Saturday Evening Movie Thread 07-14-2018 [Hosted By: TheJamesMadison]

Goodbye Children

Today, we continue my chronological exploration through my personal top ten movies of all time. The movie this week is probably the least well known of my whole list and also the smallest in scope. It is Louis Malle's 1987 film, Au Revoir Les Enfants.

Louis Malle is an interesting director. He never gained a huge following, and his best known movie is probably My Dinner with Andre (which I actually have never seen), but everything he made is eminently watchable. The most recent movie of his that I was exposed to was Vanya on 42nd Street, a performance of Chekov's Uncle Vanya presented as a rehearsal in a dilapidated theater. That film did more to enhance my opinion about the importance of actors than any other movie I've ever seen.

Childhood

Au Revoir Les Enfants is deceptively simple. It's the story of two boys in a Catholic boarding school outside of Paris during World War II. The main character, Julien, like the rest of the boys at the school, is the son of wealthy parents. Like most eleven year old boys, he has little understanding of the world outside his childish concerns. At one point he asks his older brother, who also goes to the same school, what a Yid is.

François Quentin: A jew.
Julien Quentin: I know, but what exactly is a Jew?
François Quentin: Someone who doesn't eat pork.
Julien Quentin: Are you kidding me?
François Quentin: Not at all.
Julien Quentin: What have people got against them?
François Quentin: The fact they're smarter than us, and they crucified Jesus.
Julien Quentin: That's not true. It was the Romans. Is that why they have to wear yellow stars?

This lack of understanding of the greater world around him mostly seems to confuse little Julien. As far as he knows, he's never met a Jew, but he does see them from time to time. There's an old man in a restaurant who gets threatened by Vichy French militia. There's a younger Jew who walks out of the public bath (which Jews are barred from entering in the first place).

This inability to grasp the implications of anti-Semitism is made all the more potent with the addition of a new boy to the school: Jean Bonnett. He's obviously not like the other kids. He doesn't pray the Hail Mary with everyone else. He doesn't take communion. He doesn't even take Greek (because of his knowledge of Latin). Jean doesn't really notice Julien, he's just another one of the boys that picks on him for his last name ("Easter Bonnet" they call him), but the two begin a relationship that steadily grows as the film progresses.

Slice of Life

The relationship that develops between Julien and Jean feels shockingly real to me. It doesn't have a linear path. Instead, it ebbs and flows between moments and events that they both enjoy and small fights that erupt between them. With each moment they share, the two grow closer in the way that boys who fight often do.

Whenever I hear actors talk about finding truth in their performances, I tend to roll my eyes. I find it pretentious talk, but I'm going to engage in some of that very same stuff now.

Everything about this movie feels so very true, starting with the two boys themselves. Acting very understatedly and believably by two young performers (Gaspard Manesse and Raphael Fejto) who almost never acted again, everything the two do and say feels genuine. The reading at night, the insults they hurl at each other, the way they avoid hiding away during an air raid just to play on a piano without any real rhyme or reason. All of it feels completely natural and believable. That believability about every little thing in the actors' performances really sells the reality of the movie as a whole.

That believability doesn't end with just the performances. The movie was made in a small boarding school called the Institution Sainte-Croix outside of Paris. It was filmed entirely in winter so that when the boys complain of cold, it very well could be because they were actually really cold.

The Real World

I talked before about Julien's inability to understand the world around him. That attitude is very much not reflected in Jean, for Jean's secret is that he's a Jew on the run.

The priests and teachers of the school have taken in three Jewish boys in an effort to hide them from the authorities. Julien has trouble connecting with people easily partially because he's so terrified that an errant word on his part, or on the part of another boy, could give away not only himself but the two others.

There's a great moment in the latter half of the movie that highlights the difference in how Julien and Jean approach the world. All of the boys in the school have been sent out as two separate team to find a treasure. Julien gets separated from his team but finds the treasure on his own. Alone with night approaching, he looks around and finds Jean nearby.

Julien Quentin: I found the treasure. All by myself.
Jean Bonnett: Are there wolves in these woods?

Julien's mind is on play. Jean's is on the danger that surrounds him at all times.

How does Julien combine his innocence of the world with Jean's fear that never goes away ("You scared?" Julien asks, "All the time," Jean replies)? He can't quite do it. He's no mature enough to understand. Through circumstance, Julien discovers that Jean's real last name is not Bonnett but Kippelstein, and in a fit of momentary rage threatens to tell everyone Jean's real last name. He has no idea of the implications of what that would entail.

One Winter Morning

There's a subplot in the film about a cook's assistant who trades with the boys for their foods that their parents send them from home. Julien's mother gives him jam, so Julien trades with the cook's assistant for little things here and there in exchange.

When the head of the school finds out that the cook's assistant not only was trading with the boys, but was helping to supply the black market from the school's kitchens, he's furious and fires the assistant. The assistant (Joseph) finds the act unjust, especially since the cook herself, according to him, did it just as much as he did, if not more. With nowhere to turn, Joseph turns informant based on the obvious suspicions around the three new boys (who never ate pork).

The Gestapo shows up, knowing the real names of the three boys and saying that they had been looking for them for some time. As the chief officer is busy angrily tearing small USSR and USA flags out of a map, Julien quickly looks back to Jean. The Gestapo officer noticed the action out of the corner of his eye and simply walks over the Jean until Jean packs up his things and follows the Gestapo officer out. Here's the scene:

Other things play out for some time involving the teachers and the other two boys until the final moments of the film:

With some attention and familiarity with French, you can hear the title of the movie spoken by the priest as he leaves. But the key is the final voiceover spoken by the film's director, Louis Malle:

Bonnet, Negus and Dupre died at Auschwitz; Father Jean at Mauthausen. The school reopened its doors in October. More than 40 years have passed, but I'll remember every second of that January morning until the day I die.

The impressive emotional impact of the film itself combined with the fact that it's autobiographical to the film's director.

This film is so small in scope but affects me so intently that I treasure the fact that I saw it right around the period that I was originally developing my top ten years back.

Movies of Today

Opening in Theaters:
Ant-Man and the Wasp
The First Purge
Whitney

Next in my Netflix Queue:
Red Tails

Movies I Saw This Week:
Shame (Netflix Rating 4/5 | Quality Rating 3/4) Poster blurb: "An exploration of narcissism that is both interesting and perhaps a bit more shallow than it should have been." [Netflix DVD]
Act of Valor (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2/4) "The action scenes are decent, but the story is very bland." [Netflix DVD]
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Netflix Rating 2/5 | Quality Rating 2/4) [Rewatch] "Not as bad as I remember, but still not good." [Personal Collection]
Champagne for Caesar (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2/4) "Funny little movie from the early 50s. An easy watch." [Youtube]
Game Night (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2.5/4) "Moderately entertaining with enough twists to keep it interesting." [Redbox]
Justice League (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2/4) "The first hour or so is inept, but the last half gets it together enough to be moderately entertaining in an over-produced action spectacle sort of way." [HBO]

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Posted by: OregonMuse at 07:20 PM

Comments

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1 OK, help me with my confirmation bias here. I watched this trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6dy7xQ8NeE

...and immediately thought, "this movie looks like an SJW sh* show."

So please watch this trailer and either confirm or deny my contention that it does, in fact, look like an SJW sh* show. Thank you.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at July 14, 2018 07:19 PM (JQveK)

2 Movie Sign!!!!!

Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 07:20 PM (+Tibp)

3 Nice pick James

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 07:22 PM (pHfeF)

4 I have seen My Dinner with Andre, but was so long ago (80s?) I don't remember much but have the impression now it was boring

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 07:24 PM (pHfeF)

5 Bye bye, babies.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 14, 2018 07:25 PM (/qEW2)

6 Haven't seen any Louis Malle movies...

Posted by: Lizzy at July 14, 2018 07:26 PM (W+vEI)

7 I could only get through half the trailer. Stupid and yes I got a whiff of SJW

"The women protect me"

Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 07:26 PM (+Tibp)

8 Au revoir is a strange phrase. I think it means "at the re-see".

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 14, 2018 07:27 PM (/qEW2)

9 O-M, I fear we may be seeing the first twinges of that persecution you described in the Malle movie. That notion by the left that it's just hunkydory to hate people like us. Of course I won't make it to the camps.

Posted by: Eromero at July 14, 2018 07:28 PM (zLDYs)

10 Pretty Baby is the Louis Malle film to watch.

It's art! That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 14, 2018 07:28 PM (KDpai)

11 >>So please watch this trailer and either confirm or deny my contention that it does, in fact, look like an SJW sh* show. Thank you.

It does.
Looks like Carrell is reprising his role from "Dinner for Shmucks".

Posted by: Lizzy at July 14, 2018 07:28 PM (W+vEI)

12 I re watched Paths of Glory this week and each time I watch it I develop a little bit more admiration for it.

Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 07:28 PM (+Tibp)

13 Pretty Baby is the Louis Malle film to watch.

It's art! That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous

Did he do that movie? The one with a prepubescent Brooke Shields?

Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 07:29 PM (+Tibp)

14 Thanks for reminding me of this excelelnt film. It brings back wonderful memories. As a French major in college, I used to pick out French language films at Blockbuster to keep up with real spoken French, not just the academic, formal style of speaking they taught in class. Au Revoir Les Enfantes was one of my absolute favorites. Extremely well done and moving.

Posted by: Dilsin at July 14, 2018 07:30 PM (3OMsg)

15 Next in my Netflix Queue:
Red Tails

Movies I Saw This Week:
Shame (Netflix Rating 4/5 | Quality Rating 3/4) Poster blurb: "An exploration of narcissism that is both interesting and perhaps a bit more shallow than it should have been." [Netflix DVD]
Act of Valor (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2/4) "The action scenes are decent, but the story is very bland." [Netflix DVD]
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Netflix Rating 2/5 | Quality Rating 2/4) [Rewatch] "Not as bad as I remember, but still not good." [Personal Collection]
Champagne for Caesar (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2/4) "Funny little movie from the early 50s. An easy watch." [Youtube]
Game Night (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2.5/4) "Moderately entertaining with enough twists to keep it interesting." [Redbox]
Justice League (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2/4) "The first hour or so is inept, but the last half gets it together enough to be moderately entertaining in an over-produced action spectacle sort of way." [HBO]

++++

All the links go to the wrong movies. Red Tails goes to Shame, but all the rest don't even go to movies from this week.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 14, 2018 07:31 PM (KDpai)

16 12

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 07:31 PM (pHfeF)

17 12 I re watched Paths of Glory this week and each time I watch it I develop a little bit more admiration for it.
Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 07:28 PM (+Tibp

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I did a little Kubrick retrospective a little while ago, and I teared up a bit at Christiana's final song.

It really is a great film.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 14, 2018 07:31 PM (Jj43a)

18 Didn't Malle also direct 'Atlantic City'? That was a good movie.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at July 14, 2018 07:31 PM (JQveK)

19
All the links go to the wrong movies. Red Tails goes to Shame, but all the rest don't even go to movies from this week.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 14, 2018 07:31 PM (KDpai

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Crap....

I don't know what happened.

Sorry all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 14, 2018 07:32 PM (Jj43a)

20 8 Au revoir is a strange phrase. I think it means "at the re-see".

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 14, 2018 07:27 PM (/qEW2)

++++

I thought it meant "farewell".

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 14, 2018 07:32 PM (KDpai)

21 Watched the trailer, I know Steve is a dyed in the wool Leftist but not seeing anything SJW but nevertheless cringe worthy

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 07:33 PM (pHfeF)

22 OK, I went back and watched the Marven trailer. I don't know what the hell it was about and would never pay to see it in a theater, but might watch it on tv. If there was nothing else on.

Posted by: Eromero at July 14, 2018 07:33 PM (zLDYs)

23 Did he do that movie? The one with a prepubescent Brooke Shields?

Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 07:29 PM (+Tibp)

++++

Yep, that's the one. Set in a whorehouse.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 14, 2018 07:34 PM (KDpai)

24 Act of Valor (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2/4) "The action scenes are decent, but the story is very bland." [Netflix DVD]

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They used live fucking ammo in that flick.

And real SEALs, not actors.

5/5

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 07:35 PM (e7oj4)

25 Hiya !

Posted by: JT at July 14, 2018 07:36 PM (mEBHl)

26
My Dinner With Andre

https://youtu.be/54b6UIQnncA

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2018 07:38 PM (IqV8l)

27 Next in my Netflix Queue:

Red Tails

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The best part of Red Tails is that they made a sequel to it where all of those guys daughters join NASA to do the difficult math for the moon landing.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Support My Anti-Bullying Programs Or Else at July 14, 2018 07:38 PM (YPqbH)

28 Dear treue buscarwith English subtitles
https://youtu.be/dNZyf6ufaMw

Looked this up after watching Monday

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 07:38 PM (pHfeF)

29 All the links go to the wrong movies. Red Tails goes to Shame, but all the rest don't even go to movies from this week.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 14, 2018 07:31 PM (KDpai)

Sorry about that, I fixed the links. Thanks.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at July 14, 2018 07:39 PM (JQveK)

30 28 Der treue husar stupid autocucumber

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 07:39 PM (pHfeF)

31 I thought it meant "farewell".
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 14, 2018 07:32 PM (KDpai)

He means literally, the individual meanings of the words.

I don't know enough French to say for sure, but it looks like it would render as something like "at seeing again" word-for-word. You're right about what sentiment it implies, of course.

Posted by: hogmartin at July 14, 2018 07:41 PM (y87Qq)

32 Corrected links.

Red Tails (2012)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485985/

Shame (2011)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1723811/

Act of Valor (2012)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1591479/

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (200

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0859163/

Champagne for Caesar (1950)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042325/

Game Night (201

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2704998/

Justice League (2017)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0974015/

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 14, 2018 07:41 PM (KDpai)

33
Speaking of movie sign! I just found out that Trace Beaulieu (Dr. Forrester) and Frank Coniff (TVs Frank) will be at a local movie theater in August spoofing movies and signing autographs. The ad for it is a take on the Man From UNCLE. The Mads From M.S.T.3.K.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 14, 2018 07:42 PM (SiINZ)

34 Didn't Malle also direct 'Atlantic City'? That was a good movie.

Yes, he twice directed Susan Sarandon's rack.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 14, 2018 07:42 PM (fuK7c)

35 the movie I watched was Oingo Boingo (no, seriously), 'The Forbidden Zone'.

Pretty much Tim Burton before Tim Burton, except [even] creepier. 'Weird Science' seems to owe a debt to this one as well.

