NipkowDisc
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Well, Jake ol' boy. Clint's movie's title DOES have the word "American" in it, now doesn't it?!
And so, c'mon now! YOU know how "Hollywood hates America", now doncha?!!!!
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(...yeah, I figured all the "Good Ol' Boys" out there would get their freakin' noses out o' joint after Clint got shut out last night...yep, I'll bet ALL the freakin' AM radio blowhards are havin' a REAL field day with THIS this morning!!!)
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I doan have any problem with how american sniper did last nite at all. sat though it once and quite frankly I found it only a so-so film.
dramatically clint's direction was weak in spots. like when kyle makes the mile-long kill on the iraqi sniper....
clint shoulda made that a gut-shot with the scum writhing in pain for a minute before he expired.
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patricia arquette and her silly ramblings about wage equality. this is why alotta people watch. to hear hilarious happy HS like that.
what does she, a rich 1% hollywood celeb have to do with wage equality?...
nuthin!
this is why some viewers will laugh.
the utter silliness of the level of self-importance that celebs will chronically attribute to themselves.
rich hollywood celebs fretting over wage equality?...
silly, silly people.
I guess receiving their statuettes makes some of them giddy.
maybe a film about hollywood celebrity life is in order...
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Hollywood gets hit on a regular basis. Go to any grocery store and you see right at the cashier. Ever heard of the Enquirer or The Star ? And the host of others that mark every move they make ?
Not even Wall St has that. And hey, movie star are given their money. They don't tear apart any businesses to earn their checks.
meaning what? that they can enjoy their palatial mansions, swimming pools and yachts without a pang of concern for the rest of the world? they don't have the same onus on them?
they can talk about wage equality and the rain forests when they don't have more pressing matters on their minds like their next movie?...
well, that's just so darn nice of them.
hollywood films have never exactly been great advocates for moral restraint in human interpersonal relationships (which many feel has done great damage to our country's moral fiber) and as far as those grocery checkout mags are concerned. may I quote the late great victor mature who said...
"if you want your phu king privacy then don't become a phu king movie star"
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when the first speaker mentioned how much american sniper has grossed, I hope the applause that got didn't weaken the ceiling plaster of the dolby theater
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You obviously saw a different movie than most of America did...or in YOUR case, should that be 'murica?
Anyway, it was Neary's WIFE who refused to bend on the ufo thing, thinking all he need do is FORGET he had a deeply traumatizing experience, and just be the kind of husband SHE wanted him to be. Remember, when he was going through what seemed like a classic nervous breakdown( the scene in the shower) and NEEDED her comfort and understanding, SHE flew into a rage about how HIS troubles are too much for HER to handle! Don't forget---SHE was the one trying to come up with some kind of dumb-azz explanations as to why his FACE was burned on one side, for fear that other people might NOT think KINDLY of them or her! Now, THAT'S nacissism!
So, WHOM was first in being a less than good spouse THEN?
And, just wondering...did this somehow hit a personal note with you?
And, if you WERE paying attention, he HAD no "choice". That'd be like saying my cousin CHOSE to be paranoid schizophrenic.
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oh c'mon. how is the woman suppose to react to dirt, rocks and plant material being chucked through the kitchen window by shovel?
he didn't even say "ronnie, I'll clean it all up later".
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It might be hard for you to believe but, there are races besides black and white. And I am only a few years older than you are. Its all old fogeys here.
You have to take the Oscars in context. Each year has events and sensibilities of that time. You can't take 2015 mentality to 1946 or any other time. What might be amazing then today might seem ordinary. You would have to be there to know.
When else are the rich and famous going to get all decked out and walk the red carpet ? For many non sports fans, this is their Super Bowl !
but why should the hollywood 1%'s glorification (or is it deification?) go unchallenged by the media when it is always open season on the wall street 1%?
are the hollywood 1%'s mansions and swimming pools and yachts smaller than their wall street counterpart's selfsame luxuries?
methinks not so...
why the free pass?
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maybe closing commentary was deemed unimportant because Patton is certainly an old school war film.
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Same with my father, Jake. And yeah, Pop never spoke much of his war experiences either.
However, I do remember going to see this film with him when it was first released and recalling him laughing out loud knowingly at the scene in which two G.I.s exchange the follow lines as they see Patton drive by in his staff car:
Soldier 1: "There goes Old Blood and Guts!"
Soldier 2: 'Yeah, our blood and his guts!"
(...btw, Pop had all of Bill Mauldin's "Willie and Joe" books, and he loved Mauldin's sense of humor too)
I believe that in the film Soldier 2's line is "Yeah, our blood, his guts."
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neary's passage on the mother ship should have been an exchange by the aliens for this guy...
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Obsession with something outside of oneself is not the same thing as narcissism.
Narcissism is believing that you deserve attention all the time because you are just that special. Narcissists have a need for attention and praise beyond what's usual for most.
well, my understanding is that narcissism is a more extreme word for selfishness. at the end neary is only thinking about his big space ride and completely sets aside his responsibilities as a married family man because his wife refused to comfort his nutso behavior. most housewives are not gonna look past dirt in their kitchen sinks.
yeah, neary had an obsession but he did choose to make it all-encompassing to himself. he's talking to his wife on the phone, imploring her to return, pledging that he'll do whatever she wants...until he see devil's tower on the TV then he could give a rock's throw about the alienation from her and his kids.
obviously he considers his ufo experience more important than his family. what kinda message be that?
