Melvin and Howard a very underrated film. Jonathan Demme is such a brilliant director, and this film really shines with his touch.

It might not be everybody's cup of tea, but I'm a huge fan of Paul Le Mat. He deserves more recognition, and he deserves to be casted more. He's truly a gifted actor in the sense that you don't feel like your watching an act. Unless we're talking about Easy Wheels, but I almost think that movie was supposed to be bad.

This film is the true account of a man named Melvin Dummar (Le Mat) who helped an old man (Robards) claiming to be Howard Hughes in the desert. While I'm not going to give a lot about it away. This film is more about Melvin, than Howard Hughes. In fact Howard Hughes is barely even a part of the film.

This is Melvin's struggle to get out of the hard work, low pay life he's stuck in, and the strain on his relationship with his family.

I won't bother rating it, but I will say, it's a fun movie to watch.

I don't think I've seen that film, Bingo.