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Saturday Evening Movie Thread 07-24-2021 [Hosted By: Moviegique]
THE AFRICAN QUEEN
The most depressing thing, for me, about seeing John Huston's classic film The African Queen was not coming out of the theater to see an add for Disney's Jungle Cruise, but watching the movie and recalling a scene I'd just seen extracted from the new Marvel Black Widow movie. Allow me to elaborate: In 2015's Age Of Ultron, there was one of those rare moments of a thing called "character development" where Black Widow tearfully confesses that part of her training involved a full hysterectomy—a little reminder that the besides being a plot-armored quasi-super-hero, she's also a human being. This little moment was controversialized by the perverse childless weirdos who dominate "journalism" and who cannot ever allow the possibility that a woman might find considerable meaning and value in fulfilling a woman's biological role, i.e., having children. And so, in the new movie, one of the (now apparently dime-a-dozen) Black Widows recalls the same incident as a flippant joke. The African Queen is a love story, first and foremost. It's also an action-adventure-war picture, because Hollywood used to adore that sort of broad crowd-pleaser. The action-adventure stuff is what happens in the movie, but it's about love. To wit, old maid missionary Rose Sayer (Katharine Hepburn), upright and uptight but genuinely strong of character, finds herself fleeing German advances in Africa at the dawn of WWI with the low-class, crass and vulgar Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart), and the two strengthen each other through a burgeoning affection and shared purpose—which is of course a sort of last ditch, long-shot heroic gesture against the Hun. Talk about "they couldn't make that today".
Chock full of fabulous blocking, of course.
Having grown up with late-era Katharine Hepburn, I was not a fan, and it wasn't until years later when I saw things like Bringing Up Baby (where she's basically a manic pixie dream girl) and The Philadelphia Story where I began to realize that she could genuinely act—in a role that didn't have her as an uptight New England patrician. And I suspect it may have been this role that guided her career into that mold because she's so, so good at it. Yet the beauty of this part is her transformation: She knows what's right and she is steadfast, but she also has feelings which occasionally, fleetingly break through to the surface; when she "warms up", as it were, she allows herself more emotion, but if anything is more determined and uncompromising.
On the flipside we have Hobo Bogart, who is also the sort of actor you could easily forget could actually act because he was so good at the hard-boiled detective thing. But here he's not suave or cool or heroic, rather a kind of unprincipled drunk living a life of ease. (I actually had some concern about The Flower seeing him in this condition.) This movie is, essentially, a buddy comedy/road movie, and our principles are the oddest couple. They're both way too old for their roles, of course—Hepburn was mid-40s, Bogie was mid-50s—but it doesn't much matter. Nor does the fact that they're supposed be English. (Well, in the book Charlie is cockney, but for the movie they switched that to Canadian.) The effects, largely consisting of actually being in Africa and rolling the cameras, are quite good, with the exception of some of the rear projection shots where the two stars are not actually on the boat because, holy cow, can you imagine sending your middle-aged superstars to shoot the rapids?
Most of the stills and outtakes from this movie are pix of Hepburn and Bogart sitting in a boat—because most of the movie is about Hepburn and Bogart sitting in a boat.
The palette's not QUITE this washed out, but it felt that way sometimes. Jungle heat?
Bogart would end his career with three of his strongest performances: The Caine Mutiny, The Harder They Fall, and Sabrina.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 24, 2021 07:01 PM (kTF2Z)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 24, 2021 07:01 PM (kTF2Z)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 07:01 PM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 24, 2021 07:01 PM (kTF2Z)
In many ways, this, too, is the story of Obama.
Sorry, could not resist.
On a movie topic, can you help me appreciate Humphrey Bogart? For some reason he never quite seems real to me in any movie, even one I sorta enjoy. He's like a one man disruptor of my suspension of disbelief. Is there a cure for that?
Posted by: Splunge at July 24, 2021 07:02 PM (S7/a+)
Posted by: lizabth at July 24, 2021 07:03 PM (L3Rsz)
Finally found this gem after searching for a couple years. Fine historical drama about the 1819 populist uprising in Manchester. Intricate multi-faceted political story, beautifully set, photographed, cast, costumed and acted. One of the very best movies I've seen recently. History of elite hatred of common citizens speaks volumes to us in our Current Year.
"The Last Witness" (201
British government hides the truth of the Katyn atrocity. Astonishing story. But first: watch the must-see movie "Katyn" (2007).
"Zabawa, Zabawa" (201
OK juicer flick. Three talented women brought low by drink. Veteran actress Agata Kulesza is always easy on the eyes, even in boozer-wreck makeup.
"Koxa" (2017) Here's what happens when you get high on your own supply. Turkish immigrants in Germany, on the dole and dealing toot, contemptuous of their ridiculously lenient host country, treat native whites as chumps and saps.
Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs at July 24, 2021 07:05 PM (qpX6U)
You know, I don't, really, other than, "I'm going to decide not to let this person distract me."
I have to do that with Meryl Streep, and I sorta can. But I have yet to be able to do it with Martin Scorcese.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:05 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: f'd at July 24, 2021 07:06 PM (Tnijr)
Delicious food, great weather with a comfortable cloud cover, nice breeze
What did I do to deserve such a delightful afternoon?
Posted by: Just Wondering at July 24, 2021 07:06 PM (jYQlA)
Posted by: Some Rat in the Swamp at July 24, 2021 07:07 PM (r1z5A)
"The Bad Seed" (201
Yeah it's a Lifetime movie, but the kid nails the Wednesday Addams role. Nanny Sarah Dugdale is so hawt that she actually ignites.
"Maria's Paradise" (2019) Maybe-true story about the weirdo Akerblom charismatic cult in 1927 Finland. In one scene, four inept riflemen struggle to hit a stationary rowboat at fifty yards, which is not typical of Finnish marksmanship.
"A Bluebird In My Heart" (201
Vengeance Belgidrama. Caution: Lola Le Lann is slippery when wet.Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs at July 24, 2021 07:07 PM (qpX6U)
First Sophia Scholl the Final Days
https://youtu.be/baRvF6ZBK18
Found it from reading Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and looking up people mentioned.
Sophia and her brother as well a a couple others where anti war Christian activists, the bad part was its early 1943 and in Ulm Germany. The move is sanitized a bit in she was beaten and showed up in court with a broken leg( as told in book) but not in movie. Very good suitable for teenagers.
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 07:08 PM (Cxk7w)
He was great in "Treasure of Sierra Madre", and in one edited scene he was decapitated by Gold Hat with a machete. Censors said NO WAY. Bogart's reaction was: "What's wrong with showing a guy getting his head cut off?"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 24, 2021 07:08 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Javems at July 24, 2021 07:08 PM (uLD+u)
"The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard"
https://moviegique.com/2021/07/the-hitmans-wifes-bodyguard/
Capsule: Salma Hayek is still glorious.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:08 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 24, 2021 07:09 PM (kTF2Z)
Trailer:
https://youtu.be/-4nRpdONaAA
4 star review:
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/pig-2021
Maybe Cage is crazy like a fox.
Posted by: Sharkman at July 24, 2021 07:10 PM (Atzlh)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 24, 2021 07:10 PM (Dc2NZ)
"Narrowsburg" (2019) Documentary shows how small-time actor Richard Castellano and his grifter wife scammed a town full of naive NY upstate hicks. Essential viewing for wiseguy movie buffs.
"Wallflower" (2019) In 2006, an anhedonic hippie-hating maniac parties with annoying proto-Woke Seattle rave kids, then slaughters six of them, which was problematic and totally not OK. True story I guess.
"Consequences" (201
Disgusting violent T-fueled Slovenian teen brutes turn gay.Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs at July 24, 2021 07:10 PM (qpX6U)
Hilarious stuff.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at July 24, 2021 07:10 PM (2SdPm)
Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs, Guest-Hosted by Mr. Horse at July 24, 2021 07:11 PM (qpX6U)
https://tinyurl.com/t7rtwpev
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 24, 2021 07:11 PM (Dc2NZ)
Dinesh D'Souza mentions Scholl in his "Death of a Nation", too.
https://moviegique.com/2018/10/death-of-a-nation/
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:11 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at July 24, 2021 07:12 PM (oWBc3)
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/pig-2021
Posted by: Sharkman at July 24, 2021 07:10 PM (Atzlh)
Really glad to see that Ebert's still working, 8 years after his death.
I will always have a soft spot for Nicholas Cage because of Raising Arizona. I have preserved my regard for him by not watching a single other movie he has ever made.
Posted by: Splunge at July 24, 2021 07:12 PM (S7/a+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2021 07:12 PM (63Dwl)
https://youtu.be/kKJqCYLoMq8
A woman in Berlin
A woman trying to survive being a Berlin resident in April 1945 after the Soviets take over the city. Take it it was a best selling book from a real diary in 1950s
Again German and Rusdian with English subtitles
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 07:12 PM (Cxk7w)
Casablanca
African Queen
Sahara
Key Largo
Caine Mutiny
Posted by: Just a side note at July 24, 2021 07:12 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: klaftern at July 24, 2021 07:12 PM (r4sI4)
Posted by: huerfano at July 24, 2021 07:13 PM (MzKgG)
cachunka cachunk cachunka cachunk
Posted by: f'd at July 24, 2021 07:13 PM (Tnijr)
https://moviegique.com/2021/07/cursed-official/
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:13 PM (dhFCT)
and the absolutely horrible "A Place in the Sun" was nominated for a bunch of awards
however, I loved Shelley Winters in it cause I always love Shelley Winters
but how she got nominated for Best Actress for her role in APITS is beyond me
the Oscars almost always get it wrong
Posted by: REDACTED at July 24, 2021 07:13 PM (YK4Qh)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 24, 2021 07:10 PM (Dc2NZ
Forgive me for the men I've killed and those I'm about to.
