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The Arctic Monkeys - very cool, Gay Dee. That dream thing is really interesting. I'm trying to remember if I've ever had a dream about the TCM message boards...maybe. Lately I've been having trouble remembering my dreams. Anyway, thanks for the vid ! This song is played to the end credits of a film I saw recently: Everybody Wants Some. I think the Van Halen number is also played, but I like The Cars better than V. H. The lyrical content of both tunes is quite apt for this movie.

Can we talk about new movies in this thread? I just watched a really recent film, it was showing in first-run cinemas a few months ago, and I just rented it on DVD. Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some. Damn, this thing was fun. Anyone who's a fan of Dazed and Confused will probably think so too. Everybody Wants Some is like a sequel to the earlier film. Well, not a "sequel" in the usual sense- it's got entirely different characters and setting. But of all Linklater's work that followed Dazed and Confused, this one's the most like it. I think one critic called E.W. S. its "spiritual sequel". Good way to put it. Like Dazed and Confused, this latest offering from Linklater features a group of young people hanging around and having fun, making friends, flirting,(and all that goes with it), and - by today's poe-faced standards- generally misbehaving. It's 1980, and a group of young men are getting ready for the first day of classes at a nameless college. Their way of getting ready is to get stoned, drunk, listen to music from an impressive collection of records (anyone remember those milk cartons they were stored in?), hit the local clubs looking for chicks, philosophize (especially while stoned and listening to Pink Floyd), and not least, practice baseball. The guys are at college on baseball scholarships, and they take it pretty seriously. But like almost all Richard Linklater movies, plot is the film's least important element. It's really just about these young guys starting a new phase in their lives, and having as much fun as possible before school begins. In this way it's the opposite of Dazed and Confused , which takes place the last day of high school. Why am I devoting so much time and attention to what many would regard as a pretty lightweight movie? Because I love its shameless celebration of innocent hedonism. In 1980, nobody worried about 6 guys riding around in a car, ogling the campus girls, good-naturedly insulting each other, and downing pitchers of beer (not while in the car, I hasten to add...). It reminded me a little of Animal House, revisited 32 years later. It's kind of a "bro" movie; yet I, who am definitely not a bro, wholeheartedly enjoyed it. Maybe some of this has to do with the fact that I was about the same age as the film's characters in 1980, when Everybody Wants Some is set. I can't help but wallow a little in nostalgia, because Linklater gets it so right: the music, the clothes, the way people talked. Just as he did with Dazed and Confused. I recommend Everybody Wants Some for those who like to just relax and sometimes have a bit of fun watching a film. It does not pretend to offer any great insights, but it's smart and funny and refreshingly politically incorrect, as people in 1980 were. A very entertaining 117 minutes.

Right, the show that was the inspiration for the American sit com "Sanford and Son".

It is a little-known fact that the "fog" in Fog Over Frisco is caused by Bette's flatulence.

This deserves some kind of special status in the LornaHansonForbes quotes Hall of Fame.

I love the way, when things go wrong for poor old Chris (which they do so many times) the tune appears on the soundtrack in a distorted form, suddenly it's in a minor key and all eerie sounding.

\Whaat ?! How can you says this ?! Dan Duryea doesn't play his characters too well, he plays them just right. Perfectly. He's one of those actors I always love watching. Including his extremely nasty slimy Johnny Prince character in S.S.

Mwa ha ha ha !

DGF, you are sadly mistaken. You and Mr. Maltin should get together and be forced to write one of those "compare and contrast" essays high school English teachers are so fond of assigning. If the two of you didn't end up deciding S.S.was the better film, you'd get a D.

Good movie, and Eddie just makes it even better. My favourite scene is the one in which poor desperate Claire Trevor begs for a drink, but Eddie (aka Johnny Rocco) will only give her one on condition that she sing one of her old nightclub songs. Claire hasn't sung for a while, and is somewhat out-of-voice these days. She's nervous and confused: "What? Without any accompaniment?" but she sings the song. ("Moanin' Low" - there's a kind of nobility to the way she does this.) When she's done, she goes to Johnny for her drink, but he refuses to give it to her. "But Johnny, you promised !" she exclaims. "Yeah, but you were rotten.", says Johnny. I love it !

