DownGoesFrazier
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Like Streep in the 90's, DeNiro had a great sense of humor and wanted to mix in more self-spoofing comedy--apart from his Andy Kaufman imitation in King of Comedy, I don't think we'd seen him do any post-Scorsese laughs before "Midnight Run"--but Great Actor Pedigree kept preventing it.
But that was before Fox discovered they had a money ticket making him Ben Stiller's deadpan foil in the Meet the Parents sequels. And when the studio blamed "Old Actors For old audiences" as the reason for why the Stiller movies did so well every Christmas (along with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman in "The Bucket List" being unkillable in theaters), it started a complete cottage industry for "AARP Comedies" with DeNiro, Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Barbara Streisand, and other 70's actors doing fluff romantic comedies to make us feel old every December for how much they'd grayed since their last great Oscar.
(And yes, I used to have trouble telling DeNiro apart from Harvey Keitel too. Used to have an even worse problem telling Keitel apart from Harry Dean Stanton, but that was before Stanton did that Shelley Duvall Faerie Tale episode.)
When I see how much they've aged, I don't feel old, I feel young, since I don't think I've aged like they have.
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FOR THE RECORD:
When I was little, I LOVED to eat those little decorative gelatin soaps that came in the shape of shells and hearts and balls; so Lord Knows I got developmental issues of my own.
Speaking of balls, it takes balls to eat soap. My mother used to tell me to wash my mouth out with soap when I uttered a profanity.
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Here are some:
Clint Eastwood - "Rawhide"
Steve McQueen - "Wanted Dead Or Alive"
James Garner - "Maverick"
Roger Moore - "Maverick"
Burt Reynolds - "Riverboat" and "Gunsmoke"
And who could forget young Kurt Russell in "The Travels Of Jamie McPheeters"?
I wasn't aware of Roger Moore, but you are the Oater man around here. Yours.
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I watched most of The Dark Corner and it made me wish I'd watched the whole movie. It was good. I also watched Yours, Mine & Ours, which I saw in the theater on initial release. It's an extended sitcom but it's cute. Lucy was a little too old but she's funny and believable. It did bother me a little that of the kids that had a bit of a story in the film, the poor girl who likes to eat gets a lot of focus.
At the risk of offending Lorna, I think I like THE DARK CORNER better than SCARLET STREET. I just found Duryea's character so annoying, and I didn't like Bennett's performance that much.
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the thread seems to have blown up since yesterday, so you might've missed this post I made:
Posted Yesterday, 05:56 PM
I will try not to come off as elitist in saying this, but SCARLET STREET is one of those films like TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE or CASABLANCA or DOUBLE INDEMNITY or A NIGHT AT THE OPERA...it's a little hard for me to imagine anyone seeing it and not thinking "minor flaws aside, that's a four star picture."
Now, in the case of DGF- he's got enough great taste in other matters and can express himself quite well, he also doesn't write about films for a living, so he's allowed to have whatever opinion he wants and I can respect it, because- you know- I respect him.
....but with MALTIN- who reviews films for a living and who has made A LOT of questionable calls and observations in re: films of the classic era- I just have to shake my head and wonder what the hell his deal is.
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so really, it's cool. by and large, i'm down with your opinions, views and ways of expressing them, and in this instance while I'm not on board with your opinion on SCARLET STREET- based on all you've brought to the boards before this, I still respect your opinion and admire your going against the flow with it.
(but with Maltin, there have just been so many things he has (ostensibly) written that make me shake me head and go "huh?")
What I find particularly striking is your use of the colors black and blue in this post, which suggest bruising. I imagine that Maltin would be figuratively black and blue after reading your opinions of him.
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..then you should be institutionalized.
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I actually was unaware it was possible to stoop from our current position.
for the record- it was Dargo who made the lead paint joke, I merely implied (in this and other threads) that Maltin huffs brake cleaner, drank mercury as a child, grew up too close to power lines, was dropped on his head as an infant, does whippets on a regular basis, snorts rubber cement, fell down a well, was kicked by a mule and won a breath holding contest as a youth for which he paid a terrible price.
