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On 10/21/2021 at 2:08 PM, Jackiecat said:
The Wizard Of Oz...Margaret Hamilton scared the pants off me ..
Oddly enough, during one of my earliest TV viewings(I was 5), Hamilton never bothered me at all. But for some reason, the scene where the wicked witch's feet(from under the house) shrivel up and slide under the house shook me up.
And as a very young kid watching those Weismuller Tarzan flicks, the scenes of where alligators (or were they crocs?) trotting into the water would shake me up. And I'd actually visibly shudder during those scenes where headhunters supposedly had their victims tied to two bent and crossed thin trees and the ropes were cut, apparently ripping their victims in two!
My Mom would swiftly be at the TV, turn it off saying, "That's enough of that sh-t." 
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Seriously, that movement y'all's b-itchin' about isn't all that fast enough to bother me. Besides. all needs be done is to focus on the host/hostess and you'll not notice the slow movement. But that "hand-held" filming technique, used a lot on that TV show NYPD BLUE annoyed me no end. Which is why I never really bothered to watch it after the first couple. Reminded me of when my brother in law would insist on letting my five year old nephew(at the time) hold his camcorder and let him do the taping.
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Interesting. Not "horror" but scary?
Well, off the top, I can only come up with a Suspense/thriller DADDY'S GONE A-HUNTING('69) with Carol White and Paul Burke. Had me white knuckled on the edge of my car seat(saw it at a drive-in). I might come up with a few more later. Interesting thread CHAYA.
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Silly me. I thought this was a thread about actress DIANE TAYLOR, who starred in APACHE BLOOD('75) and died in 1976.
Just another of ARI's misleading thread titles.
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23 hours ago, JamesJazGuitar said:
According to The Economist the nonsense word of the moment is "like"; it is often used in the same context as "so"; As in: like, lets go get a beer.
I grit my teeth at that too. As in----
"I was talking with this guy, and he's like, "I never saw that thing before." and I'm like, "But they're not hard to see." and he's like, "where do you go to see them?"-------
ECHH!
It was a bit OK when used in "Beatnik speak"; "Man like, I dig it the most, Daddy-o." .
23 hours ago, TomJH said:
Say, who is that on the back of the motorcycle with him? That's not Olivia de . . . I mean Evelyn Keyes, is it?
E-w-w-w Those are terrible shots of Alan Ladd. I think I don't want to see EITHER of the movies those stills are from!
OK, I've had my fun. Don't want to send someone running for their MIDOL.
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19 hours ago, Fedya said:
Imagine Dooley singing this instead:
EEE! Maybe not that version, but... As DOBIE GRAY once sang---"The original's still the greatest!"
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13 hours ago, Mr. Gorman said:
I kinda like BURNT OFFERINGS. I'd rate it for my viewing enjoyment 2½ stars out of 4 for "Worth Watching".
For some reason the 1974 plant-based horror opus has crept into my mind: SEEDS OF EVIL starring Joe Dallesandro, Katharine Houghton and Rita Gam. BEWARE of the foliage! You've been ♦warned♦!
Personally, MY favorite "plant based" horror is.....
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Oh, THANKS!
NOW I'm hearing Dooley Wilson singing "Knock On Wood" from CASABLANCA! 
Wonder for how long now.....
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1 hour ago, AndreaDoria said:
Not saying this about Topbilled -- but this thread just reminded me that a whole lot of people have trouble seeing the beauty in the Golden Age actresses because of the hairdos and the red lipstick. The only actress from pre-1955 that my husband thinks is beautiful is Veronica Lake. ( eyeroll)
In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with Ms. Lake. I think she was a cutie. But sure, not the only one. And red lipstick? I'm with DARG on that one too. As for the hair-dos, it all depends. Some were good, some bad, and several seemed to choose do's that did them no justice( unless the producer or director made the choice for some movie). And incidentally....
The mid '40's to mid '50's VIRGINIA MAYO still makes my heart race.
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19 hours ago, Hibi said:
Yes, before he went to pot...........
SO.........THAT'S what he was washing down with all that BOOZE!
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20 hours ago, rjbartrop said:
I'm sorry, did I say anything about it being my favourite tune?
