johnnyweekes70
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I made some disparaging remarks about remakes in the thread devoted to remakes and then I read Sean Connery's revelation that he's "fed up with the idiots [who make movies today]...the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies, and those who green light them. I don't say they're all idiots - I'm just saying there is a lot of them. It would almost need a Mafia-like offer I couldn't refuse to do another movie." I couldn't agree more, and it's certainly a sign of the times when an actor of Connery's calibre notes how pathetic the current film scene is.
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"the luscious Virgina Mayo" -- You bet. Lucky Dad indeed!
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I'm not necessarily selling Mike Myers short, I'm just entirely sick of unoriginal stars and studios pillaging the past for ideas to rip off. Even though I'm not really a fan of The Party, I don't mind it and I respect its originality, I'm in no way supportive of devaluing the past for a lazy 21st century audience too caught up in trends and hyperactivity to watch something from a bygone era. I would never have imagined The Pink Panther would be remade as much as The Party--Edwards' and Sellers' work is such a part of cinematic lore. It's shameless, unnecessary and central to relegating fine films to a lower market bracket and specialty stations like TCM. When I go to the video store to rent a movie, it takes me at least three-quarters of an hour to find one new release that appears satisfying, such as The Notebook or Something the Lord Made, with Alan Rickman. Unique films like these (though the Rickman picture debuted on television) are few and far between amongst crummy remakes, violent nonsense, idiotic sex comedies and straight-to-video rubbish. I better stop here.
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reginnagiddons, if you don't mind me saying so, I would have never in a million years have suspected anyone of including Ivan Dixon in a list of handsome men. You're absolutely right, Ivan was a good-looking fellow, but that comes right out of left field. It exhibits personal and original taste. Hope you don't mind the observation.
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I believe TCM would have to licence Sex and the Single Girl.
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Forbidden Planet?
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Oh, no! Please tell me you're kidding about Myers. Are these awful updates ever going to end? What's next? Some Like it Hot?
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You may be right about Law, normandie7, yet his performances, at least, to me, certainly don't reflect the self-conscious qualities that Cruise's does.
lorrekarloff, Legend is awful but so was Cruise's first film, Endless Love.
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Yeah, Jude Law is certainly a notch above most of his contemporaries. I thought he was very, very good and believable in Cold Mountain and Wilde though his brief take on Errol Flynn in The Aviator left much to be desired. I think you're right, stoneyburke666, about Cruise's ego. He does deserve a smack upside the head. Your observation of his "presumptuous oiliness" is well put.
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For me, The Great Lie, with Bette Davis and George Brent was a huge let-down. I've read a lot about that picture being great but, really, The Golden Arrow is superior. I usually like the Davis/Brent team but I just didn't buy it. Mary Astor was okay, but if you really want to watch a better film by Edmund Goulding, watch Nightmare Alley. Maybe The Great Lie seemed better in 1941.
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Sorry, katyscar11ett, but Matt Damon the best of the new breed? Is there actually one? I notice this thread is turning away from digs at Tom Cruise into an appreciation of his looks. That speaks well for most of the prominent performers of today. Few of them can really pass looks for talent, if any. And I'm really only qualified to discuss my opinion, but I'm amazed when I learn that people like or, worse, loved Magnolia. It's got to best THE most self-indulgent, self-conscious piece of tripe I have EVER seen in my life, including Dennis Hopper films. And what's the name of picture Cruise did with Jamie Foxx? Do people take that sort of thing seriously. And what was Kubrick thinking....
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I wonder why TCM hasn't aired Winner Take All, Hard to Handle, Frisco Kid, or Ceiling Zero in at least three years that I know. They must just get lost in the shuffle.
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Picture Snatcher is my favourtie. I've been a Cagney fan for over twenty years and thank goodness TCM is around to allow people to see stuff like Picture Snatcher, The Mayor of Hell, Taxi!, and even The St. Louis Kid. There's so much to Cagney's screen prescence beyond Public Enemy, Yankee Doodle Dandy and Angels with Dirty Faces. Another favourite is Torrid Zone. What a hilarious film. Cagney is one of the greats, and deserves his due on DVD, though I understand Warners is preparing a Cagney set. If it could only contain everything he did at Warners (though he might not have agreed), I'd certainly be happy. His early work was fast, snappy, mostly ridiculous and certainly not PC. When he died, I was watching The Ten Commandents and the hourly update mentioned his passing. Too bad his last work was Terrible Joe Moran. He should have left it at Ragtime and went out in style.
