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Just now, Hibi said:
How could Murphy win for 3? Did they create a special category for the third one??? They awarded 2 supporting actor awards that year? LOL.
His performance in drag got a special "Supporting Actress" designation. It's not on the up and up, but it probably relieved the other nominees in that particular category (Julia Ormond, Nicolette Sheridan, Carmen Electra, and Jessica Biel)
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On 6/1/2020 at 1:40 PM, Hibi said:
Sean Young won 2 RAZZIES for the film! Worst Actress and Worst Supporting Actress! I wonder if that's ever been done before??
She was the first to win two Razzies for the same film; Adam Sandler repeated the same trick in 2011. Eddie Murphy did them one better; he won THREE Razzies for the same film in 2007 (for playing his main character, an elderly Asian character, and an obese woman). Madonna also won two Razzies in the same year, but for different films.
Young wasn't the greatest, but better in A Kiss Before Dying than the double whammy would indicate. Especially when you had such low water marks for Sally Field (Not Without My Daughter) and Julia Roberts (Hook) present in the leading and supporting lineups respectively.
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On 6/3/2020 at 11:08 AM, LornaHansonForbes said:
the 1991 A KISS BEFORE DYING is pretty bad- it makes the odd choice of being INTENSELY GRAPHIC in the death of the first sister, who is also played by SEAN YOUNG- the camera follows her down and her head hits the pavement and we SEE SOME REAL SICK SPLATTER**. I don't think you can find the scene on youtube. SEAN YOUNG has a delivery VERY MUCH LIKE THAT OF VIRGINIA LEITH- their unusual voices- are a lot alike. MATT DILLON is really out of his depth...ie one of those modernistic bird baths that hold, like, half an inch of water.
I don't really like the 1956(?) KISS either though- both of them, surprisingly, pale in comparison to the source novel by IRA LEVIN- which uses a fascinating trick on the reader that is pretty much exclusive to the art of the written word (we read, but we cannot see, and thus we miss something right in front of our eyes.)
The ending the LEVIN NOVEL is (spoiler) MUCH BETTER THAN EITHER, although I don't recall the ending of the 1991 version...the "HERO" of our story (early Patrick Bateman prototype) falls into a vat of (I think) molten gold. I will always remember I read it in an illustrated edition and the artist's rendering was MARVELOUS.
**I SOMETIMES wonder if this was retaliation on Sean Young, Bless her heart, she's a handful. Allegedly. mAYBE THey were also goign for a JANET LEIGH in PSYCHO but not really and EVEN SICKER SHOCK TRICK.
I watched the remake of A Kiss Before Dying last night on HBO on Demand. The original film definitely is the better film [a 7.5 compared to a 6 for the remake], even if the original was not a masterpiece. (I have not read the book) That said there were some intriguing elements to it for me. I was more impressed with Dillon's performance than you were, and Young grew on me the longer the film went on, though her voice was off-putting at first. Some of the visual design of the remake was quite impressive. Was upset that Max Von Sydow and Diane Ladd had so little to do.
But yes, the gore was too much. I wrote an entire review of the film on another website, which I am enclosing here, and could not help but mention that first death scene, and how it was not just much more graphic, but also placed almost immediately after the newer film opens, instead of the slow burn of the original. I was stunned by how bloody it was, just like I was stunned when the remake also served up on camera strangulation and dismemberment later on.
Regarding the ending of the 1991 film, Dillon gets run over by a freight train that is owned by his father-in-law while trying to pursue and kill the other Sean Young. This was the ending that was used in theatres. It was not the first filmed. the original ending filmed did follow the end of Levin's book with Dillon getting killed after falling into a vat of molten steel. Unfortunately, test audieces did not like the ending so the other one was filmed. Only still images and brief footage in the trailer exist of the original ending; it was not included on the bare bones DVD release, largely because the film didn't go over well with critics or audiences.
Here's my review of the remake:
QuoteAnother day, another mixed experience of a movie.... A Kiss Before Dying is based on an Ira Levin novel from the 50s which was originally made into a movie in 1956. Having seen that particular version before, I settled in thinking I knew what was going to happen. Well, this remake obviously felt that the original film didn't have enough murders, so the film does not just have one murder (or the two in the book), it has four. In fact, the first demise, that of Dorothy (one of two sisters that Sean Young plays here), is pushed forward from almost halfway through the story to only 7 minutes into the film.
