ValentineXavier
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Best to hear it pronounced by a native speaker - true, of course. But, I'm not exactly guessing, since I lived in Venezuela for two years, and have spent months in Mexico. None of my Latino friends have that name, so I haven't heard it often.
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I prefer the '59, for its electric starter, over the '25, with its hand crank start.
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That's Rene A-bear-noise...
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> {quote:title=Sprocket_Man wrote:}{quote}No, it's pronounced "ar-mehn-DAR-eess" -- that's why there's an accent over the second "a" in the name: Armendáriz.
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Okay, I got the accent in the wrong place, I should have looked it up. But, it's still "main," not "menh." In Spanish, "e" is pronounced like a long "a" in English.
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It occurs to me that there might not even be a WS transfer of *The Appaloosa*, since I've never seen one on TV, that I can recall.
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> {quote:title=kriegerg69 wrote:}{quote}
> I REALLY despised when theaters started showing commercials before a movie started...I recall walking out a couple of times and asking for a refund because, as I told the manager, "I didn't pay for a ticket to watch commercials I can see on tv anytime."
I had an idea on how to deal with that. You take a mylar balloon, inflated with helium, with a long string. You sit, or stand, in the back of the theater, directly under the projection window. When the commercials begin, you let the balloon float up, until it blocks the projector. When the previews begin, you pull in the balloon, so the projector is unblocked. There is little chance that the theater employees would know, since they don't even have anyone in the projection booth any more.
Luckily for my local theaters, I always sit in the center of the front row, so I haven't tried it.
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There's the 1951 B&W classic *The Lavender Hill Mob*, where they steal bars of bullion, and melt them down. But, they cast them into miniature Eiffel Towers. So, I guess that's not the film you are looking for.
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Nine years before he made *Life With Father*, Curtiz made *The Adventures of Robin Hood*, one of the most spectacular Technicolor films ever made. So, we know Curtiz could direct in color.
And, nine years later, he was well past becoming accustomed to directing in color, or being affected or distracted by it.Peter Sellers made some great comedies in B&W, but he made plenty of great ones in color too - like *The Party*, and *The Magic Christian*, to say nothing of several good Pink Panther films.
I'll admit that directors had a learning curve, when switching to color, and that might have distracted them a bit at first. But, I doubt that any film that would have been a great comedy, if made in B&W, was ruined by being made in color.
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> I know it is silly of me to miss a thing I outgrew so many years ago.
Not silly at all. Those are the kinds of things we miss the most.
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Indeed it was sometime ago, back in the 70s, IIRC. I almost added a line saying that kids today wouldn't get it.
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>Yeah Fred, maybe...but I'm pretty sure most of the WPA camps back then had folks who mostly volunteered to go to 'em.
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Not only that, but most of the Japanese who were forcibly interred had homes and businesses or farms, or at least jobs, which they lost. The WPA people were out of work, usually homeless.
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I haven't seen it, but there is info about it, and other versions, on the IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825347/
>Matt Lucas as a marvellous Toad, Mark Gatiss as a spiky rat, Lee Ingleby as a nervous Mole, and Bob Hoskins as a grumpy old Badger make a classy cast within yet another version of Kenneth Grahame's classic book.
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>Comparing well with the Python-heavy 1996 version, which got lost in music and a mincemeat factory plot, this has many pluses in its favour - the best of all being the famous 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn' chapter covered in full, with all its ethereal magic. Plenty, then, to enthrall children and interest adults who happen to be watching with or without them.
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> It is only passable when the short version is watched on a television while dressed in a bathrobe and eating a pint of chocolate mint ice cream.
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Ice cream? There's the problem - you should have been eating your nails instead!
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> Also, I don't know how to say the last name for *Pedro Armendariz.* Is it Ar-men-dar-iz or Ar-mend-a-riz.
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Neither. It is Ar-main-da-reez. I believe the accent is on the last syllable. Perhaps Arturo will see this, and correct me, if I am wrong.
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> Whether or not an actor or actress is overrated or underrated, on the other hand, is completely a matter of opinion. That's because there are no hard "facts" concerning performers, as awards won and lists made are all governed by opinion, pure and simple.
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> So, if a person loved Katharine Hepburn and thought she was the "bee's knees", then all the accolades she's received would seem rightly deserved to them and they wouldn't even be aware that she was considered "overrated." The reverse is true for those we consider underrated. We love 'em and think they're great and so perhaps can't understand why they haven't gotten the level of recognition we feel they deserve.
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This is an important point, which I have made in several previous posts, but deserves your reiteration. This is all totally subjective, a matter of personal opinion. Although I am certainly not shy about proffering my opinion, I do not expect others to bow to it.
Fxreyman, I quite agree, the quality of actors should be judged solely on their performances, not on their private lives. I'm afraid that you'll just have to put me down as one who agrees with the Dorothy Parker remark quoted earlier, "Her performance ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B." But, I do not begrudge you, and probably the majority of film fans, from enjoying her work.
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I wish Encore Westerns would show *The Appaloosa* letterboxed. They show the P&S version pretty regularly.
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I thought this version was great, and you found it terribly disappointing. I'd love to see the version you saw, but if it is that much better than this version, it would probably knock me unconscious!
So, do I understand correctly - you confirm that it was both played too fast, and had missing scenes? If so, then certainly the version you saw had a different score. Sadly, it doesn't seem to be on DVD.
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Yeah, and she didn't have an orange hourglass on her abdomen, either...
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My Variety style description of this film is "double big batch of triple big bunnies go bye-bye in a barbeque."
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> {quote:title=movieman1957 wrote:}{quote}My take on "roast beast" is anything you can't get in the grocery store. As far as cooking it goes it would probably be slowly and in the yard. Of course if you cut it up and bring it in than follow like it was a steak.
Reminds me of a story a close friend told years ago, of showing up a little late to his family's Christmas dinner at Grandma's, out in the farm country of central Michigan. Everyone was just sitting down to dinner, when he walked in. He asked, "Grandma, what's for dinner?" She replied "moose and squirrel." He said. "Oh, Rocky and Bullwinkle!" None of the little kids would eat dinner, after he said that.
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The Bonzos were indeed quite funny, but I'd say that Frank Zappa was easily a match for them, if not more. Of course Zappa's humor/satire had a harder bite, much of the time.
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From Merriam-Webster:
>Definition of CONCENTRATION CAMP
>: a camp where persons (as prisoners of war, political prisoners, or refugees) are detained or confined.
I think it is accurate to call Manzanar a "concentration camp." There is a fair amount of controversy about it, with proponents on both sides. Wiki article:
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Bolesroor, I am not offended. I think we may be talking past each other. Perhaps I misread your post, at least in part. My original disagreement was with Moviemadness, who seemed to me to be saying that Kate couldn't be overrated, because she was so highly rated.
My simple thesis is that to be overrated, someone must be highly rated in the first place.
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>My thesis statement was simple- and I stand by it. Katharine Hepburn is- unarguably- one of the most lauded, respected actresses in Hollywood history...
>...That would be the definition of being HIGHLY RATED.
>It is my opinion that she is OVER-RATED: unworthy of all of the praise- formal and critical- that has been laid at her feet over the past century.
So, you may not have understood my "gibberish," but we are really making the same argument, and coming to the same conclusion, or as we have both acknowledged, opinion.
"Ben-Hur", 1925 vs. '59?
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Film? I thought we were talking about cars.