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Post by darksidebeadle on Aug 31, 2018 0:01:46 GMT
I just saw "Whatever Happened To Aunt Alice?" on the list. For sheer extreme guilty pleasures, there is very little out there that can top Aunt Alice. That movie is soooooo much fun! Geraldine Page and Ruth Gordon together! Watch out! Agree, Apparently Kino Lorber are bringing it out on blu ray in the next 6 months or so
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Post by darksidebeadle on Aug 31, 2018 0:12:22 GMT
Oh, and I would have given "The Last Picture Show" Best Picture over "The French Connection", which was okay but not extraordinary. That much I can say. There is really no other movie like TLPS. I really don't care for The French Connection. I don't get all the hype about it. I find The Last Picture Show a much more special and meaningful film to watch. I am a fan of Last Picture Show but always found the French Connection pretty underwhelming and that is coming from a Friedkin fan
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Post by dirtypillows on Aug 31, 2018 4:36:42 GMT
Yes, Toasted Cheese, 1975 was a powerhouse year for movies. Any other year, and I'd want to see JAWS get the Oscar. It's one of my all time favorite movies, you just can't go wrong with it, but OFOTCN is just a wee touch more magnetic. And "Dog Day Afternoon" was no slouch whatsoever, and I wouldn't really have been upset if Al Pacino had won Best Actor. Any other year... But never did the Academy get it more right when they awarded Jack and Louise for best actor and best actress. Wow! I looooove Jack in the part and Louise as Nurse Ratched made me see red. I agree with you on "All About Eve", "The Deer Hunter", "Ordinary People" (I did not care for "Raging Bull" at all) and "Terms of Endearment". I would also go along with "West Side Story" (1961) and "Annie Hall" (1977). I love what you said that "Midnight Cowboy" embraces the look of the very, very late 60s (almost couldn't be from any other year except 1969) I wish that "A Streetcar Named Desire" had won in 1951. 77' was a strong year for films and as much as I love Annie Hall, I would prefer to award Saturday Night Fever or 3 Women over it, even though they weren't nominated. Close Encounters was worthy as well. I never really got The Turning Point or The Goodbye Girl best picture nominations. Neither of these films are a part of a strong cultural psyche and are also very dated in feel and presentation.
I see in a couple of weeks The Music Box has a 70mm screening of West Side Story. Are you going to go Mr. Dirty? Have you seen Apocalypse Now? I wonder if they will do a 70mm showing of that.
Oh, what a jerk I am! Will Millie and Pinky ever forgive me?!!! Yes, my 3rd favorite movie of all time... The only thing I can say in my defense is that "3 Women" is not Oscar bait. It's just too odd a movie to have won any Oscars, though Shelly Duvall gives the performance of a lifetime and deserved every award in existence. I saw "West Side Story" at the Music Box theater about ten years ago and it was a fantastic experience, Toasted Cheese! Thanks for keeping me to date. The Music Box is a wonderful venue... I didn't know about "West Side Story" and I just might have to go again, because it has been ten years since I have last seen WSS and it is by far my favorite musical (Rita Moreno and George Chakiris are electrifying!) ... But... The Music Box is playing "Sunset Boulevard" this weekend and I am definitely going to see that! I do prefer "All About Eve", but only slightly. "Sunset Boulevard" is more fun that a barrel of monkeys! "I am BIG! It's the pictures that got small!"
I never liked "The Turning Point", either, Toasted Cheese. I thought it was super dull. And "The Goodbye Girl" I loved "Murder By Death", but other than that, Neil Simon was never my cup of tea. To me, whatever obnoxious traits a person might have within them, he brings it right out. I think maybe "schmaltz" is the right word here. I am sure he was a nice person in real life, though and RIP, Mr. Simon. I would love to see "Apocalypse Now" on the big screen. Actually, I have never seen that movie before at all. I am thinking that I would like it. It looks deep. And that is definitely the kind of movie that The Music Box would show.
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Post by dirtypillows on Aug 31, 2018 4:39:39 GMT
Oh, and I would have given "The Last Picture Show" Best Picture over "The French Connection", which was okay but not extraordinary. That much I can say. There is really no other movie like TLPS. I really don't care for The French Connection. I don't get all the hype about it. I find The Last Picture Show a much more special and meaningful film to watch. Very much so. Such delicacy of feeling.
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Post by dirtypillows on Aug 31, 2018 8:03:24 GMT
Very much so. Such delicacy of feeling. Nicely put! TLPS is a slice of Americana worth savouring, not only for the milieu it depicts, but also for its style and substance and the era in which it was made. Of all my favorite films, TLPS is the one that could have gone on for several hours and I don't think I would have gotten bored. The movie is unique in that the dramatic content is quite unremarkable, yet somehow Peter Bogdonavich made the movie so very interesting and compelling. This movie is not the least bit boring and is among the most sensitive and realistic feeling of movies. Timothy Bottoms is an absolute heartbreaker, and Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman are both so good. And it was the best role Cybil Shepherd could have gotten, her shallow Jacey.
