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Sometimes I like the late Friday Night movies because they are so bad that they are funny. That wasn't the case tonight. They were just bad. " The Trip " starring Peter Fonda walking around for 2 hours high on L.S.D. was really boring, dull, much to do about nothing. If you like movies where not much happens for 2 hours, this is your movie. ........Then " Alices Restaurant " which seems pretty slow and not much happening. I saw this years ago and thought it was me not getting it. The ending picks up speed and is kind of funny, and it was a big hit along time ago. But that was then and now most of it just seems like filler until they can work the song in at the end of the movie. ........Mostly, these two movies are boring and dull. They might have been inspiration for The Tubes song " White Punks On Dope ". ......Again, sometimes the Friday Night movies are so bad they are funny. Except for the end of the Arlo movie, most of these two movies were just bad and not funny. " Willie Dynamite " and " High School Confidential " were at least funny.
The saying " They don't make movies like that anymore ". ....Well, some movies you don't want made anymore. Such is the case with " The Trip ". It's as exciting as watching paint dry.
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Considering all that he invented....I think he was trying to see if filming a sneeze if he could find a cure for the common cold. ....Maybe it didn't work, but it was worth a try....Anyway, I think thats what that short piece of film was aiming at. ....Just as Mary Had A Little Lamb gave us recording.
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It was good to see her work with UNICEF honored by OSCAR...and this year Jerry Lewis for MD.......Nobody says these people have to do this. It's the GOOD news you never read or see or hear about. BAD news sells papers........For anything said bad about Elvis, few mention he built high schools, librarys and hospitals...as has Dolly Parton...as did Danny Thomas......but we don't want to hear about that. We only want the bad news. Give us dirty laundry.
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I saw Fatso at the theatre and other audience members didn't get me laughing at the funeral scenes and such...but it was gallos humor.....The huge, huge ...Huge casket. .....It was a sight gag...It was suppose to be funny.
Not a great film...but it had it's funny parts and in the end a message.....Be happy with who and what you are.....and he gets married and gets fatter as they have kids and live happily ever after.
He was funny in the Doris Day movie where he is like a lousy detective or something. Was he in that Sid Ceasar movie with Richard Pryor, everybody else was ?.......Alot of movies we saw him in he was great in small parts.......Of course there was Smokey and the Bandit and Cannon Ball Run if thats your thing.
I like his imitation of The Godfather.......Of course there was the Mel Brooks movies.
He was pretty funny in That Burt Reynolds movie about suicide, although you can't tell by TV because they edit all the funny lines right out of it. ...Yet another movie too funny for TV and TV just butchering movies to the point they aren't the same movie anymore. Such is the case with Blazing Saddles and now with The Departed. Why show them if you are only going to hack the guts right out of the entire film.
Dom did some funny stuff on Dean Martin such as the feeding the kid the bottle bit.....but I think he made his most money with Burt who was Big Box Office. Mel Brooks cast him every chance he could.
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They've ran out of themes.....To show a silent movie and then to talk about the American actors playing the parts of Latins ...Give me a break.... Edison had just discovered film for crying out loud......Look, alot of these silent films are hard to watch unless you are just a total film history buff. The film is bad, the acting is bad because they knew little of the camera. Chaplin is the exception, not the rule......Alot of these silent films are hard to watch.......Whats the Silent CLASSIC ? The tribute to the Klu Klux Klan not long after the Civil War....Excuse me if I don't salute that one. I think it stinks to high heaven.
I give Hollywood credit for preserving these films, really I do......but alot of these silent movies are just bad acting and hard to watch. To take these movies and make a Latin Night and then say, " Look, no Latins in that one either "..My Lord, it was about a hundred years ago. If thats all these movies have to offer is who wasn't in them, that's not a good thing.
There are good silent films. Of course there are......but there are alot of lousy ones.....I agree with Woody Allen that theres something to be said for adding sound to movies.
Again, I think it's great the movies have been preserved.....but to present movies on Latino night just to say no Latinos were in the movie.....Thats a real stretch by TCM considering the 100 year time span.
