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I have seven Who songs in my iTunes collection, as I am slowly building my knowledge of their work. All of them are pre-Tommy, as I slowly move through the highlights of their career more or less chronologically. So far, the songs I have are:
Out in the Streets
My Generation
I Can't Explain
Happy Jack
Armenia, City in the Sky
Odorono
Glittering GirlInteresting stuff, all.
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I didn't take the course. What would be the arguments against it being considered a musical? I can't fathom any reason someone would think it isn't one.
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This sounds like a fun category, and there are probably zillions of good examples. But it's going to be tougher for me to think of something off the top of my head than being asked "what's your favorite Humphrey Bogart movie?" I'm probably almost going to have to be watching a movie and encounter an example than be able to just pull an example out of my memory banks. But if I do think of something, I'll contribute!
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The fate of R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket. Didn't see that one coming!
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Even as recently as Napoleon Dynamite, Napoleon getting bullied in the halls of his high school by the jock students while the rest of the student body and faculty walk by completely oblivious or uncaring, is played entirely for comic effect. I think awareness of the seriousness of the issue has finally reached the point that you will never again see bullying used as a throwaway comic scene in an American film.
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a made-for-TV movie adaptation of a novel by Mitch Albom of Tuesdays with Morrie fame, starring Jon Voight, Ellen Burstyn, Jeff Daniels and Michael Imperioli. It originally aired on ABC in 2004 and has never aired on TCM.
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19 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Are you talking about that scene when they are all trapped outside in a blizzard, so John Wayne guts a cow and has all the kids crawl into the carcass with him overnight? I didn't expect that, either. And then Wayne "wears" the cow carcass like a cloak for the rest of the movie, and whenever the kids ask him anything, he just says, "Moo." Weird flick. You could tell those writers were a bunch of hippies zonked out on goofballs.
I suspect this is being said tongue in cheek (much like your avatar!), but if it's true, now THAT's a John Wayne movie I want to see!
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13 hours ago, Bethluvsfilms said:
In a similar vein to THE SIXTH SENSE, I was still caught off guard by the twist in THE OTHERS (SPOILERS):
We're led to believe that the mother (Nicole Kidman) and her two kids are being haunted by ghosts in their home....when in fact it's revealed THEY are 'the others' haunting the house and the home's new owners. She had killed her children and then herself and convinced herself it had all been a dream....it hadn't been, at all.
Good one! I also saw this in the theaters, and while it was very moody and atmospheric, I was annoyed with it for most of the movie. I thought the pace was really dragging, and there certainly didn't seem to be any discernible plot advancing in any direction. And then this reveal at the end, like with The Sixth Sense, completely blew my mind. At first, it's so out of left field, I was like what the heck? Then it slowly dawned on me these were the actual inhabitants of the house, and it was Kidman and her children who were the "others". Brilliant!
I don't think I've seen the movie but the one time, so I've forgotten a lot of it. There is a visit from the husband in the middle of the movie that certainly hinted that things weren't as they seemed. I forget now if he was killed in war and if that was what prompted Kidman's terrible action, or exactly what his role in the whole thing was.
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Those songs are pretty catchy, aren't they? "Marian, Madame Librarian", or whatever the official title is, is a particular favorite of mine. And the Beatles dug "Til There Was You" so much, they did a cover of it!
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I guess spoiler alerts should go without saying in a thread with this title, but ... I mean, have a heart, rayban! I tried to talk subtly around the ending of The Sixth Sense, but you just gave away the shocking ending to a movie I haven't seen!
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No, I agree! In fact, I thought I said that in your quote of me.
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On 6/23/2018 at 7:53 PM, misswonderly3 said:
Sounds like a remake of a 1971 film of the same name, starring Clint Eastwood as the wounded soldier. I've never seen it, but I've always kind of wanted to.
Didn't know there was a remake.
I assume Colin Farrell plays the Union soldier. I like this actor, however, he's Irish. (I like Irish people too.) I don't know why they do this, I guess it has something to do with the "Hey, they can act, they can put on an American (or fill in whatever country) accent, so why not?" school of thinking. But honestly, there are so many good American actors who could have played that part, I don't know why they get a non-American to play such a quintessentially American role. ( And I'll say it again, I do like Colin Farrell, it's not that...)
