SHERDOG MOVIE CLUB: Let's pick the Week 155 movie!

[TheOldMan]

Speaking of Glen Close movies I'd highly recommend this one. I'm a big fan of John Malkovich too and he's brilliant in this:

 

[europe1]

Speaking of Glen Close movies I'd highly recommend this one. I'm a big fan of John Malkovich too and he's brilliant in this:
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It got nominated very recently, actually. During an event we call the Battle Royale, where every member gets to nominates one movie.

https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/...-the-week-152-movie-battle-royale-iv.3936101/

These uncultured curs didn't have big enough brains to vote for it though! I was literally the only one who picked it! Gah!

 

[TheOldMan]

@TheOldMan there is only one way to get in this club

Hmm. @europe1 said I had to get a full Sherdog Movie club tat...debating which route I'll take <Lmaoo>

 

[TheOldMan]

These uncultured curs didn't have big enough brains to vote for it though! I was literally the only one who picked it! Gah!

Yeah 1 vote for this is quite surprising especially given the twisted sexual element and cast behind it.

 

[europe1]

Hmm. @europe1 said I had to get a full Sherdog Movie club tat...debating which route I'll take <Lmaoo>

We're like the Hells Angels. So if you ever leave this Club. We'll be forced to have those tattoos removed.

 

[TheOldMan]

We're like the Hells Angels. So if you ever leave this Club. We'll be forced to have those tattoos removed

Lol, "Internet movie mafia"

And just so I understand: I have until next Wednesday to watch
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)?

Or is the voting still ongoing?

 

[europe1]

And just so I understand: I have until next Wednesday to watch
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)?

Or is the voting still ongoing?

Yes, Henry won the vote! Closed about 4 hours ago.

The voting lasts for 2 days. If there is a draw, we have a 1-day tie-breaker.

So... uhh... you're joining at an in particular dark moment of this club's history

But obviously, you don't have to talk about it exactly next Wednesday. We can talk about the movie at any day of the week once the thread is up. I haven't gotten into this weeks movie (Angel Heart) yet, for example.

 

[TheOldMan]

Top 10 Femme Fatales

Making this list just made me realize that I don't know what a femme fatale is. Is Ms. 45 a femme fatale? Or is she just momentously fucked up?

10.

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Death Game (1977) -- Sondra Locke, Colleen Camp (again, not sure if they qualify?)

9.

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Femme Fatale -- Rebecca Romijn

8.

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Die Nibelungen – Part II: Kriemhild's Revenge -- Margarete Schön

7.

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Deadlier than the Male -- Elke Sommer and Sylva Koscina. All Bond-esque bad babes are automatically Femme Fatales, right?

6.

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Siren of Atlantis -- Maria Montez

5.

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The Killers -- Ava Gardner (plus points for the super sexy gloves)

4.

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Isabella Rossellini - Blue Velvet

3.

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Sharon Stone -- Basic Instinct

Plus:

2.

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Gilda!

1.

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Rosamund Pike -- Gone Girl

No Uma Thurman?

Kill Bill 1 + 2, Pulp Fiction, etc.

 

[TheOldMan]

Yes, Henry won the vote! Closed about 4 hours ago.

The voting lasts for 2 days. If there is a draw, we have a 1-day tie-breaker.

So... uhh... you're joining at an in particular dark moment of this club's history

But obviously, you don't have to talk about it exactly next Wednesday. We can talk about the movie at any day of the week once the thread is up. I haven't gotten into this weeks movie (Angel Heart) yet, for example.

Cool. I'll watch it soon.

 

[europe1]

No Uma Thurman?

Kill Bill 1 + 2, Pulp Fiction, etc.

Well, in Kill Bill, she's more of an action heroine. I wouldn't classify that as a Femme Fatale.

In Pulp Fiction, she's just not that good. In fact, I'd say she's one of the weakes... WAIT! Don't go! Don't leave the Club so soon!

