rohanaka
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I'm very pleased that TCM has been showing some of the older Disney live-action films,
Staying out of all the side issues on this, I only want to add that I wish THE DISNEY CHANNEL would show more of their own classic stuff. Most of the things they show are very disappointing on so many levels that I won't bother to go into them here. I don't know why they don't air more of their classics and less of the ridiculous teen stuff. Maybe they should start their own separate channel "Disney Classic Movies"--they have such a wealth of film history to draw from--They could even get old Disney movie actors (Kurt Russell/Jodie Foster/etc to do special features or commentaries on what it was like to be in those earlier films (Ok you Disney Execs--you owe me big bucks some day if you take my suggestion.) :-) Maybe it has something to do with ownership rights and all--I don't know all the inside stories to their vast "empire"... but I will say that save just a few of their early morning kiddie shows, we don't watch much of anything else on their channel to speak of.
Ok--stepping down from the old soap box...please carry on.
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Ashford Castle.
Bronxgirl, I just want you to know that I am becoming a You Tube junkie--(albeit a vicarious one)
I blame you. :-)
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I think there are some great suggestions on here....The Love Bug is the main choice for good reason--it's hilarious and even the older kids will enjoy it--if for no other reason than to make fun of the clothes and cars that have changed so drastically since it was made. Also like The Apple Dumpling Gang (great slapstick and plenty of laughs) and Babe is a wonderful choice as well. Any of these would be good because they don't get a lot of play on regular tv and they probably are not on most kids "seen it before" list either. Another fun choice is the original FREAKY FRIDAY with Jodie Foster. Hope you find a film that works for you! Best Wishes.
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Burning a DVD just sound so awful!! :-) Again--another technophobic moment for me!! Very nice of you to offer--maybe I can find it on VHS or something at the library. Will look around--my list of things I want to see is growing every day.
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always maintained a ladylike stance with everyone in front of her
Wish a few celebrity ladies that we have around now days would take a lesson or two from sweet little Mellie! :-)
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If that idea doesn't work, send in Sully and Mike from the movie "Monsters Inc" to set him straight. The new monster by-laws say that "scaring kids is out...making them laugh is in" because as was discovered in that film, a kid's laughter generates way more electrical power than screaming ever did, so it is a much more efficient fuel source. And that's good for the entire Monster community. In these tough economic times, even the monsters need to pull together to find new alternative fuel sources and conserve energy.
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like to see him do Brando
I've never seen the Fugitive Kind, but will take your word on it because I think he would do GREAT with Brando....( I can picture him doing the classic "STELLA!! line for sure) Maybe he should open up a place on his site where he can take requests!
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HA!!! Love the photo of the cute little desperado!! That must be "RWP...the toddler years!" :-)
Haven't seen the new film you posted--I agree the cast sounds good.
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and Jerry "The Beave" Mathers asa little boy who witnesses a murder. Beaver is so cute, he's still really little and even though he doesn't get to say much but just look scared, he's very
sweet and so "typically boy". He was such a cutie when he was little...I will end my comments about him there... :-)
Miss G, this sounds like something I would like to see someday. I am kind of a 'crimeshow junkie"--but don't like too violent or too much of a "formula" where it all gets rapped up too quickly--I like a few twists and turns in the plot. And who could resist the BEAVE?? I noticed it's not on TCM's schedule at this time...was it just on and I missed it or did you watch it elsewhere?
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Natalie Wood was just beautiful
"See the pretty girl in that mirror there--Who could that attractive girl be?" :-)
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The Omega Man ( I had such a crush on Charleton Heston when I was about 12..I eventually got over it...I think) :-)
Ben Hur or Planet of the Apes
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Notorious
New Word: edify
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I agree...The Invisible Man and King Kong are classics that never go out of style no matter how often they get remade or retold.I have never been fortunate enough to see Metropolis. But I hope someday I will. Just the clips I have seen of it are abolutely amazing considering the time it was made.