Posted by: Just a side note at July 24, 2021 07:13 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: f'd at July 24, 2021 07:13 PM (Tnijr)
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at July 24, 2021 07:14 PM (oWBc3)
Again German and Rusdian with English subtitles
Posted by: Skip
Sounds like some serious nightmare fuel.
Posted by: Some Rat in the Swamp at July 24, 2021 07:14 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Some Rat in the Swamp at July 24, 2021 07:15 PM (r1z5A)
"Pig" is definitely on my to-see list.
Bogie could act! But I'm not sure anyone wanted him to. Sorta like Jimmy Stewart, or even Henry Fonda. They had larger-than-life personas. A fascinating aspect of stardom that really goes against the grain of them that just want to act.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:16 PM (dhFCT)
African Queen is excellent and set the standard for the later Hepburn Spinster roles.
Posted by: rcocean at July 24, 2021 07:16 PM (evE25)
Posted by: rcocean at July 24, 2021 07:17 PM (evE25)
There's a British Army Desert Prison Movie called The Hill with Sean Connery that I need to re-watch as well.
Hell, I might as well hit a trifecta and just watch Zulu as well.
Posted by: Sharkman at July 24, 2021 07:17 PM (Atzlh)
They let him act in the Caine Mutiny but yeah I see Bogie in all his movies.
Posted by: Just a side note at July 24, 2021 07:18 PM (2DOZq)
Yup.
Also, hey, RC! LTNS and all that.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:18 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2021 07:18 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: dartist at July 24, 2021 07:18 PM (+ya+t)
https://youtu.be/WZhgXs_iFRs
It was a Russian novel and TV series as opposed to movie done in 1972
Follows a KGB plant in The SS in early spring 1945 so barely a month or two before end of WWII.
It does use as a plot a suppose attempt at cooperation between Himmer and minions and the US. But well acted and suspense at lots of turns. It's 12 episodes each just over a hour. But once started couldn't stop.
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 07:18 PM (Cxk7w)
"I now pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution!"
You could consider the boat as a character too. The way it lurks at the end, mortally wounded but still fighting
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at July 24, 2021 07:18 PM (0CPkz)
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at July 24, 2021 07:14 PM (oWBc3)
I guess that makes John Goodman Sidney Greenstreet
Posted by: REDACTED at July 24, 2021 07:18 PM (YK4Qh)
Posted by: jeet at July 24, 2021 07:18 PM (g741k)
only people who ask why they were banned get banned
Posted by: REDACTED at July 24, 2021 07:20 PM (YK4Qh)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2021 07:20 PM (6WCwE)
So, basically a remake of "Taken."
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 24, 2021 07:20 PM (vuisn)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 07:12 PM (Cxk7w)
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Is that the one where she has a couple of lovers she takes in order to survive? And, in the end, the book and author are repudiated, because those running Germany post WWII wouldn't allow the honor of German women to be sullied in such a fashion?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at July 24, 2021 07:21 PM (2SdPm)
==
just watched Black Widow the other day - which widow treats it as a joke?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 24, 2021 07:22 PM (oEn12)
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:16 PM (dhFCT)
I completely get that about Bogart. Tons of talent, and people just wanted him to play Bogart.
Your point about Stewart is harder for me to get. Before he blew up, he did an amazing job in After The Thin Man. But even after he was huge...where are you seeing him not allowed to act? Even Harvey, which it's hard to imagine existing without him, seems like more of a vehicle than a straightjacket. Same for Vertigo, in my book. What am I missing?
Posted by: Splunge at July 24, 2021 07:22 PM (S7/a+)
Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs at July 24, 2021 07:22 PM (qpX6U)
So, basically a remake of "Taken."
Posted by: Dr. Varno
Why didn't he just call Ace?
Posted by: Some Rat in the Swamp at July 24, 2021 07:22 PM (r1z5A)
So, basically a remake of "Taken."
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 24, 2021 07:20 PM (vuisn)
Oh, c'mon. She was at least sort of cute.
Posted by: Splunge at July 24, 2021 07:22 PM (S7/a+)
Delicious food, great weather with a comfortable cloud cover, nice breeze and on the water
What did I do to deserve such a delightful afternoon?
Posted by: Just Wondering at July 24, 2021 07:06 PM (jYQlA)
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We toldja!
Is it over so soon? Or are you avoiding the cops?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 24, 2021 07:23 PM (Dc2NZ)
I love African Queen, had no idea of age of characters in book but they play their ages in movie well I think
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 07:23 PM (Cxk7w)
Sister Sarah in Two Mules For
Mattie in True Grit (iirc, she became a spinster)
The Homesman (2014) Hillary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones -- really good movie imho
I'm working on others, brain-wise.
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 24, 2021 07:23 PM (F0YaR)
Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs
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That is too weird to imagine.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2021 07:23 PM (TMb1F)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 24, 2021 07:24 PM (vuisn)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes
Always sound advice.
Posted by: Some Rat in the Swamp at July 24, 2021 07:24 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: f'd at July 24, 2021 07:25 PM (Tnijr)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at July 24, 2021 07:25 PM (2SdPm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2021 07:25 PM (h1hWo)
https://tinyurl.com/mfzb4cph
La Piscine: French Ennui from 1969, only salvaged by the barely clothed Romy Schneider, et all.
https://tinyurl.com/yneduyfb
The Ladykillers: 1955 British comedy classic with a young Peter Sellers and a not-very-young Alec Guiness.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:25 PM (dhFCT)
total bullshit !!
Posted by: REDACTED at July 24, 2021 07:25 PM (YK4Qh)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 24, 2021 07:23 PM (Dc2NZ)
At least tell us you all removed the batteries from your tracking devices, er, phones...
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 24, 2021 07:25 PM (F0YaR)
Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs
I believe the proper name of this cinematic piece is "Comatose Line-Readings with Bruce Willis!!"
Posted by: Sharkman at July 24, 2021 07:26 PM (Atzlh)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes
when the
NOVAMOME is over then the
NOVAMORGY begins
right?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 24, 2021 07:26 PM (oEn12)
OK, throw in time-travel and weightless chop-socky in space.
Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs at July 24, 2021 07:26 PM (qpX6U)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 07:26 PM (Cxk7w)
That said, he did himself no favors by making as much money as he did and then going broke. That takes a whole lot of the wrong sort of talent.
Posted by: CppThis at July 24, 2021 07:26 PM (8h1h1)
Posted by: f'd
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Remakes always suck.
I *might* make an exception for 'True Grit'...but I would not defend it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2021 07:26 PM (h1hWo)
Posted by: Sharkman at July 24, 2021 07:27 PM (Atzlh)
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2021 07:27 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: moviegique
Strange as it sounds, Adam Sandler is in the same boat. The guy can act, but audiences want him to be some combo of Billy Madison & Happy Gilmore.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 24, 2021 07:28 PM (mf+Bs)
The sister. They showed the clip on RLM and it's done as if she were talking about her period with pudgy Stranger Things guy getting squicky about it.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:28 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: Just a side note at July 24, 2021 07:28 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: REDACTED at July 24, 2021 07:28 PM (YK4Qh)
total bullshit !!
Posted by: REDACTED "
Would you believe bubblegum and shoelaces?
Posted by: McGuyver at July 24, 2021 07:28 PM (Tnijr)
But I really appreciated your line about Late-era Kate Hepburn. I had exactly the same experience. For most of my many years, I did not have much interest in her. Then about a year ago, I watched Bringing up baby, then again about a month ago, and I enjoyed it, and her so much, I watched it again last week.
Posted by: MikeM at July 24, 2021 07:29 PM (tA/XW)
Posted by: runner
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Bed...the same bed.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2021 07:29 PM (h1hWo)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 07:29 PM (Cxk7w)
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It's brought up as the punchline of a joke, but it's clear that both of the characters that had it done to them are bitter about it. I suspect that if the movie had done better, we'd be hearing complaints from the usual suspects.
Still might, too, given enough time.
Posted by: junior at July 24, 2021 07:29 PM (PTw5h)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at July 24, 2021 07:29 PM (2SdPm)
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:08 PM (dhFCT)
Her causing a car wreck as she crosses a street in the movie Desperado is my high-point of her career.
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 24, 2021 07:29 PM (F0YaR)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Ghostbusters 2016 kicked the shit out of the original.
Posted by: Paul Feig at July 24, 2021 07:29 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: REDACTED at July 24, 2021 07:29 PM (YK4Qh)
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:28 PM (dhFCT)
he was the best part of the movie
I thought the sister was bringing up all her grievances against him; didnt teally get the joke vibe
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 24, 2021 07:30 PM (oEn12)
OK, throw in time-travel and weightless chop-socky in space.
Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs"
No I mean Hepburn's character would be in drag.
Posted by: f'd at July 24, 2021 07:31 PM (Tnijr)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 07:31 PM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 24, 2021 07:28 PM (mf+Bs)
Funny People was a very good movie. And Blended is one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies. Except for maybe The Wedding Singer , the rest of his movies not very good IMHO though they do have some quotable scenes.
Posted by: Just a side note at July 24, 2021 07:31 PM (2DOZq)
"Harvey" is a not-terrible example. He wanted it much darker, and actually played it that way on a TV movie in the '70s.
"Vertigo" is sorta works, too. It was a flop, and I do think his edge was part of it. (Also Kim Novak's fate.)
Now I'm blanking on the specific movie I was thinking of, partly because I'm covering it over with Henry Fonda's turn in "Once Upon A Time In The West", but he's a straight-up S.O.B. in it, and it bombed, and the fact that he wasn't doing "Jimmy Stewart" was cited at the time as part of the reason.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:32 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: Sharkman at July 24, 2021 07:10 PM (Atzlh)
Oh no -- his crazy is organic. Check out via search what happened at one of his Vegas weddings (divorces?)... That's the real deal.
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 24, 2021 07:32 PM (F0YaR)
When I was stationed at 8th & I in the 80's, my room mate was an Oval Office sentry and got me into the White House on multiple occasions, most notably when Gorbachev visited.
So, there I was walking around backstage, so to speak, and I look to my right and see a legend, at least to me. Sir, Broken Arrow is one of my favorite movies ever, I said. He shook my hand and said, " thank you corporal, I appreciate that."
James Stewart.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 24, 2021 07:32 PM (kTF2Z)
And concur with REDACTED, even the low steam pressure from that boiler would overcome that patch. That is what sized clamps with rubber half-sleeves are for.
Reality =/= Hollywood.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2021 07:32 PM (u82oZ)
Do I watch Night at the Museum or Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.).
I like both and its been a while since I watched either one.
What to do, what to do.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 24, 2021 07:32 PM (Vxu+H)
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She brings it up when he asks if she's so angry because it's that time of month.
So, yeah, there's some humor in the dialogue. But imo the movie makes it clear that she's bitter about it.
Posted by: junior at July 24, 2021 07:33 PM (PTw5h)
What to do, what to do.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 24, 2021 07:32 PM (Vxu+H)
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Soooo..your trying to decide what order in which to watch them?
Night at the Museum definitely first.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at July 24, 2021 07:33 PM (2SdPm)
As for Katherine Hepburn, if you haven't had the pleasure, I highly recommend The Lion In Winter
intro scene:
https://tinyurl.com/2ah6zmv5
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 24, 2021 07:34 PM (49Exr)
Russian with subtitles, but, extremely well done.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm)
If the scene of the White Army's bayonet charge doesn't get a guy motivated, his T-levels are lower than a Buzzfeed blogger.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 24, 2021 07:34 PM (mf+Bs)
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I frequently prosecuted charges against a motorcycle gang member with a fondness for Swastika tattoos and whose sole means of support was, apparently, shade tree pharmacology. He had a harem of biker chicks whom he regularly chastised by means of fist resulting in his visits to me at the courthouse. He was (surprise!) a dirtbag but he was so outrageous I kind of enjoyed talking to him. He tried to explain to me one time that he was a good drug dealer and I should be concentrating in getting the bad drug dealers off the street rather than worrying about whether one of his bitches broke out in black eyes. But one day he went to far. He broke into a neighbor's house and beat the shit out of a teenage boy who, he believed, had stolen his pet pig. He was convicted of serious felonies. At sentencing after listening to a lengthy recitation about what a horrible person he was, he was given a chance to speak. He said, " But your honor, I loved that pig!"
It was funny but I guess you had to be there.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at July 24, 2021 07:35 PM (d9FiS)
I still wanna know where Disney is hiding Captain Nemo's sub.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 24, 2021 07:35 PM (vuisn)
Can't remember the other one, but one was Christ Stopped at Eboli. Saw it when it came out long ago. It holds up pretty well. I remember when a big quake hit Eboli a few years after the movie was made.
Something I missed this time was the actual meaning of the title. Eboli was the closest railroad stop to Gagliano, the small town where the commie doctor from Turin was exiled. So - Christ never got to Gagliano. Consistent with the overall theme - the southern Italian peasant class being a different, oppressed country, who were no more accepting, or resistant, to the Fascist regime than they had been to all those that had gone before.
Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at July 24, 2021 07:35 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs at July 24, 2021 07:35 PM (qpX6U)
Elizabeth Taylor coming out of the water in that swimsuit. If they had cut that scene the movie would have been a box office failure.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 24, 2021 07:35 PM (QQcV5)
the selling point was it was used repeatedly by Hepburn and Tracy as a hideway
like I give a fuck
Posted by: REDACTED at July 24, 2021 07:36 PM (YK4Qh)
Delicious food, great weather with a comfortable cloud cover, nice breeze and on the water
What did I do to deserve such a delightful afternoon?
Posted by: Just Wondering at July 24, 2021 07:06 PM
Fantastic time today! Huge thanks to bluebell and Weasel for arranging the MoMe, and thanks to all.of the amazing 'Ron's and 'ettes who showed up and made it great.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2021 07:36 PM (XsSlw)
I love the set too. No Camelot nonsense. England is overcast, dank, cold and dirty. As it really was.
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 24, 2021 07:36 PM (49Exr)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2021 07:37 PM (PzWA/)
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:37 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 24, 2021 07:36 PM (49Exr)
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Yep.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at July 24, 2021 07:37 PM (2SdPm)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2021 07:38 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 07:38 PM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2021 07:12 PM (63Dwl)
Why did it have to be leeches?
Posted by: Indiana Solo at July 24, 2021 07:39 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2021 07:39 PM (V13WU)
He also has 17 TV credits.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:39 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 24, 2021 07:35 PM (QQcV5)
my fav Liz movie is "Jane Eyre"
she's like 10 yo, in it for five minutes and then , my fav part, dies
I hate Liz
Posted by: REDACTED at July 24, 2021 07:39 PM (YK4Qh)
https://youtu.be/bUiuIYeSB6s
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 07:38 PM (Cxk7w)
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That's it.
Oddly enough, Ann Barnhardt, she of the crazy eyes, recommended the film.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at July 24, 2021 07:39 PM (2SdPm)
Posted by: InCali at July 24, 2021 07:40 PM (ov5G+)
Posted by: lizabth
You didn't like Bringing up Baby ?
Posted by: JT at July 24, 2021 07:40 PM (arJlL)
I should have a Hot Shots! marathon. It would show a better US Navy, command structure, and President than we have now.
But I have not watched a DVD in two years.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2021 07:40 PM (u82oZ)
But the castle was in France, right, not England?
Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at July 24, 2021 07:40 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 07:40 PM (Cxk7w)
NOVAMOME is over then the
NOVAMORGY begins
right?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 24, 2021 07:26 PM
At 29? Hell, it's almost 9:00. Time for the NoVaMoNap.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2021 07:41 PM (XsSlw)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at July 24, 2021 07:41 PM (YynYJ)
Posted by: Splunge
He was excellent in The Caine Mutiny.
Posted by: JT at July 24, 2021 07:41 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
Supposedly everyone got dysentery but Bogart and Huston...by the intake of copious amounts of alcohol.
Posted by: Paul Feig at July 24, 2021 07:42 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at July 24, 2021 07:40 PM
No.
*points*
There castle.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2021 07:42 PM (XsSlw)
Reminds me. Enough time has passed for my second viewing of The Gentlemen.
Posted by: Just a side note at July 24, 2021 07:42 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at July 24, 2021 07:42 PM (OTzUX)
I hate Liz
Posted by: REDACTED at July 24, 2021 07:39 PM (YK4Qh)
*fistbumb*
Posted by: Bubbles the chimp at July 24, 2021 07:42 PM (YNtR8)
Posted by: dartist at July 24, 2021 07:42 PM (+ya+t)
No.
*points*
There castle.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2021 07:42 PM (XsSlw)
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But, was it your Fodders castle?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at July 24, 2021 07:42 PM (2SdPm)
Really wish I could read it
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 07:43 PM (Cxk7w)
I should have a Hot Shots! marathon. It would show a better US Navy, command structure, and President than we have now.
But I have not watched a DVD in two years.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2021 07:40 PM (u82oZ)
That's a really funny pair of movies. I need to watch them again. Occasionally I chuckle randomly, and I do not want to admit that I'm thinking of Dead Meat's wife turning away from the disaster, and toward a mirror that shows it perfectly.
Posted by: Splunge at July 24, 2021 07:43 PM (S7/a+)
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp. at July 24, 2021 07:43 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at July 24, 2021 07:43 PM (OTzUX)
Hearing shooting, hope it's at that fat groundhog I saw a couple hours ago.
