slappy3500
-
Posts
1,050 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Never
Posts posted by slappy3500
-
-
This is the message board of a large corperate entity. WHY is it so hard to log into and why does it keep eating our messages!!!!??? EVERY time I try to post a long, thoughtful message this idiot board decides that I'm a guest even though my log-on is CLEARLY VISABLE in the upper right-hand corner! I refuse to post any more replies of any length 'til they get a new service. 5 YEARS ago even the amature sites had better message boards!!!!
-
Just lost a very long reply to this topic!! I'm so angry that I REFUSE to EVER again post anything of any length here till they fix it !!! I have NEVER seen a professional message board with so many problems!
-
I think that politics can be discussed here provided one of 2 criteria is present. 1.) We discuss politics in the movies.2.) We discuss movies that have an effect on politics or other issues such as race, religion,ect keeping in mind that we should keep our remarks civil,rational,and on topic. Taking your advice I checked back to your original post. Your remark about D.D. was that "I can't believe she voted for Bush". It wasn't really relevent to DD or the award. You were just letting people know that YOU don't like Bush. You also called him a "spendthrift"... once again YOUR opinion. I for one, think it was a insignificant post of one guy stating his off-topic opinion and should have been hardly noticed. However your tenacious defense and the equally ebulant attacks have created a ridiculous, personal, and unproductive (if highly entertaining) debate. No one is gonna win this one folks. It's gonna be who can stand to let the "other guy" have the last word.
-
So let me get this right...If Hitler had developed the bomb first and put a nuke warhead on his v-2 rockets it would be good for the Earth to be destroyed? The Gort robots should have been designed to be much more flexible in dealing with races who have JUST discovered nuclear power, and who are struggling to find ways to keep from blowing THEMSELVES up. I don't think a little patience in dealing with young civilizations would result in an immediate threat to races thousands of years more advanced. We have had nukes for almost 60 years and are DECADES away from even getting to Mars, let alone another star.
-
posting problems check.
-
Woulda been nice if they had consulted the parties involved before turning over the power of total destruction for EVERY INTELLIGENT RACE IN THE UNIVERSE!
-
I often find myself wondering what station I am watching intead of enjoying the program I managed to select(all on my own too). then a logo pops up and I am comforted. "Oh.That's right: it's the station run by idiots who insist on annoying and alienating its viewers by running a promo for itself constantly." I keep expecting AMC to relace their logo with a blurb at the bottom of the screen... "AMC: THE CHANNEL THAT DOESN'T IRRITATE YOU BY HAVING A LOGO IN THE CORNER!"
-
I catagorically deny that I am Leo. I'm still doing time on the Rogan rap.
-
Brak, are you ready for your close-up?
-
Since Patricia Neal has been featured recently, I thought I'd bring up a topic that has long interested me. Does anyone else feel that Klaatu in "Day the Earth Stood Still" was overly brutal with his message that Earth not put any nukes into space "or this Earth of yours will become a burned-out cinder"? I got the distinct impression that until Prof. Barnhart suggested the power failure, Klaatu was considering even more "drastic measures." Imagine that some South Seas island had just invented fire arms. The UN sends a representative to them who threatens that is they menace anyone, their island will be nuked by an impersonal,implacable agency which will reduce their land to "a burned-out cinder." Sorta like using a .44 magnum to keep order in a nursery! Love the film but I'm really put off by Klaatu's attitude.
-
Anyone else notice that in "Torchy plays with Dynamite"(1939) the guy who played "Flathead Steve", the detective helping Jane Wyman, was the elevator operator who kept flooring Thelma Ritter's hung-over "Alma" the maid in "Pillow Talk"(1959)? Wasn't this guy EVER young?
-
Leo why are you letting Estee Lauder off the hook? I heard she once voted for Wendell Wilkie!!! Now just watch...some oaf will accuse me of being Leo!
-
Arrghhh! Ok I admit it!!! Doggone you eddie!!! Yes , overcome with homosexual guilt as I am, I freely admit I am Rogan! If only the Church hadn't de-frocked me!!! Curses on you all and I hope TCM has Adam Sandler as its next star of the month!!
