I do recall High Plains Drifter having some pretty âwoke stuffâ in it that drives the current Hollywood liberal nonsense nuts. All the others with the exception of the âWild Bunchâ have not seen before.
You had to have seen How the West was Won. ?..See it in Cinerame when Cinerama theaters play itâŚ(hard to find) otherwise it can be found on Smile Box DVD that captures the three screen Cinerama If you watch on a large screen TV. The ending is exhausting.
One Eyed Jacks was originally going to BE directed by Stanley Kubrick, but after six months of planning, Kubrick realized Marlon Brando needed to direct it himself. So he quit
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Showdown in The Big Country
Another one I have not seen, especially with Gregory Peck. I have seen almost all his films but this one.
I need to still sew âOne Eyed Jacksâ as I have heard so many back story stuff especially the Marlon Brando ones. It is still on my list to watch.
I donât know why I have always been drawn to this as a story, but its interesting to see how CGI has advanced beyond what we could have imagined.
Pretty amazing how they did this. The color of the sky seems a little weird but over pretty dam amazing
Lower cost Colorizing software has improved greatly in the last couple years
You think I could achive this same result in 'After Effects" or is this more specialize specific software?
Good movie, and its not American. A really deeper type of movie with thought provoking premises mixed in.
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Award winning movie by Akira Kurosawa is one that is often over looked when it comes to his storied and much acclaimed career, but âDersu Uzalaâ won an Oscar and is based on the work of the scientist and writer, famous traveler and explorer of the Far East V. Arseniev. The story of his friendship with the guide Dersu Uzala with extraordinary personal qualities. Their journey through the taiga-forest, full of dangerous adventures, is the plot of the film, but the meaning of the story goes far beyond the plot: itâs a story about the brotherhood of people, that we are all children of the same land.
Year of production: 1975
Directed by: Kurosawa Akira
Screenwriters: Yuri Nagibin, Akira Kurosawa
Composer: Schwartz Isaac
Cinematographers: Gantman Yuri, Dobronravov Fedor, Nakai Asakazu
Production Designer: Raksha Yuri
Cast: Yuri Solomin, Alexander Pyatkov, Maxim Munzuk, Vladimir Kremena, Svetlana Danilchenko, Suymenkul Chokmorov, Mikhail Bychkov, Dima Korshikov, Nikolay Volkov, Igor Sykhra, Janis Yakobson, Alexander Baranov
Prizes and awards:
1975 - FIPRESCI Prize at the IX IFF in Moscow
1975 - gold prize at the IX IFF in Moscow
1976 - âOscarâ by the American Film Academy in Los Angeles (USA) for the best foreign film
1976 - diploma of the II degree âfor achieving the best results in the artistic, visual and technical solution of the filmâ at the I All-Union competition for the best use of domestic negative color films when shooting feature films
1976 - participation diploma at the XIV New York International Film Festival (USA)
1977 - Special Prize of the National Association of Screenwriters of Spain, for the best foreign film shown in the country
1977 - diploma of participation at the IFF in Brussels (Belgium)
1977 - honorary award to producer Krichevsky Georges (posthumously) at the IFF in Brussels (Belgium)
1978 - M. Munzuku French criticsâ award âfor the best acting workâ
1976 - diploma of participation at the IFF in Vienna (Austria)
1977 - International Cinema Prize âDavid di Donatelloâ (Italy) for the best foreign film shown in Italy
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Not among my very favorite Kurosawa, but I remember watching it many times, searching for itâs kernel.
RAN, Kagemusha, Throne of Blood, Dodesâka-den, Madadayo, Ikiru, Red Beard, Rhapsody in August, High and Low, Rashoman, Dreams
That list leaves the rest of the list as 2nd favorite.
I think his deepest movie was Madadayo
All great films, although I have not seen Madadayo I now will search for that one. What I like most about Kurosawa is his ability to pace his films with intermittent latency and induce meditative pauses in them, which is why I really like
âDersu Uzala.â Its almost a story within another story itself that is thought provoking.
I havenât seen it in many years and might watch it again and see how it holds up now.
New movie review: the new Jurassic movie. Stinker. How did those T-Rexes get so big with such lousy hunting skills?
Yeah that movie suks and I didnât even need to watch it to tell you that it does. 3 hours or whatever time is something you will never get back! Choose wisely!
Iâm trying to go see some movies to try to keep movie theaters from going the way of the dinosaur, but I fear itâs a lost cause. I went and saw the new Dune movie awhile ago, in Imax, and nearly had the theater to myself (and a friend). This, about a week after the release. Itâs only a matter of time before these places call it quits.
Stupid sequels like the Jurassic one arenât a new thing, but it seems like the industry is near death, too - stupid superhero movies, pointless violence horror movies, stupid cartoon sequels, itâs pretty disheartening. Iâd rather watch The Maltese Falcon for the millionth time.
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I agree on all points that you are making, and the movie theater industry is probably going to be a thing of the past unless it finds a way to reinvent itself in some way. Remember drive ins? 
I also think inserting woke culture, along with forced diversity characters which Hollywood is insistent on doing these days is taking away from not only the art of film making itself but driving away audiences with contrived forced narratives that no longer seem like an escape but mere propaganda. Its being felt in revenues lost to which was a large part of the summer block buster season where box office sales is usually the largest. Viewers are a lot smarter than these limousine latte drinking movie executives give them credit for, as they are out of touch with the mainstream audiences as they can see through the bullshit that a lot of these movies try to sell to the public. Disney now is gone gay, and the hubris of celebrities themselves mouthing off their political leanings is adding to the decline as well. IMO Hollywood is dying a well deserved death and we should celebrate it.
On the other hand there is hope that film making is still possible, just not by the American film industry but by foreign films such as one of the films I recently listed, âEverywhere, Everything, All the time.â Which proves that with a creative script put into the right hands is still capable of producing something original, chaotically crazy and a film that manages to captivate its audience with a wild adventurous journey that is refreshing to watch.
Sign of the times I suppose, but look on the bright side, with less movies and TV shows to watch, the more time we actually have to get shit done that will improve all of our lives while on occasion getting to still enjoy a classic movie every now and then.
Yeah, the once-minor league providers, like HBO and Showtime, are producing more interesting stuff. I never watched the Game of Thrones while it was running, but watched the whole lot in the last year and was very impressed. Itâs one of the few things Iâve seen in many years that constantly surprised me and was very unpredictable. Now Iâm watching others that are infinitely better than the pile of clicheâs that are Hollywood now.
Many times in the past I felt gypped after seeing a poor movie, but itâs so bad now that I can just look at the title and know itâs bad. Action movies with Arnold may have been silly at times, but Predator and The Terminator were very good movies. Now, they would just make it with nonstop CGI that gives nothing but headaches.
As much as the reviews and things I read, say the movie is terrible, I donât want it to be true. The movie is supposedly doing great box office and fake news seems to be censoring negative reviews now.
If I hate it Iâll just hate it.
I have liked the Lost World stuff just as fluff entertainment. The reuniting the cast sounds so appealing and hopefulâŚbut in this idiotic world as it is now⌠who knows? I couldnât stand those terrible Star Wars sequels.