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What are you watching?

Ashley said:
I just watched Jaws for the first time, and quite enjoyed it. The special effects were better than I would have expected for the time period, particularly the shark.
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I think I have watched that before several times, but I can't remember it for the life of me. I just know it was very in building my phobia about sharks and open waters.
 
Ashley said:
I just watched Jaws for the first time, and quite enjoyed it. The special effects were better than I would have expected for the time period, particularly the shark.
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Movie trivia for you: The mechanical shark was named "Bruce" by the cast and crew. Shark... Bruce....ring a bell?
The shark in Finding Nemo was named Bruce, and, yes, it was named for the Jaws shark. 😄
 
I watched the horror movie "Midsommar" last night. Kind of artfully done at times, but yikes! It's disturbing. Where can I go to unwatch it?
 
Deimos said:
Maybe counteract the effects by watching The Wicker Man 😈... the right one (1973) with Chris Lee as Lord Summerisle
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Thanks for the advice. Looks like I have it, and it's only 90 minutes. Still time to watch it tonight. I'll give it a go.
 
Eljorahir said:
Thanks for the advice. Looks like I have it, and it's only 90 minutes. Still time to watch it tonight. I'll give it a go.
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You have it but have yet to watch it?
Yes, the 90 minute version is the full one.
If you haven't yet watched it, once you do you'll understand why certain scenes were cut.
 
Yes, at least the "modern" version. I was referring to the fact that the genres of film that, up until then, had been low-budget "B" material -- aimed at kids and teenagers, and shown at "side-street" or drive-in theaters -- science fiction, superhero, monster movies, and the like -- began to replace "grown-up" prestige pictures -- the traditional bigger-budget "A" films.

It's not often remembered that Star Wars wasn't expected to do well, so that it was given its initial release in a very limited number of theaters. IIRC the studio had to scramble to produce more copies to cope with the surprising demand.

For the past several decades, it's finding "adult" movies that presents the challenge.
 
Yep... I find myself rewatching the movies of Ingmar Bergman, Francois Truffaut , Jean Renoir and the like, and also the classic noir movies.
Also the newer ones by the Coen Brothers, some Woody Allen movies, and also movies by Quentin Tarantino....can't forget ol' Quentin.
 
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Not that there weren't exceptions in the earlier eras -- but for every Forbidden Planet or The Day the Earth Stood Still
there were dozens of The Queen of Outer Space.

And if nothing else, many of the B's were entertaining -- I've watched more Poverty Row pictures than I can count. I especially enjoy the old serials; formulaic and brainless as they mostly were, there was always the action. Just get a load of the running fight sequence starting at about 4:00 here!
 
Would all the Hammer horror movies and the Ealing movies with Alec Guinness be considered B movies?
 
Hammer, l'd say yes. Not sure about Ealing, but probably.

By the 50s and 60s, any movies shown as double bills would qualify. All the Hammers I saw in theaters were. Same with AIP, although if memory serves, when I saw The Tomb of Ligiea in high school, it was single.

I could be mistaken -- I found it so memorable that I may have forgotten the other half of the bill.
 
So...going to watch Night of the Hunter (1955, noir thriller.....8.0 on IMDb) sometime soon....just picked it up on DVD.
From Wikipedia (tho' I knew about it long before I read anything about it on Wikipedia):
The novel and film draw on the true story of Harry Powers, who was hanged in 1932 for the murder of two widows and three children in Clarksburg, West Virginia. The film's lyrical and expressionistic style, borrowing techniques from silent film, sets it apart from other Hollywood films of the 1940s and 1950s.

It's scary in the way that only noir films can be ...with subtle, mounting terror.
 
Well I was watching the Pacific championships (Rugby League for the non-Aussies here) but was subjected to the first barrage of Xmas adverts in the break.
Every single ad break will now be about Xmas; I'm sure it never used to come around this early!
 
TrackerOrc said:
Well I was watching the Pacific championships (Rugby League for the non-Aussies here) but was subjected to the first barrage of Xmas adverts in the break.
Every single ad break will now be about Xmas; I'm sure it never used to come around this early!
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Wally World is already stocking its aisles with Christmas stuff 😠
 
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