At this particular juncture it is important to note the differences between the films; 1956 was a subtle slow-burn; Joanne Woodward had plenty of time to create great sympathy for the doomed sister via her performance and while she was pushed to her death, we only heard the scream. Here, we hardly have a chance to know the victim and the film revels in showing her blood and guts spraying everywhere post-fall; it clearly sets up that this film isn't going to be subtle, and the high gore only prepares us so much for the strangulations and dismemberment that await us later on, in twists not originally there.
The person at the center of all of this psychotic activity is Jonathan, played by Matt Dillon, in a chilling performance. I kind of think he plays up the coldness of the character more so than Robert Wagner did in 1956, but its still a very creepy performance and kind of feels like a prologue to his even more deranged killer in the notorious 2018 film The House That Jack Built. Sean Young, meanwhile, had the misfortune of winning two Razzies for the film for both of her characterizations. It takes a while to get used to her here; she doesn't have enough time to register as the doomed sister, and as the other sister, whom Jonathan callously pursues for self-gain, her line readings seems flat and stunned, almost as though she was still smarting from the push early on. Once one gets used to her voice though, she improves, and she is generally effective in the film's final act, especially with her facial expressions. It's not a great performance, but its better than the double Razzies indicate.
Max Von Sydow and Diane Ladd are only here for name value; they get precious little screentime, and both are expendable to the story at large. The script unfortunately in its punchy drive to up the gore loses the creeping malevolence that drove the earlier film; the direction and cinematography make up for it somewhat with some very interesting visual ideas. Again, like most remakes, it does not measure up to the original film, still there are things here that are interestingly handled, although this is not for the squeamish.
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Regarding Peggy Sue Got Married, I first saw it when I was 13, and I remember crying my eyes out when she met her grandparents again. Just a simply moving moment, and John Barry's score really enhansed the moment. Saw about half of it again earlier this year when it was on Showtime, and it holds up beautifully. It's funny, but its also so deeply emotional and touching and very poignant and bittersweet.
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On 10/18/2020 at 2:00 AM, speedracer5 said:
I suspect that Olivia will get the final spot.
Agreed. After all she talked with Robert Osbourne on the telephone every week.
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6 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
NO MENTION OF ALEXANDER GUDUDOV AS “MAX”?!?!
The film did have some of its blessedly lower-key scenes whenever he was around.
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The Money Pit (1986) -- 6/10
The house referred to in the title of this film certainly lives up to its name as it is one rickety catastrophe after another; the film itself isn't quite the mess the house is, but its still in desperate need of being fixed up. Even at 91 minutes, it feels a bit padded, with basically the entire premise of the film taking a backseat to some dreary recriminations in the final third. Tom Hanks and Shelley Long try hard in the leads, Long proving more adept at milking those laughs. They are almost on their own though because the rest of the cast have smaller roles which are not very fleshed out. There are laughs to be had, though maybe not as many as one might wish. The earlier disaster house films George Washington Slept Here and Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House had more intrinsic wit overall, while this goes for sight gags. it is rather shocking that Gordon Willis photographed this. On the whole, pleasant enough but forgettable, fine for a lazy afternoon on the sofa.
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4 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
"I happen to know from very real experience that I will NEVER use Algebra in my life."
It surprised me a lot to learn that KATHLEEN TURNER'S sole Oscar nomination (even though she could/should have gotten one for CRIMES OF PASSION, ROMANCING THE STONE and PRIZZI'S HONOR) was for PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED.
She was good as the soon to be ex-wife in The Accidental Tourist as well, especially in her final scene where she underplays to great effect.
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On 9/18/2020 at 5:41 PM, Hibi said:
WONDERFUL!!! Thanks for the good news. Just in time for Xmas! :D
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On 4/18/2020 at 2:45 AM, LonesomePolecat said:
WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT FEELING GOOD?
This is about a massive virus that spreads around New York!