I cannot recommend this one as a movie, but film students and film historians will appreciate it as a document. (kind of like how I appreciate the Koran)

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 14, 2018 07:42 PM (6FqZa)

36 On thing about Red Tails and seen it a few times is if kills were are often as they make it out to be the Luftwaffe would have been wiped out

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 07:44 PM (pHfeF)

37 Not a movie, but I've been watching Billions. Why has this show been kept a secret from me. Incredible acting.

Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 14, 2018 07:44 PM (Qe84+)

38 My Dinner With Andre

https://youtu.be/54b6UIQnncA

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2018 07:38 PM (IqV8l)

The end of "Waiting for Guffman" was hysterical when Corky open his movie memorabilia store and was selling the "My Dinner with Andre" action figures.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 14, 2018 07:44 PM (SiINZ)

39 Beat me to it.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 14, 2018 07:44 PM (KDpai)

40 I've had The Wild Bunch, Director's cut recorded for more than a month. Tonight might be the night.

Looking at you, Svengoolie.

Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 07:45 PM (+Tibp)

41 Au revoir is a strange phrase. I think it means "at the re-see".

Many languages do that.

Arivederci, is a (at) ri (re) vederci (seeing each other).

Auf Wiedersehen is auf (to, until, upon) wieder (again) sehen (seeing).

Goodbye is too good a word, babe, so I'll just say fare thee well.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 14, 2018 07:45 PM (fuK7c)

42 I saw Justice League a few weeks ago. It tried to be good, honest. It was a mess though. Too bad. There is decent source material they could use. SyFy channel had some Justice League movies on a few months back I thought were pretty good. Rather watch those.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 14, 2018 07:45 PM (20X6f)

43 Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at July 14, 2018 07:19 PM (JQveK)

Well to be fair, it looks beyter than some of the clay-mation my grand-kids watched with me!

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at July 14, 2018 07:46 PM (n9EOP)

44 logprof, I enjoyed Act Of Valor in the theater. Of course the lefty press said it was jingoistic and stuff. I call it it Patriotic. So what, Ain't America worth it?

Posted by: Eromero at July 14, 2018 07:46 PM (zLDYs)

45 The end of "Waiting for Guffman" was hysterical when Corky open his movie memorabilia store and was selling the "My Dinner with Andre" action figures.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 14, 2018 07:44 PM (SiINZ)

++++

Andy Kaufman did a parody called My Breakfast with Blassie. He and some pro wrestler meet for breakfast in an IHOP or Denny's or some place like that. Hilarious.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 14, 2018 07:47 PM (KDpai)

46 Was surprised TMC was showing movies of pre revolution France yesterday and nothing today. But then they never seem to show historical movies on dates of significant.

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 07:47 PM (pHfeF)

47 The focus on WWII films is usually the great battles. But the films that capture the terror of everyday life, such as Enfants, or Two Women - pack the bigger emotional punch.

Posted by: kallisto at July 14, 2018 07:47 PM (w/exv)

48 I'm not a big movie watcher but I dig these threads (because that being said I enjoy a good story like anyone else). I never have seen a French language film but I may have to give this one a spin. For foreign language movies, I enjoy the works of Sergei Eisenstein, and I also have a copy of Tae Guk Gi as I enjoyed that immensely.

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at July 14, 2018 07:49 PM (rlQwD)

49 Au Revoir Les Enfantes

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"Goodbye , The Infants" ??

Da hell?

Movies are confusing. French movies are impossible.

Posted by: dyno-elite canned hate at July 14, 2018 07:50 PM (/TNyL)

50 Nice post OM! I like when a movie is broken down and explained from someone's perspective which I can then relate to my own when I get chance to watch it.

Good job and thanks!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 14, 2018 07:50 PM (EoRCO)

51 I can't believe how bad Hollywood is fucking up the DC Universe. There is no excuse for trashing Justice League. And I agree the cartoon movies and cartoon shows are better.

Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 14, 2018 07:50 PM (Qe84+)

52 in honour of the revolutionary release of the good Marquis from la Bastille, have we been watching Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom?

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 14, 2018 07:50 PM (6FqZa)

53 47 The focus on WWII films is usually the great battles. But the films that capture the terror of everyday life, such as Enfants, or Two Women - pack the bigger emotional punch.
Posted by: kallisto at July 14, 2018 07:47 PM (w/exv)

"Pasqualino Settebelleze" or "Seven Beauties." Despite some of the comedic bits of it, it is all about what one does to stay alive.

Powerful.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 14, 2018 07:50 PM (VM6ev)

54 the movie I watched was Oingo Boingo (no, seriously), 'The Forbidden Zone'.

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One of my favorite movies. Weird as hell but a lot of fun.

And the beautiful small-breasted princess running around everywhere doesn't hurt, either.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Support My Anti-Bullying Programs Or Else at July 14, 2018 07:50 PM (YPqbH)

55 Many languages do that.

Arivederci, is a (at) ri (re) vederci (seeing each other).

Auf Wiedersehen is auf (to, until, upon) wieder (again) sehen (seeing).
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 14, 2018 07:45 PM (fuK7c)

German does it twice; there's Auf Wiedersehen and also bis (zum) morgen, which could also be Morgen if you're saying "until tomorrow" or "until morning". So I guess three times.

And "hasta la vista" is roughly the same thing but without the "again" part.

Posted by: hogmartin at July 14, 2018 07:51 PM (y87Qq)

56 TJM, I unequivocatingly agree with you on this movie.

I saw it in Columbus Circle when it came out and it stayed with me for days and weeks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2018 07:52 PM (EZebt)

57 Goodbye is too good a word, babe, so I'll just say fare thee well.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

Now do the Welsh.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 14, 2018 07:52 PM (zfrbv)

58 I have always been fine watching foreign films with subtitles, actually watched many Russian movies not getting a word interpreted.

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 07:52 PM (pHfeF)

59 Justice League (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2/4) "The first hour or so is inept, but the last half gets it together enough to be moderately entertaining in an over-produced action spectacle sort of way." [HBO]

I watched Justice League last night and really enjoyed it. I DVR'd it off of ATT U-Verse's free preview weekend for HBO/Cinemax.

I went into it with low expectations, since it seemed everywhere I read about it, it was getting bad reviews. But I really liked it.

Might have been because I went into it with a couple biases. First being the low expectations and second being that I was going into it with a more forgiving eye, since it wasn't Marvel (which I have been boycotting for over a year now).

But I liked the storyline, I think Affleck actually is a pretty decent Wayne/Batman (even though I prefer Christian Bale's version the best), good action, good telling the backstory of the 3 cubes, pretty cool seeing all the heroes being brought together, the "Credence" actor from Fantastic Beasts movie playing Flash was nice comic relief and I actually laughed out loud at some of the comic lines from other characters too.

(Batman, laying on the ground in agony after Superman asks him if he bleeds and then throws him against a wall. "Yep, something is definitely bleeding". heh)

Oh and I also came into the movie having seen Wonder Woman and liking that too.

I dunno, I thought it was good. Not sure why it has been criticized so much.

One that I could not get through and turned off was Thor Ragnarok. I got 40 minutes into it, where the Jeff Goldblum character is introduced, and just kept asking myself "what the hell am I watching?!" So on the flip side, I really don't know why Ragnarok was praised so much.

Oh well, I guess I'm weird.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 14, 2018 07:53 PM (7A4qQ)

60 "Pasqualino Settebelleze" or "Seven Beauties." Despite some of the comedic bits of it, it is all about what one does to stay alive.

"So, you [did the spoiler thing to stay alive]"

"Yes"

"Good"

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 14, 2018 07:53 PM (fuK7c)

61 the best thing you've written on film here, in my opinion - a concise essay, simple and effective like the movie.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at July 14, 2018 07:56 PM (Pg+x7)

62 Too old.

Posted by: Harry Reid at July 14, 2018 07:56 PM (sXefu)

63 American art movie: "I will commit adultery, but it's totes okay because the toxic masculinity of my husband gives me no space to be myself. It will totes have a happy ending. There is no way I will wind up bitter and alone, simply waiting to die and be eaten by my cats."

French art movie: "I will commit adultery with someone much younger/older than myself, preferably from a different social class/race/ethnic group. I will then persuade my spouse to engage in a menage a trois."

Scandinavian art movie: "I will commit adultery. When this is discovered, I, my lover, and my spouse will all commit suicide from the guilt."

German art movie: "I wil commit adultery with somene of indeterminate gender who wears a rubber gimp suit and craps in my mouth."

Russian art movie: "I will rebel against the czar/Mongol horde/communist regime and get sent to Siberia, where I will die a slow and painful death from torture and tuberculosis. My adulterous lover, left at home, will drink herself to death."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI at July 14, 2018 07:58 PM (GXOTw)

64 Goodbye is too good a word, babe, so I'll just say fare thee well.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 14, 2018 07:45 PM (fuK7c)

In Mexico they say "andale" which pretty much means "get along with you"

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2018 07:58 PM (2K6fY)

65 53. I saw that yrs ago but barely remember it. These films of the average citizen's daily struggle dovetail with the stories of wartime Italy the oldtimers tell. Like sending the young women up the mountain when they got word of advancing German troops.

Posted by: kallisto at July 14, 2018 07:59 PM (w/exv)

66 61 the best thing you've written on film here, in my opinion - a concise essay, simple and effective like the movie.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at July 14, 2018 07:56 PM (Pg+x7)

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Thank you very much!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 14, 2018 08:00 PM (Jj43a)

67 ... p.s. i've seen "my dinner with andre" - it's the existential storyline in reverse. this has been confirmed by someone who was involved with the production.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at July 14, 2018 08:00 PM (Pg+x7)

68 Russian art movie: "I will rebel against the
czar/Mongol horde/communist regime and get sent to Siberia, where I will
die a slow and painful death from torture and tuberculosis. My
adulterous lover, left at home, will drink herself to death."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI at July 14, 2018 07:58 PM (GXOTw)

My, my. Where can I buy a ticket?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2018 08:00 PM (2K6fY)

69 People who were not around for WWTwo sure can't seem to get over it. This movie might help stupid people get over the war from 70 years ago. That war, you know, the one that they were not around for.

That unpleasantness with the Delian League still haunts me, though.

Posted by: ro-man at July 14, 2018 08:00 PM (RuIsu)

70 ... (i think it's a secret, so don't tell anyone.)

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at July 14, 2018 08:01 PM (Pg+x7)

71 Was gona make a smart ass comment about French films. But in respect for the good work TheJamesMadison does every week I'll just post a Thank You.

Posted by: X-ray at July 14, 2018 08:02 PM (2YOIh)

72 Svengoolie has Ghost and Mr Chicken.

Posted by: Atta Boy, Luther! at July 14, 2018 08:02 PM (+Tibp)

73 The Russian movie White Tiger is interesting, a Russian tank driver survives German tank attack was badly burned and recovers, Then a German tank that comes out of nowhere destroys any tank it sees. The surviving Russian tank driver has some type of power and can talk to tanks. The German Tank is like a ghost appearing here and there and nobody can destroy it.

It's an interesting movie. I usually hate any movie about the USSR point of view because I think they are just as bad as the Germans.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 14, 2018 08:02 PM (BEqXS)

74 War movies about the Nazis freak me out.

Like Tshe Man In High Castle - S2 Ep1 when the kid pledges allegiance to flag and der Fuhrer , Adolph Hitler in the elementary school in New Nazi York!!! *SHUDDER*

We were really so damn close.

And yet the Brits still practice magical, wishful thinking.

Posted by: dyno-elite canned hate at July 14, 2018 08:03 PM (/TNyL)

75 >>They used live fucking ammo in that flick.
And real SEALs, not actors.

I knew it was SEALs, did not know about the live ammo. Wow.
We saw it in the theater on opening weekend just to support the movie. There were a lot of fathers and sons there, which was cool.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 14, 2018 08:03 PM (W+vEI)

76 ???!!!

What the hell is that weird button/coin on Theresa May's left upper arm???

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 08:03 PM (e7oj4)

77
I will commit adultery with the ficus. What kind of art movie is that.

Oh wait, I'm not married, so it's not adultery, just fornication. Never mind.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 14, 2018 08:03 PM (8O3HH)

78 63: that has to be the most perfect explanation of what an art film is, EVAH!!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 14, 2018 08:04 PM (20X6f)

79 17 12 I re watched Paths of Glory this week and each time I watch it I develop a little bit more admiration for it.
Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 07:28 PM (+Tibp

One of my favs with one of my fav actors, G McCready. Could McCready nail the character of Strzok if they film the present day shitshow. And I wonder if Susanne's closing song made Kubrick fall in love with her

Posted by: REDACTED at July 14, 2018 08:04 PM (TdS5t)

80
Barry O wanted to see the French movie 'The 400 Blows' until he found out it had nothing to do with glory holes

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 14, 2018 08:04 PM (SiINZ)

81 > That unpleasantness with the Delian League still haunts me, though.

You think you hold a grudge? What about us?

Posted by: The Hivites, Jebusites, Hittites, Girgashites, Perizzites, Amorites, and Canaanites at July 14, 2018 08:05 PM (GXOTw)

82 >> What the hell is that weird button/coin on Theresa May's left upper arm???

I just looked that up. It's a diabetic glucose monitor. It continuously monitors blood sugar levels and keeps you from having to prick your fingers.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 14, 2018 08:06 PM (8O3HH)

83 White Tiger for me was too , can't think of exact tern but like sci-fi and didn't get through it all.

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 08:07 PM (pHfeF)

84 I just looked that up. It's a diabetic glucose monitor. It continuously monitors blood sugar levels and keeps you from having to prick your fingers.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 14, 2018 08:06 PM (8O3HH)

--Perhaps not wear something sleeveless with that?

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 08:07 PM (e7oj4)

85 I want to watch the French movie about 3 or 4 french girls that get married to a Jew, Muslim etc it has alot of racist jokes because the Parents want their girls to marry "French" it was so problamatic that NO US film company will distribute the movie.

It was mentioned here and I want to see it soo bad. it has the same humor as the French OSS spy movies.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 14, 2018 08:08 PM (BEqXS)

86 Ghost and Mr. Chicken.

Don Knotts at his finest, and a rockin' Vic Mizzy score.

Add in Svengoolie, and that's it for me for the next two hours.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 14, 2018 08:08 PM (oVJmc)

87 >>French art movie: "I will commit adultery with someone much younger/older than myself, preferably from a different social class/race/ethnic group. I will then persuade my spouse to engage in a menage a trois."