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How about Jane Darwell in her unforgettable role as the mother in The Grapes Of Wrath. Especially as she goes through her small box of things special to her before the foreclosed farm is bulldozed and they leave in the truck, destination unknown. As she looks up into the broken mirror and that look on her face. That one look says it all. ....She is also good in The Ox Bow Incident but excuse me if I think her role in Grapes Of Wrath is one of the best acting performances ever put on film.
....and from that same film let me add John Carradine as Casey, the preacher who just isn't sure about anything anymore. John Carradine was great in this also and he adds alot to most movies he was in.
....Then there was Harry Morgan. Sherman T Potter to many of you. It amazed the cast of MASH that he was that funny. It didn't amaze me. I thought he was funny as Bill Gannon on Dragnet as he always got his jokes in on Jack Webbs Joe Friday. ......but lets look at him in the movies....The Ox Bow Incident.....High Noon.....How about the comedy he brings to The Flim Flam Man or Support Your Local Sherrif.....How about him in The Shootist......
...One of my favorite supporting actor roles of all time is Gary Sinese as LT Dan in Forrest Gump...In fact I think he helps save this movie with his strong performance.....As does Sally Field as Gumps mother.
So let me add Sally Field to the list of great supporting actresses.
and lets not forget Jack Palance in Shane and all the other movies he added to such as even Joker Jack Nicholsons evil boss. City Slickers.
Joe Pesci in Ragging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino.....the little guy you don't want to make mad.
Michael Caine for all his great supporting roles.
Richard Attenborough in Great Escape, Flight Of The Phoenix, Jurrasic Park, and many others
Christopher Walken for all the supporting roles he has done.
Jason Robards, easily one of the best ever
How about George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke, Airport and all the other supporting roles.
How about Martin Balsam in Psyco, 12 Angry Men and all the other movies he was in.
How about Peter Ustinov in Spartacus and all the other supporting roles he was in.
How about Shelley Winters in all the supporting roles she was in
How about Burl Ives in The Big Country and the other movies he was in and Sam The Snowman
Anthony Quinn was one of the best supporting actors ever
How about Karl Malden in On The Waterfront,Streetcar Named Desire, Cincinnati Kid, Patton
How about Walter Huston as the old goldminer in Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
How about Harold Russell as the sailor who lost his arms in The Best Years Of Our Lives
How about Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way and The Quite Man, among others
How about Gig Young in all his supporting roles
Walter Mathau was a great supporting actor before The Fortune Cookie had Hollywood get smart and start casting him in the lead.
George Burns was a good supporting actor
Melvyn Douglas weas a good supporting actor
Louis Gossett was good
Dianne Weist is good
Whoopie Goldbeg is good
Tommy Lee Jones is good
Martin Landau is good
Of course Walter Brennan
Can't leave out Robert Duvall or James Caan for their Moon Over Brando
Margaret Dumont. Grouchos perfect staight lines. Dumont : " It's certainly a gala day ".....Grouch : " Well a gal a day is plenty for me. I don't think I can handle any more than that ".
How about Robert Shaw in From Russia With Love, The Sting and Jaws among others
How abot Buck Henry
How about Scatman Cruthers
How about Patrick McGoohan in Ice Station Zebra, Silver Streak and Braveheart among others
and Ernest Borgnine always adds to a movie.
I left off Jack Warden.....I can't leave off Jack Warden.....All those great supporting roles.
and I must add Joseph Cottons part in Citizen Kane
How about all the supporting roles of Charles Laughton......
This only proves there are no small parts. These actors and actresses sure didn't think so.
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I really enjoyed Anthony Quinn Day. Some pretty good movies. One of the few actors or actresses to win 2 Acadamy Awards.
Not everybody likes everything. Such as I couldn't watch the Harold Lloyd the other day. ....but some of these birthdays offer up alot of good movies, such as Jimmy Stewarts birthday for example.
Anyway, I enjoyed the Anthony Quinn movies. He is very good the boxing movie with Jackie Gleason and Mickey Rooney. Even has Muhammad Ali punching his lights out at the start of the movie. Quinn really finds all the angles to bring emotion to the broken down fighter.
Theres a movie of his I haven't seen in decades. A woman from his past shows up in this small village and offers them new washers, dryers, TVs for his life....I always thought it was interesting if they would sell out one mans life for the new appliances. I always thought he was good in that movie as his so called freinds hold his life in his hand with a chance for whats behind door number 2.
