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Saturday Evening Movie Thread 07-15-2017 [Hosted By: TheJamesMadison]
The Contender
Assumptions
This film is based on so many poor assumptions about how politics works in the United States that it feels like it was written by a foreigner who only knew anything about American politics through some poorly translated editorials from The New York Times. Let's start at the beginning. The movie doesn't say explicitly, but I'm pretty sure it takes place in 2006. The president (played by Jeff Bridges) says that he's six and a half years into his presidency and the candidate (played by Joan Allen) voted for Clinton's impeachment in the House before she switched parties to win her Senate seat from Ohio (her Senate term ends in about two years). So, the currently sitting VPOTUS dies somewhere between June and August of 2006. You know what else would be beginning right about that time? That's right, both major parties would be beginning their primary seasons. You know what's never mentioned? That's right, one and a half years before a presidential election where both parties would be looking for new candidates, no one ever mentions the primary. Not once. So, the Democratic president, who is trying to get a Vice President through a Republican controlled House one and a half years before a general election. That's the basic concept.Does this movie sound ridiculously stupid yet? Because we're just getting started. Don't think it can get worse? Pause while I laugh at you Alright, so we're at the beginning of primary season that no one currently in government seems to have any idea of. If you were a sitting president in this situation, what would you do? Me? I'd keep the Vice Presidency open for the rest of the term. It's not a fight worth having, the VP doesn't do much of anything, and we've survived a bunch of times without a VP. "The people are worried? Who cares? I've got an administration to run." Others might say, "Well, we need someone there for whatever reasons." Fine. If you absolutely need to get someone in that post what do you do? The president in this movie is pretty much trying to decide the results of the Democratic primary with his pick. A smart president would have chosen an old party loyalist who would promise to not run for the presidency in the next election. A retired governor who the other party likes. Easy little confirmation leads to nothing vice presidency which leads to a pretty much completely unchanged primary race. But who does this president choose? A young female Senator (who's totally not Hillary Clinton, guys). Oh yes, you bet that that's the president telling his party who's going to be the nominee in 2008. If the president wants to make that preference known, then great, he can. My question then becomes, "Why on earth would he let a Republican House have any say in that?" He's trying to forge the future of his party and he's giving the other party a say?
Wait? You think the stupid stops there? Let me catch my breath from my continued laughing The sordid bit is about how the senator and putative Vice President was supposedly in a gang bang in college. This begins to get into how dramatically inert the movie is, but let's deal with the political idiocy first. The senator refuses to answer any questions on the matter, insisting that it's private and has no bearing on how good she'll be in the office (I wonder what she would say of Donald Trump?). Her point is that it would be fine if this came out about a man but women are held to separate standards. These words were written by the screenwriters immediately after Bill Clinton, a man, got impeached for actions that stemmed from private sexual dealings (the movie's explanation of the senator's vote for impeaching Clinton is silly. Something about adultery without a mention of perjury). I mean, it's not like no sex scandals ever took down up and coming male politicians ever. Ugh… Before I move on, the dramatic bit. The entire movie is the main character of the film refusing to defend herself. She's passive in the face of opposition. How on earth is that dramatically interesting? It's not, by the way.
I see you get this now. Yes, let's show some more dumb.
Wish-Fulfillment
One last thing This is already a little long, but I want to bring in one final quote from the movie. I think that this quote exemplifies everything that's wrong with the Leftist worldview: "I may be an atheist...but that does not mean I do not go to church; I do go to church. The church I go to is the one that emancipated the slaves... that gave women the right to vote. It gave us every freedom that we hold dear. My church is this very chapel of democracy that we sit in together..." Government is her church. Fuck this movie.
Movies of Today Opening in Theaters:
War for the Planet of the Apes
The Big Sick Next in my Netflix Queue:
Metropia Movies I Saw This Week: The Contender (Netflix Rating 1/5 | Quality Rating 0/4) "Fuck this movie." With a Friend Like Harry… (Netflix Rating 5/5 | Quality Rating 3.5/4) "A slow burn and effectively creepy little thriller." The World's End (Netflix Rating 5/5 | Quality Rating 4/4) [Rewatch] "I'm hard-pressed to find a better structured movie that's also so hilarious." Independence Day: Resurgence (Netflix Rating 2/5 | Quality Rating 1.5/4) Poster Blurb: "Represents almost everything wrong with dramatic structure in modern blockbuster movie making." Suicide Squad (Netflix Rating 1/5 | Quality Rating 0.5/4) "A complete and total mess without a lick of sense for dramatic structure." The Legend of Tarzan (Netflix Rating 2/5 | Quality Rating 1/4) "Does anyone in Hollywood understand the basic concepts of dramatic structure anymore?!?!" Macbeth (Netflix Rating 5/5 | Quality Rating 4/4) "Ah…that's better. A visually striking and surprisingly thoughtful adaptation of That Scottish Play."
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Eromero at July 15, 2017 07:41 PM (zLDYs)
Didn't the "Joan Allen" on the cover give you enough of a warning? She tends to specialize in the most awful sorts of stupid movies.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 15, 2017 07:42 PM (rZ+mb)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 07:43 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 07:43 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: pat at July 15, 2017 07:44 PM (4MSOz)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 07:43 PM (IDPbH)
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Shirtless men?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 07:44 PM (Jj43a)
Roger thought it was so good his jaw hit the ground
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 15, 2017 07:44 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: Texas at July 15, 2017 07:44 PM (s5Kql)
Posted by: SMFH at July 15, 2017 07:46 PM (s5Kql)
Didn't care for this one. Primarily, I think, because Simon Pegg's character was really kind of revolting.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 15, 2017 07:46 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 07:43 PM (IDPbH)
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Ugly bitter congressman?
Yup. He did good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 07:46 PM (Jj43a)
In happier news, I am watching MST 3k. First Season, Project Moonbase.
Whilst drinking, of course...Old Aggie, supposedly the first beer brewed in Fort Collins in the olden times. New Belgium got the recipe, and, as is their wont, kicked ass with it. A great summer lager.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gentleman Drunkard at July 15, 2017 07:47 PM (I8zsv)
Posted by: pat at July 15, 2017 07:44 PM (4MSOz)
I thought that movie blew chunks. I wish I could give you my viewing of it.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 15, 2017 07:47 PM (rZ+mb)
Didn't care for this one. Primarily, I think, because Simon Pegg's character was really kind of revolting.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 15, 2017 07:46 PM (oVJmc)
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He redeems himself, though.
He walks into a bar full of meat heads and orders water with confidence.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 07:47 PM (Jj43a)
/future move threads? Sweet sixteen directors play offs! Kubrick! Spielberg! Scocese! Hitchcock! etc! Who will be in the elite eight? The final four! It will be weeks of arguing!!!
Posted by: shibumi at July 15, 2017 07:47 PM (aT+Bx)
Yep , looking for gainzzz tips.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 07:47 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 15, 2017 07:44 PM (auHtY)
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ISWYDT
Posted by: SMFH at July 15, 2017 07:47 PM (s5Kql)
Yep , looking for gainzzz tips.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 07:47 PM (IDPbH)
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Lol
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 07:48 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: NJRob at July 15, 2017 07:48 PM (wkP6G)
Is this the one were Severn Darden leads the humans to attack Ape City but Roddy McDowell wins in the end?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 15, 2017 07:48 PM (auHtY)
Margot Robbie is starring as Tonya Harding in I, Tonya. I'm still trying to wrap my head around that.
She has a great small role in The Big Short where she explains credit derivatives to the audience while in a bubble path.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2017 07:49 PM (pV/54)
Posted by: NJRob at July 15, 2017 07:50 PM (wkP6G)
Posted by: shibumi at July 15, 2017 07:50 PM (aT+Bx)
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Have you seen the earlier British version? I highly recommend it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098825/
It was a mini-series. Much shorter, only 4 episodes. Very much worth your time.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 15, 2017 07:51 PM (pvjTE)
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at July 15, 2017 07:51 PM (/o9Qk)
Posted by: Dick Durbin Hodgenson's spotter at July 15, 2017 07:51 PM (5wSNN)
Posted by: The Dude at July 15, 2017 07:51 PM (bc2Lc)
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2017 07:49 PM (pV/54)
Does the movie including covering Harding's sex tape?
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 15, 2017 07:52 PM (rZ+mb)
Have you seen the earlier British version? I highly recommend it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098825/
It was a mini-series. Much shorter, only 4 episodes. Very much worth your time.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 15, 2017 07:51 PM (pvjTE)
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I've thought about it.
I'm less weird about British politics because I don't understand it nearly as well as American politics.
I should just add it to my queue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 07:52 PM (Jj43a)
I don't know what Affleck was basing his acting character on but from my experience, it wasn't an autistic person. It was so off putting I had to watch it in bits. He sounded like he was doing a bad audition , reading lines for the first time. And whatsherface was at her most unattractive that I've seen.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 07:53 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: steevy at July 15, 2017 07:53 PM (rmVvL)
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at July 15, 2017 07:51 PM (/o9Qk)
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I just hope to entertain.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 07:53 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2017 07:54 PM (9g/6M)
Posted by: Dang at July 15, 2017 07:54 PM (8b+oT)
"The film is about the DNA of greatness. It's about what truly makes great people. Characters like Laine [ Joan Allen ] only come around once every 30 or 40 years. It's just not in her character to respond to the allegations."
Like Hillary, she shouldn't have to respond to allegations.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 15, 2017 07:54 PM (QGoUX)
Posted by: steevy at July 15, 2017 07:53 PM (rmVvL)
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I think I added it to my queue originally purely because I remembered seeing the trailer from forever ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 07:55 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 15, 2017 07:55 PM (6Ll1u)
I don't watch a movie so I can be lectured at. I suspect the failure of every anti Iraq War movie ever means that most people don't want to be lectured at either. But of course those movies (like The Contender) aren't made to be profitable, they're virtue signaling.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 15, 2017 07:55 PM (MZcWR)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 15, 2017 07:56 PM (17QyB)
I'll second the recommendation to watch the original British version of House of Cards. It was very good. F U was a nasty bastard....and yet strangely charming.
Posted by: Some Guy in Wisconsin at July 15, 2017 07:56 PM (tDTdL)
Like Hillary, she shouldn't have to respond to allegations.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 15, 2017 07:54 PM (QGoUX)
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Principle is the only important thing for politicians.... Until those principles are conservative.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 07:56 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2017 07:57 PM (pV/54)
Quit after 30 minutes of numerous inventions not in the novel, including "Native American good with mystical powers (including the main character having an Indian son) because no idiot white dude would have survived on his own grit" hitting you over the head over-and-over.
Lost respect for the author not maintaining creative control and selling his soul, allowing them to butcher a great story.
Posted by: ShainS at July 15, 2017 07:57 PM (ZcAbN)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 07:53 PM (IDPbH)
I couldn't even remember who you were talking about. Now, it's all coming back to me ... thanks ...
Anna Kendrick. She was her mousey self. She has looked semi cute in a couple of movies, but she's really not.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 15, 2017 07:57 PM (rZ+mb)
I refuse to watch any Vincent Gallo movie that does not include a Chloe Sevigny blowjob.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 15, 2017 07:57 PM (pvjTE)
Posted by: Dang at July 15, 2017 07:57 PM (8b+oT)
It also showed me that even though he spent a lot of his career cheesing around, Frank Sinatra truly was a damned fine actor when he wanted to be.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2017 07:58 PM (V2Yro)
She has a great small role in The Big Short where she explains credit derivatives to the audience while in a bubble path.
Is there a baseball bat sticking out of the water ?
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2017 07:58 PM (ibGaJ)
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Oh yeah, I just loves to go to the movie to be lectured at.
Especially by those that don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.
Posted by: SMFH at July 15, 2017 07:58 PM (s5Kql)
Margot Robbie is starring as Tonya Harding in I, Tonya. I'm still trying to wrap my head around that.
