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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2018 17:16:06 GMT
Bumping this because I recently recommended it to @forceghostackbar , who I hope gets a chance to watch it and record his thoughts here. It’s a great movie. It may take me as long to get to it as it did for you to watch Star Wars  . I'm currently watching a bunch of newspaper-centric movies (some from the previous thread). I've also got a free month of Netflix which I'm using to (hopefully) start and finish a few tv series. |
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Post by Nalkarj on Sept 8, 2018 17:46:03 GMT
Bumping this because I recently recommended it to @forceghostackbar , who I hope gets a chance to watch it and record his thoughts here. It’s a great movie. It may take me as long to get to it as it did for you to watch Star Wars . I'm currently watching a bunch of newspaper-centric movies (some from the previous thread). I've also got a free month of Netflix which I'm using to (hopefully) start and finish a few tv series. Oh, I expected that!  No worries. It’s just a recommendation—and a newspaper-connected one at that, however much that’s not the focus of the movie. By the way, for your other thread, did you only want small-town newspaper ones? Because if they’re just generally newspaper-centric, there would be a lot more of them. |
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Post by geode on Sept 8, 2018 18:04:52 GMT
Notice that Randall's voice changed when he is delivering the final line. The accent was gone. During the movie he dropped it at strategic times. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2018 21:24:36 GMT
It may take me as long to get to it as it did for you to watch Star Wars . I'm currently watching a bunch of newspaper-centric movies (some from the previous thread). I've also got a free month of Netflix which I'm using to (hopefully) start and finish a few tv series. Oh, I expected that! No worries. It’s just a recommendation—and a newspaper-connected one at that, however much that’s not the focus of the movie. By the way, for your other thread, did you only want small-town newspaper ones? Because if they’re just generally newspaper-centric, there would be a lot more of them. Originally I wanted movies exclusively about small town papers but I've since expanded the scope. All newspaper movie reccomendations are welcome now! I should edit the thread to make this clear. |
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Post by geode on Sept 14, 2018 15:35:23 GMT
It may take me as long to get to it as it did for you to watch Star Wars . I'm currently watching a bunch of newspaper-centric movies (some from the previous thread). I've also got a free month of Netflix which I'm using to (hopefully) start and finish a few tv series. Oh, I expected that! No worries. It’s just a recommendation—and a newspaper-connected one at that, however much that’s not the focus of the movie. By the way, for your other thread, did you only want small-town newspaper ones? Because if they’re just generally newspaper-centric, there would be a lot more of them. I would say that Ed Cunningham and his newspaper are central plot elements made interesting due to the small town setting and it being a period piece where newspapers held more influence on people's lives. |
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Post by Nalkarj on Sept 14, 2018 15:46:45 GMT
Oh, I expected that! No worries. It’s just a recommendation—and a newspaper-connected one at that, however much that’s not the focus of the movie. By the way, for your other thread, did you only want small-town newspaper ones? Because if they’re just generally newspaper-centric, there would be a lot more of them. I would say that Ed Cunningham and his newspaper are central plot elements made interesting due to the small town setting and it being a period piece where newspapers held more influence on people's lives. Oh, definitely, it’s just that the newspaper is not the main plot-focus of the movie, which is Lao’s circus, the awakening in the town, and eventually the relationship with Mike. But, see, take that, @forceghostackbar! It is a newspaper-centric movie! |
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Post by poelzig on Sept 15, 2018 2:09:26 GMT
Yes. It's Joel from MST3K favorite movie. Reminds me of Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Post by novastar6 on Sept 15, 2018 4:29:48 GMT
I miss it every single time it comes on TCM.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 15, 2018 11:52:04 GMT
NalkarjBut, see, take that, @forceghostackbar! It is a newspaper-centric movie!  makes  and settles down to watch the incipient battle of the century !  too
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Post by telegonus on Sept 16, 2018 4:36:06 GMT
Maybe Paul Frees stepped in.
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Post by geode on Nov 9, 2018 4:20:38 GMT
Yes. It's Joel from MST3K favorite movie. Reminds me of Something Wicked This Way Comes But isn't it a much better effort? |
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Nov 9, 2018 21:52:44 GMT
Yes I've seen it. Going in it seemed like a movie that I would love but I didn't. Don't get me wrong I liked it but I didn't love it. Tony Randal is terrific in it and Barbara Eden is gorgeous as always but there was just something lacking in the overall story and execution.
