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1 minute ago, Dargo said:
And for years, Number-1 on many people's Guilty Pleasures List.
(...and CI, you should have stayed with this sucker...and if for no other reasons than, first, to watch Boyd's reaction at the end of it, AND to discover why Tony Bennett's movie acting career never got off the ground)
As far as i remember, I think that Eleanor Parker was trying her hardest to breathe life into it.
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I think they are doing a good job , but that's just me.....
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Here is one film that I didn't have the heart to watch it all the way through.... 🤢
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6 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
You think that's odd, I got a notice that I'd been quoted and all I found was "..."!
It was a bit of a catty story about The Apple's premiere (on its Wikipedia page). I changed my mind after posting it....
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Let's just hope cinema spares us a really bad film: Cats Vs. a Swarm of Killer Bees with Coronavirus: The Musical
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2 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
How was Disney "greedy in the first place"?
For pretty much buying Fox for a small handful of things and then basically disemboweling what was left of the historic movie studio.
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Double foray into popcorn films of 1986. Top Gun was mostly a cardboard drag (Meg Ryan has only two minutes in it yet she's livelier than anyone else in it), but Big Trouble in Little China was a lot of fun.
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21 hours ago, Mr. Gorman said:
Like Jennifer Jones being mangled into a zillion bone fragments in "Towering Inferno". Poor Lisolette. At least O.J. SIMPSON had found her cat and gave it to Fred Astaire at the end.
She lived in the book......
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2 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Apple Purchasing Disney Now A Possibility?
With the stock market in free fall due to the coronavirus pandemic, many media companies are being walloped with their market cap value shrinking significantly – though some are faring far better than others.
Those disparities could allow companies to take advantage and gobble up the competition, including a suggestion made today by Rosenblatt Securities analyst Bernie McTernan to THR – that Apple could potentially acquire Disney which has sustained enough losses to put it within reach of tech giants.
Disney’s market capitalization sits at approximately $165 billion, while Apple has about $107 billion in cash and securities alone and a market cap of $1.06 trillion as of today:
“We believe those with long-time horizons, like mega-cap companies with large cash balances and whose equity outperformed Disney over the last three weeks, like Apple, could take advantage of the volatility. The upside from acquiring Disney would be securing their content/streaming strategy and potential synergies from adding the emerging Disney ecosystem to the iOS platform.”
Apple hasn’t been immune for the falls, it lost $372 billion on Monday due to stock falls – faring better than Microsoft which lost $405 billion and Amazon which lost $239 billion.
https://www.darkhorizons.com/apple-purchasing-disney-now-a-possibility/
If they do, serves Disney right for being so greedy in the first place.
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4 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
THIS WOULD MAKE THE BEST DRAG NAME!!!!!!!!!!!
Frankly, the one time i thought Travolta gave a very entertaining performance was the time that he was in drag: Hairspray in 2007.
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On 3/14/2020 at 3:30 AM, hamradio said:
See that's what happens when you touch your face..
Now I've got that obscene Divinyls song "I Touch Myself' in my mind! Thanks a lot!
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6 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
...Now if ever there was a film that could’ve starred Shelley Winters...
And Henry Fonda was in Meteor too! (Thank goodness Jane found On Golden Pond not a minute too soon)
I can't believe they had this scene in Meteor. Talk about bad taste: the destruction of the twin towers. Long before the actual horrific event.,
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It's worth noting that the company that released Tentacles went out of business three years after it was made after turning out another poorly received disaster film, Meteor.
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What to do now that 20th Century Vole has been taken over by the Ditzney company?
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3 hours ago, Roy Cronin said:
I've never seen it. Does Shelley get eaten? (Don't answer if you think it would spoil the movie.)
Yes. Even a movie book gives it away.
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On 3/12/2020 at 10:39 AM, LornaHansonForbes said:
thanks
IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, FOR A LITTLE while in the late 80's/90's, MERYL had something of a old-timey-type contract with UNIVERSAL. She did quite a few films on the lot (POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE too maybe?)
Meryl did the following at Universal: The Deer Hunter, Death Becomes Her, Sophie's Choice, Out of Africa, Death Becomes Her, The River Wild, One True Thing, Prime., Mamma Mia (and sequel), It's Complicated.
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If Irwin Allen was still alive he would be prepping his latest all-star disaster epic: CORONA with Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson as themselves.....
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11 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Yeah, May Whitty and Maria Ouspenskaya were babes. LOL
Confession time. On another site once, they had a thread of sex symbols who you thought were not as attractive as was commonly thought. I decided to joke about and chose Una O'Connor. Probably the only time she has been referred as one!
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OK, I loved Xanadu. Clear as that. And I love the soundtrack.
If I want to point out a dog though, I'd go with 1971's Bless the Beasts and Children, a stunning letdown from Stanley Kramer...... or as I wrote at the time
QuoteI'm still in a bit of disbelief about this film. I really don't give out low scores like this often, only when something is truly bad or truly offensive to me, and yet here I am with this thing on my hands. The only decent thing about it is the lovely theme song from the Carpenters (what's a nice song like you doing in a place like this?), and everything else is not only flat and dull, but also quite mean-spirited and with a creepy lewd edge about it.