It's the role Amy Schumer was born to play.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 15, 2017 07:59 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: ShainS at July 15, 2017 07:57 PM (ZcAbN)
LOL. You don't like movies about trees?
That whole movie was like the scene from Semi-Tough where Shake is looking at Barbara Jane's safari photos - "You took great photos of trees."
BTW, Semi-Tough was one of the best movies, ever. A classic. And guess who's in it ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 15, 2017 07:59 PM (rZ+mb)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 15, 2017 07:55 PM (6Ll1u)
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Soylent Green BAD? It is a work of staggering genius.
I loved the use of scoop crowd dispersion vehicles (basically dump trucks that presumably "repurpose" the bodies collected).
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 15, 2017 08:00 PM (QGoUX)
And the crying shame of it was that the TRUE story was an incredible, moving, story with a remarkable lesson about forgiveness. Why did they think they had to change it??
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2017 08:00 PM (V2Yro)
Watch Man in the Wilderness with Richard Harris. Same story . And it was awesome.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:00 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 15, 2017 08:00 PM (6Ll1u)
In 1973 they were playing Asteroids. And worried about the greenhouse effect.
Posted by: blaster at July 15, 2017 08:01 PM (jHrzU)
Ah what would you know. You're just a piece of furniture.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:02 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2017 08:00 PM (V2Yro)
They made a true masterpiece of boredom.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 15, 2017 08:02 PM (rZ+mb)
I loved the use of scoop crowd dispersion vehicles (basically dump trucks that presumably "repurpose" the bodies collected).
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 15, 2017 08:00 PM (QGoUX)
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I may not call it genius, but Soylent Green is definitely one of the best dystopian sci fi movies of the 70s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:02 PM (Jj43a)
Was there a sale on bananas ?
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2017 08:03 PM (ibGaJ)
And the crying shame of it was that the TRUE story was an incredible, moving, story with a remarkable lesson about forgiveness. Why did they think they had to change it??
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2017 08:00 PM (V2Yro)
Yes. What I know of Hugh Glass is that he pretty much just wanted his rifle back.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gentleman Drunkard at July 15, 2017 08:03 PM (I8zsv)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 15, 2017 08:03 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:04 PM (IDPbH)
Democrat: Folksy
Republican: Stupid
Democrat: Passionate
Republican: Fanatical
Democrat: Sophisticated
Republican: Snob
Democrat: Down-to-earth
Republican: Crude
Democrat: Man of the world
Republican: Rapist
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 15, 2017 08:04 PM (PBalj)
Comet TV is really growing on me.
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at July 15, 2017 08:05 PM (RrhD2)
So they could piss on it and therefore make it theirs.
Posted by: Apostate at July 15, 2017 08:05 PM (n1dE4)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:05 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: jbspry at July 15, 2017 08:05 PM (WujO7)
On the short list of Greatest Oscar fuck-ups of which there are many.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2017 08:06 PM (pV/54)
Apes marathon, for 10 hrs. They were good about letting you out and back
in to get something to eat.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby
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You can actually see the whole movie, Escape From The Planet Of The Apes in the trailer. So goofy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO0mRivg8Tk
Hollywood is full of complete idiots.
Posted by: Dang at July 15, 2017 08:06 PM (8b+oT)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 15, 2017 08:06 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 15, 2017 08:07 PM (6Ll1u)
You can actually see the whole movie, Escape From The Planet Of The Apes in the trailer. So goofy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO0mRivg8Tk
Hollywood is full of complete idiots.
Posted by: Dang at July 15, 2017 08:06 PM (8b+oT)
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Conquest is probably the best of the original five, in my opinion.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:07 PM (Jj43a)
Then why do they keep making sequels ?
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2017 08:08 PM (ibGaJ)
Posted by: blaster at July 15, 2017 08:09 PM (jHrzU)
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2017 08:08 PM (ibGaJ)
Because they want to torture you to death.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 15, 2017 08:09 PM (rZ+mb)
Fassbender's Macbeth is even dark for MacBeth..
The local 1910 theater is showing that ape movie, I'll skip.
Posted by: auscolpyr at July 15, 2017 08:09 PM (pzA2L)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:10 PM (IDPbH)
Fassbender's Macbeth is even dark for MacBeth..
Posted by: auscolpyr at July 15, 2017 08:09 PM (pzA2L)
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But it's so pretty!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:10 PM (Jj43a)
This was Edward G. Robinson's last movie, and you may recall there is a long death scene, where he is taken into a room and shown beautiful scenes of the world, while a lovely piece of music, "The Death of Aase" by Edward Grieg plays; and then he dies, peacefully. The scene may seem somewhat out of place for that type of movie, but in fact, Robinson knew that he was dying when that scene was filmed, and he did in fact die 2 weeks after filming wrapped up.
So, that scene of Edward G. Robinson's peaceful death was truly the last scene he was ever in; the end of a 56 year long career. I can't think of any of the other great stars who managed to go out that way.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2017 08:11 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:10 PM (IDPbH)
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You can say the same thing about The Road Warrior.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:11 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:11 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2017 08:11 PM (V2Yro)
Vic Morrow?
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 15, 2017 08:12 PM (rZ+mb)
I don't think we saw the same movie.
Max is a reluctant change agent for the Good, like he is in the Mel Gibson ones.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2017 08:12 PM (pV/54)
Not many people have seen it because it doesn't have enough 'splosions.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2017 08:13 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:10 PM (IDPbH)
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You can say the same thing about The Road Warrior.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:11 PM (Jj43a)
Not in my opinion. He was the central character and the reluctant hero.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:13 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 15, 2017 08:13 PM (6Ll1u)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2017 08:14 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 15, 2017 08:14 PM (5YBu8)
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2017 08:08 PM (ibGaJ)
Because they want to torture you to death.
Those Fookers !
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2017 08:14 PM (ibGaJ)
All political films are leftist.
Having said that..
I really enjoyed Joan Allen in The Upside of Anger.
Posted by: Kreplach at July 15, 2017 08:14 PM (9A6UB)
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And the 2nd half of Thunderdome. Tina Turner was also perfect in it.
Posted by: auscolpyr at July 15, 2017 08:14 PM (pzA2L)
Not many people have seen it because it doesn't have enough 'splosions.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2017 08:13 PM (V2Yro)
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True hard sci-fi is hard to come by in film form because most of the time hard sci-fi tends to be dramatically inert.
Also most screenwriters don't know much about science.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:15 PM (Jj43a)
Was just at Jeffrey Wells' and he's writing about Tarantino's upcoming Manson movie. (I admit his site is where I learned about it to begin with.) Here's what he wrote, so that you don't have to give him the click:
"The Hateful Family"
I've put quotes around the above headline because it came from Variety critic Owen Gleiberman during a back-and-forth we had this morning about Quentin Tarantino's Manson Family movie. The subject was Gleiberman's 7.15 essay about same - "Quentin Tarantino Does Manson? That's News That Should Thrill Cinema Lovers."
The 12th paragraph gets to the nub of it: "Tarantino wants to tell a story about how the age of free love morphed into something horrific; a transformation that still has disturbing implications today. Will he play it straight or Tarantino-ize it? My instinct (or maybe it's just a hope) is that Tarantino can't reduce the Manson story to another of his concoctions. I mean, he can, of course, but it wouldn't feel right, and it wouldn't be inspiring cinema.
HE opinion: As intriguing as this project sounds, Tarantino is incapable of playing it even semi-straight. He's not a docu-dramatist - he's a creator of alternate Quentinworld fantasies. His last three films have mined the past - Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight - and each time he's reimagined and re-dialogued history in order to transform his tales into his own brand of '70s exploitation cinema. Why should QT play his cards any differently with the Manson family?
Gleiberman said this morning that location-wise he wants Tarantino to deliver an exact duplicate of everything we know about the Manson geography (Spahn ranch, Haight-Ashbury, etc.) but "make it feel new."
"Alas, Tarantino is not a realist," I replied. "Never has been, never will be. His Paris neighborhood set in Inglorious Basterds looked exactly like that - a phony sound stage realm. And remember that he reimagined an anti-Semitic, Jew-hunting Nazi Colonel as a witty talk-show showoff who loved to giggle at his own jokes. Remember also that in the same film Tarantino gave a French country farmer the name of "Bob."
And yet, I said, "I want Tarantino to deliver an exact duplicate of the Polanski-Tate murder house" = formerly located at 100050 Cielo Drive but demolished in '94. Designed by Robert Byrd in 1942, built in '44 - French country style, peaked roof, red shingles and white trim, stone fireplaces, paned windows, loft above living room, guest house, pool. And occupied by many famous movie folk - Michele Morgan, Lillian Gish, Henry Fonda, George Chakiris, Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon, Samantha Eggar, Olivia Hussey, Trent Reznor, et. al.
As I reported five years ago, the original Byrd house was torn down in '94 and in its place a grotesque, Uday Hussein-styled McMansion was built. The guy who constructed this nouveau-riche Moorish-Mediterranean monstrosity, called Villa Bella, was producer Jeff Franklin (creator of Full House). The original street number was also erased; the address is now 10066 Cielo Drive.
Wells also posted some crime scene photos from 1969 of (apparently) the Sharon Tate home. OMG, incredibly grisly.
(And, the bold formatting was added by me.)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 15, 2017 08:15 PM (eMKNe)
We saw the same movie. We have a different opinion. They could have made that movie without the mad max character with very few changes.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:15 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: blaster at July 15, 2017 08:15 PM (jHrzU)
When I checked the prices on Amazon, the blue ray was $45 (USD) about five times what I'll pay. Guess I'll have to wait twenty years for the price to come down.
The grapes were probably sour anyway.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at July 15, 2017 08:15 PM (m9X4Y)
You sure as f@ck don't want to see the 2000s miniseries remake, featuring the corporation 'Enburton'.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 15, 2017 08:16 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 15, 2017 08:16 PM (QGoUX)
Gattca and Contact were out at almost the exact same time. It was amazing to get two good SF movies (not dressed up action or horror movies) within the same year.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 15, 2017 08:17 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 15, 2017 08:17 PM (KCxzN)
All political films are leftist.
Posted by: Kreplach at July 15, 2017 08:14 PM (9A6UB)
There were a good number of pretty awesome anti-commie movies. And then there are movies like "Sunshine" which is a great movie made by a lunatic lefty ... but it ends up, unintentionally, being an anti-left movie. And there have been some excellent patriotic movies about America and the Founders.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 15, 2017 08:17 PM (rZ+mb)
Posted by: .It's me donna at July 15, 2017 08:18 PM (O2RFr)
Not many people have seen it because it doesn't have enough 'splosions.
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The play on invalid-invalid was clever but when Vincent gives his answer of why he was the better swimmer than his genetically engineered brother was good.
Posted by: auscolpyr at July 15, 2017 08:18 PM (pzA2L)
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2017 08:18 PM (ibGaJ)
I would have called the media hagiography of 2016 the truest expression of Sorkinism ever, except the candidate was less lifelike than the animatronic robots at 1970s Disneyworld.
Given the current reaction, I would say Sorkinism in the left has only grown, arguably becoming the only legitimate outlet of leftist thought. If they are convinced that their loss was due to insufficient Celebrity hectoring, it's Trump 2020. If they actually run George Clooney- yow!
Posted by: trev006 at July 15, 2017 08:18 PM (IbaEw)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo
The name Bushitlerdeathcorp already taken?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 15, 2017 08:18 PM (5YBu8)
Posted by: Kreplach at July 15, 2017 08:14 PM (9A6UB)
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That was a good little flick. Somebody described Kevin Costner's friendly doofus of a character as like the neighborhood retriever who smells bacon.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 15, 2017 08:19 PM (QGoUX)
Posted by: no good deed at July 15, 2017 08:19 PM (hsb2w)
I'm still trying to figure out if I like not-Firefly for what it is, which is not Firefly.
