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> {quote:title=FrankGrimes wrote:}{quote}

> Why? You to lazy to walk up all those steps and deliver them yourself, honey?

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> :D

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> Why do these words ring in my head?:

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> RELAXING!? Thanks for the compliment but please, get off your...posterior and contribute some, lazy bones.

 

 

RING! RING!

 

So? Contribute! You must have tons of "rambles" and reviews stored up. Let's have them. :)

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How do, Quiet Gal? -- The Informer....Two Rode Together....and (drum roll PLEASE).....3 Bad Men!!! I am so excited I am about to just quit work early this afternoon and stay home to watch movies....ok...no I won't do that....but I AM very tempted!

 

Miss G and Jackie have poisoned you! I suggest you watch some film noir before it's too late.

 

I got to see The Man From Laramie this weekend....I will maybe ramble on that one later over in westerns

 

Anthony Mann! Terrific! That's one I can ramble on, too.

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Barbara---have you ever seen Picnic at Hanging Rock? I was thinking

of you when I watched it last night and wondering if this was a movie you'd like. It's

a kind of "horror" movie---but poetic, romantic, coming-of-age, mystical horror. It's one

of the rare, relatively modern movies I love.

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RING! RING!

 

:P

 

So? Contribute! You must have tons of "rambles" and reviews stored up. Let's have them.

 

Hey! I have been rambling! The Misfits, Niagara, The Ox-Bow Incident, Don't Bother to Knock, Steamboat Round the Bend, Judge Priest and so many others. :)

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Watching Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) last night I got to thinking about

post-60s movies I like, and there are so few that I can list them. I'm so hopelessly

old-fashioned. Here they are:

 

The Tamarind Seed

Out of Africa

Emma

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Somewhere in Time

Love Story (I know, I know!)

Breezy

L.A. Confidential

Gladiator

The Insider

A Beautiful Mind

Dirty Dancing

Dead Poets Society

Walkabout

Il Postino

Enchanted April

Un Couer en Hiver

Nelly et M. Arnaud

Indochine

The Lover

The Shootist

Rooster Cogburn

The Yakuza

True Grit

 

These films I saw as a child and loved them. I don't love them

anymore but I'll list them anyway:

 

Star Wars (only the first one)

Superman (only the first one)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (none of the sequels)

E.T.

 

I used to love horror movies as a kid but no more. *The Fog* (original) was my favorite.

That is about it.

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Oh my goodness I have that same screencap!! I just took it because I thought the picture

was soooo purty. It reminds me of an oil painting.

 

I don't know what "snippy" you are referring to, but we shall all await your Yankeeship's

review.

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Oh my goodness I have that same screencap!!

 

You have every cap! :P

 

I just took it because I thought the picture was soooo purty. It reminds me of an oil painting.

 

You know, when I watched The Horse Soldiers on Saturday, I did NOT notice the backdrop. I just noticed it a few minutes ago while taking the cap. It's an amazing shot for such a small moment.

 

I don't know what "snippy" you are referring to,

 

Ohh, I'm sure you don't, Snippy.

 

but we shall all await your Yankeeship's review.

 

Get ready to get a face full of river water. :D

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In regards to the original *Superman*... I recently rewatched it again after many years of not having seen it. It still stands up extremely well, and in some ways plays even better now that I am more familiar with many of the classic actors who appear in the movie, like Glenn Ford and Trevor Howard (I was already familiar with Marlon Brando back in the day). I even admire Ned Beatty a bit more than before, because I didn't realize when I was a kid that he was also quite capable of doing drama, as well. Which he did extremely well, imho, in *Network*.

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+Watching Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) last night I got to thinking about

post-60s movies I like, and there are so few that I can list them. I'm so hopelessly

old-fashioned.+

 

You are old-fashioned....but as one of my favorite tv sitcom phrases.....

 

?There's nothing wrong with that!?

 

I would have thought you would have easily had many more post 1960 films that you liked.

 

I looked at my top 500 films of all time and I can honestly say that there are at least 150 films made after 1970 that I would have to include on my list. That is 30% of my total of 500.

 

But that is just me.

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> {quote:title=fxreyman wrote:}{quote}

> You are old-fashioned....but as one of my favorite tv sitcom phrases.....

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> There's nothing wrong with that!

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> I would have thought you would have easily had many more post 1960 films that you liked.

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> I looked at my top 500 films of all time and I can honestly say that there are at least 150 films made after 1970 that I would have to include on my list. That is 30% of my total of 500.

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> But that is just me.

 

I thought the catchphrase was, "Not that there's anything wrong with that!" ;)

 

I'm firmly with you that there's nothing wrong with being old-fashioned. I spend probably 80% of my movie-viewing time watching films that were released before I was born. Maybe it's just that certain things were simply not likely to be shown on-screen, but it's easy to come away with the idea that it was in many regards a more polite, genteel time.

 

But at the same time, I fell in love with the movies during the 80's, and I'll be darned if I don't still have a place in my heart for the "top hits" of that decade. :x

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MissGoddess: "So? Contribute! You must have tons of 'rambles' and reviews stored up. Let's have them."

 

Frank Grimes: "Hey! I have been rambling! The Misfits, Niagara, The Ox-Bow Incident, Don't Bother to Knock, Steamboat Round the Bend, Judge Priest and so many others."

 

 

MissGoddess: "Yes but what have you done lately."

 

CineMaven: Well you know what they say..."you're only as good as the next thing you've done."

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Good evening to you, Liveliest Gal in Town! -- Well you know what they say..."you're only as good as the next thing you've done."

 

And I'm as bad as the next thing I'm about to do. Let Ann know that I loved her, will ya?

 

And a good Hitch evening to you, SoKyle! -- "Get ready to get a face full of river water." - FrankGrimes

 

Oooh. Are ya gonna discuss Red River ? I'm pooped of "Pappy".

 

:D I like your willingness to stick your neck out in a hangin' mob.

 

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> {quote:title=MissGoddess wrote:}{quote}

> > {quote:title=movieman1957 wrote:}{quote}

> > There's theme for the next challenge. Great Cattle Drives.

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> *Red River* and Raoul Walsh's *The Tall Men* feature two of the most exciting I've seen.

 

I don't believe I've ever watched *The Tall Men* - would sure like to watch it someday (soon, hopefully).

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>You mean the programming challenge, Chris? That would be an awesome idea. I'm sure there's quite a few folks here who could come up with some terrific schedules.

 

I do indeed. It will be coming shortly after the holidays when everyone gets settled down. I'm hoping for lots of people. It is fun and it will help make it as good, hopefully, as some of the great challenges before.

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> {quote:title=movieman1957 wrote:}{quote}

> >You mean the programming challenge, Chris? That would be an awesome idea. I'm sure there's quite a few folks here who could come up with some terrific schedules.

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> I do indeed. It will be coming shortly after the holidays when everyone gets settled down. I'm hoping for lots of people. It is fun and it will help make it as good, hopefully, as some of the great challenges before.

 

A really cool idea, imho. It's going to be your first time organizing the challenge, isn't it? Best of luck with that. ;)

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