Posted by: Skip
I wouldn't like to see a groundhog with a gun.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2021 07:44 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at July 24, 2021 07:42 PM (OTzUX)
I too want to live a life free of lawyers.
Posted by: Splunge at July 24, 2021 07:44 PM (S7/a+)
I worry Julie has to be under surveillance from the spooks.
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 05:58 PM (Cxk7w)
There is no doubt in my mind that this is true.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor Social Distancing Professional at July 24, 2021 05:58 PM (RpgR7)
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we are ALL under surveillance.
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated we all know it. at July 24, 2021 07:42 PM (HQA9W)
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 24, 2021 07:44 PM (HQA9W)
C.S. Forester.
Brown on Resolution is a great novella and I heard it is a film.
Hornblower is a movie and I hear a TV show, from different parts of his career.
The Destroyer / Tom Hanks film is from his Good Shepard.
Probably a lot more that I missed.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2021 07:44 PM (u82oZ)
My Ps 2nd house was custom built by one of the Muppet Founders. I forget his but he was real famous in that venue.
Took us a few months to realize that everything was made for a left-hander. The interior doors, cabinets, kitchen and bathroom sinks, etc.
After a year or so we began to appreciate the burden of lefties, since we were in a house were everything was "backwards". You think it's No Big Deal, but really it's like walking through life with a pebble in your shoe - a constant irritation that you have to lend energy to overcome 24/7
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 24, 2021 07:44 PM (49Exr)
What happens, though, is that the great remakes tend to obliterate past versions out of memory.
Nobody much remembers the silent "Wizard of Oz" even though it was successful enough to get an early-talkie sequel. What about "The Maltese Falcon"? Did you know Bette Davis was in the =second= version in 1936? The one we all remember is John Huston's 1941 debut.
Do you know which version of "The Front Page" is your favorite? (Mine is "His Girl Friday".) What about "A Star Is Born"?
Is 1977's "Heaven Can Wait" better or worse than "Here Comes Mr. Jordan"? And why did Beatty steal the title of the unrelated 1943 Don Ameche/Ernst Lubitsch classic?
Why am I rambling when I know the message software is going to make me break this into multiples?
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:45 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 24, 2021 07:45 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:45 PM (dhFCT)
they are all on youtube - search for the HD ones
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 24, 2021 07:45 PM (oEn12)
Posted by: lizabth at July 24, 2021 07:45 PM (L3Rsz)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 07:46 PM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: Splunge
He was excellent in The Caine Mutiny.
Posted by: JT at July 24, 2021 07:41 PM (arJlL)
He was, but that is the very locus of my problem. He acted up a storm. He was great. But overlaid on all that was a basic feeling that this was not quite a human being who was doing all that. So I wanted to laugh my guts out about the strawberries, instead of being caught up in the drama.
Posted by: Splunge at July 24, 2021 07:46 PM (S7/a+)
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2021 07:46 PM (V13WU)
So far I can only come up with two.
The Human Stain
This Property is Condemned
Posted by: Just a side note at July 24, 2021 07:46 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 07:46 PM (Cxk7w)
In Italian.
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2021 07:47 PM (V13WU)
I didn't have much Hollywood contact in DC. But Tony Randall did hold the door for me first time I was going in the East Wing gallery on the Mall soon after it opened (appropriate). A few hours later the then-VP chatted me and my buddy up in the dairy section of the Giant Food up on Wisconsin near the Cathedral. Best part was telling my friend, who was visiting - "oh yeah, pretty normal, this kind of stuff". !!
Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at July 24, 2021 07:47 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Splunge
What do you have against geometric logic?
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp. at July 24, 2021 07:48 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2021 07:48 PM (V13WU)
I love the set too. No Camelot nonsense. England is overcast, dank, cold and dirty.
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A medieval Godfather.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at July 24, 2021 07:49 PM (d9FiS)
I *might* make an exception for 'True Grit'...but I would not defend it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
I liked the remake , but in an effort to sound gruff, Jeff Bridges sounded like Mushmouth Johnson.
Posted by: JT at July 24, 2021 07:49 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2021 07:49 PM (V13WU)
the selling point was it was used repeatedly by Hepburn and Tracy as a hideway
like I give a fuck
Posted by: REDACTED at July 24, 2021 07:36 PM
I think my response on that would be "oh so it was their fuck nest. Did you take a black light to it." Just to see if I could make the realtor freak.
Posted by: Buzzion at July 24, 2021 07:49 PM (CNz6Q)
And my favorite movie with a tame leopard. And favorite drunk Irish caretaker.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 07:50 PM (5ieoM)
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp. at July 24, 2021 07:51 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 24, 2021 07:51 PM (HQA9W)
Posted by: dartist
Henry Fonda as Frank in the magnificent 'Once Upon A Time in the West' is his best role. Probably one of the greatest bad guys ever. Frank was cruel and evil but totally chill about it.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 24, 2021 07:51 PM (QFVV9)
Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at July 24, 2021 07:40 PM
Yes, that's correct. I did not know that.
googled it:
The Lion In Winter location: Abbaye de Montmajour, France
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 24, 2021 07:51 PM (49Exr)
Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at July 24, 2021 07:51 PM (OTzUX)
I love the set too. No Camelot nonsense. England is overcast, dank, cold and dirty.
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A medieval Godfather.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at July 24, 2021 07:49 PM (d9FiS)
Great movie that they never play on tv and not available on On Demand is the Charlton Heston movie The War Lord.
Posted by: Just a side note at July 24, 2021 07:51 PM (2DOZq)
Really wish I could read it"
I took it in college on a lark. It's fun, though I'm way too out of practice to read it these days.
But check out my "Cursed Official" review. I was going to put it up here instead of "The African Queen" but forgot and published it on my site.
The thing that struck me is that, in a movie about a country that is a complete sh*th*le, where the topic is how you can't do anything without a bribe, THEY STILL LOVE THEIR COUNTRY.
It's like seeing Korean movies about how bad the gov't is messed up--which is the basis for every single Korean historical drama--but they never lose sight of the fact that Koreans, as a people, are great and should be proud to be Koreans.
That would be "controversial" here, were it ever allowed.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:51 PM (dhFCT)
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No mention of Ben Hur? The famous one with Charleton Heston was the third time it had been released to theaters, iirc.
Posted by: junior at July 24, 2021 07:52 PM (PTw5h)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at July 24, 2021 07:52 PM (d9FiS)
typo or commentary?
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 24, 2021 07:51 PM (HQA9W)
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Commentary. That's why it appears twice. He's a bum in this.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:53 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: Dr Spank at July 24, 2021 07:53 PM (0nJL1)
Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at July 24, 2021 07:53 PM (OTzUX)
I was already running out of space!
The pressure!
Also "The Ten Commandments".
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:53 PM (dhFCT)
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I loved that as a kid.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at July 24, 2021 07:53 PM (d9FiS)
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at July 24, 2021 07:54 PM (oWBc3)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at July 24, 2021 07:52 PM (d9FiS)||
You know what? Knock yourself out. It looks like loud, dumb fun, and if you have earplugs or you're partly deaf, there's no reason you shouldn't enjoy yourself.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:54 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 07:54 PM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: 496 at July 24, 2021 07:54 PM (U1eOr)
Posted by: Splunge at July 24, 2021 07:02 PM (S7/a+)
It's been eons since I've seen it, but "Beat the Devil" is a Bogart film where Bogart isn't basically playing Bogart.
Give that one a try. I think he's great in just about everything I see of his, but I certainly understand the phenomenon. For me, one of the worst is Jack Nickolson. He's always doing Jack Nickolson, and I find him very very off-putting.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 07:54 PM (5ieoM)
Posted by: dartist at July 24, 2021 07:55 PM (+ya+t)
Maybe not. There will come a time when we get a reboot of Disney's Star Wars abortion.
I've got a letter ready to send to Kennedy:
Dear C-nt,
Let the past die, kill it if you have to.
Remember saying that? Now it's your turn.
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 24, 2021 07:55 PM (49Exr)
In the 18th century. With all of the characters black or Asian.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:55 PM (dhFCT)
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I used to spend a lot of time on a forum for a historical miniatures company that specialized in World War 2 and Cold War, and the most aggressively pro-home nation people on the forum by far were the Russians.
It was crazy.
Posted by: junior at July 24, 2021 07:55 PM (PTw5h)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 07:55 PM (Cxk7w)
typo or commentary?
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 24, 2021 07:51 PM (HQA9W)
Bogie was known to bend the elbow, a lot
Posted by: REDACTED at July 24, 2021 07:56 PM (YK4Qh)
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 24, 2021 07:56 PM (49Exr)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 24, 2021 07:56 PM (kTF2Z)
Posted by: Fred at July 24, 2021 07:56 PM (VEOOY)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 07:54 PM (5ieoM)
**
Hold my beer.
- George Clooney somehow still managing to play George Clooney in an animated movie
Posted by: Moron Robbie - they've got a brand new pair of rollerskates you take this brand new key at July 24, 2021 07:57 PM (BGev3)
Posted by: blake
She is crazy, but she's right about Anti-Pope Frankie the Pedophile Commie.
Posted by: Sharkman at July 24, 2021 07:57 PM (Atzlh)
I MUCH prefer Bogart in roles like the one in African Queen to his more cool heroic ones. Maybe it's just me, I dunno.