The characters are getting more likeable, and there's a good bit where they actually complete a job and then it turns out that... they shouldn't have done it.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 15, 2017 08:19 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: .It's me donna at July 15, 2017 08:18 PM (O2RFr)
Logan's Run was truly awful.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 15, 2017 08:20 PM (rZ+mb)
Well, one good movie. Contact made full oral contact with a dead goat's balls.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 15, 2017 08:20 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: goon at July 15, 2017 08:21 PM (EaQ6/)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 15, 2017 08:20 PM (rZ+mb)
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That's wrongthink right there.
Logan's Run is good stuff.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:21 PM (Jj43a)
People always talked about wanting to get Firefly back. I always wanted Farscape back.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:21 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 15, 2017 08:16 PM (QGoUX)
And then they ate him, accompanied by a white wine.
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2017 08:21 PM (ibGaJ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 15, 2017 08:22 PM (eMKNe)
Posted by: goon at July 15, 2017 08:21 PM (EaQ6/)
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It just depends on what I watch each week.
This will, Dolley reactivated our HBO subscription, so I went and watched a few movies available there.
The Macbeth, though, is on Prime.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:23 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Forbidden Planet at July 15, 2017 08:23 PM (6FqZa)
Logan's Run is good stuff.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:21 PM (Jj43a)
You sound like someone who hasn't seen Logan's Run in 30 years.
Watch it again. I dare you.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 15, 2017 08:23 PM (rZ+mb)
Wanna experience that level of movie hatred a second time?
See Rod Lurie's "Nothing But the Truth" about a righteous DC reporter who exposes a Valerie Plame type and goes to jail to protect her source.
Made by the same guy as Contender.
You will want to strangle someone when it ends.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 15, 2017 08:23 PM (NOIQH)
Robinson was good in Soylent Green. I am at that point in life where I'm talking to young (50-ish) people who can't or won't remember how great America once was. Sad.
Posted by: Eromero at July 15, 2017 08:23 PM (zLDYs)
I won't be surprised if he comes over and huffs that he can't believe his pearls are being posted at a "bumblefuck" website. It's cool if he does though, 'cuz then we can have some fun with him. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 15, 2017 08:24 PM (eMKNe)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426883/
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 15, 2017 08:24 PM (pvjTE)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 15, 2017 08:12 PM (rZ+mb)
OMG, you went there.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 15, 2017 08:24 PM (17QyB)
Wanna experience that level of movie hatred a second time?
See Rod Lurie's "Nothing But the Truth" about a righteous DC reporter who exposes a Valerie Plame type and goes to jail to protect her source.
Made by the same guy as Contender.
You will want to strangle someone when it ends.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 15, 2017 08:23 PM (NOIQH)
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So he saw the reaction to The Contender and decided that he had done absolutely everything right?
Sounds about right.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:25 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2017 08:25 PM (pV/54)
All I can say is that after watching that you kind of get a feeling for what it's like to be totally batshit insane. In fact I think it makes you insane and it takes a few days for it to wear off.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2017 08:25 PM (V2Yro)
Yes, Dark Matter looks a lot like Firefly trying not to be Firefly, but it is not Firefly.
Both series are a bit uneven, but mostly good.
Posted by: blaster at July 15, 2017 08:25 PM (jHrzU)
WORD
John Crichton is a better Kirk than the ST reboot w/Chris Pine.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 15, 2017 08:25 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: josephistan at July 15, 2017 08:25 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:26 PM (IDPbH)
Logan's Run is good stuff.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:21 PM (Jj43a)
You sound like someone who hasn't seen Logan's Run in 30 years.
Watch it again. I dare you.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 15, 2017 08:23 PM (rZ+mb)
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I watched it a year or two ago.
I own the Blu Ray.
It's good stuff.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:26 PM (Jj43a)
You know what movie I'd like to see? The Andromeda Strain
You sure as f@ck don't want to see the 2000s miniseries remake, featuring the corporation 'Enburton'.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 15, 2017 08:16 PM
I've been hesitant to watch the 2016 version of The Magnificent Seven because of this description on the cable menu:
"Desperate townspeople hire seven mercenaries to battle a greedy industrialist and his ruthless henchmen in the Old West"
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 15, 2017 08:26 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: JT
If one were to eat a Jewish actor, would he have to be accompanied by Manischewitz?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 15, 2017 08:26 PM (5YBu8)
Logan's Run is/was the pinnacle of pre-Star Wars-era Hollywood sci-fi.
Posted by: qdpsteve
Yeah, no.
Posted by: 2001 at July 15, 2017 08:26 PM (LAe3v)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426883/
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 15, 2017 08:24 PM (pvjTE)
Yeah, it was an interesting movie. Such scum they were. It sort of had the feel of a remake of River's Edge (also based on a true story). Or Bully.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 15, 2017 08:26 PM (rZ+mb)
People always talked about wanting to get Firefly back. I always wanted Farscape back.
I always wanted the Far Side back.
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2017 08:26 PM (ibGaJ)
Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2017 08:27 PM (9g/6M)
WHO SAID MEL GIBSON WAS THE STAR OF ROAD WARRIOR???
Posted by: Lord Humongous at July 15, 2017 08:27 PM (V2Yro)
All I can say is that after watching that you kind of get a feeling for what it's like to be totally batshit insane. In fact I think it makes you insane and it takes a few days for it to wear off.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2017 08:25 PM (V2Yro)
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Darren Arronofsky's first film.
Made with no money and is trippy fun.
A double feature with Following, Christopher Nolan's first movie, would probably be a fun evening.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:27 PM (Jj43a)
It's good. I was hesitant because I didn't know how they would make Denzel believable as the leader of the group considering the time period they were in. The script writers did an excellent job.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:27 PM (IDPbH)
Well, one good movie. Contact made full oral contact with a dead goat's balls.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 15, 2017 08:20 PM (6FqZa)
Yeah, I thought Contact was pretentious, overrated tripe, myself.
Gattaca had a better premise and did more with it.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 15, 2017 08:28 PM (17QyB)
Posted by: goon at July 15, 2017 08:28 PM (EaQ6/)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 15, 2017 08:28 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: otho at July 15, 2017 08:28 PM (lmIoG)
I watched Funny Girl off and on last night as I channel surfed. I have
to admit that Barbara Streisand is one of those girls that are ugly and
pretty at the same time. Her imperfections are perfect.
Posted by: Jack Sock
She had an album cover which came out about the time when I became aware of the female figure. She was lying on her side, with her hip cocked. It was....alluring.
Posted by: pep at July 15, 2017 08:29 PM (LAe3v)
Pi was a great movie. I like pretty much all of Aranofsky's movies. He's one of the best writers/directors around.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 15, 2017 08:29 PM (rZ+mb)
Posted by: LASue at July 15, 2017 08:29 PM (Mjus2)
WHO SAID MEL GIBSON WAS THE STAR OF ROAD WARRIOR???
Posted by: Lord Humongous at July 15, 2017 08:27 PM (V2Yro)
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Hahahaha!!!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:29 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 15, 2017 08:29 PM (QGoUX)
Posted by: blaster at July 15, 2017 08:29 PM (jHrzU)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2017 08:25 PM (V2Yro)
Mmmm, pi. I like pi.
Posted by: Homer Simpson at July 15, 2017 08:29 PM (AWYXL)
Posted by: no good deed at July 15, 2017 08:29 PM (hsb2w)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 15, 2017 08:30 PM (89T5c)
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The director sounded as if he wanted his The Professional role, sans the shotgun.
Posted by: auscolpyr at July 15, 2017 08:30 PM (pzA2L)
It was a very big hit in its timeframe.
Post-2001 until Star Wars, science-fiction was almost exclusively social SF. Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green, Omega Man, Logan's Run.
LR was a very big hit in that era.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 15, 2017 08:30 PM (oVJmc)
Hollywood makes movies about ruthless, exploitative corporations screwing little people because Hollywood consists of nothing but ruthless, exploitative corporations screwing little people. Other corporations have enough troubles keeping the lights on.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 15, 2017 08:30 PM (PBalj)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:11 PM (IDPbH)
There's NO business like SHOW business
There's NO business ...
I'd like to help you out more buddy, but my hamstrings are killing me.
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2017 08:30 PM (ibGaJ)
Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2017 08:30 PM (9g/6M)
Posted by: Lord Humongous at July 15, 2017 08:30 PM (V2Yro)
But all I can think of now is PEZ!!!
Posted by: LASue at July 15, 2017 08:29 PM (Mjus2)
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Why thank you.
I could have gone further, but I felt like I had written enough about a nearly 20 year old movie no one remembers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:31 PM (Jj43a)
Was that Memento?
Posted by: no good deed at July 15, 2017 08:29 PM (hsb2w)
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Memento is number 2.
Following is a tiny little black and white movie he made first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:32 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: pep at July 15, 2017 08:32 PM (LAe3v)
Sweet, beautiful Kate Beckinsale plays the reporter. You will want to strangle her at the end of the movie.
I honestly wonder if Lurie pretends to honor these Lefty characters but secretly want you to hate them (i.e. so far behind enemy lines he's got progressives fooled). Except I'm retty sure he worked in DC and really believes this stuff.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 15, 2017 08:33 PM (NOIQH)
This was Edward G. Robinson's last movie, and you may recall there is a long death scene, where he is taken into a room and shown beautiful scenes of the world, while a lovely piece of music, "The Death of Aase" by Edward Grieg plays; and then he dies, peacefully. The scene may seem somewhat out of place for that type of movie, but in fact, Robinson knew that he was dying when that scene was filmed, and he did in fact die 2 weeks after filming wrapped up.
So, that scene of Edward G. Robinson's peaceful death was truly the last scene he was ever in; the end of a 56 year long career. I can't think of any of the other great stars who managed to go out that way.
Posted by: Tom Servo
I believe Oliver Reed's final scene in any movie was in Gladiator. His characters death was not as serene as Robinson's though. In fact Reed's death wasnt' all that serene either. Heartattack after binge drinking in Malta.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 15, 2017 08:34 PM (GbzYN)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 15, 2017 08:34 PM (IDvUO)
John Wayne, the Shootist. Not a peaceful death, but a purposeful one.
Posted by: Fox2! at July 15, 2017 08:34 PM (brIR5)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 15, 2017 08:34 PM (5YBu8)
I always associate Edward G Robinson with The Ten Commandments.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 15, 2017 08:30 PM
https://youtu.be/D0Qcv3YV4aA
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 15, 2017 08:34 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:32 PM (Jj43a)
I'd never heard of that. I'll have to check it out. Memento was one of the most original, clever movies ever made.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 15, 2017 08:34 PM (rZ+mb)
I believe Oliver Reed's final scene in any movie was in Gladiator. His characters death was not as serene as Robinson's though. In fact Reed's death wasnt' all that serene either. Heartattack after binge drinking in Malta.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 15, 2017 08:34 PM (GbzYN)
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He died mid production.
His final scene is a digital composite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:34 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 15, 2017 08:35 PM (IDvUO)
Posted by: JT
If one were to eat a Jewish actor, would he have to be accompanied by Manischewitz?
I ain't touchin' that one with a ten foot matzo ball.
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2017 08:35 PM (ibGaJ)
Posted by: Protein from the Sea! at July 15, 2017 08:35 PM (brIR5)
John Wayne, the Shootist. Not a peaceful death, but a purposeful one.
Posted by: Fox2! at July 15, 2017 08:34 PM (brIR5)
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If there was one way for John Wayne to go out in his final role, it was how he went out in The Shootist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:35 PM (Jj43a)
Problem with Comet TV is that they edit the crap out of the movies. Watched Flash Gordon the other night (truly authentic 1980s cheese!) and at commercial breaks it had some huge 30 sec to perhaps minutes gaps during the transitions - they were in one scene, exiting/escaping, then after the commercial, they were well into the next scene.