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TCM did a good job of picking some different films of his. They didn't just roll out the two Doris Day movies he was in that get shown on TV alot. Garner was in alot of movies and TCM showed some that you don't see that often. Good picks by the programming dept.
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I would say worse is better because I hate Godzilla movies.....but the real real bad ones are soo bad you can laugh at them. Like the one with the flying turtle with flames coming out of it.......or Godzilla vs The Smog Monster........Godzilla vs Gihidra the 3 headed monter had just about every monster from these movies in it fighting as the towns people rooted for their favorite monsters. The movies were so cheap with peope in these costumes and Godzila going into Kung Fu moves. I liked them bouncing bolders off each other. All the kids in the theatre laughed and for good reason. These weren't even good enough for 8 year olds not to laugh at.
I've seen Raymond Burr in much better. Perry Mason and Ironside. The new Godzilla was just a variation of Jurrasic Park. .......When it comes to Godzilla, you can't beat the worst of the worst from the 1960s and early 1970s. Give me that stupid flying turtle anyday. Hot Soup coming up.
Does anybody remember Gorgo. I thought that had a good story because they had only caught the baby and mommy was alot bigger and pretty mad. A mom defending her kid, great story line.
What was the other like this, 100 thousand mile from earth....The little creature that keeps growing and growing.
The blob is good with Steve McQueen....the remake in the 70s is just weird and the actors in it have me rooting for the blob.
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TCM went Biker tonight and I watched some of it.
First, let me say that at least these movies you don't see every day, so thats a plus.
On the other hand, I can't help noticing that alot of thse look like white guys trying to act black. As for the music and such. As for the slang words used.
JUst saw the end of this Peter Fonda and Hells Angels movie and the Nazi flag at the funneral and them beating up the preacher just trying to do a funeral service. ...They ask Brando, " What are you rebelling against"...Brando says, " What have you got "......But this was just a minister trying to do the funeral of a biker. They beat up the minister and then have a wild party in the church taking one girl and forcing drugs on her until they can rape her. Is that fun, I mean making love to a girl knocked out, how could it be ?
So this movie was for obviouse shock value and they had the real Hells Angels in it and tried to make them look cool. Actually, in their Nazi helmets and such, they look stupid. White Nazis trying to act black. No wonder they keep saying they are confused. They indeed are.
Now this is followed up with Peter Fonda again in Easy Rider. I still like Jack Nicholson in this and the music, but perhaps the best line of a song in this is Jimi Hendrix singing, " If all the hippies cut off their hair, I don't care ". Always laughed at how vague Peter Fond is in his heavyness, R Crumb style.. " I can dig it man....doing your own thing in your own time...we blew it man ". Alot off Mr Natural and Flakey Fooke stuff in this and you don't want to spend alot of time on the words of Hopper wanting to get a " Groovy Dinner ". ...It's a good movie but not as heavy as it may appear.
Back to Brando, it's funny to see Hank Kimble, county agent on Green Acres and Dick Van Dyke neighbor Dr Jerry Helper both trying to be tough bikers. Now thats funny. Lee Marvin and Brando are good and make it better than it is. Again, the bikers acting black singinging the bee-bop ree-bop should have most black people laughing as they watch this. I thiink the " What Have You Got " line is a little over rated.
I know bikers. I know parents of bikers. I know bikers who are now parents. Like everybody else, some are OK and some aren't as are everybody on this planet. There are drugs and combining bikers and speed isn't a good thing, including the new power drinks mixed with booze. You wouldd need an elephant gun to stop some of these guys when this hopped up. I've sang kareeoke for some of these guys and gals and they like my bee bop on the ree bop, but I try to know when it's all hitting the fan and when to leave.fast. My wife has a son who died on a bike. She still likes bikes but it's hard on her. Thats the downside to some of this.