Or...I will sleep with my BFF's husband for years, then dump him like dirty laundry when his wife finds out, and after she evicts him, we laugh like schoolgirls when we go out to lunch. Or. I will sleep with my uncle for many years, and after his death, be the heir and expert on his original art as well as his valuable art collection, because we're above such bougie concepts of incest.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 14, 2018 08:08 PM (W+vEI)

88 Trump is half Scottish, as is the Queen.

How does he disrespect her?

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 08:08 PM (e7oj4)

89 confirm or deny my contention that it does, in fact, look like an SJW sh* show.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Ever so much, more so. My old man kicked the Nazi's ass over 70 years ago. Give it a rest, for Pete's sake.

Posted by: Lurker at July 14, 2018 08:08 PM (j3frD)

90 Hey everybody. Thanks TJM for another movie thread.

Here's qdpsteve's list of "art house/film school movies" that actually are worth a watch, because they're entertaining as well as illuminating about 'the art of cinema':

- Citizen Kane
- Scarlet Street
- The 400 Blows (this one surprised me)
- The Bicycle Thieves (this one surprised me too)
- Vertigo (my all-time fave Hitchcock flick)

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:09 PM (eMKNe)

91 Trump is half Scottish, as is the Queen.

How does he disrespect her?

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 08:08 PM (e7oj4)

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 14, 2018 08:10 PM (SiINZ)

92 TJM, how many silent films have you seen?

I think it might be worthwhile to do a thread one week on which ones have held up the best. I've read Nosferatu doesn't hold up at all, whereas to this day everyone raves about The Passion of Joan of Arc.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:10 PM (eMKNe)

93 - Vertigo (my all-time fave Hitchcock flick)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:09 PM (eMKNe)

--Mine is Rope.

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 08:10 PM (e7oj4)

94 Many languages do that.

Arivederci, is a (at) ri (re) vederci (seeing each other).

Auf Wiedersehen is auf (to, until, upon) wieder (again) sehen (seeing).
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 14, 2018 07:45 PM (fuK7c)

In Hebrew it's LeHitra'oht - which is the transitive-reflexive infinitive of "to see" - 'to be seeing each other'.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 14, 2018 08:11 PM (7jE3W)

95 logprof, I keep meaning to watch Rope. As I understand it, Hitch made it work like a stage play (*long* takes, and I think there's only one setting in the whole thing, just like in Rear Window).

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:12 PM (eMKNe)

96 One of my favs with one of my fav actors, G McCready. Could McCready nail the character of Strzok if they film the present day shitshow. And I wonder if Susanne's closing song made Kubrick fall in love with her
Posted by: REDACTED

McCready is just great as the ambitious, petty general.

I noticed this time the one soldier sentenced to death., Pvt Ferol, played by Timothy Carey. I've always enjoyed how Ralph Meeker and Turkel performed, but I sort of keyed on Pvt Ferol for some reason.

Thing is, the only other thing I can recall seeing him in was a terrible Beach party movie from the early 60's. He might have been in other things I didn't realize, but I thought he should have had a better career.

Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 08:12 PM (+Tibp)

97 Watching Odessa File on TCM

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 08:12 PM (pHfeF)

98
Christie Brinkley at 64:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5954401

Look at the shot of her at the end next to the three 20-something hotties, Kate Upton included.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 14, 2018 08:12 PM (8O3HH)

99 90 Hey everybody. Thanks TJM for another movie thread.

Here's qdpsteve's list of "art house/film school movies" that actually are worth a watch, because they're entertaining as well as illuminating about 'the art of cinema':

- Citizen Kane
- Scarlet Street
- The 400 Blows (this one surprised me)
- The Bicycle Thieves (this one surprised me too)
- Vertigo (my all-time fave Hitchcock flick)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:09 PM (eMKNe)

=====

I've seen Bicycle Thieves a couple of times, and I've never really connected with it. I have no idea why, because it really feels like something I would love. Post war Italian cinema is kind of my jam.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 14, 2018 08:12 PM (Jj43a)

100 If the Nazis caught the slightert inkling of collaboration w/Allies, the French or Dutch or Italian citizens were well and truly fucked. Audrey Hepburn almost died of starvation due to Nazi retribution.

Posted by: kallisto at July 14, 2018 08:12 PM (w/exv)

101 logprof, I keep meaning to watch Rope. As I understand it, Hitch made it work like a stage play (*long* takes, and I think there's only one setting in the whole thing, just like in Rear Window).

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:12 PM (eMKNe)

I didn't like Rope. I thought it was silly and contrived. But I think pretty much all Hitchcock is silly and contrived.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 14, 2018 08:12 PM (7jE3W)

102 I watched 7 Days in Entebbe and it's terrible, during the high point where the Israeli army is rescuing the hostages they had a new age dance number inserted? for some unknown reason. The movie is very sympathetic to the terrorists, the movie is more about them than anything else.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 14, 2018 08:13 PM (BEqXS)

103 Yes, The Jeb Bushites hold a grudge.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2018 08:13 PM (IqV8l)

104 For anyone who's either scared off of Vertigo, or thinks it's too 'arty'/pretentious:

Watch it from the POV of, a guy like me who's become a bit... okay I'll say it... embittered about women. (Rightly or wrongly.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:13 PM (eMKNe)

105 Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 08:12 PM (+Tibp)

He played the bad guy in "Gilda"

Posted by: REDACTED at July 14, 2018 08:13 PM (TdS5t)

106 95 logprof, I keep meaning to watch Rope. As I understand it, Hitch made it work like a stage play (*long* takes, and I think there's only one setting in the whole thing, just like in Rear Window).
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:12 PM (eMKNe)

--It's pretty much real-time, and holds to the unities of ancient Greek drama.

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 08:13 PM (e7oj4)

107 OK, help me with my confirmation bias here. I watched this trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6dy7xQ8NeE
...and immediately thought, "this movie looks like an SJW sh* show."
====
I would like to second the "SJW sh*t show".
SJWs can only perpetuate their twisted crushing of our Constitutional rights if they can conflate a bunch of WHITE rednecks with actual Nazis.

Fvck Steve Carroll.

Posted by: dyno-elite canned hate at July 14, 2018 08:14 PM (/TNyL)

108 92 TJM, how many silent films have you seen?

I think it might be worthwhile to do a thread one week on which ones have held up the best. I've read Nosferatu doesn't hold up at all, whereas to this day everyone raves about The Passion of Joan of Arc.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:10 PM (eMKNe)

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I've done one on silent comedies, and one of Passion.

I'm always happy to dig back into that era.

MP4 is the real authority around here on the silent era, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 14, 2018 08:14 PM (Jj43a)

109 Trump is half Scottish, as is the Queen.

How does he disrespect her?

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 08:08 PM (e7oj4)

He didn't. I can't believe that Yahoo ran this story but he said it was a great honor because of his mother.

In a very humanizing moment, Trump admitted, "I was walking up and I was saying (to Melania): "Can you imagine my mother seeing this scene? Windsor. Windsor Castle."

He told Morgan he mentioned his mother to the queen, saying: "You know, my mother was your big fan. She was born in Stornaway in the Hebrides. And that's very serious Scotland, as you know, there's no doubt about that."

And of the queen herself, he added: "To have that meeting I think was really great. We met, but also watching the guard, hearing the sounds, being in that place, that very special place. It was very special, there's no question about that."

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 14, 2018 08:14 PM (SiINZ)

110 I fell in love with PoG as a teenager, no doubt seen it 25 times or way more.

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 08:14 PM (pHfeF)

111 Au revoir is not much different from "See you later" or "Hasta la vista."

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 08:15 PM (e7oj4)

112 Primordial, that's funny because it's sort of how I felt about Il Vitteloni. I think I need to watch it again.

Primordial, yes Hitch's films and overall overlook on life is dated today, but I think it still holds up, especially if you try and adjust your thinking just a little bit towards WW2-era Victorian morality and chivalry.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:15 PM (eMKNe)

113 93 - Vertigo (my all-time fave Hitchcock flick)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:09 PM (eMKNe)

--Mine is Rope.
Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 08:10 PM (e7oj4)

=====

Rope is Dolley's favorite too. I think it's pretty good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 14, 2018 08:15 PM (Jj43a)

114 93 - Vertigo (my all-time fave Hitchcock flick)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:09 PM (eMKNe)

--Mine is Rope.
----------------------------
I recommend you both watch The 39 Steps and get back to me about best Hitchcock.

Posted by: Puddin Head - This Is CNN at July 14, 2018 08:15 PM (vV/gB)

115 Christie Brinkley at 64:

Christie has had a tad too much work done.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 14, 2018 08:15 PM (fuK7c)

116 White rednecks DEFEATED Hitler and the Nazis.

Now, get me a juice box, Hollywood.

Posted by: dyno-elite canned hate at July 14, 2018 08:16 PM (/TNyL)

117 102
I watched 7 Days in Entebbe and it's terrible, during the high point
where the Israeli army is rescuing the hostages they had a new age dance
number inserted? for some unknown reason. The movie is very sympathetic
to the terrorists, the movie is more about them than anything else.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

So another post modern remake of a movie that didn't' need remade. I'll stick with the 70s era version with the late great Charles Bronson. James Woods is in it too.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 14, 2018 08:17 PM (20X6f)

118 Off sock

Posted by: Puddin Head at July 14, 2018 08:18 PM (vV/gB)

119 Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:15 PM (eMKNe)

I'm just not a fan of his movies. I've seen a bunch of them and none of them has struck me as being particularly good.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 14, 2018 08:18 PM (7jE3W)

120 One more announcement for everyone, btw:

If anyone is interested in any of the following movies, please let me know:

- A Mighty Wind
- Young Doctors In Love
- 12 Angry Men
- Annie Hall
- Being There
- Cabaret
- Cat Ballou
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (137-min version)
- Fail-Safe
- Freaks
- Hannah and her Sisters
- Ordinary People
- Runaway Train
- Sid and Nancy
- A Soldier's Story
- Vision Quest
- The War of the Roses

...long story short, I've got copies to give away. I need the space. :-)

So if anyone is interested, it's QDPSJL at the gmail thingy.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:18 PM (eMKNe)

121 Au Revoir Les Enfantes

===
"Goodbye , The Infants" ??

Da hell?

Movies are confusing. French movies are impossible.

Posted by: dyno-elite canned hate at July 14, 2018 07:50 PM (/TNyL)

Centurion: Romanes Eunt Domus? People called Romans they go the house?

Roman movies of yore have even more confused names.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 14, 2018 08:18 PM (QLvwG)

122 Christie Brinkley at 64:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5954401

Look at the shot of her at the end next to the three 20-something hotties, Kate Upton included.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 14, 2018 08:12 PM (8O3HH)

--She had a cameo as Jerry Gurgich's wife in Parks and Rec.

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 08:18 PM (e7oj4)

123 I've seen Bicycle Thieves a couple of times, and I've never really connected with it. I have no idea why, because it really feels like something I would love. Post war Italian cinema is kind of my jam.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 14, 2018 08:12 PM (Jj43a)

++++

The closest I've come to enjoying Bicycle Thieves was watching The Player.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 14, 2018 08:19 PM (KDpai)

124 I liked "My Dinner With Andre". Andre Gregory travels the world having all these mind-expanding experiences, but Wallace Shawn's character was a nice affirmation of normalcy and enjoying life's little pleasures (Hey, I woke up and there was a good cup of cold coffee with no roach floating in it!"). He rightly asked why one has to travel to Tibet to have an epiphany; why not at the corner cigar store?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 14, 2018 08:19 PM (gUCYC)

125
It truly is a shame that Malle abandoned his initsl choice for the title, Hasta La Bye-Bye, Kiddos.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 14, 2018 08:20 PM (pNxlR)

126 119 Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:15 PM (eMKNe)

I'm just not a fan of his movies. I've seen a bunch of them and none of them has struck me as being particularly good.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 14, 2018 08:18 PM (7jE3W)

======

Hitchcock had a couple of modes, I think.

One was more serious and the other more in search of fun.

North by Northwest is one I would call the latter.

Do you think there's a difference in how you might be receptive to his different modes?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 14, 2018 08:20 PM (Jj43a)

127
Thing is, the only other thing I can recall seeing him in was a terrible Beach party movie from the early 60's. He might have been in other things I didn't realize, but I thought he should have had a better career.
Posted by: Blutarski

Timothy Carey was (in)famous as a crazy man.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137046

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2018 08:20 PM (IqV8l)

128 Primordial, one thing a lot of people don't realize about Hitch is that he *did* stretch out a little bit. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't.

For instance, maybe check out "Frenzy." It's one of Hitch's last films, made in 1972, and was rated R. I think it can safely be said it's one of the most modern-day looking and feeling of any of his flicks. The murder mystery is pretty juicy.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:21 PM (eMKNe)

129 He rightly asked why one has to travel to Tibet to have an epiphany; why not at the corner cigar store?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 14, 2018 08:19 PM (gUCYC)

Lack of oxygen at 15,000 feet tends to help the epiphany process.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 14, 2018 08:21 PM (7jE3W)

130 Rope was shot with in one continuous shoot, with only a few blackouts to change film canisters.

I know this because my last semester of college everyone I knew was taking a course in Hitchcock, so I had people in the house 24/7 watching Videotapes of his movies on our VCR. I have seen Rope about 20 times.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2018 08:21 PM (EZebt)

131 So if anyone is interested, it's QDPSJL at the gmail thingy.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:18 PM (eMKNe)

--LMAO, if no more takers, can I double dip???

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 08:22 PM (e7oj4)

132 TJM, exactly. Hitch could be super-serious, suspenseful, funny, playful, inventive, and at the same time very conventional and comfortable... sometimes all within the *same movie.*

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:22 PM (eMKNe)

133 logprof, absolutely!

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:22 PM (eMKNe)

134 Svengoolie has Ghost and Mr Chicken.
Got it on DVD. Oh yeah!

Posted by: Oh no, he's going to cry! at July 14, 2018 08:23 PM (j0Oc6)

135 116 White rednecks DEFEATED Hitler and the Nazis.

Now, get me a juice box, Hollywood.
Posted by: dyno-elite canned hate at July 14, 2018 08:16 PM (/TNyL)

Da

Posted by: Russian Hillbilly at July 14, 2018 08:23 PM (TdS5t)

136 I had dinner with Farley Granger. He kept dropping names but we were just goofy college kids and profoundly unimpressed.

Posted by: kallisto at July 14, 2018 08:24 PM (w/exv)

137 I'll see yer Ghost and Mr Chicken and raise you one The Apple Dumpling Gang!

I also would love to get a copy of No Deposit, No Return. Disney made some actually pretty funny family comedies in the 70s.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:24 PM (eMKNe)

138 Greetings:

Watched Mel Gibson as "The Patriot" for Independence Day.

