darkblue
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Yeah, but walking away from an accident? LOL. Hey what happened to the person in the other car? I dont think they even showed the other person!! Funny.
Some movies don't have to make a lot of sense. This is one where suspending your disbelief is best. The more thought you give it, the less impressive it gets.
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I'm just curious - I haven't been able to find all the "Gary Cooper bashing on these boards". Did someone say they didn't care for Gary Cooper somewhere?
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Aah, don't listen to that sourpuss, Lawrence.
They've been making Christmas horror movies since the 70's - 40 plus years is plenty long enough to be "traditional". There's middle-aged people who've been watching such movies their entire lives.
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Just as an aside, what sort of wine does the TCM Wine Club recommend for drinking while watching DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES or THE LOST WEEKEND?
Night Train is always good.
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HAPPY FESTIVUS for the rest of us!
Have you seen the pole, Kooger?
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Actually, dark, you almost sound like you like Coop - whether you find his films boring or not.
Have you really seen that many films that I had on the list? Do you really not like, for example, Sergeant York?
Haven't seen it since I was about 14 years old. Yes, as I recall it wasn't bad. I understand he won the best actor Oscar for that.
Maybe I'll watch that one again sometime.
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So Why All The Gary Cooper Bashing On These Boards?
Hadn't noticed. I really liked him in 'High Noon'. He's quite interesting to watch in 'The Fountainhead' - so surly there.
But generally, I find his movies boring - like I do most movies of his era.
Sorry for "bashing" like that. If it makes a difference, I can't think of very many actors from his time that I like much better.
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Any discussion of what the word "great" means is as pointless and vacuous as a discussion of what "classic" means. To challenge someone's complimenting post wherein these adjectives have been used is just needlessly argumentative. It's, in my estimation, trolling. Ignoring such cheap, non-nutritious bait is recommended. That's what works for me, anyway.
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Both Roy and songwriting partner Joe Melson were noted for writing many "hit" songs "against the grain", meaning most songs up until then were written following what were considered strict, yet "unwritten" laws of song construction.
True. Roy very much followed his own dramatic instincts when composing. His structures were unusual, prone to sudden changes in melody and even time signatures. Songs such as 'In Dreams', 'Goodnight', and 'Ride Away' are excellent examples of his unique approach to writing. 'The Bolero' was his inspiration for how 'Running Scared' was structured.
Some of his songs were almost operatic. The most perfect example of this operatic-pop sensibility, combined with his unusual structuring of verses, might be this song:
(They Call You) Gigolette
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I couldn't care less how often TCM shows 'Charade'. Or anything else for that matter.
On average, I get 6-10 movies a month here that I care about seeing.
If 'Charade' is one of the other 350 or so movies in any given month, it's just another movie I don't watch anyway.
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I'd rather be "outside the box".
You just have to wait until the tune reaches the "pop".
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Why do I have this idea that for years you had a "man" ponytail? But it worked, because you weren't bald.
(Nothing more geeky -looking than a bald guy with a pony tail.)
Pony tail for some years, yes. Now I do the scrunch instead - which I hear is bad for the hair, gonna make me bald or something.
Whatever. The main thing to me is how many hundreds - if not thousands - of dollars I've saved from not needing a barber for the past 25 years or so. My hair extends about a third of the way down my back, and every once in a while I cut an inch from the ends myself.
Dirty-blonde hair looks good long, I think. Women seem to think so as well.
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I've walked out of the barbershop more than a few times over the years in which I felt much the same way about the barber after what he had just done to me.
You must have a difficult shape to cut around.
I've always looked incredibly good no matter which barber did the do.
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Well, if you don't care for the pessimism of a message like this, then why not go back to the studio era films in which the White Hat wins? There are plenty of them on TCM, and a hell of a lot of them are damn good, too, with more emotionally uplifting endings.
I didn't say I didn't care for it. I just said I'd like to see a sequel where Bardem gets sliced and diced.
That hairdo of his infuriates me. I so much want to kill him for it.
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But then that would refute the message of the film and, I assume, the novel upon which it is based. The good guys are no longer in control, as once seemed to be the case. The white hat is not always going to win anymore and it's a darker, more frightening world because of it.
That's the same message as just about every other horror movie of the past 20 years.
So, let's have one where the world wins one for a change. A sequel to this would be a great place to notch up a mark for the other side in the constant flow of losing battles.
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The physical presence of Mitchum's Max Cady in the original is just spell binding.
Mitchum scared me more than DeNiro. He was controlled and formidable without excessive expression. I've known scary men like that.
DeNiro was too maggoty. The smartness of Cady, played to perfection by Mitchum, felt less believable in DeNiro's Cady.
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That would be fine, since the IMDB handled that by saying that if you chose to post in The Soapbox, that if you couldn't handle the heat, stay out of the kitchen. And if someone posted volatile stuff in The Sandbox, it was deleted and the poster was told to post it in The Soapbox. The Sandbox was for crybabies.
So, the Sandbox was only for telling jokes? And the Soapbox was for fighting?
Sounds like a pretty weird setup. I'd be a rebel and place my humour in the Soapbox - keep those mods busy moving it out.
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To me Sinatra did some fine work but the number of films where he did that is limited. In so many of them his acting is so-so.
Frank didn't like to exert himself.
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Well, I'm with you on that. That whole scene with the car accident, and Chigurh buying a shirt or something from those two teenage boys, seems anti-climactic after all that had gone before. I'd rather have seen him just walk off down the road into who knows what future? (Hopefully one where he got caught and tried for all his murders.)
I'd like to see a sequel where Tommy Lee actually does something useful, like killing the monster. Painfully would be good.
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almost ALL Coen Brother movies contain copious amounts of cliches and stereotypes, and regardless the locates the films are set in.
Yep. Tarantino is another who uses lots of references and stereotypes.
Doesn't hurt the movies one bit - makes them hella-entertaining!
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Darkblue is just upset he doesn't live in Texas, lol.
I'm not upset. The movie was okay. A different kind of horror movie and that's always good. I just wouldn't give it the Oscar.
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Just forget it. I don't want an argument.
I liked the movie, you didn't. I gave my reasons, you gave yours. Neither of us will convince the other that they're wrong, so what's the point?
Let's move on.
Umm.......okay. Still not sure what you meant about my answer, but I'll not press you for a further explanation of your statement. As a newbie here, you may not be attuned to having to explain any cryptic comments you make to other members. I'll let it go this time.
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That's the answer I expected.
Why would you expect that particular answer?
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What films do you think should have won in those years?
Don't know, don't care. But if the industry really thinks those were the best of their respective years, I find it difficult to credit its criteria - whatever it may be.
DECEMBER SCHEDULE IS UP.
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And when they do watch, they probably watch all the seasonal offerings that are all over the dial (remember when that was a phrase that applied to watching tv?)