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Is my memory that wonky? Or was THE FUGITIVE KIND on Mellencamp's list that night also? THAT'S one that doesn't get shown all that often. And one I've liked for years.(I still covet that snake skin jacket Brando wears.)
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36 minutes ago, Mr. Gorman said:
I FEEL PRETTY . . . OH, SO PRETTY . . . 😍
Ok, I don't actually feel pretty. Or witty. Instead, I feel snarly and gnarly. 😈
There are a fair number of 'Popular Movies' I simply have not seen for one reason: They're so long. Never seen James Cameron's TITANIC; I *have* seen the 1958 movie A NIGHT TO REMEMBER. That was quite good, I thought. Ergo, no need for me to watch the '97 movie.
Never seen THE GODFATHER, THE GODFATHER 2, SCHINDLER'S LIST,
SHAVING RYAN'S PRIVATES,oops, I mean SAVING PRIVATE RYAN [I'd have let him get blown away, but I guess that would've negated the plot of the movie], et cetera.With such a short attention span you might try to stick to Laurel and Hardy or Buster Keaton shorts. None of them would be too long for you to keep up with.
14 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:It's not a "rip-off", it's an overt "updating" of the Shakespeare play. "Rip-off" suggests stealing a story and hoping people won't notice; West Side Story is a completely open, honest, retelling of Romeo and Juliet, there's no attempt to pretend it's an original story, therefore it's not a rip-off.
As for the songs, they're fantastic. If you don't like them, you clearly don't appreciate good song-writing. I know this sounds personal and insulting, that's not my intention. But the songs in West Side Story are just fantastic, it's ridiculous to say the songs are one of the things about the film you don't like.
On the positive side, I love your description of hating something "with the heat of a thousand suns". Just save it for something that deserves such an effective expression.
My only issue here is with the perpetuation of the misuse of the term "rip-off". Originanlly coined in the late '60's drug culture as a reference to the perpetration of a fraud(ie; selling vitamin C tabs as some recreational hallucinogen or such) it has been corrupted over time to refer to ANY basic theft.
But, to keep on track... I like West Side Story, despite my not basically liking musicals in general. Of course though, it's not a case of watching it at every opportunity. Only when the mood, on not frequent occasions, strikes me. But I can see how someone else might not like it much. Or at all.
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On 9/12/2021 at 11:00 PM, LsDoorMat said:
Not misleading so much, but this Argentine poster for Grease (1978) has changed the word to Vaseline.
Well, that WOULD suggest a far different movie than it was, eh?
8 minutes ago, LsDoorMat said:"Don Byrne's Romance of Racing and Racial Intrigue" - Everybody in this movie is white. What racial intrigue? There IS one horse race in the film, but it has very little to do with the overall plot. And the guy McLaglan wants to kill has a moustache and beard. I have no idea who THIS guy is that he is strangling.
Maybe the guy the protestant McLaglen is strangling is a Catholic, as in the UK(and the U.S. as well) the two denominations consider each other as different races.
But, gotta wonder who the "hangman" is in this movie, and why a hangman would bother with personally strangling anybody.
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19 hours ago, Aritosthenes said:
Its Unfortunate and Sucky (Apologies); while this is probably also a whole nother topic in and of itself, there are those Performers Who .. "Get" (unfairly) typecast with certain types of performances
For me (as already mentioned), i would have never thought of Dick Van Dyke turning in a performance such as that.. i'll have to check it out. (And by extension/default thats often how i Unfortunately think of Mr Van Dyke)
Yeah, many do unfairly get typecast and make several films(and TV shows) that play o that typecast. And I'm always interested in seeing any movie in which an actor or actress is playing against type. THEN form any opinion as to the good or bad of the movie.
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15 hours ago, Mr. Gorman said:
You are correct, Jillian, JOHNNY CARSON did die from emphysema.
You might like the 1969 comedy COLD TURKEY.
Ha! Yeah....
I recall it was Newhart's character in that running around trying to get that town smoking again. Running around passing out free smokes and carrying a lighter.
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8 hours ago, rickdd said:
You completely missed the point of my post. Go back a reread it.
So, is it the Spaniards still living in Spain who don't consider themselves "Hispanic?" Or too, Spaniards living in the U.S. ?
And are you suggesting TCM added Hayworth's name to the fray to try and make them look "Chicano savvy?"
