always be lovin this one!

Moi? Au sérieux? (Me? Seriously? [In French])

This post has been edited by Mov_freak: May 5 2014, 02:08 PM

You know what you did.

Sorry boss...

check out my parents favorite musical ever

my fair lady 1964


mary poppins 1964


sound of music 1966


i must say the mid 60s musical were the most golden age ever...i dont think there are others that can match these big 3 legendary musicals anymore...my parents can never get bored of all these 3 musicals after watching so many times

Eh??! They don't like Oliver! (1968) & Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) meh?

oh...ya hor...must give them watch these also

So instead of 3 now potentially they have 5 movies they like to watch, over and OVER again...

Those movies are my childhood memories!

For many people, I am sure.

My Lucky Stars 福星高照 (1985)

Well, color me surprise, there are actually old Hong Kong movie that I have not watched (or forgotten)

My Lucky Stars Collection is now available on HD, namely Winners & Sinners 奇謀妙計五福星 (1983), My Lucky Stars 福星高照 (1985) & Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars 夏日福星 (1985).

Apart from having Jacky Chan & Sammo Hung in the movie, the highlights of the movie is having veteran Hong Kong actors like Eric Tsang, Richard Ng, Sibelle Hu, John Sham, Pat Ha & Stanley Fung.

The storyline is actually quite simple, namely a group of con artists are conned by the Royal Hong Kong police to do some undercover work for them in Japan.

It is an "action/comedy" and the humor is typical 1980s Hong Kong comedy.

Sometime a little force, sometime a little vulgar and have to add, entertaining nevertheless!

I had watched this out of sequence, the first in the series is actually Winners & Sinners 奇謀妙計五福星 (1983)... Something to catch up on tonite I suppose...

Again for the life of me, I do not recall having seen this, and yet I am pretty sure I have watched MOST stuff coming out of Hong Kong during the period... Curiouser, curiouser....

If you want to watched stuff that signify Hong Kong in the 80s, please consider watching this!!

My Two Sen.

haha not big fan of jackie 80s slapstick comedy...i more like super serious tone like this



and not forgetting the great GOD father of all hong kong action movies



another notable 80s hong kong action worth looking out

For the sake of everything that is good, I sure hope that the latest 4K restoration of A Better Tomorrow is good

A Better Tomorrow 4K restoration by the French

Another 1980s movie I cannot not watched when it is on is

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)

Thank goodness that is getting a bluray release.

This post has been edited by Mov_freak: Jun 26 2014, 01:05 PM

55 Days at Peking (1963)

A beautifully transferred and remastered movie from the 1963.

Unfortunately, it is a story about The Boxer Revolution from the P.O.V of the Westerners...

They (Westerners) are the victim of circumstances and their presence in China at the turn of the 20th Century was for the the peace of the world...

This has the same sentiment as the last British Governor in Hong Kong in 1997, while living Hong Kong, made a statement about the Opium Wars, asking to world not to blame the British for producing and supplying Opium, but blame the Chinese Merchants who were selling it...

PURE FANTASY!!!

My Two Sen

This post has been edited by Mov_freak: Jul 6 2014, 10:51 PM

Godzilla ~ Gojira (1954)

What all the fuss about this year's release of the latest and greatest Godzilla, I thought it would be a blast to to visit the original!!

I have to admit, apart from the Kurusawa stuff, Shogun and Kwaitan (1964), I really do not watch that much stuff from Japan.

The only actor I am familiar with is Takashi Shimura who plays Prof. Kyohei Yamane-hakase ((he played Kambei Shimada in Seven Samurai (1954)).

Only nine year after Japan was bombed by two nuclear bombs, Japan made this movie, obviously still fearful about nuclear fallout!!

They fear is epitomized by this mythological creature they call Gojira, who is irradiated and breathe nuclear breath!!

Look, remember this is 1954, LOW budget and special effects = man in a monster rubber suits and miniature buildings, boats and planes.

They even have an eccentric inventor who builds the "ultimate" weapon!!

I actually enjoy this much much more compared to this year's version!!

My Two Sen

ALIENS

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)

A guilty indulgence of mine.

The first thing that jumps at me is the video transfer. The movie never looked so good.

