So I finally got around to watching The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly trilogy for the first time, and ultimately came away slightly underwhelmed. The slow pacing was a little too much for me at times, but I decided to see what an older, more experienced Sergio Leone would do to improve on his earlier works, and hopped into Duck, you sucker! Immediately, I'd say there's just more going on here. The characters a more fleshed out (instead of relying almost exclusively on long, menacing stare scenes), and the pace of the film is far more engaging (for me, anyway). Overall, this one was just more my style, and I think Sergio improved quite a bit compared to his famous trilogy. If you haven't seen it, I'd recommend giving it a shot!

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Ghost Story is a 1981 American supernatural horror film directed by John Irvin and starring Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Houseman, Craig Wasson, and Alice Krige. Based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Peter Straub, it follows a group of elderly businessmen in New England who gather to recount their involvement in a woman's death decades prior when one of them suspects her ghost has been haunting him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Story_(1981_film)

The Bat is a 1959 American crime-mystery thriller starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead. It is the fourth film adaptation of the story, which began as a 1908 novel The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart, which she later adapted (with Avery Hopwood) into the 1920 play The Bat. The first film version of the play was the 1926 American silent film The Bat. The film version was adapted by playwright Crane Wilbur, who also directed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bat_(1959_film) 

Carnival of Souls is a 1962 American psychological horror film produced and directed by Herk Harvey and written by John Clifford from a story by Clifford and Harvey, and starring Candace Hilligoss. Its plot follows Mary Henry, a young woman whose life is disturbed after a car accident. She relocates to a new city, where she finds herself unable to assimilate with the locals, and becomes drawn to the pavilion of an abandoned carnival. Director Harvey also appears in the film as a ghoulish stranger who stalks her throughout. The film is set to an organ score by Gene Moore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Souls 

It's a movie that I watched. That's about all I can say. Well, that and it has Gabe Kaplan who played Mr. Kotter in Welcome Back, Kotter - a show I loved as a child. Enjoy!

Plane is a 2023 American action thriller film directed by Jean-François Richet from a screenplay by Charles Cumming and J. P. Davis. The film stars Gerard Butler, Mike Colter, Yoson An, and Tony Goldwyn. The plot centers on a pilot (Butler) allying with a prisoner to save his passengers from a hostile territory in which they make an emergency landing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKi49xG-MgY

Probably the worst movie you will see this year

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I learned about this from the [spaghetti western wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_Western). According to that article, Zapata westerns are: >often interpreted as a leftist critique of the typical Hollywood handling of the Mexican Revolution, and of imperialism in general. Which, having an interest in that period of history, was quite an intriguing concept. Overall I enjoyed the film, despite sometimes having some poor dubbing here and there. It's low budget, B-movie action hero stuff done fairly well, with some standout scenes. This director and character (the mercenary) appears to have been the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's Bounty hunter in Django Unchained, which is another great movie that I think was posted here a while back! Also, with Google's assault on Invidious leaving it inoperable, consider watching this video [with FreeTube](https://freetubeapp.io/), a nifty [open source](https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube?tab=readme-ov-file) program that lets you watch youtube videos privately!

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 American musical comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and written by Charles Lederer. The film is based on the 1949 stage musical of the same name, which in turn is based on the 1925 novel of the same name by Anita Loos. The film stars Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, with Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan, George Winslow, Taylor Holmes and Norma Varden in supporting roles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(1953_film) 

Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee and Nehemiah Persoff in supporting roles. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan from the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love. The film is about two musicians who disguise themselves by dressing as women to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed committing a crime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Like_It_Hot 

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Synopsis: A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge. I've never actually seen this trilogy, but after seeing a [filmmaker analysis of the last movie in the trilogy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Izw09Z8hM), I became intrigued, and found the first film on youtube! Also, with Google's assault on Invidious leaving it inoperable, consider watching this movie (and other movies on this community) [with FreeTube](https://freetubeapp.io/), a nifty [open source](https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube?tab=readme-ov-file) program that lets you watch youtube videos privately!

Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 American musical fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson and songs written by the Sherman Brothers. It was produced by Bill Walsh for Walt Disney Productions. It is based upon the books The Magic Bedknob (1943) and Bonfires and Broomsticks (1947) by English children's author Mary Norton. The film, which combines live action and animation, stars Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Ian Weighill, Cindy O'Callaghan, and Roy Snart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedknobs_and_Broomsticks 

Evil Dead II (also known in publicity materials as Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn) is a 1987 American comedy horror film directed by Sam Raimi, who co-wrote it with Scott Spiegel. The second installment in the Evil Dead film series, it is considered both a remake and sequel (or "re-quel") to The Evil Dead (1981). It stars Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, who vacations with his girlfriend to a remote cabin in the woods. He discovers an audio tape of recitations from a book of ancient texts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Dead_II 

