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Gulager wrote and directed a short avante-garde short film in '69 called A DAY WITH THE BOYS that had a surprise ending. I think his son was part of the cast. I saw it(of course) as an in between movies filler at a local drive-in.
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That was a nice thing about that set-up.
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To "pun" it succinctly, I always thought that movie was a wash.
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16 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
sort of spoiler in re: THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
The part where the PREACHER'S PECULIAR SON kidnaps the little girl was a total gut-punch, but in retrospect- probably the high point of the film, or at least the most effective. Just...wow/ a GREAT example of how to subtly work in a parallel story within a movie and then take us on a sort of cul-de-sac off the main street where it's not a distraction or a waste of time and it only adds to the experience.
Believe it or not, I thought it was a way to move away from the main path of the story and give us all a bit of a break. Don't get your "gut punch" idea, but too, Peter saw a chance to throw in another sort of "comic relief" moment at the end of the segment when we see all the menfolk walking the distraught mother to her car and all seemingly forgetting the little girl they were supposed to be so concerned about walk silently unnoticed about 20 yards behind everybody.
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Some good lines in these clips....( and all from the same flick).......
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22 hours ago, Janet0312 said:
Oh, I got a lot of ribbing about the button on the floor that made high beams.
My old '60 Ford Falcon had that feature. But, for a long while I couldn't find the windshield washers until one night, when tapping my left foot hunting for the high beam button, hit another floor button that sent fluid squirting onto my windshield!
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10 hours ago, EricJ said:
First rule about trying to find 21st-cty. movie quotes: If you believe Will Ferrell comedies are "immortally quotable", grow up, seek help, or both. (Will someone please tell the Cult of Anchorman that in the real world, nobody else knows one single damn line from it, as most have never seen it in their lives? That's like finding an adult male who's seen "Mean Girls".)
Apart from the cult lines ("Just keep swimming"), the pop-culture Trailer Overexposed lines ("You shall not pass!"), and the four or five that got on the list as celebrated bad-kitsch lines ("You're tearing me apart, Lisa!") most seem to be just fangirl plot-development lines, with few that ever ended up quoted among non-fans...Or ended up on t-shirts like "I love you 3000".
There's a difference between "Best", and "The ones we remember without having to strain our brains too hard to think of a GOOD mainstream movie since 2001."
I will, however, give points on both judging criteria to "Even artichokes have hearts!" from Amelie. ❤️
Well, I AM an adult male who's SEEN "Mean Girls". But no, can't say I remember much about it. That's how much I was impressed. And I'm on board with you about the Will Ferrell/Achorman cult thing. I don't get it either.
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I don't know if it was MeTV or my cable service, but the 'toons kept freezing from time to time this morning.
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21 hours ago, Moe Howard said:
It's Mopar. So Chrysler Dodge and Plymouth all probably had a version. Supposed to be a 1971 Plymouth Valiant De Luxe.
Yep. In the late '70's there was the Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon, both built at the same Illinois assembly plant. What was funny was a buddy of mine had one(a '78) that had the OMNI script on one side, but the HORIZON script on the other.
3 hours ago, ElCid said:My father had a 65 Dart and was so impressed with it that he "helped" my sister purchase a 67 Dart. She drove it for a decade or more and well into six digit mileage - with minimal care.
I had a '64 Dart. That "slant 6" was able to take a lot of punishment. More than the car's differential, which went flooey and was the reason I had to junk it. I took a lot of ribbing about that push-button "shifter" on the dash. Like friends asking if they should leave some change in the ashtray fro me to use in case I needed to change gears or whatever.
I owned it from Oct. '71 to March '72, and it never did look as nice as the one here-----
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Would hate to play a game of "I spy" with that thing!
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Yep. Even with the shoulders fully covered!
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Never in a dream , but over the years several folks like, JOEY HEATHERTON, TUESDAY WELD, LINDA EVANS, GLYNNIS O'CONNOR, DONNA MILLS, ADRIENNE BARBEAU, PAM GRIER,
LOLA FALANA and many others have permeated many a DAYDREAM of mine!
