Sepiatone
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16 hours ago, TopBilled said:
I think what I was saying is that even if I did not read any reviews beforehand, I would still not be surprised by anything that plays out on screen.
Ha!
But we'll never know that for sure as long as there are movies that for one reason or another you just never seem to get around to seeing, right?
As for reviews, I've never relied on them to determine ahead of time whether or not i might like or not like any movie. When a new movie would come out I'd read newspaper critic's reviews mostly to get an idea of what the movie was about. I've seen many movies that critics dumped on and vehemently hated that I wound up fully enjoying. And vice-versa. Which is also why I don't fully subscribe to any political ideology("liberal", "conservative" and that nonsense) as the people I know that do usually robot-like repeat the same opinions and state the same ideals like some collection of "pod people". I prefer to do my own thinking thank you. I know this appears to be digressing....
But I've also noticed that similar behavior from people who go by everything some movie or music critics say.
I know you're smarter than that Top. And surely you can find more reliable and objective sources of movie info than reviews.
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21 hours ago, ElCid said:
I didn't wear Keds and not sure that many other guys wore them either. At least not that I can recall. We wore white "tennis" shoes, which weren't really tennis shoes but a cheaper version.
Really, back in the '50's those white/black and red canvas shoes were what tennis pros wore. And the high top Converse ones were worn by most NBA pros. Luckily for them( and unfortunate for podiatry) footwear for those sports(and for runners) improved tremendously by the late '60's and '70's. My "tennis" shoes were at one time white canvas. But I quickly changed that look and any attempts by my Mom to get them white again never seemed to work.
Or last.
18 hours ago, TikiSoo said:Man those sneakers are THE WORST for your feet. Zero support. I stopped wearing those by time I was 25.
Well, I quit wearing them long before that. But in my 30's bought a pair(for the nostalgia kick) of red Converse high top sneakers. And you're right. Longest I was able to endure them was a half hour.
And possibly because I got spoiled by my use of REEBOK walkers. Most comfy shoes I ever owned.
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So, why not just SAY, "I have to try to find the time to spare" or some other BS instead of making it appear that watching THE BIG SKY is somehow so emotionally draining that trying to watch it before he's "ready" might throw him into some kind of psychosis. 
Besides, that movie really isn't THAT "serious" that watching it might cause a person to delve into some hopeless despondency. Plus, if Top has it copied, or owns a copy of it there's no reason he couldn't watch it at his leisure without fearing for psychological damage. Or he could just say he's not that interested in seeing it as the summary of it made it seem he might not really like it all that much.
22 hours ago, TopBilled said:Sorry but I find the tone of your reply to be unnecessarily negative. I think we are all adults around here and can tolerate someone approaching film viewing different than we might.
And for the record I was not asking for your advice.
We see(and often hear) what we want to. I wasn't intending to be negative and don't believe I was as much as I was being reactionary.
But I will apologize regardless. and also give kudos to you for not using ridiculous 21st century social media "dweebspeak" like "passive/Aggressive".
As for the movie....
The fistfight between Heston and Peck is alone worth the wait.
Predictable, sure. But still......
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I can't remember what brand of sneakers I had as a kid. But probably some lesser brand my Mom likely got at Sears. There were no such places as K-Mart, Spartan, Shopper's Fair, or really no kind of discount houses except maybe for S.S.Kresge. And Woolworth or Neisner's "five and dime" stores didn't carry much in the way of sneakers, what we used to call "tennis shoes" at the time.
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22 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Something like THE BIG COUNTRY is probably too long and would have to wait until I have a free Sunday afternoon to devote to it. But of course I have to be psychologically ready, which means I will need time to read reviews of the film before I sit down to watch it. I cannot just go into a film screening blindly. I have to be fully aware and know what to look for.
"Psychologically ready"? Oy! We're talking a late '50's Western "epic" here( I just about call any movie almost three hours long an "epic"). NOT some dark, soul wrenching human introspection by Fellini or Bergman. So the time element can be your only sensible sounding excuse. And why the need to read reviews about it? WHOSE reviews, and why not just watch the damned movie and make up your OWN MIND about if you think it's good or bad? Nobody else can really tell anyone else what to look for in any movie. People are (hopefully) mostly individuals with individual tastes and reactions. OK, let's just say you've seen this movie. But it wouldn't surprise anyone(who thinks) that what YOU might like best about it(hypothetically assuming you do like it) is far different from what I like best about it. Or too, what makes ME like it so much could be what might make YOU hate it! Oh, and.....
I've never(and likely never will) considered my watching a movie as being a "screening".