Posted by: blaster at July 15, 2017 08:36 PM (jHrzU)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:36 PM (IDPbH)
It's bad like The Contender, too.
The actress made it out to be some sort of rah-rah women in DC are just as tough as men movie, but her character is a more like a sociopath. Kinda concerned me if this is what feminism in 2017 is supposed to look like
Posted by: Lizzy at July 15, 2017 08:37 PM (NOIQH)
Omar Sharif was world ranked in what organized activity?
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Bridge and had a computer bridge series with his name.
Posted by: auscolpyr at July 15, 2017 08:37 PM (pzA2L)
I watched Funny Girl off and on last night as I channel surfed. I have
to admit that Barbara Streisand is one of those girls that are ugly and
pretty at the same time. Her imperfections are perfect.
Posted by: Jack Sock
I put Ellen Barkin in that category too. In The Big Easy, she was sexy as hell.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 15, 2017 08:37 PM (GbzYN)
John Wayne, the Shootist. Not a peaceful death, but a purposeful one.
Posted by: Fox2! at July 15, 2017 08:34 PM (brIR5)
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If there was one way for John Wayne to go out in his final role, it was how he went out in The Shootist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:35 PM (Jj43a)
He should have shot Opie.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:37 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2017 08:37 PM (9g/6M)
Problem with Comet TV is that they edit the crap out of the movies.
Commercial breaks every 8 minutes. Terrible. Unwatchable.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 15, 2017 08:38 PM (IDvUO)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 15, 2017 08:38 PM (QGoUX)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 15, 2017 08:25 PM (NOIQH)
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*nods*
Oh yeah.
Posted by: SMFH at July 15, 2017 08:38 PM (s5Kql)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 15, 2017 08:30 PM
Double Indemnity.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 15, 2017 08:38 PM (RO6/m)
I thought they lost that scene?
Posted by: Protein from the Sea! at July 15, 2017 08:35 PM (brIR5)
The only naked Jenny Agutter scene I remember was in An American Werewolf in London with the Dr. Pepper guy. She was pretty hot.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 15, 2017 08:38 PM (rZ+mb)
It's bad like The Contender, too.
The actress made it out to be some sort of rah-rah women in DC are just as tough as men movie, but her character is a more like a sociopath. Kinda concerned me if this is what feminism in 2017 is supposed to look like
Posted by: Lizzy at July 15, 2017 08:37 PM (NOIQH)
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I have to be picky in my selections for self torture.
I haven't picked that one up yet.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:39 PM (Jj43a)
I'm not watching anything until it shows up in the pawn shop. I bit on Fences, if anyone would like my copy I'll send it to you.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2017 08:39 PM (fZqx4)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:35 PM (Jj43a)
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Amen.
Get teary-eyed every time I watch that movie.
Posted by: SMFH at July 15, 2017 08:39 PM (s5Kql)
Posted by: Eromero at July 15, 2017 08:39 PM (zLDYs)
Yes, Dark Matter looks a lot like Firefly trying not to be Firefly, but it is not Firefly.
Both series are a bit uneven, but mostly good.
Posted by: blaster
Yep. Like both series. I'm entertained not that it takes much.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 15, 2017 08:39 PM (GbzYN)
Omar Sharif was world ranked in what organized activity?
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:36 PM (IDPbH)
Tent making ?
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2017 08:39 PM (ibGaJ)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 15, 2017 08:40 PM (IDvUO)
Agree. She stars now in the TV series Animal Kingdom ( based on a pretty good Australian movie) . She's aged but still has that sexy look about her.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:40 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 15, 2017 08:40 PM (QGoUX)
Posted by: SMFH at July 15, 2017 08:40 PM (s5Kql)
Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2017 08:40 PM (9g/6M)
What's funny is the makers of Farscape did a horrible job with Defiance.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 15, 2017 08:41 PM (IDvUO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:35 PM (Jj43a)
He should have shot Opie.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:37 PM (IDPbH)
That's why they only let me have one bullet!
Posted by: Barney Fife at July 15, 2017 08:41 PM (ANIFC)
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I see a trend here with this actress. Note: the double nightmare scene in AAWIL scared the pee out of me.
Posted by: auscolpyr at July 15, 2017 08:41 PM (pzA2L)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:41 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 15, 2017 08:41 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 15, 2017 08:38 PM (rZ+mb)
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Walkabout
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:41 PM (Jj43a)
Dragon Ball Super, anyone?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 15, 2017 08:41 PM (IDvUO)
Posted by: goon at July 15, 2017 08:41 PM (EaQ6/)
Posted by: Jack Sock
I'd say rocking the Casbah, but I know Sharif he don't like it.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 15, 2017 08:42 PM (5YBu8)
Posted by: pep at July 15, 2017 08:43 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: auscolpyr at July 15, 2017 08:43 PM (pzA2L)
I loved her in Drop Dead Gorgeous. I think it was her funniest role. I always picture her with a cigarette in her mouth and a beer can in her gauze wrapped hand.
Posted by: no good deed at July 15, 2017 08:43 PM (hsb2w)
I should just add it to my queue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 07:52 PM (Jj43a)
I don't want to say too much, because: spoilers, but the original House of Cards was extended into a trilogy. House of Cards, To Play the King, and Final Cut. So, twelve episodes total. I believe that the American version (which I watched a lot of because my wife wanted to see it, but cannot stand) drew elements from all three of these four-episode stories.
As much as I love Kevin Spacey as an actor, he cannot hold a candle to Ian Richardson in this particular role.
Posted by: HTL at July 15, 2017 08:44 PM (zl60v)
Good Lord. They actually said that unironically?
There is simply no common ground with people like that.
Posted by: rickl at July 15, 2017 08:44 PM (sdi6R)
Ben Had,
Spent the Pet Thread driving back from San Antonio, where Finn was Best of Winners for a point today.
I-10 is such a pain in the ass that we came back on Alt-90 through Seguin, Gonzales, Shiner, Halletsville and Eagle Lake. Not much longer and much more relaxing and scenic a drive.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 15, 2017 08:44 PM (4FTuS)
Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2017 08:44 PM (9g/6M)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2017 08:44 PM (fZqx4)
Jennifer Connelly is another one that seemed to get naked in every movie.
Posted by: pep at July 15, 2017 08:45 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 15, 2017 08:45 PM (GbzYN)
Posted by: SMFH at July 15, 2017 08:46 PM (s5Kql)
Posted by: no good deed
I told you I'd move the car if a cripple comes.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 15, 2017 08:46 PM (5YBu8)
Good Lord. They actually said that unironically?
There is simply no common ground with people like that.
Posted by: rickl at July 15, 2017 08:44 PM (sdi6R)
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Yeah.
That and the "no guns" thing happen within about 30 seconds of each other.
But don't think that they want to take your guns and hate your God or anything.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:46 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at July 15, 2017 08:46 PM (H5knJ)
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I drive that way to visit the kid in Richmond, I love that drive, straight less traffic (and Buc-ees).
Posted by: auscolpyr at July 15, 2017 08:46 PM (pzA2L)
Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2017 08:46 PM (9g/6M)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 15, 2017 08:46 PM (IDvUO)
Posted by: pep
I'm kind of getting bored of it.
Posted by: no heterosexual male ever at July 15, 2017 08:46 PM (6FqZa)
Apparently, the Internet has supplied a full list.
http://www.celebritymoviearchive.com/tour/name.php/46
Posted by: Apostate at July 15, 2017 08:47 PM (n1dE4)
Posted by: Eromero at July 15, 2017 08:47 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 15, 2017 08:47 PM (RZXSp)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:36 PM (IDPbH)
Without checking, I believe it was bridge, although if you told me it was poker I wouldn't be surprised.
Posted by: HTL at July 15, 2017 08:47 PM (zl60v)
The actor playing Immortan Joe is the same actor who played Toecutter in the first movie.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 15, 2017 08:47 PM (oVJmc)
I thought they lost that scene? "
I saw Logan's Run again a couple months ago, on TCM or MGM or one of the movie channels, and yeah, buddy, it had the full nekkid Jenny scene in it!
(you know what was really awful? The Logan's Run TV series that was on for a year or two in 77 - 78.)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2017 08:47 PM (V2Yro)
Saw that with some of my high school buds (we were all in college at the time), and we had all been to a lot of movies together.
1) we all agreed Jennie Agutter was really cute, sexy and hot
2) the movie as a whole stunk
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at July 15, 2017 08:47 PM (S6Pax)
Soyent Green is good but has its cheesy 70s moments just like Omega Man did. Chuck watching the movie Woodstock at the beginning of Omega Man must have seemed so hip at the time but so silly now
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 15, 2017 08:48 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: blaster at July 15, 2017 08:48 PM (jHrzU)
She's a Republican?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 15, 2017 08:47 PM (RZXSp)
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Don't you know? Republicans and Democrats switched sides in the 60s. Robert Byrd? Who's that?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:48 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: auscolpyr at July 15, 2017 08:49 PM (pzA2L)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2017 08:49 PM (fZqx4)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 15, 2017 08:49 PM (5VlCp)
Omar Sharif was world ranked in what organized activity?
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:36 PM (IDPbH)
Backgammon
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 15, 2017 08:49 PM (17QyB)
Apparently, the Internet has supplied a full list.
http://www.celebritymoviearchive.com/tour/name.php/46
Posted by: Apostate
We're making good use of mankind's technological zenith.
Posted by: pep at July 15, 2017 08:49 PM (LAe3v)
'Mad Max' Jihad: Seized ISIS combat vehicles go on exhibit in Mosul (PHOTOS)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/y7zr6tua
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 15, 2017 08:49 PM (oVJmc)
Logan's Run is/was the pinnacle of pre-Star Wars-era Hollywood sci-fi.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 15, 2017 08:22 PM (eMKNe)
eh, Logan's Run was Zardoz without a plot and no acting ability. It was absolutely a Sci-Fi New Wave story, and a quite unimaginative one, at that.
Now the pinnacle of pre-Star Wars sci-fi was The Black Hole, which was an attempt to re-do Forbidden Planet. Silent Running is up there too.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 15, 2017 08:50 PM (mkDpn)
We were pretty much laughing all the way through that one. Which gives you some idea of where we were at.
The head spinning, the vomiting of the pea green soup, and on and on.....
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at July 15, 2017 08:51 PM (S6Pax)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 15, 2017 08:51 PM (6Ll1u)
I don't get Comet TV with the good old cable package but I see that they run MST3K. Tomorrow is Overdrawn at the Memory Bank. "Ma, my nuts?"
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 15, 2017 08:51 PM (auHtY)
(you know what was really awful? The Logan's Run TV series that was on for a year or two in 77 - 78.)
You can't not like Donald Moffat as REM.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 15, 2017 08:51 PM (oVJmc)
If you don't know anything about politics, it's okay, right up until that last speech which is so far left to be bizarre.
It's actually a good example of Cargo Cult-ing. The left has been very effective at using movies to promote their viewpoints but giving subtle-but-difficult decisions that they show working out their way.
In this case, it's like they figure if they show a "principled" character, she can spew her communist manifesto and the audience will say "Yeah! That's all great stuff!"
Posted by: moviegique at July 15, 2017 08:51 PM (CcUfv)
Omar Sharif was world ranked in what organized activity?
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:36 PM (IDPbH)
Backgammon
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 15, 2017 08:49 PM (17QyB)
Backgammon, Bridge; whatever.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 15, 2017 08:51 PM (17QyB)
I think I opined in one of these threads that SSR would make a good movie or TV Series.
Posted by: blaster at July 15, 2017 08:51 PM (jHrzU)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2017 08:52 PM (fZqx4)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:36 PM (IDPbH)
Without checking, I believe it was bridge, although if you told me it was poker I wouldn't be surprised.