So just yaking about TCMs BIKER NIGHT.....I don't see these movies as ultra cool or anything, maybe ultra funny or ultra stupid. ...I never had enough money for a bike, old cars to get to work had to be my bag baby. Especially in winter in Ohio because it gets cold jack. .....So I know a few bikers and some are OK.....but I've always been somebody that goes alot of places and can pull it off. I know alot of Blacks, alot of whites, alot of Mexicans.....Blue collar, white collar....Anymore, I like places that are relaxing and actually do community work and aren't crime ridden. .....The super cool crime scene ain't all thast cool.......Some of the best people are truckers, plummers, retired people, regular folks. .......So excuse me if I'm laughing at Hank Kimble and Jerry Helper being tough and Nazi Bikers acting black yet confused about their own identity man. Bee Bop on the ree Bop.
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I'm sure alot of bad rap came from religious people ......I remember my parents hearing the commercial for this movie as it used the sound bite " Theres nothing in the Bible that says a woman can't have two husbands ". My parents would immediatly say, " It does to, it's right in the 10 Commandments ". .....I'm sure alot of religious people don't like that this is about a woman who was a Morman and she was one of her husbans two wives ( which still goes on with the Mormons and a guy can have 10 wives if he's crazy enough to want 10 women telling him what to do ). Lee Marvin buys one of the Mormons wives and she falls in love with both Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood. So they put a womans rights spin on this Mormon thing with a woman having two husbands. ....Now because they have the only woman for 100 miles in a camp full of gold miners, Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood talk the gold miners into stealing another towns prostitutes and building a boom town around the cat house. ......and if this doesn't upset the religious movie audience enough, A wagon train of religious farmers are found frozen in the snow and they end up in this cabin ....and Lee Marvin introduces their son to drinking, smoking and prostitutes. Lee Marvin tells him not to tell his parents, but he immediatly tells them that the first two vices were fun but third one was the best. It turns out the young religious farmer has an immediate non stop talent for this vice. .......and you can sum the movie up as Lee Marvin is tunneling under the city and the town preacher falls into his tunnel. Lee Marvin says, " Welcome to Hell Reverend ". ...........
.....So this is all pretty wild stuff to the very religious and I'm sure all the religiuos leaders blasted this movie when it came out........But, in 2009, I've seen alot worse....Daytime Soap Operas are alot worse. The cussing on TV today is alot worse and really there is little cussing in this movie. ....There is no nudity in this movie, none at all. You will see more on a Soap Opera or alot of commercials.
So this is a Western with alot of old time Burleque comedy in it. Thers no nudity and not much cussing......Yes it's Rowdy....It's a musical comedy western. ......I'm sure the saintly religious right slammed this movie when it came out and still do today, although I'm also sure that many of them watch Soaps and stuff that are much more erotic. This is not a steamy hot movie. Anybody that gets aroused by Paint Your Wagon must really like horses and gold mining.
I'm sure alot of the slamming this movie got was from the religious right who also slammed Mae West and put in movie codes to put her out of bussiness. They probably even wanted to take away Harpos horn. That Harpo chasing women is considered risque' is even wilder than the movies.
Funny is a personal opinion. I think this movie is kind of funny. Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin trying to sing might make it even more funny, but they are no worse than Yul Brenner, Richard Harris or John Travolta in musicals critics have accepted as good. .......They also have The Man With No Name living in No Name City...and again Eastwood has no name through this movie until the very end. ....So in spite of the content, I find this to be good clean fun, as with Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood and My Favorite Martian Ray Walston in dirt and mud stealing the towns gold singing, " The Best Things In Life Are Dirty ...Gold, Gold Gold ". Eastwood and Marvin singing together is funny and it's kind of suppose to be.
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It would have been worse if they used other peoples voices, as in Singing In The Rain.
This is a good combination of Eastwood and Lee Marvin in a western. No, they don't sing like Sinatra, but they don't really sound that bad. They sound like men. They sound like themselves. Some of the songs they actually sound OK on......and I like Lee Marvin on " I was born under a wandering star ". I like the words that sound right coming out of Lee Marvins mouth. .........Again, we would really notice it if Eastwood opened his mouth and Rod Stewarts voice came out. Better it's them singing.
Plus you have Ray Walston in this.......I'm a Lee Marvin fan and a Clint Eastwood fan. This is an easy film to watch for me. Fun stuff.....Even if you don't like their singing, you could laugh at their singing and it would still be fun stuff......To me, this is like getting the high school football stars into the high school musical to help sell tickets, and they turn out being not that bad.
