Bethluvsfilms
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I love IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD, but am aware that not everyone does. But I don't consider it a guilty pleasure, just a pleasure for my own personal taste.
Other 'guilty' pleasure movies that I don't feel a bit awkward about liking are THE FOG (1980), CREEPSHOW, MISS CONGENIALITY, THE NAKED GUN movies.
But I have to confess there are movies that I like that I do wish that I did not so I guess that would deserve the label 'guilty pleasure'. THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK and NINE 9 1/2 WEEKS come to mind. And even though I do consider it Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, I still feel uncomfortable (though that was the movie's point) watching certain scenes of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE even though I can't turn away.
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1 minute ago, TopBilled said:
Sunday July 5, 2020
Jessica Tandy on TCM
DRIVING MISS DAISY with Morgan Freeman
THE SEVENTH CROSS with Spencer Tracy & Hume Cronyn
Looking forward to these, especially DRIVING MISS DAISY.
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THE LADY SAYS NO
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THE SAINTED SISTERS
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SUBMARINE COMMAND
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2 hours ago, spence said:
was a bit surprised when everybody attacked The Two Jakes thought it was ok (**1/2) Keitel stole the show though
I enjoyed THE TWO JAKES myself, though I was a bit annoyed that we never got a satisfactory answer to what became of Noah Cross. He's mentioned once throughout the whole film.
I know John Huston had died 2 years earlier, but he was so subtly evil as Noah Cross in CHINATOWN, Cross should have been a bit more than just a footnote in the sequel....(SPOILER ALERT) especially when we learn the true identity of the other Jake's (Harvey Keitel) wife Kitty (Meg Tilly).
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ROSEMARY'S BABY
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LADY BE GOOD
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2 hours ago, Princess of Tap said:
This looks so bad that I think it would be fun to watch John Carradine do a takeoff on his classic Dracula character.
Yes, it doesn't exactly look like a winner, does it? But Carradine is always fun to watch no matter how bad the movie is.
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THREE HEARTS FOR JULIA
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TOO MANY HUSBANDS
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2 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Yeah it's not good. I think there is just possibly the off chance that DENNIS HOPPER was on "the drugs" when he did this.
Yes, I think it's safe to say THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 was definitely NOT Dennis Hopper's finest moment on screen.
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Douglas Spencer
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PATHS OF GLORY is one of Kubrick's all time best, and I've heard many put it on their top ten best list, even from those who don't care for Kubrick's films in general. There is much to recommend it.
You have a great performance from Kirk Douglas as the officer who tries in vain to defend and save the 3 men chosen to be the sacrifice of the power-hungry generals. And you have superb actors like Adolph Menjou and George Macready as the ambitious officers who seek the glory for themselves in a mission doomed to failure from the start and when it does fail, want to take it out on their men in their division rather than face up to their own screw-ups. And Wayne Morris is such a marvelous weasel in here (a sharp contrast to his real life heroism in the war).
The movie doesn't end on a happy note, but rarely does any of Kubrick's films have a happily-ever-after-note. It was a box office flop at the time, but time has proven its worth through the decades.
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8 minutes ago, chaya bat woof woof said:
If I were Edward G. Robinson, I would have passed on Soylent Green. While I think some of the movie is funny, Spencer Tracy could have turned down It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (maybe too many mads in there). However, I would rather watch that than his dreadful version of Jekyll and Hyde.
Looking for other suggestions for top-notch actors/actresses. I'll give some of them a pass (like Jack Lemmon, Joseph Cotton, etc. on disaster movies).
Have to agree to disagree with you on this. I have to say I love both IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD and Tracy's version of Jekyll and Hyde.
If Tracy ever made a bit of a misstep in his long distinguished career I'd have to say it was 20,000 YEARS IN SING SING, though even that is forgivable since it came out just before he made it big in his Oscar-winning turns in CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS and BOYS TOWN. And I still found him watchable in SING SING, though the role seemed more suited for someone like Cagney or Robinson.
And I thought Robinson put in a heartbreaking performance in SOYLENT GREEN (even if I thought the movie itself was a bit uneven at times).
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THE CHINA SYNDROME
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5 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Have you seen these classic films:
1171.
1172.
1173.
1174.
1175.
1176.
1177.
1178.
1179.
1180.
Haven't seen 1176 or 1180.
1179, while a bit too dark for some, I really enjoy (I have a taste for black comedy). 1175 and 1177 are very much underrated IMO. 1173 is a watchable time-killer. The rest I can watch now and then when I'm in the mood.
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THE NATURAL
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1 hour ago, Bogie56 said:
Sunday, July 5
Jessica Tandy then Hume Cronyn …
8 p.m. Driving Miss Daisy (1989).
10 p.m. The Seventh Cross (1944).
I love DRIVING MISS DAISY.
Been awhile since I saw THE SEVENTH CROSS, but if I recall I did like it. Have to watch it again.
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I said this some time ago, Kubrick is the type of director that is not to everyone's tastes and I can certainly understand why his style of filmmaking can turn some folks off. But it has always fascinated me.
I suppose I have a special place in my heart for THE SHINING because it was the first horror movie I ever saw and it blew me away. It also introduced me to Kubrick and as I grew older I sought his other movies, and they have grown on me as I grew older.
But I will concede that Kubrick's film, great as it is, really doesn't do justice to Stephen King's novel, which King himself has constantly made a point of this over the years.
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John Travolta
HITS & MISSES: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow on TCM
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Good movie with a fine cast. I'll have to record it though, 1 in the morning is a wee bit late for me to stay up.