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tcm wins this one. I'm gonna watch that circus for the sheer comedics until ten thirty then I will switch to tcm for one flew over the cuckoo's nest followed by dog day afternoon.
not a hard choice at all.
"huh? yer gonna make us watch the academy awards tah nite???"
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I never knew that William Schallert started out as a weather man either.
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I think it is somewhat. roy neary has a ufo encounter and looses his cookies. he looses his job, upsets teri garr who plays his wonderful wife, eventually destroying his nice home's outside shrubbery, steals his neighbor's chicken wire goose enclosure and then shovels dirt into his kitchen sink.
so his wife understandably piles the kids into the station wagon and puts distance between her and his idiocies.
the boob follows his dream to the big finale on top of devil's tower in wyoming and he's off!...
giving absolutely no thought whatsoever to what his wife and children are to think years later. like he cares. he's gonna take a space ride!
all of that a narcissistic binge or what?
thanks I think are in order to those little rubbery chaps for removing such a silly ay-whole from the earth.
oh, and that scene where all the technicians are praying before their big departure was lifted, in my opinion, from above and beyond.
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Half of the show is the actual movie, the other half is the corny jokes and gags of Svengoolie. They have to fill the 2 hour time slot and some of these flicks only go for about 75 minutes. If it were AMC we could have 45 minutes of commercials (UGH). To his credit, Svengoolie does offer up a lot of info about the film and the people in it. The jokes, well, someone must have an old Milton Berle / Henny Youngman gag book. Some are so bad they are good. I look at it this way, if the film is one that is really good (or at least you like) Svengoolie is a pain . If the movie is so, so , or really bad, he provides the entertainment to keep you tuned in. (Cid and I look for the 50's period cars. The Hemi powered De Soto was necessary to speed the little girl to the hospital and save her life.)
you can definitely pick up tidbits of info from svengoolie. like I never knew Les Tremayne was english. hell, I always thought he was american.
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tcm sure has not ticked off UA distributors lately as I have yet to see The Flame Barrier from 1958 on tcm.
yeah, tcm better not irritate anyone or prints of doctor zhivago and lawrence of arabia might become hard to come by.
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Like I said I wish TCM would do that also, but showing independent-minded guts wouldn't be wise from a business POV. Upsetting studio bosses that lease films to you, or actors, producers, directors and other in the industry, that then might refuse to be guest host or support TCM, isn't very wise.
tcm sure has not ticked off UA distributors lately as I have yet to see The Flame Barrier from 1958 on tcm.
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What REALLY killed Star Trek was that the female cast members starting wearing more clothes.
yeah, denise crosby in a body sock. away all spacefarers.
actually, denise crosby was a hot ti e but they sure tried not to make her so.marina sirtis was so hot they couldn't stifle it.
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I assumed you meant 'never awarded as a comparison'? Anyhow, while I like the idea it might look like TCM was trying to insult the academy and that wouldn't be a good thing for a movie channel like TCM to do.
quite the contrary, it would show that tcm had some independent-minded guts!
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one flew over the cuckoo's nest followed by dog day afternoon.
you can't go wrong with two films like that.
Charles Durning gives an unforgettable standout performance as nyc police detective sergeant Eugene Maretti for which he shoulda gotten a best supporting oscar for imo.
to these two scheduled picks, I heartily say...
"that's better...that more like it!" -capt. morton, mister roberts
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Ok, this is not an earth-shattering thread topic, but I was checking out the TCM line-up for tomorrow (that is, Sunday February 22) morning, and saw a whole whack of science fiction movies listed as "Horror".
"Horror"? What's up with that? They're all, clearly, sic-fi of one kind or another.
Now, I'm not big on genre-identification (or even gendre identification), but I do think when a movie's "category" is obvious, like "2001: A Space Odyssey" , someone's not doing their job as a "genre" identifier.
Maybe a robot did it. Now, that would be sci-fi-ish.
it's very simple...and quite obvious.
tcm doesn't give a flying phu k about the science fiction genre so what's it to them if they mislabel it.
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the monoliths approaching our little southwestern desert hamlet
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aw, it's a good one...
the monolith monsters from 1957.
a quiet southwestern town has to deal with physical contact-petrifying water-activated giant meteoric quartz crystals. a mineralogist's dream.
and you don't have to wash these one's off under the faucet either.
wish I still had my how and why book of minerals.
you can learn a lot of basic science facts from these old universal-international gems.
Les Tremayne as the town newspaper editor and a cameo by William Schallert (who be still with us) as a weatherman.
I don't suppose tcm would ever ask him on except to gave a weather forecast.
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this poor fellow's career in taxidermy and motel management was cut short by his mother complex.
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ps- really, seriously: EFF THE OSCARS.
those are my sentiments. let 'em go pontificate to their sun lamps.
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no, what I am objecting to is an arrogant self-important celeb like patricia arquette thinkin' all she has to do is mention wage equality while she is getting her precious little oscar and believing that come tuesday all the politicians on capitol hill will fall to their knees and start chanting in unison "patricia arquette, patricia arquette, all winds down".
the american people have long tired of this annual display of self-importance taken to a level of obsurdity. when can we expect ms. arquette to give testimony before a congressional committee on wage inequality?