Last Film You Watched? (use spoiler tags in this topic)

[Bullitt68]

Originally Posted by TFD

To be honest I think McCabe & Mrs. Miller is better than both of them...

Originally Posted by TFD

Also I don't usually post updates here, but due to the abundance of Eastwood fans here I'll go ahead and say that I recently watched The Outlaw Josey Wales and absolutely loved it.

The Outlaw Josey Wales is a great one. High Plains Drifter is another early directorial effort from Eastwood and another great Western, although I think his best is Unforgiven by a landslide.

[Hart]

Originally Posted by Bullitt68

although I think his best is Unforgiven by a landslide.

That was on like a week ago and I thought it was pretty bad. I actually stopped watching it halfway through because it was that crap. I don't know if it gets better in the last portion of the film but from what I saw it felt really forced and all round not good.

edit: I also don't like Gene Hackman at all.

[TFD]

I love Gene Hackman and really want to see Unforgiven.

Right now I'm in the middle of a silent film, Faust by F.W. Murnau. Pretty great so far.

[Bullitt68]

Originally Posted by Hart

That was on like a week ago and I thought it was pretty bad. I actually stopped watching it halfway through because it was that crap. I don't know if it gets better in the last portion of the film but from what I saw it felt really forced and all round not good.

Ok, where I'd normally put another funny GIF expressing my thoughts, no GIF could accurately convey the complete and utter amazement that anyone---much less a Clint Eastwood fan---can consider Unforgiven crap.

Originally Posted by TFD

I love Gene Hackman and really want to see Unforgiven.

Hackman is a real son of a bitch in Unforgiven. Great performance. And I personally like to look at Unforgiven like a possible epilogue to the Man With No Name trilogy, especially since it's an effort on Eastwood's part to pay tribute to one of his heroes, Sergio Leone.

Originally Posted by TFD

Right now I'm in the middle of a silent film, Faust by F.W. Murnau. Pretty great so far.

I was surprised at how good that was. Considering its reliance on special effects, I expected it to look like shit and have no impact, but Murnau really did a great job with that film.

That one shot towards the beginning with Satan looming over the city made for quite a visual.

Have you seen any of Murnau's other films?

[TFD]

Nah this is my first Murnau and I'm really liking it.

Also I watched On the Waterfront for the fourth time yesterday for film class and I think it sadly gets worse on each viewing. Still a good movie though.

[Bullitt68]

Originally Posted by TFD

Nah this is my first Murnau and I'm really liking it.

Then, in keeping with the fantasy of Faust, I'd say go for Nosferatu next before the more realistic films like The Last Laugh and Sunrise.

Originally Posted by TFD

Also I watched On the Waterfront for the fourth time yesterday for film class and I think it sadly gets worse on each viewing. Still a good movie though.

Really? Man, I think it's SUCH a great film.

[TFD]

I know, that's what I thought the first time. But now it's wearing off a little and the score has started coming off as really intrusive and over-melodramatic and some of the dialogue is a little too heavy-handed. It is the hardest the "I coulda been a contender" speech has ever hit me though.

And I'm really eager to check out all three of those Murnau films. He might end up being perhaps my favorite silent director.

[Bullitt68]

Originally Posted by TFD

I know, that's what I thought the first time. But now it's wearing off a little and the score has started coming off as really intrusive and over-melodramatic and some of the dialogue is a little too heavy-handed.

The music being annoying was brought up by someone on another forum, and while I do think the actual scoring of the film could've been better, it's not that big a hindrance for me.

The scene that really sticks out for me is when Marlon Brando breaks into Eva Marie Saint's apartment. There, I'm scrambling for the remote to turn down the volume

Originally Posted by TFD

It is the hardest the "I coulda been a contender" speech has ever hit me though.

When I rewatched it before writing about it, it was the most rousing the, "You're a cheap, lousy, dirty, stinking mug" speech had ever been before.

Regardless of your feelings on the film as a whole, you've got to admit that Brando was amazing.

Originally Posted by TFD

And I'm really eager to check out all three of those Murnau films. He might end up being perhaps my favorite silent director.

For me, there's Charlie Chaplin and then there's just a bunch of other guys. He's that far ahead of his competition IMO. There was just no one that even came close.

I don't know if you remember when we talked about him before, but whenever that conversation was, I've since rewatched all of the films of his I'd seen before, have watched a bunch I hadn't seen before, and even watched a shitload of his shorts, and he's just so amazing.

[Booya]

Next Day Air.

[TFD]

I've only seen City Lights, which was phenomenal, but I really want to check out more of his work. Also Buster Keaton. Apparently they're the two greatest silent clowns.