Neither at home OR at a theater. Seems a bit pretentious to me. My advice?
Just watch the damn movie. Sit there with a snack, a drink and an open mind. If you like and enjoyed the principals in this movie in other films they made chances are good for your liking this movie too. Just expect nothing more than hopefully to be entertained by it and look for no deep message, allegory or modern day interpretation through an early American tale and it just may wind up being one of your favorites too. Lets PLEASE not be like those blowhards on CNN's "History Of The Sitcom" who"see" shows like THE MUNSTERS, ADDAMS FAMILY, and BEWITCHED as representative of the "African-American in white society" sort of thing, or I DREAM OF JEANNIE as promoting misogyny. Really, nobody took them(nor intended them) to be more than "fish out of water" type of stories and comedies.
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Actually, those "over extolled" virtues are usually what draws me towards a movie. You know, to see what all the fuss is about. And if it turns out that for me, the movie is "much ado about nothing" I usually realize it before(in many cases) it gets to the halfway point.
Any delay might be either the title doesn't spark interest, or it stars actors and/or actresses I never cared for. Or too, maybe it's never broadcast at times convenient for me or it's on stations I don't get . Different reasons for different movies really.
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The show debuted when I was in 9th grade('66) and came on in mid afternoon and ran until '71 when I was out of high school and preoccupied with other things besides a soap opera I wasn't familiar with.
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In a way. I use Wide Open West(WOW) for my cable service in my area, and TCM is part of it's basic package and comes with no extra fee to receive it. My sister in law has Comcast though, and can't get TCM unless she pays extra for it.
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Oh, THAT Dark Shadows. NOT the "dark shadows" Trump said the ones running the democrat party are hiding in.
Never been a fan of the show, but mostly because it came on when I was busy earning money at my part time after school job. It WAS after all, WAY before VCRs came about. Originally that is. And when it was resurrected years later(with new cast and all) it didn't catch my attention then since I was into different things by then. I did know many who liked the original "vampire soap opera" though and realized it had a huge fan base.
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eh, what new format are you referring to? I only come to this site for message board participation.
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On 8/11/2021 at 1:16 PM, jamesjazzguitar said:
I know you couldn't. But at least I'm not an idiot that can't see that Kay Francis isn't glamourous.
Me either. I can EASILY see that Kay Francis isn't glamorous.
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On 8/13/2021 at 4:44 PM, looney4tcm said:
How dare you talk to me like that. I'm an Advanced Member.
Well, I'M an ENHANCED member, so ask me nice and I'll consider watching how I "talk" to you.
(nobody really "talks" here you know.)....
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Well, I never noticed. I really didn't look for any "star" rating. I just naturally assumed it would always get four stars.
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22 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
I don't view Kay Francis as a beauty (instead attractive \ fine looking) but as I told my wife last night, I find her to be one of the most glamorous actresses of her era. Thus I find Constance Bennett and Kay Francis to be two of the most glamorous actresses of the 30s. E.g. how they were gowns, hats, how they walked, their overall style,,,,
I never knew they WERE gowns!
I just thought they WORE them.
(couldn't resist. )
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18 hours ago, NostalgicNautilus said:
Oh yes. I always stick around for the credits now...definitely cheated if I don't. My wife is the one who searches for "the caterer" now...That is, if she hasn't already jumped on IMDB before the movie is over to figure it out. Haha.
Well I was actually referring to the "outtakes" when mentioning we felt cheated if a movie didn't have them.
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Well, I like her OK as an actress. But not a great one. And too, while I don't think of her as unattractive, I wouldn't, as Karger does, think of her as "glamorous".
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34 minutes ago, Mr. Gorman said:
Didn't that entire season of DALLAS end up written off as a dream?
I remember the TV critic for The Detroit Free Press calling that season a "nightmare".
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What about GREGORY SIERRA, who, as neighbor JULIO FUENTES disappeared from SANFORD AND SON after a dozen or so episodes, then later turned up as det .Sgt. CHANO AMENGUAL on BARNEY MILLER and disappeared again after a season. Then later I think, had the same fates on a couple or so other TV shows.
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14 hours ago, LuckyDan said:
Beedge? You must have typed ****.
Edit - yep. You typed ****. I wonder if we can say ****?
Edit 2 - nope. The software speaks Italian!
"Beedge"? That would be pronounced "BEEJ"
Sewhite could have typed; BEE JAY" or maybe just "Hunnicutt"
But, I'll try something....
B.J.
