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15 hours ago, hamradio said:
Think Godzilla will be alive and kicking during the 2020's
Godzilla is so badass Ghidrah needs three heads to take 'em on.
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what about the roaring twenties where cagney dies on the steps of a church?
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15 hours ago, slaytonf said:
John. . .who?
duke wayne, America's greatest movie star.
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10 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
I've been looking for this film for years, actually, not looking for it but more trying to identify it. I saw it as a kid at a small theater on Steinway Street in Astoria, NY. The theater was originally called the Cameo later the Olympia theater.
I didn't go to it very often but I did see this film I'm looking for in the early 60's. I seem to remember it was in Black & White, but the key scene that sticks in my mind was at night. It may have been a second bill with whatever the main film was. The film I definitely remember seeing at the Olympia was Man's Favorite Sport (1964), it may have been the second bill, but I'm not sure. I figuring it had to be around 1963-64-65.
It was some type of gangster flick. It was similar in one respect to Sam Fuller's Underworld U.S.A. (1961). The gangster gets shot at the end, dying on a snowy sidewalk with diegetic Christmas music coming from someplace (may have been a church, but don't remember where for sure, don't remember which tune). In Underworld U.S.A. Cliff Robertson dies in an alley with auld lang syne playing that is the similarity. So I thought maybe I just mis-remembered it.
What was different was that the gangster was married and had a family that he never got back to on Christmas Eve, a tear jerker. Like Cliff Robertson, the gangster had black hair.
Ring a bell with anyone?
sounds like the one where shelley winters shoots john Garfield for terrorizing her family and threatening to kill them. Garfield collapses and croaks leaning against a car.
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8 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
I am one of the few who not only think "Bride" is superior to the original, but "Son" is also. I rate the original 9/10 and the two sequels both get a 10/10.
when I was younger I never appreciated how excellent son of Frankenstein is.
today it is to me the best of the Frankenstein universal movies.
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it is easy to defame and maybe not so easy to take a longer view incorporating a modest degree of understanding and recognizing that incendiary defamations and mocking hateful remarks which may in the end not be the best way to go.
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14 hours ago, slaytonf said:
A novel position. Permit me to think it a sick view of human society that its value or interest must be based on hatred and persecution.
American liberalism has been shooting for decades now for a society where there is both civil and economic parity even though no such condition has ever existed perfectly throughout the course of human history while the condition of the rich and the poor has persisted continuously throughout that same human history.
I have sincerely wondered if the democrat party could have achieved more for minorities and the poor if they had taken a more realistic approach to the solving of these problems rather than doing the easy thing which has consisted of name-calling and wholesale defamations.
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1 hour ago, slaytonf said:
Priggishness is a failing not limited to any political philosophy. And did not originate with the Civil Rights Movement. Hateful pettiness can be found everywhere. I notice it a lot here. One thing lefters have, I notice, is enough patience not to get exasperated with it in others. The logical fallacy, is to take extreme examples of priggishness and use it (as is often done by conservatives) to delegitimize honest objections to intolerance, bigotry, and racism. I have long held that the concept of political correctness was developed by racists and bigots to allow them to parade their prejudices as legitimate.
certainly they do under the first amendment.
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one of the free on demand movies on my system.
think I will watch it late tonite while enjoying a nestle's crunch bar and a cup of milk.
bon appetite.
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you cannot ask for respect while giving none. Lillian Gish disrespected for starring in one film is not just.
it is unfair and petty and yes even hateful.
I accept that Birth of a Nation is racist having never seen it.
the hateful pettiness of the left moves me to question the genuineness of their professed motives which for decades they have been claiming is tolerance and civil justice.
can Lillian Gish apologize for appearing in the film?
no, she is dead.
can Hattie McDaniel apologize to the naacp for appearing in GWTW or song of the south?
no, she is dead.
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what about john huston's unforgiven?....it is supremely stupid for liberals to attack the past for it cannot be changed. this is an unfortunate petty judgmentalism of the left and they deserve the multitudes that they will lose as a result of such hateful idiocy.
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look mom, I just erected a pup tent in the backyard...
you need to send me to college on an engineering scholarship.
