movieman1957
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April:
This is why I love your commentary so much. You bring out things that goof balls like me wouldn't pick up. Colors and location of actors in a shot are not always obvious to me so to have you point them out will make viewing much more interesting.
Your thoughts are deep, accessible, nicely appointed with the screencaps (which I haven't the slightest idea how to do) and thought provoking. Thanks. I appreciate your sharing your thoughts.
Chris
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> {quote:title=FrankGrimes wrote:}{quote}
> My unwatched DVD
> list is currently over 350, and that's not an exaggeration.
My goodness. Does it pay to even keep recording? Mine is only at about 30 and I thuoght I was way behind.
We could start a "Pick Frank's Next Movie" and fix it for you but the time you'd spend putting up your list you could watch two or three of them.
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Several. We haven't watched it in a couple of months though. It's a fine film and Fonda and Perkins are quite good together.
(Sorry for the edit but it didn't come out right.)
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I have and like it very much. My daughter even likes it. We have our own copy. I would enjoy a discussion very much.
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He has apparently opposed the Partial Birth Abortion ban and in Illinois opposed a bill similar to the "Born Alive Infants Protection Act."
That is from information from a April 8, 2008 piece by Michael Gerson in the Washington Post.
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I have no idea what all of you are eating before you go to bed but it is starting to worry me.
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Kathy:
"Lost Horizon" is a wonderful fantasy film. Colman and the rest of the cast, including a very young Jane Wyatt are quite good. It's a big budget type with an exotic location and story.
If it is the restored version it will catch you off guard when the restored part is inserted. I think it was that they found a reel of the dialogue but couldn't find the video reel. They inserted the sound and filled the picture with a collection of stills. Put up a picture of Sam Jaffe when he's talking and a picture of Colman when he is talking. It is not long but there is no warning when it shows up.
It's a lovely film. You should enjoy it.
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Theresa, my dear:
After hearing about your mother the other day I had to share this with you. The Baltimore Sun in their review today of "Quantum Of Solace" talk about Judi Dench's "M."
"She and Craig get more rhythm going than anyone else in the movie. He's the rebel with a cause. She's the mother figure as dominatrix."
I did see also where CNN said she brings out the only warmth Bond shows in the movie.
Go Judi.
Chris
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The news is reporting a Mormon church in Los Angeles and the main church in Salt Lake City received mail that contained a white powdered substance. It appears harmless.
What makes someone think this helps? (That's rhetorical.)
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"Will Sonnett" was one that ran for two seasons around 1969. Walter Brennan played a grandfather who was taking his grandson on a mission to find the boy's father (his son.) Each episode was about what they found in a town and how they (not surprisingly) usually missed him by a couple of days.
It is on DVD.
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I remember watching "Cheyenne" and really liked Clint Walker. He had the best physique in TV and was a modest man. (He seemed to be so in real life too.)
I'm still running through "Have Gun, Will Travel." Those are interesting because you get a whole different view of Richard Boone.
Anyone remember "The Guns of Will Sonnett"?
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I'm old enough I have "Wildfire" on a "45." Another great Murphy single is "Carolina In The Pines." Is that on your CD?
As far as "Wichita Lineman" goes if you have any interest in hearing a different version you should check out Jimmy Webb's album "Ten Easy Pieces." He does new versions of old songs he wrote and the arrangements are quite beautiful. If you remember the song "Worst That Could Happen" it was a kind slightly up tempo song about a guy's former girl marrying someone else. Well, he does like it should be done, in a heartbreaking manner.
Sorry to interrupt important westerns conversation. Back to our regular programming.
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Boycotts serve their purpose. People on both sides have done it for years with varying degrees of success. What I find strange and mildly amusing is that people are picketing churches. I saw photos of those who are picketing Saddleback Church where Rick Warren is the pastor. Do these people think they are going to get a church to change its position on that proposition? I understand them doing it as a way to show their frustration but to think anything more will come to change the church's mind is quite another thing.
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>What's always funny to me is when people against gay marriage talk about how marriage is a sacred institution and "between a man and a woman" only. It's so sacred that people can get drunk and marry someone in Vegas that they don't even know!
