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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.
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Except, of course, when Wilfrid Brambell is Albert Steptoe on "Steptoe & Son", in which case, he's "You dirty old man!"
(Most Brits in '64 would have gotten the in-joke.)
Right, the show that was the inspiration for the American sit com "Sanford and Son".
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Because one time, I was having lunch with her at the Warner Brothers Studio commissary, and there was a raw broccoli salad out. And I was like "*****, do NOT eat that or you are going to be farting raw broccoli pfarts for the rest of the afternoon."
And Bette was all "no, my pfarts smell good. Everyone wants to smell my pfarts."
But then, by mid-afternoon Vincent Sherman had to shut down the entire set of MR SKEFFINGTON because people were breathing into brown paper bags and gasping for air and the lighting guys were falling down from the rafters and begging for mercy.
CLAUDE RAINS NEARLY DIED and had to be taken to Burbank Regional.
But Bette was all like " what's the problem people? It smells great to me. You all are DAMNED LUCKY to come and work on the set with me, and not Sydney Greenstreet, because let me tell you: those pfarts will straight up KILL."
And that is why I, for one, hate Bette Davis.
It is a little-known fact that the "fog" in Fog Over Frisco is caused by Bette's flatulence.
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I kind of like the notion of a seamstress/hooker.
I mean, since your pants are off anyway, she might as well fix that sticky zipper...
This deserves some kind of special status in the LornaHansonForbes quotes Hall of Fame.
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...I also have to mention that I have been singing Melancholy Baby to myself ever since last night.
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.
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Ol' Danny boy sure was irritating. He plays those characters a little too well.
\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.
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aaaaa! now you're doing it!
Mwa ha ha ha !
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Decent film, but not as good as WOMAN IN THE WINDOW....
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.
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I love Edward G. Robinson in the films I have seen and although I haven't seen anywhere near all of them the ones I have seen have been great performances.
Some I've seen several times that spring to mind are:
Key Largo
The Cincinnati Kid
Double Indemnity
I'd say Key Largo is probably my favorite performance of his of that three, although the others are great as well, and what a fantastic cast and movie it has and is. I'm also a big Bogie fan and really like Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore as well.
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 !
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Wow, I just happened to read the Maltin review for SCARLET STREET.
He gives it three stars and claims it doesn't match how good THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW is.
Seriously, do we want to take bets on what it was that happened to Leonard in his formative years that made him so dumb? Did his mother drop him repeatedly on his head? Did he develop a taste for mercury? Kicked by mule? Fell down a well?
At this point I'm intrigued enough that I'd genuinely like to know.
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.
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Some of the dialogue is posy and contrived, and the 'clean' thing about Paul's granddad is beat too much. But a lot works just fine.
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.
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And Eddie, up to the very end of his life, was probably the best thing in and about that movie where people are turned into food(saaay, should this have been "spoiler alerted" here?...naaah, everybody knows this by now...it's like that whole "rosebud" thing in another flick, right?!) in some imagined future dystopia ...
The look on his tired old face as he voluntarily exits this world in his very final cinematic turn in front of the camera and filmed just shortly before his actual death has "haunted" me since my first viewing of this film when it was first released...
Thanks, Dargo. Glad you didn't give any spoilants.
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Lol! I'm sorry Laffite! I will watch Scarlet Street. Hopefully I'll have the opportunity tomorrow evening. I have seen the film it is often compared to, Woman in the Window. The wonderful LavenderBlue has also suggested this film to me. I really like Fritz Lang, so I'm looking forward to it.
If it's any consolation, I'm a bit younger than many of the active members here on the board, that's a good excuse right?
LOL I haven't seen it yet either. I don't know if it is an age thing. In my case I have "collected" it, yet withheld from viewing it. I have to leave some of the good stuff for later. That is just something I do with the actors I like.
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".
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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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so far I have refrained myself from replying,I am not sure that posting in reply here at this time is even the right thing to do it looks like the aftermath of the hurricane instead of the construct it's too bad I was hoping for, so I will withhold what I was going to post. I will say I did not get a single reply to my questions. yes there will be more typos here so feel free. I do appreciate the person who did mention they have never noticed the smirk.
Instead of answering in that direction, I got some defensive retorts, some mocking if nothing else my problem with my dictation keyboard Arceus that invalidated the points that I have made, so be it, a lot of bandwagon-jumping, a bit of vitriol not too much, some nonsense and just the classic IMDb level fan retorts.
I must admit that instead of you guys expressing sacrilege and blasphemy at Bette Davis being insulted, I expected a valid debate her quiz answers and perhaps some questions of your own for me, as some of you had indicated you were looking forward to, but none were to come. So be it.
Nothing constructive to offer as to what I have asked. I suppose more manipulation tactics forehead design to provoke an apology from my part and a back paddling, which I will not do, might come later such as mocking my questions. Anything to deflect from what I have pointed out and asked. A lot of she was the best actress and nobody else could play her part. Really? I I contend that depending the film, a Jean Harlow, Barbara Stanwyck or a Claudette Colbert would have done a fantastic job with her roles. so you see that statement is not backed up by any sense whatsoever, only sad emotions.
to Helen baby2, you were not insulted nor called pathological. it surprises me that you, along with the users who liked your post, chose to ignore if not the facetious tone indicated by the smiley, then the fact that the word if was used by me, as"in suppose I said," the sentence I wrote is "if I said". and if not that, the fact that I spelled out I am not insulting just questioning.I supposeyou are one of the dearly departed here and will not see this anyway.
to the person who posted to screen capture, no you got it wrong and I do believe that you know it is wrong. why? Because I have mentioned that she does it after she's done delivering a line. Granted, sometimes she's flirting with the male actor, so please do not look for that and it is not what I am talking about. In your photo, look at her eyes, she is in character that is not the smirk. The character is grandiose and I deliberately did not mention that film. she's not smirking in the photo that you shared.
Perhaps you could inside screen capture it in any of the films that I have mentioned? But you do understand that right now is the time for well, apparently attacking and being flippant back instead of answering my valid questions. So be it, perhaps I expected too much here.
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You think the Bette-hater is exaggerating? That is the most restrained and understated comment I have ever seen you make.
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...)
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Maybe this?
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.
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I lurve Bette, too, but I'm glad Muguet hates her so we have a chance to jump to Bette's defense and list all the things we love about her. We can't all like the same actors and a vivid personality like Bette's is bound to set a few folk's teeth on edge. Someday I'll start a thread for one of the actors I hate, but right now my flack jacket is being cleaned.
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.
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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.
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There's an actor who is a POOR actor that everyone LOVES except me. I would talk about but I don't know how to create "hateful" (whatever) blockbusters the likes of which is now currently playing.
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.
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She puts dead rats on my dinner plate.
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I'm assuming you are being a tad facetious, Lawrence.
Nevertheless, it's the ambiguity of Shane's fate that has lead to so much speculation over the years, and adds, I feel, to the haunting quality of those final moments in the film.
That same speculation wouldn't have taken place, of course, if he had simply had the bullet removed before riding away.
Tenderly removed, no doubt, by Marian.
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Hmmmm...well how about maybe somethin' along the lines of that song of Neil Young's that the Lynyrd Skynyrd boys took such offense to???
(...of course, IF ya go in THAT direction, you'd have add one of those 'u's I always seem to take such offense to and put it in her name)
I've got a mental image of some red neck southern man with Ann Sothern's head.
"Better keep your head..."
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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 !"
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Off Topic: Favorite Music?
in Your Favorites
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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.