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Awww, that's too bad. So, lemme guess here...the poor guy is always somewhat lackluster and monotone and shows little passion whenever he's presenting his cases to the juries. (...kinda like Matthew Broderick and half the guest presenters at TCM, SAY?!) LOL

Like it's ALWAYS been done in our "Advocate/Adversarial Court System" of course, James! (...the person with the best, most likable and most often higher paid attorney will win, facts be damned...ESPECIALLY out YOUR way in L.A.!) LOL

So James, it appears you might have read my earliest(and yes, surprising serious) post in this baby, and where I pretty much said the same thing you just did here, huh?! (...well, it's at least good to know that SOMEBODY around here reads my stuff occasionally!) LOL

LOL Great answer, Andy!

Well, IF there had never been a Hays Code, MY guess is we would've seen a lot more movies featuring bears dumping in the woods. (...'cause like I said earlier, those lousy bears NEVER read the "No Dumping" signs, and people have always loved watchin' movies about scofflaws!)

Well, if we're now gonna talk about POST-1970 films, then the most obvious example of all this would be in TikiSoo's favorite Tom Hanks movie..."Sleepless In Seattle". In fact, the whole movie's premise is of course pretty much based upon a showing of "An Affair To Remember" while a number of people are watching it. (...and btw...sorry TikiSoo...I just couldn't resist that one) LOL

Yeah, that's the thing with those lousy bears...not only do some of 'em steal pick-a-nick baskets, but they don't ever bother readin' those "No Dumping" signs either. (...so glad you didn't hurt yourself tryin' to come up with an answer to this thing, Jake ol' boy!) LOL

I only thing that comes to my mind with this supposition is that it's been said many times by many people that the genre of Film Noir became especially popular with a more cynical and world-weary post-WWII American audience, and much of the more lighthearted fare such as screwball comedies and musicals waned in popularity after that conflict and because of the war acting as that "social catalyst". And so, I'd say IF the war never occurred, then it might be very possible that at least THESE two or three genres might have experienced different fates...at least for a while, anyway.

Yep, that's the one, Holden.

Awww, THAT'S a shame. They settled, huh?! I was hopin' to maybe see Joan and THIS time Shirley fightin' it out in a big fountain or somethin' like THIS again... LOL

>THE APARTMENT-----GRAND HOTEL (almost) LOL Yeah finance, I've always loved that scene where Lemmon's hopes keep getting dashed while sitting in front of the set with that TV dinner! Though, this DOES spring to mind all the movies made mostly in the '50s and '60s which also feature someone sitting in front of a TV set showing that same cowboys/cavalry and Indians chase scene that Lemmon keeps changing the channel away from...and even though off the top of my head I can't name a particular movie with this instance, but I know I've seen it.

OY! Poor Van...that schlemiel ALWAYS had the worst luck with women, didn't HE?!

"Like", who might you be referring to here, finance??? And hey, at LEAST this female voiceover artist, whoever she is, doesn't have one of REALLY annoying "Vocal Fry" things goin' on! (...such as I now seem to be hearing a lot of recently and done by Twenty-Something females in particular while apparently attempting to sound more "serious" and "authoritative" whenever they open their mouths!)

Well then, like I said, I guess we're not as "kindred" as I thought we were, ol' buddy. 'Cause, the antics AND the dialogue spouted by the characters of Sheldon, Leonard, Penny, Wolowitz, Raj, and especially Amy Farrah Fowler lately, have me often rollin' with laughter.

Yeah, I know. Evidently, while being a "nice guy", Ernie wasn't all that keen when it came to picking spouses, huh! (...a trait which of course seems rather wide-spread throughout the country now days, and NOT just within the confines of Beverly Hills)

Yep, Sepia, I also think "Modern Family" IS probably the funniest and best written sitcom presently, though I think the best thing I can say about "The Middle" is that it's an "innocuous" little comedy.

I find it rather strange and interesting that you'd pick the "lowbrow" Gilligan's Island with all the dumbed-downed characters in it, to compare to The Big Bang's sharply written dialogue and intellectual characters.

Yeah Lavender, that always DID kinda confuse the clerk at the Beverly Hills Hallmark Shop when Ernie would purchase TWO "Happy Birthday, Dear Wife" cards at the same time.

>Isn't the title of this thread in error? These would be Oscar nominations for films released in 2013. Uh-huh...but evidently with an additional slight correction to your thought here, TB: As is apparently the trend now days, "Oscar nominations for films released in LATE 2013"! (...and hence most likely the reason Redford and few others who's films came out earlier in the year were left out)

"Yep. I be a bit of a cowpoke in my younger days."

>1. Where was Tom Hanks?!?! Well, I know ONE thing for sure here...he wasn't at TikiSoo's house this morning!

Yep, it's Jim Parsons, Hibi. And how he can keep a straight face while rattling off his hilariously nerdy lines as Sheldon is amazing to me. (...and I guess the reason he's won the Best Actor in a Comedy Emmy the last few years)

Wow, dark ol' buddy! I guess we're not as much "kindred spirits" as I thought, 'cause I think "The Big Bang Theory" is one of the funniest sitcoms to ever hit the airwaves.

>Dargo2: What would you want in a "remake" of the great film THE PETRIFIED FOREST? Modern nudity and sex? The Bette Davis character be a mini skirted breasts-hanging-out harlot on the prowl for a money man to take her to Paris. The Bogart gang be a Mexican drug Cartel gang with everything up to nuclear weaponry? Gallons of blood, body parts, and whole bodies cartwheeling in slow motion at the gas station shootout? The F*** word said in every sentence rather than have actual well written dialogue? That the sweet/thoughtful Leslie Howard character be a lone wandering Hells Angel type with crossed sawed off shotguns on his back or would you just make Leslie into a crazed silent madman who takes everybody in with his wit and charm before **** and exterminating. The Banker and his wife could be Hollywood types fleeing from fraud in their Bentley with a Russian mafioso bodyguard/chauffeur. Must have the modern obligatory high speed mindless chase scenes plus heavily armed SWAT types rappelling out of helicopters armed with fanciful MG's. Ooh! GREAT ideas ALL here, RR! You're HIRED!!! (...juuuuuus' kiddin') >There sure are a lot of ways to have a remake of the classic THE PETRIFIED FOREST and all of them sound horrible and since all of the original fine cast/crew are long dead why don't we just tip our hats to their genius and forget a remake. The answer to your question lay in the idea that I've always thought Archie Mayo's direction of this film as being "stage-bound". And while I would HOPE that any remake possibly made of this film would NOT include any of the over-the-top suggestions you made here and which I'm sure were only offered up by you in this manner to bolster your opinion/argument which appears to be "remakes are bad"(and not always true, btw...ever watched both sound versions of "The Maltese Falcon"? or for that matter both versions of "True Grit"?...but I digress), I believe the story and its messages of people being caught in a certain social-economic status as to be unable to break free of these constraints placed upon them and thus live in a world they hate being in, AND the conflict inherent when people of these different social-economic backgrounds come in contact, ARE interesting enough concepts that almost beg to be re-visited every few generations or so....and yes, UPDATED with fresh eyes and by use of more current references to these timeless social concepts. (...I hope I answered your question satisfactorily here, RR)

>Incredibly Laughton had originally wanted Gary Cooper for the role. Oooh, now THAT would've been interesting. (...in a 'Hank "Once Upon a Time in the West" Fonda' sort'a way)