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I guess. You have over 5,000 of them.....i have a little over 2,000. The all time champ, jakeem, has over 55,000.

Something else that these boards have.... although i'm not certain how many really pay attention to them, are reputation points. You get one for every like you receive and mayb e one for every time you are quoted. Naturally, most of the time, the more you post, the more you get..... http://forums.tcm.com/topmembers/?filter=pp_reputation_points

George Raft, maybe? Most of his Paramount gangster films are rarely seen.

Yes, they have a new Death on the Nile coming. Again with Branagh. The biggest name in the rest of the cast so far in Annette Bening, although one name familiar to blockbuster fans won't be in this film for long: the current Wonder Woman, Gal Gadot, gets the Lois Chiles part, and we all know what that means.....

In the book, it was the elderly Russian princess's hankerchief. It did stand for the Russian N.

Days won.... 1. Oh well, its kind of like an Olympics for Forums members.

Oftentimes if the topic of the 1970s come up, I usually use the one line Marilyn Sokol had in Foul Play: "Really, honey, you gotta drag yourself into the 70s! You gotta get some merchandise!"

The original has the better cast, the wittier script, and hews closer to the Christie mileau, but the later version benefits from a fine Michelle Pfeiffer performance, more heart than 1974's, and a sleek look thanks to being made completely on 70 mm film. The 1974 gets my vote, but I feel the more recent one was good in its own right and was better than some of the more praised titles of 2017.

Also it was used in Tron Legacy, where they made Jeff Bridges look like he did in the 1980s, and in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, where most of the first half of the film had Brad Pitt look like an elderly man, but a later scene had him deaged to look like he was 21.

Been on a bit of a divided tear, classic and recent today, but the most recently finished was Bureau of missing Persons earlier when it aired. At first, though it still had that early 30s WB/First National snap, it was a bit standard, but things really brightened in the later sections when Bette came to the fore. Having seen her in so many roles both sympathetic or nasty over the years, the stages in which you had to guess which side of the law her character was on were downright exciting and suspenseful. A nice little way to spend 72 minutes.

Finally got around via DVD to a film I wanted to see for years, Lovers and Other Strangers (1970). It didn't disappoint. It's a sharp, lively ensemble comedy drama that feels very much of the time it was made, but also has some timeless insights about relationships that would ring true in any era. The cast is wonderful, cast to perfection, although Oscar nominee Richard Castelliano and Bea Arthur steal the show from everyone else.

It's November 2019, and the current decade has 59 days left in it. it has been a time of great change in the movie industry with collapsing companies, the emergence of streaming, rising and falling careers, new movements of cinema, and audience splintering. I'm starting this thread, in the spirit of the one thread asking what it will be like moviewise in the 2020s, just so members here can muse about films, and the pluses and minuses of the movies this decade, favorites and films that you didn't care for, changes in things, etc...

I've seen very little from this year, but I'm game for the decade best.... Top 10, with 40 after that unranked. 1. Brooklyn 2. About Time 3. 45 Years 4. True Grit 5. 20th Century Women 6. Never Let Me Go 7. The Grand Budapest Hotel 8. Life Itself (2014) 9. Nebraska 10. Phantom Thread Runners-up: Anna Karenina Bad Times at the El Royale Blade Runner 2049 Boyhood The End of the Tour Florence Foster Jenkins Goodbye Christopher Robin Gravity Hell or High Water The Help How to Train Your Dragon Hugo If Beale Street Could Talk The Imitation Game Inside Out Jackie Joy Labor Day La La Land Last Flag Flying Lean on Pete Les Miserables Mary Poppins Returns Paterson Philomena Ready Player One Sing Street Spotlight Stan and Ollie Testament of Youth Their Finest The Tree of Life 12 Years a Slave When Marnie Was There Whiplash The Wind Rises Woman in Gold Won't You Be My Neighbor Young Adult Your Name.

Yes, that was Rat Race. The Lucy scenes were the highlight of the film which was a cross between It's a Mad mad mad Mad World and the anything goes, over the top style of Ruthless People. Not sophisticated comedy at all (the Lucy scenes were the classiest ones in the film on the whole), but fun none the less with an exceedingly game cast.

At times like this I have to quote from Roger Ebert's review of Armageddon. Absolutely hysterical.

I saw a 2001 comedy the other day and thinking now, I wonder if a running gag was meant to be a homage to that: a bus filled with Lucille Ball impersonators. All of whom cried like her and had the same hair as her, and resented being denigrated by another character. Made me laugh pretty hard.

Cluny Brown and The Circus, here I come!

Another one to add to the list as of early today, and boy did it get trashed when it was released: 1989's She-Devil. It made me laugh long and hard and Meryl Streep and Sylvia Miles were aces in it.

Latest cartoon is odd.... No whole concensus on what this sketch of Beyonce is referring to, although people have been guessing Diva (1981) or An Unmarried Woman (1978).

She'll definitely get in for Marriage Story. Jojo is a bit of a question mark so far, but I think she has a chance at that last slot.

Laura Dern's film is Marriage Story, a film where she plays a high-powered divorce attorney. She's been getting raves for it (the film is also regarded as a shoo-in for a Best Picture nomination and two other performers, Adam Driver and Scarlett johannson, and might be able to pull down a nod for Alan Alda as well), and being a Netflix production, most will be able to see it within the next few weeks. She also has a supporting part as the mother in Little Women at year's end, another big "prestige" production. As for the big films, I think its a blend of several things: a response in part to all of the articles kvetching at the Academy for not nominating the "popular" movies, to the element that with the incoming of Netflix and Amazon, the shrinking of the independent film market, the scare last year over the popular film category, and maybe even some residual shuddering at some of the Miramax/Weinstein Oscar campaigns.

Burton's best and Depp's best too. the key to the movie is how unexpectedly sweet and empathetic it is. It could have so easily been completely mocking of Wood and his entourage, but it really looks inside their souls and sympathizes with them. Landau is a show-stopper, the B & W photography is luminous, the writing is on point, and the gallery of supporting players is colorful indeed. Out of 52 films seen from 1994, I'd place it around #4 or #5 (after Quiz Show, The Browning Version, Widows Peak, and maybe That's Entertainment III); its definitely one of that years best.....

It's only playing in theatres in NY/LA, maybe some other city or two as well. Such is how Netflix releases their films, or so it seems. Even Scorsese's $200 million The Irishman is getting that treatment.

And as if to reinforce the age issue, there was that scene in Dodsworth where Maria Ouspenskaya keeps ridiculing her for going after a man younger than she. Kind of like rubbing salt in wounds....

I saw it once several years ago and looked at bits of it again last night..... I remember the feeling the first time around that Lemmon's character was too much, and that Andrews by underplaying nicely (and getting that one excellent scene where she finally gives him a piece of her mind) was the best thing about the film and the main reason to watch, even though some of the other scenes were funny or touching.Her Golden Globe nomination, I felt, was deserved, and an Oscar nomination would not have been remiss. Looking at it again last night, Lemmon's character was still a bit too much , but after finding out about real-life parallels, it didn't grate on me quite as much and I noticed that quite a few of the scenes were deeply felt. In some ways, its one of the more intensely personal films of its era and kind of daring. But it is still true that it is still a tough nut to crack.