But in this case the virus makes you really happy. Naturally the government wants to stop it but Mary Tyler Moore and George Peppard go on a crusade to spread the virus to everyone they see. This movie contains very familiar sights such as New Yorkers wearing face masks everywhere they go, including fashionable surgical masks on mannequins in shop windows.
On 4/18/2020 at 11:14 AM, EricJ said:I've WANTED to watch this since the days of local TV stations, but the movie's MIA status has become legendary...Does anyone know where it is? Warner Archive??
On 4/18/2020 at 2:26 PM, Mr. Gorman said:In regards to WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT FEELING GOOD? (1968) it was a Universal Picture. I have a ropey VHS copy of it -- more like a-copy-of-a-copy in point of fact -- taken from what looked to be a mid-1990s 'Comedy Central' broadcast. Somebody taped it and I got mine from 'Robert's Rare Videos' in Canada. The picture quality and sound aren't great, but it's watchable enough.
I also wish I knew if Universal still had the rights to this movie or what happened to it.
Two more UNIVERSAL PICTURES from the late 1960s that seem to have vanished off the planet:
P.J. (1968) starring George Peppard, Raymond Burr and Gayle Hunnicutt. This aired on TV in the 1980s on TBS; I have a *very* ropey copy of the television version of "P.J." which is missing 90% of the violence and re-arranges the order of at least 1 scene. It's better than nothing -- but not by much!
DON'T JUST STAND THERE! (1968) starring Robert Wagner, Mary Tyler Moore and Glynis Johns. Another Universal movie that, to my knowledge, hasn't been seen since James K. Polk was President (ok, so I'm exaggerating a lil' bit).
NOTES: Mary Tyler Moore had signed a 5-picture deal with Universal in 1966 and the five movies she made for Universal were THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT FEELING GOOD?, DON'T JUST STAND THERE!, RUN A CROOKED MILE (1969-UK TVM) and CHANGE OF HABIT.
Another two UNIVERAL PICTURES movies George Peppard made are still rather hard to locate as far as I can tell: HOUSE OF CARDS (1968) and ONE MORE TRAIN TO ROB (1971).
On 4/18/2020 at 5:03 PM, slaytonf said:What's So Bad. . .used to be available intermittently on YouTube, but I fear has vanished permanently. There is an ad there to buy it on a DVD.
P. J. is another movie once on YT, but gone. Guess you can buy it somewhere.
Here's One More Train to Rob: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd4UfsRt6cg. Guess you should watch it quick before it goes.
Just found What's So Bad. . .: https://ok.ru/video/1483780131494. Looks Russian, so yeronyerown.
Also, Don't Just Stand There: https://ok.ru/video/1882928253584. Same deal.
On 4/19/2020 at 8:44 AM, Mr. Gorman said:Is your library's copy the same one that's been circulating for years? Or does your library have access to a genuine film print and got a copy from that? WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT FEELING GOOD? has never had a legal video release on any format to date.
I'd love to have a better copy to watch, but I don't know where to find a clearer version out there.
AMIGO THE TOUCAN!
Kino Lorber announced on September 26th that they are going to be releasing What's So Bad About Feeling So Good? on DVD and Blu-Ray in 2021 according to their Facebook page. Here was where it was addressed:
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Just now, midwestan said:
Tina Louise was also in the first season of the hit TV show "Dallas". She played Julie, who was Jock Ewing's secretary. After Jock suffered a heart attack, he was pampered by his wife and kids and smothered so much that they drove him into Julie's arms, and they had an affair. Poor thing died at the end of an episode (possibly the Season 1 finale?) when she 'fell' off the top of a parking garage! Naturally, J.R. happened to be on the roof with her when she fell. She had a great line pointed at J.R. about his dad. "You treat Jock like a child. I treat him like a man!".
She was actually good in her brief part there, and more is the pity they killed her off so quickly. She only appeared in three episodes in the 5-episode miniseries that began everything (now referred to as Season 1) and 2 episodes in the first whole season (aka Season 2). She didn't even make it to the season finale; 7 more episodes appeared in that season after her death.
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The First National Logo was still used on certain films through early 1936.
