Dargo
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The biggest thing about Blow-Up is the amount of posts it is getting on this site.
Pretentious twaddle.
Now, now, primosX2. Did Warren or your NEW crush Lawrence channel you and tell you to say this??? MAN, you and your thing for bad boys!!! LOL
Look, overall, I didn't read any "pretentious twaddle" in this thread, and trust me, I KNOW "pretentious twaddle" when I see it, as I hope you know by now that I'm USUALLY the very FIRST person around to make FUN of "pretentious twaddle".
Nope, all I pretty much read in this thread were people who said they thought this movie was interesting and maybe good-to-great and then gave their reasons for such, and then others who thought it much too a jumbled mess and then gave THEIR reasons for such...though overall I got the impression that the latter group offered up a little less specific reasons for their opinion...though I could be wrong.
(...and so in closing, wish Warren and Lawrence up there, or maybe DOWN there, a nice day for me, okay?!)
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I had the impression this was a slasher movie so I didn't record it...but are you saying it was a satire? Sort of like Heathers? And I didn't know Roddy McDowell was in the cast. He almost always adds a unique zest to whatever film he's in.
That one posted photo of Angie Dickinson cracked me up.
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Re: Seconds
I taped it based on the recommendations here but am a little chicken about actually watching it.
Yes, it was much more a satire than anything else, Calamity, and yeah, I think your "Heathers" analogy is a good one.
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I can see your point about the first half vs the second half in THAT regard. The dubbing was somewhat noticeable, but nowhere nearly as badly dubbed as "A Perfect Pair" which TCM showed before this film.
Yeah, I agree about the ending. Rock showed some brilliant acting when his character started getting found out near the end of the film, and how he projected the thought so subtly but convincingly that he was becoming desperate but still had to show a cool exterior to those around him.
And yeah, Susan Tolsky, as McDowell's assistant Miss Harriet, was way over the top in this, but she pretty much always was in almost anything I've ever seen her in, and while playing that easily flummoxed plain-looking woman type.
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I dunno if the 1975 Farewell, My Lovely has played on TCM. Oddly enough, it was an early producing project for Jerry Bruckheimer.
There might be rights issues. I saw on youtube, unedited, with nudity and everything. It's probably been pulled by now but I was glad I saw it.
Yes, Mitchum is in it; and I really like the fact that he is an older Marlowe. Thought he was excellent and liked it quite a bit too.
Well, as I earlier said to Hibi, I'm pretty sure I've watched the Mitchum version on TCM within the past year or so, and maybe during one of TCM's SUTS or SOTM tributes to him, though perhaps I might have watched it on some other channel.
(...btw...I like both the Powell and Mitchum versions, but I always thought Bob might have been JUST a little long in the tooth by the time he got around to playing the part he was born to play)
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I agree with just about everything you said about 'Pretty Maids" here Lorna, except for your following comment...
They also completely change the tone of the movie halfway thru- it's very much akin to Lord Love a Duck in the opening, only less amusingly so; then it becomes dead-serious.
...because I thought the second half was just as funny as the first half, it just became much more darkly comedic in tone, that's all. I found the "double funeral" and then that "Oh well, the game must go on" reaction to these murders by the faculty and student body near the end of the film was a wry and rather funny commentary about the superficiality to sometimes be found in our culture.
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I dont think I've ever seen the remake. Wasnt that with Robert Mitchum? Has TCM ever shown it? I wish they would.......
Yeah Hibi, I'm pretty sure I've seen the Mitchum version shown on TCM and within last couple of years.
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Or maybe it managed to climb back up to the top spot-- though I find that unlikely. My guess is that one of the other Tierney titles was number one (probably BORN TO KILL, but I am only guessing).
Well, why doncha try ENLARGING that list and try seein' what's REALLY at Number-1, TB???
(...though yeah, the picture quality COULD get mighty grainy, huh!)
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Well Fred has a point but what a great way to get it across. Very funny. So I give Fred a high five on this one!
Yeah, actually, I thought it was a VERY clever way to make the point.......that he attempts to make in about 33.3% of all the points he attempts to make around here, alright!
(...and I think I'm bein' rather conservative with that figure!) LOL
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Or where one member of the couple was suing the other for some reason.
I made the case that People's Court was really a game show. You had two contestants and one of them had to win. The cases were fairly trivial, and that was a great part of its appeal.
Ya know clore, come to think of it, I believe you're pretty much correct here. There really IS a lot in common with those "court" programs and game shows, isn't there.
(...well, other than on MOST game shows, we really don't have to sit through hearing two fairly clueless contestants tell the MC that the other contestant is a lyin' through their teeth)
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Yeah clore, but think what a ratings bonanza it MIGHT have been if you could have gotten a show where Judge Wapner was sitting down with a couple and havin' 'em tell people how their date went for a whole HOUR in that 4-5pn time slot???
(...yep, if ya CAN, kill two birds with one stone, I always say!)
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Well, the continuum is a straight line HORIZONTALLY, not vertically....so no one fell on top any one else.