As for Audio, well, we only get PCM stereo, so the studio is not putting alot of eggs into this release. I do have to add, beggars cannot be choosers.

This movie has an "Asian Sensibility" to it, and not in anyway condescending.

Alot of flack was given about the character Chiun was played by a white, namely Joel Grey. I personally can think of many more atrocities made in many other movies (Hollywood production). I kinda like Joel Grey as Chiun.

It is a vehicle for Fred Ward to make it as an action hero, unfortunately, it did not happen.

I really like this movie.

It is... unusual, and funny and you actually care for the two main characters.

Oh, note a very young Captain Cathrine Janeway (for the Star Trek fans).

Interestingly, this movie is actually MORE relevant today then it was in the 80s...

I will be watching this again, and again, and again...

My Two Sen.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

I am an avid Disney fan.

Disney as a movie company isn't "perfect".

There are some older movies that played on, lacking a better "racial stereotype", so much so that the company does not even contemplate releasing them on home video (VHS, DVD & Bluray. A movie comes to mind is Song of the South [1946]). Don't know which movie I am talking about? Without that movie, we would not have the Academy Award winning song, Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah!!

Don't get me wrong, this is not a racist movie (er.. there is that German scene), what I want to impress on you here is that there are older Disney movie, that I find.... coining a more current vocabulary, meh!!!

While Disney was making Mary Poppins (1964) even when producing the movie, Disney did not get the book to movie rights from the author (Saving Mr Banks [2013] anyone?). In one of these desperate moments where Disney feels he cannot get the rights to Mary Poppins, the Sherman Brothers who were working on the music for Mary Poppins where ask to work on music for another book. One which Disney had gotten the movie rights to, namely Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

A few songs were written, and then Disney got the rights to Mary Poppins and it was full steam ahead for Mary Poppins.

After Walt's passing, the Sherman Brothers left Disney, and in 1970, they were invited back, to further work on Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Disney was hoping for another family oriented movie like Mary Poppins. The movie was completed in 1971, and one week later, Walt's brother, Roy, passed away....

What am I going on about?

The story in this movie is plenty HAPHAZARD!!!

Supposedly, the lady lead Angela Lansbury, because of the special effects was told how to act, and she was very unhappy about that, and it shows...

Another issue which I think could have made the story so, was that they cut a three hour movie into less than two, so that the theaters could play the movie more often during the release....

Just a very clunky movie...

The bluray version have alot of extended scene and cut scene and instead of putting them back into the movie, they was put in the supplementary section instead...

Clunky.

I can see how the movie can be appealing to the really young'un.

I cannot remember if I saw this when I was young...

I however remember watching it on TV... so....

Clunky. Not a great classic in my books. And I am saying this, as an AVID fan of Disney movies....

Please understand that this is JUST an opinion.

My Two Sen

This post has been edited by Mov_freak: Sep 20 2014, 11:33 AM

Ghostbusters II (1989)



Frankly, I was not a fan of this movie when it first came out. I thought it was a little tacky.

Having said that and having a chance to watch it again, I actually dig this now.

The interaction between Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver & Harold Ramis is just priceless...

Not to forget Rick Moranis & Ernie Hudson.

Harold Ramis will be solely missed in the third installment (they are supposedly making part 3)

The pre CGI effect as cheesy as they are are actually quite good!!

They sure don't make em like they used to...

Really enjoyed the interview with Dan Aykroyd and director Ivan Reitman in this one.

Don't know what I'm going on about?

Watch this and you'll see.

My Two Sen!!

This post has been edited by Mov_freak: Oct 2 2014, 08:42 PM

Hi,

Just thought Id share tis gem tat l got sumtime bck :


BIRD CAGE BD

With de late Robin Williams n Nathan Lane in de main cast . Tis is a hilarious bout of gay-man-ship ; or drag queen more like it..
Williams and his partner Lanes characters have a son who is getting married and the brides [played by a very young Calista Flockhart = Ally Mcbeal] parents want to meet their future in-laws ; problem is de brides father is an anti-gay senator going up for re-election..
Lane is absolutely suited for tis role n his mannerisms are spot on hysterical..

D