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It can be. I just tested this with a certain Natalie Wood film, and while most of the related were her films, two of the others are Dodge City and In This Our Life, very different from the movie in question in every single way.
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On 10/11/2020 at 8:14 PM, mr6666 said:
Bit late to the party, but this is one of the biggest gems in the Women make Film marathon. Sure the original premise (which only goes over the first 30 minutes) is creepy, but once this gets going, its a real gem. The language is very rough, which might put off a few TCM fans (the phrase "Swear like a sailor" is justified here), but its such a haunting, bittersweet film, with two sublime leads in Lili Taylor as the prototype hippie awash in sensitivity and insight and River Phoenix as the marine who employed a tough, hard-swearing exterior to mask the fact that he's still young, scared, and sensitive. Just a wonderful film.
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On 10/6/2015 at 5:06 PM, Hibi said:
Susan DEY is the older, more experienced woman??? TO WHOM???
Ricky Schoeder. Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Sort of a good news/ bad news situation for Murder She Wrote fans....
The bad news is that it is going to be disrupted on Hallmark beginning next week until January.
The good news is that the streaming service Peacock (free with commercials; $10 a month without them and with more access) has the show streaming in full.
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On 2/1/2019 at 1:55 AM, Dargo said:
Yeah, that was pretty good there, Jeanne. Thanks for posting it.
Now, you remember that song (She's Got) Bette Davis Eyes that Kim Carnes had a big hit with back in the '80s?
Well, ya know who THAT song always reminds ME of?
Nope, not Bette Davis, but perhaps surprisingly enough, Sammy Davis Jr!
Uh-huh, 'cause every time I hear that song, I think back to that old joke which that song inspired and that went:
"Ya know, somebody should now write a song titled (He's Got) Sammy Davis Eye!"
(...hey now, I DID warn ya that this was an OLD joke here, now didn't eye, err, I?!...so don't complain!!!)
If Joan Crawford had been alive, she would have had one about her eyebrows.....
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7 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I didn’t see it, but I feel safe to say it was deserved.
I wonder how far down my thread about CATS has fallen. It was pretty long lived.
(easy punchline there)It premieres on HBO on Saturday. Expect more furballs to arrive shortly after it airs.....
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22 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
If you go to Wikipedia and look up the article for “the worst movies of all time” this film actually has an entry!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_worst
(of course, so does MOMMIE DEAREST, most undeservedly if I may say, so grain of salt.)
Ishtar, like Mommie Dearest really doesn't belong there. I'd prbably give At Long Last Love a chance if i ever came in contact with it. Place for Lovers and The Swarm are bad though. And Cats got on there very quickly,.....
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A Place for Lovers (1968) -- 3/10
I knew that when this film was first released that it was generally regarded as an unmitigated disaster. However, the whole idea of a tragic romance with Faye Dunaway and Marcello Mastroianni directed by Vittoria De Sica sounded like it couldn't be that bad. Wrong, wrong, wrong. The two stars are at their most photogenic, especially Dunaway, and the European scenery is glorious, but this is an incredibly vapid and lifeless film that never feels credible for a single moment. You never really get the feeling that these are two actual human beings at the center of this tale; their dialogue feels like it was made up by a computer with no idea of how human interaction actually worked. Ella Fitzgerald sings the title song; at least that isn't a disappointment. But the rest, with its listlessness and its utter waste of two great stars (to say nothing of a brief moment of barbaric animal cruelty) make this a film so disappointing that it almost feels like it can single-handedly kill off the auteur theory.
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After the TV binge this summer, I'm giving this another go.....