He was VERY good at bad guys, or flawed characters or even psychotic characters.
Fred C Dobbs in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre". Capt Queeg in "The Caine Mutiny". The bad guy in "The Desperate Hours".
Posted by: Hands at July 24, 2021 07:57 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:53 PM (dhFCT)
Speaking of overrated... Cec DeMille, the Roland Emmerich of his day.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 07:57 PM (5ieoM)
Think it may also be that Sandler figured out h can use movies to take long vacations with his actor friends and family? A number of them sem to have been more fun to make than see IYKWIM.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2021 07:58 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Jak Sucio at July 24, 2021 07:58 PM (jvt6t)
Posted by: Puddleglum
The ending was EXCELLENT !
Posted by: JT at July 24, 2021 07:58 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: Hands at July 24, 2021 07:58 PM (786Ro)
That was Red Letter Media's take on it.
||I thought the sister was bringing up all her grievances against him; didnt teally get the joke vibe||
His reaction to it was jokey.
But obviously I'm just watching a clip of a movie I have zero intention of ever seeing. If it didn't come off that way, well, good.
My point still stands, I think: You won't get a movie today about people engaging in a heterosexual romance that strengthens their resolve and causes them to want to be better people. And to actually be better.[1]
[1]Citation: The last 20 years of movie-making.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 07:59 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: Dr Spank at July 24, 2021 07:59 PM (0nJL1)
Posted by: Lizzy
Red Letter Media had an interesting take on that. (they don't approve)
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp. at July 24, 2021 08:00 PM (r1z5A)
(You can see it in the lobby of a restaurant in Annapolis, The People's Republic of Maryland.)
Posted by: Just Wondering at July 24, 2021 08:00 PM (jYQlA)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 08:00 PM (Cxk7w)
UGH, yes.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2021 08:00 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2021 08:00 PM (63Dwl)
Then go see it. Life is too short not to enjoy pleasures that make you happy, even if just for the moment, that don't directly hurt anyone else.
Seeing Jungle Cruise certainly qualifies.
Posted by: Arrow Straight at July 24, 2021 08:01 PM (huES0)
- George Clooney somehow still managing to play George Clooney in an animated movie
Posted by: Moron Robbie - they've got a brand new pair of rollerskates you take this brand new key at July 24, 2021 07:57 PM (BGev3)
Clooney is in several Coen Brothers films, and I generally like his work in those. In fact, "Hail Caesar!" is basically Clooney playing a Clooney type actor, and perhaps not even realizing he's portraying himself as the buffoon he is.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 08:01 PM (5ieoM)
What would they play, though? Smooth jazz? Heavy on the saxophone and cigarettes?
||I MUCH prefer Bogart in roles like the one in African Queen to his more cool heroic ones. Maybe it's just me, I dunno.||
I think it's clearly not JUST you. I'm fine with him in anything but I will concede that I see him as an icon, and he can probably do no wrong. (Though that last movie he did with Bacall wasn't great. "Dark Passage". Not bad, just not great.)
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:02 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: Dr Spank at July 24, 2021 08:02 PM (0nJL1)
We can stand down the MoMeet rescue squad and the bail bondsman team. Out before the soap hits the shower floor, in the great words of Tonypete.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2021 08:02 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Just a side note at July 24, 2021 08:02 PM (2DOZq)
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Quite good, imo. Well worth watching.
Posted by: junior at July 24, 2021 08:03 PM (PTw5h)
"Human nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we're put on this earth to rise above."
Posted by: Wethal at July 24, 2021 08:03 PM (ZzVCK)
Heh, that's why "The Cutting Edge" is a great lil' rom-com. Both need to be better and they bring that out in each other.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2021 08:03 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Hands at July 24, 2021 08:04 PM (786Ro)
Probably a lot more that I missed.
Posted by: NaCly
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I've read a bunch of them, including 'The Good Shepherd'. Have not seen the Hanks movie. C.S. Forester is mentioned occasionally on the Book Thread. Several have mentioned 'Rifleman Dodd', which I also have and have read. Many others, not to mention the Hornblower series.
No idea how many books he wrote. Lots.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2021 08:04 PM (uxqZF)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2021 07:58 PM (bDqIh)
Yup. That's one of the RLM running gags, how Sandler movies are basically tax write-off vacations with his pals. Product placement shams, with tens of millions of dollar "budgets" that basically go directly into Sandler's pocket.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 08:04 PM (5ieoM)
Posted by: Dr Spank at July 24, 2021 08:04 PM (0nJL1)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 08:04 PM (Cxk7w)
I like Miller. I even like Willis, but... no.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 24, 2021 08:04 PM (csEWM)
Still liked it but I would have preferred someone else in Road to Perdition other than Hanks.
Posted by: Just a side note at July 24, 2021 08:05 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2021 08:05 PM (6WCwE)
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Similar to why - like Reagan's salute mentioned above - a politician who loves America and all Americans is so refreshing and something that resonates with people.
And also not allowed.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - they've got a brand new pair of rollerskates you take this brand new key at July 24, 2021 08:05 PM (BGev3)
The 1992 ice-skating movie? That was before romcoms were Ephronized.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:05 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: aelfheld at July 24, 2021 08:06 PM (Zy9Yy)
Retief and Bolos by Keith Laumer
Berserkers by Fred Saberhagen
Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 24, 2021 08:06 PM (HQA9W)
Posted by: Dr Spank at July 24, 2021 08:04 PM (0nJ
I thought it was agreed that The Outlaw Josey Wales is his best movie.
Posted by: Just a side note at July 24, 2021 08:07 PM (2DOZq)
The 1992 ice-skating movie? That was before romcoms were Ephronized.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:05 PM (dhFCT)
Toe Pick
Posted by: Just a side note at July 24, 2021 08:08 PM (2DOZq)
I think he did great work in Ocean's Eleven.
Clooney never took a sufficiently heavy role. Would have liked to seen him in a Fletch role true to the books - not the Chevy Chase abomination.
Posted by: Arrow Straight at July 24, 2021 08:08 PM (huES0)
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(fistbump)
Super easy to create the worlds, and the small stories wouldn't require big name actors or big name actor carryovers into sequels. Which is why they can't do it, I guess, and if they did they'd ruin it. See also: World War Z
I'd add Pohl's Heechee saga, but only the first three books. It got really, really bad after that.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - they've got a brand new pair of rollerskates you take this brand new key at July 24, 2021 08:09 PM (BGev3)
John Hamm is currently shooting Fletch remake here in MA.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2021 08:10 PM (bDqIh)
Josh Brolin in "Hail Caesar" is the only exception.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:10 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 24, 2021 08:11 PM (QU5/8)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 08:11 PM (Cxk7w)
Also the movie displays how happy they are not to be dead yet killed efficiently. .
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at July 24, 2021 08:11 PM (ptq0O)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at July 24, 2021 08:11 PM (d9FiS)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 08:11 PM (Cxk7w)
https://tinyurl.com/4s6ctwwc
A Quiet Place II: Not quite "more of the same" as its predecessor. Goes in some unexpected directions.
https://tinyurl.com/y79ry7r3
Conjuring 3: More of the same but pretty well done nonetheless, with an interesting variation as the Warrens fight the anti-Warren.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:12 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: Just a side note at July 24, 2021 08:08 PM (2DOZq)
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I so wanted to see him hip check her into the boards.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 24, 2021 08:12 PM (kTF2Z)
a singing and dancing "Ninotchka" rehash
someone should have been shot
Posted by: REDACTED at July 24, 2021 08:12 PM (YK4Qh)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 07:54 PM
You know, I'm right here, muthafuckah!
Posted by: Samuel L. Jackson at July 24, 2021 08:12 PM (XsSlw)
Never saw the Clooney 'Solaris'. The original is a classic. I love it.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 24, 2021 08:12 PM (QFVV9)
*shrugs*
I liked Foul Play and the first Fletch. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2021 08:13 PM (bDqIh)
Josh Brolin in "Hail Caesar" is the only exception.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:10 PM (dhFCT)
Or to put it another way, "Nobody knows anybody. Not that well."
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 08:13 PM (5ieoM)
Berserkers by Fred Saberhagen
Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it
Oh, Hell yes.
Speaking of berserkers, I saw an interview with Mel Gibson from a few years back where he talks about how he's always wanted to do a Viking Berserker movie.
*imagines . . . *
Posted by: Sharkman at July 24, 2021 08:13 PM (Atzlh)
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His is by FAR the most offensive.
He's literally made over a billion dollars for his ability to portray a horrible, stereotypical black man to white audiences.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - they've got a brand new pair of rollerskates you take this brand new key at July 24, 2021 08:13 PM (BGev3)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2021 08:10 PM
Just....why?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2021 08:14 PM (XsSlw)
*shrugs*
I liked Foul Play and the first Fletch. . .||
I like "Oh, Heavenly Dog" but I still think it's a safe assumption about Chase movies.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:14 PM (dhFCT)
*shrugs*
I liked Foul Play and the first Fletch. . .