I'm reading "Grant" by Ron Chernow so I watched John Wayne and William Holden in John Ford's "The Horse Soldiers".

I continue to be enjoyable amused by the amount of history to be found.

Posted by: 11B40 at July 14, 2018 08:25 PM (evgyj)

139 133 logprof, absolutely!
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:22 PM (eMKNe)

--very well then, Sid and Nancy and 12 Angry Men!

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 08:25 PM (e7oj4)

140 I rewatched London Has Fallen this week. Good 'splodey movie and the bad guys gets what coming to them good and hard. Satisfying.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 14, 2018 08:26 PM (QLvwG)

141 Timothy Carey was (in)famous as a crazy man.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137046
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

Thank you for that. I guess he had a much grander career than I'd imagined.

Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 08:26 PM (+Tibp)

142 North by Northwest is one I would call the latter.

Do you think there's a difference in how you might be receptive to his different modes?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 14, 2018 08:20 PM (Jj43a)

I couldn't stand North By Northwest. It reminded me of a movie version of Three's Company - stupid miscommunication that fuels silly antics ... meh.

I just don't like his stuff much. It just all seems, as I said, too contrived and the dialogue just had phoniness oozing out of it - and that was a time when there were a lot movies (even silly movies) that made some truly biting and honest commentary in their dialogues.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 14, 2018 08:26 PM (7jE3W)

143 logprof, no problemo.

I may also drop in a surprise extra flick. I gotta get rid of these things and thus far the Horde ain't bitin'.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:26 PM (eMKNe)

144 Da

Posted by: Russian Hillbilly at July 14, 2018 08:23 PM (TdS5t)

With a big helping hand from your buddy General Winter and his side kick Rasputitsa

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 14, 2018 08:26 PM (SiINZ)

145

Have been meaning to mention the radio program The Score which each week, usually Sat/Sun, focuses on movie music from a particular composer, or film, or genre/theme. Occasional interviews along with the music. Lots of fun on Sat night here. Streams online or some National Pubic Radio stations have it. I have never gotten any ProgTard/SJWanker vibe. Check it out!

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at July 14, 2018 08:26 PM (qul7b)

146 I like North by Northwest

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 08:26 PM (pHfeF)

147 130 Rope was shot with in one continuous shoot, with only a few blackouts to change film canisters.

Maybe that's why they call it rope

Posted by: REDACTED at July 14, 2018 08:26 PM (TdS5t)

148 I also would love to get a copy of No Deposit, No Return. Disney made some actually pretty funny family comedies in the 70s.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:24 PM (eMKNe)

"Superdad" with Bob Crane was awesome. 1973 I believe.....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 14, 2018 08:27 PM (EoRCO)

149 50 Nice post OM! I like when a movie is broken down and explained from someone's perspective which I can then relate to my own when I get chance to watch it.

Good job and thanks!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 14, 2018 07:50 PM (EoRCO)

For the record it's TheJamesMadison who puts together the movie thread. I just post it for him.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at July 14, 2018 08:27 PM (JQveK)

150 So if anyone is interested, it's QDPSJL at the gmail thingy.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:18 PM (eMKNe)

email on the way.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 14, 2018 08:27 PM (QLvwG)

151 >>I rewatched London Has Fallen this week. Good 'splodey movie and the bad guys gets what coming to them good and hard. Satisfying.

Yes. As goofy as it can be, I loved the how unapologetic Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart's characters were.

"Did you have to do that?"
"No."

Posted by: Lizzy at July 14, 2018 08:28 PM (W+vEI)

152 Hairyback Guy, yup. Funny they chose Bob Crane for the lead role, given how he ended up...

I have a sister who loves "That Darn Cat."

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:28 PM (eMKNe)

153 The Birds as a kid scared the bejesus outta me

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 08:28 PM (pHfeF)

154 Count de Monet, no problem, I'll look for it.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:28 PM (eMKNe)

155 I may also drop in a surprise extra flick. I gotta get rid of these things and thus far the Horde ain't bitin'.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:26 PM (eMKNe)

--Seriously?

I held back so as to not be greedy and deny other Morons a bite. If anyone else wants 12AM or S&N let them have them.

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 08:30 PM (e7oj4)

156 OK, help me with my confirmation bias here. I watched this trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6dy7xQ8NeE

...and immediately thought, "this movie looks like an SJW sh* show."

So please watch this trailer and either confirm or deny my contention that it does, in fact, look like an SJW sh* show. Thank you.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at July 14, 2018 07:19 PM (JQveK)

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Ugh... The trailer looked ... semi innocuous if confusing. But if you look into what inspired the script for this, then yes, it *IS* in fact an SJW shit show. The trailer is doing a bait and switch. I'd wait until some advance word gets out on what it's like before wasting money on it.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 14, 2018 08:30 PM (/qEW2)

157 "Superdad" with Bob Crane was awesome. 1973 I believe.....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 14, 2018 08:27 PM (EoRCO)

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That was rather ironic casting, given Crane's actual lifestyle. Good actor though.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 14, 2018 08:30 PM (oXwsm)

158 For the record it's TheJamesMadison who puts together the movie thread. I just post it for him.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at July 14, 2018 08:27 PM (JQveK)

Ok, thanks to both of ya'll!.......

Great post and much appreciated TJM and you.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 14, 2018 08:30 PM (EoRCO)

159 logprof, how about if I drop in Young Doctors In Love? A little obscure, but it was Garry Marshall's first feature flick and the plot was basically Airplane! in a hospital. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:31 PM (eMKNe)

160 Calm Mentor, to say the least. I'm not sure the cops ever actually figured out who murdered Crane.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:32 PM (eMKNe)

161 Let's see, movies...recently saw "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" and was pleasantly surprised. It was much better than it had to be. The adult actors were actually game avatars of the kids sucked into the video game. Jack Black was hilarious as a selfie-obsessed popular girl playing the role of a chubby bespectacled cartographer.
"Omigod, without my cell phone it's like my other senses are compensating!"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 14, 2018 08:32 PM (gUCYC)

162 Au Revoir, Gopher!

Posted by: Carl Spackler at July 14, 2018 08:32 PM (YTxkQ)

163 153 The Birds as a kid scared the bejesus outta me
Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 08:28 PM (pHfeF)

--Same here.

Oh, and Rope is not just about technique; it's a discussion about morality and ethics.

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 08:32 PM (e7oj4)

164
Bob Crane had quite a home video collection.

I just had to look up his murder. They finally charged someone with the murder, John Carpenter, but he was acquitted.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 14, 2018 08:33 PM (8O3HH)

165 I don't watch a lot of foreign films, but this one sounds very interesting. I think I'll look it up. I know my brother would like it. In fact he's probably seen it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Large and in Charge at July 14, 2018 08:34 PM (EhZNT)

166 OK, help me with my confirmation bias here. I watched this trailer:

You got all the way through the trailer? You have hairier balls than I do.

It looks like an absolute shit show, and probably SJW.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 14, 2018 08:34 PM (fuK7c)

167 I haven't seen "Goodbye, Babies!" but I have seen "My Dinner with Andre".

It's simultaneously fun and irritating as the conversation is between a couple of New York Artistes.

It's been years since I saw it...I'll watch it again soon.

But, I suspect I may want to administer a series of kicks to the scrotes of the duo until they stop talking.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 14, 2018 08:34 PM (9q7Dl)

168
The Birds as a kid scared the bejesus outta me
Posted by: Skip

Did they use stunt birds?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2018 08:34 PM (IqV8l)

169 159 logprof, how about if I drop in Young Doctors In Love? A little obscure, but it was Garry Marshall's first feature flick and the plot was basically Airplane! in a hospital. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:31 PM (eMKNe)

--Oh, hell yeah.

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 08:35 PM (e7oj4)

170 We gotta get the kids outa this place if it's the last thing we ever do........the Animals...those lil animals keep them away from the farkin parents....

Posted by: saf at July 14, 2018 08:36 PM (5IHGB)

171 Speaking of foreign films, Criterion just announced this:

https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1427-ingmar-bergman-s-cinema

I want.

Apparently my mother reads my comments, so let's see if she gets a hint.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 14, 2018 08:36 PM (Jj43a)

172 163 153 The Birds as a kid scared the bejesus outta me
Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 08:28 PM (pHfeF)
--Same here.
Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 08:32 PM (e7oj4)

Yeah, that one shot of the dead guy in his pajamas with his eyeballs pecked out gave me nightmares.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at July 14, 2018 08:37 PM (JQveK)

173 The Descent.

I get dry heaves and cardiac arrhythmia just typing it.

Posted by: dyno-elite canned hate at July 14, 2018 08:37 PM (/TNyL)

174 that has to be the most perfect explanation of what an art film is, EVAH!!!
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 14, 2018 08:04 PM

Wrong
"Gay cowboys eating pudding" is the best explanation ever

Posted by: Eric Cartman at July 14, 2018 08:37 PM (YTxkQ)

175 There's a movie coming out soon (or maybe it's out now) called "Eighth Grade" that's supposedly the great new teenage flick.

It's basically about an eighth grade girl who's just trying to navigate school and friends without getting into too much trouble or making herself a pariah. Critics say it captures a lot of the social anxiety that comes with being that age in that environment.

I keep looking in the reviews for the SJW hook: the lead character's gotta be gay, or an atheist, or trans, or a member of Resist, or something, right? From what I can tell... nope, no weird leftist angle. It's just about the experience of getting through.

Hmmm.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:37 PM (eMKNe)

176 Wow, Antifa [sic] using epithets against black ICE agents.

Thanks, Trump, for making their masks slip.

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 08:37 PM (e7oj4)

177 Bob Crane had quite a home video collection.
I just had to look up his murder. They finally charged someone with the murder, John Carpenter, but he was acquitted.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 14, 2018 08:33 PM (8O3HH)

Yup....Bob's next door neighbor was.......

Carroll O'Connor. Who Bob would preview his "home" movies with. Imagine that scene.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 14, 2018 08:37 PM (EoRCO)

178 On the theme of WWII movies about civilians, one of the most gut-wrenching is Europa Europa.

Jewish kid who is passing gets taken under the wing of a German officer, who sends him back to Germany to go to private schools.

The things he does to hide his Jewishness are excruciating.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 14, 2018 08:37 PM (fuK7c)

179 162 Au Revoir, Gopher!
Posted by: Carl Spackler at July 14, 2018 08:32 PM (YTxkQ)

#1 movie of all time with "used cars" being a close second

Posted by: REDACTED at July 14, 2018 08:38 PM (TdS5t)

180 another post modern remake of a movie that didn't' need remade. I'll stick with the 70s era version with the late great Charles Bronson. James Woods is in it too.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 14, 2018 08:17 PM (20X6f)

And so very hard to find.

Amazon Prime has added the old Sherlock Holmes movies.

Speaking of Don Knotts, I always love his Disney movies, Hot Lead and Cold feet, the Apple Dumpling Gang.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 14, 2018 08:38 PM (dKiJG)

181 I couldn't get through the trailer for "Welcome to Marwen".

Actual victims of real Nazis aren't that whiny and broken down.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 14, 2018 08:38 PM (gUCYC)

182 172 163 153 The Birds as a kid scared the bejesus outta me
Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 08:28 PM (pHfeF)
--Same here.

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 08:32 PM (e7oj4)

Supposedly, the original ending was different. The original story had the principal characters drive out of Bodega Bay and down to San Francisco. Their first view of SF is the Golden Gate Bridge -- covered with birds. And the studio make Hitchcock change it because it was too depressing.

This sounds like one of those stories that is too good to check.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at July 14, 2018 08:39 PM (JQveK)

183 dyne-elite, because The Descent was so good or so horrible?

TJM, yup. Despite their occasional SJW tendencies, Criterion does a pretty good job with their releases.

Also TJM and others: you know that from now until August, Criterion is having another half-off blu-ray and DVDs sale at B&N right? I'm gonna try and pick up something this month, probably either Tom Jones or Election.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:40 PM (eMKNe)

184 Speaking of Don Knotts, I always love his Disney movies, Hot Lead and Cold feet, the Apple Dumpling Gang.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 14, 2018 08:38 PM (dKiJG)

What was the movie where Don turned into a Nazi killing fish?

Mister something but I can't remember.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 14, 2018 08:41 PM (EoRCO)

185 It's basically about an eighth grade girl who's just trying to navigate school and friends without getting into too much trouble or making herself a pariah. Critics say it captures a lot of the social anxiety that comes with being that age in that environment.

I keep looking in the reviews for the SJW hook: the lead character's gotta be gay, or an atheist, or trans, or a member of Resist, or something, right? From what I can tell... nope, no weird leftist angle. It's just about the experience of getting through.

Hmmm.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:37 PM (eMKNe)

--Wow, just wait until you read my novel (whenever it gets done).

I'll be wielding an X-Acto knife, not a sledgehammer, though.

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 08:41 PM (e7oj4)

186 dyne-elite, because The Descent was so good or so horrible?

....

It scared me like I haven't been scared since I was little.
I wish I had never watched it.

Posted by: dyno-elite canned hate at July 14, 2018 08:41 PM (/TNyL)

187 The guy whose assumed killed Bob Crane his side kick was thought straight away to be the killed but wasn't convicted until many years later , if I remember all that right.

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 08:42 PM (pHfeF)

188 My dinner with Andre consisted of undercooked snails and a brine soaked casoulet of Parisian sewer water..tres magnifique 3 stars on the Michelin rubber scale....

Posted by: saf at July 14, 2018 08:42 PM (5IHGB)

189 The Birds also had one of the great underrated actresses of all time, Jessica Tandy. She was great in one of my favs "the Valley of Decision"

Posted by: REDACTED at July 14, 2018 08:43 PM (TdS5t)

190 Hot Lead and Cold Feet was a great movie.

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 08:43 PM (e7oj4)

191 logprof, sounds good, can't wait. :-)
Look forward to sending you those flicks.

Hairyback Guy, that would explain Archie Bunker's slight perviness factor. :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:43 PM (eMKNe)

192 Mister something but I can't remember.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 14, 2018 08:41 PM (EoRCO)

Limpet

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 14, 2018 08:43 PM (QLvwG)

193 184 The incredible Mr Limpett?

