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D.O.A. (1950)
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"Publisher Quirk Books and author Seth Grahame-Smith have come up with the best way to make a literary work more accessible since the creation of Classics Illustrated comic books: they’ve added “all-new scenes of bone crunching zombie action” to Jane Austen’s 19th century novel Pride and Prejudice. This new version, out in stores this May, is titled Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now With Ultraviolent Mayhem! And if you didn’t think it was a masterpiece before, chances are you will now. Could we do the same thing to classic films? Well, the technology to add extraneous enhancements to movies exists. Just check out The Curious Case of Benjamin Button for proof. But like Pride and Prejudice, we’d need to “enhance” films in the public domain if we wanted to get away with it. Fortunately, there are hundreds of such titles (
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"D.O.A. is an interesting film. On one side, Maté prioneered some brillant shots and the premise is absolutly genious. But, at the same time, it is a B-movie, and there are plot holes (since when did he carry a gun?) and the acting is overly melodaramatic. "
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"Here’s the dilemma. I have a list of well over three thousand movies I want to see saved on IMDB. I have a subscription to Netflix and recently every time I return a DVD it has been an extremely arduous task to make the decision as to which movie I should see next. In an effort to narrow down my choices and make the process of choosing slightly less overwhelming I have devised a system, almost a bit of a game for me. Here’s how it goes.For my first film selection, I have narrowed the options down to only films that were released in the year 2006. Then after I have watched that movie, my next selection would have to be a film released in 2005. Then I would see a film from 2004, then 2003, etc. The process of deciding is still laborious, but actually quite a bit more exciting. (I'm going by IMDB as my source for release years)I have already been making a list and have also already begun watching the films. I decided this might be a good time to start fooling ... "
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"This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown”. To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry.White HeatIt's always exciting to see an older movie and hear a famous line you'd heard before but didn't know where it came from. It's even more exciting when the movie totally rocks, as is the case for me with White Heat.Cagney is such a watchable actor for me. And it was interesting to see Edmond O'Brien again just after watching D.O.A. This seems to happen to me often in watching movies from my "movie year countdown" list. Other actors I've seen in movies very close to each other are Tony Curtis, Takashi Shimura, Claude Rains, and Olivia de Havilland, from what I remember. It kind of reminds you that there were the same cast of stars and regular players in all eras of movie making. Another movie where you have the good guy and the bad guy, but you almost root for the bad guy more than the good guy even though y ... "
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"This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown”. To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry.D.O.A.Although this movie is good, it lives on it's premise. And the premise is fantastic. But the director didn't quite seem to know how to push the noir feeling that it neededThere were however many unexpected moments for me. Some of them were enthralling like some of the fight scenes. Some stuff was just plain laughably outrageous. For instance, the thing that everyone who sees this movie will probably remember, every time a beautiful woman enters the screen in one scene this goofy slide whistle plays. I'm not sure what the reaction to this would have been in 1950, but for anyone watching it today it will probably take them totally out of the movie and remind them this was something of another era.The wild shots of all of the black jazz musicians playing for all of the white people who start going out of control is also memorable. ... "
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