The thing I like most about Cagney is that his screen persona was the exact opposite of the man himself, even down to his eyeliner and darkened eyebrows. A quiet, gentle fellow who loved horses as much as his wife. Good men come few and far between and it's really quite interesting that Cagney is best remembered for being one of the screen's greatest creeps.
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I'd like to think so. Was that in Bacall by myself? I read that book so long ago I forgot. Didn't write another one specifically on Bogart? Of course, I've read other books that describe a different scenario but Ariel would probably disapprove of those books so I'll take Bacall's word for it and leave it at that.
katyscar11ett, sorry to momentarily soil your impression of Bacall and I'm with you on Sinatra. There's something about that guy that....geez, that's another thread.
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Uh, three additions added while I was typing mine. Yikes, I'm slow. Is the affair in question her developing relationship with Bogart or her affair with Sinatra while Bogie was dying? I've never felt good about that. Ol' Blue Eyes coming to visit a bed-bound Bogie then leaving his side for Bacall's. Not that Sinatra had many scruples. Am I wrong, did this not happen?
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lorrekarloff, it seems you've opened the floodgates for the truth about Tom Cruise to come pouring out. One can only hope someone tips him off to these comments and he can read them for himself. They're only a mouseclick away, Tom.
Larry, you're hilarious. Calling Cruise a "piece of crud" is probably the funniest thing I've read all week. I've never been able to isolate what it is that makes these men, other than the obvious physical qualities, stars. Have you ever seen Phantoms? Ben Affleck stars alongside Peter O'Toole and a bunch of other would-be 'stars' and, though the film is sheer rubbish, it's amazing to watch O'Toole deliver a bored performance that still manages to outshine Affleck and the other prominent young 'stars' in the film.
I only hope more people can come up other creative adjectives to describe Mr. Cruise and we'll be laughing all week.
And lorrekarloff, I'm looking forward to Sony's upcoming DVD release of The Man with Nine Lives. I've never seen it and my Karloff collection will very happily enjoy the addition. Now, if Sony would be kind enough to dust The Boogie Man Will Get You, with Karloff and Lorre, I'll be very happy.
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"His whole behavior is so shocking. Its inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness".
HEAR, HEAR! I am SO happy to hear that Bacall disapproves of Cruise. I absolutely agree with her and you, lorrekarloff, about Cruise. What a twit. I'd love to go on about that man but what would it really achieve other than wasting my time.
By the way, lorrekarloff, I love your ID, two of the most individual and original personalities we have seen on the screen.
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Ernst Lubitsch, I think.
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Thanks for the clarification, tcmviewer, about Dressed to Kill. There's about as much need for a colorized version of the Holmes film as much as their release of My Man Godfrey (or any film, for that matter). A shame.
I don't really have any hope of those classic crime films being released either but it never hurts to express the desire to see a commerical release.
Cheers.
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It's maybe of note that Fox is releasing the third Michael Shayne film, Dressed to Kill, in September. Though it's odd that Fox jumped to entry No. 3 for an initial DVD release, none of those films have ever been available before and it's at least a glimmer of hope that more like it will follow.
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Sorry, are the construction division.... Where was my brain?
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The Seabees were the construction division of the U.S. Naval forces.
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belinoitaliano, Do you ever do an image search for the Italian beauties of your favour? I've seen a lot of what I consider nice quality pics of Loren, Cardinale, etc. on various sites so they're out there if you've got the time to search.
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I don't know if it's been mentioned but I'll never forget the final scene of Greed with Gibson Gowland handcuffed to a dead Jean Hersholt in the middle of Death Valley. Unforgettable.
So is Garbo's demise in Flesh and the Devil; Richard Barthelmess' and Lillian Gish's trek across the ice in Way Down East; Cagney's grapefruit in Mae Clarke's face in The Public Enemy; Welles' opening tracking shot of Touch of Evil, as well as Dietrich's final line; Grant and the cropduster in North by Northwest.....I could think of hundred (or two or three) greatest single scenes in movie history.
Paltrow as Dietrich
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I hope not. Dietrich doesn't need to be made the butt of another superficial Hollywood biopic. There was only one Dietrich. Leave it at that.