More movies that I've watched... in the past couple of weeks...

Took a vacation. Was confronted with watching TV... or finding a 'movie channel'... so I ended up watching the TCM, HBO Family, and HBO (infrequently...)... There were other movie channels, but they were mostly mucked up with advertisements. The HBO (non-family...) channel seemed to have several 'serial show' type things which interested me about as much as broadcast TV shows... that is little to none.

Anyway... to escape having to watch TV shows...

"Battling Butler"(1926) --- what will men do to impress women to get married... (or stay married...).

"The Razor's Edge"(1946) -- The two thoughts that recurred during the showing was, 'how much I hated 'Carnal Knowledge"(1971)"... and how much I hated "The Razor's Edge"(1984)... Maybe I don't like preachy films that depict 'hedonism' as some sort of evil pit...

"Adventure"(1946) --- Clark Gable should have stayed at sea.

"They Were Expendable"(1945) -- Good shots of vintage Patrol Torpedo (PT) boats. Not quite as 'rahrah' as some of the 'during the war' films.

And for something completely different...

"Species"(1995) --- Never saw either of these...
"Species II"(1996) --- (Cont.) Too bad that the only way naked bodies in American films can be displayed is when there is Ultimate Evil involved... and this case... gore... and death is to come shortly to at least one of the parties if not both. Perhaps Bob Guccione should have gotten involved with this project and added some X segments, as he did with "Caligula"(1979)...

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Came back from vacation. Halloween... saw some theme appropriate fare...

"American Vampire in London"(1981) -- Didn't quite strike me as funny as it did in 1981... I thought it was ok though.

"Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant"(2009) -- I've never read the books, but now I'm going to... and because I watch movies with my IMDB app on my iPhone at the ready, I quickly flipped to a Roger Ebert review (and of "American Vamp..." as well...)... basically I think Ebert and the other 'pro' reviewers are full of shit. I think Ebert should have exited Hollywood shortly after "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"(1970) and taken up rutabaga farming in Idaho (or wherever...). I thought the film was 'fun', and only undarkened because of the current Hollywood mantra of making almost everything that is intended for 'block buster status', to be PG-13 weenie wimpiness. Since the adaptation diverged from the original books, perhaps it should have involved college aged young people, and so avoid any 'untward' situations for 'children', and been done 'darker', with an R rating... I think it is ironic that this film, directed by Paul Weitz, and the other 'fantasy' film, "The Golden Compass"(2007), directed by his brother Chris Weitz, tanked. I liked both...