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Milch's End to "Deadwood"
Hearst has left the camp and Alma has sold her claim. There really is no battles left to fight at that point.
One really disparate couple in terms of attractiveness would definitely be Brian Posehn (the mail guy from "Just Shoot Me") and his wife Melanie Truhett.
It's certainly a favorite of mine.
Yes: All Quiet on the Western Front, It Happened One Night, Mutiny on the Bounty, Life of Emile Zola, Gone With the Wind, Rebecca, Casablanca, Going My Way, Lost Weekend, Best Years of Our Lives, All the King's Men, An American in Paris, From Here to Eternity, On the Waterfront, Marty, Bridge on the River Kwai, Ben Hur, The Apartment, West Side Story, Lawrence of Arabia, My Fair Lady, Midnight Cowboy, Patton, The Sting, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rocky, Annie Hall, Terms of Endearment, Chariots of Fire, Out of Africa, The Last Emperor, Rain Man, Unforgiven, Schindler's List, American Beauty, A Beautiful Mind, Lord of the Rings Part 3, Million Dollar Baby, Slumdog Millionaire
Worth viewing but too dated for me at time seen: Grand Hotel, You Can't Take It With You, How Green Was My Valley, Tom Jones, Platoon.
On the fence: The Godfather Part 2, The Deer Hunter, Ordinary People, Kramer vs. Kramer, Dances with Wolves, The English Patient, Shakespeare in Love, The King's Speech.
No: Gentleman's Agreement, The Sound of Music, The Godfather, Forrest Gump.
Freely acknowledge that one man's "dated" is another's "vital" and vice versa.
Of nominated non Oscar winners from the 90s I've seen.
Yes: Ghost, Goodfellas, Beauty and the Beast, The Crying Game, Quiz Show, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Apollo 13, Shawshank Redemption, Babe, Fargo, As Good as It Gets, The Full Monty, Good Will Hunting, Life Is Beautiful, The Cider House Rules.
No: Awakenings, The Piano, Pulp Fiction.
Also a no for The Big Lebowski.
As they say, your mileage may vary.
McCoy asked: Which one's the unattractive one?
I'd think most anyone loses out big-time to Posehn, actually.
The Artist
Chicago
Shakespeare in Love
**Titanic*** Seen parts of it at a time so I've probably seen all of it.
The English Patient
Out of Africa
**Amadeus***
Terms of Endearment
Ordinary People
Kramer vs Kramer
Annie Hall
A Man for all Seasons
Tom Jones
The Apartment
Gigi
Marty
On the Waterfront
Before 1952 it is easier to list what I did see:
Casablanca
Gone With The Wind
It Happened One Night
All Quiet on the Western Front
Wings
- Crash beating Brokeback Mountain
- A Beautiful Mind beating LOTR and Moulin Rouge
- Titanic beating LA Confidential (although Titanic is an amazing spectacle)
- English Patient beating Fargo
- Forrest Gump beating Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption
- Dances with Wolves beating Goodfellas (although I think DWW is pretty good)
- Out of Africa beating the Color Purple and Witness
- Terms of Endearment and the Right Stuff
- Chariots of Fire beating Raiders
- Rocky beating Network and Taxi Driver (although Rocky is good)
- Kramer vs. Kramer beating Apocalypse Now and Breaking Away
I don't like braveheart, but none of the other movies that year were great IIRC.
Putting Terms of Endearment and The RIght Stuff aside, I think it has to be Forrest Gump. PF and TSR are alltime great movies IMO, and FG annoyed the hell out of me.
All the townsfolk are forced to barricade themselves together inside the Gem, in order to resist an onslaught of carnivorous mountain Yeti. But when the doors are breached, it's every whore for herself!
A late vote for Marlo Thomas; my (then) teenage self thought her quite attractive in the "That Girl" era.
I read this and my brain jumped to "Marlo Stanfield"
I wonder if this is Episode VII or Episode IIIa. VII would mean ewoks, which would suck, so we'll pretend that it's IIIa. IIIa would presumably feature Darth Vader et al going around massacring the last surviving Jedi, which could be fun if it's heavy on the massacring and light on cute kids and aliens speaking pidgin English. I assume that by IIIc or IIId the Empire will be invading Mon Calamari and enslaving Mayor Ackbar of Coral Depths City, presumably through the use of some sort of trap.
