roverrocks
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Everybody loves and raves over Audrey Hepburn movies..................................except me. Audrey Scrawny Hepburn and her voice and acting grate on me but then I love MARS ATTACKS so I have no taste whatsoever.
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Oh, my GAWD! I just HAD to come back in here with one!
When I left the "home office" that my PC is in, my wife dozed off and suddenly there was MARS ATTACKS! on Sy Fy.
Most critics, actors and actresses, and many people I know LOVED this turkey!
It HAS to be the dumbest movie I ever saw. AND with a "star-studded" CAST, no doubt. As horror movie parodies go, this HAS to be the most banal. That one of my favorite "golden era" actresses, Sylvia Sydney likely ended her career with a small role in this swill of a movie just makes me want to CRY!
If crap ever got drunk and decided to make a movie, THIS would be IT!
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I think MARS ATTACKS is delightfully dumb and dumber and camp and campier and .............................FUN!! You are taking this Python-esque monstrosity way too seriously. It hasn't a serious bone in it's absurdity. That's why it's fun!! It's a Three Stooges horror of dumbness.
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Guess I am one of a small number. Audrey Hepburn has never done a thing for me.
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This is a very good but as you say a rather quirky movie. Mr. Robards is excellent in his never-grow-up and keep-the-inner-child role.
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The greatest series of "sequels" have to be the James Bond series over 5 decades of allure. Most have been interesting and lavish and fun but no matter where the series goes in the future I will always recognize Sean Connery as the quintessential Bond of Bonds I look forward to future installments of this greatest of ongoing sequels. Always fun to see them whether terrific or not-so-terrific. They have been by far the most successful of "sequels" and spawned many imitations and basically started a whole new cult of movies and novels based on intelligence/spy services. No other series of "sequels" has been so macho male-fantasy oriented.
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The one and only original platinum blonde
I don't I know much about fashions or hosiery and am intrigued by the hosiery that Harlow is wearing? Exactly what type of seemingly multi-circular hosiery is she wearing? Looks quite odd to me but then I am quite ignorant of fashion.
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What a great noir film. Edmond O'Brien (who I always like seeing) gives a terrific performance, a very intriguing story line, and excellent on location street scene filming. And watch out for Chester (NevilIe Brand). I wouldn't mind seeing this film on the Saturday night essentials slot.
A very very good movie I am planning on watching again today. Yes, I would call this fine noir an "essential" as well.
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In Canada we didn't get to see Breaker Morant.
I am truly sorry that Canada did not get this fine movie. That is a load of malarky.
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I can't see how a B&W movie could ever be considered to be the most beautiful, since life without color is depressing.
There is a timelessness, grittiness, and mystical/mythical historical quality to B & W which color often does not have. B & W is like being outdoors on a moonlit night with no other lights about. No color in the moonlight especially in the snow. In the colorless moonlight Time ceases and just the moment exists and a billion other moments stretching backwards into history. That is what B & W movies are like for me. A moonlit history of days gone by. B & W is not depressing to me. Rather it is infinite and yet timeless. Surreal and dreaming. Novels are in black and white on the pages, black on white. Beautiful.
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They moved out of Chicago, to Baltimore, after about two years. Walt Bellamy was their name player.
I definitely remember Bellamy. Good player. I liked the NBA a lot better back in those days than I do these days.
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Do any of you remember the Chicago P a c k e r s expansion NBA team? They became, in turn, the Chicago Zephyrs, the Baltimore Bullets, the Capital Bullets, the Washington Bullets, and the Washington Wizards.
I sure don't remember the Chicago P a c k e r s. Interesting. Good name for a Chicago team since Chicago was such a stockyards/meat packing center.
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A day or an evening of Bob Hoskins movies would be a good thing for TCM to schedule. Marvelous actor.
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I agree. A TOWN LIKE ALICE is certainly a terrific movie.
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BREAKER MORANT (1980) is being aired tonight on TCM. I heartily recommend this moving riveting account of true actions and events and a courtroom trial during the Boer War in South Africa at the dawn of the 20th century. This is one of the finest movies ever made in my opinion. There is no better Australian movie. Engrossing and indicting. Well acted with an ending not to be missed. I have viewed this movie a number of times and never cease to be mesmerized by it. GALLIPOLI which follows BREAKER MORANT tonight is also a fine movie though not in the same league as BM. Both are moving, very moving in portraying the horrors of war and loss of innocence of the regular "everyman" soldier.
