Ascotrudgeracer
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He would have been perfect; can you imagine that performance?
Maybe the subject would have been box office poison.
"Vincere" (2009) was an attempt at the dictator's biopic, but what Steiger could have accomplished with that chunk of prime rib!
Like Karl Malden, Rod Steiger NEVER gave a bad performance...and to think he lost an Oscar to Lee Marvin for "Cat Ballou." Even Marvin admitted the horse should have won.
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Yesss...I will always wonder IF they looked at daily rushes of that dumb movie and if they did, wasn't there an adult in the room to say, "But Nick sounds ridiculous! The audience is going to laugh."
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How ever could I forget?
Grace Kelly's horrific faux British in "Dial M for Murder."
"Mark" became "MOK" about 5,000 times!
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Merle Streep (especially "Sophie's Choice")...why didn't SOMEBODY have the brain strength to simply say, "Just have her talk normal." That badly performed "Pole" talking was about as bad as anything I've ever heard. It was high school drama club accent...or perhaps a female SNL 2 wild and krazy guys.
Or how about when Anglos try to sound Mexican or Italian?
Or Nazis who ALL have British accents (somehow that sometimes works; I don't know why).
I don't know what the answer might be or why this bothers me, but fake (or real) foreign accents can destroy a movie. Maybe it's xenophobia.
I know you all can come up with bad accents in film.
Edited by: Ascotrudgeracer on Apr 26, 2011 9:40 AM
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Mamie Eisenhower.
WORST hair of any First Lady EVER!
Somebody post a photo of the poor thing.
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AND to put Charles Boyer in a film with Chevalier is complete poisonous irritation!
Those accents (although obviously real) are fingernails on a chalkboard!
As for the "Nazi" charge, that's the first bomb people throw when they don't like someone's politics...like calling Obama a Nazi!
Dr. Goebbels must be spinning in his ashes at that one.
A Half-African Nazi...gimme a break!
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...his comedy is strictly drama.
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Watching him right now.
I understand tastes change with the times, but I shall never understand how anyone could find him entertaining. That accent, his cornball acting...just awful.
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It's more than the films.
The fact that there really are no commercials is the most refreshing thing.
I can't watch other channels; the advertising is relentless, banal, prolonged, insulting, tedious and AWFUL!
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"The Horn Blows at Midnight" aires this Tuesday; if Delores Moran isn't an exact double of Carol Landis, then I just give up.
I always thought I WAS looking at Landis in this movie, which Jack Benny ridiculed, but I love it.
I do all this on an iPhone; maybe somebody can post their pics...whatever happened to the "Lookalikes" poster?
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I do a great deal fighting government waste.
Trying to educate apathetic humanoids, for one thing.
Trillions of $$$ to Israel since 1948; how does that do anything for Americans?
Makes a great deal of the world hate us.
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See post below.
Meant the reply for your post, but this new site covers the reply icon on iPhones all the time.
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Yesss...and remember when Bush 43 was leaving and Obama was arriving: the bankers told the American taxpayers: "We don't got no money!"
"Whaat? You bankers are out of money?"
"That's right! The banks are out of money...ran out of money."
"So...what are you saying?"
"We bankers need some FREE MONEY from you, the working wage-slave taxpayers...gimeee that money, or sumpthin' real bad will happen."
And the Americans swallowed this whole. PROOF the world is coming to the end, but not for China, India, Russia, etc. And Iraq doesn't have to repay us a penney.
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Somehow, I'm going to find that interview wherein the reporter asks Hitchcock, "You're saying PSYCHO was a...a comedy?"
Hitch: "Yes, of course! The movie is a comedy."
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1. I would build a precise Dr. Frankenstein laboratory, watch my favorites there, and perhaps attempt to create my own Monster!
2. I would have an exact replica of the penthouse "Howard Roarke" build for Ray Collins in "The Fountainhead." And I would walk around it in a tuxedo...alone.
3. I would have built for me James Mason's Frank Lloyd Wright mansion in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Then I would have a party and hope somebody shows up.
4. I would find Brando's Triumph, have it restored and put it in a glass case in my laboratory. By the way, how did he keep that corny cap from flying off?
5. I would give you people money, providing you always agree with my posts.
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Here's the bit of stupidity I shall NEVER comprehend: let's see, the country is broke, the dollar is worth 42 cents, slash all budgets, BUT the United States at this very moment is sending checks to every rathole on earth in the form of FOREIGN AID!!!
If this isn't treason, it's somewhere in the class picture.
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The only "danger" was the chance anyone watching could become narcoleptic.
Had all the intrigue of a bowlful of rancid oatmeal.
(just doing my Gene Shalit...badly.)
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Yes, and notice how The goodly (and wrongly accused) doctor ALWAYS finds some kind of job no matter which freight train he exits, anywhere, and the weather is always fair, and a $2 a night hotel is always nearby.
Through it all, he ALWAYS sports a $50 haircut.
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Sheer Valium.
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My father, who wasn't an actor, happened to be in Lebanon in the early '70's and talked his way into an extras job on the set of "Embassy" (1972). He said Milland was pleasant but made it clear he wasn't too happy working on that one.
"The Thing with Two Heads" (1973)...whoa!
Edited by: Ascotrudgeracer on Apr 5, 2011 7:33 AM
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Americans stopped taking baths after seeing "Jaws."
Oboy.
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The mummy in the granny dress "queried:"
"Why are you putting me in the fruit cellar? Do you think I'm fruity?
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...but few people saw the humor.
Why do I call it a comedy?
Because that's what Hitchcock called it!
Think about it; it's really funny, right down to the dialogue.
How that movie could frighten anyone...
How really could any film scare people? It's a movie!
"The Exorcist" was another comedy, if you really bother to look at it. Funniest movie of the 1970's.
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"Minnesota Fats" (Jackie Gleason) has never been beaten for money in the game of pool, BUT he needs George C. Scott to be his backer. If he never loses, why cut anyone anyone else in? Playing high stakes pool and "never been beat" means you have a big pile of cash of your own, I would think!
By the by, just because these films have elements that don't make sense, that doesn't mean the movie isn't any good; it makes them more interesting, because real life is boring.
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I see the same winding staircases over and over.
MGM had theirs, Warners had one, Fox...