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Post by RiP, IMDb on Aug 17, 2017 4:41:29 GMT
Only Girl in Town.
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 17, 2017 14:31:19 GMT
Flaming Star / Don Siegel (1960).This movie should be given credit making for a plea for racial and cultural justice for Native Americans – a trend that was just beginning and went a long way toward establishing the movie industry’s status as “liberal” (which must mean conservatism is against racial justice). At one point someone says, “It’s just plain hate now and everybody ready to kill anybody who isn’t just like him.” Taxed with a pretty heavy dramatic role, Presley looks relaxed and confident in front of the camera. He always remains cool (as does co-star Steve Forrest as Presley's half-brother) even while a lot of heavy-breathing, overcooked melodrama is going on around him. Delores del Rio in particular does a lot of deep frowning and huffing and puffing. Elvis is also good in an action scene where he gets to run around for several minutes without his shirt on while being pursued by his former friends. This film is often put forward as Elvis’ best serious performance. It may well be. It is also, I believe, only one of two movies in which he dies at the end (in Flaming Star his death is off-camera).
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Post by marshamae on Aug 17, 2017 14:43:52 GMT
I love Jailhouse Rock. He was so raw, but he was really reaching for something, and it breaks your heart to see where he was trying to go, and know he would not be allowed to go there. In his later films I feel like I'm watching a trained animal act. He might never have developed as an actor but he might have become heir to Brando and Dean.
I love the title tune. What a really interesting career he might have had.
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Post by teleadm on Aug 17, 2017 17:17:33 GMT
Elvis: That's the Way It Is 1970, because I like the singer and entertainer more than his movies.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 17, 2017 20:11:22 GMT
He's trying so hard in Love Me Tender that it's difficult to watch.
By King Creole he almost had it.
Then came the musicals ... entertaining enough and he mostly plays Elvis-clones.
By then he had been "playing Elvis" for a long time pretty much 24/7 and on-screen was doing it pretty well.
I still cannot get my head around that he was only 42.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Aug 17, 2017 21:56:24 GMT
Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
As stupid as it is, I also really like Clambake (1967).
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Post by camimac on Aug 17, 2017 22:37:46 GMT
It happened at the World's Fair (1963).
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Feb 19, 2018 15:16:52 GMT
Night and you and Blue Hawaii...
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 19, 2018 15:44:26 GMT
He's trying so hard in Love Me Tender that it's difficult to watch. By King Creole he almost had it. Then came the musicals ... entertaining enough and he mostly plays Elvis-clones. By then he had been "playing Elvis" for a long time pretty much 24/7 and on-screen was doing it pretty well. I still cannot get my head around that he was only 42. I saw this thread and as I wandered over to it, I pretty much composed the above note which to my surprise< i found to have already posted back in August. How time flies when you're having fun, eh ? |
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Post by koskiewicz on Feb 19, 2018 16:00:39 GMT
...easily..."Flaming Star"
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 24, 2018 3:33:36 GMT
I love it when a classic, timeless thread from 2017 gets bumped.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 24, 2018 3:44:32 GMT
I love it when a classic, timeless thread from 2017 gets bumped. is a terrific Bringer Upper of Majestic Posts  |
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 24, 2018 3:52:48 GMT
I love it when a classic, timeless thread from 2017 gets bumped. is a terrific Bringer Upper of Majestic Posts I sometimes bump classic threads too. I recently did this on the polls board. |
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Post by nausea on Feb 24, 2018 15:22:54 GMT
He is actually an orphan. He is mde fun of a lot.
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Post by outrider127 on Feb 24, 2018 20:50:24 GMT
Viva Las Vegas was the only film of his that I could stand
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Feb 24, 2018 21:23:37 GMT
Flaming Star or Jailhouse Rock are the only ones I liked, even remotely.
Elvis COULD act. He was no Larry Olivier but he wasn't as bad as many of his movies made him out to be. It was just the laughable scripts that made him look bad. Of course, the movies existed to sell the soundtracks. It's too bad he never got to play a real part, not one where he was the singing lifeguard, the singing race car driver, the singing plumber.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Feb 24, 2018 21:51:52 GMT
I'm only now realizing that Viva Las Vegas is also sometimes knows as Only Girl in Town, which is news to me! Where is it that it's known by another name? I've only ever heard it called Viva Las Vegas. It's also the most popular Elvis movie I still haven't seen.  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 24, 2018 21:54:28 GMT
Flaming Star or Jailhouse Rock are the only ones I liked, even remotely. Elvis COULD act. He was no Larry Olivier but he wasn't as bad as many of his movies made him out to be. It was just the laughable scripts that made him look bad. Of course, the movies existed to sell the soundtracks. It's too bad he never got to play a real part, not one where he was the singing lifeguard, the singing race car driver, the singing plumber. Check out King Creole.
it showed his potential that was thwarted by parker. |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Feb 24, 2018 22:50:57 GMT
Flaming Star or Jailhouse Rock are the only ones I liked, even remotely. Elvis COULD act. He was no Larry Olivier but he wasn't as bad as many of his movies made him out to be. It was just the laughable scripts that made him look bad. Of course, the movies existed to sell the soundtracks. It's too bad he never got to play a real part, not one where he was the singing lifeguard, the singing race car driver, the singing plumber. Check out King Creole.
it showed his potential that was thwarted by parker. That gets my vote too: tons of mood and atmosphere courtesy of director Michael Curtiz; a hard-hitting story; a solid - and nearly picture-stealing - cast among which Presley holds his own (Walter Matthau at his most sinister, Carolyn Jones at her most poignant, Dean Jagger at his most pathetic). |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 24, 2018 23:01:48 GMT
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