WhyaDuck
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What did you want to have happen in your hotel in the first 25 minutes ???
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I try not to look at things as old or new. Gone With The Wind, Wizard Of Oz, Citizen Kane were filmed a few decades ago but can they be remade better, no. ....I had a chance last week to see the new True Grit DVD on which I passed, telling the wife that I don't ever care to see it and I think the John Wayne movie with it's actors, scenery and music was perfect. Later she told me she didn't finish the new DVD either. .....Of course the new versions of The Pink Panther and such fall short of the originals. .....The old version of Of Mice and Men is far better than the new one thanks to Burgess Merideth and Lon Chaney Jr. ......
So they can come up with Blue Ray....3D.....so what ?...Is that it ?.....Then the BASIC question may be : Why watch the new movies ???
TCM does show these movies without commercials and has yet to get into the strange and stupid computer pop ups that walk through movies on other channels. It is strange to be watching Sound Of Music and see Shrek walk across the screen saying he is coming on next.
So in answer to why watch older movies....Why not ? ......also The Godfather is now 4 decades old so is it no longer a good movie ?......Saving Private Ryan is now a decade old, should we put it in mothballs ? ....are we to only watch the newest latest thing, good or bad, because it is now the rage and filmed in 3D, which I might add should have a warning label...3D video games can cause epileptic reactions and 3D movies probably can cause the same problem in some people.
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and when this was all over, was there a horsehead in Zanucks bed ???
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Oliver Hardy, Burl Ives, Odd Job, Goodfellas Big Paulie, Belushi, Candy, Brando in Apacolipse Now
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Thats alot of shoes
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It's awful. TCM is WRONG.
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I just don't get Ben Stiller. To me, he's not funny. Some of the actors around him are funny, but I don't think he is. I think his movies would be funnier if only he wasn't in them.
Now Jim Carrey, Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy are funny.
But comedy is relative, as we all get a load of on holidays.
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A Chump At Oxford...Abe Lincoln In Illinois...Arise My Love...The Bank Dick...Boom Town...Broadway Melody of 1940...Brother Orchid...Dr.Ehrlich's Magic Bullet...Edison The Man...Fantasia...The Fighting 69th...The Grapes Of Wrath...The Great Dictator...The Great McGinty...Kitty Foyle...Knute Rockne, All American...His Girl Friday...Hudson Bay...The Mortal Storm...My Little Chickadee...North West Mounted Police...The Philadelphia Story...Pinocchio...Pride And Predjudice...Rebecca...The Return Of Frank James...The Road To Singapore...Santa Fe Trail...The Shop Around The Corner...Strike Up The Band...They Ride By Night...The Thief Of Bagdad...Tin Pan Alley...The Westerner...Young Tom Edison...
Quigleys Moviehouse Poll of top box office stars for 1940 : 1. Mickey Rooney, 2. Spencer Tracy,
3. Clark Gable, 4. Gene Autry, 5. Tyrone Power, 6. Jamed Cagney, 7. Bing Crosby, 8. Wallace Beery, 9. Bette Davis, 10. Judy Garland
Peoples Choice, Box Office Hits : 1. Fantasia, 2. Pinoccio, 3. Boom Town, 4. Rebecca (tie) 4. Santa Fe Trail
Movie Song of 1940 : When You Wish Upon A Star ( Pinoccio )
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Another one like this is the Gable movie last week. Stalins soldiers chasing him in car chase. Drives car into sea wearing stolen USSR uniform. A second later in water is just in his swim suit. That was pretty funny...but it's a good movie. Gable risks life to rescue wife. A Happy Ending.
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I think you are right. Trying to stay out of the War, Hitler was a taboo subject.
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That would be sad, because it means we can only have baby food. I notice TV hasn't shown Schindlers List much.
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Yes, Austria, and it made you think, just like me. Plus, I have seen mob nationalism in the USA and in most nations. After this I watched the news, and the anti mosque nationalism. Of course Iran is total nationalism and no human rights. Things in this movie continue today. Stewart is the bad liberal because he refuses to play follow the leader. This movie makes you think....and I like that.
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It made me think of " Judgement At Nuremburg ". Yes, many Germans WERE to blame. ....No Happy Ending ? of course not....In this movie, people die... 1940 Germany was more bleak than Chaplins comedy. I was impressed how the actors gave of themselves to this important movie. Probably the best movie alot of people have never seen.
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Movies like, " Some Like It Hot ", get shown almost every week. Some movies get beat to death. I was not alive in 1940, so " Mortal Storm " was a new movie to me. Jimmy Stewart, Robert Young, Frank Morgan, Ward Bond, Robert Stack ! I thought it was better than 1940, " The Great Dictator ". It captured mob rule and the nationalist elimination of human rights. Since nations and flags still try to eliminate free speach, this movie has a message for today as well. Hoping to see more of the less shown movies, and less of the monthly standards.
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To me, the 3 men on the boat MAKE the Original. You can't remake that...Roy, Richard and Robert Shaw were perfect, and can't be topped.
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This shows there are good movies that haven't been shown a million times
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I did like Quickdraw McGraw as El Kabong. His guitar was his Kabonger.
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and I will disagree. I thought there were alot of good movies in the 90s beside Titanic. More than the 80s. Schindlers List to Grumpy Old Men. I liked them.
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I like Gump, and Shawshank. Gary Sinise, Sally Field, James Whitmore, Bob Gunton all very good supporting performances. I didn't notice how good Sally Field was the first viewing. Mom saying good-bye to son going to Vietnam a touching scene. She ages and dies, loving her son. She's great.
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SNL had a good skit on Orson Wells size. His last words are really Roast Beef. Just sounds like Rosebud. On phone making food order.
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Under Rated : Last Of The Mohicans
Over Rated : The English Patient
Under Rated : Carlitos Way
Eyes Wide Shut made no sense except it explains why it's hard to get a doctors appointment.
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When Kane whispers ' Rosebud', he is ALONE
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Johnny Guitar, a real stupid movie. Almost as bad as Berserk. Both Crawford duds are on TCM alot.
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My only urge is to change channels on movies shown way too much
Hats Off To Whoever Fixed Message Board
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This thing went on the fritz a few years back and stayed that way for too long, for too many.
I did see a guest programmer with Osbourne telling him her job at TCM and how her goal was to get the TCM internet fixed and updated. Looks like the lady did it. Heres to you.