[Best and Worst Mothers On Film]

 

"Mildred  Pierce", Joan Crawford for Beat Mom.

"Mommie Dearest", Faye Dunaway playing Joan Crawford for Worst Mom.  If only Christina had the Mildred Pierce character for a mom.

[Kick in the crotch]

5 hours ago, TikiSoo said:

Never heard of that movie but -wow- is fighting supposed to be funny? It suppose it is when there's Three Stooges sound effects. 

That orangutan is named Clyde, but is really a female. 

 

Punches / slaps / hits in movies are made by Foley artist.

 

Hope you don't think Annie has THAT big of a punch. 

 

(bad hair day manifest into anger )

[Hedy Lamarr]

Invention of Spread Spectrum Technology

Lamarr learned that radio-controlled torpedoes, an emerging technology in naval war, could easily be jammed and set off course. She thought of creating a frequency-hopping signal that could not be tracked or jammed. She contacted her friend, composer and pianist George Antheil, to help her develop a device for doing that, and he succeeded by synchronizing a miniaturized player-pianomechanism with radio signalsThey drafted designs for the frequency-hopping system, which they patented

 

 

 

[Kick in the crotch]

4 hours ago, EricJ said:

Like the scene from Alien Nation (1988), where cop James Caan discovers that crotch-kicks don't work on aliens, and alien partner Mandy Patinkin advises him, "I believe the effect you were trying to achieve would be here, under the armpit."

 

[25,000]

18 hours ago, CinemaInternational said:

Top 25 post totals in message board history.... (this was used with the post tracker, which was slightly outdated. Had to check everyone's current post totals to do this)

1. TopBilled 71,628

2. jakeem 57,060

3. DownGoesFrazier/Finance 55,819

4. JakeHolman 50,374

5. LawrenceA 30,217

6. starliteyes 29,842

7. Terrence1 29,315

8. mr6666 27,959

9. MarshaKatz 25,580

10. FredCDobbs 25,502

11. Hibi 25,305

12. Princess of Tap 25,263

13. lavenderblue19 25,120

14. GIPPER 24,784

15. jamesjazzguitar 24,063

16. bansi4 22,990

17. MissGoddess 22,749

18. HollywoodGolightly 21,233

19. darkblue 21,038

20. hamradio 20,741

21. NipkowDisc 17,930

22. Bogie56 17,672

23. KidDabb 16,822

24. Dargo 15,995

25. Film_Fatale 15,982

Dargo...that few postings!? 

I'm stunned! 

[Kick in the crotch]

Just seen this Stanley Steamer commercial, although the kid wasn't kicked, what exactly he do wrong? 

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/IxMN/stanley-steemer-99-cleaning-special-thats-gross-spit-take

 

Guess he won't be doing any Elvis dancing impersonations in the future. 

[25,000]

6 hours ago, Hibi said:

Just realized I'd hit 25,000 posts recently. Champagne for all!

Does it feel good as winning the...

[People have voted to remove Lillian and Dorothy Gish's name from a college theater]

Please those on both sides of the argument....keep politics out.  This thread is heading for the Off Topics forum.

[Predicting the future: films in the 2020s]

Think Godzilla will be alive and kicking during the 2020's

[The Duke is king.]

oh....thought this was a John Wayne thread. 

[People have voted to remove Lillian and Dorothy Gish's name from a college theater]

33 minutes ago, slaytonf said:

Priggishness is a failing not limited to any political philosophy.  And did not originate with the Civil Rights Movement.  Hateful pettiness can be found everywhere.  I notice it a lot here.  One thing lefters have, I notice, is enough patience not to get exasperated with it in others.  The logical fallacy, is to take extreme examples of priggishness and use it (as is often done by conservatives) to delegitimize honest objections to intolerance, bigotry, and racism.  I have long held that the concept of political correctness was developed by racists and bigots to allow them to parade their prejudices as legitimate.

Was Liilian Gish herself a racist?

Well say goodbye to the Lillian Gish Sandwich, it used white bread. 

[The Post an Interesting Pic thread]

16mm

[Those Cartoon Characters You Still Love And Those You Out Grew]

[Those Cartoon Characters You Still Love And Those You Out Grew]

[Those Cartoon Characters You Still Love And Those You Out Grew]

 

 

[People have voted to remove Lillian and Dorothy Gish's name from a college theater]

Out of control, unrelenting, over the top BS political correctness.  Welcome to planet Pop Tart! 

 

[Those Cartoon Characters You Still Love And Those You Out Grew]

2 hours ago, laffite said:

Talk about dropping off the radar. I haven't thought of Droopy for decades. (or should I say Drooping off the radar).

Chris, nice to see you here.

Time for a Droopy reboot starring...

[peter mayhew dead at 74]

3 hours ago, Sepiatone said:

I'll ignore that bit of disrespect and mention I used to kid my wife about CHEWBACCA being the only MEXICAN character in STAR WARS.  After all, didn't Han often refer to him as "Chewie"?  or....

CHUY!      From the "Urban dictionary"....

Chuy,

(pronounced Chew-wee)

Chuy is actually a nickname for people with the name Jesus, (J is pronounced as an H.)

The nickname is most commonly used Mexicans and Naturalized Mexican Americans. It is commonly used by Mexicans and 1st generation Mexican Americans. It is less commonly used by 2nd generation and later Mexican-Americans and Americans of Mexican descent.

 Sepiatone

From "Armageddon" (1998)

A.J..... No. If anybody's anybody, I'm Han and you're Chewbacca.
Oscar.... Chewie! Have you even seen Star Wars?

[Those Cartoon Characters You Still Love And Those You Out Grew]

4 hours ago, Sepiatone said:

I pretty much said the same thing about SOUTH PARK, animation-wise.  But the show is so damned funny one has a tendency to overlook it. 

When my kid sister was little, she used to like THIS cartoon, but....

the sound of it would wake me up on Saturday morning, and in my half-sleep state, it sounded as if someone was saying, "Rape Ape!"      I would then wonder..., "What in the HELL is that kid watching?"  

Sepiatone

 

The morning news about Harvey Weinstein. 

[peter mayhew dead at 74]

Was about to create a thread, just saw his death announcement on NBC4

RIP

[Those Cartoon Characters You Still Love And Those You Out Grew]

53 minutes ago, EricJ said:

Although we didn't think much of it at the time, seems Wacky Races does hold an affectionate place in our cultural subconscious:  

(Story goes, game-show producers originally hired Hanna-Barbera to create a "Kids' Saturday-morning gameshow", with kids betting on the winner...But the networks thought that would be a gateway-drug to gambling, so the plotless interchangeable cartoons were shown by themselves, and no real interest on who won or lost in the first place.)

 

Need to tie this suggestion  to the PREDICTING THE FUTURE: FILMS IN THE 2020S thread.  That haven't been brought to life yet.

[Great One-Liners]

"Beany and Cecil - The Phantom of the Horse Opera" (1962)   refusing to give up Beany.

 

Phantom....Over my dead body

Cecil....That can be arranged.

[Predicting the future: films in the 2020s]

1 hour ago, Gershwin fan said:

I think the superhero movies will come to an end at least (hopefully). 

And there's...

 

[Predicting the future: films in the 2020s]

2 minutes ago, Gershwin fan said:

He's joking that she looks masculine like a transgender. 

And "she" won't require that much testosterone. 

[Predicting the future: films in the 2020s]

55 minutes ago, Gershwin fan said:

I think the superhero movies will come to an end at least (hopefully). 

Hope lost.

Flash Standalone Movie Pushes Start Date, Eyes 2021 Release

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/flash-standalone-movie-release-date-1202980356/