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Post by geode on Apr 2, 2019 8:46:48 GMT
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? What do you mean, an African or European Swallow? Which one can carry a coconut?
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KOTCH
Apr 2, 2019 8:41:52 GMT
Post by geode on Apr 2, 2019 8:41:52 GMT
It is an excellent movie that is deftly directed. I always wondered why Jack Lemmon never directed again when he had done such a superb job doing this one. This has my favorite performance ever given by Matthau... He technically is not a bachelor, he is a widower, and the montage showing the burial of his wife is simple but elegant....
I found this on the Kotch IMDb page about Director Lemmon "Directorial debut for Jack Lemmon. Lemmon found direction duties both emotionally and physically draining and felt very uncomfortable behind the camera. This was his one and only film as a director."
Also found several reviews by viewers … many in the 9/10 and 10/10 range www.imdb.com/title/tt0067314/reviews?ref_=tt_ql_3
Am glad that you brought up the question of Kotch's bachelorhood. He had a son, a daughter-in-law, grandchildren and a funeral for his wife. All of them important story elements.
Matthau received a Best Lead Actor Nomination for his role. I wish that the trivia entry about Lemmon as a director gave a reference. I actually searched years ago to see if he ever gave reasons for not directing again and couldn't find anything. As I said, I think he did a fine job as a director, and the resulting film is very good. I rated all the films I could think of when I registered at the IMDb almost 20 years ago. I gave "Kotch" a 9/10. When it was released I listened to an interview with Walter Matthau on the radio. The interviewer asked him what it was like to play an old man. The reply was, "I am old!" I have a vitreous floater and some grey hair." I chuckled as I had vitreous floaters from the time I was about 5 years old. I was 20 at that time.
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Post by geode on Apr 2, 2019 8:25:54 GMT
He probably never directed again because this movie was such a flop! BTW, at the time of its release, NYC's mayoe was Ed Koch. When questioned about who could play Koch if a movie was made about him, the overwhelming responses from citizens was Frank Perdue, the Chicken King! Indeed, there was a clear resemblance between the two men. It's a pity that no movie was ever made with Perdue acting as the mayor. Bet it would have been hilarious! LOL. It was not a flop. It played for a few weeks at the theater in which I worked at the time as a projectionist. Flops were gone in a week or two. Although not a hit it made a profit. "The film earned rentals of $3.6 million in North America and $1.4 million in other countries. It recorded an overall profit of $330,000." As cited by Variety. As someone has already pointed out, Koch was not the mayor of NYC when "Kotch" was released, and would take office over six years after the film's release.
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Post by geode on Apr 1, 2019 19:08:22 GMT
This forgotten '70's film starred Walter Matthau in the title role and directed by his good friend Jack Lemmon. Here, Matthau plays an elderly bachelor who adores children. Today, he would be labelled a pedophile. When I saw this movie in a theater, there were audible gasps from the audience during one scene where Kotch delivers a playful spank to a little girl in a bathing suit. I wish these people knew my uncle: this bastard always "playfully" spanked me when I was young! But I digress. Kotch befriends a pregnant teenage girl who was abandoned by everyone who knew her. In fact, he even delivers her baby! Later, she decides to keep the kid; God knows how she would manage as a single mother in those days. It's a pretty lousy movie in all, jumbled and disordered. While Jack Lemmon was one of my favorite actors, he really stunk as a director. The only thing that saves it at all is Matthau's superb performance. It is an excellent movie that is deftly directed. I always wondered why Jack Lemmon never directed again when he had done such a superb job doing this one. This has my favorite performance ever given by Matthau, but the rest of the cast is also good. He technically is not a bachelor, he is a widower, and the montage showing the burial of his wife is simple but elegant. The scene with the ink blot test is brilliant.
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Post by geode on Apr 1, 2019 5:57:51 GMT
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
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Post by geode on Mar 31, 2019 16:17:19 GMT
I think I would vote for "Plan 9 From Outer Space"....
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Post by geode on Mar 29, 2019 17:15:24 GMT
Will the result be a mainstream classic or a cult movie?
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Post by geode on Mar 26, 2019 11:17:40 GMT
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Post by geode on Mar 26, 2019 8:37:32 GMT
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Post by geode on Mar 25, 2019 21:19:10 GMT
A laugh riot. I can still watch it, quote it, and laugh at every joke. I like Life Of Brian, but I think the Holy Grail is more consistently funny. Not even a contest in my opinion.
