Pretty much every shark movie (including the Jaws sequels) is gonna be "more Deep Blue Sea than Jaws". Trust me, I've watched many of them (though I've taken a pass on Sharknado and other similar recent entries).
I still think beyond that actual Jaws franchise, the best movies were the ones in that genre were from the late 70's and early 80's. Things like Up From The Depths, Barracuda, the two Piranha movies, Tentacles, L'Ultimo Squalo, and Jaws 3-D are the best you ever got from that genre, apart from the original Jaws itself, of course.
Watched about the first half hour of A Shot in the Dark, the second of the Pink Panther movies, and saw something I was completely shocked by... which leads me to a great trivia question:
Who co-wrote the screenplay with director Blake Edwards?
No cheating!
“From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.” – Philip Marlowe
RIP horrormeister Larry Cohen. He was 77.
^I cheated, and yeah, it's a trip.
Dude, I remember being creeped out by the TV spots for the first two It's Alive movies. Keep in mind, I was like 6 years old at the time, but I remember them showing shots of a baby carriage, with typical sort of gentle music box music, which then sort of cross fades into I think ominous music with a heartbeat and you see this claw reaching out of the carriage. Or something like that. Then I can't remember if it's the same advert, but there's a shot of a camera approaching a baby from behind, and then as the camera gets up to the baby, it whirls around, and it's the mutant baby, who growls at the camera. They really spooked me the first time I saw it.
I just finally saw God Told Me To last year (I postd about it here, in fact) after decades of wanting to see it (I believe I first read about it in a horror movie "encyclopedia"). Good picture.
The Stuff was a strange but memorable picture. As I recall, Garrett Morris' head explodes in it.
I remember Joe Bob Briggs showing a double feature of the first two It's Alive movie (yes, there was a third one, I'll talk about that in a second) on Monstervision back in the 90's, and saying somethign like "I'm not sure if these movies are for abortion, or against it, but I think they must be trying to say something!".
I remember seeing the It's Alive movie, It's Alive III: Island Of The Alive, sometime around 96 or 97. It had to have sometime like that because I recognized the actor playing the judge in the opening sequence: it was MacDonald Carey. Carey apparently with scores of B-movies during the 40's through the early 60's, but he's probably most recognizable for not only playing Doctor Tom Horton on Days Of Our Lives from 1965 until his death in 1994. The producers still use his voice to intro each episode, saying "Like sands through the hour glass, so are the Days Of Our Lives". Some of you may remember he was also in a Hitchcock picture, Shadow Of A Doubt.
Interestingly, the Showtime channels have been showing an early 80's Cohen picture, Q: The Winged Serpent, which I've been trying to catch, for the last few months. I saw the beginning of this movie back in 1984, as I recall, it starts with a window washer outside a skyscraper being decapitated by the titular creature.
Tonight we watched Gambit from 2012, a much better comedy than I thought it was going to be, based on some tepid reviews I read. Really enjoyed Alan Rickman, Pip Torrens, Tom Courtenay and Colin Firth immensely. I'm not sure where the poor reviews came from, it was quite charming.
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The Witness (2015). A documentary. From RT: "On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was repeatedly attacked on a street in Kew Gardens, Queens. Soon after, The New York Times published a front-page story asserting that 38 witnesses watched her being murdered from their apartment windows - and did nothing to help. The death of Kitty Genovese, 28, quickly became a symbol of urban apathy. The Witness follows the efforts of her brother Bill Genovese as he looks to uncover the truth buried beneath the story. In the process, he makes startling discoveries about the crime that transformed his life, condemned a city, and defined an era."
I don't know that I'd say it's excellent but I found it compelling... and even a little affecting. I thought it was as good as Free Solo.
“From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.” – Philip Marlowe
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
Tequila Sunrise--very 80s film, much like a Miami Vice movie, with young roles for Kurt Russel (the cop role), Mel Gibson (the druggy role), and completing the romantic triangle, Michelle Pfeiffer (romantic interest and restaurant owner). I prefer the grittier style of the 70's cinema. That being said, I didn't care for it that much. It might be better on a second viewing.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Top 5 70s crime drama for me, starring Robert Mitchum as a desperate hood involved with bank robbers, the mob, the Feds and gun runners.
Lets just say Eddie doesn't have any friends.
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