Posted by: Lizzy
Vacation and Christmas Vacation are both classics.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 24, 2021 08:14 PM (mf+Bs)
Posted by: dartist at July 24, 2021 08:14 PM (+ya+t)
Have a good evening everyone.
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2021 08:14 PM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: Dr Spank at July 24, 2021 08:15 PM (0nJL1)
Posted by: Hands at July 24, 2021 08:15 PM (786Ro)
Hmm ... I dunno'. And I never watched a single minute of Mad Men - I truly do not know. Can Hamm do the smart ass part of Fletch ?
Fletch - I read them as a kid - always made me think of James Garner.
Posted by: Arrow Straight at July 24, 2021 08:15 PM (huES0)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 24, 2021 08:15 PM (hwaFC)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at July 24, 2021 08:15 PM (ptq0O)
OH YES
Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2021 08:16 PM (bDqIh)
They took his hair, Tommy. Jesus, that's strange, why would they do that?
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:16 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - they've got a brand new pair of rollerskates you take this brand new key at July 24, 2021 08:16 PM (BGev3)
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:12 PM (dhFCT)
My biggest problem with the unrealistic nature of the Conjuring movies is, Very Farmiga really touches me in my no-no square, but Lorraine Warren.... eeesh! Heck no.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 08:16 PM (5ieoM)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 24, 2021 08:16 PM (mf+Bs)
Posted by: junior at July 24, 2021 07:52 PM (PTw5h
And the most recent movie is completely ignored or forgotten. Not exactly surprising. All I remember about the commercials for it is their singular focus on the chariot race. And that just told me the studio had no clue about the previous movie and what makes it so strong.
Posted by: Buzzion at July 24, 2021 08:16 PM (CNz6Q)
So did I. Forgot about that one. A good watch. Thanks for the reminder.
Posted by: Arrow Straight at July 24, 2021 08:17 PM (huES0)
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Amusingly...
One of the berserker novels was a time travel story set on another world, and one of the past eras visited featured a pretty close analogue to the Vikings.
Posted by: junior at July 24, 2021 08:17 PM (PTw5h)
I saw "The Lion In Winter" once when I was...(does math in head)...nearly -3 years old.
I haaaaaated it.
Maybe I'll re-watch it and give it another go but it's everything I hate about that time period summed up into one ugly, gritty melodrama.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:17 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: William Goldman at July 24, 2021 08:18 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2021 07:37 PM (PzWA/)
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Here's his IMDB page:
https://www.imdb.com/name
/nm0286163/?ref_=hm_rvi_nm_i_3
I liked the Hornblower TV movies.
Posted by: zmdavid at July 24, 2021 08:18 PM (xqRaG)
Interesting coincidence(?) - they did the same thing with Brianne's virginity in Season 8 Game of Thrones
(ugh can't find Mauler's link to it, oh well)
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 24, 2021 08:19 PM (49Exr)
Posted by: Javems at July 24, 2021 08:19 PM (8SSHh)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - they've got a brand new pair of rollerskates you take this brand new key at July 24, 2021 08:20 PM (BGev3)
ACTING!
Oh, somebody mentioned "Bringing Up Baby" as their favorite Cary Grant and/or Kate Hepburn role, so I wanted to mention:
"Monkey Business"
Not the Marx brothers one, but Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers and a very silly "youth formula". Howard Hawks. Possibly my favorite Rogers' role.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:20 PM (dhFCT)
To me, The Lion in Winter is the perfect film. Acting, direction, sets, costumes, music. Just perfect.
Posted by: Tuna at July 24, 2021 08:20 PM (gLRfa)
Posted by: junior at July 24, 2021 07:52 PM (PTw5h
see the asshole at 92
Posted by: REDACTED at July 24, 2021 08:20 PM (YK4Qh)
They took his hair, Tommy. Jesus, that's strange, why would they do that?
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:16 PM (dhFCT)
You are so goddam smart, except you ain't.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 08:20 PM (5ieoM)
Wife just now bugging me to come into the other room.
And I'm all "wish she would quit bugging me, what does she want this time..."
She gave me Coffee.
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 24, 2021 08:20 PM (49Exr)
They took his hair, Tommy. Jesus, that's strange, why would they do that?
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:16 PM (dhFCT)
You are so goddam smart, except you ain't.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 08:20 PM (5ieoM)||
Are you givin' me the high hat?
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:21 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 24, 2021 08:21 PM (49Exr)
I always thought that was a brilliant concept.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - they've got a brand new pair of rollerskates you take this brand new key at July 24, 2021 08:21 PM (BGev3)
Posted by: REDACTED at July 24, 2021 08:21 PM (YK4Qh)
Posted by: Lizzy
Here is what I was watching about the Viking Berserker thing:
https://youtu.be/_rspDH0UJvs
Mel says his very first idea about movies when he was 16 was this one.
Posted by: Sharkman at July 24, 2021 08:22 PM (Atzlh)
Not the Marx brothers one, but Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers and a very silly "youth formula". Howard Hawks. Possibly my favorite Rogers' role.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:20 PM (dhFCT)
Hmmm, I don't think I've seen it. I don't really have an appreciation for Rogers. To me she's just sorta that dancing girl who worked with Astaire, and I know that's not a fair summary of her career.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 08:22 PM (5ieoM)
Great score though
Posted by: Tuna at July 24, 2021 08:22 PM (gLRfa)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - they've got a brand new pair of rollerskates you take this brand new key at July 24, 2021 08:16 PM (BGev3)
I want to say when I really became more aware of him was in Sarah Plain and Tall. I maybe had seen him in a few things. But that kind of was in the age for me. I was at age for reading that book in school and the movie had come out the same year reading it.
Posted by: Buzzion at July 24, 2021 08:23 PM (CNz6Q)
Are you givin' me the high hat?
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:21 PM (dhFCT)
Egad, I just watched that a couple months ago, and I have so many movies around here I haven't watched yet, but I might give that one another spin.
So much great. Damn near perfect film.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 08:24 PM (5ieoM)
Posted by: Draki at July 24, 2021 08:24 PM (Nt0u1)
Posted by: HouseTroll
Try singing.
Posted by: JT at July 24, 2021 08:24 PM (arJlL)
That shit ain't coming out of Hollywood. The Tom Cruise flick with time travel wouldn't even come out now.
Posted by: Arrow Straight at July 24, 2021 08:25 PM (huES0)
That was a nice little film.
Posted by: Tuna at July 24, 2021 08:25 PM (gLRfa)
My recent watches are American themes.
The Last Picture Show. If this was music it would be a nocturne, the complexity of the character relationships come in whispers so to speak.
The Godfather. For a fairly long movie I was struck at how quickly and nimbly it moved along. If this isn't a perfect movie I don't what is; I even enjoyed Keaton's character.
Ford v Ferrari. It epic story of egos, admiration earned, and doing guys doing what guys do best when left alone: being guys. How the race scenes are filmed and edited is just flat out breath taking.
Posted by: LostInSpace at July 24, 2021 08:25 PM (ESLBo)
"The Heiress" rehash
some flicks are so perfect, they just should off the list
but NOOOOO
Posted by: REDACTED at July 24, 2021 08:25 PM (YK4Qh)
Posted by: megthered at July 24, 2021 08:26 PM (Kp6jj)
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:16 PM (dhFCT)
You are so goddam smart, except you ain't.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 08:20 PM (5ieoM)||
Are you givin' me the high hat?
Posted by: moviegique
Well, for starters, we're gonna kill him.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....Living on the prison planet at July 24, 2021 08:26 PM (tjZg/)
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Marilyn Monroe too. I thought it was good.
Posted by: dartist at July 24, 2021 08:26 PM (+ya+t)
**
See Rush if you havent.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - they've got a brand new pair of rollerskates you take this brand new key at July 24, 2021 08:26 PM (BGev3)
Not bad for their second feature. (Presuming you don't count "Crime Wave", which I don't.)
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:27 PM (dhFCT)
As Charles Coburn says after telling her to go find someone to type up the report for him:
"Anyone can type."
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:28 PM (dhFCT)
Clint made a movie called "White Hunter, Black Heart", where he sort of plays John Huston in Africa, prior to the making of "African Queen".
The movies ends as they are starting to film "African Queen".
Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....Living on the prison planet at July 24, 2021 08:29 PM (tjZg/)
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:16 PM (dhFCT)
You are so goddam smart, except you ain't.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 08:20 PM (5ieoM)||
Are you givin' me the high hat?
Posted by: moviegique
Well, for starters, we're gonna kill him.||
The old man's still an artist with the Thompson.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:29 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur
a stimulant at night!
*wink wink nudge nudge*
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 24, 2021 08:29 PM (oEn12)
Posted by: Buzzion
Speaking of that film. Glenn Close always seems to be playing Glenn Close to me - no matter the role or subject matter. She always gives off the Greenwich Connecticut vibe to me.
But, truth be told, I'm not very familiar with all of her films.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2021 08:30 PM (6WCwE)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at July 24, 2021 08:30 PM (ptq0O)
Posted by: Just a side note at July 24, 2021 08:31 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: dartist at July 24, 2021 08:32 PM (+ya+t)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 24, 2021 08:34 PM (JzDjf)
Posted by: Just a side note at July 24, 2021 08:07 PM (2DOZq)
Well duh. Maybe you have to have southern roots, but..
yeah. Fuck yeah.