Posted by: HTL at July 15, 2017 08:47 PM (zl60v)
Yes it was bridge.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:52 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Heather Menzies did make an impression on this young lad.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 15, 2017 08:52 PM (GbzYN)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 15, 2017 08:52 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 15, 2017 08:50 PM (mkDpn)
The Black Hole was released in 1979.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 15, 2017 08:52 PM (auHtY)
"The church I go to is the one that emancipated the slaves..."
She's a Republican?
"Or something else...." *wink, wink*
--- William Wilberforce
Posted by: Lizzy at July 15, 2017 08:52 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Kindltot
Bruce Dern played a crazy person....again.
What a stretch.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at July 15, 2017 08:53 PM (S6Pax)
Kindltot...The Black Hole was 1979, two years after Star Wars.
Posted by: moviegique at July 15, 2017 08:53 PM (CcUfv)
Posted by: Apostate at July 15, 2017 08:53 PM (n1dE4)
If you don't know anything about politics, it's okay, right up until that last speech which is so far left to be bizarre.
It's actually a good example of Cargo Cult-ing. The left has been very effective at using movies to promote their viewpoints but giving subtle-but-difficult decisions that they show working out their way.
In this case, it's like they figure if they show a "principled" character, she can spew her communist manifesto and the audience will say "Yeah! That's all great stuff!"
Posted by: moviegique at July 15, 2017 08:51 PM (CcUfv)
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If the movie hasn't angered me with it's stupidity so thoroughly, I would have given it all the points you do. It IS will acted.
But, I just don't think it's enough to come close to begin to save the movie as a whole.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:53 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 15, 2017 08:53 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: blaster at July 15, 2017 08:54 PM (jHrzU)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 15, 2017 08:54 PM (6FqZa)
Kindltot...The Black Hole was 1979, two years after Star Wars.
Posted by: moviegique at July 15, 2017 08:53 PM (CcUfv)
It identifies as a pre-Star Wars movie. WHo are you to judge, h8r?
Posted by: josephistan at July 15, 2017 08:55 PM (ANIFC)
The Donnie Yen version in 2014.
I can give links for streaming vids. If you're clever enough to have Flashgot in firefox of pale moon, you can download it.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 15, 2017 08:55 PM (IDvUO)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2017 08:47 PM (V2Yro)
Another TV show I watched as a kid that went off the air after one season. I swear to God I must have been the Nielsen ratings kiss of death for TV shows
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 15, 2017 08:55 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 15, 2017 08:53 PM (xJa6I)
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Lying for the cause is justified.
Matt Yglesias told me so.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:55 PM (Jj43a)
Now the pinnacle of pre-Star Wars sci-fi was The Black Hole, which was an attempt to re-do Forbidden Planet.
Black Hole is post-Star Wars.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 15, 2017 08:55 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 15, 2017 08:51 PM (6Ll1u)
She out grew
Brass buckles on her shoes
By twelve she was fillin; out her jeans...
Posted by: Protein from the Sea! at July 15, 2017 08:55 PM (brIR5)
And yes, that means minutia and partial victories. The central plot of Advice and Consent was about the confirmation of a Secretary of State. And he made that interesting.
Posted by: Splunge at July 15, 2017 08:55 PM (iMxBJ)
It was his penance for shooting John Wayne in the back.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 15, 2017 08:56 PM (GbzYN)
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at July 15, 2017 08:56 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: Splunge at July 15, 2017 08:55 PM (iMxBJ)
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I don't think it's impossible to make good dreams from realistic politics, but it's hard. And when lazy people try to do it, you get The Contender.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 08:56 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Eromero at July 15, 2017 08:57 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:57 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2017 08:57 PM (fZqx4)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone
It's like poetry, it rhymes.
Posted by: George Lucas at July 15, 2017 08:58 PM (5YBu8)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 15, 2017 08:58 PM (6Ll1u)
Marylou Something or other was in it with two belly buttons. She was a looker.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 15, 2017 08:58 PM (5VlCp)
Gary Oldman is maybe the greatest character actor of this era. He can play just about any role convincingly.
So they had some good players in it, but then again, nothing can save a bad story.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at July 15, 2017 08:58 PM (S6Pax)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:58 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 15, 2017 08:50 PM (mkDpn)
The Black Hole came out after Star Wars. It was a big deal being the first PG rated Disney movie, IIRC.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 15, 2017 08:59 PM (17QyB)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2017 08:59 PM (fZqx4)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:57 PM (IDPbH)
Same here. That movie represented to my very young but political mind us vs. the hippie scum.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 15, 2017 09:00 PM (auHtY)
Aside from Jenny Agutter, that was my favorite part of "logan's Run" - a killer robot extolling the virtues of fish & plankton & protein from the sea. Fucking insane.
Posted by: josephistan at July 15, 2017 09:00 PM (ANIFC)
Genesis II, a Roddenberry pilot film.
Later remade with John Saxon, and once more with other people.
None of the pilots sold.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 15, 2017 09:00 PM (oVJmc)
Advise and Consent was, with Walter Pidgeon as Bob Munson and Henry Fonda as Bob Leffingwell. I understand he refused to sell the film rights to any others.
Actually, Drury's insights on the media are spot on 50+ years later.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 15, 2017 09:00 PM (RZXSp)
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at July 15, 2017 09:01 PM (/o9Qk)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:01 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2017 09:02 PM (V2Yro)
*fans self*
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at July 15, 2017 09:01 PM (/o9Qk)
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Why do you think I have the entire series on DVD??
Posted by: SMFH at July 15, 2017 09:02 PM (s5Kql)
Posted by: Jack Sock
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Bridge. i used to read his column all of the time.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2017 09:02 PM (OdK9v)
Posted by: FarkinClownshoes at July 15, 2017 09:03 PM (X3ClC)
Suicide Squad (Netflix Rating 1/5 | Quality Rating 0.5/4) "A complete and total mess without a lick of sense for dramatic structure."
Yes, absolutely.
But, Harley Quinn's ass........
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 15, 2017 09:03 PM (iFZVz)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:01 PM (IDPbH)
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I really like it. It's good, solid entertainment.
While there are characters who are political personages ( Gene Hackman plays POTUS), is not a political movie. It's about power, straight up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 09:03 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2017 09:04 PM (OdK9v)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Oh yeah. "Whitelisting".
After all the allegations of Blacklisting from the 1950's for cooperation with HUAC hearings, a lot of the people that testified for the government were "whitelisted" and really never worked again.
The Party was very strong in Hollywood among the actors, trades, etc. It did sort of die out in the 1960's, but the residue of everything the Communist Party did in Hollywood is with us ....still.
There are all kinds of political hurdles and mazes actors and actresses have to wind through to work consistently.
Oldman shot off his mouth, and the Hollywood Nomenklatura reminded him of who he was.
Nice folks.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at July 15, 2017 09:04 PM (S6Pax)
Posted by: Apostate at July 15, 2017 09:04 PM (n1dE4)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2017 09:04 PM (fZqx4)
Posted by: FarkinClownshoes at July 15, 2017 09:03 PM (X3ClC)
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My mother will not stop recommending it to me.
Well, now that I have HBO, maybe I'll finally check it out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 09:04 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: SMFH at July 15, 2017 09:04 PM (s5Kql)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc
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Belay that..it was James Dern.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2017 09:05 PM (OdK9v)
That's right. I had forgotten he had a column on Bridge. It was in all the newspapers I knew of.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:05 PM (IDPbH)
And yes, that means minutia and partial victories. The central plot of Advice and Consent was about the confirmation of a Secretary of State. And he made that interesting.
Posted by: Splunge at July 15, 2017 08:55 PM (iMxBJ)
Trying to parse your comment. Advise and Consent was made into a movie (I greatly preferred the original in B&W, not the colorized version); are you asking if any of the others were ever made into movies as well? (Because as far I as I know, they weren't.)
Posted by: HTL at July 15, 2017 09:05 PM (zl60v)
Posted by: blaster at July 15, 2017 08:51 PM (jHrzU)
I think Harrison said that he had been selling options on that story for 30 years, over and over again. He said it was as good as writing.
I suppose it could be done now
Posted by: Kindltot at July 15, 2017 09:05 PM (mkDpn)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2017 09:04 PM (fZqx4)
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So tedious....
Snores seem a bit more appropriate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 09:06 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 15, 2017 09:06 PM (6Ll1u)
Posted by: Ben Had
The final battle is pretty epic though.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 15, 2017 09:06 PM (5YBu8)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2017 09:06 PM (OdK9v)
If it's any consolation, Bruce Dern was deluged with hate mail regarding that.
He was like " they understand it was a movie, right ?"
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2017 09:06 PM (ibGaJ)
Posted by: josephistan at July 15, 2017 09:07 PM (ANIFC)
Later remade with John Saxon, and once more with other people.
None of the pilots sold.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 15, 2017 09:00 PM (oVJmc)
Thanks Peebs!
The world wide subway was a neat idea. Super fast if I recall.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 15, 2017 09:07 PM (5VlCp)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2017 09:07 PM (fZqx4)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
He was in The Burbs with Tim Hanks, right?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 15, 2017 09:07 PM (5YBu8)
Posted by: Apostate at July 15, 2017 09:07 PM (n1dE4)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 15, 2017 09:07 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy
Elon Musk has this covered. If the government gives him enough crony money.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at July 15, 2017 09:08 PM (S6Pax)
310 I always hated Bruce Dean when I was a kid for killing John Wayne in the Cowboys. That movie was my fantasy as a kid.
If it's any consolation, Bruce Dern was deluged with hate mail regarding that.
He was like " they understand it was a movie, right ?"
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2017 09:06 PM (ibGaJ)
He knew it was going to make him a pariah, but he took the role anyway. The story is, his friends told him that he'd be hated as the man who shot John Wayne. Dern just replied "yeah, but they'll looooove me in Berkeley".
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 15, 2017 09:09 PM (iFZVz)
Heh that reminds me that I thought they were playing live music on the radio when I was 4 or 5 years old.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:09 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: blaster at July 15, 2017 09:09 PM (jHrzU)
Dean Stockwell is mortadella?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 15, 2017 09:09 PM (IDvUO)
Strong Persuader is a pretty solid album
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 15, 2017 09:09 PM (GbzYN)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2017 09:09 PM (fZqx4)
Posted by: Eromero at July 15, 2017 09:10 PM (zLDYs)
And I would argue that the entire mind-set is pre-Star Wars, no matter when it came out.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 15, 2017 09:10 PM (mkDpn)
Posted by: blaster at July 15, 2017 09:09 PM (jHrzU)
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Reviews are about what I thought they'd be:
Energetic, nonsensical, and fun.
A bigger budgeted Fifth Element with less interesting lead actors.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 09:10 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 15, 2017 09:10 PM (GbzYN)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 15, 2017 09:10 PM (RO6/m)
Yes, absolutely.
But, Harley Quinn's ass........
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 15, 2017 09:03 PM (iFZVz)
Yep, first Superhero movie you can jerk off to.
...or so I've heard it said....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 15, 2017 09:10 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2017 09:11 PM (OdK9v)
Posted by: SMFH at July 15, 2017 09:11 PM (s5Kql)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2017 09:11 PM (V2Yro)
Since we're on the movie thread, and folks are talking about Robert Cray......he was in Animal House. Bass player for Otis Day and the Knights.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 15, 2017 09:11 PM (iFZVz)
Posted by: SMFH at July 15, 2017 09:02 PM (s5Kql)
Oh, I hear you...
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at July 15, 2017 09:12 PM (/o9Qk)
Posted by: Apostate at July 15, 2017 09:13 PM (n1dE4)
Later remade with John Saxon, and once more with other people.
I'd forgotten this, but the third try was also starring John Saxon, playing a different character. By this time Roddenberry was no longer involved and the new producers made significant changes to the plot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_New_World_(TV_program)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 15, 2017 09:13 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Ben Had
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Your nic always leaves me in a quandary regarding your posts.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2017 09:13 PM (OdK9v)
Strong Persuader is a pretty solid album
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 15, 2017 09:09 PM (GbzYN)
you can get his best of on I tunes for 5.99.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:13 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2017 09:11 PM
Bruce Dern is pretty much always good value.
