Dargo2

"Donat" worry here, MaryLyn(sorry couldn't resist)...I'm sure they'll be showin' the GOOD version of this film very very soon.

Yep, you're so right, Fred. In fact, anybody old enough to have watched Japanese Anime all the way from "Astro Boy" to its present offerings could tell ya THAT, huh?! (...of course then again, that could all just be the result of the practice of "limited animation" those folks do over there, huh?!)

Don't get him started, clore. I hope you realize that this COULD all lead to some fear or distain he might have about how Raymond Burr always seemed to deliver his lines with that heavy breathing style of his! (...in OR out of a wheelchair!!!)

TCMfan23 wrote: I don't feel the same for other foreign films. 8 1/2 and Nights of Cabiria are my favorites. I like Fellini's films. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Oh! Well in THAT case TCMFan, maybe ya ought'a give Vittorio De Sica's epic, "Mothra: The Flying Radioactive Bicycle Snatcher", a try! (...could change your mind about all this if ya did, ya know!)

What?! Did they colorize that one...and maybe add some CGI effects to it TOO??? (...why didn't I hear about this, HUH???!!!)

Yes, but FIRST please wait to do this until AFTER you've completed your schooling and are established enough, both financially AND emotionally, to accept the burden which comes with raising children. (...yep, teenage pregnancy and/or teenage fatherhood would put a real crimp in the time you'll allot to watch old William Powell flicks about 9 months after the doctor tells ya "the rabbit died", ya know!)

obrienmundy wrote: "...But sometimes time is kinder to the unnominated film than the one that was nominated." ......................................................................... Aah yes...but enough about the year 1952, and the prime example of THIS little syndrome: The idea that "The Greatest Show on Earth" won the Oscar for Best Picture, while "Singin' in the Rain" wasn't even nominated in the category. And, I think we all know by now which was the better film and has become the most enduring of the two here, don't we?! (...but hey, I guess ya can't give the Oscar to Gene Kelly TWICE in a row, huh...people would've begun to talk, huh!)

Yeah! I admit it, Fred. I get into these bratty little freakin' moods o' mine sometimes, huh! (...but hey, in my defense, I ALSO often tweak the little noses of many of some of those morons back in SoCal and Hollywood TOO, ya know!!!) ROFL!!! OH! And btw Fred, my reference to that "sardonic little shot" was more geared to my statement about "the benevolence of tycoons" and the socio-economics repercusions of that particular "economic model" than it was to Jake....our resident Southern Gentleman...which you'll notice I didn't put quotation marks around, 'cause I actually think Jake IS a gentleman....mostly! Edited by: Dargo2 on Jun 15, 2012 1:23 PM

Well Joe, I gotta say I'm AT LEAST glad to see that it appears good ol' Lash here lived long enough to enjoy the "splendor" of vinyl roofs on cars, eh?!

Yeah...well...all I can say to all of my fellow old **** around here is... YOU try driving a freakin' car and texting at the same time, and see how well YOU do, HUH???!!! LOL!

Hibi wrote: HOW did Andy Griffith NOT rate a nomination for that film??? WTH? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Yeah, I agree with ya here, Hibi. That performance of Andy's WAS great. (...saaaay, ya don't suppose he didn't at least get nominated was 'cause those "Hollywood types" don't usually cotton to them there "Yahoo types"???...Yeah, that's GOTTA be it, alright!...it was a CONSPIRACY, and MAYBE the very beginnings of all these "Cultural Wars" we're seein' how, HUH???!!!) LOL!!!

Andy, Andy, Andy. Now, haven't you learned ANYTHING after all this time. We're not supposd to question the motives and the practices of big tycoons like ol' Henry Ford here!!! Noooooo! They ALWAYS know best 'cause they're so darn smart. It's for us, the little guys, to just reap the benefits of their all-knowing benevolence. I mean it's worked SO well for us these last few decades, now hasn't it?! Oh, and btw, just to show ya that I can be as nice a gentleman as Jake, our resident "Southern Gentleman" is...have a great day!) ROFL!!!! (...sorry Admin Michael...I JUST couldn't resist this sardonic little shot here)

While I can appreciate the sentiment behind it, I felt the way that segment was presented, it didn't fit in with the rest of the somewhat light-hearted segments in this anthology. Wouldn't it have been much more in-step with the rest of the film if say, Eddie Anderson, and say, Ethel Waters or maybe Lena Horne would've done a skit like the rest of the actors did in the other segments?

Funny, 'cause just a few weeks ago when I told my wife that Bob had just turned 80, she was shocked and said he doesn't look nearly that age...and I agreed with her.

Just got done watchin' this, bundie. While I don't think it was exactly "an excellent drama"...way too pat, and the judge's little speech at the end was blatant sermonizing to the camera(not that I don't agree with what he said, mind you), I thought the best thing about it was Bogart's performance, along with much of the rest of the cast. And now, to answer your question about the "ironic name" of that white supremacist group. I don't see anything at all "ironic" about that. Ya see, I have YET in my life to have found ANY thing logical(and irony demands the use of logic in order make an ironic point, as you may know) about these kinds of MORONS who would have the arrogant stupidity to refer to themselves as a "master race" and thus somehow deserving of a better life and better treatment than any other group of people. In fact, that Nazi MORON in Arizona who last month killed his girlfriend(who I can only suppose HAD to be as BiG a freakin' MORON as her boyfriend was...I mean, WHAT DO some women see in MORONS like that to BEGIN with, HUH???...but I digress), her daughter, her daughter's baby, and the daughter's fiancee, before turning the gun on himself, is a PRIME example of why I've always felt anybody who even THINKS about joinin' an organization such as that, couldn't OR shouldn't in a million freakin' years be considered by ANYONE with an IQ of over 85 or with a OUNCE of sense as a member of some supposed "master race". (...hope this answered your question)

