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LawrenceA
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6 minutes ago, mr6666 said:
" irrelevant, empty, dispiriting, maddening and invariably wrong".
That pretty much sums up everything in life, let alone the Oscars, as far as I'm concerned. It's just a silly awards show, a bit of entertaining fluff among all the other misery, disappointment and pointlessness. Not much point throwing a fit over it one way or the other.
As far as being dismissive (" The only real drawback I feel they have is that sometimes people avoid classics that weren't up for Oscars..."), the term "Oscar-bait" is used as much as a pejorative as is "popcorn movie", with people avoiding the former just the same as the latter, depending on sensibilities.
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I love Where Eagles Dare. It's one of my favorite movies from that year. So it's all subjective, as usual.
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That's Warren Beatty and Barbara Loden from Splendor in the Grass (1961).
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On 1/6/2018 at 11:41 AM, LawrenceA said:
1918: The Outlaw and His Wife
1928: The Passion of Joan of Arc
1938: The Adventures of Robin Hood
1948: The Red Shoes
1958: The Hidden Fortress
1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey
1978: Halloween
1988: The Naked Gun
1998: Saving Private Ryan
2008: The Dark Knight
One addition - 2018 - Hereditary
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#411 - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) - Yes
#412 - The Rains Came (1939) - Yes
#413 - California (1947) ? - I'm not sure, although whatever it is, I've seen it - I've seen all of Stanwyck's.
#414 - I don't know this one.
#415 - I don't know which one this is, but I've seen all of Bette Davis' films from that time.
#416 - The Fugitive Kind (1960) - Yes
#417 - The Towering Inferno (1974) - Yes
#418 - Raging Bull (1980) - Yes
#419 - JFK (1991) - Yes
#420 - Quiz Show (1994) - Yes
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22 minutes ago, cigarjoe said:
I wonder which night Nmp would prefer?
Sunday mornings.
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TCM showing these movies seems to have had the expected effect:
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2 minutes ago, NipkowDisc said:
it has been said that Fred MacMurray never gave a bad performance in anything he did and he did it without a single acting lesson.
That must have been said by someone who'd never seen Fred MacMurray.
He grew stale and lazy by the second half of his career. They even named one of the laziest working contracts in Hollywood after him.
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3 minutes ago, Allhallowsday said:
My favorite topic!
I've was listening to THE ROLLING STONES Exile On Main Street and Emotional Rescue.
I listen to all types of music. Today, THE ORIGINAL CARTER FAMILY Can The Circle Be Unbroken and BOB WILLS & HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS The Essential Bob Wills 1935-1947
You didn't work in radio by any chance, did you?
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Thanks for elaborating on the Wilson Aubrey Trio, "the world's nearly greatest wrestlers."
I'd also be curious to see "The Distinguished Artist Don Alfonso Zelaya -in- Wit, Music & Philosophy."
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I re-watched Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) for the umpteenth time. This has to be in my top 20 movies that I've seen the most times. Not much to add this time around - I still like it a lot, and would rank it among the 100 best SF films.
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1 minute ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Dave is an actor. Maybe he is working on a film or T.V. show.
Dave Karger is an entertainment reporter. He used to be the editor of Entertainment Weekly. As far as I know, he's never been an actor.
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Just now, jakeem said:
I'll give you a hint: It's a Hulu series starring its creators as their teen selves. The title has given me trouble before. I usually have to split the word and number in it.
Ooooh...is it about 15 PENs?
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3 minutes ago, jakeem said:
TV Comedy of the Year
****Unsung TV Show of the Year
****What was the show that ran afoul of the auto-censor?
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Jack Nicholson as the Joker turns into a cartoon when he falls in Batman (1989). Forgive the darkness, which was used to try and hide the effect.
Ronny Cox turns into a claymation puppet when he gets shot through a window and falls in Robocop (1987).
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I have them all on disc because of course I do.
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I spent the last couple of days watching The Powers of Matthew Star (1982-1983), which lasted for one season of 22 episodes. Peter Barton stars as Matthew Star, a normal-looking high-school age teen who is secretly a fugitive prince from a distant planet. Lou Gossett Jr co-stars as Walt, also an alien, who has acted as Matthew's guardian on Earth, where the boy has lived most of his life. Being part of the alien royal family, Matthew has various super powers, such as telekinesis and limited telepathy. Matthew just wants to live the life of a normal Earth teen, spending time with his high school sweetheart Pam (series regular Amy Steel), while Walt goes undercover as a science teacher at the school Matthew attends. Matthew and Walt have to deal with assorted troubles from the mundane (drag-racing teens, trouble on the football team) to the extraordinary (alien bounty hunters, inquisitive scientists).
At the half-season mark, the series underwent a soft reboot, with the high school setting eventually dropped, and Amy Steel being dropped from the cast. Matthew and Walt are now working for the government, in the person of skeptical contact James Karen. They are assigned missions searching for valuable technology, stopping terrorists, or fighting other sundry crimes. Matthew also exhibits a bunch of new powers, such as being able to project an astral body version of himself that can walk through walls; shoot laser blasts from his hands; and even transforming items with a wave of his hand.
The series has a reputation as one of the worst science fiction shows in television history. I was prepared for worse than it is, but it's still not good. The stories range from silly to stupid, and there's a lot of early-80's network cheese on display (plenty of laughing freeze-frames to close out episodes). Barton and Steel (who had both starred in different Friday the 13th movies) are blandly pretty, while accomplished pro Gossett is definitely slumming (he was appearing in this when he won his Best Supporting Actor Oscar for An Officer and a Gentleman). The producers included Harve Bennett who had worked on Star Trek (Leonard Nimoy directs an episode, and Walter Koenig wrote one), and Bruce Lansbury, brother of Angela Lansbury. Bruce's daughter/Angela's niece Felicia Lansbury appears in one of the last episodes.
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The Oscars: Help or Hindrance?
in General Discussions
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That rarely stops people from complaining, though, unfortunately.
Yesterday evening I saw an article online lamenting that there may be another #OscarsSoWhite controversy. The "writer" based it on the BAFTAs (the British Oscars , more or less) only nominating white performers in the four acting categories. Singer-actress Cynthia Erivo, who had been scheduled to perform at the BAFTA ceremony, announced that she would now not appear on the show, in protest.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hollywood-idiots-could-make-oscarssowhite-happen-again?source=articles&via=rss