Posted by: otho at July 15, 2017 09:13 PM (lmIoG)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2017 09:13 PM (fZqx4)
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2017 09:14 PM (ibGaJ)
Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2017 09:14 PM (9g/6M)
Posted by: Apostate
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Sounds like a perfect title for tranny pron.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2017 09:15 PM (kusha)
What's not to love?
A movie about Texas with Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean.
Duh.
Posted by: SMFH at July 15, 2017 09:16 PM (s5Kql)
Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2017 09:16 PM (9g/6M)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2017 09:16 PM (fZqx4)
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at July 15, 2017 09:16 PM (/o9Qk)
Posted by: SMFH at July 15, 2017 09:18 PM (s5Kql)
Posted by: Eromero at July 15, 2017 09:18 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 15, 2017 09:19 PM (AWYXL)
I forgot what a fun movie that was.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 15, 2017 09:19 PM (5VlCp)
Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2017 09:19 PM (9g/6M)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:19 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2017 09:19 PM (39g3+)
What's not to love?
A movie about Texas with Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean.
Duh.
Posted by: SMFH at July 15, 2017 09:16 PM (s5Kql)
I wuz just funnin', Marshall.
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2017 09:20 PM (ibGaJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 15, 2017 09:19 PM
Yeah, Hitchcock's last.
Posted by: otho at July 15, 2017 09:20 PM (lmIoG)
I forgot what a fun movie that was.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 15, 2017 09:19 PM (5VlCp)
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Another unpopular opinion of mine:
I don't like it very much. I find it obvious and not that engaging with some very fun moments.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 09:20 PM (Jj43a)
Ok, thats a bit over the top but I do love that movie. Rowdy Roddy Piper was robbed of an Oscar!
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 15, 2017 09:21 PM (GbzYN)
Speaking of Rock Hudson, I hope MeTV will start running "McMillan and Wife" again soon.
He and Susan Saint James had some of the best on-screen chemistry of just about any couple. And then throw in Rhoda's mom, Nancy Walker, as the wisecracking housekeeper. She had chemistry with both of to, in a different way.
I always wondered if Susan Saint James knew where that mouth had likely been and what it was doing when she'd kiss him.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at July 15, 2017 09:21 PM (8O3HH)
It wasn't even all that faithful to the novel, which frankly reads a little too much like today's headlines (aside from that crystal in the palm thing).
Posted by: Brother Cavil, not a damn failure at July 15, 2017 09:22 PM (66CWr)
I forgot what a fun movie that was.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy
A chilling look into an alternate universe in which a more attractive and personable Hillary! won the White House.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 15, 2017 09:22 PM (5YBu8)
I guess Laura Dern caught hell for her dad killing John Wayne, too.
But The Cowboys is in my top 10 westerns list. Top 5 even
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2017 09:22 PM (39g3+)
Was that the one with the idiot Vice President taking over who pronounces facade as 'fah-kade?'
Posted by: Apostate at July 15, 2017 09:22 PM (n1dE4)
Posted by: publius
They all knew.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at July 15, 2017 09:22 PM (S6Pax)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 15, 2017 09:22 PM (LTHVh)
I think it was an open secret in Hollywood so she knew. I did enjoy the Rock Hudson Doris Day movies.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:22 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 15, 2017 09:23 PM (PBalj)
Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2017 09:23 PM (9g/6M)
Love it, own it, watch it every year.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 15, 2017 09:23 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Grump928
We're all turning Japanese
I really think so.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at July 15, 2017 09:24 PM (S6Pax)
Posted by: josephistan at July 15, 2017 09:24 PM (ANIFC)
A chilling look into an alternate universe in which a more attractive and personable Hillary! won the White House.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 15, 2017 09:22 PM (5YBu
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I get it. Alien as president.
But Carpenter made it about Reagan. He thinks that Republicans are aliens.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 09:24 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Ice Cream Connoiseur and Pearl Clutcher at July 15, 2017 09:24 PM (yODqO)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2017 09:24 PM (39g3+)
I don't like it very much. I find it obvious and not that engaging with some very fun moments.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 09:20 PM
I know I'm gonna catch flack for this, but Roddy Piper does not help the flick. He's wooden and the role was too much for him.
Posted by: otho at July 15, 2017 09:24 PM (lmIoG)
Posted by: Apostate at July 15, 2017 09:25 PM (n1dE4)
A big market / big payroll team tries to buy its way past a poor team from The Bronx.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2017 09:25 PM (pV/54)
Posted by: Brian Bosworth at July 15, 2017 09:25 PM (bc2Lc)
You had me at Heather Graham. I'd throw Margot Robbie off a train to get to Heather Graham.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:25 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 15, 2017 09:25 PM (GbzYN)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 15, 2017 09:26 PM (NOIQH)
You had me at Heather Graham. I'd throw Margot Robbie off a train to get to Heather Graham.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:25 PM (IDPbH)
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Someone is a boob man.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 09:26 PM (Jj43a)
inning and they have a doubleheader tomorrow. Hope this weekend wrecks
them both.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 15, 2017 09:23 PM (PBalj)
Not to mention that this game is being played under a Red Sox protest after a bizarre play in the top of the 11th.
Posted by: Spawn of Pierre Trudeau at July 15, 2017 09:26 PM (ZZo2I)
And speaking of crap, I would never watch a Tarantino movie about the Manson family. I can't stand Tarantino's work and I've read a lot about The Family. I can remember when Rolling Stone had Manson on the cover and called "man of the year". Just not interested in his take on it.
Watched The Hunt for Red October last night. It's still entertaining.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 15, 2017 09:26 PM (Lqy/e)
Posted by: Venette at July 15, 2017 09:26 PM (ZZo2I)
I have the bumper sticker linked in my nick. It reminds me of the signs in the movie as seen with the dark glasses.
I really, really want that sticker to go viral. Imagine if LIVs saw that message everywhere they looked.
Posted by: rickl at July 15, 2017 09:27 PM (sdi6R)
I remember reading or hearing them talk. Back in the day, some tabloid, or the equivalent, some celebrity gossip rag was going to burn Rock Hudson's faggotry.
Rock Hudson was such a big star that his people and the Hollywood big shots cut a deal to keep it quiet. In return they gave the rag juicy dirt on 5 other stars. They ruined 5 other people just to save Rock.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at July 15, 2017 09:27 PM (8O3HH)
Zemeckis was horrified that people thought Forrest Gump had conservative themes. He practically told off the audience over it.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 15, 2017 09:27 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 15, 2017 09:27 PM (PBalj)
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 15, 2017 09:25 PM (GbzYN)
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That's fine. It's not why I dislike the movie, though. I just don't find it that good overall.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 09:27 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2017 09:24 PM (39g3+)
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Circa 2017, it would be the koran they found.
Posted by: SMFH at July 15, 2017 09:27 PM (s5Kql)
Posted by: josephistan at July 15, 2017 09:27 PM (ANIFC)
MUTEMUTEMUTE
Posted by: blaster at July 15, 2017 09:27 PM (jHrzU)
Miss Baker's tombstone will usually have a couple of bananas placed on it in tribute to her and how special she was. That is one of the most wonderful things I've learned this year, and now my kids insist we carry bananas if we're passing through.
Posted by: Hate Has No Homo at July 15, 2017 09:27 PM (psH+N)
Posted by: Jack Sock
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Were you cheered up by 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2017 09:28 PM (OdK9v)
THE OCTAGON!!!
Chuck Norris before Chuck Norris was cool! (okay, while he was becoming cool)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2017 09:28 PM (V2Yro)
True Romance was Tarantino's best work . I'm grateful he didn't direct it.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:28 PM (IDPbH)
Is there a re-make in the works here ?
What's Danny De Vito doing these days ?
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2017 09:28 PM (ibGaJ)
in case you missed it:
Here is the Braveheart version of the cnn-trump meme. It is hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF5o4nOqwv4
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 15, 2017 09:29 PM (IDvUO)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:28 PM
Agreed.
Posted by: otho at July 15, 2017 09:29 PM (lmIoG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone
If Rowdy Roddy Piper was still alive, I'd sentence you to Pipers Pit!! He'd just want to "talk" to you!
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 15, 2017 09:29 PM (GbzYN)
Posted by: josephistan at July 15, 2017 09:27 PM (ANIFC)
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Another unpopular opinion:
I really like that movie. I think it works quite well.
I've also never read the book.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 09:29 PM (Jj43a)
Miss Baker's tombstone will usually have a couple of bananas placed on it in tribute to her and how special she was. That is one of the most wonderful things I've learned this year, and now my kids insist we carry bananas if we're passing through.
Posted by: Hate Has No Homo at July 15, 2017 09:27 PM (psH+N)
Now that is cool and special. I did not know that.
Thanks Hate Homo!
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 15, 2017 09:30 PM (5VlCp)
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2017 09:28 PM (ibGaJ)
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Rhea Perlman still, I think.
Posted by: O. GOULD at July 15, 2017 09:30 PM (vj/UE)
He and Susan Saint James had some of the best on-screen chemistry of just about any couple. And then throw in Rhoda's mom, Nancy Walker, as the wisecracking housekeeper. She had chemistry with both of to, in a different way.
Cozi TV runs it Sundays at noon Central.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 15, 2017 09:30 PM (auHtY)
Because he gets killed in it. Twice.
Oh, and Salma Hayek.
Posted by: blaster at July 15, 2017 09:30 PM (jHrzU)
69 George Miller lost Best Director Oscar for his Mad Max Fury Road to whoever it was that directed The Revenant.
On the short list of Greatest Oscar fuck-ups of which there are many.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2017 08:06 PM (pV/54)
Nah. The worst was probably when the Academy butt-fucked Scorsese in 1980 so they could give Redford a Best Director Oscar for the thoroughly forgettable Ordinary People in his first time behind the camera.
And Scorsese made it worse by spending the next 26 years chasing the Best Director award, especially after the Academy turned right around and butt-fucked him all over again in '90 by giving the award to Kevin Costner for HIS first film, over the clearly superior Goodfellas.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 15, 2017 09:30 PM (iFZVz)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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"This is going to get out of hand..."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2017 09:31 PM (OdK9v)
Hey, "Cat" actually has a pretty uplifting ending. And Burl Ives is just amazing as Big Daddy.
I like Tennessee Williams a lot, I confess. (Streetcar is the one I actually like the least, I think) I think probably the most darkly freakish psycho-sexual plot line ever was "Suddenly Last Summer", another great Liz Taylor showcase.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2017 09:31 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: GOULD at July 15, 2017 09:31 PM (vj/UE)
Posted by: auscolpyr at July 15, 2017 09:31 PM (pzA2L)
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2017 09:28 PM (ibGaJ)
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Rhea Perlman still, I think.
Posted by: O. GOULD at July 15, 2017 09:30 PM (vj/UE)
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And It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 09:31 PM (Jj43a)
[ ] Vanessa Kensington (Elizabeth Hurley)
[ ] Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham)
[ ] Cleopatra Jones (Beyonce)
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2017 09:31 PM (pV/54)
Posted by: SMFH at July 15, 2017 09:27 PM (s5Kql)
Would love to see a "future" movie, in which they find a koran, and use it for toilet paper.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 15, 2017 09:31 PM (AWYXL)
True Romance was Tarantino's best work . I'm grateful he didn't direct it.
Posted by: Jack Sock
The only scene I remember about that film is Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walkin discussing Sicilian ancestry. GREAT scene!
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 15, 2017 09:32 PM (GbzYN)
Posted by: SMFH at July 15, 2017 09:32 PM (s5Kql)
about the Meaning of a film but the audience saw something else (see
HBOs The Wire).
I'm still undecided on if this is the case with "The Last Supper."
