stlgal38
-
Posts
858 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Never
Posts posted by stlgal38
-
-
I'm curious why you guys keep referring to "Look for the Silver Lining" as the Morning theme? Don't they play it morning noon and night to signal an upcoming feature-length movie? Remember - right before the brass horns intro?
-
"Se7en" - creepy and innovative.
"The Blair Witch Project" - the lack of credits thereof lended to the amateur feel of the movie.
"The Stand" - people struck down immediately and spontaneously.
Before anyone jumps me, I KNOW this is a classic movie site - I just couldn't think of any older films. They all seem nondescript. (except for the animated credits already mentioned.)
-
I remember thinking the EXACT same thing about Dennis Hopper "had nowhere else to go" with this storyline! How eerie you said that too!!!
-
CJR, you seem to tout GWTW as the "be all & end all" of classic film and I heartily disagree. While I can appreciate the good character development, fast-moving storyline and sweeping cinematography, I CAN'T understand all the hoopla. IMO, anyone who considers this their all-time favorite would also enjoy a good $5.99 Harlequin Romance novel.
(PS - I do agree about "Citizen Kane" - why was this considered so 'innovative'?)
-
interesting to know this ending - This film was on a suggestion list when I looked up "Lolita" a short time ago and has been on my list since.
A similar 'non-ending' was in The Conversation with Gene Hackman - just blowing his sax in his maulled, torn-apart room. 120 suspensful minutes working up to it too...
-
Sorry I never saw the film, but I've had the same thing happen taping movies on VHS - very frustrating!
-
"The Odd Couple"?
-
I saw this yesterday and must agree this is slop! The character of Pearl was fickle, weak, blubbering and pathetic. It was an embarrassment to my gender.
-
Since another week has started, I don't feel bad taking up another spot on this topic. I do see your point, I really do. But I also see someone else dedicated to provide time-consuming (and non-compensated!)enjoyable entertainment to us all by his trivia questions.
I'm also not entirely sure that the low turnout wasn't related to Saturday outings, Sat/Sun football, or MLB division playoffs, etc.
Still friends? *S*
-
Man, that was quite harsh, slappy. After all, it's HIS thread...
-
I'm just the opposite, feaito. Give me more personal stuff on celebrities, even IF it is somewhat normal or wholesome, I think that's admirable in itself.
I bought the Alma Hitchcock book recently by Pat Hitchcock O'Connell, and was very disappointed. It had very little family content and only a handful of personal anecdotes. It mostly read like a chronological filmography of her dad and the current stars from his movies that they were hobnobbing with.
-
of course, not to sound as if I didn't enjoy "The Hitchhiker" - I got to thinking about make-up, and was wondering...How did they do that to O'Brien's eyeball?? Remember how it "bulged", unilaterally?
-
hehehe..."Touche!"
-
Most of you already know, I'm sure, that she also directed an episode of "The Twilight Zone" - the one where the old patriarch is dying and his loathsome, greedy family comes home. They have to wear grotesque masks uniquely designed to suit their individual personalities in order to inherit the estate.
I thought that one was even more of a testament to her directoral talent than "The Hitch-hiker" - the way she brought out the various evil qualities of her cast, and the make-up (of the masks) was downright hideous!
-
I'm no expert, but I think this is a trick question. I'll say ZERO - as I think they preferred the term "family".
-
I like everything, sans musicals.
Pete Smith shorts, Popular Mechanics segments, old Movietone News footage, "Crime Does Not Pay" series, and travelogues. How nice to sit down and find one of these nostalgic clips if I've only got a few minutes and can't really settle in for a feature-length movie!
-
I have seen several medical inaccuracies in film. My favorite is when a patient is supposed to be on a ventilator and you can see the bellows of the spirometer rise and fall, (very dramatic), but the machine is not even hooked up to the person's airway.
Or, while not a classic film, "Doogie Howser" who worked the ER as a cardiology resident, had a $9 stethoscope.
-
I got confused.
The second paragraph of my last post was referring to the "One-Reel Wonders" theme, not "Look for the Silver Lining".
-
"Mimieux" I think. I used to ace spelling bees in school.
(And to think I almost skipped this topic!)
-
Was that a real song? I always thought it was taken from the old "Look for the Union Lable" ILGWU commercial!
It sounds to me like a real old Ink Spots record, but you're right - it's probably a contemporary recording made to sound like vintage crackles.
-
Classicsfan, your post reminded me of my favorite drive-in food! Hot dogs boiled at hom, just before we left, and put in buns individually wrapped in reynold's wrap! The bread kind of 'melded' around them from the steam ....Yummy!
-
Raisinettes and diet cola! (hey, ya gotta cut corners somewhere.)
-
This was definitely the era (early '70s) for pushing the buttons of gore and perversity. "Last Tango in Paris" was released the same year (though I'm not sure if it was immediately distributed stateside, as I was only 9!) But they seemingly paved the way for other graphic horror/suspense films to mainstream cinemas.
BTW, IMDB has a great excerpt from Burt Reynolds' biography that follows the entire preparation and filming of that rape scene. It was pretty disturbing in itself!
-
I was gonna say Betty Grable too.
Trivia -- Week of September 29, 2003
in Trivia
Posted
"Giant"?