So I like what the director did with this. The way he does the background sceney, the cast of actors he choose...and his choice not to dub in voices. I myself hate movies with obvious dubbed in voices.......I will add that they sing as good as Yul Brenner or John Travolta or Richard Harris in other musicals.
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Name as many as you like and can think of. They don't have to be big names.
Let me give an example what I mean by starrting with Bob Gunton. Now alot of people might say, who is Bob Gunton, but if I said the warden in Shawshank Redemption or the dean in Patch Adams or Nixon in Elvis meets Nixon...or if I listed a few more movies, you would soon remember the guy you love to hate. He is very good at playing the villian.
Now that was an example using somebody more modern that we have seen but may not have known his name. ....Another such actor is the villian in Meet John Doe and Mr Smith Goes To Washington and was the villian in many movies. .....Or it could be the actress who played Tom Jodes mother or was The Ox Bow Incident......Many of you know there names, I'm sure, but I will leave them out there to be named and used.
So again, who are some of the supporting actors and actresses that you enjoyed in a few different movies...They don't have to be villians. It could be the guy that played George M Cohans father and pops up in alot of other movies......They don't have to be uncommon names either. The actor that played Sherman T Potter is a name most of us know, but he was in alot of movies. Ths is Wicked Witch Of The West type stuff here. ..
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The 8:00 PM EST showing of The Quite Man is excellent......
....but.....The all day westerns on St Patricks Day wasn't . That was awful programming.
....and showing Irish movies at 3:00 AM on March 18th doesn't by any means make up for it.
Lately, TCMs Holiday programming leaves alot to be desired. A blind monkee could do better.
I don't know what they pay their programing department, but whatever it is, it's too much.
Anyway, enjoy the Irish movies on March 18th....Happy March 18th everybody.
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TCM had a day long line up of westerns...Thats right westerns.
They are showing The Quite Man at 8:00 PM EST, which at least they got that right....and that is followed by Irish movies until 6:00 AM......That may be OK, if you live in California, but as far as Eastern Standard Time goes, most of these movies will be shown on March 18th.
So in Eastern Standard Time, TCM loaded up March 17th with good old cowboy westerns. Theres alot of Irish movies they could have shown and didn't. ....They are all lined up to show Irish movies early on March 18th, which isn't St Patricks Day......and it leaves me wondering if they actually pay somebody for this kind of silly programming.
So not much Irish movies on St Patricks day....But Happy March 18th.....So when people got out of church and were having lunch, it might have been nice for TCM to show an Irish movie, but instead it was an old western day, per whoever programs this stuff......Now tonight as many are sleeping, they will slip in the Irish movies at 2:00 AM on March 18th.......As the Guiness commercial says...Brilliant !!!
Happy March 18th everybody.
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I never said MacMurray was Robinsons boss...but watch the movie again and you will see Robinson has a boss....one that trys to give Robinson as hard time for not being dressed properly....and Robinson gives his boss a tongue lashing and lectures him about the law and as Robinson walks out slamming the door, Edward G says something like, " Next time I'll wear my tuxedo ".............and thats what I was talking about, ....and this is the sort of thing we would see Eastwood do decades later. .......and we hear Edward G basically call his boss a moron and that he hasn't put the time into law and investigations that hhe has. He considers his boss a guy that had a few bucks and got a diploma, but he got his education at the school of hard knocks and has learned more than his boss ever will..........Yes, there is alot to the Edward G character in this movie........He is certainly Columbo like in his investigation. Even MacMurray states that it was just a matter of time before Edward G would catch them all. ........No, I never said MacMurray was his boss. Of course he isn't. But Robinson does have a boss that he has little respect for.
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They showed him in Rocky and kept it up with him in other movies.
Lets go way back to a movie we don't see enough of. " Of Mice And Men " with Burgess Meredith and Lon Chaney Jr. ..That is a classic that seldom gets shown anywhere at anytime.
On TV we may remember him in some of the best of the Twighlight Zone shows.....or on Batman as The Penguin. He was great as the villian that would not only out smart the Batman but get the entire city to turn against him. He was very funny in that character.
He had alot of movies...but I will mention him in, " In Harms Way ".