So since I agree with Maltin on the two EGR-Joan Bennett films, how many of these things do you suppose that I do or have done?
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open thread
Name at least four major film stars that first came into the national consciousness on Western TV shows.
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I experienced Michael Feinstein as host for the first time. Ironic that we were comparing him and Eddie Muller, and Feinstein gets to introduce a noir, THE DARK CORNER, which would have been more appropriately introduced by Muller. I wouldn't call him unctuous, I'd call him not overly, er, macho.
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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.
Just like with music, how good a film is is a matter of.opinion, rather than a matter of fact------unless the opinion is mine, in which case it may be treated as fact.
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I disagree. I think Scarlet Street is the better film. The ending of Window knocks it down a few pegs for me...
Guess you weren't a fan of "Dallas" either. How 'bout that Bobby Ewing?
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Joy Division met at a Pistols concert.
Gee, I'm surprised YOU are the one that got it. Yours.
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Just checked the Inner Circle webpage. There is no new poll, and the July information is still up-- nothing on there yet for August.
The one person assigned to the Inner Circle is on vacation.
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Uh-huh.
'Specially after a cold shower.
(...doesn't YOUR'S???)
A self-deprecatory remark would be that's it's already miniscule, but we all know that that's not true.
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Ol' Danny boy sure was irritating. He plays those characters a little too well.
I'm stickin' with Scarlet Street, though. Mainly for the last 45 minutes or so, and especially the TWO twisty ironic endings; one where EGR is a forever haunted artist who can't make a claim to his own fantastically accepted works - isn't even aware of them, actually; and the other where EGR inadvertently frames Danny boy who goes down for the murder he just commited. It's almost like an episode of the Twilight Zone.
This story starts off slow and pays off big in the end.
I missed the first few minutes. Why did EGR think he recognized Duryea? Did something happen at the beginning?
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Well then evidently the moderator has yet to run across my post down there where I so irreverently made fun of Ben's nasally pronunciation of words like "AKK-dress"..err..I mean "actress", huh!
..and another thread bites the dust.......
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As the 1000th customer, Steve was awarded with a .357 Magnum.
Hint?
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Yes, DGF. I'm impressed. I thought maybe you didn't watch TV as a kid, you were always listening to records. Here's a little fun with Stinky.
You're up, DGF.
Most people know that the Sex Pistols were at the forefront of punk rock....... The founding members of this legendary band actually met at a Sex Pistols concert. What was the band?
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Yep...SEE?! I KNEW there had to be some other underlying cause for that earlier comment of yours, DGF!
(...ya know, many people have commented to me over the years that I would've made one hell of a shrink...now maybe not a GOOD one, but one hell of one, anyway)
It shrinks?
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I like the Mank also since he's irreverent.
Well, when WE'RE irreverent, the thread gets deleted.
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I'm watching Scarlet Street. I usually don't go for places with a lot of small rooms, but I sure do like Kitty's apartment with the multi-level rooms - and the glass entrance doors.
.. oh yeah.. almost forgot... I really like Joan Bennett
Decent film, but not as good as WOMAN IN THE WINDOW....and I found really annoying Duryea's calling Bennett "Lazy Legs" about 50 times during the film (and her girlfriend "Funny Face"). His character is a real jerk. How could any woman be in love with him?
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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.
Someone please respond to Miss W.'s post before her post disappears.
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Yeah, that's true, and of course why they're not usually hung in that manner..and as James earlier mentioned.
(...I think the only time I've ever seen residential entry doors swing outward in real life would be on trailers, and how it's shown on Jim Rockford's abode situated on that beach parking lot in Malibu)
Hung? I said the door would slam into the guy's nose, not into his ****.
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After today's brutal spinning class, I may be down to 2%. There's a new instructor who is harder to keep up with than any instructor in my memory.