(a term my wife coined to describe "gringos" who only bother with things Hispanic on Cinco de Mayo and come to the "barrio" for the food, tequila and walk around mispronouncing all sorts of Spanish words).
Far as that goes, many Mexicans don't consider themselves as "Hispanic" either. Just Mexican. But obviously, the word was coined in order to wrap all Spanish speaking people from ALL Spanish speaking countries in the same serape.( kinda pun intended). Like Poles, Romanians, Czechs, and other Eastern Europeans all put together in the "Slavic" bucket. Some resent it, others(like me) don't let it bother them.
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7 hours ago, oldorange1 said:
It bewilders me to understand what the mid-century obsession was with the ongoing “man bites dog”, “dog bites man”, and also the, “thats no lady… ______”, repetitions. And there’s also the ever-ready screaming cat that is tossed into frame in the dark alley or dark warehouse scene right on cue.
You forgot;
"Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you glad to see me? "
Sure. There's plenty of repetitious gags and tropes in mid-century movie making. But it doesn't stop there. There's plenty in second half century movies and even 21st century movie making. Especially in the "horror" genre. To whit;
Demons with insect-like visages that open distended jaws while tilting their heads to one side like a curious puppy......
Then crawling up a wall and onto the ceiling.
Interior shots of "haunted" houses that quickly cut to an exterior shot just in time to show it's windows blowing outward.
Some "possesed" individual who suddenly(and for no given reason) shakes his/her head back and forth at a rapidly and blurring rate.
Get used to it. If it's discovered enough people like these sort of things, movie makers will overuse them to death.
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I clicked on a few of those "Sad life and tragic end" videos on YT only when trying to find a clip of said person from some movie. Yep, not always a tragic end or sad life, but still somewhat informative about their careers. I'm not sure about any other "misleading" YT clips as I don't go into YT until looking for something specific.
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19 hours ago, Aritosthenes said:
Is Said Film of which You Speak Any Good ?.
I Thought THE RUNNER STUMBLES was fair to middlin'. And I thought a topic that never got enough attention paid it as I figured it happened more than the Vatican probably wished it had.
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Sure. I've always liked that "snappy come back" and forth dialog between Hope and Crosby. And sometimes too, the self deprecation from the two. In one small way maybe.....
In one(forget which) Bing is telling the typically sarong clad Dorothy Lamour that he's anxious to get back to the States, "I'd like to see how the Pirates are doing..." ( some recall at the time, Crosby was part owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team). Lamour replied in a surprised voice, "You have pirates in America?" "Oh, yeah, " says Bing, "But they aren't anything to be afraid of" obviously knowing the audience is aware that ball team was(at the time) and spent many seasons in the cellar.
And in another (Morocco I think) Hope, seeing some guys rolling cigarettes at a table as he and Crosby try to sneak out of some evil sheikh's compound, remarks, "What are these guys rollin',...REEFERS?"
Took ME by surprise at the time.
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Here's a movie about another kind of "Hypnotic Eye".
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20 hours ago, Aritosthenes said:
God's Little Acre. Shoes of the Fisherman. Keys of the Kingdom. Lilies of the Field, and Dreamland for me.
Didn't much see GOD'S LITTLE ACRE as being a movie(or book) about religion. Not seriously anyway.
But then there's that DICK VAN DYKE film THE RUNNER STUMBLES('79) with KATHLEEN QUINLAN about the parish priest and a nun having a love affair.
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1 minute ago, nakano said:
I'am sure you are right,i thought all these years that he was mad because they runned out of popcorn....
"Runned"?
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16 minutes ago, txfilmfan said:
The last chapter of the book has the Star-Child returning to Earth. Once there, "he put forth his will, and the circling megatons flowered in a silent detonation that brought a brief, false dawn to half the sleeping globe."
Doesn't really make anything less ambiguous, eh?
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22 hours ago, Katie_G said:
That was my point. Did you miss the one about not quoting pics? I'd appreciate it.
I didn't quote the pics. Just the text.
And that text gave the impression you didn't really include Brando as Zapata with that Newman-Wallach duo.
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4 hours ago, nakano said:
i remember very well i was 16 at the time somebody in the UK -i think-killed somebody in the street coming out of the theater, i remember my feelings then when i saw the fillm and it could disturb vulnerable people the wrong way
I'd say that person who did the killing was disturbed long before ever seeing the movie.
