Originally posted by Mr Sleep:
<STRONG>I was J/K anyway, i have a certain penchant for depressing movies, look at my choice - Vertigo. That hardly has you singing along and tapping your feet like Fred Astare</STRONG>
LOL
Though, speaking of which... Singin' In The Rain Yay!
My favourite movies, in no order:
Gladiator
Star Wars V and VI
Star Trek: First Contact (so I'm a trekkie )
The Rock
The Fugitive
Liar Liar
Rat Race (saw it yesterday)
Maverick
I wanted to see Final Fantasy, but I didn't have time. Shame it wasn't in theaters that long.
If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do.
Fred Astaire isn't in Singing in the Rain, Gene Kelly is no Fred Astaire. (but Singing in the Rain is a great movie-love that technicolor) Fred Astaire pretty much goes into the "great physical performers" category with Jackie Chan, Buster Keaton, Peter Sellers. Some highlights:
Dancing and hitting golf balls at the same time
Tap dancing in roller skates
playing a drum solo and tap dancing at same time etc.
I saw Rat Race and thought it was good too. Loved the busload of Lucy impersonators!
Originally posted by Gaxx_Firkraag:
<STRONG>My favourite movies, in no order:
Gladiator
Star Wars V and VI
Star Trek: First Contact (so I'm a trekkie )
The Rock
The Fugitive
Liar Liar
Rat Race (saw it yesterday)
Maverick
I wanted to see Final Fantasy, but I didn't have time. Shame it wasn't in theaters that long. </STRONG>
I love gladiator also and Billy Madison.
I was going to see rat race with my friends but we went and saw "The Others". It was okay, kind of like the 6th sense in a way.
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Originally posted by Georgi:
<STRONG>Yay glorious technicolour! </STRONG>
It's like, the color now just isn't the same. Actually Sound of Music is almost worth watching just for the color. One good technicolor movie is "One-Eyed Jacks", the only Western starring Marlon Brando (and he was thin)
Originally posted by THE JAKER:
<STRONG>It's like, the color now just isn't the same. Actually Sound of Music is almost worth watching just for the color. One good technicolor movie is "One-Eyed Jacks", the only Western starring Marlon Brando (and he was thin)</STRONG>
Thin?????
Your talking about ancient times.
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Yeah, pretty much...well Brando was never really "thin" but he was a "hunk", then he turned into a "chunk". Even in "The Godfather" he is not really THAT fat, it is in "Apocalypse Now" that he really shows up looking big. If anyone has seen the documentary about Apocalypse called "Hearts of Darkness", the part about Brando is really funny! (and its funny to hear Coppola talking about anyone being fat)
not to keep on about Apocalypse Now, but they have released a new cut - "Redux", it adds in a few sequences that were filmed, then cut from the final release. I personally haven't seen it, but i knew about the sequences from the documentary. I think a much better waste of time is watching The Godfather I and II back to back.
I still say Full Metal Jacket is the best Vietnam movie. Interesting that Spielberg has never made a Vietnam movie. Born in 1946, age 25 in 1971, he does not seem interested in Vietnam, the war of his generation, instead he makes movie after movie about WWII and times before he was born.
Fun thing to do: compare and contrast original movies with later remakes.
1940s Cat People with 1980s Cat People
1920s Romeo & Juliette (Basil Rathbone and Lionel Barrymore) with Zeferelli's R&J (sp)
A Guy Named Joe with Always
French Three Men and a Crib with American Three Men and a Baby
There's a million of these you can do! (Which begs the question: are there no original plot lines left?)
That there; exactly the kinda diversion we coulda used.
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