Destroy All Monsters is terrible.

Not so fun fact: it is the lowest rated movie in the Criterion collection both on IMDB and on Letterboxd.

j.lunatic wrote: ↑Today, 5:29 am

Masha wrote: ↑Yesterday, 11:20 pm Next: favorite John Wayne movie that is neither a Western nor a war picture.

Baby Face

Next: A movie you wish more people here would talk about.

Hyppolit the Butler (1931)

I have tried shilling this movie a lot. It is like Hungarian Ernst Lubitsch.

Next: set in Spain

Nanook of the North

Next: film involves cannibals

King of Hearts with Sir Alan Bates (only British born in a cast of Italians and Frenchmen playing Britishers)

Next: supernatural themed movie

Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

Next: set on the moon but not a sci fi movie

ziggy6708a wrote: ↑April 28th, 2024, 10:05 pm maybe Leslie Caron
(had to work the hardest)

next: a lousy doctor

Thomas Mitchell as Doc Boone (best work you done even if you was drunk. -professional compliments always help)

Next: didn’t survive the advent of the talkie

I feel the same way, Mr 6. I saw the plot synopsis to both on the tv and they sound like crass smut. I might catch them but doubt I will like them that much.

Even though I never got a long with the guy one of my favorite "Jarrod MacDonald" threads from the "old forum" was one where he had stuff like this - modern interpretations of older movies and songs from them. He had stuff like Putting on the Ritz in the thread but this is what I...

Cheeky (2000) next : A movie that, if a person instead, should walk around in a a barrel like Gigli (2003)?? :shock: :roll: next -based on a children's book Yeah, I didn’t want to seem rude by asking but I had no idea what “walking around in a barrel” entails unless he means it makes you spend all ...

I'm getting tired of these group SOTMs or "trying to right past wrongs" SOTMs by focusing on a minority SOTM who was never really a star. There are so many stars waiting for a month that have NEVER been chosen and TCM seems to have no interest in showcasing them. Such as? It’s Joan Bennet...

Hibi wrote: ↑March 19th, 2024, 9:51 amOh, Brother!

Yeah, same. They are really getting the most out of that one “yellow face” documentary. They are probably obligated to air it a certain number of times.

Most favorites:

1920: cabinet of Dr caligari
1921: phantom carriage
1922: Nosferatu
1923: Safety Last

Least favorites:

1920: Mark of Zorro
1921: -
1922: The Phantom (ironically also by Murnau)
1923: The Smiling Madame Beudet

“Some guy says come in here and shout ‘Hippodrome!’”

Do any of you think Erich Maria Remarque was inspired by the movie the Big Parade which came out four years before his book? Both movie and book have a scene where a soldier is stuck in a foxhole with a wounded/ dying enemy combatant and they learn to sympathize with enemy soldiers who are just as m...