Posted on 10/23/2010 12:21:35 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Tony Curtis Jerry Lewis - Boeing Boeing (1965)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tc12NTcMnA
Jack Lemmon terrorizing a private detective -Good Neighbor
Sam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeuwL29nvek
My theory? Domestic American auudiences have basically become dumbed down and just want to play "big screen computer games", so the market responds to it, and vice versa.
Sorry to be a spoiler, but most of the films I view are foreign, mainly Asian, particularly Korean, Japanese and Indian. Some very clever movies with good acting, clean comments and resourceful story lines.
Hollywood is essentially a bankrupt mental wasteland, if you ask me.
I was Wall Street which was good but not nearly as good as the first one and I saw the Social Network which was 100 percent better than I expected. I saw The Switch which I wish I didn’t...lol.
Damn, and I thought I was gonna be able to go offline...
I love movies, since I don’t get any TV (intentionally) and just watch DVDs.
I recently re-watched BETWEEN THE LINES, which isn’t on DVD. Made in the late 70’s, it has a liberal bent but is so much fun it never bothers me. It’s about a Boston alternative newspaper and features a cast of folks who were just starting out and eventually became either stars on TV or movies (Marilu Henner, Jeff Goldblum) or noted character actors (John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, Stephen Collins). Terrific location shooting around Boston. If you liked WKRP IN CINCINNATTI I bet you’d like this.
Also saw THE PASSENGER by Antonioni, the ultimate America-hating italian director. I find this a fascinating movie, with one of the great long shots at the end. Nicholson is good, but the whole idea is what makes the movie.
FIVE EASY PIECES—again, Nicholson, again, a re-watch.
I picked up a bunch of new ones I haven’t seen yet: THE READER, AVATAR, CRAZY HEART, a few others. I have a feeling Avatar will go unwatched—I want to see it for the visuals, but it was playing in a video store and the dialogue was so wretched I had to leave the area.
Have also watched a bunch of Mystery Science Theater 3000 eps.
THE BAD LT. PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS
Big disappointment. Hollywoodized version of the original—all his “bad” behavior can be traced to his valiant attempt to save a prisoner’s life, so his drug use is a result of prescription drugs. Awwwww, he’s really a nice guy....
Can’t believe Werner Herzog is directing this lame stuff. AGUIRRE, WRATH OF GOD is one of the great movies.
RED
A Bruce Willis vehicle - but funny.
Well worth the matinee price to see.
Also, The Fantastic Mr. Fox is an interesting movie. It's a stop motion adaptation of a Roald Dahl book.
I also highly recommend Shutter Island and Inception if you haven't seen those yet.
I imagine that's what the final days of the Pelosi speakership will look like. :)
Think so. Don’t remember what it was though so it couldn’t have been that great.
I enjoyed SHUTTER ISLAND for the moviemaking, the sets and camerawork and acting, but the ending uses one of my most-hated cliches. I saw it coming because I started reading the book and bailed out on it because I saw where that was going, but it was still kinda lame. I thought the final scene in the movie was well-done, though.
Very good with James Cagney.
It’s always hard for me to really get into any movie with DeCaprio in it, because he looks so much like one of my brothers. But I really enjoyed this one, and THE DEPARTED even moreso.
You’re good with the pix!
Recently read an Orson Welles bio in which he praises Cagney to the heavens. Such a magnetic personality on screen.
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