The fact that the institution of marriage may be considered sacred doesn't mean that all who enter into it share the same sentiment. Because people do that doesn't change the dynamics of marriage.
Even heterosexual married couples don't always honor the sanctity of it or they wouldn't have affairs, they wouldn't abuse their spouses and they would treat each other with love and respect.
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> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote}
> I hate to say it right at this moment, but I like the Bourne movies.....
No reason to hate to say it as they are pretty exciting in their own right. It's just a dofferent type of spy movie. I like them too. The last one had all that hand held camera work during the fight that would not end and I started to get a headache but I thought it quite clever in the way it tied info from the prior movie(s) into the plot.
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FF:
On your Grace Jones comment, there are two things to remember. 1 - 1985. 2 - She is nothing if not eccentric. Don't know a thing about her music but every picture I've seen of her she is mostly on the unusual side.
There is some excitement at the end with the Golden Gate Bridge scene and the underground scene prior but not a lot going on earlier. Tanya Roberts is not all the great. Walken who seems like a perfect a villian comes across to me as mostly crazy but not particularly evil. His talent with a machine gun is evident but for all he does with it doesn't come across as all that sinister. Certainly not in the way Blofeld does and without the charm (as far as it goes) as Goldfinger.
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April:
The song "Wichita Lineman" is written by Jimmy Webb. He has one of the great romantic lines of all time in it.
"And I need you more than want you and I want you for all time..."
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I haven't seen it in some time but the basis of it was Russians were trying to steal a NATO nuclear device to then turn around and blow up a military base and make the Americans look bad. Somehow Louis Jourdan's character was involved in the financing and copperation with the Russians.
Maud Adams was nice.
I'll have to watch it this week and maybe we'll have a more coherent discussion from my end.
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Hi Theresa:
See, when you get my age the movies sometimes all run together. I do plan on seeing "Quantom of Solace." My daughter is anxious to see it so that gives us a nice night out.
As far as the Bond girls go they had to become stronger or they would ha ve killed off half of their audience. I think it really started with Barbara Bach. She may have played the Russian spy but she was right there in the middle of things with Bond. They certinaly picked up with Brosnan's movies.
If you want an interesting conversation with your mother have her explain "dominatrix." Report back. I want to hear your reaction.
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>While I agree with you that it is possible, there could not be two "whites" in the Oxbow scenario. Only one....and the other was at best a "perception" of white.
That is an interesting way to put it. We, the viewer, may have the knowledge of what is black and white in this situation but clearly the gang thinks their position on the hanging is the moral and right thing to do. They are, in their mind, administering justice. They are swept up in their anger and see themselves justified because "the law" is gone for the moment. This is their way to help. They think, oddly enough, they are doing the community a favor. Only after the disaster do they find they weren't anywhere close to right. They couldn't see it at the time but they couldn't have been more wrong.
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"The Best Years Of Our Lives" is a great film. It may not be one you watch everytime it comes on but it is really worth watching,
It is not a sad movie though there are some wonderful moments that will reduce most people to tears. Among them are Loy and March meeting at home. The same with Russell's homecoming. In fact Russell's storyline is heartbreaking in its eloquence but uplifting. Andrews' story is the one that causes the most concern. That is not meant in a bad way or a complaint about the movie. Of the three he is the one that in some ways has the toughest time coming home.
Terrific cast, especially Russell. A wonderful movie.
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Hopper played James Gregory's son. He was the guy making life hard for the Elders. It wasn't a big part or as much to do as "Corral" so don't be surprised you might have forgotten him.
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You two are a pair. Not that many women I know are big Bond fans. (Though my daughter is one) but you are a hoot swooning over Bond. I think the scene you refer to may be the opening of "The Spy Who Loved Me." That or "Moonraker." I think it was right before the big ski chase.
Yeoh is tough but she doesn't kill people with her thighs like the nasty woman (Onnatopp.)in "Golden Eye."
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*Ohh, that would fix me, all right. I'm in enough trouble as it is. Hey, I've tried talking*
*about some films of late but some unnaMed snIppy perSon iS holdinG out.*
Well, point me in the right direction. I'm missing them or coming in too late. Hopefully I've seen some of what you want to discuss. We'll start ourselves.