Posted by: Lizzy at July 15, 2017 09:32 PM (NOIQH)
Never saw it but it's a Tennessee Williams play so it had to be tragic. I'm going to contradict myself because This Property is Condemned is one of my favorite movies. It wasn't until the end where it was soul crushing.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:33 PM (IDPbH)
Short version: they pussed out and used some nondescript, boring, cliche neo-fascists as the villains instead of the ACTUAL villains... Muslim terrorists.
Posted by: Apostate at July 15, 2017 09:33 PM (n1dE4)
And Scorsese made it worse by spending the next 26 years chasing the Best Director award, especially after the Academy turned right around and butt-fucked him all over again in '90 by giving the award to Kevin Costner for HIS first film, over the clearly superior Goodfellas.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 15, 2017 09:30 PM (iFZVz)
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And then they completely forgot him for what might have been his best movie, Silence.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 09:33 PM (Jj43a)
[ ] Vanessa Kensington (Elizabeth Hurley)
[X] Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham)
[ ] Cleopatra Jones (Beyonce)
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2017 09:31 PM (pV/54)
My vote.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 15, 2017 09:33 PM (0mRoj)
Here Achmed, but be sure to use your left hand!
Posted by: Hrothgar at July 15, 2017 09:33 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2017 09:33 PM (fZqx4)
Posted by: Amy Schumer at July 15, 2017 09:33 PM (bc2Lc)
Posted by: Jack Sock
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Were you cheered up by 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'?
Or A Walk on the Wild Side ?
Oh. That wasn't Texas .
That was New Jersey.
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2017 09:34 PM (ibGaJ)
James Gandolfini's small role had a lot to do with his getting the Tony Soprano role
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2017 09:34 PM (pV/54)
Posted by: freaked at July 15, 2017 09:34 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 15, 2017 09:34 PM (ILitO)
Short version: they pussed out and used some nondescript, boring, cliche neo-fascists as the villains instead of the ACTUAL villains... Muslim terrorists.
Posted by: Apostate at July 15, 2017 09:33 PM (n1dE4)
And communists, and one of Liz Warren's tribe.
Posted by: josephistan at July 15, 2017 09:34 PM (ANIFC)
Short version: they pussed out and used some nondescript, boring, cliche neo-fascists as the villains instead of the ACTUAL villains... Muslim terrorists.
Posted by: Apostate at July 15, 2017 09:33 PM (n1dE4)
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I knew that. I was just saying that I'm not colored by that fact. I took it wholly on its own terms.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 09:35 PM (Jj43a)
[ ] Vanessa Kensington (Elizabeth Hurley)
[ ] Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham)
[ ] Cleopatra Jones (Beyonce)
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2017 09:31 PM (pV/54)
Heather Graham. The third Austin Powers movie outside of being not that funny was a total waste of Michael Caine.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 15, 2017 09:35 PM (auHtY)
[x] Vanessa Kensington (Elizabeth Hurley)
[ ] Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham)
[ ] Cleopatra Jones (Beyonce)
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2017 09:31 PM (pV/54
Posted by: josephistan at July 15, 2017 09:35 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Eromero at July 15, 2017 09:35 PM (zLDYs)
James Gandolfini's small role had a lot to do with his getting the Tony Soprano role
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2017 09:34 PM (pV/54)
Makes sense. He was also a very good bad guy in 8mm.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:36 PM (IDPbH)
Few actors today have the stature of Gary Coleman, or the security guard license.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 15, 2017 09:36 PM (PXj2C)
Miss Baker's tombstone will usually have a couple of bananas placed on it in tribute to her and how special she was. That is one of the most wonderful things I've learned this year, and now my kids insist we carry bananas if we're passing through.
Posted by: Hate Has No Homo at July 15, 2017 09:27 PM (psH+N)
Here you go.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Baker
There was also a Miss Able on that flight, who also survived, but died four days later during an operation to remove electrodes. RIP.
Posted by: rickl at July 15, 2017 09:37 PM (sdi6R)
[X] Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham)
[ ] Cleopatra Jones (Beyonce)
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2017 09:31 PM (pV/54)
My vote.
Posted by: Insomniac
Mine too.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 15, 2017 09:37 PM (5YBu8)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 15, 2017 09:37 PM (ILitO)
The tent scene in the Spy Who Shagged Me was ingenious.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:38 PM (IDPbH)
Doo-Dah
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2017 09:38 PM (ibGaJ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2017 09:39 PM (OdK9v)
James Gandolfini's small role had a lot to do with his getting the Tony Soprano role
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2017 09:34 PM
You could never get a cast like that together in one film today... and they were all great, even in the small roles. Very well done. Tony Scott should get more kudos than he does, just for that movie alone.
Posted by: otho at July 15, 2017 09:39 PM (lmIoG)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2017 09:11 PM (V2Yro)
Speaking of Garner there is a movie of his that I've only seen once and really don't think it's shown that much. 36 Hours. He wakes up in an American hospital in Occupied Germany in 1950 not remembering anything since being at a meeting for the final go away for Operation Overlord. The doctors are trying to help him get back his memory by having him go over what he remembers from the meeting. But things might not be what they seem
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 15, 2017 09:39 PM (auHtY)
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How can you waste Michael Caine? If the paycheck cleared, it was not a waste.
Muppets Christmas Carol, QED.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 15, 2017 09:40 PM (PXj2C)
[ ] Vanessa Kensington (Elizabeth Hurley)
[ ] Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham)
[ ] Cleopatra Jones (Beyonce)
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2017 09:31 PM (pV/54)
[X] Mrs. Kensington (Mimi Rogers).
Posted by: HTL at July 15, 2017 09:40 PM (zl60v)
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2017 09:40 PM (pV/54)
[ ] Vanessa Kensington (Elizabeth Hurley)
[ ] Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham)
[ ] Cleopatra Jones (Beyonce)
yes
yes
twice on Sunday
Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 15, 2017 09:40 PM (LTHVh)
388 Eh. Its not the first time where a director or writer had one idea about the Meaning of a film but the audience saw something else (see HBOs The Wire).
Zemeckis was horrified that people thought Forrest Gump had conservative themes. He practically told off the audience over it.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 15, 2017 09:27 PM (oVJmc)
I'm appalled that people seem to think it's an uplifting story. It's fucking HORROR FILM. The heartless succubus Jenny keeps showing up and destroying Forrest's life before abandoning him, again and again. Eventually going back to him for good once he's rich, dumping off her spawn on Forrest, and presumably infecting him with AIDS, which in that time frame was a death sentence.
The look on Forrest's face in the last scene isn't serenity, it's the look of a thoroughly broken man.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 15, 2017 09:41 PM (iFZVz)
Muppets Christmas Carol, QED.
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Jaws III in 3d....
Posted by: auscolpyr at July 15, 2017 09:41 PM (pzA2L)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 15, 2017 09:40 PM (PXj2C)
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There's a video on YouTube that's a fake commentary by Caine for Christmas Carol.
It's only 4 minutes long and is hilarious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 09:42 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2017 09:42 PM (pV/54)
Consider it done, and Conor thanks you for reminding me of my duties!
Posted by: Hrothgar at July 15, 2017 09:42 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2017 09:42 PM (ibGaJ)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 15, 2017 09:39 PM (auHtY)
I saw that on TCM a while back, it was very good
Posted by: josephistan at July 15, 2017 09:42 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:43 PM (IDPbH)
Apparently, the Internet has supplied a full list.
http://www.celebritymoviearchive.com/tour/name.php/46
Posted by: Apostate at July 15, 2017 08:47 PM (n1dE4)
Don't care what the thread topic is, this is thread winner.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2017 09:43 PM (aMlLZ)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 15, 2017 09:43 PM (5VlCp)
Muppets Christmas Carol, QED.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 15, 2017 09:40 PM (PXj2C)
Because I loved Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin and was hoping they would spoof thator give Caine more to work with instead of the waste of time the movie was. Although I think it gave who ever made SPECTRE the stupid brothers idea
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 15, 2017 09:43 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 15, 2017 09:44 PM (ILitO)
449 How can you waste Michael Caine? If the paycheck cleared, it was not a waste.
Muppets Christmas Carol, QED.
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Jaws III in 3d....
Posted by: auscolpyr at July 15, 2017 09:41 PM (pzA2L)
Actually, Jaws: The Revenge. Jaws III was with Dennis Quaid.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 15, 2017 09:44 PM (iFZVz)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2017 09:44 PM (fZqx4)
Near the end of that movie is a scene where Sig Ruman (Sgt. Schultz in Stalag 17) appears with John Banner (sgt. Schultz in Hogan's Heroes). Only time they ever appeared together, IIRC.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 15, 2017 09:45 PM (oVJmc)
No it was just typical aos going from subject to subject. It started with non-feel good movies.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:45 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 15, 2017 09:45 PM (ILitO)
Posted by: auscolpyr at July 15, 2017 09:46 PM (pzA2L)
455 Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 15, 2017 09:41 PM (iFZVz)
That was Gump's spawn.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:43 PM (IDPbH)
Given Jenny's habit of spreading her legs for anyone with a penis and a dime bag, I'm not willing to take her word for it.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 15, 2017 09:46 PM (iFZVz)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:47 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2017 09:48 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 15, 2017 09:48 PM (ILitO)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 15, 2017 09:46 PM (iFZVz)
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*Five minutes before Forrest shows up*
"Your name is Forrest now, Billy. Understand?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 09:48 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2017 09:48 PM (39g3+)
Second best Gosset movie.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:49 PM (IDPbH)
Yeah, thought Gump finally getting Jenny after she was used up and dying was such a downer. The one guy who truly loves her is treated the worst.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 15, 2017 09:49 PM (NOIQH)
Horrible.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 15, 2017 09:43 PM (5VlCp)
My wife and I walked out on "Zelig". A true waste of celluloid.
Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at July 15, 2017 09:50 PM (T71PA)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2017 09:50 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 15, 2017 09:51 PM (LTHVh)
I really love James Garner in Murphy's Romance, which is a pretty conservative movie when you think about it.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 15, 2017 09:52 PM (Lqy/e)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 15, 2017 09:52 PM (MZcWR)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 15, 2017 09:51 PM (LTHVh)
That's got to be one of the few.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:52 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Grump928(C)
Forrest Gump the Musical ftw.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 15, 2017 09:53 PM (5YBu8)
Since he was in nearly every pivotal scene,even pushing critical decisions, it seems to me his character was more of a Marty-Sue, and that kind of sucked.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 15, 2017 09:53 PM (17QyB)
They've been playing that a lot for the last month or so on one of my broadcast channels (Charge!).
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 15, 2017 09:53 PM (oVJmc)
Yeah I think it was meant to be romantic and sweet that he loved her through it all but mostly it was awful and pathetic
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2017 09:54 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 15, 2017 09:54 PM (IDvUO)
Mark Wahlberg is someone who can make a very good movies and very bad movies. He needs someone to help him pick scripts.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:55 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 15, 2017 09:55 PM (IDvUO)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 15, 2017 09:55 PM (LTHVh)
The only part of 36 hours that made no sense was the Eva Marie Saint character. The Germans are trying to pull off this very elaborate and for them critical ruse and they use someone from a concentration camp.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 15, 2017 09:55 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 15, 2017 09:55 PM (LTHVh)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2017 09:56 PM (39g3+)
First half of that movie is all set-up, and the last half is all payoff.
*Every* little detail has the set-up in the first half and the payoff in the last.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 15, 2017 09:56 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2017 09:56 PM (fZqx4)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 15, 2017 09:56 PM (IDvUO)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 15, 2017 09:51 PM (LTHVh)
The book was that bad?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 15, 2017 09:56 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:56 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at July 15, 2017 09:56 PM (TwwWO)
Posted by: geoffb5 at July 15, 2017 09:57 PM (d3wbb)
So it's like Roald Dahl's 'Beware of the Dog'.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 15, 2017 09:57 PM (LTHVh)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 15, 2017 09:57 PM (LTHVh)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 15, 2017 09:55 PM (LTHVh)
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Always choose Tarkovsky.