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 24, 2021 08:34 PM (F0YaR)
Posted by: Tuna at July 24, 2021 08:34 PM (gLRfa)
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Marilyn Monroe too. I thought it was good.
Posted by: dartist at July 24, 2021 08:26 PM (+ya+t)
Just ordered a copy. No Bluray available. Marilyn is on the cover... facing sideways. Everyone else gets secondary billing.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 08:34 PM (5ieoM)
If my in-laws were Medieval Royalty, they would be that family. I inwardly cringe-chuckle every time I watch it.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 24, 2021 08:35 PM (hwaFC)
Lone Star Planet
Cosmic Computer
Little Fuzzy et seq (could be a whole series/universe)
(all the other great stories i'm drawing a blank on)
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 24, 2021 08:35 PM (HQA9W)
Posted by: Dr Spank at July 24, 2021 08:35 PM (0nJL1)
Are you givin' me the high hat?
Posted by: moviegique
Well, for starters, we're gonna kill him.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....Living on the prison planet
Albert Finney striding across the set firing the machine gun of infinite capacity was a great scene.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 24, 2021 08:35 PM (UNthw)
The movies ends as they are starting to film "African Queen".
Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....Living on the prison planet at July 24, 2021 08:29 PM (tjZg/)
Yup, and that movie sucked.
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 24, 2021 08:36 PM (F0YaR)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at July 24, 2021 08:36 PM (CcOog)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 24, 2021 08:36 PM (hwaFC)
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I'll disagree there. Which is better?
Posted by: dartist at July 24, 2021 08:37 PM (+ya+t)
I assume it's being edited as we speak.
Posted by: Tuna at July 24, 2021 08:37 PM (gLRfa)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 24, 2021 08:38 PM (hwaFC)
Posted by: Tuna at July 24, 2021 08:37 PM (gLRfa)
Outstanding. I'm going to have another beer then.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at July 24, 2021 08:38 PM (CcOog)
Yep. She has a small but not minor role, but she dominates the current promo for that movie.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:38 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: Sharkman at July 24, 2021 08:39 PM (Atzlh)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at July 24, 2021 08:39 PM (ptq0O)
My fav Widow scene is when she tricks the God of Tricks.
But I'm HAPPY that Scarlett ran her mouth about sexualization and equal pay just before Widow came out. Following the Brie Larson model, she was telegraphing that Widow was going to be a flop, don't waste your money.
Thank you, Sweetie!
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 24, 2021 08:40 PM (49Exr)
Well, can't be as exciting as your kilt wearing.
The word from bluebell is Omertà{/i].
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2021 08:40 PM (u82oZ)
Yep. She has a small but not minor role, but she dominates the current promo for that movie.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:38 PM (dhFCT)
I'm of the opinion that Monroe, in still photos is just sort of hot and sexy, but live action, she lights up everything she does in ways that go way beyond good looks.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 08:40 PM (5ieoM)
Posted by: Dr Spank at July 24, 2021 08:35 PM (0nJL1)
I wouldn't question if someone preferred any of his others. Unforgiven probably for some. If I had to pick one that was close it would be Joe Kidd. Again I rate my movies by how many times I will watch them.
Posted by: Just a side note at July 24, 2021 08:41 PM (tL/BP)
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Made it out alive!
It was terrific. Great food, lots of morons, entertainment, great venue, prizes, gifts, booze--what's not to love?
Bluebell and Weasel outdid themselves again.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 24, 2021 08:41 PM (9GRhC)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at July 24, 2021 08:41 PM (CcOog)
https://youtu.be/rxzJRZI8100
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at July 24, 2021 08:41 PM (YynYJ)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - they've got a brand new pair of rollerskates you take this brand new key at July 24, 2021 08:42 PM (BGev3)
they had medicinal leeches, used to encourage the re-connection of blood vessels smaller than what could be sewn: tissue flaps, traumatic amputation restoration surgeries, etc. no one in pharmacy wanted to deal with them, so i became the "Leech Wrangler" and local expert. one time ICU complained that the leeches weren't "w*rking", so i was sent up to give a block of instruction on "Leeches 101". they were kept in a special salt solution, under refrigeration, so hibernating.
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 24, 2021 08:42 PM (HQA9W)
Thank you, Sweetie!
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 24, 2021 08:40 PM (49Exr)
I've "seen" the movie without having to see it, which is often how I manage big budget crep. Especially Dinsey product. All the modern Star Wars movies, I know them from watching/reading others, and recently finally saw The Farce Awakens. Not a single moment of the film was unfamiliar, all the beats were known, and the best part for me was watching the scene play out been Han Solo and his son. I've seen SO many memes on teh internets. It was funny as heck seeing it in the actual movie.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 08:44 PM (5ieoM)
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 24, 2021 08:44 PM (49Exr)
One day again...but I'm going to have to get a new kilt. I've lost about 65 lbs and they fall down around my ankles now...and no one (well, no one except Mrs Hades maybe) wants to see that.
"It was terrific. Great food, lots of morons, entertainment, great venue, prizes, gifts, booze--what's not to love?
Bluebell and Weasel outdid themselves again. "
Fantastic. Wish I could have been there.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at July 24, 2021 08:44 PM (CcOog)
Posted by: Ruthless at July 24, 2021 08:44 PM (HA5IU)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 24, 2021 08:44 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at July 24, 2021 08:41 PM (CcOog)
Paper Lion
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 08:46 PM (5ieoM)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - they've got a brand new pair of rollerskates you take this brand new key at July 24, 2021 08:46 PM (BGev3)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 24, 2021 08:46 PM (mf+Bs)
Same here. I got the appeal but never really understood the intensity until about four years ago(!) when I saw "Some Like It Hot" on the big screen. The Flower (who, granted, was just a teen at the time) also "got it" then.
We have a saying primarily coined for Mae West: "She's a walking Hay's Office violation."
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:46 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at July 24, 2021 08:46 PM (CcOog)
"how do we know if they are ready?"
"pass your hand just over the top of the cup: if they reach for it, put them on the patient in the desired location (downstream of the connection to be made). when they fall off, they're done, and use tweezers to drop them into the sharps box."
i LOVED that j*b!
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 24, 2021 08:47 PM (HQA9W)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 24, 2021 08:46 PM (mf+Bs)
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last movie we went to a theater to see... SO awesome.
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 24, 2021 08:48 PM (HQA9W)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 24, 2021 08:46 PM (mf+Bs)
I AM that one uncle.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at July 24, 2021 08:48 PM (CcOog)
i LOVED that j*b!
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 24, 2021 08:47 PM (HQA9W)
So, you loved a job with blood sucking leeches?
So, IRS now?
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 24, 2021 08:48 PM (oHd/0)
We have a saying primarily coined for Mae West: "She's a walking Hay's Office violation."
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:46 PM (dhFCT)
"Seven Year Itch" did it for me.
It's often hard for me to watch infidelity in movies, but in that one I'm yelling at the screen "DO IT! ARE YOU INSANE??? DOOOOOOO IIIIIIITTTTTT!!!!"
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 08:49 PM (5ieoM)
So, IRS now?
Posted by: Romeo13
The leeches have more honor and dignity.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2021 08:49 PM (6WCwE)
Posted by: Starbanker at July 24, 2021 08:50 PM (kf3l1)
Blackout a Russian movie about everywhere loses power and contact with the outside world except a circle in Russia. I thought it was interesting concept. From reading about it, it was a Mini Series and they condensed it into a movie, still like it.
TV Series BEYOND EVIL a Korean Drama about murder that happened 20 years ago and the brother who was accused of being the murder and then becoming a cop to solve her murder, lots and lots of mystery and WTF just happened. Lost of twists and turns.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 24, 2021 08:50 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at July 24, 2021 08:50 PM (CcOog)
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I will go see Black Widow because I love going to the theater for films. After being locked out out of life for a year I watch nearly anything that hits the theaters right now.
As for wanting to see Black Widow for what it brings to the table, that is a zero for me. I am completely exhausted by the Marvel Universe thing. From me the sell by date has long expired.
Posted by: LostInSpace at July 24, 2021 08:50 PM (ESLBo)
Posted by: lowandslow at July 24, 2021 08:50 PM (qH6FZ)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter
Every guy in my family is to one degree or another. Some of the ladies too.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 24, 2021 08:50 PM (mf+Bs)
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I'm kinda proud my family thinks I'm that guy, lol.
Posted by: dartist at July 24, 2021 08:50 PM (+ya+t)
Was that a joke? It does seem he's everywhere, lately.
Posted by: artemis at July 24, 2021 08:51 PM (AwPyG)
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I'm kinda proud my family thinks I'm that guy, lol.
Posted by: dartist
It's liberating to get a few years on - we pretty much don't give a shit what we say anymore.
"Oh Jeeze Dad. . . . "
Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2021 08:52 PM (6WCwE)
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Ha. My extended family got together and made this comparison regarding me in a joking way, and I was honored and told them as much and thank you.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - they've got a brand new pair of rollerskates you take this brand new key at July 24, 2021 08:52 PM (BGev3)
Posted by: artemis at July 24, 2021 08:53 PM (AwPyG)
Very sad. She was something.