RATS! And here for the last few minutes all I was thinkin' about was those little hotties all layin' on each other.
(...man, you're SUCH a buzz-kill ya know, Arturo!)
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That’s my point, Dark. I’m NOT talking about US thick skinned survivors. I’m talking about all the nice polite people this TCM message board keeps losing because MOST people don’t have skin as thick as us.
Well, then MAYBE the very first thing we ought'a do is teach all the newbies that come here where to find that there "Ignore Function" then, eh Fred?
(...oh, that's right...you can't read this...you "thick-skinned" guy, you!)
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Don't want no thin-skinned people
Don't want no thin-skinned people
Don't want no thin-skinned people
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Good song, but I always liked Randy's "Political Science" song a little better.
(...you remember..."Let's drop the Big One and see what happens"?)
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Yeah, Dargo - and there's no superfluous u either.
Although, it's maybe a little surprising that a superfluous o wasn't used - make him Souperman, ay.
So was that the episode in which those lines were used...the "Soup Nazi" episode?
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Don't be silly, Fred.
SAY now, dark! Whaddaya mean "silly"???
Why, I've have you know that I thought it SUCH a great idea that I TOOK Fred's little suggestion here, right-clicked and copied it and placed in my "Favorites" file, and will NOW paste it(another right-click thing, ya know) whenever I happen to disagree with what somebody says around here!
THOUGH as I said earlier here, I'll add that little "Kind Sir" and/or "Snookums" AND/OR "ol' buddy" thing at the end of it depending upon the situation and who I'm replyin' to.
(...it's never too late to learn to be nice, ya know)
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I don't think there's much of a resemblance. To me, Connie Stevens fell midway in a continuum wtih Sandra Dee on one end, and Stella Stevens on the other...60s blondes going from cute, to sexy, to smoking hot. Ann-Margret was definitely in the smiking hot end, but she didn't resemble any of the others imo.
Yeah, I'd pretty much agree with all that Arturo, but tell here...When Connie and Sandra and Stella all fell into this here "continuum", which one broke their fall first and who landed on who when it was all over???
(...sorry)
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It sure is. It's not like there's a lot of 'em - only 2 that are famous enough to be referencing and one of them's a pig.
Uhh, well, ........ nevermind.
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Good one!!!
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Or maybe she's a South Park viewer. There was that episode when Christopher Reeve was faced off against Hackman (pronounced by Christopher as Hack Man!)
Wasn't there the opposite of that once used on "Seinfeld", and where somebody keeps pronouncing the name "Superman" as "SUPERman" and not "SuperMAN", and then Jerry makes the comment to whoever it was who kept saying it that way that they were "making it sound like "The Man of Steel is Jewish"?
(...or maybe it was on "Friends"...sounds like a "Chandler-ism" maybe too)
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OH! And btw MissW...
You call him a stand-up comedien? I say he's just a hack man.
REALLY?! "a HACK MAN"???!!!
(...ya know I'm thinkin' it MIGHT just be best if you place me on your ignore function TOO for a while...'cause it appears I've become a very VERY bad influence upon you around here these days!!!)
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He also, indirectly, ruined Jerry's new suede reversible jacket. A
one man crime spree.
And which reminds me...
What's the deal with "suede" ANYWAY?
Is it "Leather"? Is it "Velour "? OR, some kinda weird hybrid of BOTH???
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Hmmmmm...now I COULD be wrong here, but I'm thinkin' Fred here just MIGHT have a "little hidden meaning" and some "point to make" with this one.
(...but other than maybe implying that he hasn't liked any movie Kevin McCarthy was in since '56, I don't know WHAT it could be...can anyone help me out here?!!!)
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How about saying, “Your idea is very intriguing, but I’m not quite sure it will work.”
Yeah James. And maybe add a little endearing name to the end of Fred's suggestion here too, like maybe, 'Kind Sir" or even "Snookums" if you think that might be more fitting.
Yeah, I hear this REALLY wins over EVEN the most "thin skinned" among us out there on the internet, ol' buddy.
(...sorry James, but I don't think of you as a "Snookums" but more an "ol' buddy"...I certainly hope this doesn't upset you!)
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Wasnt that a nanny, not a maid? I didnt follow it too closely. Ahnald bores me.......
Oh, okay. Then I won't go "baak" to him here then.
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For June 25, 2014
BLOW UP falls out of the lineup.Now, did "BLOW-UP" REALLY fall out of the lineup, or is there just some "other reality" that we're just not seeing here???
(...OR, like the movie itself, was this list just not completed???!!!)
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Is Blow-Up a great movie?
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Posted · Edited by Dargo
OOPS! Ya know as I entered that, it suddenly occurred to me that you might be talkin' about the film and not the discussion goin' on here, primosX2.
(...and sooooo, before you wish your bad boy crushes up there OR down there to have a nice day for me, please disregard my previous post....and THEN tell Warren and Lawrence what I asked you to tell 'em!)
***edit to follow***
Forget tellin' Lawrence that thing I asked you to tell him...as it seems you as least have SOME sense when it comes to the guys you think are hot!!! LOL