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Absolutely, Speedy. I could probably watch a continuous loop of just the "Moses Supposes" routine from SINGIN' IN THE RAIN for hours on end. And even though I've seen the famous mirror scene in DUCK SOUP countless times, I swear, when Groucho spins around but Harpo doesn't and then they both stick out their hands in that "tah-dah" like expression, I'm on the floor every single time. And Yeah CaveGirl, I agree with your thread's premise. One of the joys of re-watching movies that one is already very familiar with IS the idea that you might spot something within it which you might have never noticed before, such as possibly an actor's subtle facial expression as they're speaking a line which you may know by heart due to having heard it numerous times before. (...as mr6666 said, nice idea for a thread topic, CG)

Actually of course, almost all of these so-called "sword and sandal" flicks ARE pretty much "empty calories"...Epics usually are. Their prime reason for being are not so much to convey deep thoughts about the human condition but to press a narrative usually containing elements of action and romance while lightly examining a particular place in time. (...but they're still often fun to watch)

Well Tom, I THINK James has made it clear by now that he finds this kind of thing filled with nothing but..ahem.."empty calories".

Yeah Doc, I vaguely remember seeing this years ago on Dave's show. Piersall, never one to mince words, was true-to-form that night as I recall.

Thanks for your wonderful addition to this thread, Laura.

Well, if I recall correctly Andy, besides being a very knowledgeable movie fan, you're ALSO quite into our "National Pastime". (...and so after readin' your thoughts about Messrs Newman and Cruise lack of prowess with a cue stick, I can JUST imagine what you might think of Tony Perkins' on-field performance as Jimmy Piersall in ANOTHER sports related film!!!) LOL

Uh-huh. And THEN there are those of us around here who "roll on the ground" 'cause we're laughin' so hard!!! (...THOUGH of course NOT when somebody posts somethin' as lame as "Mason and The Dargonauts"...THAT'S just dumb!!!) LOL

Hopefully Speedy will see this and have FMC, and so she can maybe re-gauge her "Vic Meter". (...thanks for the heads-up, Arturo!)

Yeah. Funny how he used the previously released film to give DATG a "backhanded" positive review, wasn't it. Ya know, I had watched both of these movies recently when TCM showed them(during the Christmas season maybe?), and only having watched them in total years before I had always thought the sequel a bit inferior to its predecessor. However, after watching them recently, I DID start thinking about them pretty much as this "reviewer" saw them. (...maybe it was just that I also started seeing the much more overt "reverence" in the former...I don't know...but then again, that's us agnostics, ya know...we DON'T know, ya KNOW?!!) LOL

LOL Yep, you certainly HAVE, alright!!! LOL (...btw, did you read that "review"?...pretty funny stuff, huh!)

Yeah, well, I'm sure even Kay would agree that we ALL should keep some "mystery" in our lives...though she probably would have called it "mystewy". (...I'm soooooo bad)

Yeah, I knew my post was destined to that fate from the beginning. (...BUT I'll bet there's a few OTHER folks around here who might just find some humor in it...though of course probably ONLY those folks with "poor taste" and "poor manners" like ME!!!) LOL

Yes it is, BUT as of 7-7-2014 and at 8:35pm EST, "my" Victor Mature thread(which I might add I started a day after this thread) has MORE "views" and MORE "posts" than does this one. And so, tell here TB...Does this mean Vic(with his "wormy lips") is "more popular" with the public than Kay(with her mild case of "Rhotacism") is??? AND, does this mean I'm somehow "winning" somethin'??? 'Cause I don't know! (...and thus the reason why I'm askin' the man with all the answers and the stats, that's all!) LOL

So Lorna! Does this mean rulin' you out of comin' to go see my new film that's scheduled to hit the cineplexes August 1st, and which among others things consists of ME dancing around on my yacht to the tune of "Classical Gas"? Uh huh...yep...you guessed it, The title is: "Mason and the Dargonauts"! (...on second thought...how does one delete their post around here?...and besides, I ain't got no yacht anyway)

And with perhaps a certain Don Henley song playing in the background that sayin' somethin' about some "Bubble-headed bleach-blonde" who "comes on at Five"??? (...or would that be much too anachronistic a thing here ?...yeah, a '30s movie and '80s hit single...yeah, just forget it...it would never work!)

LOL So, some OTHER part of your anatomy then, eh?! (...yeah, I certainly understand THAT, alright...Joy can have that affect on some of us guys, huh...too bad she wasn't in more movies)

Why laffite! You do get some kinda thrill about being the bearer of..ahem.."bad news" or somethin'???!!! LOL (...JUS' couldn't resist...and I'll stay out of this now)

Beatcha by two whole minutes here, James!!!

And then AGAIN of course, if you're lookin' for a little "eye candy" behind the wheel, there's no toppin' Joy Barlow here!

Yeah, Bendix is fine in those I suppose, but for MY money ya STILL can't beat Frank Faylen and Douglas Fowley when it comes to drivin' cabs!

Here ya go, Lorna... (...and now don't ever say I never did anything for ya around here!)

Hmmm... "joint" SOTMs, ya say? (...why, I thought they already HAD spotlighted Mitchum in this series, finance?!)

Ummmm...well...I suppose that THAT would all depend upon how you feel about movies with the words "Silver" and "Chalice" in the title too, wouldn't it finance?! (...'cause word is Paul himself was never all that crazy about a certain movie who's title began with the word "The" that he was in, anyway)

Yeah yeah..."wormy lips", "gassy"...maybe maybe. (...though just remember...don't EVER make fun of anyone's "speech impediment" 'cause that's sooooo low class, ya know!) LOL BUT, did you guys read that DEMETRIUS AND THE GLADIATORS "review"? Was that crazy funny or WHAT?!!!