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Post by Fox in the Snow on Jan 30, 2019 10:58:56 GMT
Maybe Kane isn't for everyone, but I think most with the slightest interest in film can get something out of it, even if it is only the technical/historical significance stuff. I've seen it three times (never on the big screen) and enjoyed all of them. I love pretty much all of Welles' stuff though, one of my favorite "classic" Hollywood directors. I have hardly seen much of Welles work, so I can't really comment on him. I just know I didn't really get a whole lot out of CK.
As Kate Winslet expressed in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures - 94'... "Orson Welles! Absolutely not! The most hideous man alive." Ha, I don't remember that. Probably time for a rewatch, it's pretty much the only Jackson film I've liked.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Jan 30, 2019 11:03:29 GMT
Ha, I don't remember that. Probably time for a rewatch, it's pretty much the only Jackson film I've liked. It is my favorite film of his and also one of my favorite films ever. I liked his early comic horror films leading up to HC as well. They were a little silly and OTT for me, but I appreciated the enthusiasm behind them.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Jan 30, 2019 11:58:19 GMT
ehm yes. proposal off i assume? The Godfather is the most boring movie ever made. You can wait on that one. Argh.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Jan 30, 2019 15:22:18 GMT
OH MY GOD! YOU ONLY SAW THE STAR WARS MOVIES LAST YEAR AND STILL HAVENT SEEN THE GODFATHER?!?!? ehm yes. proposal off i assume? ...We have to work on your blu ray collection...
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Post by dirtypillows on Feb 1, 2019 4:06:14 GMT
They were a little silly and OTT for me, but I appreciated the enthusiasm behind them. I appreciated the enthusiasm and humor as well. They were right up my alley. Dead Alive and Meet the Feebles are crazy movies. Heidi the Hippo was frankly terrifying. Remember the way she went through all those pastries at the cookie and pie shop? That was one out of control hippopotamus. And the mother in DA who gets bitten by the rat monkey? She was a hideous thing. One of the most memorable moments from any movie was when the nurse's ear falls into her pea soup. I love early PJ. Though I've yet to see Bad Taste. It looks super low budget.
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Post by dirtypillows on Feb 1, 2019 4:33:38 GMT
Okay, trying to stay with films that are mostly dramas and not dramedy, scifi, etc. 80's: Ordinary People Stand By Me Witness Steel Magnolias 70's: Rocky Taxi Driver The Deer Hunter Midnight Express Don't Look Now (kind of crosses over into psychological thriller) 60's: The Hustler West Side Story (also a musical) The Graduate Doctor Zhivago I'll stop there, although there are so many excellent dramas going all the way back to the 30's, but I know not everyone is in to classic films. Really, anything with Marilyn, Audrey, and Cary Grant. I especially love Penny Serenade. I had to single out your 1973 horror-psych-thriller, Don't Look Now, which was beautifully filmed. I just showed the trailer to a friend who I am trying to get to watch it. Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland are both sublime in their performances. It's a unique film, and watch out for the dwarf in a red raincoat!!! I wonder if Marilyn and Audrey (both of whom are just adorable) had ever made a movie together if their characters would have become friends? I'd like to think so. Both women were very fragile, but where there was vulnerability in Marilyn's persona, there was real strength in Audrey Hepburn. (Have you ever seen "Wait Until Dark" from 1967, MarilynluvsTigger?) That was a really good, suspenseful film, and Audrey was never more sympathetic.) I'd like to think she might have take MM under her wing, despite the fact that Marilyn was 3 years older than Audrey. I like Cary Grant, too. Though I never cared much for Jimmy Stewart.
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Post by WarrenPeace on Feb 1, 2019 6:23:44 GMT
I'd like to talk about it but I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers. I've seen that part a few times where Henry introduces us to other mobsters. Two Times is the most memorable with the name because he does that. It's a wonder they would let him in at all. That might drive someone nuts after awhile. "So you want me to whack this guy, whack this guy." "Yeah, two times. I do." What do I use? What do I use?" "A gun." A gun? A gun? And then what. Then what." "Bury the body in the cemetery." "OK OK I can do this. I can do this."
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Post by Nora on Feb 1, 2019 17:36:54 GMT
ehm yes. proposal off i assume? ...We have to work on your blu ray collection… i do not own any movies on any media. remember, i dont watch movies at home. and i do not intend to change that. its blasphemy to watch movies that were originally made for the big screen on small screen. no matter how big your small screen is. the appeal of theatre is also in you not being able to command when what comes out. and also sharing the experience with strangers. tv is for home. movies are for outside. get it right, Lenlen!
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Feb 1, 2019 18:28:55 GMT
...We have to work on your blu ray collection… i do not own any movies on any media. remember, i dont watch movies at home. and i do not intend to change that. its blasphemy to watch movies that were originally made for the big screen on small screen. no matter how big your small screen is. the appeal of theatre is also in you not being able to command when what comes out. and also sharing the experience with strangers. tv is for home. movies are for outside. get it right, Lenlen!
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Post by hi224 on Feb 1, 2019 18:29:28 GMT
oh my you've missed out fo years.
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Post by Nora on Feb 1, 2019 18:58:43 GMT
oh my you've missed out fo years. may be. but i did get to see it so i dont feel like i missed out on anything really. had i seen it when it first came out i wouldnt have spoken english so i would have to see it dubbed or read subtitles and you always lose some of the piece if you dont understand its original language. had i seen it before i moved to the US i wouldnt have been able to feel so connected to film and their accents and lingo, cars, style and locations wouldnt perhaps connect with me as much. had i seen it before i became a criminal law lawyer i wouldnt have had any first hand experience with mobsters or criminals in general and maybe would have been more likely to admire them or think its somewhat cool and wouldn't be able to remember my friend who was a DA in NYC and prosecuted some of those people and told me about the everyday reality of living that life. so i am quite ok about only seeing it now. i would be sad if I never got to see it, yes. and if later in life i still havent caught the Godfather or Dirty Harry in the cinemas, I will rent a cinema for a day and play those movies I have missed out on by then. And its only movies 1995 and younger, mind you, since then I see everything that comes out (in the US). So at least the list is not getting larger. plus isnt it nice you have something like that to look forward to? I intentionally left a finale of my favorite tv comedy show. To watch "on my death bed". I like knowing its out there waiting for me. I am weird that way. (and then many other ways too )
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Post by hi224 on Feb 1, 2019 19:01:15 GMT
oh my you've missed out fo years. may be. but i did get to see it so i dont feel like i missed out on anything really. had i seen it when it first came out i wouldnt have spoken english so i would have to see it dubbed or read subtitles and you always lose some of the piece if you dont understand its original language. had i seen it before i moved to the US i wouldnt have been able to feel so connected to film and their accents and lingo, cars, style and locations wouldnt perhaps connect with me as much. had i seen it before i became a criminal law lawyer i wouldnt have had any first hand experience with mobsters or criminals in general and maybe would have been more likely to admire them or think its somewhat cool and wouldn't be able to remember my friend who was a DA in NYC and prosecuted some of those people and told me about the everyday reality of living that life. so i am quite ok about only seeing it now. i would be sad if I never got to see it, yes. and if later in life i still havent caught the Godfather or Dirty Harry in the cinemas, I will rent a cinema for a day and play those movies I have missed out on by then. And its only movies 1995 and younger, mind you, since then I see everything that comes out (in the US). So at least the list is not getting larger. plus isnt it nice you have something like that to look forward to? I intentionally left a finale of my favorite tv comedy show. To watch "on my death bed". I like knowing its out there waiting for me. I am weird that way. (and then many other ways too ) yep.
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