Dargo

I think this comment of yours here Beth, that E.T. has been a favorite of yours "since childhood", might help explain why I have never been all that impressed with this particular Spielberg movie. Ya see, I was already 30 years of age when it was first released. (...and remember rolling my eyes when I watched it back then at how it seemed most all of the adults characters in it were portrayed as either clueless or malevolent)

I suppose one could say because I've never given it a chance to like it and thus would have no legitimate right to hate it, BUT I've never been able to get past the first 20 minutes or so of A Clockwork Orange. (...OR, maybe it's just the idea that I've never felt the need to watch such ultra-violence in ANY movie, and so JUST to be introduced to a treatise about the concepts of free-will, psychological conditioning, governmental overreach and the dangers of conformity)

HEY! And right in the middle of the years the movies are made that TCM shows, TOO! LOL (...okay okay...so I'm STILL proud of that little calculation I made in the latest TCM complaint thread around here...so sue me!)

Just could never get over those outward swinging apartment doors, could ya Swithin. (...or is it all those times MacMurray says "Baby"?)

Yes, and it also helps if the person in question while knowing HOW "to talk" would also possess a pleasant sounding voice, AND such as Miss Delany possesses. (...yeah yeah, I know...there goes Dargo again with his whole "the sound of one's voice" thing again...but damn it, it DOES make a difference...at least for ME anyway!!!)

Can't really say I "hate" the following film here, but like some have mentioned about Forrest Gump, I just could never understand why the movie about THIS little guy HERE is so beloved by so many people...

Nope TB, that wouldn't be what I'd do at all. Nope, now what I'D do is, first, tell them to give me MORE than just their "feelings" about "my slow, dying death" and by use of FACTS instead of "feelings about "my slow, dying death". YOU know, like what I did earlier in this damn thread and when I found the "mean year" (btw, THANKS Rich) that the movies shown on TCM were released. (remember, I said "1953" here, dude) Uh-huh, and THEN in my case, I'd invite them to accompany me to the nearest tennis court..and where I'd run their sorry (and most likely fat American) butt around that court for a few sets. (...and THEN ask 'em WHO between the two of us is in better shape and who might be "dying a slow death"!) LOL

LOL Btw here Rich, yes, I performed the first function you mentioned up there. (...reminded me of how I used to get my "average" in those bowling leagues years ago)

Yep Tex, and I've always guessed that this is because its fellow MTM production at the time, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, always received all the accolades. (...and btw, being a big Big Bang Theory fan myself, I loved it when Newhart finally won his little statuette for playing an older version of a "Mr. Wizard"-type character on that sitcom...Chuck Lorre is a master with the casting of his shows, ya know)

I dunno, Rich. You tell me. You're the old math teacher here, not me. I'd say it's probably one of the first two. "Median", maybe? (...and considering that I didn't put a scoop of vanilla ice cream on it, and so it can't be the last one)

Gotta say here Tom, every time I've watched Dumbo, I've noticed myself being MUCH more moved by this Disney movie, which yes IS a "circus movie" TOO, than I EVER was the times I've sat through DeMille's overblown circus flick, and just using THIS as a "barometer" of sorts here. (...and 'cause, I done seen about everything, when I seen an elephant fly)

From Bob Newhart's Wiki bio page: In 1992, Newhart returned to television with a series called Bob, about a cartoonist. An ensemble cast included Lisa Kudrow, but the show did not develop a strong audience and was cancelled shortly after the start of its second season, despite good critical reviews. On The Tonight Show following the cancellation, Newhart joked he had now done shows called The Bob Newhart Show, Newhart and Bob so his next show was going to be called The.

And THEN you said... So then, it kind'a sounds here Swithin that IF Ari here had started that "Death Takes No Holiday" thread instead of Richard Kimble (btw, whatever happened to that guy anyway?...our fellow forum member, NOT the character David Janssen played on TV...but I digress) and had instead titled it somethin' like say, "Guess Who Just Croaked?", you might like that thread a little MORE??? LOL (...well, you DID say up there that you like "mystery", now didn't YOU?!...make up your mind here, dude!)

Okay...OKAY! I've just taken the time to get an average year of release of the movies TCM will be showing in the next four days. Yeah yeah, THAT'S right! I must have WAY too much damn free time on my hands, huh! LOL Well ANYWAY, here's the year that I ended up with after doing this little calculation: 1953 And sooooo, the NEXT damn time somebody, ANYBODY, comes on here and starts complaining that "TCM doesn't show 'classic' movies anymore" AND/OR "TCM is moving in the 'wrong direction' since Robert Osborne died and went to that big screening room in the sky" AND/OR "TCM has forgotten that they should only show movies that were made before I was born" AND/OR "TCM should only show movies made before 'America went to hell' and so I can be reminded of 'better times'", I'M gonna REpost THIS very post of mine HERE in the damn thing!!! (...NOT of course that THIS would change their freakin' misconceptions, as it seems NOW DAYS the FACTS of and about ANYTHING don't seem to matter to most people once they've made their minds up about something!!!)

You might know this already Sepia, but reportedly, director Don Siegel felt that Newhart and his comic relief character was foisted upon him by the producers of this film.

Now see, THIS here is something I'll never quite understand. The idea that Steve McQueen was somehow ever "eye candy". Nope, and sure while I'll admit he had that "cool factor" thing workin' for him, I've never ever thought him as all that good looking or as "eye candy". (...I DO know though that once SansFin sees what I just said here, SHE'LL probably disagree with me, as for some reason she's always had a thing for the guy...and btw, I never get tired of telling her that the REAL and ORIGINAL "King of Cool" was Robert Mitchum!) LOL

Uh-huh, for a long time, alright. In fact, I remember her having an "effect" on ME way back in 1994, and when she sported THIS little look in that godawful Garry Marshall flick Exit to Eden... LOL

Okay, then how about High Noon ? (...and seein' as how you can't seem to see the greatness of Singin' in the Rain)

Really? Of McQueen's TOO??? While I'll admit McQueen is fairly good in this one as Gleason's lackey, I've always thought him somewhat miscast in the role. (...always seemed to me that someone like, say, Earl Holliman would've been better cast in that role)

And I'D pitchfork ALL the Academy members who thought this overblown circus flick of DeMille's was somehow the "Best Picture" of 1952. AND, every one of 'em who somehow didn't recognize the FACT that the ACTUAL Best Picture of that year was that Gene Kelly movie about Hollywood during the silent-to-sound era. (...YOU know, that movie that's become known as the greatest musical of all time and which is usually mentioned as being in the top ten flicks ever made REGARDLESS of genre)

In the second movie you mentioned here Brian, I've always thought that Steve McQueen probably found himself doing exactly what David said above in his OP. (...and because Gleason DOES pretty much steal any scene that he's in in that film...including any with the future "King of Cool" superstar)

And why wouldn't he be, Moe? Dana was not only smart, witty and insightful in her discussions with Eddie this evening about the movies they showed together and about Gloria Grahame in particular, but she ALSO looked better than any 65 year old woman I think I've seen in a long long time TOO! Heck, she looks twenty years younger than that! (...okay okay...and so I WON'T now be accused of being a "sexist pig" here who "objectified" her, let me NOW add here, better lookin' than any damn 65 year old MAN that I've seen in a long long time TOO...there! SATISFIED any "wokesters" out there???) LOL

So, in other words Tom, "The Americanization of Julie", eh?!

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