All Posts (LonTheOne)
Re: What was the last movie you watched and what did you think about it? |
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Ms.Y,
I don't know which Drac film you are planning on watching, but I would highly recommend reading Bram Stoker's book first ... still the best!
Posted on: 20 May 13:58:20
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I think that the DVD is a fairly recent release from HBO. I got it here in Australia so you shouldn't have too much trouble finding it if you are in the U.S.
Posted on: 12 May 17:45:01
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Re: What was the last movie you watched and what did you think about it? |
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I watched the DVD of the filmed stage musical Camelot with Richard Harris and quite enjoyed it. All the voices in it were exceptional. Mr. Harris is good, but he was starting to look quite old by the time he made this in 1982. He certainly looked older than his fifty-two years.
I still enjoy the 1967 film with Harris, Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero. All their voices are fine and I think that it is a great film that is not appreciated enough.
Posted on: 12 May 16:00:17
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I saw Star Trek Into Darkness today and thought it was great!
I am a late starter, this is the first film that I have seen in 3D. Quite brilliant to see it that way but I cannot help but think that 3D was quite a distraction in watching the movie. I will need to see it again in 2D - and I suspect that I will enjoy it even more that way. I love how the actor who plays Mr. Spock looks so much like Leonard Nimoy. The likeness is amazing! I hope that we don't have to wait another four years for the next instalment.
Posted on: 10 May 0:43:13
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I saw The Hobbit for the first time on DVD yesterday - and was mostly unimpressed!
Whereas I looked forward to the extended DVD edition of all three LOTR films, I would desperately like to see a condensed version of this film which was a CGI disaster in places. The ridiculous action and battle sequences did nothing to enhance this film, and why Peter Jackson chose to make three films out of a rather short novel (compared to LOTR) I cannot understand. There were so many plot parallels to the LOTR series that I found it amazing that they could not come up with some new ideas. The wizard with the rabbit chariot was as awful as the teddy bears in that Star Wars movie, and the fact that none of 'our heroes' died in the rock creature and underground mining sequences with all the falling going on amazes me.
Posted on: 1 May 3:30:30
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Yeah, the 2004 movie is now on my shelf for reference only. It is so inferior to the Royal Albert Hall Celebration which I will watch many times in the future. Joel Shumacher nearly destroyed the Batman film franchise and ALW gave Shumacher a chance to nearly destroy his masterpiece.
Posted on: 29 Apr 16:10:01
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Re: Should Classic Opera Be Modernized To Draw Younger Audiences? |
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I don't think that I could ever watch classical opera if it wasn't performed in English.
I would like to see the opera performed in the clothing and settings in which they were created. Saying that, I have seen Shakespeare films portrayed in more modern settings: Ian MacKellan in Richard III, Ralph Fiennes in Coriolanus, and Kenneth Branagh in Hamlet (but still Middle Ages). All these were decent Shakespeare interpretations.
Posted on: 16 Apr 21:08:25
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Re: Which actors do you see when you read fanfiction? |
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Okay,
I know, entirly ridiculous, BUT, if silent film actor Lon Chaney Sr. had a singing voice, what would he have given to us? ! ! ! (I don't know, maybe the guy could truly sing, who woulda ever thought that Michael Crawford could have given what he gave?)
Posted on: 16 Apr 20:59:33
Edited by LonTheOne on 16 Apr 2013 21:02:38
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Re: Jekyll and Hyde Musical |
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I am not familiar with the musical, but I see that a DVD is available with David Hasselhoff. I am wondering if it is any good and worth trying to get?
Posted on: 14 Apr 1:08:44
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I watched the dvd of the six part miniseries World Without End which is the sequel to Pillars of the Earth.
Quite good. The creators of the series' really created some extremely dispicable villains!
Posted on: 13 Apr 3:20:42
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Rose, IMD describes the man on the horse as "the man in black," but I agree that he is probably the head of the Karstein family. The actor is John Forbes-Robertson and I understand that he was the only other actor besides Christopher Lee to play Dracula in a Hammer film - Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires, a Hammer, Hong Kong collaboration. The character in Brides of Dracula wasn't D.
I understand that French director Roger Vadim made a European version of Carmilla called Blood and Roses. Have you seen it?
Posted on: 5 Apr 16:59:09
Edited by LonTheOne on 5 Apr 2013 17:01:14
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The Vampire Lovers
Picked up the DVD at a $5 bin. Not a bad Hammer film based on the classic story Carmilla. Peter Cushing as a vampire hunter again and some other recognizable names in the cast. Daytime vampires? I guess the Coppola version legitimized this. And who is the character on the horse supporting the bad ladies?
