Posted on 03/29/2013 9:43:18 PM PDT by MNDude
Blair Witch Project
An Inconvenient Truth
E.T.
There is a five-hour workprint for Spinal Tap.
Rob was lucky enough to stand aside and let the comedy troupe do their thing. The writing credits as assigned to Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, & Rob Reiner. He had more than enough material to work with in editing it down to a 90 minute film (although some elements of edited plot lines remain).
Three of those guys have gone on to make similar films. One of them has not shown the same briliance.
I would make an exception for Braveheart.
I liked The King’s Speech.
“I’d like to find your inner child and kick its little ass”
LOLOL!!!
That is *great*!
I have prepared what I call “The Radar Love Defense”.
There are several songs which make me roll the throttle hard and Radar Love is one of the ‘worst’ offenders.
Hopefully, the trooper who pulls me over will be sympathetic.
[I was using the “Bat Outta Hell Defense” but decided it was too damning, right out of the gate]
:)
Yes, King's Speech was excellent.
*Fisk*.
:D
” The one where he plays a really cocky guy.”
He was actually good (IMHO) in Collateral playing the bad guy as Michael Mann is an exceptional director. Everything with that racist, obama butt-licker Jamie Foxx and he’s the good guy, ruins it for me.
You have no idea how many people thought his character should have died in Law Abiding Citizen instead of Gerard Butler. More than 20 of my friends and it’s a majority consensus..
I LOVED them for dissing that movie. I just KNEW it was like that, without even seeing it.
And I also loved that fake movie they had “Rochelle, Rochelle” - what was it, the story of a girl’s erotic journey from Minsk to Pinsk?
How many folks remember the movie that was poking fun at, from the 70s I guess “Rachel Rachel”. I was too young to see it, but who was in it, was it Joanne Woodward?
“Would somebody please start acting!”
LOL! I’m going to tell my friend that, she’ll know exactly how you felt.
“I am also interested in seeing up in the air. I hear it is good.”
I was very disappointed in that movie, I won’t say more than that.
But, it had Vera Farmiga in it, she is always excellent. I’m even watching that new TV Show Bates Motel, only because she’s playing the (evil of course) Mom.
It’s pretty good so far.
I just complained about how boring the dang thing is to Hubby. We did sit through the whole thing, though.
*Snort* [giggles] I just loooove that!
Everything that has ever won an “Oscar”.
Now you can say what you like about John Wayne, but some of the greatest actors of his generation, Jimmy Stewart, Lauren Bacall, Katharine Hepburn, Lee Marvin, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara ... etc. etc. etc, ALL said they had never worked with an actor like him. Lee Marvin is one of the great actors of all time, and in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance John Wayne virtually blows him off the screen. NO ONE has ever had his screen presence. Ever. I love Jeff Bridges, and in every respect I can think of the Coen Brothers version of True Grit is superior to the original except one: John Wayne nails that part and Bridges is a pale imitation.
So I dislike Shane because, quite frankly it is not in the same class as many other great Westerns, and in fact is not even as good as a few modern ones like the remake of 3:10 to Yuma [Far superior to the original Glenn Ford effort, IMHO.] It is merely cited as an iconic film in order to slight the man it does not star. [And by the way, Jack Palance should have gotten the supporting Oscar for that film, so I agree with you, there are great performances in it, and it does not make my "worst" list, by any means... but greatest Western ever? No. It does not belong in even the top ten.]
Make it 21. I want an alternate ending where JF comes in to gloat and discovers the cell is empty as the bomb goes off, killing him instead.
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