SansFin
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Any undercoating thrown in?
I doubt that automobile will ever be driven where there is mud or salt.
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I have on now: Barrett-Jackson automobile auction on: Discovery Channel.
That have sold: 1977 Pontiac Firebird TransAm "Smokey and the Bandit" automobile used for promotion of movie. It is a: Z-Code 400 automobile. Burt Reynolds rode in car up to stage. He received standing ovation from thousands in the pavilion. He spoke briefly and is as charming and feisty as ever!
It sold for: $500,000 plus buyer's premium.
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I believe that audiences voting with their admission fees will decide if similar projects receive funding in the future. It may become a fad or it may end with this movie. I feel that this is how art evolves. People create things which they believe are artistic and they put it into public forum. Whether the work is hailed as genius or thrown into gutter determines direction of path constantly being hewn through the mundane with hopes of finding enlightenment.
I find it odd coincidence that you mention: Kanye West as photographs of him and: Kim Kardashian and crude rendering of cartoon character are part of what a person is attempting to pass off as art:
http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/artpages/julia_watchel_champagne_life.htm
Movies are not the only form of art which is: 'going street':
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The Women on the 6th Floor (2010) is a very fun little movie about maids.
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Go peel me a grape, please!
They must do it with their tongue only!
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Argh.
Are we doing pirate movies now?
I know that I am exasperating. It is considered part of my charm. I hope you can understand how few other qualities of: charm which I have if: exasperating makes the list.
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1929 is a problematic year, mainly because films were still converting to sound & most of my 1929 Bests are sound films.
My lists might be considered as disqualified because I did not obey: Pre-1929 rule and instead presented: Silents no matter the year. I did this because it seemed intent of rule was to separate majority of: Silents from majority of: Sound Era but that year of transition does not hold for all countries. I feel it would be unfair to compare: Silent movie of: 1935 with: Talkie of same year. It is very much comparing apples and oranges. Their potential strengths and weaknesses are very different.
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while I was commenting on your silent choices, you hadn't seen mine yet to comment (or not comment) back.
I had a difficult but fun time narrowing down my own list, more so than I expected, and it fired up my excitement to discuss them.
I am sure that you have noticed that I rarely comment on others' lists. I hesitate to do so because any praise I might have for certain movies in any list is so often drowned out by: "how could any person with a shred of taste or decency like that movie" opinion of other movies in same list. To paraphrase old saying: "It is better to remain silent and thought to be cold and unresponsive than to post and be thought opinionated, bombastic and closed-minded bully."
I enjoy greatly reading lists which represent favorites of others and I hope some enjoy reading my lists but I am not comfortable discussing matters of taste in forums. I greatly prefer to hold such discussions only in person where there is more immediate interaction and allowances for explanations. It is also that I prefer greatly to be able to lay hands on person who dares question my tastes.
Re: narrowing down lists. I cheat. I knew that I could not reduce my list of: Silents to ten or even twenty-five and so I choose to make many lists of ten movies each. It is in this way that I can appear to be following rules while wildly flaunting their intent. I would have to do same with list of: Sound Era to Present movies. I am thinking that if I do complete list it will be separated into: countries and animation and perhaps other categories which come to mind and which might appear to be following "ten movies" rule.
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SansFin, I love the lists. We'll be posting our picks for the silent era tomorrow,
I began the list of favorite movies of: Sound Era to Present and saw how daunting it would be. I choose to do: Silents list first because I knew I might possibly finish it. I am sorry that I was so happy that it came together well that I did not think of order in which you wished the lists presented.
I can delete it and repost tomorrow if you wish.