The movie goes off the rails almost as soon as the Columbia lady disappears and never finds its footing. Right off the top, the audience is exposed to a nightmare scene where buffalo are actually shown being slaughtered, and then a boy dreams that the hunters turn the guns on him and his friends, killing them. This is followed by the first of several long, queasy scenes where teenage boys are shown clad only in their underwear as the voyeuristic camera lingers longingly, lustfully around them. So, within the the first 8 minutes, there are your main problems repeated several times throughtout: animals actually getting killed on camera (albeit in footage obtained from a wildlife firm in Arizona, and not made specifically for the film) and a distinct pedophilic air that made me feel disgusted and enraged.
If this wasn't enough to go wrong, this is then compounded by the fact that the boys are all blurred characters; I don't feel that despite the fact that the film is about them, that we ever really get a handle on who they are or what they want other than that they want to save the buffalo. (admittedly one of the boys breaks through the haze briefly toward the end) And then the whole thing reeks of something from the early 70s that just laid there and died; with most classic films [and I am usually one of the biggest cheerleaders for classic films you could find], they have takeaways, like sparkling personalities, some insightful moments of human nature, a timeless quality, a message that resonates today, literate or snappy dialogue, great charm, period detail that captures the era in which it was made. Well, this has the period detail (painfully so, the clothes and hairstyles are horrendous), but nothing else. in the way that few films are, this is a dead zone, and one of the worst films it has ever been my misfortune to see.
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On 3/12/2020 at 11:21 PM, hamradio said:
Maybe TCM can make up for it by showing films like "The Andromeda Strain" (1969) and "Outbreak" (1995).
How about Panic in the Streets?
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20 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
I wonder if they lowered the restriction (or maybe it's always been this way and I'm misinformed), on their website, the Nat'l Film Registry says 10 years.
It's always been that way. That said, there have only been a small handful of films that got in the first year they were eligible. I know Fargo did it. I think that Raging Bull and maybe Do the Right Thing did it as well. Note: they all did that. As did GoodFellas. Blade Runner, Schindler's List, Hoop Dreams, Boyz N the Hood, and Beauty and the Beast took 11. ET , El Northe, and Unforgiven12 years.
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1 minute ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
"I see ME, I see ME, ACTRESS! WOMAN! STAR! AND MOTHER!"
I still have bits of that song stuck in my head.....
Technical Oscar Shortlists 1949 to Present [COMPLETED]
in General Discussions
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1965
ART DIRECTION (B&W)
King Rat
Morituri
My Blood Runs Cold
A Patch of Blue
Ship of Fools
Signpost to Murder
The Slender Thread
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Sylvia
Woman in the Dunes
ART DIRECTION (COLOR)
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Boeing Boeing
Doctor Zhivago
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Harlow
Inside Daisy Clover
The Sandpiper
The Sound of Music
Those Calloways
The War Lord
CINEMATOGRAPHY (B&W)
The Bedford Incident
In Harm’s Way
King Rat
Morituri
A Patch of Blue
The Pawnbroker
Rapture
Ship of Fools
Sylvia
Synanon
CINEMATOGRAPHY (COLOR)
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Doctor Zhivago
The Flight of the Phoenix
The Great Race
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Harlow
The Pleasure Seekers
The Sandpiper
The Sound of Music
Von Ryan’s Express
COSTUME DESIGN (B&W)
Darling
Mirage
Morituri
A Rage to Live
Ship of Fools
The Slender Thread
COSTUME DESIGN (COLOR)
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Do Not Disturb
Doctor Zhivago
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Inside Daisy Clover
Marriage on the Rocks
Never Too Late
Shenandoah
The Sound of Music
Strange Bedfellows
FILM EDITING
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Cat Ballou
Doctor Zhivago
The Flight of the Phoenix
The Great Race
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Hallelujah Trail
Ship of Fools
The Sound of Music
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
SOUND
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Cat Ballou
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
Doctor Zhivago
The Great Race
The Greatest Story Ever Told
I’ll Take Sweden
In Harm’s Way
Shenandoah
The Sound of Music
That Darn Cat!
MUSIC SCORE - SUBSTANTIALLY ORIGINAL
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Cat Ballou
Doctor Zhivago
The Great Race
The Greatest Story Ever Told
A Patch of Blue
The Sandpiper
That Darn Cat!
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
What’s New, Pussycat?
SCORING OF MUSIC - ADAPTATION OR TREATMENT
Cat Ballou
Do Not Disturb
The Pleasure Seekers
The Sound of Music
A Thousand Clowns
Tickle Me
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
ORIGINAL SONG
Baby the Rain Must Fall, “Baby the Rain Must Fall”
Cat Ballou, “The Ballad of Cat Ballou”
The Great Race, “The Sweetheart Tree”
Inside Daisy Clover, “You’re Gonna Hear from Me”
Never Too Late, “Never Too Late”
The Sandpiper, “The Shadow of Your Smile”
That Darn Cat!, “That Darn Cat!”
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, “I Will Wait for You”
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, “Where’s the Love”
What’s New Pussycat?, “What’s New Pussycat?”
SPECIAL EFFECTS
The Agony and the Ecstasy
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
Thunderball