I will also mention him in Rocky as a very good actor playing the old gym and boxing manager. His character adds alot to this movie and the sequels.
I will also mention him in Grumpy Old Men.....again his character adds alot to the movie.
So since TCM has shown him in films tonight, Yes...Burgess Meredith is fun to watch and has entertained just about all of us at one time or another.
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I agree that Edward G Robinson is a big reason for why we like this movie.
He is like Peter Falk in COLUMBO you see.....It's not a ' Who Done It '..Just like COLUMBO decades later, we the audience see the murder.....This and the COLUMBOs are ' How Do You Catch Thems '.
We see the murder...We see the dogged Edward G Robinson and his investigation getting closer and closer. It's just a matter of time. The little man in his stomach won't let him rest. His nose tells him somethings still not right. He is in relentless. His being smarter than his boss and telling off his boss is something Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry would copy decades later.
Without Edward G, this would be a nice murder film about the double cross by Stanwick at the end. She is great as the villian, no doubt about it. MacMurray plays the perfect fool suckered in by her. We hear MacMurrays narration through the movie about what a sap he had been.
........But it's Edward G Robinson that turns a nice movie into a classic movie. It is Edward G at his best and he adds alot to this movie with this Columbo like character. ...Or I should say Columbo was like him, since this was much earlier.
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Let me start by saying The Quite Man will be on TCM on St Pattys Day around 8:00 PM. This is very easy to watch. If you've never seen, I highly suggest it for St Patricks Day. ....John Ford throws John Wayne into Ireland a captures the countryside in Color. Barry Fitzgereld is excellent as is Victor McLaglen, Ward Bond...and of course you have Maureen O'Hara and this is the best of the John Wayne/ Maureen O'Hara movies. ...In the background is alot of traditional St Patricks Day music to put you in the spirit. ......So spend a few hours in the Irish countryside and in an Irish Pub with John Ford and John Wayne in THE QUITE MAN. ....The ending is great as the Irish music plays and John Ford shows all the Irish Characters of his film until they get to John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, and it's an ending as grand as a St Patricks Day Parade.
So, The Quite Man would be my # 1 of easy to watch St Patricks Day movies.
Let me come in at # 2 with Yankee Doodle Dandy, and if you have the Colorized version, even better. This was one that Colorized did enhance, and it brings the stage to you in color this way. Even in black and white, it's still great. The story of George M Cohan is of course Irish-American. So you don't get alot of Irish music, that is true. What you do get is Jimmy Cagney as the Irish-American that wrote the World war I song, " Over There ".......Follow Cagney through Cohans life to the end as he is awarded by the President and he dances down the White House steps, proud of all the Irish and American blood thats in him.
At # 3, may I suggest Darby O'Gill and The Little People. I know, it's Walt Disney and at times a little corney. Lepricans and such.....but for a Leprican movie, it is kind of cute......Plus you have the James Bond looking Sean Connery as the young hero of the movie.....In the end as Sean Connery sings " My Dear Old Irish Girl" as he rides off on the wagon with the young female hero, it is indeed a St Patricks Day ending that gives you that Disney movie happy ending feeling and Sean Connery is pretty good in this, right before he did Dr No.
At # 4, if you aren't into Irish movies but yo like westerns, may I suggest Fort Apache. You will get John Ford giving you Henry Fonda and John Wayne in one of the best westerns ever. You also get Shirley Temple.....but you get alot of Irish in this movie from Ward Bond and Victor McLaglen. .....Not a big Irish ending, but it is definatly a movie about a western fort with a heck of alot of Irish soldiers in it.
I would try not to get too heavy with movies such as THE INFORMER...It's very good, but it's a little heavy for St Patricks Day. The same would go for most movies about the IRA and the battles and such.
Maybe # 5 should be GOING MY WAY, which is more about the old Irish priest played by Barry Fitzgereld and it includes " Tura, Lura, Lura "
Also Finnions Rainbow has the great Fred Astair and it includes the female star singing " Glockamora " and other Irish songs. This one keeps it light and is good Holiday entertainment.
Now I know I probaably spelled some names wrong. ...The point is that these are a few of the Irish movies my family has enjoyed over the years. ....I think the main thing is to keep it light and holiday like for one day or a few hours and get in the spirit of jigs and reels.