 

[HenryFlower]

I saw Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in the poll before I got to the theme & it already won my vote at that point. I watched it after I listened LPOTL's episodes about Henry Lee Lucas (I'd recommend listening to them if you're interested in getting some background info; I'll put the soundcloud links in a spoiler) & kinda fell in love w/ it.

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I laughed when I looked at which posters voted for My Japanese Wife Next Door because it was exactly who I would have expected (I voted for it as well)

a ragtag group of scoundrels to be sure.

wouldn't even have thought about Rossellini before seeing it on these lists. I guess she's an inversion of the trope? In that, she appears mysterious and seductive at first, but then quickly turns out to be a severely damaged and exploited woman in need of help.

Another inversion of the trope! (I guess?)

I'd say so. typical of neo-noirs to play around w/ the tropes associated w/ their noir predecessors, & Rossellini in Blue Velvet & Dunaway in Chinatown are the best examples of a neo-noir femme fatale imo

Jane Greer in Out of the Past? Eh, she didn't do much for me. Just lacked the gravitas of the role.

This is a cool gif though.

Susan Harrison in Sweet Smell of Success

 

[MusterX]

Hmm. @europe1 said I had to get a full Sherdog Movie club tat...debating which route I'll take <Lmaoo>

 

[TheOldMan]

Well, in Kill Bill, she's more of an action heroine. I wouldn't classify that as a Femme Fatale.

In Pulp Fiction, she's just not that good. In fact, I'd say she's one of the weakes... WAIT! Don't go! Don't leave the Club so soon!

Booooo!

 

[TheOldMan]

Great stuff guys. Thanks for the invite. I can already tell this will be way more fun than bickering in the WR <45>

 

[Deleted member 220895]

Henry, eh? I have to say whoa.

Last time I watched it I was in college living in a house of dudes who were always high or drunk. We had a kid in the neighborhood that would visit one of my roommates because he was trying to big brother him. He wasnt the best big brother, but the kid loved him. So the day we were watching it, the kid just runs in our front door looking for my roommate as he and I are watching Henry and it's on the rape scene. The kid just stared at the TV and my friend goes, "you know what rape is?" The kid just stared at the TV until I kicked him out.

Fucked up, but I still laugh about it. My friend has a tendency to say the worst but funniest thing possible in the moment.

 

[MusterX]

Great stuff guys. Thanks for the invite. I can already tell this will be way more fun than bickering in the WR <45>

The War Room is alright, but like I told @Cubo de Sangre, you have to be careful with it because its a little bit carcinogenic.

 

[Bullitt68]

Odd and hard to listen to.

Ha, I wish I could've watched you listen to it. I would've found you finding it hard to listen to very amusing. I don't know if you're a fan, or, if you are, how big of a fan you are, of stand-up comedy, but I'm a massive fan of it and I'm a massive fan of both Tom Segura as well as, albeit to a lesser extent, of his wife, Christina Pazsitzky (that's not a knock on her, it's just meant to indicate how big of a fan I am of Tom's), so naturally their podcast is one of my favorite things in life. Not everybody likes their jeans high and tight, though, so I get not digging it, especially if you don't know/like them. But that shit's my jam and because of that podcast I'm always going to laugh from now on when I think of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Neither the book nor the movie made much sense to me. Could be lots to discuss.

I saw Naked Lunch for the first and still to this day only time as one of the many films screened during a Sci-Fi Spectacular! marathon in Chicago nearly ten years ago. Not counting the marathon-capping midnight screening of Event Horizon, of the movies that I saw there for the first time, Rubber and Naked Lunch were easily the two best. Unfortunately, though, I don't remember anything about Naked Lunch beyond that I liked it, so I'd be up for a rewatch.

Gleen Close was a psycho for sure. It's just that... you know... she isn't that sexy.

More importantly, Play Misty for Me/Clint Eastwood/Jessica Walter > Fatal Attraction/Michael Douglas/Glenn Close.

Sharon Stone really was born to play these 90's erotic movies. Even something otherwise utterly mediocre like Sliver 1993 becomes good because she's in it.