You want it to be one way, but it's the other way ...
It's a trap!
Also Claudia Cardinale was hotter than Sophia Loren.
This is the one on the list that really has to be seen. Top 5 drama.
Oh boy, another opportunity to add a new "Disney Princess" to the marketing empire!
Claudia was more girlish, Sophia was more womanly.
Anyway not sure what to think about Star Wars ep. 7. SW does seem a good fit in the Disney Empire though.
The Shawshank Redemption is a great great movie. pulp fiction would have also been a fine winner. Forest Gump was an OK movie.
Arnold in new Conan movie
No truth to the rumor that it will be entitled "Conan the saggy"
And the first woman to move my loins was Linda Carter.
Beedee, beedee, beedee, indeed.
Oooh yeah. I'm convinced she caused my puberty to appear about six months earlier than nature intended.
I met her at a convention a few years back and it brought on fond memories.
Yes, and WTF happened to her by the time the MTM Show rolled around?
Ann Margaret circa Viva Las Vegas. Yes.
Are you ####### KIDDING me? Ruin? They at least have a CHANCE of making a good film, unlike Lucas.
This is exactly my feeling about about the sale. There is now a chance that there might a good Star Wars movie made, and there wasn't one before. This is a net win, that will yield more awesome Star Wars video games (hey, maybe they will finally resurrect the X-Wing series now that they are doing sequels) and cartoon shows to go along with the potential of a good new movie.
John Carter was great fun. Not any kind of masterpiece, but more a failure of promotion than product.
-LAUGHTER-
Well, sorry? Heh. I enjoyed it. It had a giant pug monster.
Inger Stevens, TV/movie actress of the sixties (who died young) looked a lot like Malone, and probably would have joined Malone, Dorothy Provine, and Stella Stevens in what Bill James would have called "The Angie Dickinson Family" of actresses.
That could work. Some of the original Howard stories are about Conan's old age. Maybe an adaptation of "The Scarlet Citadel" or "The Phoenix on the Sword" (awesome alternate title: "By This Axe I Rule!")?
--Conan the Octogenarian
I loved Conan the Barbarian. I've been waiting for that King Conan sequel they promised for 30 years!
Without Lucas, there is no Red Letter review.
Which is fine with me; I hated the sequels, but I still want that guy's vocal cords cut.
I thought the persona was funny. I don't think you need Lucas for the reviews. They've also done some reviews of the Star Trek Next Generation abominations.
Ray asked: Yes, and WTF happened to her by the time the MTM Show rolled around?
My guess would be a few more years and beginning of effects from diabetes, though for my taste she's plenty attractive even in the 1970s.
Good calls above re Marlo Thomas, Angie Dickenson, Dorothy Provine, Dorothy Malone, Stella Stevens, Raquel Welch, Inger Stevens.
Definitely need to include Ursula Andress, Jacqueline Bisset, and Brigitte Bardot.
Another worthy TV choice from the 60s would be Julie Newmar -- plenty fine-looking both as a "Living Doll" and in a Catwoman suit. Barbara Feldon from "Get Smart," Barbara Eden from "I Dream of Jeannie," Donna Douglas from "The Beverly Hillbillies," and (from the 70s) Jan Hooks from "WKRP in Cincinnati" aren't too shabby, either.
And nothing wrong with Maureen McCormick (Marcia Brady) if you're a teen guy hoping to have a hot-looking prom date on his arm.
I'd call that her one scene rather than a cameo, but she and Bogie out-spark Bacall and Bogie in that movie. I could have seen a youthful me committing crimes for Agnes** too.
First loin-stirrer: Diana Rigg as Emma Peel, especially those black leather skin tight pants.
** Mother of erstwhile child actor Mason Reese!!! Who knew?
I eagerly welcome and await this - if only for the sheer derision and sniping that I am sure to enjoy.