-
I don't think TCM plays it but a nifty little B&W film from 1957 is "Helldrivers". It stars Stanley Baker, but Patrick McGoohan ("Secret Agent") is the heavy. In the cast are David McCallum ("Man From U.N.C.L.E.) and a young Sean Connery AKA as "Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" to our Japanese friends. The movie is pretty good from just as a drama, but there is ,of course, the extra thrill of seeing 3 famous future spies before they got their "license to kill". For them females there is also Sean Connery in his early 20's. CONTOL yourselves ladies...:0
-
Mea Culpa Mongo. I DID know about the Oscars, but I have so much trivia floating thru my head (Only PART of it is about movies) that I forgot, was reminded, and forgot again. In 6 months I'll forget again:) I DO know that Newman was nominated & didn't win. Was it Peck in "Mockingbird"? Don't really keep much track of Oscars.
-
Can't wait to see ol' Bob's intro to "Hud" tonight. (Even if he DOES walk toward the screen:)) It's my favorite Newman film (Edges out "The Hustler" IMO) and is in my personal TOP 10. It also features wonderful performances by Patricia Neal (Best Sup. Actress),Brandon DeWilde, and Melvyn Douglas. The direction by Martin Ritt is top notch, as is the screenplay, based on the novel "Horseman Pass By" by Larry McMurtry who also wrote "The Last Picture Show" and "Terms of Endirement" (As well as their Sequels) and "the Lonesome Dove". If you have never seen this film, you are in for a real feast if you watch tonight. Also check out Whit Bissel as the Agriculture Dept. guy.
-
GWTW I say being mixed in a drum full of glass is TOO GOOD for 'em!
-
Joe I take your point. I know she had problems, but having good reasons to be a miserable person doesn't make her personality any more likeable...just understandable. IMO. I'm not trying to convince anyone not to like her.
-
I'm not a Judy fan. The only films of hers that I like are "A Star is Born" and "The Wizard of OZ. If anyone has heard the tapes she dictated in anticipation of a biography one can discern her basic attitude. I know that she was drunk and bitter and full of self-pity, white she talked on the recorder, but I think they still hold a germ of truth about her character. First that since she considered herself a world treasure ( I won't argue the point-she was loved by millions) the world had a responsibilty to take care of her when her life got out of control. (As opposed to "mind your own business" when she was going good). Second , I think she had no clue that she was blessed in many ways (fame, wealth, adulation) that us ordinary folks will never be. When she described her present troubles and problems she burst into a particuarly vitriolic tone of voice and screeched "I SANG!!!... I SANG!!!" She apparently didn't realize that billions of others have had to bust their tails to earn a living making modest wages doing things that they didn't particularly feel like doing. Can you imagine how ridiculous it would sound for a teacher to moan after messing up their life with booze, drugs, and poor judgement to rant : "I TAUGHT! I TAUGHT!"? Folks I realize that this sounds harsh but it's just my personal opinion. I have always been irritated to see people feel sorry for the rich and famous. I once remember seeing a woman commenting on "Princess Di's tragic life." (And this was BEFORE she died) The woman who said this was broke from medical treatments for cancer. But "poor Di a beautiful girl (hey, she had ALREADY won the jackpot!)who was forced from a life of privledge into fame, power,extreme wealth, adoration by millions, and then finds to her horror that she STILL doesn't have a PERFECT day EVERY day! "The horror! The Horror!"
-
"From Here to Eternity", "The Joker is Wild", and "Pal Joey". Honorable mention "The Detective" and "Tony Rome".
-
"One night of prayin' and six nights of fun. The odds against going to heaven six to one."
-
Ah yes the never-ending logo... an abhorent practice whose inventor should be thrown into a cement mixer filled with glass. Why take a shot a TCM , the LEAST offender? Notice on some stations the ONLY time the logo comes off is during the COMMERCIALS. That's right! Defile GWTW but the Hemmoroid medicine ad must come thru pristine and uncluttered! The only thing worse is the excerable practice of increasing the volume during the commercials. This is IMPOSSIBLE to stop. Howard Hughes owned one of the TV stations in Las Vegas while he was staying in one of his hotels. He often picked the movie himself. But he HATED the practice of turning up the volume of ads. He would call the station and have them turn it back to the sane level as the show. But it never worked for long. Within a few weeks the station's sales dept would sneak the volume back up . If Howard Hughes couldn't stop this crap, what chance do WE have?
-
I think you mean Marie Dressler saying, in response to people losing their job to automation, "That's one thing YOU'LL never have to worry about my dear."
-
Back in my day we called it " a pig in a poke". Of course you must remember in "my day" we called the pages of the Sears catalogue "toilet paper".
Movies with the Greatest Cast
in Your Favorites
Posted
I'll try again since it's a short one.