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These lists are not in order of preference. I searched lists of movies of the era for ones which I remember watching and liking. I made middling attempt only to move some higher than others based on how much I remember liking them.USA / UK silents:The Lodger (1927)Escape from Dartmoor (1929)The Affairs of Anatol (1921)Flesh and the Devil (1926)The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)The Thief of Bagdad (1924)Speedy (1928)Peter Pan (1924)Nell Gwyn (1926)The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)Russia / USSR silents:Molchi, grust... molchi (1918) [be silent, sorrow ... be silent]Her Sister's Rival (1916)Battleship Potemkin (1925)Tretya meshchanskaya (1927) [bed and Sofa]The Cigarette Girl from Moscow (1924)Potseluy Meri Pikford (1927) [A Kiss from Mary Pickford]Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924)Anna Karenina (1914)Happiness (1935)The End of St. Petersburg (1927)Japan silents:I Was Born, But... (1932)Taki no shiraito (1933) [White Threads of the Waterfall]Apart from You (1933)Oatsurae Jirokichi goshi (1931) [Jirokichi the Rat]A Page of Madness (1926)Dekigokoro (1933) [Passing Fancy]That Night's Wife (1930)A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)Yogoto no yume (1933) [Each Night I Dream]Jûjiro (1928) [Crossroads]France silents:The Horse Ate the Hat (1928)The Phantom of the Moulin-Rouge (1925)J'accuse! (1919) [i Accuse]Seven Years Bad Luck (1921)The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)Whirlpool of Fate (1925)Missing Husbands (1921)Les vampires (1915) [The Vampires]The Imaginary Voyage (1926)Detective Juve versus Master-Criminal Fantomas Series: Fantomas (1913) / Juve Against Fantomas (1913) / Le mort qui tue (1913) [The Dead Man Who Killed] / Fantomas Against Fantomas (1914) / Le faux magistrat (1914) [The False Magistrate]Silents of other countries:Pan si dong (1927) [Cave of the Silken Web] [China] This movie was restored recently.Metropolis (1927) [Germany]Erotikon (1920) [sweden]The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) [Germany]Nosferatu (1922) [Germany]Leaves From Satan's Book (1920) [Denmark]A Trip to Mars (1918) [Denmark]Körkarlen (1921) [The Phantom Carriage] [sweden]Dante's Inferno (1911) [italy]Dobry voják Svejk (1926) [The Good Soldier Svejk] [Czechoslovakia]I am sorry to say that I doubt that I will have adequate time to prepare lists of: Sound Era to Present movies.
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(...of course I think what REALLY upsets her most is hearing me chuckling to myself and actually laughing out loud as I type all these lame jokes of mine into these threads!)
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I have never been timed out posting here though, so I don't think this software has that feature. But you make sense it has to be bots as no human would be this dumb to waste all that time.
I believe that most forum software imposes delay of approx. ten seconds. This is not generally noticeable to humans but was deadly to early spambots. This delay was considered great success because it was invisible to users but reduced spam considerably.
Modern spamming software often allows user to insert a list of forums to spam simultaneously. The posting interval must be set greater than the longest delay imposed by any of those sites. Even one site which requires a delay of a minute raises the bar for all sites being spammed at the same time.
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Somebody pays them for doing this?
It is the most unsavory part of: "site promotion" industry. Companies pay for others to promote their site and increase traffic. This is to raise public awareness of their their brand or message. This is generally done by having workers insert prepared messages as appropriate into comments or discussions on a wide variety of sites. These workers are often in China or Korea as those are areas of greatest competency at lowest cost.
There are many who claim such activity is legitimate as it is merely a form of advertising.
Many people feel it is an industry based on flawed ethics.
The use of spambots is the lowest form of this activity.
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I would be surprised if it's a spambot doing the spam postings, there is a time delay like it is an actual person doing it for each shady website.
Early spambots were defeated when forum software began requiring a delay between posts. It was generally considered that a short delay would not interfere with users because of the time required for human to select text box and type message. Spambots which attempted to post in microsecond intervals found their posts blocked by these required delays.
Modern spambots have user-selectable intervals and some have random modes.
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It has become my custom to not watch a full movie in a single sitting. I place a DVD instead in the player and set it on endless repeat and allow it to play as I do other things. It is much nicer than having television programs playing because it does not require attention which is necessary when horrid programs begin.
I have been in this way playing/watching/having as background the movie: Serenity (2005) for several days. I know that some will turn away at once because it is modern movie or because it is action adventure comedy romance set in Dystopian future. I feel that this is a loss as it is a wonderful movie which rises far above its genres in many ways.