No, those are done, at least, the Star Wars ones are. Disney has the probably most aggressive copyright policy in this country, whereas Lucas and Lucasfilm had probably one of the most lax copyright policies in the country among major media companies. I am actually going to watch those soon before Disney has them taken down. Here is a good article on what the transition will mean for Star Wars fan fiction and movies
That's Jan Smithers. Jan Hooks was from SNL, though the linked photo somewhere above suggests she's lost a little off her fastball.
She was the 80s version of Mary-Ann from "Gilligan's Island".
The bombshell in the show was the one that was supposed to get all the attention (Jennifer or Ginger), but I ALWAYS found myself more attracted to the "regular" girl (Bailey Quarters or Mary-Ann).
Disagree. There's no need to return to the Ewoks beyond a 30-second cameo or callback, and I personally hope there's no more going-backward prequel garbage, I have had enough of that in all franchises and universes. Forward, b!tches.
The Girl Next Door is an excellent film. Truly.
Scorching-hot women who don't seem to know they're scorching hot are FLNRSA kryptonite.
I didn't know it was a talent.
For the record, I've only seen the first and second SW movies (chronologically speaking, though I believe Lucas has subsequently renamed the first one something like Star Wars Pi: Register of the Trademark), and I didn't see any of the LotR movies. I just never saw that as something to crow about. (-:
The others were pretty, but kind of a mess from plot adaptations and pacing.
Both Amazing GF and I had identical (separate) reactions to this one: first wondering "When the #### is this going to END?" and then cracking up when it just sort of... stops.
But, hey, if I take one more step, I'll be further from home than I've ever been before!
[says same thing every step until drops dead from exhaustion]
I wouldn't call it bragging, but I've made it to age 37 without having seen any of the Godfather movies or Good Fellas..... I need to rememdy that, I know. I have nothing against gangster movies.
I loved all of the LOTR movies, and am looking forward to the Hobbit trilogy.
Why haven't you?
Back in the day (mid-70s), my college friends fixated on "Bored of the Rings" and could quote it chapter and verse. I eventually read that. It had a certain charm but was a notch below Weird Al level, IMO.
Jar Jar Binks put an end to Star Wars for me. I can still watch the original 3 if they happen to pop up on TV.
[776] I would suggest seeing the Godfather movies first. I don't know if Scorsese did it on purpose or not, but the influence of drugs in the Henry Hill story (Goodfellas) is presaged in the GF movies.
As a big advocate of seeing classic movies on the big screen, go see the Godfathers on the big screen if you can (i.e., if they are playing at some local artsy-fartsy theater, it's worth it). I don't know if Goodfellas needs the big screen necessarily.
When it ended, a guy in the front JUMPED out of his seat and shouted "oh no you didn't! I'm gonna call the mayor!"
Mass laughter ensued.
Anyway, the subsequent LOTR movies improve upon the first.
I've never seen (definitely not bragging here): Citizen Kane, Rear Window or North by Northwest or Double Indemnity, Das Boot, The Third Man (enjoyed the 1st 20 min), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, or (uh) the Nolan Batman movies after the first one. I am decidedly not averse to seeing any of these, it just hasn't happened.
I'm in the exact same boat as everything mentioned above (though I've only made it to 33 rather than 37). I've seen very few movies that came out before the 80's.
LOTR is one of the rare times where the movies surpassed the books, IMO. And it's not even close.
I can't wait until they are scraping the barrel and make the Tom Bombadill trilogy. Of course, there's plenty of filmable stuff in the Silmarillion*, the story of Turin being all grimdark and Games-of-Throney even. So I may never see Old Tom dancing through the Old Forest. Sniff.
*) Executive summary: Self-exiled elves (including some not-very-nice ones teetering on the brink of psychopathy) battle the evil overlord for stolen treasures, they have initial success, but are then mauled over and over again until deus-ex-machina time.
i'm just starting to watch "the larry sanders show" on netflix. so far, so good.
Hey now! I loved that show. I think it stays pretty darn funny all the way through the end. I think it's the only HBO show that has made it to Netflix and it is a good way to kill a couple of weeks.