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On 5/2/2019 at 10:12 AM, lpetiti said:
Unfortunately, this comment seems like a great generalization of millennials. While I agree that there are many in my generation that feel this way (as well as the generation after mine...today's high school students are not millennials, yet we always seem to get grouped together), I also know many millennials (myself included) who do NOT subscribe to revisionist history, who will freely admit that there is a lot we don't know and who, in spite of having grown up in a recession and in a post-9/11 world in which we were told to do things like go to college and get a high paying job (in spite of those things not always being practical), have worked hard to try to adjust to being an adult in an ever changing world, just as generations before us have done. Are we perfect? Far from it, but I wager that every generation before us has been told by generations before them that there was something "wrong" with them as well.
It's unrealistic of us to think that earlier times in the 20th century did not have things wrong with it, just as there are things wrong with our society in 2019. For example, while Gone with the Wind is in my top 3 movies of all time, I can't ignore the fact that it does portray many African Americans in a, shall we say, less than flattering light. That doesn't take away from the greatness of that film, but there are some racist elements in it (case in point, the portrayal of Prissy). Is it as racist as Birth of a Nation? Absolutely not - but it is unrealistic to dismiss the racist elements in that film, just as it is unrealistic to dismiss the film as a whole because of the racist elements in it. To parphrase Whoopi Goldberg, we shouldn't censor films like this because doing so would deny the existence of stereotypes that were common and acceptable in previous years.
And as a side note, personally I've never quite understood the fascination with Citizen Kane. I adore the cinematography, but I've always found Orson Welles to be somewhat off-putting to me (not the character of Kane, but rather Welles himself) and the plot is just not as engaging as I thought it would be. Again, that doesn't take away from the greatness of the film, I just fail to see the fascination that many of my fellow film students had with the film.
but could millennials or Generation Xers have ever built the Brooklyn bridge or the golden gate bridge?
those men were guided by a strong worth ethic as opposed to a leftist-induced nanny state 'gimme' sense of entitlement.
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"those shoulders are real, fellas."
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20 hours ago, Gershwin fan said:
They all make friends and go out to get ice cream and Dorothy Malone is turned into a fifty foot "babe."
I'll buy that.
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1 hour ago, TopBilled said:
You turned it off just when it was getting good!
For someone who didn't enjoy it, you seemed to absorb many details and analyzed it quite intensely.
Then you went to all this trouble to create a thread for it, compose four paragraphs and include the movie poster.
what happened?
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decided to watch this one available free on demand last nite. a fred macmurray saturday matinee oater I had not seen before because I certainly woulda remembered a disappointing stinker like this. not really a stinker but might as well be. a psychological oater I doan need. well-acted but the story goes nowhere. the film opens with the high speed horse flight of a gang of robbers pursued by a posse.
here's the first thing I see I doan like. nice eastman color look but the title lettering they make black and it just doan look good against the color desert background. so they ride into a deserted desert town because their horses are stressed out and that's where the pointlessness begins. these people start psychoanalyzing each other to pass the time. head guy is Heller played by john larch, a cynical bully. fred macmurray is gentry the smart one who should be the leader. john gavin is an eastern greenhorn turned outlaw and along is the gorgeous dorothy malone as heller's wench and she is hot with shots of her bare shoulders. the psychoanalysis begins. macmurray and larch size up each other. then larch starts bullying gavin and macmurray starts trying to instill self-worth into malone. oh brother. we need this?
oh, there is also gato a white man who's loyalty lies with a nearby group of apaches led by victorio played by michael ansara. gato wants ansara and his apaches to hit his friends for no apparent reason than hate even though later on at the end he knows macmurray won't plug him for his mindless treachery being an honorable man so he runs into the desert once again seeking favor with victorio. unimpressed victorio has one of his men give gato an arrow. earlier some aged minstrel-prospector comes riding in welcomed by evil heller who will murder him for his horse. he sings the ballad of john coventry a famed desperado who he recognizes macmurray as being. by then the wench dorothy malone figures out she doan need a man despite participating in a holdup and fleeing into a hot inhospitable desert. john gavin the eastern greenhorn teach falls for the wench which ticks of heller but then later he has a change of heart and says sure take my wench leading up to a gunfight and then coventry takes out heller...
then victorio makes his move and that's when I had enough. turned it off and went to bed.
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ya gotta give it to dana trying to fly a B-17 with no engines.
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
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force manckiewicz to watch it with lidlocks.
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1 hour ago, hamradio said:
Was about to create a thread, just saw his death announcement on NBC4
RIP
he looked better as Chewbacca.
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10 hours ago, Janet0312 said:
Another favorite of mine. The animation is killer!
that's from my favorite ep 'the robot spy'.
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scott mccloud, space angel!
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what about that one with stuart Whitman and janet leigh?