I liked your nod to Total Recall. I'm such a big Arnold fan that all Arnold movies are only Arnold movies to me, and I always forget that she's even in Total Recall let alone how awesome she is in it. I've also always had a soft spot for The Specialist, both as a film and as one of her stronger roles.

Meh, that's one of the least erotic BDSM scenes in cinema history.

And just an abysmal film overall.

Hey now, that scene - and the film on the whole - may be tame, but that is not an abysmal movie. It's no Knight and Day, which is a super underrated action romcom, but I think it's a pretty fun ride.

Good out-of-the-way pick there, Tufts!

Honestly, Disclosure was probably Demi Moore's best role. Pretty average movie overall but she shines in it.

Disclosure and The Last Seduction are both movies that I've seen but don't remember, so I can't properly rank the femme fatales relative to my go-to picks. But, on the subject of strong Demi Moore roles in average to below-average movies, I saw Mortal Thoughts for the first time within the last year. Such wasted potential with her, Bruce Willis, and Harvey Keitel, but if there's a strong point it's definitely her. I also have a soft spot for a forgotten '80s teen romcom called No Small Affair with her and Jon Cryer.

Faye Dunaway did some great stuff in the 60's-to-70's. Chinatown, Network, Bonnie and Clyde, all superb stuff.

Hmm, this list seems to be missing an awesome movie starring one of the coolest human beings to ever walk the face of the Earth...

So is this one of those situations when an actor only has one good role and they nail it absolutely perfectly?

Lizabeth Scott was always good at looking beautiful and dreamy. But I'm still recovering from the staccato acting in Desert Fury.

I haven't seen Desert Fury, but I've liked Lizabeth Scott in everything that I've seen her in - The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Dead Reckoning, I Walk Alone, Pitfall, Dark City, Two of a Kind, and The Racket. If anything, it sounds like it might be the opposite: One of those situations where a typically good actor has one bad role that they fumble disastrously. As I said, I haven't seen Desert Fury, so I can't comment. I'm certainly intrigued now, though.

I've never seen this movie (Why haven't you goaded me to watch this movie yet?). But just from Martin Scorcese's presentation of this movie and that scene in his documentary A Personal Journey Through American Movies, I believe everything said here 100%.

First, I don't recall Leave Her to Heaven ever coming up. Second, if I'm pushing Gene Tierney movies, I always go to Laura and Whirlpool. Third, I always tend to assume that you've already seen most movies I'd bring up anyway

That's an interesting and creative pick for sure. Another subversion of the trope.

Her character has always been particularly fascinating to me. And this is one of the all-time great visuals:

Love the film, love the actress, love the character.

Damn... forgot that one for my list.

Simmons is kind of unassuming in how downright ineffectual she is as a femme fatale. However, in the game of murder and seduction, she has a MacReady-esque approaching to dealing with her situations whenever she fails.

Ha, yeah, she's probably the biggest screw-up femme fatale. Still, though, the look on her face when she's talking to the stepmother she's plotting to kill, talk about staring daggers.

I just watched that scene. That bitch is cold as ice. Her face is expressionless as she contemplates the moment when the boy will drown. And those eyes, cold and dead.

And that scene ain't even the half of it. Wait until you see the whole movie. She's as evil as it gets. Then again, even while she's in the midst of committing murder, she takes her jacket off and I see her in that blue bikini and I can't help but start weighing the costs of one crippled little brother...

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[Cubo de Sangre]

The War Room is alright, but like I told @Cubo de Sangre, you have to be careful with it because its a little bit carcinogenic.

 

[TheOldMan]

The War Room is alright, but like I told @Cubo de Sangre, you have to be careful with it because its a little bit carcinogenic

I'd say its a lotta bit carcinogenic, but I was glad to see you're a part of this as we share several mutual views.

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

I saw Naked Lunch for the first and still to this day only time as one of the many films screened during a Sci-Fi Spectacular! marathon in Chicago nearly ten years ago.

Sci-fi? But hey, not as odd as Henry being called a comedy.

Segura never registered on my stand-up radar.