According to imdb, the character of McBurney, played by Ferrell, is an Irish immigrant in the novel, of which there were plenty fighting for the North, and so his accent is correct. Ferrell is perfectly capable of an American accent - see Crazy Heart, for example - and volunteered to do so, but it was Sofia Coppola who wanted him to use his natural brogue, yet another element that would make his character alien to the school's denizens. It's actually Clint Eastwood, who wasn't going to be bothered with learning an Irish accent, who was technically incorrect!
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On 6/23/2018 at 7:29 PM, NickAndNora34 said:
THE BEGUILED (2017) Score: 2.5/5
Starring Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Colin Farrell, Elle Fanning, Oona Laurence, Angourie Rice, Addison Riecke, & Emma Howard.
This takes place during the Civil War (in the South, more specifically). A young girl named Amy (Oona Laurence) is hunting for edible mushrooms in the forest, when she stumbles upon a wounded Union soldier. Amy offers to lead the soldier back to her school for young ladies (wherein she and a few other girls reside due to its being safer than their actual homes), where the headmistress (Kidman) can heal him. He agrees, and is taken back to the school and greeted with disdain (due to his being a Union soldier). The remainder of the film deals with the relationships between the girls, headmistress, teacher, and the Union soldier and the difficulties that come with harboring a soldier. I won't spoil it for anyone who might want to watch it.
One thing I liked, was that young actress, Oona Laurence, first appeared on my radar back in 2012 when she was the lead role in Broadway's "Matilda the Musical," and it's been interesting to see her in film (Disney's Pete Dragon, Southpaw, and Bad Moms).
Just in case anyone doesn't know, there is a 1971 film with the same title and plot starring Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page and Elizabeth Hartman. The writer/director Sofia Coppola has emphatically stated that this film is not a remake of that one; rather both films are adaptations of a novel. However, whatever governing body decides these things (WGA?) made the new film cite both the novel and the screenplay of the first film as source material.
Coppola chose to cut a key supporting character, a female slave who works at the school and who appears in both the novel and the first film. Coppola did this because she felt the nature of the story would prevent her from being able to give the very important topic of slavery the focus it deserves; rather, she chose to focus on these women in their isolation and what happens after a male interloper suddenly enters their lives. "Young girls watch my films, and this was not the depiction of an African-American character I would want to show them," she told the Guardian. For similar reasons, she cast white actress Kiersten Dunst in a role that was biracial in the novel. Though she received some accusations of "whitewashing" her film by eliminating the only black character and altering the half-black character, she made these decisions for the reasons stated above.
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On 6/17/2018 at 7:12 PM, jakeem said:
The box office question of the weekend is how Disney manipulated this weekend’s box office for A Wrinkle in Time and why. This was not a natural occurrence. The trades avoided the issue. Deadline touted it as a win. Did Disney just spend $1.8m to reach the $100m domestic mark?
I generally look at the top 20 grossing films or so each week, and I gotta say there's definitely something fishy about the sudden surge for Wrinkle, which had been completely done making money for several weeks already and suddenly gets almost another $2 million in one weekend without any increase in theater count or special re-release promo. I feel pretty strongly this indeed was some studio manipulation just to get that nice round figure.
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Ha ha I tried to hit play on this! I didn't understand at first it was just a screenshot. I'm no computer genius. Slayonf, as it turns out, did NOT share the entire movie, probably illegally, with the rest of us.
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24 minutes ago, TomJH said:
I still occasionally bang myself over the head when I reflect back upon the time in 1999 when I decided to see The Blair Witch Project in a theatre over The Sixth Sense. A shakey hand held camera and dripping nostrils over, what turned out to be, a highly effective ghost drama with a great surprise ending. Not knowing what was coming on the big screen with The Sixth Sense must have been something.
Well, I saw Blair Witch in the theater, too! Both movies were massive hits, but obviously I'm in the camp that Sixth Sense is the one that really stands up. We have Blair Witch to blame for creating an entire subgenre, the "found footage" movie, examples of which became increasingly ridiculous over the next 20 years ("found footage" started having edits and scene changes and multiple perpsectives and so on to the point where if the narrative didn't remind you it was "found footage", you wouldn't know you weren't watching a conventional movie). In 1999, we were still Internet naive enough that some people I actually knew went into it thinking it was a documentary! Like Grizzly Man. I'm waiting for the book to be written about possibly the greatest con game in movie history. This thing cost like $80,000 (and looks like it) and grossed over $200 million!