1950s
1 I Love Lucy [CBS]
2 Perry Mason [CBS]
3 Leave it to Beaver [CBS (1st season only)/ABC]
4 The Donna Reed Show [ABC]
5 Gunsmoke [CBS]
6 What's my Line? [CBS]
7 I've Got a Secret [CBS]
8 Alfred Hitchcock Presents [CBS/NBC]
9 Father Knows Best [NBC/CBS]
10 Bonanza [NBC]
1960s
1 That Girl [ABC]
2 Mission Impossible [CBS]
3 The Carol Burnett Show [CBS]
4 The Dick Van Dyke Show [CBS]
5 Green Acres [CBS]
6 Hawaii Five-O [CBS]
7 Rowan and Martin's Laugh In [NBC]
8 Gidget [ABC]
9 The Flying Nun [ABC]
10 The Doris Day Show [CBS]
1970s
1 The Mary Tyler Moore Show [CBS]
2 The Waltons [CBS]
3 Columbo [NBC/ABC]
4 McMillian and Wife [NBC]
5 Little House on the Prairie {NBC]
6 Ellery Queen Mysteries [NBC]
7 Lou Grant [CBS]
8 Taxi [ABC/NBC]
9 knots Landing [CBS]
10 The muppet Show [ITV]
1980s (my favorite period for TV shows)
1 St Elsewhere [NBC]
2 Moonlighting [ABC]
3 Dynasty [ABC]
4 Murder She Wrote [CBS]
5 Remington Steele [NBC]
6 thirtysomething [ABC]
7 L.A. Law [NBC]
8 Newhart [CBS]
9 Murphy Brown [CBS]
10 The Golden Girls [NBC]
Runners-up: Falcon Crest [CBS], Poirot [ITV/PBS], Beauty and the Beast [CBS], A Year in the Life [NBC], Spencer for Hire [ABC], Miami Vice [NBC], Kate and Allie [CBS], Fame [NBC/Syndication], Cheers [NBC], The Wonder Years [ABC], Scarecrow and Mrs King [CBS]
1990s
1 Brooklyn Bridge [CBS]
2 Sisters [NBC]
3 Beverly Hills 90210 [FOX}
4 Twin Peaks [ABC]
5 Ally McBeal [FOX]
6 The Practice [ABC]
7 Homefront [ABC]
8 Frasier [NBC]
9 Cybill [CBS]
10 Once and Again [ABC]
Very close runners up: Northern Exposure [CBS], Relativity [ABC], and Gabriel's Fire [ABC]
2000s
1 Pushing Daisies [ABC]
2 Gilmore Girls [WB/CW]
3 Boston Legal [ABC]
4 The Good Wife [CBS]
5 Desperate Housewives [ABC]
6 Alias [ABC]
7 Law and Order: Criminal Intent [NBC/USA]
8 Grey's Anatomy [ABC]
9 Dirty Sexy Money [ABC]
10 The Middle [ABC]
2010s
1 Downton Abbey [ITV/PBS]
2 Call the Midwife [BBC/PBS]
3 Feud [FX]
4 a million little things [ABC]
5 Fresh Off the boat [ABC]
6 Revenge [ABC]
7 Body of Proof [ABC]
8 Code Black [CBS]
9 This is Us [NBC]
10 The Good Doctor [ABC]
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18 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
aka- RUTHLESS PEOPLE (1986?)
aka- one funnyassed movie.
Yes, 1986. One of Disney's first R rated films. I'll never forget sections of it like her k-mart line, or dunderhead Bill Pullman thinking that a liaison between a judge and a prostitute was actually a murder.
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On 9/28/2020 at 7:21 AM, jakeem said:
This will be the most unconventional Oscar derby in decades. Maybe that's a good thing.I kind of feel though, that even without the normal type of Oscar season, we'll still probably see a lot of winners that are fully expected. it already looks as though two of the acting races are nailed down: Frances McDormand in lead (her third!) in Nomadland and a posthumous win for Chadwick Boseman in supporting for August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
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I think that Midler's best hour on screen actingwise was probably For the Boys. True she was saddled with lizardy old-age makeup, but it gave her a chance to play to all her strengths: risque comedy, singing, and wrenching emotional passages.
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But in this case the virus makes you really happy. Naturally the government wants to stop it but Mary Tyler Moore and George Peppard go on a crusade to spread the virus to everyone they see. This movie contains very familiar sights such as New Yorkers wearing face masks everywhere they go, including fashionable surgical masks on mannequins in shop windows.
Top Ten Gregory Peck Films
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1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. The Yearling
3. The Valley of Decision
4. Roman Holiday
5. I Walk the Line
6. Designing Woman
7. Beloved Infidel
8. The Paradine Case
9. Duel in the Sun
10. Yellow Sky