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Oh, gimme a BREAK!
"Lovely bare shoulders"?
Sure. I can imagine a group of guys standing around a street corner and one of them pointing to a girl passing by and telling his buddies; "Wow! Lookit the shoulders on THAT one!"
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Yeah, I think it was either STARZ or ENCORE that had a feature like that some years back. They would show a variety of stuff you wouldn't ordinarily see shown in movie theaters, and much of the same kind of really "low grade" Sci-Fi you see on COMET these days.
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Sometimes a good wisecrack goes mostly unnoticed by some because none of the majors are delivering them. Like in KING KONG, in the later scenes showing people going into and already in the theater where Kong is going to be shown, there's a quick scene in which one lady asks another about what's going to be shown. The other lady says, "I hear it's supposed to be some big gorilla." Just then, some hulking mug, clumsily moving through the row of seats and apparently stepping on the one lady's foot, causes the lady to remark, "Gee, ain't we got enough of them in New York?"
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I would guess that might be the ONLY thing that would be impressive about it. Besides a couple of ambitious dance routines. But....
I always thought Paul Whiteman was the most APTLY named "jazz" musician to ever lead a "jazz" band!
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And yet, nobody seemed to have complained when in movies like COMING TO AMERICA ('88) EDDIE MURPHY performs in whiteface!
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What about N!XAU, the Namibian farmer who starred as the bushman XI in the 1980 film THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY ?
Did a few unheard of films after that(including the film's sequel) and actually hadn't much of a life or career after that, given his background of not knowing about money management and how to handle a moderate farm(which was much larger than he was used to) before dying of multiple drug resistant tuberculosis. Said to have been around 56-58 years of age possibly.
Same could be said of HAING S. Ngor, the Cambodian doctor who won an academy award for his role in THE KILLING FIELDS('85) and whose short 12 year acting career ended with his murder in 1996.
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Wonder if he ever meets up with LILY TOMLIN!
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20 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
I always thought it was bizarre how Barbara Stanwyck had to accept her Lifetime Achievement Oscar from John Travolta, unless the two of them had some sort of friendship I didn't know about.
Since it was the AWARD that was supposed to be the main focus, whom presented it to her was of no real consequence. Nor would their being friends or even knowing one another beforehand. I don't think stuff like that is ever taken into consideration. But I've always heard......
When Travolta finally got into making movies and being exposed around Hollywood he did much to make it a point to get "chummy" with plenty of "old timers" in the biz that were still around he was supposed to be such a big lifetime fan of a lot of them. Kind of the new "star" that was seriously starstruck. So, maybe he had met Stanwyck beforehand.
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4 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Any news that has NOTHING to do with:
1. Covid
2. Nazis
3. Race relations in America
gets my attention, it's kind of nice to have good old fashioned gossipy scandals like we used to before ypu-know-who came along and MONOPOLIZED ALL THE OXYGEN IN THE ROOM for four years of HELL.
Throw in race relations in the movie biz and we're simpatico.
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Not from a movie, but I thought it was good:
On an episode of "The Burns and Allen Show" Blanche (Bea Benaderet) tells hubby Harry( Larry Keating) , "You're such a jealous old buffoon."
And Harry replies, "I'm not jealous!" And Blanche comes back with;
"At least I got two out of three."
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15 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Seriously though, who’s surprised?
And seriously though....
Who really cares?
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Yep, those and when he busts his hands punching on Edward Platt's desk.
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In a scene from WINCHESTER '73 as Dutch(Stephan McNally) and his cohorts(can't name 'em) are riding across a prairie after stealing the prize rifle from Jimmy Stewart, and acknowledging they left their guns back in Dodge City(a requirement set by Wyatt Earp during a shooting contest) one cohort complains; " I ain't felt so naked since the last time I took a bath." To which the other cohort replies;
"You got a long memory."
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