I wasn't referring to you specifically, but note that there were some who seemed to post about songs in movies they liked and just watched and went around hearing those particular tunes for days(or longer) afterwards. I was mostly referring to songs from movies you(or anyone else) haven't seen in a while and came to mind from out of nowhere and stuck in your head all day(or longer). Like one morning recently I woke up and started hearing that TOP BANANA tune all that day, and after NOT seeing that flick for a long time. MUCH different than when I walked out of Detroit's Madison theater in '70 and heard CSN's "Long Time Gone" in my head for a week.
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21 hours ago, JamesJazGuitar said:
I could agree with such a claim but that wasn't really the comment; instead it was "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that but the statement is simply not true.
Adding 'simply not true' is another way of saying that they, and they alone, know what "beauty" is and that it is in their eyes and not that of the beholder.
That is not the same as saying; we can agree to disagree, but instead is the polar opposite.
Ah, but JAMES, TOM wasn't claiming the statement "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" wasn't true, but implying his opinion that Top was mistaken in HIS opinion that it was an unflattering shot of Olivia. And merely disagreeing with said opinion. MY only issue with any of this is...
Flattering, unflattering or whichever, to condemn an entire movie based on ONE SHORT SHOT seems somewhat pathological to me. And now, after seeing that shot, it seems "tempest in teapot" to p-iss and moan so much about. The two going on and on about it always struck me as being above such "boosh-whah". and for the record....
I think nonsense phrases such as "passive-aggressive" are just so much Millennial schmutz "Newspeak".
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3 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
There are passive aggressive posts being written in the third person by a poster who goes out of his way to slam posts that espouse opinions which go counter to his. You would think after years of posting that person would know how to agree to disagree.
I stand by my opinion that Olivia has a terrible close up at the end of THE PROUD REBEL and that it compromises the value of the film, regardless of how good the story may be or how good the performances may be.
I think it's egregious that this poster keeps trying to perpetuate the stereotype of what a farm woman is and how she should be photographed in a motion picture. I grew up in farm country in Wisconsin and there were many beautifully dressed women in our community. One of them was my father's sister who won a county-wide beauty pageant and was a finalist in the Miss Wisconsin pageant.
At any rate, I cannot believe the above poster is trying to up-end this thread and cause all sorts of unnecessary friction. Let different opinions, even unpopular opinions, stand on their own merit and co-exist alongside the opinions of others. After all that is the real nature of a message board community, where different (not competing) viewpoints are presented. It does not need to devolve into a spitting contest. Grow up.
So long since I've seen the picture, not sure about Olivia's close-up. I could only say that I wouldn't think a bad close-up of anybody would "compromise" any otherwise well presented and filmed story. And I can agree with that "above poster" and his "eye of the beholder" claim. I wasn't brought up in farm country, but my Mother's side were coal miners tuned farmers and I have many old photos from the early 20's into the early '30's of family members, And the women in those photos run the gamut from heart stopping to clock stopping. And can agree with Top's disdain for a stereotype of what farm women are supposed to look like. But then too, as the story supposedly takes place shortly after the civil war, and mid 19th century, there could be a considerable difference as to how a farm woman might have looked in those times compared to how they might have looked in the time TOP grew up in farm country. And Top's opinion of Olivia's "terrible" close-up might have been the result of the director's attempt at time period "reality".
But it's all another person's opinion, and really no reason to "fly a rag" over it. And really, it does seem difficult to take a bad photographic image of Olivia. At any age.
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Kidman is probably up to the task. But I do have reservations as to Bardem pulling off the Desi role. But I'll wait and see. I might be surprised. And hopefully pleasantly.
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Hey, I do appreciate your response, and I'll thank you for the "bump". And where did you get the idea that I was arguing with you?
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20 hours ago, Allhallowsday said:
I'm big '70s Horror fan, own DEAD OF NIGHT on DVD. When I first watched that CREEPY movie on "late night" TV outta NYC, it made a strong impression (I was maybe 13 or 14). I think highly of that one, but have fond memories of other schlock like LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH
"Schlock" in describing LSJTD is putting it mildly. I renamed it "Let's BORE Movie-Goers To Death".
I also joked, When it came out, that BURNT OFFERINGS might have been a movie about my mother in law's pork chops. Long believing that not cooking them long enough would give people tapeworm, she'd fry them suckers until they had the consistency of a dog's rawhide chew toy.
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22 hours ago, TopBilled said:
It's happened to me. When I first saw BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, the tune "Moon River" stayed in my head for a few days.
Yeah, but....
TWENTY or more years AFTER seeing it?
14 hours ago, rjbartrop said:After watching Modesty Blaise, I had this running through my head for about a week.