Enter the Dragon (Chinese: 龍爭虎鬥) is a 1973 martial arts film directed by Robert Clouse and written by Michael Allin. The film stars Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Ahna Capri, Bob Wall, Shih Kien, and Jim Kelly. Enter the Dragon was Bruce Lee's final completed film appearance before his death on 20 July 1973 at the age of 32. An American-Hong Kong co-production, the film was premiered in Los Angeles on 19 August 1973, one month after Lee's death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter_the_Dragon 

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (also known as Sunrise) is a 1927 American synchronized sound romantic drama directed by German director F. W. Murnau (in his American film debut) and starring George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, and Margaret Livingston. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Movietone sound-on-film process. The story was adapted by Carl Mayer from the short story "The Excursion to Tilsit", from the 1917 collection with the same title by Hermann Sudermann. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise:_A_Song_of_Two_Humans 

> This was a project that took me around two years to put together, all filmed and edited by myself and scored by my long time collaborator Cal Williams. Graffiti Art is scene that i have followed for many years and although i have never been a participant in the art form myself, its one i hold very close to my heart and can hopefully say with this documentary i have cemented my own little piece of Sheffield graffiti history. The filmmakers involved do not condone or encourage stealing, drug use, defacing, destroying or vandalizing public or private property.

This is a favorite of mine.

A man boards a boat crawling with bloodthirsty vampires that can disappear at will. As he fights to save the life of the woman he loves, he finds himself stuck in a bizarre cosmic time loop. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/vampyrz_on_a_boat

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The Ladykillers is a 1955 British black comedy crime film directed by Alexander Mackendrick for Ealing Studios. It stars Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner, and Katie Johnson as the old lady, Mrs. Wilberforce. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ladykillers_(1955_film) 

Spanish with English Subtitles El mundo de los vampiros (The World of the Vampires) is a 1961 Mexican horror film, directed by Alfonso Corona Blake. The film is about a vampire, Count Sergio Subotai, who seeks revenge against the descendant of an enemy family. The hero is a musician (played by Mauricio Garcés) who knows how to play a piece of music that can kill vampires. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_mundo_de_los_vampiros 

Late Spring (晩春, Banshun) is a 1949 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and written by Ozu and Kogo Noda, based on the short novel Father and Daughter (Chichi to musume) by the 20th-century novelist and critic Kazuo Hirotsu. The film was written and shot during the Allied Powers' Occupation of Japan and was subject to the Occupation's official censorship requirements. Starring Chishū Ryū, who was featured in almost all of the director's films, and Setsuko Hara, marking her first of six appearances in Ozu's work, it is the first installment of Ozu’s so-called "Noriko trilogy", succeeded by Early Summer (Bakushu, 1951) and Tokyo Story (Tokyo Monogatari, 1953). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Spring 

I like this one better than the more recent American version with Gere and Lopez.

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After Life, known in Japan as Wonderful Life (ワンダフルライフ, Wandafuru Raifu), is a 1998 Japanese film edited, written and directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda starring Arata, Erika Oda and Susumu Terajima. It premiered on 11 September 1998 at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival and distributed in over 30 countries, bringing international recognition to Kore-eda's work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Life_(film) 

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Uptown Saturday Night is a 1974 American action comedy and crime comedy film, written by Richard Wesley and directed by and starring Sidney Poitier, with Bill Cosby and Harry Belafonte co-starring. Cosby and Poitier teamed up again for Let's Do It Again (1975) and A Piece of the Action (1977). Although Cosby's and Poitier's characters have different names in each film, the three films are considered a trilogy. Uptown Saturday Night premiered on June 15, 1974, at the Criterion Theatre in New York and opened to positive reviews. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptown_Saturday_Night

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Man Bites Dog (French: C'est arrivé près de chez vous, literally "It Happened Near Your Home") is a 1992 French-language Belgian black comedy crime mockumentary film written, produced and directed by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde, who are also the film's co-editor, cinematographer and lead actor respectively. The film follows a crew of filmmakers following a serial killer, recording his horrific crimes for a documentary they are producing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Bites_Dog_(film)

Playtime (stylized as PlayTime and also written as Play Time) is a 1967 comedy film directed by Jacques Tati. In the film, Tati again plays Monsieur Hulot, the popular character who had central roles in his earlier films Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953) and Mon Oncle (1958). However, Tati grew ambivalent towards playing Hulot as a recurring central role during production; he appears intermittently in Playtime, alternating between central and supporting roles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playtime

Drive-In is a 1976 American comedy film directed by Rod Amateau and written by Bob Peete. The film stars Lisa Lemole, Gary Lee Cavagnaro, Glenn Morshower, Billy Milliken, Lee Newsom and Regan Kee. It was released on May 26, 1976, by Columbia Pictures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-In_(film)