We have an old VHS copy of Mighty Joe Young. Our kids have always preferred the original over the remake. (So do mom and dad) I always thought that sort of animation would require someone with absolute concentration and patience. But I guess it just depends on how you look at it. I found an interview with Ray Harryhausen when I Googled him--just out of curiosity.He seemed to thrive on his work. I can't say I am a HUGE fan or anything, but I do admire his skill and the way he developed his abilities over the years. And when I was a kid...the 7th Voyage of Sinbad was just the coolest! :-)
This is an excerpt from the interview I found from Animation World Magazine called "A Chat With Ray Harryhausen" :
The Business Of Animating
Ray talked about a trip he had made a few years ago, when he'd visited Will Vinton's studios in Portland, Oregon, and also met with two paleontologists who had originally been inspired by his dinosaur films. He talked about joining them for a dig and the amount of patience needed for that type of work, which led us to talking about the commonly held view that animators need an unusual amount of patience.
Ray: A lot of people thought my work was very tedious, and it can be if you look at it from that point of view, but I never looked upon it as tedious.
Ruth: People come into the studio and the first thing they always say is, "Oh, you must be so patient," and I think, there are so many jobs in this world where you're working on a tiny part of a whole, animation is just one of them, and what they really mean is, "I couldn't be bothered to do it myself."
Ray: They don't know the joy of seeing the film come back and what you had in your mind is on film.
Ruth: The only thing I find tedious is something with no character, like making a plane fly around in the air, but otherwise it would never occur to me that it was.
Ray: No, that's the same for me. I did find parts tedious, when I had to do things because they had to bridge something. I was very limited in what I could do with flying saucers, because they're just a metal disc. I had to try and put character in as if they were intelligently guided. Did you ever see that, Earth vs. The Flying Saucers? We destroyed Washington DC...
In fact, Ray saw the live-action shoot as more demanding of patience:
Ray: That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people. My characters always did exactly what I told them to do...
If you want to read more go to:
http://www.awn.com/mag/issue4.11/4.11pages/whiterharryhausen6.php3
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I think there was one on there from Uncle Buck...but I did not stop to watch it. I was afraid to keep watching because I'd have been there all night. And I have never watched much of anything on You Tube--and now I'm afraid to go back because I might get hooked! :-) Some of his impressions are better than others. (His Tom Cruise and Nicholson still need work--at least on the one I saw from A Few Good Men) But I agree-he's got a future! At least he knows he's got TWO fans anyway! :-)
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#02 Hey Mitchum! Get off my foot--and I mean right NOW!
(The bottom of the picture is so dark, I can only see one foot--so if you see two...just use your imagination) :-)
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don't forget Jack Carson He sure was determined to get that thing sold! Whatta dope! I don't know if he had a future as a playwrite--but his days as a cop were not looking too long :-) I never knew what the actor's name was until now...but I've seen him in other films--he is hilarious in this one. :-)
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a grand comedy with a corpse
Capuchin--I got to thinking about some of the other posts on here as I was watching AAOL again--last night. It strikes me as being even funnier because through the entire movie you can only really imagine what dear Mr. Hoskins looks like.(That sweet old Methodist) :-) You never really see the body until Teddy drags it down stairs and it's so dark you can only make out the outline. In fact--I realized, you never get to look into the window seat at all until long after both occupants have been disposed of. So your own imagination is one of the key factors in the film.
PS--hope you are feeling well today. :-)
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I agree--that color line goes back and forth there maybe for a while in the gray area--You sort of feel sorry for Macy's character getting stuck working for his father in law and all--but I don't have too much compassion for him very for very long. He used his wife (without her knowledge or permission) to try and rip the old man off, he exposed her to danger that ultimately ends her life,(although I don't think he really intended for that to happen). And think about how he had a chance to do the right thing when sees how it's affecting Scotty--of course by then everything was out of hand and had gotten turned into a blood bath--but he didn't know it. He could have at least tried. To me, he was every inch a black hat guy. The only difference between him and the two "thugs" ( I agree Stomare was VERY scary) is they were just more honest about being bad guys.
PS--I LOVE the Closer! (She spends a lot of time eating too--but it never seems to affect her in the slightest! (though I guess she has been trying to cut back some since last season) Wouldn't it be great to see Brenda Lee and Marge as partners!! Margie could bring them in and Brenda Lee could get them to confess. And we could spend the whole time listening to them go back and forth saying "Ya Hon, you betcha" and "Thank Yeew!" :-)
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Peter Lorre
I don't think I ever fully appreciated how good he is in this movie unitl I watched it again last night.