Ya know Andy, after readin' what ya said there, I THINK I'm startin' to get why I prefer Stanwyck's and Garfield's acting to Brando's and Dean's...at least according to the roles and how each of 'em interpreted them. Ya see, my "new theory" is here that the characters and how actors like Stanwyck and Garfield played 'em didn't seem to be"begging for our sympathies to understand their "poor tortured misfortunes", and even if they were, they weren't obvious about it. Where as, the latter two, using their "Method", always seems to be doing exactly that! I mean, think of Brando's "Streetcar" Stanley or his "Waterfront" Terry, OR Dean's "Rebel" Jim or his "Eden" Cal here. Me?! Sometimes I just wish I was a freakin' character in those movies so I could smack 'em upside the head and say to 'em, "Hey! SNAP the heck out of it here, KID!" And I've NEVER gotten the impression that any character Stanwyck or Garfield ever played needed THAT. They suffered in silence with the best of 'em, and yet, you really feel for their characters. (...heck, Stanwyck was so good in "Stella Dallas" playin' the long suffering mother, and WITHOUT doin' any of this so-called "Method" stuff, that I DARE anyone with half a freakin' heart to not cry at the end of that movie!...somethin' I rarely do at the end of any Brando or Dean film!)

But then again, Wilt Chamberlain was reportedly MORE than happy to oblige his female fans with a little "personal interaction". (...yep, according to HIM, there were approximately 10,000 of those "personal interactions" to his name, as you've probably heard!!!) LOL!!!

Yeah, I guess ya got a point there alright, finance!

Yeah, actually I understand what you're sayin', dark. Yeah, I know Mr. Williams wrote the big lug that way. That was just my way of sayin' that I think Brando was/is a slight bit overrated...though I got's me a feelin' MarlonFan along with many a cinemaphile is gonna disagree with me if they read what I said there. AND, not to say here that I don't occasionally enjoy watchin' Brando do "his thing". BUT, then again, sometimes when I watch Brando doin' "his thing", I'm reminded of this Twilight Zone episode where Burt Reynolds does this GREAT comic Brando impression... ...and of which it appears from the following video, Brando would never forgive him for doin'... (...in other words, I think Brando was just too "full of himself")

> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote}*MARATHON MAN* Oh yeah, Charlotte. I was just about to mention that I still have a dire fear of my dentist walkin' into that little cubical I'm sittin' in at his office and sayin' to me..."Is it safe?"!!!

> {quote:title=TopBilled wrote:}{quote}Dargo, > > I felt Lindsay's work as the shrink was very good. I guess it's how you look at the performance. Yep, maybe so. TB. However, as I was sayin' here, I thought her performance just didn't come across as "natural" at all. Yep, it was MUCH too "Method"!!!

Lori wrote: I say will say that with Brando's technique he did bring more visible and vocal passion to his roles, and again I am not insulting Brando in any way. I just prefer the more subtle and natural style of passion of Garfield's technique. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Aah c'mon now, Lori. What?! Are ya runnin' for office or somethin'?! Just say it and stop sugar-coatin' it here! What Brando did with all his "affected" and "agonized" line deliveries was to make the concept of film over-acting acceptable to the public...and to the critics....period. I mean, c'mon! "STELLLLLLAAAAA! OH, STELLLLLLAAAA!"...that's NOT over-acting???!!!! LOL!!! To me, what these early "Method" film actors often did was just a different take on the over-acting styles that some early film stars had when they learned their craft on the stage and then moved to the Hollywood soundstage ...but they just "internalized" it. Like you said, give ME the more "natural" acting style of actors like Cagney, Stanwyck, Jimmy Stewart, and yeah, Garfield, ANY OL' time, TOO!

REDHarlow wrote: @Dargo I just unexpectedly saw the car, it was on exhibition today at the mall, it is goregeous but so small and does not look very safe at all for racing. but very cool that you have it! (I would love the 1973 grey chevy that Ryan Gosling has in Drive!!!!!!!!!!!!!) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Yep RED, my black with red interior Spyder is one little beauty alright, and never fails to garner attention whenever and whereever I drive it...and it's pretty darn small too, as you noted. You're also right that in a "worst case scenario", my chances of survival would be just about the same as young Mr. Dean's were. Speakin' o' which, there might be some people who don't know here that Dean's passenger on that fateful day, German mechanic Rolf Wuetherich, actually survived that crash, but lived a much troubled life thereafter, becoming an severe alcoholic for the next 20 years of his life, and ironically enough dying behind the wheel of car while driving drunk in his native Germany.

Yep, that's pretty much how it happened, alright. I own a replica Porsche 550 Spyder mid-engine race/sports car, very similar to the one Dean was killed in. It weights all of 1300lbs. And so, whenever I drive that little baby around out there on the road, I make sure I drive it as defensively out there as I do when I'm riding my motorcycles. (...'cause even though I'm now well over twice his age when he died, I don't particularly want to leave this world in the same manner as that kid did!)

Eeh! Don't worry infinite. If ya find yourself unable to fall asleep tonight, then here's all ya do: Just start countin' ... . . . . . . FLYIN' MONKEYS!!!! (...cue B. Herrmann's "Psycho" theme)