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Here's the daytime schedule for Tuesday, May 6th:
6:00 AM Scarlet Letter, The (1926)
In this silent film version of the classic tale, a single mother in Puritan New England bears her shame alone rather than expose the child's father.
Dir: Victor Seastrom Cast: Lillian Gish , Lars Hanson , Henry B. Walthall .
BW-98 mins,
8:00 AM Scarlet Pages (1930)
A female attorney makes a startling discovery about the woman she's defending from murder charges.
Dir: Ray Enright Cast: Elsie Ferguson , John Halliday , Marion Nixon .
BW-63 mins,
9:15 AM Scarlet Dawn (1932)
A Russian nobleman and his fiancee elope to live as peasants in Turkey.
Dir: William Dieterle Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. , Nancy Carroll , Lilyan Tashman .
BW-57 mins,
10:15 AM Scarlet River (1933)
During location shooting, a movie cowboy is called upon to act like the real thing.
Dir: Otto Brower Cast: Tom Keene , Dorothy Wilson , Creighton Chaney .
BW-54 mins,
11:15 AM Study in Scarlet, A (1933)
Sherlock Holmes is called in to solve the case when secret society members start dropping like flies.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin Cast: Reginald Owen , Anna May Wong , June Clyde .
BW-72 mins,
12:30 PM Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1935)
A British aristocrat's effete facade masks a swashbuckling hero rescuing victims of the French revolution.
Dir: Harold Young Cast: Leslie Howard , Merle Oberon , Raymond Massey .
BW-98 mins,
2:15 PM Scarlet Street (1945)
A middle aged wouldbe painter falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Edward G. Robinson , Joan Bennett , Dan Duryea .
BW-102 mins,
4:15 PM Scarlet Clue, The (1945)
Charlie Chan tracks down a spy ring that has stolen plans for a new radar system.
Dir: Phil Rosen Cast: Sidney Toler , Mantan Moreland , Ben Carter .
BW-65 mins,
5:30 PM Scarlet Coat, The (1955)
An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Cornel Wilde , Michael Wilding , George Sanders .
C-101 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
Very interesting. I had not noticed them coming. Thanks.
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Another thanks for the heads up.
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At the end, the man and woman in the alley committed a murder, so they too had to be punished. That is why they bumped into the policeman in the last scene, and he shined his flashlight in their faces.... so he could identify them at their trial later..... after the movie had ended.
Thanks!! Interesting.
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How about you, Rover?
Did you notice the 2nd Code Requirement at the end of the film?
No I did not but you have sure got me wondering what it is.
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TONIGHT 4 - 30 - 2014 8:00 PM EST (USA SCHEDULE)
Really really good movie. Bette Davis eyes are something else. They say so much.
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I want to see this movie. KEOMA sounds like a terrific Western. I love Westerns. Always have. There is no movie genre more truly American (even foreign made) than the Western. Come on TCM. Thanks for the more than vivid description and review cigarjoe. I can't remember if I ever saw KEOMA or not when it first came out. Sounds terrific.
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Jessica pant pant pant Rabbit pant pant pant The Red Bombshell pant pant pant in anything and everything!!!!!!! The ultimate femme fatale pant pant pant. The cartoon equivalent of luscious Ava Gardner to me. Both are dish of dishes. OH............MY!!!! A lotta actresses would never have made it big if Jessica had appeared in 1930.
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I enjoyed seeing THE YOUNG LIONS again. A fine movie with good acting and raises interesting questions in my opinion. My only gripe with the movie is the casting of Dean Martin. Other than Martin I think the movie was well casted. Wrong for the part and grates on me but then I have never been a Dean Martin fan especially not in a dramatic role. I think somebody like Glen Ford would have been much more believable in the part.
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Bob Hoskins: Excellent modern day actor whom I greatly enjoyed watching. Mr. Hoskins would have been terrific as an actor in the Golden Age of Hollywood if he been born 40 years earlier than he was. I can easily see him in the crime dramas and noirs of the Golden Age. He also had a definite comedic streak as well. RIP Mr. Hoskins.
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Wampanoaq Times, Dec. 1620
White man coastal invasion repulsed!!! Strangely dressed invaders forced back into the Sea!! Massive wooden canoes burned!! Samoset--Correspondent.
Movies You Can't Stand That Everyone Else Loves
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.................and I suppose you don't like the absolutely bonkers and hilarious and gut-busting Monty Python movies/skits either. Oh well, that's why I have Bill the Cat as my avatar photo. I'm bonkers and so proud of it. Self made in fact!! Go Bill!!! THBBFT!!!!!