ValentineXavier
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> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote}"Oklahoma" (1955)
Them's fighitin' words to this Okie!
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> {quote:title=ginnyfan wrote:}{quote}I used to love when the Seaview hit something or got hit with something. Shake the camera and have the entire crew fall in the same direction.
That was on when I was in HS. My friend who watched it with me, and I used to joke that they bounced around so much that they should have padded the interior of the control room. We also joked that one day, the ship would break in two, and be the "Sea," and the "View."
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Yeah, well, that's the way it is with us old geezers. If we don't have Alzheimer's, we have wisenheimer's.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}What the h**l was Anita Ekberg doing in this film?
Eking out a living.
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I think that Drew defended her selection very well. I enjoyed Drew and Bob's back and forth about it.
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Maybe they could show more zombie films.
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I hope you explained to Fred that "scintilla" comes from the same root as "scintillator," which is a powerful type of Geiger counter. Being from the west, he may be familiar with them.
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Well, yes, I remember it. I was a hardcore sci fi fan, and thought it was awfully lame. Actually, the vast majority of TV sci fi offerings over the years have been awfully lame, or just plain awful. Same goes for sci fi films. But, I don't begrudge your attraction to James Darren...
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I have a book on Tex Avery, and I think it probably does say why, but it's been a long time since I read it, that I don't remember.
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> (...oh, and is Laura Elena Harring ABSOLUTELY gorgeous or WHAT???!!!...OH BABY, do I ever love that kinda look!!!)
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I couldn't agree more...
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I can't believe we're discussing *Deep Throat*, but as long as we are, I'll relate one of my favorite jokes of the era -
Q. Why did Dick Nixon go to see *Deep Throat* twice?
A. So he could get it down pat.
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Well I do know that. I also know that Avery hated Screwball Squirrel! I liked him well enough, though. Probably Droopy and Wolfie were my Avery favorites, from his MGM days. I have The Compleat Tex Avery collection on LD. It has all of his MGM stuff. I transferred it to DVD. I doubt it will ever get a DVD release. Pretty much every toon contains something we find offensive these days.
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You got it. Also, I thought it would be sufficiently intense to hold their attention. Actually, *Sanjuro* is more violent, but it's perhaps not as intense, since it is in a sort of different world, i.e. different culture and era.
Edited by: ValentineXavier on Jun 4, 2012 12:45 AM
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> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:} Sabrina tells Jack she has a bun in the oven (it’s Roarke’s). At this point, I noticed there were five minutes left in the movie, and started wondering if there was going to be a climax.{font}
Didn't the climax come just before the bun in the oven?
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I agree! It was a perfect ending, for that film. I don't recall where I read it, probably on the IMDb, or maybe the wikipedia, but people have come up with a very logical explanation for all the seemingly impossible happenings in the film. It was very interesting, and very plausible.
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> {quote:title=Dargo2 wrote:}{quote}You guys WERE kidding with those picks here, RIGHT?! ;-)
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Well, I thought Clore must be kidding, but I wasn't sure. I was NOT kidding. I think the films I listed are all good films, that I would show to kids.
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I loved the early Daffy - he was absolutely insane. He could not be overcome! He persisted in his insanity, no matter what was thrown at him. So, I much prefer psychosis to neurosis, at least in Daffy.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> I like parts of this movie but not other parts. I don't like Gene Tierney crawling around in the dirt.
I'll admit that if I somehow came upon Gene rolling around in the dirt like that in my yard, or in a park or something, I would find it weirdly amusing. But, in the context of this film, it is ridiculous and insulting.
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I've seen a number of films listed here as having "bad endings" that I think have great endings.
Oh, well.I did find the end of *No Country for Old Men* to be most unsatisfying. I'm not a particular fan of happy endings, but I did want to see Javier Bardem get squashed like a bug...
My all-time worst ending, to what otherwise would have been a fine neo-noir, is 1987's *Angel Heart*. Sure, I noticed the foreshadowing, but hoped it was just a distraction. To find out 'the Devil made me do it?' Really? Ugh!
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}What's a scintilla?
A cross between a chinchilla and a bloodhound.
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Good catch. I didn't notice that. I did like the film though.
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> {quote:title=TomJH wrote:}{quote}When I was a kid I recall being confused by Alan Hale Sr. and Alan Hale Jr.. Not exactly being the Einstein of my neighbourhood, I used to think they were the same person, but was always confused that it seemed to be in the more recently made films that he looked YOUNGER.
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Well, you can hardly be blamed for that. That Sr. and Jr. pair are the most alike I've ever seen. I vaguely remember wondering how Alan Hale had gotten younger, the first time I saw Jr.
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> {quote:title=MovieProfessor wrote:}{quote} And, the one we should get to know, “Rick Deckard” is more or less, simply two dimensional and what’s missing is a dynamic posture that should have been as classic and worthy as “Sam Spade,” “Philip Marlowe,” “Mike Hammer” and maybe even “Nick Charles.”
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While I think Deckard is more than two-dimensional, yes, there is something missing. That is because he is a Replicant, and has probably only been alive for a few years. His personal history is programmed into him. That can't completely substitute for a real life of a few decades. This is a necessary and important aspect of his character in the film.
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I'm looking forward to 3D, someday... But, right now, they haven't boiled down to one format, and they are charging too much of a premium for 3D TVs. In a few years, that will probably all change for the better.
Oh, well.
Best TV for watching classic movies?
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I don't think the problem has to do with 3D, unless you have activated some kind of simulated 3D mode.