See? Maybe his mistake was not putting periods after the "B" and the "J"
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2 minutes ago, txfilmfan said:
Before IMDb, I used to stay to see where a movie was filmed. That's almost always one of the last things listed, just before all the SDDS, Dolby, DTS, THX logos.
I suppose if it looked like the movie was filmed "on location" somewhere not mentioned in the opening credits, that might be interesting. But when it's obvious it was filmed in a studio(or studios) I couldn't care less where that studio was located. And it was clear to me the the movie GRAVITY('13) wasn't actually shot "on location" in outer space.
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On 8/6/2021 at 2:01 PM, BingFan said:
(Emphasis added.) I don't disagree with most of what you say. The concept of "collective guilt" is problematic. But in response to your last paragraph, I think it's worth noting that the living experience of slavery -- and its concrete after-effects -- isn't quite so long ago.
When I was born in the late 1950s, there were still at least a few people living who were born into slavery. There were also many children and grandchildren of formerly enslaved people living in our world then, which continues today. The effects of slavery on our society as a whole -- and especially on those people who had direct connections to slavery -- didn't simply disappear when Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation or when the 13th Amendment, prohibiting slavery, was added to the Constitution right after the Civil War.
Former slaves and their descendants in the southern US lived through a Jim Crow era that began immediately after the Civil War and stretched into the 1960s. Laws effectively stopped them from voting and prohibited them from living in the same neighborhoods and going to the same schools with white people, among other things. Several states had laws prohibiting interracial marriage into the 1960s. In the northern US, there were fewer Jim Crow laws, but discrimination was still rampant. Things like restrictive covenants kept white homeowners from selling their houses to black people. De facto segregation made many neighborhoods and schools either all white or all black. I experienced this myself -- I didn't live near or go to school with a single black person until I left the northern city I grew up in and went off to a more integrated college.
This kind of segregation and discrimination began immediately after slavery was abolished, to keep the races separate and to maintain one race's control over the other. The situation didn't start to get better until the 1960s, and that process of improvement is still ongoing.
I agree that it's problematic to hold someone personally responsible for things that happened long before they were born. But I do think we have a responsibility as a society to correct the lasting effects of slavery. We all benefit from improving our society.
Sure. But the point you're missing is that those people born into slavery that were still living when you were born(and I, born in '51) weren't enslaved any more. And according to some, if I adopted the same logic, I should either refuse to be friends with, or demand an apology or restitution from a close friend of mine, who's of German descent, because of what Germans did to the Polish in WWII. But in his case, his family emigrated from Germany before WWI, and he's five years my junior. So nobody in his family was involved with any of that, and having animosity and angst with him and his family just doesn't make sense.
But in a way it appears you seem to think I don't care what African-American's slave ancestors endured during that most regrettable period of American history. And as commendable your last sentence is, there's sadly too many(and sadly, in high places) that have no wish to improve our society if it means everyone gets the same level of respect and enjoy all the same rights. THEIR idea of "improvement" is getting all of us to think and act like THEM. Which truly isn't good for ANYBODY.
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I used to kid about that stuff sometimes. Like, when it was clear the movie was over, my wife wanted to immediately leave the theater. But there was such a crush of people leaving I preferred to wait until the crowd thinned out. But I'd always use the exuse of, "No, not yet. I wanna watch the credits and see who the BEST BOY and GAFFER was!"
Or sometimes I'd say "The caterer."
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They addressed this sort of thing on an episode of ROSEANNE (yeah, I used to watch it for a few years. So what?) .
After a couple or so seasons they changed the young actress who played the older daughter Becky. And on her debut episode, it ended showing them all sitting in the living room watching TV. By the sound coming from the "TV set" it was clear they were watching an old episode of BEWITCHED. The younger daughter (Darlene) asked, "What made them think they could change Darrins and that nobody would notice?" And Roseanne answered, "Well, it was a hit show. They probably thought they could get away with it." Then there was some talk about how some said they liked the "old Darrin" better. Then the camera had a close-up on the older daughter now being played by a different actress than originally, who, with a slight grin said, "I like the new Darrin."
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Gotcha.
But it's been years since I've seen it, so thanks for the heads up!
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And possibly because I got spoiled by my use of REEBOK walkers. 
So, why not just SAY, "I have to try to find the time to spare" or some other BS instead of making it appear that watching THE BIG SKY is somehow so emotionally draining that trying to watch it before he's "ready" might throw him into some kind of psychosis. 
Besides, that movie really isn't THAT "serious" that watching it might cause a person to delve into some hopeless despondency. 
I remember the TV critic for The Detroit Free Press calling that season a "nightmare". 
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