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10 hours ago, TomJH said:
The plot twists in the last ten minutes of Witness for the Prosecution.
Some say they saw it coming but not me: The surprise revelation at the end of The Sixth Sense.
Yeah, that twist reveal has become something of a cliche in the intervening years, but The Sixth Sense absolutely blew me away. I saw it in the theater, and found the kid to be really good and some of the scenes with the ghosts to be quite unnerving, but the film really wasn't hitting me on a visceral level. I kept getting annoyed with Bruce Willis going off to talk to his wife, who never seemed to be listening to him or even making eye contact with him. "This bit is really unnecessary." I thought. "They could have cut all these scenes and just stuck with him and the kid and the ghosts." And then the last couple of minutes of the movie ... wow. Needless say, I was rethinking everything I'd seen in an entirely different context for the next several days. That doesn't happen often.
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How do people even know when a new month's schedule is up? I just sort of dutifully wait around these threads until someone posts a link, but I have no idea how the people posting know when it's available. Do you just enter search parameters by date day after day until finally it appears? It certainly doesn't seem to be anything TCM promotes on this website anywhere until the actual month in question begins, or maybe the final week of the previous month, you'll start to see some links on the homepage to some of the next month's themes.
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7 hours ago, CaveGirl said:
I love Judy but you are right, enough is enough, Lydecker.
If I had my druthers, I would have a month celebrating Less Than Stars Month and would put David Wayne at the top of the list. Was there any actor more versatile at being a second banana than he? Personally in "The Tender Trap" I would definitely have picked him over Frank Sinatra. He just had a giant career and improved every movie he was ever in, whether comedy or drama. If I know he is in the cast, I always watch the film, any film. Even ended up playing Blanche's father in "The Golden Girls" and was great in that too and think of all those tv episodes he was in for shows like "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" like "One More Mile to Go".
Addendum: Just checked and David has 130 credits, of movies and tv.
Thanks, TB!David Wayne is great in so many things: Adam's Rib, How to Marry a Millionaire, The Andromeda Strain, Portrait of Jennie, The Three Faces of Eve and the rare 1951 version of M. I'd definitely like to see him at least get a SUTS day.
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8 minutes ago, calvinnme said:
So it looks like both Edward G. Robinson and Myrna Loy have been SOTM exactly once each, in 1994 and 1995 respectively, unless they have been SOTM since the end of 2015. I would say it was time to honor them again.
Anybody who's on my list in the very first post of this thread has been SOTM THREE times, and that includes Myrna Loy. I'm eager to get somewhere and don't feel like looking up the specific months right now, but it has been three times for her. The most recent was when she won the vote between her and Bette Davis among Backlot members ... also discussed on this thread ... and that probably has been since 2015. Backlot hasn't been around that long.
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1 hour ago, Sepiatone said:
ACH! No sooner do I stir this pot I gotta go....
only enough time to mention LAPD's LT. TRAGG( Ray Collins) who spent seven seasons or so on PERRY MASON always arresting the WRONG PERSON for some murder.
Sepiatone
You think at some point they would have busted him down to parking meter detail!
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15 hours ago, karlofffan said:
Spoiler Alert: The narrator getting killed in LA Confidential. Never seen that before or since. Unless you count Orson Welles in Don't Start the Revolution without Me.
I was actually less surprised by that scene than the one in which the top-billed actor in the movie is killed, a guy who is now persona non grata in the film industry.
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Those are all interesting comments. I mean, it's not like Myrna Loy gets dramatically less air time on TCM than Bette Davis. But maybe a good portion of her films tend to be more "fun" than a lot of Davis' heavy dramas, and that might have contributed to her win.
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3 hours ago, allthumbs said:
i guess i'll put my 2 cents in for my never selected SOTM by pushing for Richard Widmark.
also, i'm amazed that Gary Cooper hasn't been selected three times as SOTM.
Amazingly, Cooper has only been SOTM once. He is getting a SUTS day this year in August, having beaten out Paul Newman in a vote by Backlot members.
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That fact was mentioned in the New York Times piece on him, in which it was claimed that he publicly apologized for it many times.