Again, HOW long after seeing it? Getting a tune stuck in your head right after seeing it or shortly after is one thing. As a kid, I spent a week or more singing and "head hearing" "Whatever Lola Wants" From DAMN YANKEES after seeing it with my folks. It's been 30+ years since I last saw it, but now, after mentioning it, I'll probably spend the rest of the day hearing it in my head.
And note;
This ISN'T a "favorite movie song" thread.
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THE SHINING? I wasn't too thrilled with it either.
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You know(I hope) that an "earworm" refers to a song or piece of music that gets stuck in your head. You hear it in your head for most to all of the day or maybe more than just one day.
For me, I've been hearing the main title song to the movie TOP BANANA ('54) all day so far. Can't figure it out as it's been at least 20 or more years since I've seen the movie. So.....
This ever happen to anyone else? and if so, what was the movie?
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Just now, Shank Asu said:
Yeah, that might've been misleading- the psychiatric ward is a wing of the hospital. i was born in just the regular old hospital.
Sure. Like I elaborated about my brother. I got that. Which is why I elaborated further with the whole "Eloise" story.
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Well KATIE, I couldn't care LESS about what Eddie likes or dislikes. Never could tolerate that buffoon.
But THOMPSON'S claim of classical music being boring....?
Well I like classical music but too, gotta admit quite a bit of it can be boring. Same with a lot of jazz. And a lot of rock music can be annoying and over formulaic. AND the same goes for country, hip-hop, rap and that pre-pubescent "pop" music that's the main feature of every Grammy awards show. But not all of those genres can be thus classified.
Tell the truth, I don't think Sinatra was the greatest singer ever too. But that doesn't mean I think he wasn't any good. I preferred Nat King Cole when it came to the genres Frank also sang in too. And although I also can say Bill Holden wasn't my favorite actor, I must admit I thought he did well with most of the roles he was given. "Fast"? "Slow"? Those are acting referrals that are still too ambiguous to entertain.
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3 hours ago, Swithin said:
Interesting to know that, because Rebecca is one of my least favorite Hitchcock films. It doesn't feel like a Hitchcock film to me. Hitchcock was certainly a better filmmaker than du Maurier was a novelist! Movies are not (and generally should not be) factual replications of novels.
I disagree, although they often aren't. I feel the only time they shouldn't be a factual replication of a novel is when there's a way they found to improve upon it( like what was done with '78's THE SILENT PARTNER, certainly an improvement on the Anders Bodelsen novel THINK OF A NUMBER on which it was based).
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Yeah, I like that house too ANDREA. But as for TV houses, I'm kinda on the simplified lifestyle side of the fence, and thought the house ANDY GRIFFITH had in Mayberry wasn't too bad either.
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4 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
My second favorite (After Bride Of) of the Universal Frankenstein films and one of my favorite films of all time. I had to shut it off last night because they snipped out bits of dialogue and cut scenes short, probably for time constraints. Most wouldn't notice but I have seen this film dozens of times so I know it well.
Sven didn't have time for much trivia but here is some things I have read:
Peter Lorre was first considered for the role of Wolf von Frankenstein, played by Basil Rathbone.
Rathbone considered the film a "penny dreadful" and does not even mention it in his memoirs.
Boris Karloff made this his last time as The Monster, saying "We had exhausted his possibilities, he was becoming a clown".
Bela Lugosi's wife, Lillian said Bela was a very warm person and he found the verrrrry Brrrritish Rathbone and Karloff to be "cold fish".
Donnie Dunagan, who played the little boy Peter, says that Karloff played checkers with him for money, the kid actually won some quarters from him. Dunagan also said Rathbone would read him poems and stories. He did not mention Lugosi since he had no scenes with him, he said the only one he did not care for as Lionel Atwill, saying "I didn't like him, I avoided him" but did not elaborate.
I was always amused at this film as I don't recall Frankenstein's monster and his bride ever consummating their "marriage". Or any mention of Henry and Elizabeth having any son.
Too bad Mary Shelly never wrote a sequel. Last I heard(or read) Henry was still chasing his creation all over the arctic.
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My Mom would swiftly be at the TV, turn it off saying, "That's enough of that sh-t." 
It was a bit OK when used in "Beatnik speak"; "Man like, I dig it the most, Daddy-o." 
Wonder for how long now.....
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Perhaps it would help if you check to see that person's movie character name isn't also the name of another actual actor or actress. If so, then pick another of their characters.
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