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  1. 29 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:

    And that will be confusing as people(by theory) have individual perspectives, but sadly it seems too many people predetermine a movie's quality based on which "word of mouth" they're exposed to, or which movie critics they allow to make up their minds for them.

    It's either that, check what people have to say here, or shell out $$$ on a gamble. No?

  2. 1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said:

    WHAT IS THAT STUFF?

    Some kind of Grease Paint Remover

    Image result for Vintage Grease Paint Remover

    Image result for Vintage Grease Paint Remover

    If its in an old can they probably re-used it over and over and in time (you know one of the freaks and geeks jobs was to collect all the rags and sort of wring them out and dump it in a can for recycling, (they just didn't get paid for just sitting around looking geeky, ask Dargo. Carnys got to pitch in setting it all up taking it all down, etc., etc.) people were much better at it back then, squeezing every dime out of everything, now we got landfills) it (the cream) turns black with all the mix of colors and dirt, hell its a carny not a Broadway play....

    😎

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    Seven Beauties (1975) - two Italian soldiers get sent to the Russian Front and have to fight in cardboard shoes, they go AWOL when their troop train gets bombed by the allies and try to make their way back home to Italy. The observe the Nazi's machine gunning down whole families of Jews into mass graves and realize that are just as guilty since Italy is part of the Axis. They get captured and sent to a German concentration/work camp. All the above is juxtaposed with Pasqualino Settebellezze tragic-comedic recounting of his life story and how he down he gets. His femme fatale is his own sister who gets him started on the downward spiral.

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  4. EVEN IF YOU ALREADY HATE HIM, OR DON'T, WHAT DID WOODY ALLEN DO SO WRONG?

    Simple answer, he out lived the zeitgeist of his era. It was a time of "if it feels good do it" if it doesn't physically hurt anybody else. It must have floated their boats. You got to remember we live in America and we are guaranteed life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (within the law).  

    We do have too many pontificate-ers bloviating about whats wrong, what right, what's not PC what is PC, it gets kind of ridiculous. You want to yell S*T*F*U!

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  5. 6 hours ago, LawrenceA said:

    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted to maintain its eligibility rules for the Oscars amid calls for a crackdown on streaming services from some prominent members. On Tuesday night, the board of governors decided to keep the current requirements, which state that a feature-length film must run for one-week in an L.A. County theater to qualify for best picture.

    Way to make themselves eventually irrelevant. 

  6. Personally I wouldn't pay $$$ to see a biopic of Judy Garland, other than The Wizard Of Oz I'm not a fan. Neither would I see the one about Mr. Rodgers.

    My kiddie guy was Captain Kangaroo and I wound't pay $$$ to see a biopic about him. 😃

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  7. There are a lot of films that were destroyed forever in fires.

    There was a film I saw as a kid called The Chartroose Caboose its a film for kids and railfans.

    Chartroose Caboose Poster

    Trivia - Due to a fire in one of Universal Studio's film vaults that destroyed both the negative and prints of this film, it is considered a lost film. (what else was destroyed?)

    Though the original Panavision negative and prints were believed lost in a Universal vault fire, there exists a black and white copy of the film which is in the hands of a collector. It was taken from a worn 16mm film print. There is also a 2 minute color Panavision wide-screen trailer in existence, the only known color reference material for this "lost" film.

    also

    There are a lot of cheap grindhouse films that had their ten-twelve day runs and are still sitting in storage in some film vault someplace, a lot of these titles are in limbo until somebody pays the storage bill or until they are hauled off to a landfill to make more rooms on the shelves.

  8. 2 hours ago, speedracer5 said:

    As someone who doesn't smoke, has never smoked a day in my life, and thinks that cigarettes are abhorrent in every manner...

    I think that the smoking looks really hot in the context of the old black and white movies.  Yes, you'd probably instantly develop emphysema walking into the middle of a party in classic film, and I know I'd be sick after 1 highball of straight booze, but damn if it doesn't look cool.

    In real life, if I lived in that classic Hollywood world with all the smoking, I'd be either avoiding everyone or holding  a mask over my face and/or deeply regretting my attendance at the party.  If Errol were there however... I'd feel conflicted.  Maybe if he just points his cigarette and smoke downwind from me.  

    So you live vicariously through movies.

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