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    Posted: 03 Feb 2010 at 3:52am

Ah, gotcha. I'm gonna watch it again.

Ditto My Cousin Vinny. One of our favorites.
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Posts: 22642 		  Quote Don Watkins Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 Feb 2010 at 4:23am

Haha, the Car 54 movie gets a 2.0 on IMDB while the series gets a 8.3.

Lots of boomers voting I'm guessing.
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Posts: 15331 		  Quote Randy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 Feb 2010 at 5:16am
"My Cousin Vinny" just seemed to be one of the most creative combinations of characters and plot for a regular low budget movie at the time.  We loved it.
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Posts: 11355 		  Quote Bob Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05 Feb 2010 at 11:24pm
A movie I saw on TCM tonight ... A Time to Kill (1996).  I thought it was a really good movie with Mathew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, both the Sutherland fellows.  Even Patrick McGoohan.  A bit exaggerated about the south but not in some aspects.  From a John Grisham novel.
I think McConaughey is from this area ...yeah, I just checked, he was born in Uvalde but grew up in Longview which is just up the road.
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Posts: 22642 		  Quote Don Watkins Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 Feb 2010 at 7:14am

I don't know if it's anyone else's cup of tea but wow, A Serious Man might be one of the most interesting films I think I've ever seen.

Firstly it's a Coen brothers movie and I love their stuff. There's something about how they tell a story that seems to connect for me.

Or maybe it's just me.

But in any regard it's a retelling of the story of Job reset in contemporary times (or at least in 1960s time) and to me it explores the fundamental relationship between man and God with any number of very interesting (and clever) bits of symbolism and parables thrown in the mix. I bet I could watch this six times and find something I'd missed previously each time.

I can't really recommend it, I think maybe I like it so much because it parallels some of my own personal stuff, not the bad stuff that happens to the modern day Job character, but fighting God on a regular basis and trying to know something that is unknowable.

But regardless another great story from the Coen's.
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Just noticed that the previously mentioned Pickup On South Street is on TCM tonight. If you get it and have a DVR...recommended.
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Posts: 11355 		  Quote Bob Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 Feb 2010 at 10:53pm
I watched.  I enjoyed.  Thelma Ritter, good old standby character and/or supporting actress.  And the way they depicted people smoking in those days makes me feel almost like a reformed smoker.  Also I noticed that the song "Again" was the recurring theme in the movie.  One of those back when you could actually understand the words and point of a song.  Ahh, memories!  (Dirty Commies!!)
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Posts: 22642 		  Quote Don Watkins Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Feb 2010 at 5:12am
Oh yeah, it had all the elements, I'd forgotten that calling anybody a commie was a hot button. Now people seem to be proud of it.
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Posts: 11355 		  Quote Bob Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Feb 2010 at 11:00pm
The Guns of Navarone - Ha, I guess I always thought of this movie as a western for some reason and I think I have never seen it although it's been around since '61.  I thought it was a good old WWII action movie (more special forces or guerrilla operation) with Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quale and others.  It was on TCM as one of many of a Oscar movie marathon running now.
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Been a loooong time since I've seen that one. Or any with Peck. Might be time to watch it again.
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Guns is a great movie, one of my faves as a kid.

For some reason I missed this one when it came out on DVD but I enjoyed it very much.

The International
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The Guns of Navarone was a great WWII movie, and it had all those big stars in the same movie.

It didn't hit my radar when it came out.  The International looks like an on the edge of your seat type.
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I thought The International had a great story, acting and the photography (locations in Turkey, US and Italy as far as I can recall) was simply outstanding.

It made me want to go to all of those places and see them in person, it was simply remarkable. Also kudos to whoever did the location selections, just amazing places.

If you see it tell me you wouldn't like to live where they have that arms company headquarters. Not practical but yeow!
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Posts: 11355 		  Quote Bob Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Feb 2010 at 8:35am
The Last Castle - Robert Redford and James Gandolfino.  Military prison based and a pretty good watch.  Pitting leadership styles against one another.  I don't think I ever heard of a three star being tossed in prison but it makes for a good plot and lots of action toward the end.
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Posts: 29712 		  Quote Karl_db Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Feb 2010 at 8:43am
That sure rings a bell. I'm pretty sure I saw it though I can't recall when or where. Enjoyed it...and I'm not that big of a Redford fan.  (Except for Butch and The Sting.)

Oops. My bad. After reviewing Redford films I see there are quite a number I enjoyed. Must be his personal politics I don't care much for.  Horse Whisperer was real good I thought.
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Posts: 11355 		  Quote Bob Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Feb 2010 at 8:48am
Yeah, there are a LOT of Hollywood types like that.  I just ignore their politics and treat it like the fantasies they act in.  But Jane Fonda .... I'll always be prejudiced against anything she touches.
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Posts: 15331 		  Quote Randy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Feb 2010 at 9:15am
I enjoyed "The Last Castle".  We actually have it on DVD.
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I'm pretty much on the same page but I include Barbra Streisand as well.
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If I thought about it, there's probably quite a few on my list. Singers also. I just find it hard to separate their private and public lives. (And not just on the issue of politics.)

ROFL  I thought I'd cooled down on Hanoi Jane...but after googling to see where her views are today...unchanged and still defending her Hanoi visit....I feel like another fellow:
2005: "I will go to my grave regretting that. The image of Jane Fonda, 'Barbarella,' Henry Fonda's daughter, just a woman sitting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal. It was like I was thumbing my nose at the military and at the country that gave me privilege."
Fonda emphasized that she was not apologizing for any other actions connected with her trip to North Vietnam, or for any of her other anti-war activities:
The 67-year-old actress and activist, however, defended her decision to go to Hanoi and said she had no regrets about being photographed with American POWs there or making broadcasts on Radio Hanoi because she was trying to stop the war.

"There are hundreds of American delegations that had met with the POWs," she added. "Both sides were using the POWs for propaganda. It's not something that I will apologize for."
One man who didn't take Fonda's confessions to heart was 54-year-old Michael Smith. While Fonda was autographing copies of her autobiography, My Life So Far, in Kansas City in April 2005 as part of a promotional book-signing tour, Smith, who said he was a Vietnam veteran, waited in line for 90 minutes and then spat tobacco juice on Fonda.
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Posts: 22642 		  Quote Don Watkins Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Feb 2010 at 9:57am

Yup, Fonda for sure but I can handle just about anybody else, I just ignore them as people.

Heck, if I limited my movie watching to actors that weren't liberal I'd be limited to about a dozen actors, if that (grin).
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