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Post by geode on Mar 24, 2019 15:36:39 GMT
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Post by geode on Mar 23, 2019 14:02:20 GMT
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Post by geode on Mar 23, 2019 13:37:40 GMT
What is the dumbest cult movie that you can think of? Some cult movies have that status because they are practically brainless in nature in terms of their plot and character.
If we come up with a consensus choice we can create a thread for it and make only stupid and brainless comments about it, perhaps even using "quotes"....
This thread might even become more brain dead in nature than the ridiculously off-topic and thoroughly stupid "So..." thread. But it would at least be relevent to this board.
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Post by geode on Mar 22, 2019 19:27:25 GMT
A mineral? And what is a rock, idiot? Fuck me... can I get a geologist in here to explain basics to Heeeyyy please ? geode keep it at junior school level so they can grasp it. Geologists define a mineral as a naturally occurring inorganic substance that has a solid form with a characteristi range of physical and chemical properties. A mineral has a characteristic internal order (that essentially means having a crystalline structure). The definition of a rock is less precise and more misused. Rocks are an aggregation of mineral crystals or grains, or fragments of previously created rocks that disaggregated. A rock can consist of a single mineral so in theory a diamond, or a mass of diamonds could be termed a rock. However, an individual diamond is best termed a mineral. I think diamonds could correctly be called rocks if they were significantly larger, but diamond boulders are unknown. Diamonds aggregated together into a large mass are also in not found. Instead diamonds are generally found embedded within a matrix of other minerals in rocks called kimberlites. I doubt many, if any, geoligists have labelled diamonds as rocks.
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Post by geode on Mar 22, 2019 9:59:52 GMT
Tell me about this fasting' thing'! Basically, Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are compulsory 'fast days' for all healthy enough Roman Catholics between the ages of 18 and 59... Many also fast on every Friday in Lent. Put simply, just one simple meal on a fast day... I will not eat mine until after performing Stations of The Cross at St. Bernards this evening. It also helps towards our Lenten charity commitment... Money not spent on food by Catholics last Friday was collected at Sunday Mass last week as a donation to CAFOD to feed others in need. These are things that every Christian might benefit by doing. I am curious about the age bracket for fasting. Why not include those over 59, and perhaps a bit younger than 18? Mormons celebrate the first Sunday of the month as Fast Sunday, and are supposed to forgo two meals. The equivalent cost of those meals is given as a "fast offering" that goes into a fund to feed the poor. Those not in good health and excluded, as well as very young children. I remember participating from about the age of 6.
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So...
Mar 21, 2019 21:40:59 GMT
Post by geode on Mar 21, 2019 21:40:59 GMT
So? So what?
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Post by geode on Mar 21, 2019 16:30:11 GMT
"In the search for a unifying theory to explain this trait of human evolution, many anthropologists settled on the “moralizing god hypothesis,” which argues that belief in a judgmental, all-seeing figurehead precedes the arrival of complex society. Popular religions hinge on the idea that humans may be punished if they do not follow a moral code (the kind that keeps you from killing your neighbor, or stealing their bread). That rule even applies to creeds without a deity — think karma in Buddhism. Dozens of studies since the early 2000s have offered support for that hypothesis. But a new international project suggests the opposite — that our desires to appease a moral god tended to develop long after a society formed. Their new study, published March 20 in Nature, evaluated records from 414 societies from 30 regions around the world that span the past 10,000 years of human history." "Aside from detailing when humans go from thinking “the gods are angry!” to the “gods are angry and it’s my fault,” the study provides a blueprint for exploring how other aspects of society evolved. Is inequality an early feature in the development of society, or is it born once a society has already coalesced? What about warfare, or music?" Link
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Post by geode on Mar 20, 2019 19:56:45 GMT
Jude 1: 22-25 (NJB) 22 To some you must be compassionate because they are wavering; 23 others you must save by snatching them from the fire; to others again you must be compassionate but wary, hating even the tunic stained by their bodies.
24 To him who can keep you from falling and bring you safe to his glorious presence, innocent and joyful,
25 to the only God, our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, authority and power, before all ages, now and for ever. Amen.
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Post by geode on Mar 20, 2019 19:48:47 GMT
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Post by geode on Mar 18, 2019 20:07:48 GMT
This has just been announced for blu-ray. In my opinion the best of Astaire and Rogers. link
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