Posted on: 3 Apr 16:46:13
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I watched Skyfall today on DVD, which came out today. I had given up on seeing it in the cinema because of the last one, Quantum of Solace, which I thought was awful. I was pleasantly surprised with Skyfall, which measures right up there with Casino Royale and some of the best Bonds of Sean Connery!
Still getting used to a blonde James Bond though. I even had trouble with Roger Moore's brown haired version because I knew that Ian Fleming said that Bond had black hair. Daniel Craig is excellent - even with his shortcoming. And Javier Bardem is right up there with some of the best Bond villains. He is really one ugly looking dude!
Posted on: 26 Mar 5:46:22
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I had to get a region free / multi zone portable DVD player to watch mine. It has a 10" screen, but even the cheaper 7" screen has a good picture. Quite a few of the machines here in Australia are multi zone so I found one fairly quickly.
Posted on: 23 Mar 13:43:56
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Rose,
I just watched Night Creatures again today, I hadn't seen it in quite awhile. Indeed, it is in colour! I got it confused with another film with Oliver Reed on the Hammer Horror Series DVD (8 movies). Great story and worth watching! DVD: The Hammer Horror Series (U.S.A.) includes ... Brides of Dracula Curse of the Werewolf Phantom of the Opera Paranoic Kiss of the Vampire Nightmare Night Creatures Evil of Frankenstein
Posted on: 22 Mar 23:24:02
Edited by LonTheOne on 22 Mar 2013 23:30:06
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Rose, Night Creatures has also been called Captain Clegg.
Update: I just did a bit of checking and found that this movie was made in Technicolor even though my DVD is in black and white. Bet you're now doubly interested in seeing it in glorious colour!
Posted on: 22 Mar 15:31:02
Edited by LonTheOne on 22 Mar 2013 15:42:40
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Yeah, Kiss of the Vampire is very good! I have it in a box set of Hammer films includings Brides of Dracula, Curse of the Werewolf, and a real gem in black-and-white Night Creatures with Peter Cushing. This was made in colour by Disney as Scarecrow of Romney Marsh with Patrick McGoohan.
Posted on: 22 Mar 14:01:04
Edited by LonTheOne on 22 Mar 2013 14:03:57
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Re: Movies that could be made into Broadway musicals. |
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Yeah!
I wanna see .... Gotta see .... James Bond - The Musical
Posted on: 15 Mar 22:40:48
Edited by LonTheOne on 15 Mar 2013 22:43:09
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Re: Andrew Lloyd Webber on Gaston Leroux |
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EffieHaste, I read the generic version many years ago and I have recently read the translation by Mirielle Rubierre (sp?).
Posted on: 12 Mar 14:11:21
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Re: Andrew Lloyd Webber on Gaston Leroux |
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I snatched up a copy of Susan Kay's Phantom that I saw at a second-hand store and found that it was much more readable than Leroux's novel. Sorry, but I just don't hold the novelization of Leroux in much high regard.
And I find Shelley's Frankenstein and Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to be pretty hard going also. I could easily read Dracula on a yearly basis and not find it boring or stale. ALW should be made to write a full new score for the Chaney version as penance for giving us LND! 
Posted on: 11 Mar 20:40:45
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Re: Andrew Lloyd Webber on Gaston Leroux |
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Yeah, I read some years ago that ALW pickup up a second hand copy of the novel and though he didn't consider it a great piece of literature he nevertheless like the premise of the story.
Off subject a bit, but would anyone like to see ALW put a new musical score to the original Lon Chaney silent version? I think that this could breath a fresh approach into this great horror masterpiece! And yes, HDKingsbury, I believe that Bram Stoker's Dracula is a perfect novel and much, much better than Leroux's Phantom.
Posted on: 11 Mar 19:49:52
Edited by LonTheOne on 11 Mar 2013 19:54:46
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Re: Oz The Great and Powerful |
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Sorry, but I just cannot regard this movie as a prequel to the Judy Garland film because it is not a musical. It looks spectacular - but so did the previews for Alice in Wonderland - so I will just have to withhold a judgment until it comes out.
Posted on: 8 Mar 14:45:49
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Re: Who is your favorite fictional villain? Beware spoilers... |
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Count Dracula!
No one else comes even close.
Posted on: 6 Mar 0:40:10
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It was released as just . . .
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK! The following films put the Indiana Jones tag on it.
Posted on: 6 Mar 0:36:58
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Re: Les Miserables (THE MUSICAL) MOVIE!!! |
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Not knowing who Nick Jonah was when I first saw the 25th, I really thought that guy stunk as Marius after previously seeing Michael Ball in the Dream Cast 10th anniversary production on DVD.
And yes, I did think he was bad . . . very, very bad!
Posted on: 28 Feb 18:37:13
Edited by LonTheOne on 28 Feb 2013 18:40:59
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