A short documentary for Irish Americans is John F Kennedy, In his Own Words. The short documentary is all the narration and voice of President John F Kennedy to the film footage they show from his birth up to his funeral. It is done with great dignity and it too will make you proud to American of Irish decent. I like at the end as you hear John F Kennedy talking about returning to the water as you see him and Jackie on their sail boat. Thats a good way to remember them . ...Granted, this isn't on the light side, but it is short and he was the Irish American President.
Again...TCM is on it with THE QUITE MAN....If you only see one St Patrick Day movie, tune in for that one. Perhaps a little corned beef on rye to go with it, thats my favorite...Stay away from the green popcorn.
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I see what you mean, but........during Vietnam it did become tired to see yet another World War II movie......and alot of the World War II movies weren't that good.......Mega star send ups.....Airport 3 type stuff........So it wasn't love this country, love this war, love all wars and war movies...In fact the World War II movies in Vietnam were fighting the wrong war. This is just how I remember it.....People even laughed at Patton....but Patton holds up and is very good and so is this Bridge Too Far......as is Anzio with Peter Faulk.........A few of the World War II movies made during Vietnam are truely in need of a second look. ...and some aren't.
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The link to this may be Richard Attenborough....you kids may remember him from Jurrasic Park.....Other may remember him from The Great Escape, Flight Of The Phoenix ...or Ghandi......
....Perhaps this great talent brought everybody together....He's not an actor in this nor director but I believe he is a producer and his reputation is without question.
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I think it's good but it got lost in the Vietnam Era, in that another war was going on you see. .........After The Longest Day, it became pretty cool to see how many mega stars you can shove into a World War II Movie. Let's include Guns of Navarone and The Great Escape.........By the mid to late 70s theese moviies became tired. .........They added Wall To Wall Sound and such to get audiences......Some of these World War II movies are hard to watch. ...but A Bridge Too Far seems to rise above the crop with Connery, Redford, Hackman, Caan, Gould,.....and Cain who was greart in Zulu.....I think this has Lawrence Olivie and maybe Anthony Hopkins ......Enough great actors to keep you spell bound......but also it seems like good direction...
There are other movies that are flag waving star studded snoozers. A complete waste of talent. This movie doesn't seem to be another one of those. Perhaps a mega-star movie that got lost in the shuffle of mega star movies...A cut above the rest.
Whats your opinion ?
Sometimes a movie uses actors to jig saw puzzle through a movie. These great actors keep us into it....Other times you have a lousy movie with good actors......I feel this movie falls into the good movie with great actors keeping you interested mode. .....This movie seems much better out of the era of movies such as this that fell short. A classic that got lost in the shuffle of movies such as Midaway. Midway is star studded, but it becomes boring, which Midway and those great actors should never be. Midway was a World War II version of Airport..... Bridge Too Far seems to be much more. .....The guy that was the German in Flight Of The Phoenix is in this...and I think Shell from Judgwement At Nuremberg is in it........A very good cast ....Something brought them all together for this....It seems like better than the most of the mega star movies.
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Willie Dynamite, " SUPER PIMP "
This is a CLASSIC movie
As for laughing at it, yes I am. Are you suppose to take this stupid movie serious . Willie The pimp is a riot in his 70s Pimp clothes and Pimp Mobile.....Now they are singing a song called " Willie D " as the female singers and wah wah guitar of the 70s sing his praises. ....Then there is Willie The Pimp telling his girls they aren't 10 dollar whores. He only has a stable of the fine, now bring him some real money.
The one problem with this movie is too much of the social worker. They should have just kept the entire movie about Willie Dynamite. I guess somebody thought they had to put in a social worker angle into this but there is no saving this movie from being a salute to a pimp. I've never seen a salute to a pimp movie, but now I have. Willie Dynamite, Super Pimp. I have no idea how this ernds but they might as well have ended it with Willie D on top as the hero at the end so they could come back with Willi Dynamite II, and Willie Dynamite III.
I know Friday night is the night they show the worst of the worst. Stupid movies that you are suppose to laugh at like High School Confidential and Refer Madness. Add Willie Dynamite to the list of CLASSIC movies.
