Vautrin
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THTF, good entry in The Manly Art of Self Defense noir subgenre. I've seen it three or four
times before, always worth watching. An actor can't pick the last film they will be in but
this was a pretty good one to end on for Bogie. Rod Steiger didn't go too far off the rails,
at least for Rod Steiger. I got a kick out of the scene after the pug died and Rod asks one
of his gofers to get some coffee. Then the guy says how about sandwiches too and sensitive
old Rod has a minor fit and acts like the guy just committed murder. I'm sure some folks would
have liked a ham and cheese at the time.
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5 hours ago, Hibi said:
Last weeks episode was more pedestrian. Could've compressed it to 15 mins. Noise problems again.......I grew up near Cleveland but had never heard of Old Brooklyn. Not sure where in the city it is.
Yeah, it was Hoarders with a murder involved. LOL.
Got some screwballs out in Ohio. Those houses must have been really close together. If I was
the dad I would have put a curfew on my kids, no basketball after 9 or whatever hour would
have worked, but that is no excuse for what the neighbor did. While it would have been a
huge hassle, he should just have moved, unless he was the kind of guy that was going to
get mad about something, no matter what. One of my neighbors has a basketball hoop,
though our houses aren't very close. I think it has been used about five times in the last
five years.
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1 hour ago, Princess of Tap said:
Lucky not to be put in jail.
Officer, she looked 18 to me.
Fairy tales can come true
It can happen to you if you're young at heart
For it's hard, you will find
To be narrow of mind if you're young at heart-
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I think the 50 year old making it with a 15 year old would describe him or herself as lucky.
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16 hours ago, EricJ said:
Fans kept wondering what exactly was WRONG with Daniel Craig's "Quantum of Solace", but they just didn't believe me when I kept trying to explain how it was an almost plot-for-plot remake of Timothy Dalton in "License to Kill".
Right down to Bond losing his License and going rogue on a personal vendetta, to kill the post-Cold War bad guy taken from the current headline issue of the week (00's third-world water, as opposed to 80's Central American drugs). And both were uncharacteristically nasty, icky, and had Bond acting like an enraged Liam Neeson thug rather than Her Majesty's Secret Servant.
Until TCM had these James Bond Thursdays I had only seen the ones with Sean Connery. I lost
interest as I got older. I enjoyed seeing one with Moore and the other with Dalton. Of course there
aren't many surprises to me anymore in the Bond movies, but they are entertaining and have
some fantastic stunts. I think the maiming of Leiter and the killing of his wife are sufficient reasons
for Bond to be revenge minded.
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Should have had chicken soup and speed available at the candy counter. Big mistake.
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He did go to the NYC intellectuals with romance problems well a few times too often,
but that's a minor complaint. And it would have been a neat injoke for him to put
an umlaut over the o, but no one's perfect.
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I agree a bit with the critics Ben mentioned who thought License to Kill was like a high
budget two hour long Miami Vice. The villain's plans were much more modest than some
of the other Bond villains who want to take over the world; he just wanted to sell drugs
to more people. And shoot off the occasional Stinger missile. But taking that into account,
it was still a pretty entertaining flick, with the extra theme of Bond alienated from some of
his spy pals. The vehicle chase finale was very well done, likely the high point of the movie.
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Max Cady I was sort of a good ol' boy but with an obvious sadistic streak and maybe a few
screws half loose. Max Cady II was just an out and out psycho with tattoos galore and
some way deep mental problems, though he was better read than Cady I and his cigars
were hilariously huge.
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Just now, Hibi said:
I was sorry the coward took the easy way out......
2 Asian sisters living in extreme filth. Couldnt even walk around there was so much junk/garbage laying around! I dont feel so bad about my place.
He was way off the rails, even for an FTN episode. I didn't see the one about the two Asian
sisters. Sounds like an episode of Hoarders.
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Just now, Hibi said:
LOL. Do you watch that Twisted Sisters show? There was a really bizarre case this week.......
FTN went downhill fast this time. From the first gesture!
I do watch Twister Sisters sometimes. It's more subtle than I thought it would be from the
title. I like the title of an upcoming series--Relatively Evil.
I finished with the FTN episode. Yep, Kevin had more than a few screws loose. I shouldn't have
laughed when he sucker punched the old lady, but I couldn't help myself.
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Plus who wants to watch people being nice to each other after the second cup of borrowed sugar?
Welcome to Bobcat Lane. Bobcat Lane.? Get the **** out of here.
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2 hours ago, Hibi said:
Yeah, I prefer the city after watching this series.......at least there are more people around.
There is certainly less green space to fight over, which seems to be how many of these things
start. Fortunately IRL there are fewer crazies out there than on FTN.
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7 hours ago, Hibi said:
I'm sure it'll be rerun. I forget where it was located. It was a good one, but really upsetting (at least for me).
Oh, I think it was northern CA.
I was able to get through the streaming maze and will watch it later on, today or tomorrow.
