Fedya
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But for what it's worth, public education gives everybody an opportunity and has built this country from the beginning.
Actually, one of the big impetuses for government education was the attempt to force Irish Catholic immigrants out of parochial schools.
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Dangerous Dan McFoo (1939). Tex Avery-directed Warner Bros. pre-Looney Tunes cartoon about a character in love with a girl at a saloon, and another character who sees the girl (and imagines her as photographic Bette Davis) challenging Dan for the girl.
This short is jarring, having been made in the dark ages of animation, before characters like Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, and Woody Woodpecker appeared and made manic, violent cartoon characters the norm. Dan McFoo is a little dog-like character, speaking with Elmer Fudd's voice (they were voiced by the same actor; Mel Blanc provided the other guy's voice).
It's not very good, but an interesting artifact. 5/10
I watched it off the Dodge City DVD that's part of one of the Errol Flynn box sets.
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The movie would have been more interesting if the Nazis caught the Von Trapps at the border.
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I took calculus in high school. I tested out of Calc I and II in college, and got put into Multivariable Calculus.
Unfortunately the professor was terrible.
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A Fine Pair (1968).
Claudia Cardinale just watched the Joseph Cotten movie Jack of Diamonds, so she decides to fly to America and pester old acquaintance Rock Hudson. She claims she stole some jewels in Austria and he should help her put them back so that she won't be arrested for a crime.
It's all a ruse for a tedious bunch of twists, turns, and plot holes. One plot point, for example, calls for a temperature sensitive alarm system that requires Hudson to heat the place up to 194 degrees. Why wouldn't the alarm be going off under normal conditions? This is just an excuse to get Cardinale down to just her bra (Hudson keeps his clothes on). The movie goes on like this.
An awful mess. 3/10. The print TCM showed doesn't even have redeeming cinematography. That scene of Cardinale in just her undies? It was filmed through an orange filter to simulate heat. Why do that if you're going to show eye candy?
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I won't even mention Ruby Keeler.
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Have you even seen Roller Boogie? Or Lambada?
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Two ways to make a film about Ireland: 1) make a film about the actual country of Ireland; 2) use every cliche and stereotype of stage Irishness, or "Oirishness" as this is sometimes called.
It was a revelation for me when I saw I See a Dark Stranger. How refreshing to see a film not have Hollywood's doe-eyed view of the Southern Irish!
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Dorothy Dandridge was the best actress that year.Here's an unpopular opinion......I think one of the most overrated actresses of all time is Grace Kelly. Besides her ridiculous diction (which I presume she had to learn to overcome her Philly accent), I still think the Academy was out of their minds to vote for her over Judy Garland in A Star is Born.
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The cat from Klute was adopted by Rob Stephenson from The Best Years of Our Lives.
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To quote the theme to one of the Bond movies,A variation on the Norman Bates line------"A man's best friend is himself".
Nobody does it better
Makes me feel sad for the rest
Nobody does it half as good as me
Baby I'm the best.
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.I don't think Walter's character could rightly be called an "Ubermensch"...well, at least not in the classic Yiddish sense, anyway
Nietzsche was Yiddish?
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My point was that I Want to Live! sets itself up as being opposed to capital punishment, but its heavy-handed propaganda causes it to fail in that mission.
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Actually, it's that I find the movie so didactic and one-sided in its heavy-handed propaganda that by the time they get to the gas chamber scenes I just want the **** to die already.Interesting, Fedya.
I'll guess your reasons for saying this stem from the thought that because Barbara Graham as portrayed by Susan Hayward is shown as a despicable person, you believe those in favor of capital punishment would then feel justified in their opinion after a viewing of this film.
(...am I right?)
That, and the movie really tries to turn Graham into an innocent victim.
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I Want to Live! is one of the great arguments in favor of capital punishment ever put on screen. And I say that as somebody who opposes capital punishment.
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Sepiatone:
I like to suggest that we should try the similar approach with alcohol education: teach the kids to drink responsibly, since they're going to drink anyway. Needless to say, the response is usually absolute horror.
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I'd actually say "brilliant." Possibly one of the 10 best of the 1940s.
I'd say vastly overrated, like most of Chaplin's work.
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What's health but a second-hand emotion?
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I've never understood the desire for deep fried victuals. Or peanut butter and banana sandwiches.
And I don't understand the desire for Judy Garland's singing.
(And you don't need to insert carriage returns manually.)
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I mean come on.. Love Story left out?
I was sick last night. I don't need an emetic like Love Story.
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The Lana Turner version is one of the great comedies of all time.Imitation of Life (1934)
Far superior to the God awful Lana Turner version and who can resist a film whose final
line is: "I want my quack-quack."
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If you've seen Outward Bound, you can guess how the writers resolved everything.I watched enough episodes of "Lost" to finally come to the conclusion that the title must have been referring to the writers. Never did see how it all ended, and really didn't care at some point.
TOXIC OSCAR SHOCK FLOP! MOONLIT BEATS TRALALA LAND!
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