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Been a while since I've seen it, but I seem to recall that "Star Baby" at the end of he movie is approaching Planet Earth, not a new, uninhabited planet....
Unless Clarke was trying to imply it was Bowman who'll cause the RE-INHABITATION of Earth after a future catastrophic event. I have a friend who firmly believes, since learning of the universe's continuous expansion, that the universe can only expand so far before it starts to contract and then, after it contracts so much as to crush all that exists, will start to expand again and everything will start all over again. He claims this explains that "deja vu" sensation we all feel occasionally.
You know... That the expansion/contraction thing has happened several times already
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2 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
I think my favorite of this type of film is The Apostle (1997) with Robert Duvall, who also wrote and directed it.
Duvall gives his greatest performance here. He plays a preacher who commits an act of violence and then goes on the run. He finds some redemption in a small bayou town. I liked the sympathetic treatment of Southern religious people for a change.
Been a while, but is that the one that ends with Duvall's character preaching the gospel while chopping weeds in a chain gang? Loved that flick too.
And we can't discuss movies about Religion without a mention of ELMER GANTRY, can we? I think it covers a lot of "soiled evangelists" ground.
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I think(based on personal observation and perception) that it seems Randall gave his Asian Lao more dignity than Rooney did his character in "Tiffany's".
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28 minutes ago, chaya bat woof woof said:
Not a fan of Andy G. either.
A Clockwork Orange is very disturbing and 2001 is also very disturbing.
I love it when people say crap like that. I never understand though, how people can make claims like that which admit they just don't GET it. Like...
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE was SUPPOSED to be disturbing. That was the POINT! And the only disturbing thing I can find about 2001 is it's way too ambiguous ending. But seeing it in a cinerama theater on a hit of mescaline makes it more enjoyable.
And what's with the hate for Andy Griffith? After growing up seeing him in his landmark TV show, his "Face In The Crowd" performance was astounding! And again, the "folksy sappyiness" of his tv show was the INTENT.
What kind of rock covered candyland do some of y'all come from anyway?
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11 hours ago, Katie_G said:
I was hoping to see some Spanish language films for Hispanic Heritage Month. Eli Wallach as Tuco and Paul Newman as Juan Carrasco were fine but not quite the same thing. Why no Brando as Zapata? 😜
Not to be a presumptuous ****, but please don't quote any pics until I get some web hosting that allows embedding. Thanks!
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Gotta wonder what the Hungarian-Polish Jew NEWMAN and the Polish Jew from Brooklyn WALLACH and the German-Dutch-English-Irish BRANDO pretending to be Hispanic has to do with "Hispanic Heritage Month", don'tcha?
I would think movies with actors and actresses of actual Hispanic/Spanish roots and ancestry would make more sense.
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11 hours ago, Mr. Gorman said:
MOON UNIT was taken by one of those Zappa chix, ya know? There was nuttin' I could do! I'm just stuck with "Moon Trash" until I empty my Intergalactic Garbage Can. Sheesh.
And one of those "chix" being his DAUGHTER, y'know(who has that name
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Me and some of my buddies would sometimes watch roller derby for laughs. That some people took it serious was the funniest part of it.
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1 hour ago, TomJH said:
2001 A Space Odyssey was all downhill for me after the apes left the film. I originally saw it at the show with friend who called it his favourite film of all time. By the time I got to the end with Keir Dullea aging and grey haired I was completely baffled - and bored. A slow, cold film lacking any sense of human warmth. Closest thing to it is a computer.
Someone said you have to read the book by Arthur C. Clarke to understand the ending. Well, if that it the case, what does that saying about Kubrick's deficiencies as a filmmaker? Okay, I liked Also sprach Zarathustra playing on the soundtrack, as well. That and the apes. That's all, folks!
Yeah well, I read the book and STILL don't get the ending. But I do like the rest of it. Not LOVE it, but I don't mind looking in on it every so often.
But I thought of another that many people are just "ga-ga" over(in here too) that really bores me to the bottom of my bowels....
BLADE RUNNER
An excellent movie mystery in that it's a mystery to me why this swill is so popular.
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You know... That the expansion/contraction thing has happened several times already
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You mean McLaglen's character is an Irish Catholic, Right? As McLaglen himself was not Irish (and whose family has Scottish roots as well) and the son of a protestant missionary(and later Bishop of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church) .
And my mention of the Catholic/Protestant thing(each considering the other as a different "race") was me just trying to be facetious.
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