PS--the first time I ever saw this film I was probably about 12 years old--way back before VCR's or DVD's etc...I actually thought Raymond Massey WAS Boris Karloff! :-)
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Ok--this guy just has way too much time on his hands!! I found your post in lookalikes and watched the 12 Angry Men one...he did great! But then I kept fiddling around watching some of the others--never did come across Harvey. But he did a great job on Jurassic Park--he does a good Jeff Goldblum---but his Richard Attenborough was terrific! The best one I saw though was evidently one of his early ones...The Princess Bride. He was almost like Wallace Shawn's long lost son or something! He has him down pat! (He even looks like him with his facial expressions and such) I think the Fargo one was the best...but this one rates a close second. :-) What a funny guy! I finally had to stop watching because if I don't sign off of here, I may never get up for church in the morning! I'm an hour behind the time that posts on here, but 1 am is late enough for me!
Here's the Princess Bride one for anyone who cares--I am lousy at links--some day I will have to figure out how to do it. Hope it works.
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I just watched Arsenic and Old Lace tonight. I was talking to some folks over on another thread about comedies with corpses in them and this was the first film I thought of. I have always loved this movie, and it's been a long while since I saw it last so I really enjoyed it.
AAOL is probably one of my most favorite Cary Grant films. He spends most of the entire movie running around acting crazy and more or less having a nervous breakdown. Meanwhile most of the "crazy" people are acting as if everything is perfectly normal. (Ok--maybe Teddy is a little kooky sometimes...but even he is acting more laid back and "on his rocker" than Cary Grant.) I love when Mortimer tells his aunts, "There's a body in the window seat" thinking Teddy had killed someone, only to have the aunts reply, "We know" and then they go on to say "He drank some wine with poison in it" as calmly as you please. Then later Aunt Martha gives her secret recipe--so sweetly--like she was telling him the ingredients in fruit punch. Then later on he's scolding them..."It's not a nice thing to do...this is developing into a very bad habit!" They just murdered a bunch of guys and he's scolding them as if they'd been spending too much time out playing bingo or something. This is probably one of his only calm moments in the whole movie! :-)
There are so many funny one-liners in this film, I don't even know where to begin to pick a favorite.("Niagra Falls...well let it!" and "Insanity runs in my family...it practically gallops!") Even the poor cab driver gets a good line now and then. When Mortimer tells him..."I'm not a Brewster, I'm the son of a sea cook" the cab driver says "And I'm not a cab driver, I'm a coffee pot!"
One of the things that got me the most this time was Peter Lorre. I had forgotten how terrific he was in this movie. Very funny. Pathetic, creepy, and still not entirely a bad sort of guy all together.
I will try not wait so long to watch this one again as I did the last time. I can always use a good laugh. And besides that...I hear "Happy Dale" is beautiful this time of year! :-)
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Hi Laffite! Well...my first french lesson! It's probably best for me to learn it like this--one or two little words at a time...my old brain probably couldn't handle too much all at once! :-) I used to have more skill in picking up on foreign languages--I had two years of high school Spanish--and a semester in college--but that was so long ago....I think Ponce de Leon was still out there looking around Florida for some old fountain or something (pero no estoy segura) so the lingo may not be the same now as when I first learned it. :-)
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Oh Bronxgirl!! I am laughing so much right now, I may wake up the neighbors!! (and I have an acre wide yard around my house!) That guy was right on the money! (Do you think that was his REAL belly?? "I'm carrying kind of heavy load here!") :-) I would never have imagined anyone would have the time or inclination to do something like that!! Too funny.
"Sir...you have no call to get snippy with me!!" Ha! The neighbors may be calling the police on me at any moment! :-)!
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Actually as far as I know it's a "Kathy Original". :-) It was the first thing I thought when I read what you wrote about asking him to "stand up"! It could be a movie reference....but it if is, it must just be one of those gems trapped in my subconscious rattling around with all the other rocks. :-) Good night little Robert William Pedro--wherever you are!
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The next sound you hear will be a cry of despair from somewhere in Missouri:
"AAAAAHHHH I'm sitting here watching You Tube and I can't get up!! " :-)