Movieing On - Movies from 1999 or Earlier

Sorry for the absence, folks! Between computer issues, travel and the generic mid-summer malaise that hits you when you have no job to go to, we decided that a week or two off was just what the doctor ordered. But now we’re back!

Show notes and links:

* Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* Thoroughly Modern Millie – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

* Thoroughly Modern Millie (Film) – TV Tropes (tvtropes.org)

* Far from Heaven (2002) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* Intermission – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

For the first time in a very long time, the Movieing On team sits down in front of a duck-themed movie that is not perverted. A cartoon that is not about overly sexualized cats. Please don’t mention how it was Breki that picked both Howard the Duck and Fritz The Cat and how we required the youth and innocence of Linnea to get a movie like this to the show… Because we sat down to watch Duck Tales: The Movie.

Show notes and links:

* DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) (imdb.com)

* DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (wikipedia.org)

* DuckTales (TV Series 2017– ) (imdb.com)

* ‘DuckTales’ Theme Song Gets an Update for Disney XD Reboot (hollywoodreporter.com)

Once upon a time, there was a movie. It didn’t do very well, but people remembered it fondly, so they made a sequel. It was pretty bad. So they made another sequel, and it was also pretty bad. People looked upon the faces of the sequels and realized that the original movie was actually really pretty damned good – at least in comparison – and so a cult movie was born.

This week, the Movieing On team sits down to watch Highlander, the 1986 original starring Christopher Lambert with a not very convincing Scottish accent starring opposite Sean Connery with a not very convincing Spanish accent in a not very convincing movie about people who cannot die. … It’s better than I make it sound, actually.

Show notes and links:

* Highlander (film) – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

* Highlander (1986) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* Highlander II: The Quickening – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

* Highlander II: The Quickening (1991) (imdb.com)

* Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell (1988) (imdb.com)

* Fortress (1992) – IMDb (imdb.com)

It’s the birthday of America, so what better movie to pick than a movie that features that very holiday season in one way or another? We thought so as well, so we went with Miss Firecracker, a lovely Holly Hunter-movie from 1989.

Show notes and links:

* Miss Firecracker (1989) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* Holly Hunter – IMDb (imdb.com)

* Robot Check (amazon.com)

* Miss Firecracker Movie Review (1989) (rogerebert.com)

* Miss Firecracker (1989) – Rotten Tomatoes (rottentomatoes.com)

* Miss Firecracker – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

The Man Who Would Be King (1888) is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. It is about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. It’s also a movie starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine. We decided to watch the movie even though reading the short story would have been quicker. We’re strange in that way.

Show notes and links:

* The Man Who Would Be King (wikipedia.org)

Playtime is a … movie? … from 1967, written and directed by Jacques Tati. It’s about … about … it’s about two hours long, and … No, I’m sorry, I really don’t know what more to say about this. It’s hardly a movie, even. I don’t … no.

Show notes and links:

* Playtime – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

* Playtime (1967) – IMDb (imdb.com)

La Femme Nikita, the 1990 version, not to be confused with the American spin-offs with the same name that came much later. It was one of the movies that got Luc Besson the attention that he was going to be enjoying in the future. But it’s also a movie that not all people can agree about – so … did we like it or dit we not? Listen in and find out!

Show notes and links:

* La Femme Nikita (1990) – IMDb (imdb.com)

Have you ever felt as if you’re not living an entire life? Ever had people say you’ve done things you’re quite sure you’ve never done? Well; Roger Moore has. At least – he’s played a role of a person who has. And this is that movie!

Show notes and links:

* The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970) (imdb.com)

One would have thought that the richest kid in the world would have afforded a better acting coach, but there you go. Here’s the 1994 movie where Kevin from Home Alone gets help from Joseph Goebbels (no, really!) as they try to out-wit Maltz from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. It rapidly got more and more confusing, especially when Friar Tuck from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves showed up to help out with gadgets that he built in the lab. Very strange.

Show notes and links:

* Ri¢hie Ri¢h (1994) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* World’s Worst Football Coach – A Bit of Fry & Laurie – BBC Comedy Greats (youtube.com)

* IMDb: Most Popular Titles With Location Matching “Iceland” (imdb.com)

This week’s episode of Movieing On brings us back to 1988, an era in which men would fly hot air balloons constructed of knickers to the moon and have a surreal moment involving the king and queen of said Moon and their marital problems and their head-not-being-attached-to-their-bodies-well-kind-of-but-not-really … situation.

That’s right; we’re doing the 1988 cult classic, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen!

Show notes and links:

* 7 Witches (2017) – IMDb (imdb.com)

Nancy was in a movie!

* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) (imdb.com)

* Terry Gilliam – IMDb (imdb.com)

* Scaphoid bone – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989) (boxofficemojo.com)

* Ride with the Devil (1999) (imdb.com)