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3 hours ago, TheCid said:
I just wonder if HBOMax have left it alone, there would not have been all this controversy.
No doubt that's true, but I'm sure they were already featuring in advertising and promotion a material as a representative film of the "TCM" part of the package well before George Floyd.
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3 hours ago, TheCid said:
The point is if we start requiring disclaimers and wraparounds for one issue, we need to have them for all issues. Just as we need them for God's Little Acre, Tobacco Road and a multitude of others.
I don't know we HAVE to have them. I see a lot of people saying this on here, but I don't understand the logic. Enough of the populace seems to want one for Gone With the Wind right now, because it's getting a lot of light on it, for multiple reasons. It doesn't logically follow that we MUST then do them for all movies anyone might potentially find offensive.
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Well, I was a sucker for the first round of this game, so ...
1001 It's probably The Kid. Not sure I've ever seen it all the way through.
1003 Caged? If so, yes.
1004 Must be a Lassie movie, but I don't know which one. I don't think I've ever watched any of them in their entirety except the first one.
1005 In a Lonely Place? I've seen it if it is.
1007 The Agony and the Ecstasy? Watched less than half an hour of it once on TCM, but never the whole thing.
1008 Fat City. You were just talking about this one on another thread. I've seen it.
1009 Zelig. Yes.
1010 The Russia House, I think was the name of it. I've seen it, whatever the title.
The others I don't know.
So, only three for sure I've seen, but maybe more.
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Yes, he definitely brought back the "striking fear into the hearts of criminals" thing, but I also liked that his Batman was still a human being. From Frank Miller on, the "grim and gritty" thing really got out of control there for a long time. Although it should probably be noted that Miller owed a lot to O'Neil, who was his editor on both Daredevil and Batman.
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Well, "dutiful" instead of cheerful, perhaps. And yeah, I forgot about Big Sam, who went off to dig for the army and never really came back, I guess, other than to save Scarlet's life at a most apropos moment.
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On 6/13/2020 at 6:21 AM, TikiSoo said:
Does anyone ever talk about the idea several of Tara's slaves stay living there after they're freed? Mitchell's intention was to show everyone's confusion over the fall of the previous society and Scarlett taking responsibility for them as her family. Scarlett, her sisters, Melanie all worked the fields for all to eat.
I've mentioned this a couple of times over the years. If that was Mitchell's intention, I don't know that it really comes across in the movie. No one seems confused about anything. The former slaves just keep on cheerfully working at their old jobs, as if they couldn't possibly even consider any different kind of life. Do they get paid now? There's certainly not any mention of it. Scarlet does give Polk her father's watch.
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On 6/12/2020 at 3:28 PM, jakeem said:Oh no, #DennyONeil! For my money, the best #Batman writer ever. Also that great #GreenLantern/#GreenArrow run, now more relevant than ever. So much else.
I was reading a lot about O'Neil in a book I have about the history of American comics today. Interesting cat, for sure. He practically singlehandedly moved DC into a more modern era when Marvel was threatening to wipe them out of existence.
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I couldn't stay awake for the Krupa movie. Does he play himself? Or, if not, who plays him?
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I wasn't that absorbed by this film, but the final scene is compelling. What an amazing career John Huston had, from The Maltese Falcon in 1941 to The Dead in 1987, I think? And easily a dozen great films in between.
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51 minutes ago, Allhallowsday said:
"GTHLENN! Don't leave me!"
Is this a reference to the way June Allyson talks? I think I have a good idea for a drinking game. Take a shot every time she says "Hahhhhhnestly" in this film. You'll be unconscious two thirds of the way into it.
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51 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
it wouldn't have added much to the cost to supply the screen writer(s) with the necessary knowledge so that the songs would be in a chronological \ logical order. E.g. hey, Joe, move song ABC to scene 38 and song DEF to scene 25!
Boy, if I could get paid to do that, I think I would be really good at it. Like the music continuity editor.
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I think it's pretty standard for most music bios to pay little to no attention to chronology of an artist's songs. Don't watch Rocketman if this sort of thing bothers you.
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I had to double check the post times to make sure this wasn't a revived thread from six years ago, like I occasionally do a double take when I see Fred C. Dobbs suddenly apparently posting on something. Welcome back, Lawrence!
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There are now two threads running on the exact same topic. Jakeem has made the exact same Elmer Fudd post in both of them.
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Okay, well, it's not a point I feel like getting into an argument about. I'm not crazy about the things you're talking about either, but this is America, where Noam Chomsky once said we have two political parties "the big business party and the other big business party", so it's doubtful anyone is ever going to be able to tell a giant corporation what they can or can't do in this country.
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Some context on the thought process behind the move:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/media/gone-with-the-wind-hbo-max/index.html
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Sorry, I have no idea how to erase that non-reply I just accidentally posted.
I have zero idea how I'm waffling.
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I rarely understand anyone's replies to my posts. We can all still find the precise times a movie is going to start by looking online. That's all I'm saying. People are expressing what feels like a lot of anger that this information is not presented on their TV screen anymore which is why I used the term hostility. But I can still go look on my computer.
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2 hours ago, slaytonf said:
Arrrrrgh! Curse TCM! I just was finishing off The Five Pennies (1959), only the second Danny Kaye movie I ever liked, and my recording stopped just before the end! If they don't want to go to the trouble of telling their audience when the movies start and stop, the least they could to is let the cable and satellite companies that carry their channel know so people who record on their DVRs will actually get the movie!
We can all still find all the exact times online, right? I'm a little confused at all the hostility here.
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LornaHansonForbes had a post about Rambling Rose that's quoted at the top of this page.
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8 hours ago, thomasterryjr said:
I recently had a college kid in my residence. I think you can call her a millennial. I had a vinyl record album, more specifically, a vinyl picture disc album on my desk. She thought it was a Frisbee and started handling it like a Frisbee. I quickly took it away from her fearing she would break it. I played the vinyl album for her on a turntable and she was amazed and confused. This was the first time she had ever seen a vinyl record album played in her life.
That's a pretty extraordinary story, especially since I keep reading vinyl sales have surpassed CDs in the past year or two. But I guess it's not college students buying vinyl records. I assume she knows what a CD is.
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On 6/8/2020 at 8:06 AM, LornaHansonForbes said:
DID ANY OF YOU ALSO SEE THIS PIECE OF TRASH? AM I REMMEBERING WRONG???
I rented the movie probably less than a year after it came out, primarily to watch Laura Dern, whom I had quite the crush on after seeing her in Smooth Talk, Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart. I don't know that I ever watched it again after that one viewing, so my memory is pretty spotty. Although the two scenes you reference I definitely remember, and it probably says something that they're the only scenes I remember almost 30 years later. I would think it would be almost impossible to release with an R rating today. People were just less concerned about such things in that era. But I feel there must have been more to that movie than those two scenes, I would think. I recall that I liked the costumes, makeup, hairstyles, cinematography and sets quite a bit.
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I don't know that I particularly care to watch yet another film version of this story I've seen at least twice already, but there's no way in heck it describe it as "terrible-looking" Looks the most visually interesting version yet by a mile.
You don't hate it because the gardener character is black, do you? Because, well, these are TCM message boards, after all, and a lot of posters on here probably will.
Have you seen these 10 classic films..?
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Okay, I picked the wrong Chaplin film, and I couldn't identify Mickey Rooney when maybe he actually was a kid instead of a 30-year-old playing a teenager. I've seen parts of both those films on TCM but never the whole movies. Looks like the last three are the only ones I've seen in their entirety. I tended to skew modern on the old lists, too. I was in an extremely heavy movie-watching phase from the late '70s on up to about 2000.