Which movie did you watch today and how would you rate it?

[crazyfingers]

I rarely watch individual movies. I usually watch my DVDs of TV shows, Star Treks, Waltons, Stargate, etc.. one after the other.

But tonight I watched The Incredible Mr Limpet. Don Notts as the fish who saved the convoys from the U-Boats in WWII. Part animated. Well, mostly animated.

I first watched that movie as a little kid. I loved it. I recorded off the TV ages ago and transferred the VHS to DVD maybe 25 years ago. Commercials and all.

In the 2000's my kids loved it.

Two weeks ago I got the DVD minus the 35 year old commercials.

Nice to watch a copy without 35 year old commercials. On the other hand, 35 year old commercials are nostalgic.

 

[WAB]

I don’t watch silent movies in German. Can’t even understand the subtitles.

I forgot to mention the version I saw had all text and titles in English.

 

[Colonel Sanders]

Novocaine

Wimpy man who can't feel physical pain goes on extremely violent quest to save a girl he went on one real date with.

Despite its countless flaws, this one's still a pretty damn entertaining watch. Jack Quaid is one of today's most under appreciated actors IMO and he absolutely carries this movie.

The viewer is not supposed to take this flick seriously, which allows one to just sit back and enjoy the absurdity. There's also a good, surprising twist/reveal that I didn't see coming, so kudos for that.

To me, this is what a good popcorn movie is supposed to be. It's not Oscar worthy, it's just fun.

6.75/10

 

[pood]

Just rewatched, after many years, Taxi Driver and ET.

The former is clearly a cinematic recreation of Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground, and I find now, as when I first watched it, that it is brilliant. One of the great movies of all time.

The latter — as always — leaves me a bit torn. I can’t decide whether it is a charming fable of the (alleged) innocence of children vs. the cynicism of adults, or just a bunch of Spielbergian mawkish, maudlin bullshit. The child actors are all brilliant.

Sci-fi it ain’t. No alien is ever going to appear on earth not only lacking a space suit but any form of clothes at all; no alien is going to be able to eat human food. I doubt any alien is going to have anything very closely resembling DNA, though they will have to have same form of biochemistry permitting reproduction.

The alien itself isn’t too bad, I suppose; love the retractable and extendable neck. That could be a valid adaptation in certain environments; not sure if anything like it exists among any earth organisms.

 

[bilby]

I doubt any alien is going to have anything very closely resembling DNA

Well, it's a long time since I saw the movie, but IIRC the fact that he has DNA was recounted as a shocking discovery - and of course, it would be; The implications are enormous, and would suggest some kind of panspermia, which in a fictional world wherein interstellar travel is fact, may not be as far fetched as it is in the real world as we currently understand it.

The alien itself isn’t too bad, I suppose; love the retractable and extendable neck.

ET was described en passant in Pratchett and Gaiman's Good Omens:

"'Hey,' he said, but much more weakly this time, 'did any of them kids have some space alien with a face like a friendly turd in a bike basket?'"

A (sadly now deceased) friend of mine, whose outdoor lifestyle had left him very deeply tanned and weatherbeaten, gloried in the nick-name 'face like a friendly turd'.

 

[pood]

I doubt any alien is going to have anything very closely resembling DNA

Well, it's a long time since I saw the movie, but IIRC the fact that he has DNA was recounted as a shocking discovery - and of course, it would be; The implications are enormous, and would suggest some kind of panspermia, which in a fictional world wherein interstellar travel is fact, may not be as far fetched as it is in the real world as we currently understand it.

The movie describes ET has having a six-base genome, and now I find this.