Music & Movies

hahahahhah That's great.
*Hold up card saying: "I don't like movies that can't say anything"*

Queen of the dammned was not bad. at least she was cute.

Well, That Heather Nova here in the chat sure is a Virus Of The Mind

Has anyone seen Monsters Inc.?

shadyman, it just occurred to me that you still must be very very young if you have never heard of silent movies... Never heard of Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, the Keystone Cops? Or Birth of a Nation for that matter?

what about Dad's old 8mm home movies: silent parades of dead relatives.

I've heard of silent movies just never watched many

You can't miss with "Greed", "Intolerance", anything by Buster Keaton, Murnau's "Faust" and "Nosferatu" and the french serial "Les Vampires". Really, if you can get access to any of these on video or DVD and care about good movies at all, do it.

I don't know if Laurel & Hardy were ever silent though.
"Metropolis", Melies's "Trip to the moon", Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, "Battleship Potemkin" and "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" are all worth seeing but more for their innovations than great stories.
"Birth of a Nation" Tends to upset people because of its racial political agenda, but is still really important because it features the first uses of closeup and intercutting of scenes.

Anyone that hase even a passing interest in these movies, if you haven't seen Peter Jacksons hilarious mockumentary, "Forgotten Silver", go out and hunt it down on video now. You won't regret it.

Yes, they were... Eisenstein's Battlecruiser Potemkin also had a huge influence on cutting techniques. The scene at the stairs in Central Station from the untouchables is one big hommage to that.

I don't want to be snobbish however, I prefer a talkie almost anytime

Here's a bit of obscure trivia: Charles Chaplin and Oliver Hardy were in a film together just before they got famous. I think Chaplin and Laurel came to America as part of the same troupe of performers.

probably