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Re: wombat tries to watch movies again
« Reply #375 on: April 22, 2008, 02:27:41 pm »
Oh MAN grunge. 

I am wearing a leftover flannel shirt from my high-school days RIGHT NOW. 

Hehheh.  Grunge.  It's like the fad for being a dirty hippie came back, except without all the righteous indignation. 
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Re: wombat tries to watch movies again
« Reply #376 on: April 22, 2008, 04:12:09 pm »
I heart that movie.  Also Bridget Fonda.  And Matt Dillon as a grown-up (sorta).  Demographically, that movie hit me in the sweet spot.  Except I was living in Arcata, California at the time, which was as rainy as Seattle, as hippy-liberal as a Berkely street fair and as conservative as Allentown, PA (all at once), and as remote as Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
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Re: wombat tries to watch movies again
« Reply #377 on: April 23, 2008, 08:29:29 am »
Quote from: wombat on April 21, 2008, 02:11:13 pm
The Technical Staff made us watch Sleepless in Seattle, because he has become enamored of Seattle and wishes he could move there.

It turns out that A, there is almost NO Seattle in this movie, and B, seriously, this is one of the worst movies I ever saw. I swear, I am as big a romantic fool as the next person, but what was even romantic about this movie? Yeah, I hope they can build a great relationship based on their love of the same baseball player and the fact that this guy can wax poetic about his dead wife.

People commenting on Netflix say that they cry at the end. I cried too, but it was because I was two hours closer to being DEAD and I could never get back the two hours I'd spent watching that movie.

Isn't that movie just a remake of a classic Cary Grant movie anyhow? Rent the original. You'll probably like it.(Edit: An Affair to Remember: Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr)

I watched an old Tony Curtis/Burt Lancaster movie last week called "The Sweet Smell of Success". I am becoming slowly convinced that sometime in the 70's really good, artistic movies with strong writing and carefully planned shots just flat out ended. But if you want to see tight writing, good music (Elmer Bernstein) and acting, check it out.
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Re: wombat tries to watch movies again
« Reply #378 on: April 23, 2008, 01:33:59 pm »
Quote from: AlohaDawg on April 23, 2008, 08:29:29 am
Isn't that movie just a remake of a classic Cary Grant movie anyhow? Rent the original. You'll probably like it.(Edit: An Affair to Remember: Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr)

I watched an old Tony Curtis/Burt Lancaster movie last week called "The Sweet Smell of Success". I am becoming slowly convinced that sometime in the 70's really good, artistic movies with strong writing and carefully planned shots just flat out ended. But if you want to see tight writing, good music (Elmer Bernstein) and acting, check it out.

We're hyping old romance movies now?  I'm in!  Who here absolutely loves The Apartment with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine? 

A man loans his office out to executives for flings, and then messes everything up... WITH LOVE!  Comedy, darkness, appendix scars, repeated offers of coffee.  This movie had everything.
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Re: wombat tries to watch movies again
« Reply #379 on: April 23, 2008, 02:03:44 pm »
I know it's cliched but I just got done watching Casablanca on the big screen and that's still an awesome movie. Best ending to a love story ever.
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Re: wombat tries to watch movies again
« Reply #380 on: April 23, 2008, 02:28:44 pm »
Quote from: Pedro Picasso on April 23, 2008, 01:33:59 pm
We're hyping old romance movies now?  I'm in!  Who here absolutely loves The Apartment with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine? 

A man loans his office apartment out to executives for flings, and then messes everything up... WITH LOVE!  Comedy, darkness, appendix scars, repeated offers of coffee.  This movie had everything.

Um, if he were loaning out his office, wouldn't the movie be called, The Office? 
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Re: wombat tries to watch movies again
« Reply #381 on: April 24, 2008, 01:57:26 am »
Two great old movies to check out:  Marty for which Ernest Borgnine won an Oscar and His Gal Friday in which Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell discover just exactly how fast people can talk yet remain witty.
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Re: wombat tries to watch movies again
« Reply #382 on: April 24, 2008, 03:36:36 am »
Aaron Sorkin should take a lesson. 
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Re: wombat tries to watch movies again
« Reply #383 on: April 24, 2008, 04:12:06 am »
I watched Rashomon tonight. It's a good movie.
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Re: wombat tries to watch movies again
« Reply #384 on: April 24, 2008, 06:32:51 am »
Perspectives? Gotta catch 'em all, Rashomon!
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Re: wombat tries to watch movies again
« Reply #385 on: April 24, 2008, 07:30:38 am »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on April 24, 2008, 06:32:51 am
Perspectives? Gotta catch 'em all, Rashomon!

Admittedly funny.

Also favorites in the old movie category: The Desk Set. Hepburn/Tracy, greatest chemistry ever on the big screen.

Another favorite is "Man's Favorite Sport" with Rock Hudson. That one is really funny.
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Re: wombat tries to watch movies again
« Reply #386 on: April 24, 2008, 07:59:13 am »
My favorite film of the era is The Philadelphia Story - Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Kate Hepburn, and a very colorful supporting cast (yes the film is black & white) in a mixed-up love story at an old mansion outside Philly. Hilarious.
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Re: wombat tries to watch movies again
« Reply #387 on: April 24, 2008, 08:14:53 am »
my knowledge of old movies is basically limited to old Italian movies because I took a class on them-- Umberto D and Il Posto are my two big faves.

The Polish movie Ashes and Diamonds was also amazing, if only for the weird late 1950's Polish version of James Dean.
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« Reply #388 on: April 24, 2008, 12:47:10 pm »
Pedro is horrified and offended by the idea behind this movie, but Mom and I think If A Man Answers is a hoot. 
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Re: wombat tries to watch movies again
« Reply #389 on: May 28, 2008, 01:44:23 pm »
Brief Encounter is one of my favourite old love stories, and The Apartment was based on one of the minor characters in that film.

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