Posted on 10/12/2013 2:05:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
That Darn Cat!
my fave
Must have been the USS Midway.
Leni
Funny how that whole nostalgia thing works. I'm not sure how old you are, but I was about 13 when the Kinks released their song Come Dancing. In the song, Ray Davies recounts the music and dancing of his youth and it seemed like such a long reach into the past. It recently dawned on me that I'm now a lot older than Ray Davies was when he wrote the lyrics, and now, that song is a nostalgic recollection of my youth!
Ray Davies may have been born nostalgic.
After about 20 years of people telling him what a genious you are, how could anyone maintain proper humility? I think it kills many writers, that after a certain point, people aren't willing to tell them to their face that what they are doing is a stinker. YOu see that most stronly in the Star Wars movies.
Ralph Nader started ruining it, then came the console between the two front seats.
Now it's adrenaline-fueled video games and roller-coaster movies with overly dramatic music and acting.
Have you done Harvey yet? Absolute classic.
You might give Tracy/Hepburns “Keeper of the Flame” a try. The ending will pleasantly surprise you, and it was strikingly prescient.
Toad trying to score a bottle of booze at the liquor store....classic.
Boo hoo... the truth hurts.
I was reading reviews of some classic flick from about fifty years ago or so, and one obviously very youthful reviewer opined as how he couldn’t stand older movies. In his mind there are just so many modern “great” movies, he couldn’t understand how anybody could watch a movie older than say ten or fifteen years. I have absolutely no idea how to respond to someone like that short of just hoping as they get older their tastes improve.
The Car Culture is dying.HUH? There are numerous very popular car related shows on cable and even new copycat shows popping up all the time.
Then there's this custom car/hot rod/jalopy builders site: The Hokey Ass Message Board with over 200,000 (a few yrs ago it was around 30,000) members from all over the world. One thread there called Vintage Shots From Days gone by (not car related) has over 20 million hits.
Televised car auctions that are spread out over several days and have expanded to multiple times a year from different locatons around the country.
The car culture is not dead or dying it's growing.
The first AG was great. AG2 is not worth the celluloid it was filmed on. A totally forgettable piece of junk.
Hey Bill, try it’s A Mad, Mad, Mad World next time.
I'm not against action-adventure movies, but I agree with you about most of them. Especially the modern flicks. There is still no substitute for a great plot and great acting. Multiple explosions, car chases, shoot-outs just become cartoonish in short order.
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