jreidy
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Post by jreidy on Oct 11, 2012 21:14:12 GMT 10
Oh and on YouTube a great series of comedy is David Blaine - street magic. Fantastic low budget madness.
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Post by chookmustard on Oct 12, 2012 21:01:59 GMT 10
Just saw Taken 2, not a patch on the first one. And they left room for two more films
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Post by angra on Oct 22, 2012 10:12:00 GMT 10
No prizes for saying where this is from...
"Oh, Rhett! Please, don't go! You can't leave me! Please! I'll never forgive you!"
"I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names."
"Look at me! I've loved you more than I've ever loved any woman and I've waited for you longer than I've ever waited for any woman."
The best!
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Post by angra on Oct 22, 2012 19:03:51 GMT 10
"Little Dorrit" the 1988 film, music by Verdi. An Oscar-nominee.
Priceless.
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Post by angra on Oct 24, 2012 12:15:56 GMT 10
Not quite sure about the legality of all the clips on this site, but they have thousands of old TV programmes and films.
dailymotion.com
Yeah - it's legit. Partly owned by France Telecom's Orange. An alternative to Youtube.
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Post by angra on Nov 8, 2012 8:49:10 GMT 10
Vale Clive Dunn.
He of Dad's Army fame.
"They don't like it up 'em!"
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Post by angra on Nov 10, 2012 13:11:55 GMT 10
The TV stations seem to have happily conspired to manage to show all the John Ford classic Westerns in the space of a few weeks. Recently we've had Stagecoach and The Searchers - today we have The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and Cheyenne Autumn. In fact these overlap, so you'll have to make a choice.
Liberty Valance is perhaps the more crafted film making, but on a small scale. Cheyenne Autumn had magnificent scenery - 70mm colour of Monument Valley - but is a bit too earnest. Both feature the mighty James Stewart, who doth bestride the film world like a Colossus.
Nevertheless ALL well worth watching.
(But his Westerns were not his best efforts.....?)
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Post by angra on Nov 10, 2012 13:35:22 GMT 10
I've just realised what makes Ford's westerns so good.
It's ambiguity. Ambiguity that states something important about the American ethos.
In The Searchers it is blind hatred and racism that turns to tolerance when confronted by the reality of the human condition.
In Liberty Valance it is the conflict between Law and the Gun. It seems that Law wins, but at the end it is revealed that it was the Gun the won the day. What are we to believe?
It is Ford's genuis that he makes us all ask that question as individuals. What would I do? Who is right and who is wrong?
And in Cheyenne Autumn he makes us question the whole 'Indian Reservations/Treatment' agenda, albeit in 1960's drag.
He was a pretty subversive film-maker for Hollywood, who got away with it.
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Post by angra on Nov 11, 2012 8:57:13 GMT 10
Best film endings?
Liberty Valance is pretty good.
"Frankly I don't give a damn" is pretty good.
Blazing Saddles pull back from the set through the Hollywood suburbs is pretty good. (Breaking the third wall)
But surely you've seen better?
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Post by angra on Nov 11, 2012 9:02:19 GMT 10
Woodenchanowit? There's a web site for 'best film endings'.
Forget that, send in your memories.
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Post by angra on Nov 11, 2012 9:12:37 GMT 10
"Woodenchanowit" was credited a third Indian in Blazing Saddles, alongside 'kickingwoman' and 'broken condom'. And in case you think think is just an English racist thing... Andheri Raat Mein, Diya Tere Haath Mein Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai? U, Me Aur Hum Manorama Six Feet Under Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag Khosla Ka Ghosla Kiss Kiss Ki Kismat Daag: The Fire Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro www.indianhindunames.com/funny-names-news.htm
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Nov 11, 2012 9:18:36 GMT 10
Best film endings? In no particular order:
Casablanca, obviously.
Get Shorty.
Spy Game is quite good, although you can kind of see the ending coming. I mostly love that film for the dialog, and the way muir plays the system.
There was a film back in the 90's called "Fresh" which was quite good. There's a scene at the end where a drug-addled, world-weary girl who's been driven to prostitution to feed her habit quietly realises that her nerdy inner-city younger brother is doing a deal with the FBI to buy them both a new life.
Two Hands. Not so much brilliant, just epically violent and unexpected.
It's A Wonderful Life, if you're into that sort of bitter-sweetness-overload thing.
Crocodile Dundee. Oh, come on - the scene in the train station is actually kind of cool, with good music, even if the rest of the movie is a bit silly.
I'll probably think of others ...
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Nov 11, 2012 9:19:19 GMT 10
The Shawshank Redemption.
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Post by angra on Nov 11, 2012 9:25:04 GMT 10
Thanks MoC - keep the spirit flowing.
ET's ending was good - though cheesy.
But my personal favourite - Time Bandits.
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Post by angra on Nov 11, 2012 9:37:30 GMT 10
If I am only capable of one interesting comment, it is this.
Watch "The Searchers"
Read "Grapes of Wrath"
See the similarities?
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