It's funny how many of the episodes begin with someone happy to get away from the danger
of the big city and move to the quite, peaceful countryside and then all hell breaks loose.
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8 hours ago, Hibi said:
Speaking of Noirs, did you watch Fear Thy Neighbor? That one was really upsetting to me.
I meant to, but for whatever reason it totally slipped my mind. I tried to stream it on the ID
website tonight, but it just keeps on going around in circles even though it's supposed to work
if you watch it on DirecTV (and other providers). I'll try again later.
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If Buck hadn't been a Texas hick he might have tuned into WNEW-FM instead of Cousin Brucie.
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Dullsville, baby. I saw it a number of years ago. At that time I concentrated on the foggy,
semi-mystical bs. This time I saw it as a triangle/adultery tale. Either way, there's not
much there. I was surprised by the ending. I thought Joan Bennett, the self-described
tramp, would have ditched Bickford, who was old enough to be her daddy, and went off
with Ryan before she ditched him somewhere down the road. Not even a heapin' helpin' of
Granny's possum stew could have saved this thing, though it could have been improved if
there had been a shot of Bob's horse taking a big dump on that pristine beach. I
have never found anything off putting about Joan Bennett.
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16 hours ago, NipkowDisc said:
Drax wasn't exactly no **** for the women so why does he get to pick and choose?
notice that Drax had no babe.
he's gonna reshape the earth and enjoy tea and cucumber sandwiches.
Well, a man who is planning to exterminate the world's population and then replace it doesn't
have a lot of time for extracurriculars. Tea and cucumber sandwiches. Gee if I were a super
villain who could eat anything he wanted, I'd pick something besides that. To each their own, I
suppose.
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8 hours ago, EricJ said:
In fact, the "Bond Will Be Back" credit at the end of '77's The Spy Who Loved Me suggests they were originally planning to go straight on to '81's For Your Eyes Only...Somebody got bumped up in line for '79.
I guess the producers decided to call an audible after Star Wars took off.
The death of the girl at the hands of the Dobermans is disturbing as a thought, but in the
movie they cut away from the worse of what happened to her. And of course I doubt viewers
were too surprised that a Bond villain would do something like that.
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5 hours ago, Gershwin fan said:
Your best post yet.
They should really leave the homosex Fascism to Yukio Mishima. 
Sometimes the subtexts just seem to come right out of the TV. And it's no coincidence that
Mishima offed himself with a sword.
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I don't think I could watch two Bond movies in a row, so I stuck with Moonraker last
night. Pretty entertaining with the usual James Bond stuff you expect in a Bond movie.
You've seen one you've just about seen them all. I must admit most of Bond's puns are
pretty obvious and certainly not very clever, but that's a minor complaint. I haven't seen
Close Encounters in many years, but the notes that open the door into the Venice lab
sound like the same ones from CE. Ben did mention that the recent space flicks were at
least part of the inspiration for Moonraker.
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I've read that Bowl of Puke was the title that Henry James initially wanted for what later
became The Golden Bowl.
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It's very likely that Meineke and Kindler were homosexual lovers in Germany. Maybe they were even
involved in a threesome with Ernst Rohm, though that is just speculation. The scene where Kindler
kills Meineke--I believe the body is covered with dirt not just to hide it but also to disguise the fact
that Kindler had just bumrushed Meineke and so some of Meineke's excrement is still around. And it's
also possible that Meineke, a possible practitioner of auto-erotic play, does not realized he is being
strangled for a different reason. The color of dirt/excrement is also an ironic comment on the anti-Nazi
group White Rose. The two Nazis don't want anything to do with that color. It's also obvious that
Noah is gay or at least bisexual. He is really a non-Noah, not bringing two things together but trying
to separate the two sexual attractions he feels so he can better regulate his desires. The happy go
lucky store proprietor uses his blindfold in order to symbolically hide his own homosexuality. He puts
it on in moments of mental concentration to shield his physical concentration on male bodies. Kindler
has not totally given up on his religion. He sees the ladder in the church as a Jacob's ladder leading
to the superior, in his belief, way of homosexuality. A heterosexual woman like his wife can not be
allowed to ascend the ladder to this higher form of life, so Kindler saws it in order to prevent her
from climbing it. Then there is the hidden in plain sight fact that a combination of the two Nazi's
names equals my child which represents both Meineke's age in relation to Kindler's and the possibility
that both may enjoy having intimate relations with children.
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During the hand off from Chris Cuomo to D Lemon last night, Cuomo asked Lemon if
he was as angry as Cuomo was about the idea of remaking The Princess Bride. Don
admitted he had never seen the original because it wasn't his kind of movie. I hear you,
brother. He then said that he preferred old black and white movies and was a fan of TCM.
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I think he was a steelworker so maybe he had some kind of shift work where he wasn't at home
during certain hours. It's hard to tell from an hour long program about the details of their life.
Was it a hard core party house or just a place where kids congregated. The one son did go off
to college so I guess they studied a little bit.