OK, it just ended and he did get the hero dramatic ending. He goes to court and the courts can't touch him. The DA looks like a fool and even more so when he finds out his social worker girlfriend is in love with Willie The Pimp. Then Willie gets revenge on another pimp, then his mom dies and in the end everybody is crying for Willie including the social worker. The movie ends with him walking away down the street scot free and the hero in the end. The Pimp with a heart of gold. God love a pimp.
This CLASSIC PIMP movie is being followed up with " Sweet Jesus, Precherman ". In the first 3 minutes he has drove a guy into a cement mixer and his car blows up, then watches a guy die after he made his fence electric, then is disguise as pset control person he sprays bug spray on a guy and sets him on fire. Thats alot for the first 2 or 3 minutes of a movie. It's like Vincent Price as Dr Phibes and it's kind of funny in a sick way.
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People I've been compared to
In the mid 70s...Frank Zappa...which isn't a good look
then I grew a beard and I was compared to Charles Manson....that's not a good look either.
Then I shaved the beard and cut my hair short ....One girl said I looked like Paul Newman because of my eyes. ....that was a nice complement but I was no Paul Newman. ...but I wonder if Paul Newman grew long hair and a beard, would he look like Charlie...or if Manson cut shaved and cut his hair, does he have Newmans eyes. ...Not worth thinking about I guess.
In 1985 I went for the Eric Clapton look of the styled hair and the trimmed beard. I even took the magazine cover to tthe hairstylest. It must have worked later I was at a pizza place and still had the magazine and I heard some girls working there saying I looked like the guy on the magazine.
Now in my 50s, a few people think I look like Roy Orbison. ...I don't see it nor does my wife.
Now when I get real grey, I may try to get that Sean Connery short grey hair and trimmed grey beard look going,....unless I look like Gabby Hayes and off will go the beard.
Some people look like Santa Clause all year long. Is that a good look ? I don't think I'ld want to look like St Nick all the time.
Best performance EVER by an actor and actress
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Easily the best performance that never won an OSCAR and perhaps the best performance in movie history is Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in " Gone With The Wind ". ....Frankly, lets look at the 60 years people havve enjoyed this performance. It stays fresh and quality after all these years. ......THis 1939 movie was first shown on TV in 1976 after 37 years making money at the movie theatres. I was working as a 21 year old bus boy at a restaurant that had about 30 waitresses ranging in age from 20s to 30s, 40s and 50s. Most of the waitresses looked pretty good. I heard most of them talking about this movie when it was first shown on TV. They said, " Thats a real man. They don't make men like him anymore ". Yes, the waitresses still like Gable as Rhett 37 years after the movie came out. My guess is women still like Gable as Rhett 60 years after the movie came out and women will still like Gable as Rhett 160 years after the movie came out. .......Vivian Leigh and the lady that played Mammy won Oscars but it's hard to imagine this movie without Gable. The writer of the book said she had Gable in mind as she wrote the book. Now how big is that. The writer sad she had Gable in mind as she wrote the book and Rhett Butler. .....Myself, I don't think I could sit through this movie if it was just Scarlett and Ashley Wilkes. I think we all wait for Gable to show up back in the movie at different parts without him. ......Gable had other good performances, but this was his best.
The best performance to never win an Oscar...easily Gable as Rhett.....Time has proved that.
I went with best performance to never win an Oscar because how do you say best performance ever. Even at that, I may still come back to this one. It's hard to top Gable as Rhett Butler........Let me add that for those who sometimes suggest a Gone With The Wind - Part 2, and think Rhett comes back. No Way. Watch the movie. Rhett grows to hate this marriage and stays in it for the child. " I never saw a man love a child so much ", says Mammy. Once the child dies and Rhett sees his wife in the arms of Ashley one more time, Thats It, He's done. As he says, with the child there was something to stay for, now he just doesn't give a damn. No, Rhett wouldn't come back to the hell hole of Tara. That was her dream and his nightmare. ....Anyway, who would play Gables part in a sequal, it just couldn't be done. Having Rhett come back means he is just a fool, and we know he isn't. He goes on with his life and never comes back, indeed leaving Ashley to Scarlet.
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