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Post by geode on Dec 4, 2018 18:11:31 GMT
Yes I've seen it. Going in it seemed like a movie that I would love but I didn't. Don't get me wrong I liked it but I didn't love it. Tony Randal is terrific in it and Barbara Eden is gorgeous as always but there was just something lacking in the overall story and execution. I should watch it again. I last saw it decades ago. How would it compare now to my first viewing in first release? |
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Dec 4, 2018 19:47:25 GMT
Yes I've seen it. Going in it seemed like a movie that I would love but I didn't. Don't get me wrong I liked it but I didn't love it. Tony Randal is terrific in it and Barbara Eden is gorgeous as always but there was just something lacking in the overall story and execution. I should watch it again. I last saw it decades ago. How would it compare now to my first viewing in first release? I can't say for sure but I think you will still find it enjoyable. |
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Post by geode on Dec 7, 2018 16:58:56 GMT
Notice that Randall's voice changed when he is delivering the final line. The accent was gone. During the movie he dropped it at strategic times. I think the accent is gone at the end because the last lines are more as if they are coming from a narrator than the title character. It is more a commentary on the whole narrative that preceeds it. |
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Post by telegonus on Mar 7, 2019 19:54:11 GMT
Interesting to return to this movie. Dr. Lao, its visual qualities aside, is not particularly well written. I think it's overwritten, thus there's less love for it than there might be if it had been (if you'll forgive the seeming absurdity) a silent movie. It didn't really need dialogue. On another site, several years ago, we had a lengthy discussion of the film and many of us reached the same conclusion more or less independently, which was that the whole "life is a wonderful circus if you'll just let it happen" message was hit home with a sledgehammer, way over-articulated, as the film stood, by itself, as "saying" just that without having to literally spell it out. Bill Warren fell that this was the main reason for the picture falling short of greatness: it talked too much..
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Post by geode on Mar 23, 2019 14:02:20 GMT
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Post by mszanadu on Mar 23, 2019 15:26:28 GMT
An awesome review trailer video here geode    .
Thanks so much for sharing this with us here too  .
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Post by geode on Apr 7, 2019 16:05:23 GMT
Interesting to return to this movie. Dr. Lao, its visual qualities aside, is not particularly well written. I think it's overwritten, thus there's less love for it than there might be if it had been (if you'll forgive the seeming absurdity) a silent movie. It didn't really need dialogue. On another site, several years ago, we had a lengthy discussion of the film and many of us reached the same conclusion more or less independently, which was that the whole "life is a wonderful circus if you'll just let it happen" message was hit home with a sledgehammer, way over-articulated, as the film stood, by itself, as "saying" just that without having to literally spell it out. Bill Warren fell that this was the main reason for the picture falling short of greatness: it talked too much.. From my memory of many years ago I do not have the same impression of this being overwritten. I thought that the theme was delivered far more elegantly than what you express here. There is this dialogue that I found.
"Mike, let me tell you something. The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it. The way the sun goes down when you're tired, comes up when you want to be on the move. That's real magic. The way a leaf grows. The song of the birds. The way the desert looks at night, with the moon embracing it. Oh, my boy, that's... that's circus enough for anyone. Every time you watch a rainbow and feel wonder in your heart. Every time you pick up a handful of dust, and see not the dust, but a mystery, a marvel, there in your hand. Every time you stop and think, "I'm alive, and being alive is fantastic!" Every time such a thing happens, you're part of the Circus of Dr. Lao."
...with the last part repeated as a voice over at the very end of the film.
But perhaps adults evaluate it one way, when the intended audience was younger. It might be more fair to see how such a young audience regards the script.
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Post by telegonus on Apr 13, 2019 6:34:57 GMT
I was, truly, viewing Dr. Lao through the eyes of a grownup, Geode. When I first saw it it was on the late movie and I was somewhere between the age of eighteen to twenty, and I thought it was grand. There's much to like and love in it, and producer-director George Pal had a heart as big as the great outdoors.
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No worries. It’s just a recommendation—and a newspaper-connected one at that, however much that’s not the focus of the movie. By the way, for your other thread, did you only want small-town newspaper ones? Because if they’re just generally newspaper-centric, there would be a lot more of them.
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