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 08:43 PM (pHfeF)

194 I hope Criterion Collection makes all the money they want. I doubt it, but they deserve it.

It has the feel of a non-profit run by movie geeks who just want to curate the good things.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 14, 2018 08:44 PM (fuK7c)

195 The Incredible Mr Limpet.

Don Knotts had a knack for knowing what was funny.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:44 PM (eMKNe)

196 That was rather ironic casting, given Crane's actual lifestyle.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 14, 2018 08:30 PM (oXwsm)

Bludgeoned to death in an Arizona motel room amidst stacks of hardcore pr0n. What a pathetic way to die. May God have mercy on his soul.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at July 14, 2018 08:45 PM (JQveK)

197 194 I hope Criterion Collection makes all the money they want. I doubt it, but they deserve it.

It has the feel of a non-profit run by movie geeks who just want to curate the good things.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 14, 2018 08:44 PM (fuK7c)

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Like Armageddon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 14, 2018 08:45 PM (Jj43a)

198 Attaboy, Luther!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 14, 2018 08:45 PM (QLvwG)

199 The concept of My Dinner with Andre action figures is absolutely hysterical. I remember that the Toronto Sun TV Guide always used to refer to the movie as "My Bummer with Andre". In the immortal words of Wallace Shawn, watching this movie is INCONCEIVABLE!

Anyway, if you want to see a really good movie that nobody ever sees, check out TCM at 10:15 this evening for Return from the Ashes. Spectacular and a great harpsichord soundtrack. Especially important is the opening sequence before the credits. It sets up the mood of the whole movie. Stars are Ingrid Thulin, Samantha Eggar, Herbert Lom and an absolutely brilliant Maximilian Schell. It's a must see cat and mouse thriller.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at July 14, 2018 08:45 PM (qplvQ)

200 Mister something but I can't remember.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 14, 2018 08:41 PM (EoRCO)

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken?

My Dinner with Mr. Chicken?

The Unbearable Lightness of Mr. Chicken?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 14, 2018 08:45 PM (gUCYC)

201 184 The incredible Mr Limpett?
Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 08:43 PM (pHfeF)

Yes! Thanks Skip and the Count.

A good movie but I kinda remember it was sad at the end. He had to stay a fish I think is what it was instead of getting his sweetheart back.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 14, 2018 08:46 PM (EoRCO)

202 185 It's basically about an eighth grade girl

You got me

Posted by: REDACTED at July 14, 2018 08:46 PM (TdS5t)

203 Hey qdpsteve, I just sent you an e-mail.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at July 14, 2018 08:46 PM (JQveK)

204 This is the first time I haven't seen any of the movies referenced. I tried watching the Deadpool, but lost interest. I was told it was a good movie. I also watched John Wick. Great violence!

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at July 14, 2018 08:46 PM (rdl6o)

205 Bandersnatch, yup. Another nice thing about Criterion is that they appear to keep politics out of their release selections 95% of the time.

I've read that back in the 1990s when they were first becoming well-known releasing DVDs, at least one down-to-earth critic complained they'd never release a Michael Bay film. So Criterion responded by actually releasing a special edition DVD of... Armageddon. :-) You can still get a copy of it.

https://tinyurl.com/ycwz7v87

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:47 PM (eMKNe)

206 TJM beat me to it. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:48 PM (eMKNe)

207 Criterion also released a DVD edition of Robocop in around 1998.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:48 PM (eMKNe)

208 Don Knotts and Tim Conway were such a great team. The prize Fighter, Private Eyes such dumb funny movies.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 14, 2018 08:48 PM (dKiJG)

209 206 TJM beat me to it. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:48 PM (eMKNe)

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I have their release of The Rock.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 14, 2018 08:49 PM (Jj43a)

210 Bludgeoned to death in an Arizona motel room amidst stacks of hardcore pr0n.
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No, you're thinking of Dame Judi Dench.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 14, 2018 08:49 PM (gUCYC)

211
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken?

My Dinner with Mr. Chicken?

The Unbearable Lightness of Mr. Chicken?

Bring Me the Head of Chicken Alfredo

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2018 08:49 PM (IqV8l)

212 The Ghost and Mr. Chicken?

My Dinner with Mr. Chicken?

The Unbearable Lightness of Mr. Chicken?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 14, 2018 08:45 PM (gUCYC)

Dial M for Mr. Chicken

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 14, 2018 08:50 PM (SiINZ)

213 From the early 80s until maybe 10 years ago on Philadelphia radio ( not sure if it was syndicated) overnights on Saturday was Mr Movie, people called in all night about movies and that guy could answer any question I think.

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 08:50 PM (pHfeF)

214 OregonMuse, thanks for the email and I agree about Bob Crane. Man oh man.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:50 PM (eMKNe)

215 Bob and Carol and Ted and Mr. Chicken

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 14, 2018 08:50 PM (gUCYC)

216 TJM, I didn't know Criterion did that one. Good on them. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 08:50 PM (eMKNe)

217 Bludgeoned to death in an Arizona motel room amidst stacks of hardcore pr0n. What a pathetic way to die.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at July 14, 2018 08:45 PM (JQveK)

Seriously.

Posted by: David Carradine at July 14, 2018 08:50 PM (7jE3W)

218 Bad thing is this movie I'm watching goes on past the ONT start time.

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 08:51 PM (pHfeF)

219 A good movie but I kinda remember it was sad at the end. He had to stay a fish I think is what it was instead of getting his sweetheart back.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 14, 2018 08:46 PM (EoRCO)

He drowned in the beginning and was reincarnated as a fish and he did find a female fish friend at the end.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 14, 2018 08:51 PM (dKiJG)

220 Just got back from "The Incredibles 2". Enjoyed it. Not as much as the first, but still plenty entertaining. Just shy of 2 hours, feels a little long. Best scene involves the baby, Jack Jack, versus a raccoon.

Posted by: Darth Randall at July 14, 2018 08:52 PM (p0nVR)

221 OK, help me with my confirmation bias here. I watched this trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6dy7xQ8NeE

...and immediately thought, "this movie looks like an SJW sh* show."

So please watch this trailer and either confirm or deny my contention that it does, in fact, look like an SJW sh* show. Thank you.

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I dunno. I'm strangely intrigued. Maybe it's because I played with Army men when I was a kid, maybe it's because I'm a geek. Maybe it's just the midget pron of Hollywood, you just can't look away.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 14, 2018 08:52 PM (+y/Ru)

222 Seriously.

Posted by: David Carradine

Oh man. From Kwai Chang Caine to Bill.

That was not a warrior's death.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 14, 2018 08:52 PM (fuK7c)

223 Bludgeoned to death in an Arizona motel room amidst stacks of hardcore pr0n. What a pathetic way to die.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at July 14, 2018 08:45 PM (JQveK)

Seriously.
Posted by: David Carradine

At least Dave died doing what he loved best.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 14, 2018 08:53 PM (+y/Ru)

224 He drowned in the beginning and was reincarnated as a fish and he did find a female fish friend at the end.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 14, 2018 08:51 PM (dKiJG)

Thanks Pat, been a loooong time since I saw it.

I'm gonna have to watch it again now.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 14, 2018 08:53 PM (EoRCO)

225 Anyone who likes Au revoir les enfants may like Ponette as well.

Posted by: bill-o at July 14, 2018 08:54 PM (b7p1b)

226 qdp, speaking of, all I have to do to get 90% done with my book is just to imagine and chronicle *one normal day* in the lives of each one of a handful of characters, and elaborate a touch. Most of the clever wordplay and cultural references have already been done.

I just need to have the A/C fixed. I'm not creative in damn high heat.

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 08:54 PM (e7oj4)

227 182---This sounds like one of those stories that is too good to check.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at July 14, 2018 08:39 PM (JQveK)
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Don't check it!
The original story is vastly superior to the movie. I don't remember the exact setting but it was on the coast of England.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 14, 2018 08:54 PM (0jtPF)

228 If you like slow burn horror and don't mind low budget-

check out "The Endless".

It's about two brothers who escape an apocalyptic UFO cult. Ten years later they're still dealing with the after-effects and when they receive a message from the cult, decide to go back and try to lay things to rest.

A-a-a-a-and that's all you need to know.

This is HP Lovecraft style horror combined with relationship issues.

It reminds me a bit of Rod Serling and the "Twilight Zone".

Two guys who wrote and directed "The Endless" have two more movies out.

"Resolution" which is an interesting but inferior iteration of the same situation as "The Endless".

And "Spring" which is a romance mashed together with HP Lovecraft style horror.

I'm watching that right now and all let y'all know what I think.

Anyway, check out "The Endless" it is quite good.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 14, 2018 08:55 PM (9q7Dl)

229
My Dinner With Andre

https://youtu.be/54b6UIQnncA

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2018 07:38 PM (IqV8l)

The end of "Waiting for Guffman" was hysterical when Corky open his movie memorabilia store and was selling the "My Dinner with Andre" action figures.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 14, 2018 07:44 PM (SiINZ)

I'll bet money the action figure joke was stolen from the old SNL bit, the My Dinner With Andre video game commercial.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 14, 2018 08:55 PM (eXA4G)

230 He drowned in the beginning and was reincarnated as a fish and he did find a female fish friend at the end.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 14, 2018 08:51 PM (dKiJG)

Wasn't the recent Oscar winner for Best Picture basically Mr. Limpet meets the Creature from the Black Lagoon?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 14, 2018 08:56 PM (SiINZ)

231 https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2018/07/how-absolutely-dare-you-sir.html
OT but worth it

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 08:56 PM (pHfeF)

232 I also watched today To The Shores of Tripoli (1942). Stars John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, and Randolph Scott.
Don't watch if you hate seeing marines marching around doing close order drill, singing the Marine Corps hymn, and wearing their dress blues.
Pretty good flick. I think there is a sequel of sorts, Tripoli Action (1950) also starring Payne and O'Hara.
I can watch Maureen O'Hara in anything. Rowr!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 14, 2018 08:56 PM (QLvwG)

233 have the tree version of road rash.

Heavy jeans are a must for chain-sawing.

Posted by: DaveA at July 14, 2018 08:57 PM (FhXTo)

234 have the tree version of road rash.
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Treebeard burn.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 14, 2018 08:58 PM (gUCYC)

235 TJM, I agree with you about JUSTICE LEAGUE for the most part. Though I think you're maybe too kind to it's second half.

It seems like the characters have attitudes instead of personalities. Although to be fair, it's probably hard to show much personality in an action movie with mulitiple protaganists. But no, wait, on second thought, some movies accomplished it. The Dirty Dozen comes to mind.

The Flash character was amusing some of the time, annoying most of the time. Decidedly unheroic. They should've named him Ralph, after the guy from THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO. Maybe if they'd dedicate a whole movie to the Flash there'd be room for improvement and character development.

And for some reason Aquaman reminded me of the monster played by Robert John Burke in NO SUCH THING.

Posted by: Hands at July 14, 2018 08:59 PM (EzdLW)

236 Jack Black was hilarious as a selfie-obsessed popular girl playing the role of a chubby bespectacled cartographer.
"Omigod, without my cell phone it's like my other senses are compensating!"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 14, 2018 08:32 PM (gUCYC)

According to wikipedia, Black is the avatar of a girl named Bethany. So, nice the movie is trying to popularize a mental illness that has a 40% suicide rate. A pleasant surprise indeed.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 14, 2018 08:59 PM (/qEW2)

237 Here is a question I just cannot find the answer to because I just can't tie any names to the movie.

It's in black and white, I am pretty sure 1950's early 60's. English. Modern setting so 40's or 50's too. A man gets out of prison and sets about getting his life back and the real murderer of which he took the fall for. He hides on the shore in an old ship, has adventures in and around the harbor and eventually finds out it's the police chief's wife who caused the death he was blamed for. ( I think)

Good movie but I can't come up with any names.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 14, 2018 08:59 PM (EoRCO)

238 Sense and Sensibility and Zombies and Mr. Chicken

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 14, 2018 08:59 PM (QLvwG)

239 Tree version of road rash refers to a tale of woe, woe I tells ya, from the end of the last thread.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 14, 2018 08:59 PM (fuK7c)

240 I can watch Maureen O'Hara in anything. Rowr!
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 14, 2018 08:56 PM (QLvwG)

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My favorite with her will always be McClintock!

Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 14, 2018 09:00 PM (oXwsm)

241 you add so much value Mr. Muse I know i don't say it enough

Posted by: happyfeet at July 14, 2018 09:01 PM (mLfQi)

242 >>And for some reason Aquaman reminded me of the monster played by Robert John Burke in NO SUCH THING.

Ouch! Drunk and angry, eh?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 14, 2018 09:02 PM (W+vEI)

243 Trey Gowdy was awesome grilling Strzok, but his haircut was not.

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 09:02 PM (e7oj4)

244 177
Bob Crane had quite a home video collection.

I just had to look up his murder. They finally charged someone with the murder, John Carpenter, but he was acquitted.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 14, 2018 08:33 PM (8O3HH)

Yup....Bob's next door neighbor was.......

Carroll O'Connor. Who Bob would preview his "home" movies with. Imagine that scene.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Archie Bunker, naked, masturbating.

Your welcome!

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 14, 2018 09:02 PM (20X6f)

245 logprof: hope it's okay, but someone else beat you to it about 12 Angry Men. I'll throw in anything else you want. I'm now down to:

- Annie Hall
- Cabaret
- Cat Ballou
- CE3K
- Vision Quest
- A Soldier's Story
- Ordinary People
- Hannah and her Sisters
- Freaks

...Also I should mention, it looks like I will be getting the blu-ray of the below movie late this month, so I also have to give away, the original DVD release of...

Casualties of War. DePalma's (pro-religious!) Vietnam flick, starring Sean Penn and Michael J. Fox. 1993. I like it.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 09:02 PM (eMKNe)

246 According to wikipedia, Black is the avatar of a girl named Bethany. So, nice the movie is trying to popularize a mental illness that has a 40% suicide rate. A pleasant surprise indeed.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 14, 2018 08:59 PM (/qEW2)
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Wut?

It's a game, SaCB.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 14, 2018 09:02 PM (gUCYC)

247 Steve and Cold Bear: I do not trust Jack Black in the slightest. He gives off a real creep vibe.

Dwayne Johnson (not a creep himself) wants to be the next President Post-Turtle. He is following the same Barky path of hanging around these creeps and making the right political noises.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 14, 2018 09:03 PM (6FqZa)

248 "I couldn't stand North By Northwest. It reminded me of a movie version of Three's Company - stupid miscommunication that fuels silly antics ... meh."

Word.

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at July 14, 2018 09:03 PM (rlQwD)

249 Watching the Mr Wong Dectective on Amazon Prime, surprised that these movies aren't memory holed because it's problematic.