The movie is of a whole because it is vision of: Joss Whedon who wrote and directed it. All actors are comfortable and believable in their roles as they were cast of ill-fated, Emmy-winning television program on which the movie is based.It is a story of a war hero on the losing side who is now: smuggler/freebooter/gun-for-hire/thief leading a crew of damaged people with a ship which has bits falling off of it.Mal: You told me those couplings would hold for another week!Kaylee: That was six months ago, Cap'n.It is a story of a young girl who was subjected to horrific psychological tortures as part of government program to transform her into a specialized soldier. She is played by Summer Glau who was ballerina before becoming an actress. Her waif-like appearance and wonderfully expressive face make her the character. I believe it is quite rare to find a person who so very much becomes their character.Mal: The government's man says you're a danger to us. Not worth helping. Is he right? Are you anything but a weapon? I've staked my crew's life on the theory that you're a person, actual and whole, and if I'm wrong, you'd best shoot me now ... [she pulls back the hammer of the gun she is pointing at him] ... or, we could talk more.One aspect which makes this movie perfectly wonderful is that there are many scenes which are normal for this type of movie and the situations within it and the viewer is comfortable that they know how the scene will end. Then there is of a sudden a completely unexpected moment of great intensity which adds layers of complexity to the world and the character. These are not cardboard characters being pushed around the props of standard Dystopian future. These are real people with real pasts and real feelings and real problems.The Operative: I believe in something greater than myself. A better world. A world without sin.Mal: So me and mine gotta lay down and die, so you can live in your better world?The Operative: I'm not going to live there. There's no place for me there any more than there is for you, Malcolm. I'm a monster. What I do is evil. I have no illusions about it, but it must be done.There are times when revelations are even more personal:Kaylee: Goin' on a year now I ain't had nothin' twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries!I freely admit that production values and cinematography are not of highest quality. I find they are sufficient to show the story with no intrusions on viewers identifying with the characters within that world. It is not nearly so cheesy as Doctor Who nor is it refined gosh-wow of current Hollywood blockbusters.I find quite wonderful that: CGI is limited to those things which it does exceptionally well: space ships and structures. The only animated characters are in advertisement for: Oatey Bars.This is a movie about love in its many forms. Kaylee's unrequited love for the ship's doctor. The love between the meek pilot and the gung-ho second-in-command. Jayne's love of shooting holes in things. The doctor's love for his damaged sister. Mal's love for a professional companion and his love for his ship.Mal: You can learn all the math in the 'Verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.-
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No offense meant to SansFin, Speedracer, LiamCasey, and any of our other posters, but I'm never sure when they are participating, and they seem to keep sporadic hours. Please join in, if and when you can!
I believe that I have offered all that I am able. The only movies more recent than 2013 which I have watched are truly obscure and are unlikely to be of interest. I am sorry to say that even I found few of them of interest and they are of my homeland.
This thread has been great good fun. I thank you for creating and managing it. I am sorry that constraints on my time limited my participation.
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
I don't know these 4...but I love that second title!
I can assure you that the movie is quite as absurd as the title!
In some ways it is like a story by P. G. Wodehouse in that there is one little thing which often happens and then added to it is a little thing which can happen and added to them is a little thing which might happen and before you know it each logical little step has brought you to totally and delightfully absurd situation.
I feel that it establishes also a reversal of common thought in that one would in most circumstances be worried if old man escaped from a home and into the world but here you worry for the world and what he might do to it.
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2013:The Wind RisesBlue Is the Warmest ColorLove MeThe 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and DisappearedStalingradBite the Dust
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I like Olga Kurylenko.
It is natural that you find her entrancing, beguiling and outright awesome. She is Ukrainian. It is how we are.
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2012:Foreign:Snow White / BlancanievesHoly MotorsA Royal Affair
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2011:Notes from the New WorldSherlock Holmes: A Game of ShadowsForeign:Land of Oblivion
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The White Ribbon won the Palm d'Or at Cannes, Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes, and was nominated for 2 Oscars. So it's not exactly obscure.
I thank you for that information. I was not aware that it was known so well. The method by which it was brought to my attention usually has "you will not find this in any sane place" movies only.
I assume from your lack of comment that you have watched both: Nude Nuns with Big Guns and: Harvey Putter and the Ridiculous Premise. I would be very interested to know if your opinion of them matches my own.
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Here are the 1001 Movies to See Before You Die entries for 2009:
The White Ribbon
This inclusion surprises me. I have noticed very few obscure movies in the lists.
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2010:TangledNude Nuns with Big GunsHarvey Putter and the Ridiculous PremiseForeign:The Women on the 6th FloorThe Unintentional Kidnapping of Mrs. Elfriede OttCirkus Columbia
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I Just Watched...
in General Discussions
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They showed picture of decorated truck which hauled it to various events. I assume it has been driven exclusively around parking lots in good weather so people could admire it.
This vehicle did not appear in movie. I believe that one of those would be one to use to tear up highways and make donuts in snow.