It's a health thing really.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 09:58 PM (Jj43a)
Data the robot is on Hill Street Blues right now.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 15, 2017 09:58 PM (IDvUO)
Closest thing so far: Another character says of Rock Hudson's character (in film): "He's up to his ass in celebrities."
MST3K's Jonah: "Let's just let that one slide."
Posted by: V the K at July 15, 2017 09:58 PM (jn7FC)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 15, 2017 09:58 PM (LTHVh)
I read that as "that we sin in together."
Much better.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 15, 2017 09:59 PM (Id9+8)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2017 09:59 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2017 09:56 PM (fZqx4)
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If Connelly and DiCaprio had no roles, I might agree.
It's a Roman a clef done wrong.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 09:59 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at July 15, 2017 09:59 PM (TwwWO)
Posted by: SMFH at July 15, 2017 10:00 PM (s5Kql)
Horrible.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 15, 2017 09:43 PM (5VlCp)
My wife and I walked out on "Zelig". A true waste of celluloid.
Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF?
My sister and I walked out on Ishtar. Since we were in a multiplex, we casually walked in to Beverly Hills Cop 2.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 15, 2017 10:00 PM (GbzYN)
Posted by: geoffb5 at July 15, 2017 10:00 PM (d3wbb)
Posted by: SMFH at July 15, 2017 10:00 PM (s5Kql)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at July 15, 2017 10:01 PM (TwwWO)
Posted by: SMFH at July 15, 2017 10:01 PM (s5Kql)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 15, 2017 10:01 PM (Id9+8)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 15, 2017 10:01 PM (MZcWR)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 09:56 PM (IDPbH)
++++
Agreed.
I didn't care much for Enemy Mine. When at war, you fight the enemy, not look for excuses to form weird relationships.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 15, 2017 10:01 PM (pvjTE)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 10:01 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 15, 2017 10:02 PM (rnAwa)
Posted by: geoffb5 at July 15, 2017 10:00 PM (d3wbb)
He's playing Churchill in Darkest Hour, and from the trailer, he's just about nailing it.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 15, 2017 10:02 PM (17QyB)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at July 15, 2017 10:02 PM (TwwWO)
You list movies you saw this week and provide their Netflix rating. This suggest to me that you saw them on Netflix.
That must be a wrong assumption. You're watching them on disc or something.
I searched
The World's End
Independence Day: Resurgence
Macbeth
All three are not on Netflix. My Netflix, that is. May I ask what planet you're on watching these films because they're outside my planet Earth Netflix offering.
*flounces off*
Posted by: Chip at July 15, 2017 10:02 PM (KXQr+)
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2017 10:03 PM (pV/54)
if No Country For Old Men, Gangs of New York, Titanic, and There Will Be Blood are so great, why do I have absolutely no interest in ever watching them again?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 15, 2017 10:03 PM (IDvUO)
If they're available through old-school DVD Netflix, I think they still get a rating.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 15, 2017 10:03 PM (17QyB)
All three are not on Netflix. My Netflix, that is. May I ask what planet you're on watching these films because they're outside my planet Earth Netflix offering.
*flounces off*
Posted by: Chip at July 15, 2017 10:02 PM (KXQr+)
That's because I hate you.
Posted by: Netflix at July 15, 2017 10:04 PM (iFZVz)
if No Country For Old Men, Gangs of New York, Titanic, and There Will Be Blood are so great, why do I have absolutely no interest in ever watching them again?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 15, 2017 10:03 PM (IDvUO)
I feel *exactly* the same way.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 15, 2017 10:04 PM (17QyB)
*flounces off*
Posted by: Chip at July 15, 2017 10:02 PM (KXQr+)
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I own The World's End.
I watched Independence Day Resurgence on HBO.
Macbeth is on Amazon Prime.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 15, 2017 10:05 PM (Jj43a)
if No Country For Old Men, Gangs of New York, Titanic, and There Will Be Blood are so great, why do I have absolutely no interest in ever watching them again?
Because none of those movies are great? I would say Titanic is a TERRIBLE movie. Who wrote that script? An overwrought teen age girl?
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 15, 2017 10:05 PM (GbzYN)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 15, 2017 10:06 PM (Id9+8)
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Oops.
Posted by: Ribbentrop & Molotov at July 15, 2017 10:06 PM (PXj2C)
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if No Country For Old Men, Gangs of New York, Titanic, and There Will Be Blood are so great, why do I have absolutely no interest in ever watching them again?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 15, 2017 10:03 PM (IDvUO)
Awwww, c'mon. Titanic has one of the greatest scenes ever. Leo DiCap suffers a horrible death from hypothermia. Then the hot chick says "I'll never let you go"......before prying his frozen hands off the raft and flinging his body out into the depths.
That's just good entertainment for the whole family.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 15, 2017 10:06 PM (iFZVz)
You list movies you saw this week and provide their Netflix rating. This suggest to me that you saw them on Netflix.
That must be a wrong assumption. You're watching them on disc or something.
I searched
The World's End
Independence Day: Resurgence
Macbeth
All three are not on Netflix. My Netflix, that is. May I ask what planet you're on watching these films because they're outside my planet Earth Netflix offering.
*flounces off*
Posted by: Chip at July 15, 2017 10:02 PM (KXQr+)
Streaming Netflix doesn't even have ratings anymore, just a "thumbs up/down." The ratings were very useful, helped me decide what to pick. I've heard they ditched the ratings system in response to the abysmal ratings that Amy Schumer's "The Leather Special" was getting.
Posted by: josephistan at July 15, 2017 10:06 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 10:01 PM (IDPbH)
Paul Thomas Anderson needs to fucking die in a fire. Most pretentious fucking filmmaker ever.
Posted by: Robert at July 15, 2017 10:07 PM (mknWS)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 15, 2017 10:06 PM (Id9+
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At least West Side Story had wonderful dancing.
Posted by: Shep Smith at July 15, 2017 10:07 PM (PXj2C)
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 15, 2017 10:05 PM (GbzYN)
No, someone who knows how to market]/i] to teenaged girls.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 15, 2017 10:07 PM (Id9+8)
if No Country For Old Men, Gangs of New York, Titanic, and There Will Be Blood are so great, why do I have absolutely no interest in ever watching them again?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 15, 2017 10:03 PM (IDvUO)
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I think the only great movie in your list is No Country for Old Men. The rest would just make my "OK" list. If I come across them and I have nothing better to do, ok, I'll watch again.
But, No Country is a great movie and very rewatchable.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 15, 2017 10:07 PM (FUu/Z)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 15, 2017 10:07 PM (5YBu8)
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 15, 2017 10:05 PM (GbzYN)
I've watched about 10 minutes into that movie and it was pure torture. It was close to vomit inducingly bad
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 15, 2017 10:08 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 15, 2017 10:08 PM (GbzYN)
Posted by: josephistan at July 15, 2017 10:08 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Ribbentrop & Molotov
This would make a great sitcom in the style of The Odd Couple.
and Sacco & Vinzetti, too?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 15, 2017 10:08 PM (IDvUO)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 15, 2017 10:08 PM (Id9+8)
Posted by: Hrothgar at July 15, 2017 10:09 PM (gwPgz)
I love when that guy falls, hits something and spins off into hyperspace ...
and Kate Winslet's tits
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2017 10:09 PM (pV/54)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 15, 2017 10:09 PM (5YBu8)
That's just good entertainment for the whole family.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 15, 2017 10:06 PM (iFZVz)
That would be the Leo di Crappio who visited southern Alberta during a Chinook, and quacked about "unprecedented global warming"?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 15, 2017 10:10 PM (AWYXL)
Posted by: josephistan at July 15, 2017 10:10 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 15, 2017 10:10 PM (KqziQ)
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2017 10:03 PM (pV/54)
24 hours 'til Game of Thrones!
Posted by: sinalco at July 15, 2017 10:11 PM (yODqO)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at July 15, 2017 10:11 PM (TwwWO)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2017 10:11 PM (OdK9v)
Summer of 42 made me fantasize about older women for quite awhile.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 10:13 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2017 10:13 PM (39g3+)
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I read that book in high school. Incredibly masterful at evoking a certain time and place.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 15, 2017 10:16 PM (PXj2C)
Posted by: josephistan at July 15, 2017 10:06 PM (ANIFC)
I just dumped Netflix. They have dropped just about every program I originally signed up to watch there (Columbo, Rockford Files, X-Files, etc.) and added nothing but new-fangled garbage.
Posted by: HTL at July 15, 2017 10:17 PM (zl60v)
Posted by: Small Rivers at July 15, 2017 10:19 PM (KL5Ns)
Movies that you thought were great/were considered great, but you don't ever want to see again or don't care if you see again.
Schindler's List, Forrest Gump, stuff like that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2017 10:21 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Small Rivers at July 15, 2017 10:21 PM (KL5Ns)
Still 5 star system for me right now, not sure when that change will happen.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2017 10:25 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 15, 2017 10:26 PM (IDvUO)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Sucks. The production company dicked around for so long, Essie Davis & the others have moved on.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 15, 2017 10:27 PM (CeVa5)
Posted by: geoffb5 at July 15, 2017 10:28 PM (d3wbb)
Movies that you thought were great/were considered great, but you don't ever want to see again or don't care if you see again.
Schindler's List, Forrest Gump, stuff like that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2017 10:21 PM (39g3+)
Ishtar, Water World, Battlefield Earth, Titan AE, Wing Commander.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 15, 2017 10:31 PM (a6Sc2)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 15, 2017 10:33 PM (CeVa5)
I think a great topic for the Movie Thread is exactly this:
Movies that you thought were great/were considered great, but you don't ever want to see again or don't care if you see again.
Schindler's List, Forrest Gump, stuff like that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2017 10:21 PM (39g3+)
Or movies that you have to watch more than once to fully appreciate them. Like "Bad Santa."
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 15, 2017 10:37 PM (Id9+8)
He said "no, no, it's a English phrase, it's a literary thing."
The execs said "no, no, we don't get it. Rewrite this and make sure you put an Enemy Mine into it."
And there it is.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2017 10:38 PM (V2Yro)
The execs said "no, no, we don't get it. Rewrite this and make sure you put an Enemy Mine into it."
Idiots.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 15, 2017 10:40 PM (IDvUO)
"Fuck this movie."
That movie was 2000. And it's still playing non-stop. I keep hitting the Reset button but it doesn't do anything.
Posted by: Corona at July 15, 2017 10:56 PM (PsMRi)
It's good. I was hesitant because I didn't know how they would make Denzel believable as the leader of the group considering the time period they were in. The script writers did an excellent job.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 15, 2017 08:27 PM (IDPbH),
Agreed. The original is one of my favorite movies and I really enjoyed this one, as well. That Chris Pratt... I really like him. I might actually rent Passengers. Might.
Posted by: Gem at July 15, 2017 11:00 PM (uaHyk)
Actually having your book made into a movie is not necessarily the wonderful thing you might think it is. From what authors told me during my bookselling years, the actual writer is low man on the totem pole. Max Allan Collins wrote the novel "Purgatory Road", and was allowed on set exactly one time. He wasn't allowed any where near Tom Banks because it would have broken Hanks' concentration. Once you sell your book to Hollywood, Hollywood can do whatever the hell it wants with it. (Just ask Sara Paretsky, who was so appalled by what Hollywood did to her character V.I. Warshawski, she refused to sell a second book to the studio.)
Posted by: Deplorable lady with a deplorable basket of deplorable cats at July 15, 2017 11:05 PM (lMsBz)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 15, 2017 09:40 PM (PXj2C)
Hey, now. That is actually my favorite version of A Christmas Carol.
Posted by: Gem at July 15, 2017 11:24 PM (uaHyk)
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