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I watched All About Eve with the commentary last night, and strangely they didn't explain the rear projection at all. A few interesting things I learned is that Joe Mankiewicz hated that because of All About Eve, an actual Sarah Siddons Award was created. Celeste Holm, the actress who played Karen, actually received the award one year, which rankled Joe. One of the commentators was Ken Geist, who wrote a Mankiewicz biography. I wanted to find out more about Geist, and in my Googling, I found out that Geist said Eve Harrington was originally conceived as a lesbian. Joe Mankiewicz's son, Tom Mankiewicz, was another commentator and his insights about his parents were fascinating. He said he saw his father in Bill and his mother in Margo. His mother was Rose Stradner, mostly known as a theater actress in Austria. When she married Joe Mankiewicz, she came to Hollywood and became a homemaker. It was her understudy who ended up with a successful career in Hollywood - sound familiar? Tom said his father had many affairs (for example, Joe had an affair with Judy Garland during his marriage with Rose) and Tom said he saw his parents during the fight scene between Bill and Margo on the bed on stage. Lastly (most importantly), the third commentator was Celest Holm. While she shared very little, my favorite trivia came from her. She said that she painted the eggplant herself! She was bored waiting around set sometimes, so in between takes, she actually painted that still life of bananas and eggplant. She sounded really proud of the painting LOL.

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Secret rock history: Duran Duran was originally Duran Duran Duran, until the youngest of the Duran triplets was trampled to death by a stampede of Moog cows

lol i guess hayes is freaking crazy if hes going to a shrink. what a lunatic. you dont have to be crazy to have a podcast here but it helps

Speaking of profile pictures, urinalcake's pic makes me as uncomfortable as this one does.

They must have! Baxter doesn't get the concept of fetch. He watches you throw a ball with an expression like 'why would you do that?' and then rolls on it like its a massage ball on his back. He does enjoy killing his toys though.

The beginning of this movie made me sad - who is selling kittens for five bucks, and then just abandons the ones that are left? Poor baby. I wanted to give him a hug. It probably doesn't help that I spend two days a week volunteering at an animal shelter, adopting out those same animals. Also, I'm insanely tempted to get the same set up for my dog that Georgette has. He already has his own bedroom since he took over the guest room with his toys. In regards to pictures, I don't have a cat, but my dog sometimes acts like a cat?

Ms Bennet for sure has resting bitch face. She's also a bitch but you can definitely see it all over her face lol.

Omg well Kitty Pryde should meet Ms. Kitty Bennet

I can't figure out why he was left behind at all! Orange tabbys are universally beloved! Black cats are the ones that have the hardest time getting adopted and left behind (which is why I'm so protective of my own), so it may have had more meaning if Oliver had been a black cat? But then again the animation may have looked more flat if he was one solid dark color.

This is my Oliver! Named as such because we found him abandoned by his litter and he was basically a little street rat (Aladdin was also a name we considered). We got him exactly 2 years ago and he went from looking like he was days away from dying to this beautiful perfect healthy little asshole.

They so Disney-fied the shit out of this that it literally took me being in my 20s to realize this was based on Oliver Twist. Whoops. I think I was at work and I had just gotten my Oliver (pics coming soon I promise) and my coworker asked if I named him after Oliver & Co and I said "No, Oliver Twist..." and he just stared at me until it clicked and I went "Holy fuck I'm dumb" lol!

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I can see it's not on any upcoming episode lists yet, but I hope for Star Wars, they watch the untouched "despecialized" version or the original DVD before it got the Special Edition treatment that just became the version of record. Seems like the AFI list wouldn't include it based on the Jabba the Hutt scene alone...

They may come out with a revised list for the 25th anniversary.

Superman is truly something else. Reeves performance as Superman/Clark Kent is so good. There's the scene in one of the movies (not sure which one) where you see him switch between the personas as he's deciding to reveal his identity to Lois and you see the physicality of it all. You can see why friends and coworkers don't figure out that Clark Kent is just Superman in glasses. But more than that, I really do get lost in believing he can fly. I know the tagline is "You will believe a man can fly" but I really do believe it. I don't see the wires and the fan blowing his cape. I see Superman. Maybe it's just a holdover from seeing it as a kid but I'm still in awe of those flying scenes.

If we're talking lasting impact and universal acclaim, how about the 1978 Superman? It's still remembered as the pinnacle of Superman on screen, even the definitive version among comic book fans, who sometimes look for Christopher Reeve in the Superman comics I try to sell them.

This might be controversial, but what about The Dark Knight? Personally, I'm not really a fan myself, but I wouldn't kick it out if it were to end up on the list. Based on cultural impact alone, I feel like the superhero genre should be represented on any updated list. And out of all of them, I think The Dark Knight might be the closest thing superhero movies have to a prestige film.

I would argue for The Social Network.

Bob Dylan wrote a song about the Titanic called Tempest in 2012. He mentioned Leo by name. If Bob Dylan is name checking you and your movie, that's definitely some serious cultural weight.

Except that this movie is intentionally insane, what exactly would there be for them to talk about? It doesnt work if everything thats weird about a movie is put there with a purpose, or should they cover the Airplane! movies next? The reason Face/Off and Con Air worked so well is because those movie didnt intend for them to turn out as hilariously as they did. Ed Woods movies are hard to do, just because although they are next level bad, you could screen most 50's movies to the gang and i'm sure they'd have an equal reaction. It was just a different era. Its like the Honeymooners, extremely popular for its time. Main characters catch phrase is threatening to punch his wife in the face.

HDTGM is about BAD movies.

It is basically my life's dream right now for this movie to be covered on HDTGM. It's amazingly, shockingly, hilariously bad. There are weird creepy sex scenes and insane dialogue to rival The Room, plus tons of "cutting edge" 90s technology. Look at the gifs here and tell me the phrase "next level bonkers" wasn't made for this movie.