Bethluvsfilms
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I think I've been TOO cautious in my example.....
Let's just say the 'other woman' has no intention of being ignored....
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1 minute ago, Dargo said:
So, in this movie you're sayin' not only does the dude cheat on his wife, but he ALSO beats the family dog?
Ya know, I once knew a guy like that, but decided it best to keep my distance from the SOB!
(...sorry, still stumped here)
Well, the family in here did have a dog, but they did have another pet, a cuddly, furry one with long pink ears.....
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7 minutes ago, Dargo said:
I'll give ya a big hint, Beth.
This crew's "ship" doesn't travel on or near water.
Nope, the "ship" mostly travels in a vacuum.
(...and I ain't talkin' a Hoover or Dyson here)
Has to be a spaceship then......ALIEN or ALIENS perhaps? Or could it be 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY?
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20 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Nope, the crew in question has traveled much further away than Tahiti, or Pitcairn for that matter. Much further. Much MUCH further.
(...and re your movie summary, I'm still stumped...so how about supplying just one specific detail about the film, but one not too obvious)
Well, one could make an argument for an extreme case of animal cruelty for a certain pet in my example.
I have to admit your example has me stumped as well. I have a feeling it will make sense to me when I hear it, but I haven't got a clue since it's not MUTINY, that is the only film that came to my mind when I read your description.
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15 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Saturday July 11, 2020
Yul Brynner's 100th birthday on TCM
INVITATION TO A GUNFIGHTER with Janice Rule
THE JOURNEY with Deborah Kerr
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV with Maria Schell
WESTWORLD with Richard Benjamin
WESTWORLD is one weird movie (but I mean that in the most positive way).
Also looking forward to THE JOURNEY and THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV.
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5 minutes ago, Dargo said:
In the meantime and while we figure that one out, how about:
Beauties abound for a ship's crew far far FAR from home.
I'm guessing MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY.
(And no, there are no ghosts or hauntings in my example).
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14 minutes ago, Dargo said:
"Worst case scenario" ya say, Beth? And in perhaps a case where the poor slob bites the dust for his transgression?
Hmmmm...in THAT case, it must be some flick made before the Production Code ended, eh?!
(...and 'cause this sort'a thing evidently isn't frowned upon much anymore in present society, ya know)
Actually this movie was made long after the Production Code dissolved.
Let me put it this way, this guy's transgressions come back to haunt not only him but his family as well.
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1 minute ago, Dargo said:
Wow! Sorry Beth, but I'm gonna need a little more to go on here before guessin' THIS one!
I mean, there's gotta be a GAZILLION movies where some guy steps out on his wife, ya know!
(...WAIT, they haven't made "The Donald Trump Story" yet have THEY???...oh, wait again...you said the man learned from that sort'a thing, didn't ya...never mind then...bad guess on my part here, huh)
Well, Dargo, just think about the worst case scenario when a guy doesn't stay true to his wife....
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Man learns the hard way that marriage is a sacred institution that needs to be respected always.
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3 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Man learns certain roadside attractions are best observed from a safe distance.
(...alternate "summary", and done in rhetorical question form: DAMN! Some movie bad guys sure own some pretty cool freakin' second homes, don't THEY?!!!)
It has to be NORTH BY NORTHWEST.
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I know that's gotta be ANGEL FACE.
Poor Robert Mitchum, his characters in those 2 films had the bad luck to get mixed up with women who were no good. No wonder he became so screwed up in THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER and CAPE FEAR.
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2 minutes ago, Dargo said:
At the behest of an old colleague, man searches for woman and finds her, unfortunately for him.
OUT OF THE PAST?
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9 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
The Jerk (1979)
In honor of Carl Reiner, we watched this film last night. I'd never seen this film, but had heard a lot about it. I wasn't really sure what to expect. I knew that Steve Martin was in the film, but I didn't realize that he wrote both the story and the screenplay. My husband and I thought this movie was hilarious. I wasn't really sure what to expect when it started, but it soon grew on me. In lesser hands, this movie could have been really really bad--but Steve Martin made it work.
Martin plays Navin Johnson, a poor black child in Mississippi. He is (obviously) white and was adopted as a child. His parents raised him as one of their own, with Navin not realizing that he was "different" than his siblings. At his birthday party, his mother breaks the news to him that he was adopted. Later that evening, Navin is listening to the radio and hears an instrumental song that inspires him to move to St. Louis. There's a funny scene where he is trying to hitchhike and a motorist stops to pick him up. Navin asks him how far he's going, the motorist advises that he is driving to the end of Navin's fence. Navin says "ok," he gets into the vehicle, the driver drives like 5 feet, and Navin gets out. After numerous hitched rides, Navin finally makes it to his destination.
Navin then gets a job at a gas station, then later a carnival to try and make it on his own. While working at the carnival, Navin catches the eye of Patty, the daredevil motorcyclist. Patty has a very strong, brash personality. She finds herself wildly attracted to Navin and helps him discover how to utilize his "special purpose." Later, Navin meets Marie (Bernadette Peters) and they fall in love. However, she ends up leaving him because she doesn't want a life of financial insecurity.
Meanwhile, Navin has innovated a new glasses feature--a piece of metal that rests on the bridge of the user's nose. This device helps keep the glasses from slipping off someone's nose. His invention sells like gangbusters and soon Navin has more money than he knows what to do with. He and Marie marry and start living it up. I loved their home disco and their wine in the water cooler.
There were a lot of great scenes and lines. For some reason, Navin's dog's inappropriate name was hilarious. I loved how gaudy and ugly his mansion was.
This was such a weird, but sweet and funny film. Steve Martin somehow regularly manages to straddle the line between humor, vulgarity, and stupidity very well.
Although ALL OF ME is my favorite Carl Reiner/Steve Martin film, I have to say THE JERK is indeed a classic and you are right, the movie probably wouldn't have worked without the comical genius of Martin.
I love how oblivious Navin could be in a lot of situations (especially the fact that he was the only non-black in the household).
A good comedy with enough laughs to go around.
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4 hours ago, Bogie56 said:
Saturday, July 11
10 a.m. Popeye: Nix on Hypnotricks (1941).
1:30 a.m. America, America (1963). Really good Elia Kazan film. But when the schedule was originally released this was mistakenly described as a Korean film by Kil-soo Chang, America, America (1988). It took me a while to track this down on the imdb as it has a different year and spelling for the director.
I know I haven't seen this one, but it looks interesting. Probably will record it.
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Seen just about all of them except 1231 and 1240.
1233 is my absolute favorite out of all of these, and Karloff's best performance IMO since his turn as the Monster in the FRANKENSTEIN films.
1237 is weird but interesting (regardless of how I feel about Polanski in his personal life, he did make some interesting films, both in front of and behind the camera).
1239 is too mediocre for me. The rest I like to see now and again.
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Billy Bob Thorton
Great Movies! Deceptively Boring Summaries!
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LOL you got a point there, but I thought you were being a little on the humorous side there (not that you are ever NOT humorous!
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Afraid I haven't a clue to what your film is. Maybe someone else on here knows what it is. And I will probably feel like a moron for not realizing what movie it was when I learn what it is.