I always enjoyed these types of movies, Charlie chan and Mr Moto.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 14, 2018 09:03 PM (dKiJG)

250 My favorite with her will always be McClintock!
Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 14, 2018 09:00 PM (oXwsm)

--Probably my fav Duke flick, save The Cowboys.

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 09:03 PM (e7oj4)

251 He was acquitted but died shortly after of natural causes. I think he did it. An alternate suspect was his ex-wife, who played Klink's secretary, Hilda, on Hogan's Heroes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 14, 2018 09:03 PM (+y/Ru)

252
186 dyne-elite, because The Descent was so good or so horrible?

It scared me like I haven't been scared since I was little.
I wish I had never watched it.
Posted by: dyno-elite canned hate at July 14, 2018 08:41 PM (/TNyL)

Creepy, flat-out scary as hell, and flips several horror movie tropes on their heads. One of my favorites in the genre.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 14, 2018 09:05 PM (eXA4G)

253 Carpenter was acquitted? Didn't remember that right then.

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 09:05 PM (pHfeF)

254 They Call Me MISTER Chicken!

Posted by: Hands at July 14, 2018 09:05 PM (EzdLW)

255 >> Archie Bunker, naked, masturbating.

Just add Meathead, and you've got a party.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 14, 2018 09:05 PM (8O3HH)

256 An alternate suspect was his ex-wife, who played Klink's secretary, Hilda, on Hogan's Heroes.

He married Hilda? I thought that was an affair.

In any case, I don't think there is any greater diversion from an on-screen persona to the off-screen person than Bob Crane.

OK, maybe one other. Apparently Fred Rogers wasn't a pervert. That guy gave me the creeps.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 14, 2018 09:05 PM (fuK7c)

257 >> I do not trust Jack Black in the slightest. He gives off a real creep vibe.

Gee, why would you not trust a guy who starred in an Iran Deal-promoting propaganda video?

I think that sh#tshow was peak Obama-Hollywood synergy.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 14, 2018 09:05 PM (W+vEI)

258 Dwayne Johnson (not a creep himself) wants to be the next President

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He has disavowed any White House aspirations, at least for 2020 so I can still like him.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 14, 2018 09:05 PM (+y/Ru)

259 Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 09:02 PM (eMKNe)

--I'll take Casualties, even if MJF was a little too whiney in it.

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 09:05 PM (e7oj4)

260 Dr. Pepper and Mr. Chicken.

Posted by: ro-man at July 14, 2018 09:06 PM (RuIsu)

261 Chicken George.

Posted by: Eromero at July 14, 2018 09:06 PM (zLDYs)

262 Howard the Duck and Mr. Chicken

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 14, 2018 09:07 PM (QLvwG)

263 logprof, you got that one.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 09:07 PM (eMKNe)

264 >> Archie Bunker, naked, masturbating.

Those were the days!

Posted by: Archie Bunker at July 14, 2018 09:08 PM (8O3HH)

265 Trump is half Scottish, as is the Queen.

How does he disrespect her?
Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 08:08 PM (e7oj4)

As my sainted Scots mother said "It might be Great Britain, but it will never be a United Kingdom as far as we Scots are concerned!"

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at July 14, 2018 09:09 PM (n9EOP)

266

Kramer vs. Kramer vs. Mr. Chicken

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 14, 2018 09:09 PM (SiINZ)

267 223
Bludgeoned to death in an Arizona motel room amidst stacks of hardcore pr0n. What a pathetic way to die.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at July 14, 2018 08:45 PM (JQveK)

Seriously.

Posted by: David Carradine

At least Dave died doing what he loved best.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler

Bob died with his 'loved ones' present.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 14, 2018 09:10 PM (20X6f)

268 The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mr. Chicken

Posted by: Hands at July 14, 2018 09:11 PM (EzdLW)

269 I just farted.

Posted by: Joe the Biden at July 14, 2018 09:11 PM (e7oj4)

270
Manos: The Hands of Mr. Chicken

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 14, 2018 09:11 PM (SiINZ)

271 https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2018/07/how-absolutely-dare-you-sir.html
OT but worth it

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I think the Donald resembles Churchill in that both were energetic, optimistic guys full of ideas ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 14, 2018 09:11 PM (+y/Ru)

272 Well, word was Bob was well endowed and did not think his kink was abnormal but was natural and he was not ashamed to show people he knew his home made movies as he was quite proud of them.

Wonder if John Banner was in any of them.....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 14, 2018 09:12 PM (EoRCO)

273 The Unsinkable Mr. Chicken

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 14, 2018 09:12 PM (QLvwG)

274 Forget watching the movie Red Tails if you want to learn history. Instead watch the History Channel Dogfight episode about them.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 14, 2018 09:12 PM (wBzi3)

275 >> Wonder if John Banner was in any of them.....

I know nothing. Noooooothing!

Posted by: Sgt. Schultz at July 14, 2018 09:13 PM (8O3HH)

276 Bang Mr. Chicken Slowly

Posted by: Hands at July 14, 2018 09:13 PM (EzdLW)

277 Anna: ah yes, Red Tails. I believe that was George Lucas' $80 million 'little' movie. :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 09:13 PM (eMKNe)

278 Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Mr. Chicken

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 14, 2018 09:13 PM (QLvwG)

279
A good WWII resistance film is Jean-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows. Rather bleak though. The Gestapo officers' game with the long basement and the machine guns is particularly chilling and effective.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 14, 2018 09:13 PM (eXA4G)

280 Wonder if John Banner was in any of them.....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 14, 2018 09:12 PM (EoRCO)
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You have to figure Richard Dawson was.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 14, 2018 09:13 PM (gUCYC)

281 Bang Mr. Chicken Slowly

Posted by: Hands at July 14, 2018 09:13 PM (EzdLW)

Paper towel, stat!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 14, 2018 09:14 PM (QLvwG)

282 Wonder if John Banner was in any of them.....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 14, 2018 09:12 PM

**shakes fist at Hairyback Guy**
My drink just came halfway up my nasal cavity!

Posted by: Hands at July 14, 2018 09:14 PM (EzdLW)

283 256
An alternate suspect was his ex-wife, who played Klink's secretary, Hilda, on Hogan's Heroes.

He married Hilda? I thought that was an affair.

In any case, I don't think there is any greater diversion from an on-screen persona to the off-screen person than Bob Crane.

OK, maybe one other. Apparently Fred Rogers wasn't a pervert. That guy gave me the creeps.

Posted by: Bandersnatch

The actor who played Grandpa Walton as a pedo and a commie.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 14, 2018 09:15 PM (20X6f)

284
Wonder if John Banner was in any of them.....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 14, 2018 09:12 PM (EoRCO)
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You have to figure Richard Dawson was.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 14, 2018 09:13 PM (gUCYC)

I'm still traumatized from seeing Dawson's tighty-whities in the bar fight scene from The Devil's Brigade.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 14, 2018 09:15 PM (eXA4G)

285 Mrs. Butterworth and Mr. well, you know...

Posted by: ro-man at July 14, 2018 09:15 PM (RuIsu)

286 >>The actor who played Grandpa Walton as a pedo and a commie.

So is the guy who played the father/pastor in the t show "7th Heaven" - ick!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 14, 2018 09:16 PM (W+vEI)

287 Mr. Chicken and Mrs. Muir

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 14, 2018 09:16 PM (QLvwG)

288 Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Chicken

Posted by: Hands at July 14, 2018 09:17 PM (EzdLW)

289 Forget watching the movie Red Tails if you want to learn history.

When Red Tails came out I saw an interview with a gushing Cuba Gooding Jr. thanking George Lucas for having the courage to make the movie and tell the story.

Well, Cuba, the story had already been told in a movie ten or fifteen years earlier. In fact, Cuba, YOU WERE IN IT!

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 14, 2018 09:17 PM (fuK7c)

290 Ready Chicken One

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 09:17 PM (eMKNe)

291 Re: War as experienced by civilians.

I had a neighbor who was a very young teenage girl in Austria at the end of WWII. She told me about how she and her sister had to dodge bullets from an American plane. They barely escaped by jumping into a doorway. Also it was her job to get her elderly grandmother from the top floor of their house down to the basement every time there was a bombing raid, and grandma was slow. Absolutely terrifying.

She was still bitter about the plane, even though she married an American soldier. When she brought it up to him, he would just say, "It was war".

Posted by: girldog at July 14, 2018 09:17 PM (g5YYQ)

292
Grandpa was a bad man. A bad man.

Posted by: John Boy at July 14, 2018 09:17 PM (8O3HH)

293 Chicken Encounters of the Third Kind

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 09:17 PM (eMKNe)

294 Dwayne Johnson (not a creep himself) wants to be the next President

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He has disavowed any White House aspirations, at least for 2020 so I can still like him.
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Even though he dissed Trump a while back on the NFL/BLM stuff?

Posted by: lin-duh at July 14, 2018 09:17 PM (kufk0)

295 Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice and Mr. Chicken.

Posted by: ro-man at July 14, 2018 09:18 PM (RuIsu)

296 Looking for Mr. Chicken.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 14, 2018 09:18 PM (89T5c)

297 Au Revoir
Is that anything like the English
"Be seeing you" [around]

Posted by: Downcat at July 14, 2018 09:18 PM (2mguH)

298 I gotta do some grocery shopping but I'll be in touch with everyone who had a movie request! Thanks everyone, I love these weekend movie threads.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 14, 2018 09:19 PM (eMKNe)

299 My Dinner with Mr. Chicken.

Posted by: ro-man at July 14, 2018 09:19 PM (RuIsu)

300 Barry Gordy's The Last Chicken

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 14, 2018 09:20 PM (gUCYC)

301 Really good satire is Stalin's Funeral. Captures how terrified people were, it's also damn funny.

an underrated movie, THE CROSSING about George Washington crossing the Delaware and killing Germans in their sleep.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 14, 2018 09:20 PM (dKiJG)

302
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and Mr. Chicken

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 14, 2018 09:21 PM (SiINZ)

303 Eating Mr. Chicken

Posted by: Lizzy at July 14, 2018 09:21 PM (W+vEI)

304 Anyway, check out "The Endless" it is quite good.
Posted by: naturalfake

Is it streaming?

Also, there's a movie about Bob Crane that's pretty good. The message was that he was perving 24/7.

Also, Ray Liotta looks awful in those chantix commercials.

Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 09:21 PM (+Tibp)

305
Archie Bunker, naked, masturbating.

Those were the days!
Posted by: Archie Bunker

Girls were girls and men were men.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2018 09:21 PM (IqV8l)

306 Au revoir is more like "until we meet again".

Great movie. One of the all time greats, truly.

Posted by: navybrat, sometime commentator at July 14, 2018 09:22 PM (w7KSn)

307 Archie Bunker, naked, masturbating.

Those were the days!
Posted by: Archie Bunker

Girls were girls and men were men.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2018 09:21 PM (IqV8l)

Mister, we could use a gal like J. Edgar Hoover again

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 14, 2018 09:22 PM (gUCYC)

308 Mr. Muse Mr. Muse you have a typo you should fix here:
|||Julien has trouble connecting with people easily partially because he's
so terrified that an errant word on his part, or on the part of another
boy, could give away not only himself but the two others.|||
it says Julien when you meant Jean

Posted by: happyfeet at July 14, 2018 09:22 PM (mLfQi)

309 Also, there's a movie about Bob Crane that's pretty good. The message was that he was perving 24/7.

Greg Kinnear and Willem DeFoe. I used to think Kinnear was a lightweight because he started out doing Talk Soup or something soporiphic on E!, but he's really good.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 14, 2018 09:22 PM (fuK7c)

310 Au Revoir
Is that anything like the English
"Be seeing you" [around]
Posted by: Downcat at July 14, 2018 09:18 PM (2mguH)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBkPwDaF7lg

?

Posted by: hogmartin at July 14, 2018 09:22 PM (y87Qq)

311 I would definitely pay to go see:

My Dinner with Andre the Giant: A Fistful of Beercans.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at July 14, 2018 09:22 PM (Zskvw)

312 Archie Bunker, naked, masturbating.

TCM ran Point Blank this afternoon. Carol OConner got what was coming to him. Again.

Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 09:23 PM (+Tibp)

313 ugh my comments here always have effed up formatting
this is in spite of my dedication to the craft

Posted by: happyfeet at July 14, 2018 09:23 PM (mLfQi)

314 Let me understand....you got Bob Crane, Hilda and LeBeau.

Bob goes with Hilda, so who is having sex with LeBeau?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at July 14, 2018 09:23 PM (EoRCO)

315
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly and Mr. Chicken

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 14, 2018 09:24 PM (SiINZ)

316 The Donald tweeted:

"These Russian individuals did their work during the Obama years. Why didn't Obama do something about it? Because he thought Crooked Hillary Clinton would win, that's why. Had nothing to do with the Trump Administration, but Fake News doesn't want to report the truth, as usual!"

--I love my president.

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 09:24 PM (e7oj4)

317 I expect that of all the Presidents Queen Elizabeth has met, Trump might well be her favorite. If you think Trump is blunt and un-PC, you should check out some quotes from her husband, Prince Philip.

Posted by: Toad-O at July 14, 2018 09:24 PM (cct0t)

318 The prosecutor in Mr Chicken was in every single television show I watched as a kid. Always a cranky old man.

Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 09:25 PM (+Tibp)

319 Anyway, check out "The Endless" it is quite good.
Posted by: naturalfake

Is it streaming?

Yes. It's streaming right now on amazon.

So, it probably is elsewhere.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 14, 2018 09:26 PM (9q7Dl)

320 War movies about the Nazis freak me out.

Like Tshe Man In High Castle - S2 Ep1 when the kid pledges allegiance to flag and der Fuhrer , Adolph Hitler in the elementary school in New Nazi York!!! *SHUDDER*

We were really so damn close.

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I'm currently reading SS-GB by Len Deighton, a murder mystery set in the winter of 1940-41 after the Nazis have conquered Great Britain.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 14, 2018 09:26 PM (+y/Ru)

321 I recently watched Jurassic Park 2 and The Incredibles 2. I think I liked JP2. I was expecting a big dumb dinosaur movie with Chris Pratt and that's exactly what I got. I was expecting an endearing family movie with I2 and I got a movie full of SJW wokeness, but with a few funny kid moments. Also I find Holly Hunter's and Sarah Vowel's voices very grating.

Posted by: sinalco at July 14, 2018 09:27 PM (yODqO)

322 So, it probably is elsewhere.
Posted by: naturalfake

Thank you!

Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 09:28 PM (+Tibp)

323 Re: Marwen. I remember hearing an NPR story about this guy years ago and remember thinking, Wow, that's sad and pathetic, but whatever helps the guy cope, I guess. I'll probably be taking a pass on this movie.

Posted by: sinalco at July 14, 2018 09:28 PM (yODqO)

324 But, I suspect I may want to administer a series of kicks to the scrotes of the duo until they stop talking.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 14, 2018 08:34 PM (9q7Dl)

that reminds me of a coffee shop bit where two guys are making witty intricate dialogue right up to where the rough voiced director starts shouting, "Cut! Cut! Cut! I'm filming a [redacted] porno here, not some art film!"

Then gets pretty graphic about what he had directed the plot to be.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2018 09:29 PM (2K6fY)

325 291 Re: War as experienced by civilians.

I had a neighbor who was a very young teenage girl in Austria at the end of WWII. She told me about how she and her sister had to dodge bullets from an American plane. They barely escaped by jumping into a doorway. Also it was her job to get her elderly grandmother from the top floor of their house down to the basement every time there was a bombing raid, and grandma was slow. Absolutely terrifying.

She was still bitter about the plane, even though she married an American soldier. When she brought it up to him, he would just say, "It was war".

Posted by: girldog at July 14, 2018 09:17 PM (g5YYQ)

One of my friends his Grandfather was a German soldier and man he talked about how he wasn't feeling well one night and his friends went into town and were killed by Croatians he hated them. But damn you were a German soldier.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 14, 2018 09:31 PM (dKiJG)

326 LMAO I love how Dan Bongino pronounces Strzok "Stroke"

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 09:32 PM (e7oj4)

327 Dwayne Johnson (not a creep himself) wants to be the next President

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He has disavowed any White House aspirations, at least for 2020 so I can still like him.
-----
Even though he dissed Trump a while back on the NFL/BLM stuff?

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I've got my fingers in my ears and can't hear you. NANANA NANANANANA!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 14, 2018 09:33 PM (+y/Ru)

328
The prosecutor in Mr Chicken was in every single television show I watched as a kid. Always a cranky old man.
Posted by: Blutarski

Charles Lane

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485272

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2018 09:33 PM (IqV8l)

329 The judge in Mr Chicken played WC Fields' son in a short called The Fatal Glass of Beer, which I love.

Give, Queenie!

Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 09:34 PM (+Tibp)

330 LMAO I love how Dan Bongino pronounces Strzok "Stroke"

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 09:32 PM (e7oj4)

Mark Levin did the same thing.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 14, 2018 09:34 PM (SiINZ)

331 283---The actor who played Grandpa Walton was a pedo and a commie.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 14, 2018 09:15 PM (20X6f)
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Commie for sure. Gay (or at least bi) for sure.
Where do you get the "pedo" from?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 14, 2018 09:34 PM (0jtPF)

332 One of my friends his Grandfather was a German soldier and man he talked about how he wasn't feeling well one night and his friends went into town and were killed by Croatians he hated them. But damn you were a German soldier.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 14, 2018 09:31 PM (dKiJG)

When war becomes personal to someone, I guess it doesn't matter who was on the right side.

Posted by: girldog at July 14, 2018 09:35 PM (g5YYQ)

333 Wow, this former Hitlery advisor on Judge Jeanine's show is a total snake.

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 09:35 PM (e7oj4)

334 I'm currently reading SS-GB by Len Deighton, a murder mystery set in the winter of 1940-41 after the Nazis have conquered Great Britain.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 14, 2018 09:26 PM

There's a TV series based on that book. I caught a couple episodes of it on one of the cable channels a few weeks ago. Got me interested. But they haven't shown it since, so all I've seen is 2 1/2 episodes.

Posted by: Hands at July 14, 2018 09:35 PM (EzdLW)

335 LMAO I love how Dan Bongino pronounces Strzok "Stroke"

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 09:32 PM (e7oj4)

Mark Levin did the same thing.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 14, 2018 09:34 PM (SiINZ)

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Rush is still using Struck/Stroke at the same time.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 14, 2018 09:36 PM (oXwsm)

336 I had a neighbor who was a very young teenage girl in Austria at the end of WWII. She told me about how she and her sister had to dodge bullets from an American plane. They barely escaped by jumping into a doorway. Also it was her job to get her elderly grandmother from the top floor of their house down to the basement every time there was a bombing raid, and grandma was slow. Absolutely terrifying.

She was still bitter about the plane, even though she married an American soldier. When she brought it up to him, he would just say, "It was war".

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A college friend was a foreign exchange student in Germany in the early '70s. When the mother of her host family got mad at her she'd scream, "Why did you bomb us?"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 14, 2018 09:36 PM (+y/Ru)

337 Commie for sure. Gay (or at least bi) for sure.
Where do you get the "pedo" from?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille

I understand Victor Buono was gay. Who would've guessed?

Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 09:37 PM (+Tibp)

338 Stanley Kubrick turned down The Ghost and Mr. Chicken so he could do 2001: A Space Odyssey. I'm shaking my head sadly.

Posted by: Hands at July 14, 2018 09:38 PM (EzdLW)

339 A college friend was a foreign exchange student in Germany in the early '70s. When the mother of her host family got mad at her she'd scream, "Why did you bomb us?"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler

There was s documentary on Netflix about how the Germans suffered after the war, especially Germans who didn't reside in Germany. Everybody hated them and it was open season.

Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 09:39 PM (+Tibp)

340 338 Stanley Kubrick turned down The Ghost and Mr. Chicken so he could do 2001: A Space Odyssey. I'm shaking my head sadly.
---

"Take 210!"

*Don Knotts cries softly in corner*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 14, 2018 09:40 PM (gUCYC)

341 A college friend was a foreign exchange student in Germany in the early '70s. When the mother of her host family got mad at her she'd scream, "Why did you bomb us?"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 14, 2018 09:36 PM (+y/Ru)

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Wow. Even as a student, I don't think I would have lasted long in that house.

"I" have never bombed anyone".

Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 14, 2018 09:41 PM (oXwsm)

342 51 I can't believe how bad Hollywood is fucking up the DC Universe. There is no excuse for trashing Justice League. And I agree the cartoon movies and cartoon shows are better.
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 14, 2018 07:50 PM (Qe84+)

It's intentional. Products of patriarchy and, thus, must be destroyed.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at July 14, 2018 09:41 PM (di1hb)

343 Since we're in the neighbourhood:

https://youtu.be/VZpmVgpRh9A

"Suffer Little Children" -- The Smiths

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 09:42 PM (e7oj4)

344 Driving home tonight, I heard the Los Angeles Philharmonic (John Williams conducting) perform a Star Wars arrangement.

It suddenly occurred to me that the score to Star Wars is perhaps the greatest movie score ever written. The depth and quality of the symphonic score, the phrasing, the unique melodies, etc. etc. make it epic.

I don't think any other film score has been played by symphony orchestras around the world.

Within seconds of hearing a few notes, I suddenly see the corresponding scene from the movie.

I can think of no other iconic movie score, second only to Lawrence of Arabia.

In fact, without the muscial score, I think Stars Wars is a terrible film. It completes the film.

If any one else has any musical scores that tyey think are comparable, I'd like to hear from you.

And I don't mean soundtracks like Goodfellas and Blue Brothers, which both have great songs written outside of the plot of the movie.

I am talking scores that made the movie great.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 14, 2018 09:43 PM (arhmY)

345 A college friend was a foreign exchange student in Germany in the early '70s. When the mother of her host family got mad at her she'd scream, "Why did you bomb us?"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 14, 2018 09:36 PM (+y/Ru)

I have a friend who has lived in Germany for 20+ years. They moralize to her about Nagasaki and Hiroshima, but I think what they really resent are the bombs we dropped on their own cities.

And that they lost the war. That's the real issue, but they can't say it.

Posted by: girldog at July 14, 2018 09:43 PM (g5YYQ)

346 @ThePrimordialOrderedPair, My mother says Psycho is the greatest movie of all time. She wouldn't like it if you disagreed.

Posted by: Norman Bates at July 14, 2018 09:43 PM (SV/HG)

347 There was s documentary on Netflix about how the Germans suffered after the war, especially Germans who didn't reside in Germany.

First time I went was '78, so a lot of people had living memories. I wish I had known more history at the time, because girlfriend's father had been at Stalingrad and I didn't know to ask the right questions.

They were thoroughly beat down. The civilians wanted nothing but for the war to end. When it did, this girl's mother got herself out of what would be the Russian occupation zone and into the American zone.

Americans brought food. From what Germans of that era told me the American Army was basically a grocery story on halftracks.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 14, 2018 09:44 PM (fuK7c)

348 It suddenly occurred to me that the score to Star Wars is perhaps the greatest movie score ever written. The depth and quality of the symphonic score, the phrasing, the unique melodies, etc. etc. make it epic.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot

Ahem

Ever seen the Ghost and Mr Chicken?

Posted by: Vic Mizzy at July 14, 2018 09:44 PM (+Tibp)

349 It's in black and white, I am pretty sure 1950's early 60's. English. Modern setting so 40's or 50's too. A man gets out of prison and sets about getting his life back and the real murderer of which he took the fall for. He hides on the shore in an old ship, has adventures in and around the harbor and eventually finds out it's the police chief's wife who caused the death he was blamed for. ( I think)

Good movie but I can't come up with any names.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 14, 2018 08:59 PM (EoRCO)

I saw that movie but I can't, for the life of me, remember the name or who was in it. I think I even taped it ...

Was there something about a girl already living in the broken down ship when he first got there?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 14, 2018 09:45 PM (7jE3W)

350 Too depressing, and I'm kind of burnt out on Nazi-themed movies -- but I enjoyed your writeup, TJM. Maybe some day ...
My favorite French movie of all time is Amelie. I've seen it a handful of times and still belly-laugh through half of it.

Posted by: ShainS at July 14, 2018 09:45 PM (BiLU+)

351
There was s documentary on Netflix about how the Germans suffered after the war, especially Germans who didn't reside in Germany. Everybody hated them and it was open season.
Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 09:39 PM (+

I can't remember what country it was but after the War they kicked all the Germans out, Poland maybe? Or Hungry.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 14, 2018 09:45 PM (dKiJG)

352 344: The Vangelis soundtrack for BladeRunner is essential for it. I can't imagine one with out the other. They go together seamlessly.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 14, 2018 09:45 PM (20X6f)

353 A college friend was a foreign exchange student in Germany in the early '70s. When the mother of her host family got mad at her she'd scream, "Why did you bomb us?"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 14, 2018 09:36 PM (+y/Ru)

What ever you do, don't mention the war.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 14, 2018 09:46 PM (SiINZ)

354 you should always bring food
almost always anyways

Posted by: happyfeet at July 14, 2018 09:46 PM (mLfQi)

355 If any one else has any musical scores that tyey think are comparable, I'd like to hear from you.

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I'd put another John Williams score in the same category, Schingler's List.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 14, 2018 09:46 PM (+y/Ru)

356 Ahem

Ever seen the Ghost and Mr Chicken?
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Great point. However, I think that the Ghost (Obi-Wan) and Mr. Chicken (Darth Vader) was the inspiration for Star Wars in plot only.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 14, 2018 09:47 PM (arhmY)

357 I can't remember what country it was but after the War they kicked all the Germans out, Poland maybe? Or Hungry.

A lot of borders got moved around. What had been East Prussia became part of Poland and all the ethnic Germans got kicked out.

Prussia was sort of synonymous with German militarism so it was wiped out.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 14, 2018 09:47 PM (fuK7c)

358 Good movie but I can't come up with any names.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Was Stanley Baker in it? It sounds familiar.

Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 09:48 PM (+Tibp)

359 Schindler's List! Yes. Excellent choice. Played routinely by various symphony orchestras around the world.

Epic and unforgettable.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 14, 2018 09:48 PM (arhmY)

360 Victor Buono as an exorcist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Zou6ehKNw

"You will prepare before my arrival bay leaves, a clove of garlic, incense, and half a chicken."

"Half a chicken?"

"Yeah, sometimes around midnight I get a little hungry."

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 14, 2018 09:49 PM (gUCYC)

361 I am talking scores that made the movie great.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 14, 2018 09:43 PM (arhmY)

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"Rocky" comes to mind, and "Braveheart" (I'm biased here as it's my favorite movie).

Posted by: ShainS at July 14, 2018 09:49 PM (BiLU+)

362 I have seen about 25 Hitchcock movies, and Vertigo is my favorite.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 14, 2018 09:49 PM (rnAwa)

363 rather embarrased to admit the latest movie I watched in Netflix was Van Helsing ...mainly for Hugh Jackman. *runs away*

Posted by: IC at July 14, 2018 09:49 PM (PEJUg)

364 I am talking scores that made the movie great.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 14, 2018 09:43 PM (arhmY)

--Disagree.

I submit that the Overture to The Cowboys (also by JW) is superior.

https://youtu.be/-7-0hX4C-gI

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 09:49 PM (e7oj4)

365 I can't remember what country it was but after the War they kicked all the Germans out, Poland maybe? Or Hungry.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 14, 2018 09:45 PM (dKiJG)

All of them for the most part. So there wouldn't be any Volksdeutsche any more

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 14, 2018 09:49 PM (SiINZ)

366 There's a charming book about an 8th grade girl that has supposedly been optioned for a movie. True, by the way. A girl finds a book at a garage sale by (I think) Betty Conover, a teenage model of the forties, about how to be popular, and decides to spend her eighth grade year following Betty's advice. When she shops for pearls and a pleated skirt at the local GoodWill, her hippy mother won't even go in with her. She resolves to eat lunch at every table in the cafeteria, including the jocks, even tho she considers herself even lower in status than substitute teachers. If that doesn't make you hyperventilate just to think about, your junior high experience was different from mine. One of the jocks tells her he thinks she has brass balls. There's one point where the school has a drug bust, and the students have to cower in place, and she's wondering if she really want to be found dead in her pleated skirt and pearls.

When it comes time for her eighth-grade prom, she actually manages to find Betty, who is still alive, to ask for advice about her prom dress. They agree on blue.

I hope that's the movie. It could be fun.

Posted by: Wenda (sic) at July 14, 2018 09:50 PM (fCE6j)

367 I can't remember what country it was but after the War they kicked all the Germans out, Poland maybe? Or Hungry.

I think all the Baltic Germans got kicked out of their various countries too.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 14, 2018 09:50 PM (gUCYC)

368
I have a friend who has lived in Germany for 20+ years. They moralize to her about Nagasaki and Hiroshima, but I think what they really resent are the bombs we dropped on their own cities.