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Post by mslo79 on Sept 1, 2018 0:44:00 GMT
Toasted CheeseBasically... it's simply the most all around enjoyable to watch from the 5-6 movies I have seen on the list. I gave it a 7.5-8/10 which makes it within my Top 105 movies (out of the 2,200+ total movies I have seen) and makes it within the Top 4-5% of ALL movies I have seen. this is why nothing else challenges it on that list for me. NOTE: I know your probably thinking something like, "you have only seen 5-6 movies on that list, so how do you know Butch Cassidy is your favorite etc?" ; but I am confident nothing will beat Butch Cassidy had I seen the entire list as even the others I do like don't score above a 6/10 (a mild Thumbs Up) for me. plus, I feel I have reached the point a while ago now that finding movies from the past that I have not already seen that I would score a 7/10 or higher is getting difficult, especially 8's and higher being next to non-existent (or look at it this way... only about 8.5% of ALL movies I have seen score a 7/10 or higher from myself (NOTE: I don't restrict ratings on movies either, it's simply that I don't enjoy the vast majority of movies I see to any higher degree even though I do enjoy, and will re-watch, as many as 25% of everything I have seen)). hence, it's unlikely anything would top Butch Cassidy in the poll had I seen them all. with all of that said... I think you might be viewing these movies differently than I do (seems to be a bit more like critics do(?), which I don't care much for that overpraise critics give movies as being 'ahead of their time' and the like more than just being a interesting/entertaining (and the like) movie to watch straight up(NOTE: I know what's interesting varies from person-to-person though)) as I ultimately judge movies based on how much I enjoy watching them and the further they get away from that the lower the rating. basically... it comes back to some sort of feeling/emotional response a movie gives me as the more it does that in a good way the higher the rating and then the less it does that (like more in a negative way) the lower the rating.
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Post by dirtypillows on Sept 1, 2018 1:05:30 GMT
Oh, what a jerk I am! Will Millie and Pinky ever forgive me?!!! Yes, my 3rd favorite movie of all time... The only thing I can say in my defense is that "3 Women" is not Oscar bait. It's just too odd a movie to have won any Oscars, though Shelly Duvall gives the performance of a lifetime and deserved every award in existence. I saw "West Side Story" at the Music Box theater about ten years ago and it was a fantastic experience, Toasted Cheese! Thanks for keeping me to date. The Music Box is a wonderful venue... I didn't know about "West Side Story" and I just might have to go again, because it has been ten years since I have last seen WSS and it is by far my favorite musical (Rita Moreno and George Chakiris are electrifying!) ... But... The Music Box is playing "Sunset Boulevard" this weekend and I am definitely going to see that! I do prefer "All About Eve", but only slightly. "Sunset Boulevard" is more fun that a barrel of monkeys! "I am BIG! It's the pictures that got small!"
I never liked "The Turning Point", either, Toasted Cheese. I thought it was super dull. And "The Goodbye Girl" I loved "Murder By Death", but other than that, Neil Simon was never my cup of tea. To me, whatever obnoxious traits a person might have within them, he brings it right out. I think maybe "schmaltz" is the right word here. I am sure he was a nice person in real life, though and RIP, Mr. Simon. I would love to see "Apocalypse Now" on the big screen. Actually, I have never seen that movie before at all. I am thinking that I would like it. It looks deep. And that is definitely the kind of movie that The Music Box would show. I always enjoy WSS, even though it is a bit dated and the gang members hardly look threatening.
I prefer to watch All About Eve as well, but Sunset Boulevard is still a classic. I have more fun watching the characters in Eve and snippy, witty and sharp dialog is a marvel to behold. Sunset is the better looking of the 2 films though and it is very stylish and brilliantly directed.
I am not a major Simon fan either, although I do enjoy The Odd Couple, California Suite, Murder By Death and Biloxi Blues, which I find a delight to watch and is warm also. The wonderful Christopher Walken caps off this Mike Nichols gem too. There is too much superficiality within many of his characters as well, as though he doesn't want to make them that appealing. I was very disappointed with Only When I Laugh and I was really looking forward to this one, due to Kristy McNichol starring in it. I wasn't engaged at all.
Oh, that one was dreadful. Kristy McNichol was wasted. Joan Hackett was wasted. I would say James Coco was wasted. Marsha Mason was in her element. Actually, I have to slightly modify my statement regarding Neil Simon, though, however. When I was a young teenager, I do remember watching "Max Dugan Returns" and enjoying it, probably 25 times of Home Box Office. It was a cute movie, Matthew Broderick was a cute kid, and I have always liked Donald Sutherland. Also, I have always loved Sandy Dennis, and her performance in "The Out of Towners" is a comic triumph. So I don't know if that counts in Mr. Simon's favor, but I do enjoy that movie, if mostly for Miss Dennis' performance. (Jack Lemmon, on the other hand, was exasperating.)
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Post by jcush on Sept 1, 2018 1:20:10 GMT
1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 2. Midnight Cowboy 3. True Grit 4. On Her Majesty's Secret Service 5. Army of Shadows
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Post by mortsahlfan on Sept 1, 2018 10:56:11 GMT
"They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" is one of my favorite movies ever. My #4 actually.
-The Happy Ending - 10/10 -Midnight Cowboy -9/10 -This Man Must Die - 8/10 -Boy - 8/10 -A Gentle Woman - 8/10 -My Night at Maud's - 8/10 -That Cold Day in the Park - 8/10 -The Learning Tree - 7/10 -The Passion of Anna - 7/10
-Last Summer - 7/10 -Blind Beast - 7/10 -Katzelmacher - 7/10 -The Damned - 7/10 -Tell Em Willie Boy Was Here - 7/10 -Kes - 7/10 -Burn - 7/10
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Post by darksidebeadle on Sept 1, 2018 10:58:09 GMT
"They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" is one of my favorite movies ever. My #4 actually. In my top 100 👍
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