They're very different in spirit. Tolkien was setting out to write a Medieval romance, and he came closer to it than any other 20th century author. The movies don't really feel like that. The books are extremely successful in areas that the movies barely attempt -- the endless songs that people tend to skip over are much of the point of the whole enterprise, and get very little play in the movies. The movies have a lot of action, while the books tend to skim over the actual action, save for a few speeches and some mentions of fell deeds and whatnot.
It's not really an apples to apples comparison. I think the movies are more inspired by the books than films of the books. This is a statement and not a complaint; the books as written are pretty much unfilmable. So the movies are necessarily very different, and it's to the credit of Peter Jackson et al that they deviated from the books in ways that made them into good movies.
I'm not sure if I could say which is "better", in the same way I couldn't say if a symphony is better than the painting it was based on. I personally think that the books are a greater achievement in their realm than the movies are in theirs. I can understand an argument against this, but I think the books are greater.
Knew a guy in college whose family did not watch TV ever growing up and wow was he proud he did not understand any of the culutural references from them. It is a valid choice. I for example refuse to watch "reality" TV, but I don't run around bragging about it. Why would I? It is just a choice I make.
* Here is where I admit I have skipped over all the songs and poems in the books and basically everything in italics and have every intention of ignoring them forever. I tried to read a couple my first time through the series and since then I have tried again, but they have no interest to me and disrupt the flow of the books for me, so I just skip past. I have friends that insist I am missing the best parts of the story, but I am fine with that.
I'm heading over there right now.
Venture Bros is weird for me. Every single time I have watched a single episode, whether on AS, internet, friend's house, etc; I have loved the show. At the same time I can't seem to be bothered to remember to set the DVR or set down to watch the DVDs. Same thing with Archer and the last few years of South Park (in my defense, SP has overall not lived up to previous expectations and very uneven the last 2-3 seasons)
The films tell a story, the book was an exercise in world-building.
However, I liked the LOTR movies.
I was disheartened to hear that The Hobbit is going to be a trilogy. Where are the natural breaks for the endings to the first two movies?
I think everyone needs to see Citizen Kane so they can at least have an opinion on why most critics call it the best movie ever made. Whether they agree or not is their own opinion.
NxNW is probably my favourite "film studies" movie. It is often used in high school/university film studies courses as an example for whatever the teacher wants to cover: plot, characters, location, dialogue, camera angles. It also has one of the best dialogue-free scenes in non-silent movie history (the crop duster).
Rear Window is one of my top 10 because it's a nice tight little plot with great acting and (to bring it around to the original topic) absolutely stunning Grace Kelly. There have been women that have make me lust for them, but NO other woman has ever stopped me in my tracks with just her beauty like Grace Kelly.
I agree and would include Casa Blanca in the list. A great movie and iconic in so many ways. Gone with the Wind probably also belongs though it is not as good a movie (though it is pretty good).
Double Indemnity is not to miss. Edward G. Robinson is terrific, the hurt he feels is palpable. While Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray aren't 21st century standards of romantic leads, the sparks and desparation between them is wonderful. Billy Wilder (I think he has leapfrogged Hitchcock and Scorsese as my favorite director) keeps the tension going from beginning to the very end. DON'T MISS.
Das Boot will have your nails chewed off by the end. Another to see on the big screen if you can.
TotSM is very good, nice work by Bogie and Walter Huston chews the scenery. And it's worth it just for the "Badges" scene. :)
EDIT: The Third Man is great with a terrific paranoic feeling in divided Vienna post-War. Orson Welles does evil civility really, really well. The zither music might be a bit much for some ears. :)
Yeah, that's the one.
Amen.
For the old-timers, I didn't read 700 posts or so - did anyone mention Rita Hayworth?
Oh, yeah, I liked Elizabeth Montgomery, too. And she was really, really smart, at least she seemed that way from the times I saw her interviewed and such.
I'm a huge fan of LOTR, and yeah, the first half of The Fellowship of the Ring is just brutal. JRR needed an editor for that -- you can even see his style change throughout the books, away from that languid storytelling. And I realize some of that is supposed to mirror the growing worldliness of the Hobbits, I think some of it is just "That style wasn't working anymore". Meta-fiction it may be, but good fiction it isn't.
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