They are lucky they surrendered first.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2018 09:50 PM (IqV8l)

369 The maniacal organ music in Mr Chicken gave me the heebee jeebees as a kid. And now as a 29 year old.

That is all.

Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 09:50 PM (+Tibp)

370 Was there something about a girl already living in the broken down ship when he first got there?
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 14, 2018 09:45 PM (7jE3W)

Yup! She almost becomes his girlfriend but nothing happens if I remember right but she kinda helps him in his quest.

Posted by: Frank Costanza at July 14, 2018 09:51 PM (EoRCO)

371 My least favorite Hitchcock is Frenzy. Most people would say Lifeboat if they have seen it.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 14, 2018 09:51 PM (rnAwa)

372 363 rather embarrased to admit the latest movie I watched in Netflix was Van Helsing ...mainly for Hugh Jackman. *runs away*
Posted by: IC at July 14, 2018 09:49 PM (PEJUg

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That movie's okay.

I like it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 14, 2018 09:52 PM (Jj43a)

373 I submit that the Overture to The Cowboys (also by JW) is superior.

https://youtu.be/-7-0hX4C-gI

Posted by: logprof

You had me at The Cowboys.

Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 09:52 PM (+Tibp)

374 Shain, I have definitely have heard various arrangements of Braveheart. Great choice.

I would definitely put Rocky there too (especially since the score made the movie), but not enough depth or complexity to flesh out a symphonic arrangement.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 14, 2018 09:52 PM (arhmY)

375 I think all the Baltic Germans got kicked out of their various countries too.

"Bin gar kein Russe. Echt deutsch. Stamm aus Litauen".

That's I'm no Russian, real German, from Lithuania, and it's a quote from the Wasteland.

I have no point, I'm just showing off.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 14, 2018 09:53 PM (fuK7c)

376 A lot of borders got moved around. What had been East Prussia became part of Poland and all the ethnic Germans got kicked out.

Prussia was sort of synonymous with German militarism so it was wiped out.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 14, 2018 09:47 PM (fuK7c)

A lot of it is now part of that silly little Kaliningrad territory which was the heart of Prussia

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 14, 2018 09:53 PM (SiINZ)

377 There was s documentary on Netflix about how the Germans suffered after the war, especially Germans who didn't reside in Germany. Everybody hated them and it was open season.
Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 09:39 PM (+Tibp)

Read "After The Reich" by Giles Macdonogh if you haven't already.

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at July 14, 2018 09:53 PM (rlQwD)

378 344---If any one else has any musical scores that tyey think are comparable, I'd like to hear from you.
....I am talking scores that made the movie great.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 14, 2018 09:43 PM (arhmY)
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Two of my favorites:
The Gladiator (Hans Zimmer)
Dr. Zhivago (Maurice Jarre)

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 14, 2018 09:53 PM (0jtPF)

379 The scores to The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly and Patton > Star Wars.

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 09:53 PM (e7oj4)

380 374 Shain, I have definitely have heard various arrangements of Braveheart. Great choice.

I would definitely put Rocky there too (especially since the score made the movie), but not enough depth or complexity to flesh out a symphonic arrangement.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 14, 2018 09:52 PM (arhmY)

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Danny Elfman's score for Alice in wonderland is great.

The movie is crap.

It's an interesting dichotomy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 14, 2018 09:53 PM (Jj43a)

381 I have a record of Prussian marches (it was a phase) and one of the marches sounds so much like Conti's "Rocky" theme that I suspect he ripped it off.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 14, 2018 09:54 PM (gUCYC)

382 The Mouse @32

Nice touch.

Posted by: creeper at July 14, 2018 09:54 PM (NLny5)

383 The score for the original The Magnificent Seven was great, too.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 14, 2018 09:54 PM (+y/Ru)

384 rather embarrased to admit the latest movie I watched in Netflix was Van Helsing ...mainly for Hugh Jackman. *runs away*
Posted by: IC at July 14, 2018 09:49 PM

Nothing to be embarassed by. I only watched that movie for Kate Beckinsale. So there.

Posted by: Hands at July 14, 2018 09:54 PM (EzdLW)

385 316 logprof I love Pres Trump too!

I went to twitter to read that quote and cannot believe the hate in the replies

Posted by: Booknlass at July 14, 2018 09:54 PM (84I0r)

386 The other Spielberg movie scores that I have heard performed frequently is ET and Close Encounters. Rich sound and sophisticated, but hard to make an arrangement out of them both.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 14, 2018 09:55 PM (arhmY)

387 Sicerio, the music that's playing (The Beast) when they are going to the border, it's so ominous.

The Greatest soundtrack hands down is CONAN THE BARBARIAN. Anvil of Crom is my favorite. so underrated.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 14, 2018 09:55 PM (dKiJG)

388 A lot of it is now part of that silly little Kaliningrad territory which was the heart of Prussia

Kaliningrad was Koenigsburg, but it's way over there.

Gdansk was Danzig. Istanbul was Constantinople. There's probably thread potential in the changing of place names.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 14, 2018 09:55 PM (fuK7c)

389 345. they must be in complete denial about Nazi atrocities committed against civilians - separate from the Holocaust - all over Europe.

Posted by: kallisto at July 14, 2018 09:55 PM (tGqH3)

390 Yup! She almost becomes his girlfriend but nothing happens if I remember right but she kinda helps him in his quest.

Posted by: Frank Costanza at July 14, 2018 09:51 PM (EoRCO)

Right. We're definitely talking about the same movie. I think it ran on TCM a year or two ago. It was a good movie. I wish I could remember some details about it. I keep thinking of Robert Mitchum for the main character, though I'm pretty sure it wasn't him ... but someone like him. I can't remember who the girl was, either.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 14, 2018 09:56 PM (7jE3W)

391 The Left hates everything about America as founded but *loves* to wail about all of their scary amazing "rights" that are being infringed. Square that circle.

Posted by: Mega at July 14, 2018 09:57 PM (rv0Fo)

392 Margarita, Dr. Zhivago is on my top 5 for musical scores. I would put it ahead of Gone With the Wind.

Again, without the great musical scores, the evocative element of the film is lacking.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 14, 2018 09:57 PM (arhmY)

393 Patton:

https://youtu.be/kL9oVI5J4no

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly:

https://youtu.be/fzw34HKjfjU

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 09:57 PM (e7oj4)

394 A really good score that is very memorable (for me at least) without being overwhelming is Zero Dark Thirty when Seal Team Six does their thing.

Also, Atta boy, Luther!

Posted by: Blutarski at July 14, 2018 09:58 PM (+Tibp)

395 365 I can't remember what country it was but after the War they kicked all the Germans out, Poland maybe? Or Hungry.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 14, 2018 09:45 PM (dKiJG)

All of them for the most part. So there wouldn't be any Volksdeutsche any more
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 14, 2018 09:49 PM (SiINZ)

And thus The German Question was solved. All the Germans got sent to one place - Germany, and that meant Germans living anywhere else in Eastern Europe were to get the hell out and go to Germany. This was especially true of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary.

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at July 14, 2018 09:58 PM (rlQwD)

396 My least favorite Hitchcock is Frenzy. Most people would say Lifeboat if they have seen it.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 14, 2018 09:51 PM (rnAwa)

Lifeboat was one of the very few Hitchcock films I actually liked.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 14, 2018 09:58 PM (7jE3W)

397 Great choices, logproof.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 14, 2018 09:58 PM (arhmY)

398 Kaliningrad was Koenigsburg, but it's way over there.

Gdansk was Danzig. Istanbul was Constantinople. There's probably thread potential in the changing of place names.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 14, 2018 09:55 PM (fuK7c)

Now that that Soviet Union is gone Kaliningrad is completely cut off from Russia and was never historically apart of it. I've read where Germans have tried to buy back old family property and I don't think the Russians will let them.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 14, 2018 09:59 PM (SiINZ)

399 The score for Lord of the Rings.

Posted by: davidt at July 14, 2018 09:59 PM (SV/HG)

400 Notorious is maybe my second favorite. Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 14, 2018 09:59 PM (rnAwa)

401 The score for Heavy Metal.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 14, 2018 10:00 PM (20X6f)

402 400 Notorious is maybe my second favorite. Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 14, 2018 09:59 PM (rnAwa

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Notorious never gets enough love. My favorite Hitchcock as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 14, 2018 10:00 PM (Jj43a)

403 Does the score for Top Gun count?

Posted by: creeper at July 14, 2018 10:01 PM (NLny5)

404 ONT IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 10:01 PM (pHfeF)

405 326 LMAO I love how Dan Bongino pronounces Strzok "Stroke"
Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 09:32 PM (e7oj4)

Well, how do you pronounce it?

Posted by: rickl at July 14, 2018 10:02 PM (sdi6R)

406 Davidt, would you also include the Harry Potter musical scores as well?

I enjoy the Lord of the Rings scores during the battles. Great audio texture that's woven into the special effects.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 14, 2018 10:02 PM (arhmY)

407 And then other John Williams guitar music in The Deer Hunter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAAiYMgFcbw

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 14, 2018 10:02 PM (+y/Ru)

408 My Sudeten Jewish uncle was, I've always suspected, involved in the Czech / Red Army removal of Germans from Sudetenland after the war.

The Bloodlands, man.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 14, 2018 10:03 PM (6FqZa)

409 Thanks TJM for the movie essay

Do you really think the Jewish persecution is a side plot?

Posted by: Booknlass at July 14, 2018 10:03 PM (84I0r)

410 ....I am talking scores that made the movie great.

Rio Bravo

but the movie was already great

Posted by: JT at July 14, 2018 10:03 PM (ucxQn)

411 403 Does the score for Top Gun count?
Posted by: creeper at July 14, 2018 10:01 PM (NLny5)

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That's affirmative, Maverick.

Posted by: Kenny Loggins at July 14, 2018 10:03 PM (arhmY)

412 One problem just as Russian nationals did with the Ukraine they have moved into many of their former satellite in large numbers.

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2018 10:03 PM (pHfeF)

413 http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=376044

NOOD

You're welcome.

Posted by: creeper at July 14, 2018 10:04 PM (NLny5)

414 409 Thanks TJM for the movie essay

Do you really think the Jewish persecution is a side plot?
Posted by: Booknlass at July 14, 2018 10:03 PM (84I0r

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The cooks assistant is a side plot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 14, 2018 10:05 PM (Jj43a)

415 Nood.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 14, 2018 10:05 PM (DMUuz)

416 406
Davidt, would you also include the Harry Potter musical scores as well?

I enjoy the Lord of the Rings scores during the battles. Great audio texture that's woven into the special effects.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 14, 2018 10:02 PM (arhmY)

I've never read or seen any of the Harry Potter stuff.

Posted by: davidt at July 14, 2018 10:05 PM (SV/HG)

417 Well, how do you pronounce it?
Posted by: rickl at July 14, 2018 10:02 PM (sdi6R)

--Struck

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 10:07 PM (e7oj4)

418 I've probably seen as many Hitchcock films as anyone here, and I'm a HUGE fan - he's easily one of the ten great film genius' of all time - but, IMO, Frenzy is one of his absolute weakest. Hitch was well over 70 when it was made, it didn't have an A-list Hollywood budget, etc. I can think of - ? - 20 more interesting Hitch films. However - it has one of the most chilling scenes you will EVER see in a film, and he doesn't show you a thing. The rapist-killer is chatting up a girl as they walk down the street. We know the only thing on his mind is RAPE and MURDER. the girl doesn't suspect a thing. They stop, and she says, this is my flat. Would you like to come up for a drink? And he says, I don't mind if I do. So the camera - mind you, this is all one shot - follows them from behind thru the door, then up the stairs, and then they stop as she unlocks the door to her apartment. She opens the door, and says come on in. They do, and we see the door close. And then the camera, as if it were walking backwards, retreats down the hall, and then goes down the stairs - again, 'walking backwards' - and then out the front door onto the street, where we see various pedestrians going about their business, having not the slightest idea what's about to happen in that apartment.

Posted by: vertov at July 14, 2018 10:08 PM (vhK00)

419 Charade with Cary Grant and Audry Hepbern is a great non-Hitchcock Hitchcock.

Razorfist talks about The Third Man

https://youtu.be/-9lAv6tmj7A

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 14, 2018 10:09 PM (rnAwa)

420 Well, how do you pronounce it?

Posted by: rickl at July 14, 2018 10:02 PM (sdi6R)

Commie POS

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 14, 2018 10:10 PM (SiINZ)

421 Oh okay, sorry I read that wrong

Posted by: Booknlass at July 14, 2018 10:10 PM (84I0r)

422 "These Russian individuals did their work during the Obama years. Why didn't Obama do something about it? Because he thought Crooked Hillary Clinton would win, that's why. Had nothing to do with the Trump Administration, but Fake News doesn't want to report the truth, as usual!"

Posted by: logprof at July 14, 2018 09:24 PM (e7oj4)

A 277-character tweet? How is that possible?

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at July 14, 2018 10:25 PM (JQveK)

423 The first movie I ever saw was The Birds. My parents thought it was fine that we see "adult"movies. My husband says that it explains a lot.

Posted by: Abby at July 14, 2018 10:38 PM (gllQQ)

424 249 Watching the Mr Wong Dectective on Amazon Prime, surprised that these movies aren't memory holed because it's problematic.

I always enjoyed these types of movies, Charlie chan and Mr Moto.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 14, 2018 09:03 PM (dKiJG)

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Damn! I was watching the same thing today.

Posted by: MAGA at July 14, 2018 10:49 PM (LnOh3)

425 I checked twatter, it is legit

Posted by: Cheribebe at July 15, 2018 12:05 AM (DAdSz)

426 I saw Au Revoir les Enfants years ago; didn't understand it in its full measure. Will certainly watch it again.

Posted by: PJ at July 15, 2018 12:52 AM (qlTN9)

427 You're going to watch Red Tails?
Remember that if you rate it low, it's because you're a racist. That's what George Lucas said when it didn't receive high ratings at the time it released in theaters.

Posted by: Miles at July 15, 2018 01:01 AM (5Fq4o)

428 Oregon : can I select the film about mutiny, for me and the rest of my cell mates? I'm half Russian, so this particular story has become .*useful* like he bible.

I told my mom not to hack u guys, sorry she said she couldn't resist it was too easy.

Posted by: Chamillionare at July 15, 2018 06:55 AM (IUM2p)

429 Red Tails is horrible.
Why did Spielberg make one of the finest squadrons in history look like a bunch of clusterfucks?

Posted by: Max Entropy at July 16, 2018 02:49 PM (ur/Uv)

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