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by mkaroly
Tue Sep 02, 2025 10:07 am
Forum: Theatrical, Blu-Ray & DVD Discussion
Topic: JAWS 2 Appreciation in NY Times
Replies: 4
Views: 325

Re: JAWS 2 Appreciation in NY Times

OMG...that is awful! Lol!
by mkaroly
Mon Sep 01, 2025 10:36 am
Forum: Theatrical, Blu-Ray & DVD Discussion
Topic: JAWS 2 Appreciation in NY Times
Replies: 4
Views: 325

Re: JAWS 2 Appreciation in NY Times

I didn't like Jaws 2 as much as Jaws, but I did enjoy it (much more so than Jaws 3-D).

Siskel brushes it off as inferior in this review of Jaws:The Revenge.

by mkaroly
Tue Aug 12, 2025 11:19 am
Forum: Theatrical, Blu-Ray & DVD Discussion
Topic: All Things Kurosawa
Replies: 37
Views: 170167

Re: All Things Kurosawa

You bring up a great point about the TV actors - the more I thought about the film, the more I feel like it has a "TV mini-series" feel to it (if that makes sense).

I am all about Ran...looking forward to gushing over that one! You can probably guess what my rating will be...lol...
by mkaroly
Tue Aug 12, 2025 7:25 am
Forum: Theatrical, Blu-Ray & DVD Discussion
Topic: Here Comes RAMBO Again, This Time With No Stallone
Replies: 5
Views: 948

Re: Here Comes RAMBO Again, This Time With No Stallone

What does "A-list" mean at this point? Lol...as if potentially being elevated to that is a good thing??? :roll: :lol:
by mkaroly
Mon Aug 11, 2025 11:18 am
Forum: Theatrical, Blu-Ray & DVD Discussion
Topic: All Things Kurosawa
Replies: 37
Views: 170167

Re: All Things Kurosawa

Kagemusha (1980) – A petty thief (Tatsuya Nakadai) is saved from execution by Nobukado (Tsutomu Yamazaki), the younger brother of Lord Shingen Takeda (Tatsuya Nakadai), because the thief looks exactly like Shingen. They plan to use the thief as a kagemusha (“shadow warrior”) in order to protect ...
by mkaroly
Fri Aug 08, 2025 11:39 am
Forum: Theatrical, Blu-Ray & DVD Discussion
Topic: All Things Kurosawa
Replies: 37
Views: 170167

Re: All Things Kurosawa

Dersu Uzala (1975) – Captain Valdimir Arsenyev (Yury Solomin) leads a band of soldiers through the Ussuri territory of the Russian Far East on a topographical survey of the region in the early 1900s. They encounter a Goldi native of the region by the name of Dersu Uzala (Maxim Munzuk), a woodsman ...
by mkaroly
Wed Aug 06, 2025 3:37 pm
Forum: Theatrical, Blu-Ray & DVD Discussion
Topic: Interview with Danny Elfman
Replies: 1
Views: 1981

Interview with Danny Elfman



Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins) is the host. I have not watched it yet, but might be interesting (though be warned...Billy loves interrupting guests while they talk).
by mkaroly
Mon Jul 28, 2025 9:24 pm
Forum: Theatrical, Blu-Ray & DVD Discussion
Topic: THE WIZARD OF OZ Gets a Lucas Sized AI Makeover
Replies: 4
Views: 37061

Re: THE WIZARD OF OZ Gets a Lucas Sized AI Makeover

I hope this fails spectacularly...it looks so artificial. That isn't the movie I grew up with, and I will happily keep my money in my pockets and not pay for this ridiculous bastardization.
by mkaroly
Mon Jul 28, 2025 10:08 am
Forum: Theatrical, Blu-Ray & DVD Discussion
Topic: All Things Kurosawa
Replies: 37
Views: 170167

Re: All Things Kurosawa

Dodes'ka-den (1970) – The story of this film is about a group of people living in a slum area on the outskirts of Tokyo. Some of the inhabitants of the slum include a homeless beggar and his little boy who dream of owning their own home (their actual home is the frame of a car), a couple of day ...
by mkaroly
Mon Jul 21, 2025 10:59 am
Forum: Theatrical, Blu-Ray & DVD Discussion
Topic: All Things Kurosawa
Replies: 37
Views: 170167

Re: All Things Kurosawa

Red Beard (19635). An arrogant young doctor named Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama), having been trained in a medical school in Nagasaki, aspires to follow in his relative’s footsteps and become the personal physician of the Shogunate. He is sent to a small rural clinic that caters to the poor; it is ...
by mkaroly
Mon Jul 14, 2025 1:29 pm
Forum: Theatrical, Blu-Ray & DVD Discussion
Topic: All Things Kurosawa
Replies: 37
Views: 170167

Re: All Things Kurosawa

Thanks for the encouragement Paul!
by mkaroly
Mon Jul 14, 2025 1:29 pm
Forum: Theatrical, Blu-Ray & DVD Discussion
Topic: JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH - July - Overperforming Box Office Estimates
Replies: 18
Views: 111824

Re: JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH - July - Overperforming Box Office Estimates



THE LOST WORLD is a filmic abomination that needs stricken from the record! :lol:


It's absolutely awful Michael, you're right.

Tell me what I'm missing, as these were my thoughts from the last viewing (which echoed what I thought the first time):

-Goldblum's character completely useless in ...
by mkaroly
Wed Jul 09, 2025 11:14 am
Forum: Theatrical, Blu-Ray & DVD Discussion
Topic: JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH - July - Overperforming Box Office Estimates
Replies: 18
Views: 111824

Re: JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH - July - Overperforming Box Office Estimates

THE LOST WORLD is a filmic abomination that needs stricken from the record! :lol:
by mkaroly
Wed Jul 09, 2025 11:12 am
Forum: Theatrical, Blu-Ray & DVD Discussion
Topic: All Things Kurosawa
Replies: 37
Views: 170167

Re: All Things Kurosawa

High and Low (1963). Kingu Gondo (Toshiro Mifune), an executive for National Shoes, is approached by some of his colleagues to help them take over the business. They want to make cheaper shoes in order to increase profits, but Gondo refuses (unbeknownst to them, he has secretly been planning to buy ...
by mkaroly
Fri Jun 13, 2025 8:51 am
Forum: Theatrical, Blu-Ray & DVD Discussion
Topic: Spaceballs 2
Replies: 4
Views: 10186

Re: Spaceballs 2



I was always disappointed with SPACEBALLS. Watched it again with Theo and...yeah...it just wasn't that funny. Too little too late a decade after STAR WARS. Weak casting in Bill Pullman and Daphne Zuniga. Waste of John Candy and Rick Moranis' time too. The John Hurt bit at the end with the Looney ...