Yes, yes, yes. I was going to post about this here, I was planning to compare the two films and mention how Leonard Maltin actually rates The Woman in the Window higher than Scarlet Street. Really ?? Come on, Leonard, watch these two back to back and you'll see that the latter movie is Great, whereas the former is just good.

Come on, slayton, it's called a "running gag". Lots of movies have them, and the whole point is to make the same joke again and again. Besides, he is a clean old man.

Thanks, Dargo. Glad you didn't give any spoilants.

I have to do a Lorna: SCARLET STREET ! One of my favourites ! I LOVE this movie ! Thank you, Fritz Lang ! This film deserves all the exclamation points in this post and then some. However, I'm not going to write about it on this thread. Maybe on "I Just Watched".

Seems odd on a thread about the desire for TCM to show Beatles films that the recent airing of A Hard Day's Night was only mentioned in passing. Maybe everyone feels so much has been said about the film already, there's not much left to talk about. Probably that's so. Still, I like A Hard Day's Night so much that I can't resist posting a few comments about it. I find this movie a delight from start to finish. It completely captures the joy and excitement of the Beatles and their music in the early days, when they were just becoming the phenomenon that was to rock the world for over a decade. There's a simplicity, an innocence about it that I find irresistible. The music alone would qualify A Hard Day's Night as a classic film (meaning, one that will last). But beyond the great songs and the pleasure of watching the boys' perform them, the "story", the "fab"/ funny dialogue, and the quirky bit characters all add to the fun. Some people are bothered by the "witty" dialogue, which they find self-conscious and dated. Doesn't bother me at all, I enjoy experiencing Richard Lester's conception of what was up-to-date and clever in Fab London in 1964. I love the way the boys keep escaping and running about, especially of course Ringo. And two non-Beatles characters who deserve special mention, Paul's clean grandfather (Wilfrid Brambell) , and the long-suffering producer (Vincent Spinetti), never fail to make me laugh. A Hard Day's Night is an exuberant celebration of music, youth, and irreverance. It deserves its status as one of the great movies of all time.

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Hey, in this case it's the Bette-hater making the extreme comments ! james, you cut me to the quick. And here I always fondly believed I was a moderate, soft-spoken presence on these boards. Or at least "nice". (Oh, maybe I don't want to be regarded as "nice". But not "nasty" either...)

Thanks, Lawrence, but no, it was not you in the quote I'm talking about. It was a poster I am not familiar with. I don't like to name them in case I get in trouble for doing so - some kind of "privacy" thing, gossiping on the boards about other posters, I don't know.... I'm just curious to know what they quoted, and from which thread - - a thread which, whatever it was, seems to no longer exist.

As for this much-loathed (that's "loathed", not "loved" ) "smirk" Bette's accused of making every time she speaks, I've never noticed it. I think the Bette-hater is exaggerating.

I think it just happened again. I just logged in and saw that someone had quoted me. I clicked on it to see what they were quoting, and from which thread (which I pretty much always do when someone's quoted me), only to get a message stating "You are not permitted to view this thread." ?? Whaaat? Now I have no idea what they were quoting me about, nor even what thread it was. Must have been deleted pretty quick, though. anyone have any idea what the latest thread to be deleted is? I wonder if I'll get in trouble for even asking.

It's clear that laffite is talking about an actor who never made much money and was on the "Actors in Need" fundraising list. The poor actor was never in a blockbuster, which explains why he had no money, and was therefore poor.

She puts dead rats on my dinner plate.

Tenderly removed, no doubt, by Marian.

I've got a mental image of some red neck southern man with Ann Sothern's head. "Better keep your head..."

SHANE, SHANE, SHANE ! A remake of the classic Western which attempts to cash in on the nostalgic revival of disco. In this version, Shane enters a dance contest, unafraid to challenge the cruel but highly skilled disco dance king, who has been hired by the owner of a chain of discotheques. The disco magnate wants to drive all the smaller dance clubs out of business and run the whole dance crazy town himself. Our hero selects a tune by Shirley and Company to battle the cruel (but highly skilled) disco dance king (who bears an odd resemblance to John Travolta.) Will Shane win the disco dance contest and save the small dance club owners from bankruptcy? Catch this remake and find out. "Son, the first thing you have to learn about disco dancing is to get off your horse." "Damn ! This Shane, Shane, Shane tune beats the pants off the BeeGees ! " "Can't stop me now...hear what I say..." I know, I know ! - "My feet want to move, so get out my way !"