Posted by: Tuna at July 24, 2021 08:53 PM (gLRfa)
acted up a storm. He was great. But overlaid on all that was a basic
feeling that this was not quite a human being who was doing all that. So
I wanted to laugh my guts out about the strawberries, instead of being
caught up in the drama.
Posted by: Splunge at July 24, 2021 07:46 PM (S7/a+)
Bogart in his portrayals was they guy who didn't fit. Not sure if that was intentional but it was what he was: a shifty guy in a bad business who did the the right thing, a coward in a hero's spot, the heel who saves the day.
Rick in Casablanca was a hoodlum and a hero.
Complicated.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2021 08:53 PM (HG00O)
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My uncle sold aluminum siding and windows. I can assure you that Tin Men is a documentary with all the real great parts not included.
Posted by: LostInSpace at July 24, 2021 08:53 PM (ESLBo)
Was that a joke? It does seem he's everywhere, lately.
Posted by: artemis at July 24, 2021 08:51 PM (AwPyG)
RLM boys talk about it in their latest vid. Apparently the new movie, "Pig," is a great film. Jay says the best movie he's seen since "The Witch."
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 08:53 PM (5ieoM)
Posted by: SFGoth at July 24, 2021 08:53 PM (KAi1n)
lol
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:53 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: Dr Spank at July 24, 2021 08:54 PM (0nJL1)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2021 08:54 PM (bDqIh)
Very sad. She was something.
Posted by: Tuna
After I die and am sitting in the orientation room, one of the questions I'm going to ask St. Peter is what really happened to Marilyn. Now that I think about it, I could just ask her.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2021 08:54 PM (6WCwE)
I basically only review movies I've seen in the theater, last year excepted.
||As for wanting to see Black Widow for what it brings to the table, that is a zero for me. I am completely exhausted by the Marvel Universe thing. From me the sell by date has long expired.||
Me in 2013.
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:55 PM (dhFCT)
The Dead Zone
Shawshank Redemption
Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2021 08:54 PM (bDqIh)
I can see that argument but DZ still my favorite.
Posted by: Just a side note at July 24, 2021 08:56 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2021 08:54 PM (6WCwE)
What if she says "I don't really know. You'd have to ask JFK." Then you'd both be out of luck.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 08:56 PM (5ieoM)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 24, 2021 08:56 PM (mf+Bs)
So, IRS now?
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 24, 2021 08:48 PM (oHd/0)
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naw, i was also handling C-2 narcotics. pharmacy generally attracts Betas, and, as the resident token Alpha male, all the icky j*bs came to me: Infantry types and leeches just naturally go together.
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 24, 2021 08:56 PM (HQA9W)
If you can tolerate an hour of Jack Lemmon mugging for the camera. Watch "How to Marry a Millionaire" instead.
Posted by: lowandslow at July 24, 2021 08:56 PM (qH6FZ)
Of all my shortcomings, this may be my favorite.
|| To film this on location in Africa required them to build a film processing lab in the jungle because color film needed to be processed immediately back then or wash out completely.||
So you're saying I'm right: It was washed out, just not as bad as it would've been had they not built a lab in Africa?
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 08:57 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: artemis at July 24, 2021 08:58 PM (AwPyG)
Posted by: artemis at July 24, 2021 08:58 PM (AwPyG)
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If you can tolerate an hour of Jack Lemmon mugging for the camera. Watch "How to Marry a Millionaire" instead.
Posted by: lowandslow at July 24, 2021 08:56 PM (qH6FZ)
Thank you. She was sweet and genuine, and I don't really recall how the whole thing ended, but assume he ended up with her. Which he didn't deserve.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2021 08:59 PM (5ieoM)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2021 08:54 PM (bDqIh)
You did remind me though that the Green Mile had the biggest screw up to me that I couldn't ignore. They had the real murderer of the kids in the same death row as Coffey and no one noticed ? Even though he worked as a handy man for the parents?
Posted by: Just a side note at July 24, 2021 08:59 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 24, 2021 09:00 PM (mf+Bs)
If you can tolerate an hour of Jack Lemmon mugging for the camera. Watch "How to Marry a Millionaire" instead.||
SLiH never really grabbed me till I saw it in the theater.
https://tinyurl.com/tjrs86ep
Seeing it on a double-bill with HtMaM was awesome:
https://tinyurl.com/p246zetx
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 09:00 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - they've got a brand new pair of rollerskates you take this brand new key at July 24, 2021 09:00 PM (BGev3)
That's a good movie. Becall and Grable we're good but Marilyn stole the show. The pairing with David Wayne was very cute.
Posted by: Tuna at July 24, 2021 09:01 PM (gLRfa)
No, it was Tony Curtis who ends up with her.
Jack Lemmon ends up with the rich dude. =P
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 09:01 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: Eromero at July 24, 2021 09:01 PM (0OP+5)
Watch the first two versions of "The Maltese Falcon" (same title in 1931 and "Satan Met a Lady" in 1936) and get back to me.
Posted by: Carlos V at July 24, 2021 09:03 PM (Ap+cR)
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated we all know it
I am not sure Berserkers would be a good movie, though I suppose it could be done with a lot of cutting. The Retief book I would like to see would be "Greylorn" which I liked a lot more than I should have
Harrison said that he regularly got paid for options on The Stainless Steel Rat but it never got made. He said it was odd to get paid repeatedly for the same story.
I'd rather see a Deathworld movie made, even if it looked like Logan's Run
There are some good books that could be made, Murray Leinster had a couple that would be fabulous: Creatures of the Abyss, Pirates of Ersatz, and Griks Bear Gifts would be fantastic.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2021 09:03 PM (HG00O)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 24, 2021 09:08 PM (vuisn)
Posted by: BurtTC
I don't know about sweet and genuine. She knew she could manipulate men with her sex appeal. And she used it. She used men, men used her. Really, not a very good life, and she was at times very miserable.
Somebody up above said she could light up a scene in a movie by being in it. That is very true. She came across as very sexual and charismatic on the movie screen (or on a TV now).
You have to feel sorry for her, because she was very self-destructive. She tried to commit suicide several times. Not sure if the time she died she committed suicide or one of the Kennedy underlings did her in, to wipe her out of the picture.
Her last picture was, appropriately enough, with Clarke Gable (also his last movie) was "The Misfits". Also with Montgomery Clift, the constant tormented Hollywood homosexual. Ho-hum.
Apparently Gable and Monroe became friends, and he really tried to help her. She was a very troubled woman.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....Living on the prison planet at July 24, 2021 09:08 PM (tjZg/)
Posted by: lowandslow at July 24, 2021 09:08 PM (qH6FZ)
I saw SLiH in my early teens and the whole ending went right over my head.
A few years later I got it. The whole scene is so perfect - Joey Brown as a clueless (or not - it is mystery) rich sugar daddy and Jack Lemmon slyly capitulating to the whole situation. So perfect.
Posted by: LostInSpace at July 24, 2021 09:10 PM (ESLBo)
||A few years later I got it. The whole scene is so perfect - Joey Brown as a clueless (or not - it is mystery) rich sugar daddy and Jack Lemmon slyly capitulating to the whole situation. So perfect.||
The movie is largely sympathetic to what women endure, but the bit where Lemmon turns instant golddigger is priceless, and perhaps also sympathetic to females. ;-)
Posted by: moviegique at July 24, 2021 09:15 PM (dhFCT)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - they've got a brand new pair of rollerskates you take this brand new key at July 24, 2021 09:22 PM (BGev3)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 24, 2021 09:56 PM (QZxDR)
Posted by: Paco at July 24, 2021 10:03 PM (1Jm+u)
Lone Star Planet
Cosmic Computer
Little Fuzzy et seq (could be a whole series/universe)
(all the other great stories i'm drawing a blank on)
The Paratime Police could provide an infinite number of stories. The advanced race develops a way to travel to alternate timelines, uses it as a way to get resources for their timeline exhaused of resources. They use deceit to trade with other timelines, and the Paratime Police enforce the Secret.
The final story in the line is Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, where a PA State Policeman Calvin Morrison is accidentally picked up by their alt-time machines and dumped in another timeline PA. It is a surprisingly complex storyline that never feels like it.
Omnilingual is one of my favorites. A short story about a female Linguist on an expedition to the extinct civilization on Mars who sticks to her idea that she will find a way to read the material they find. The enemy is more carping colleagues and even the doubt of her friends, and the way the problem is solved is great. The story free online.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2021 12:18 AM (EJbIh)
Posted by: Matt Noto at July 25, 2021 12:42 AM (ZaYq5)
The African Queen remains a slow trip down a malaria infested river. Boggie deserved better, but he will be remembered for so many great roles/
Posted by: Betsy at July 25, 2021 12:49 AM (EcD5Y)
Posted by: aawlberninf350 at July 25, 2021 01:58 AM (JcnFx)
The Atlanta Radio Theatre Co. has a two-and-a-half audio adaptation, though.
Posted by: RNB at July 25, 2021 04:21 PM (DjjZJ)
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