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  3. Posted

    9 hours ago, CameronH said:

    Okay, just so I'm not being completely negative, I did have a little chuckle when the little camper girl asks, "Isn't it wrong to sing and dance when someone just died?" 

    I had 2 sensible chuckles.  First one was when the kids are arriving at camp and the kid in glasses says that someone beat him up for liking musicals and it was his dad.  I can't remember the second one...

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  5. Posted

    16 minutes ago, taylorannephoto said:

    The camp song "We're Gay" was maybe the worst part of the whole thing. I mean not only just using Gay as a joke *eye roll* but in a musical that seems to let the actual music happen "naturally" within the story this was way too choreographed and stood out tremendously. Also, it's a fucking bad song lol.

    Yeah, I hated that song.  I'm "gay" for liking musicals?  Fuck off.

    Also hated the constant sexual assault on the lead character.  They could've just had one scene instead of a montage!

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  7. Posted

    On 8/31/2018 at 11:26 PM, DannytheWall said:

    A couple other notes I took while re-watching:

    -- I still can't get over the bad exposition of the first scene. Please hold this up as a what-not-to-do for budding screenwriters. Ditto some other times at the school, when the boyfriend was moving furniture... hm. Actually a lot.  

    This scene actually rustles my jimmies to the max. The scene opens up with a couple looking at an engagement ring.  And then Anna says she'll go wrap up the purchase for them. However, at that moment the intern (?) comes up from the basement with a sofa and sets it down in the store.  So instead of handing the ring box to the couple and completing the transaction, she sits down on the sofa next to him and then proceeds to give him his gift!  It's supposed to be a tender scene, but all I could think of was hello, there are 2 impatient customers watching you!  I dunno, if I had been one of the customers, I would've written a negative Yelp review about the place.

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  8. Posted

    2 hours ago, Elektra Boogaloo said:

    It's so funny that you guys are talking about dolphin rape. They always have their dicks out. (A friend of mine once showed us a "cute" picture of her at a dolphin encounter and my coworker and I were like, "... there's it's dick right there.") I was actually thinking the other day it's a shame Hollywood always does shark movies and then people are afraid of them because they should be afraid of dolphins. We should write a movie where some evil company puts, like, Viagra juice in the water and the dolphins just rape swimmers.

    I'd rather a shark bite my leg off. It's usually an accident. And even if it did want to eat my leg, at least the leg is going to good use.

    And you know what's on those dolphin dicks out?  Genital warts.

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    21 minutes ago, Quasar Sniffer said:

    Dolphins are also notoriously... amorous and sexually aggressive. They're basically wet Harvey Weinsteins with the speed of Usain Bolt and the strength of J.J. Watt. NO THANK YOU. But Stephen Speilberg never made a perfectly terrifying movie about them and they make cute clickity-clack noises so I guess people think they are adorable.

    I’ve been saying dolphins are the jerks of the sea!

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  16. Posted

    On 8/24/2018 at 2:58 PM, DanEngler said:

    Debbie Reynolds, on the other hand, is magnetic every second she's on screen. I need to seek out more of her work, starting with her intriguing turn in Mega Man.

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    Moreover, Kathy and the other dancers throw that arm puff into the crowd during their performance.  Why??

    I liked this outfit though - especially the built in purse.

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  18. Posted

    Fuck - Donald O’ Conner. Out of the 3, I’m most curious about him.

    Marry - Debbie Reynolds. I’m looking for long term companionship and compatibility and I think she has it.

    Sadly, kill Gene Kelly, but at least we have Fred Astaire? 

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  19. Posted

    On 8/18/2018 at 11:56 PM, Cam Bert said:

    I was out for Korean BBQ last night with a group of friends of which three are 6 months to 3 months pregnant and before we ordered there was a long conversation over what they can and can not eat and how well the meat they eat should be cooked. It just gave me horrible flashbacks of this movie.

    But did they smear bbq meat all over their faces?

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  20. Posted

    I really enjoyed DI, but Neff's behavior was maddening sometimes.  It's frustrating to see smart people doing dumb stuff.  Like the scene where Keyes was telling Neff about the time he almost proposed to a woman, but then his gut told him to check her background.  Why didn't this anecdote make Neff pause and think?  

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  21. Posted

    18 hours ago, CameronH said:

    What was everyone’s favorite Noir line?

    Mine was: “They’ll hang you just as sure as ten dimes will by you a dollar, and I don’t want you to hang, baby.”

    I love that one too. 

    5 hours ago, AlmostAGhost said:

    Phyllis: I was just fixing some iced tea. Would you like a glass?
    Neff: Yeah, unless you got a bottle of beer that's not working.

    I didn't understand until you pointed this out, so thank you.

    I liked these two.  When asked whether he makes breakfast, Neff says "Well, I squeeze a grapefruit now and again."   And how does Neff spell his name?  "Two "F"s, like in Philadelphia, if you know the story." (and I love how Phyllis was like, huh?)

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  24. Posted

    2 hours ago, Hashtag Film said:

    I didn't rewatch, but all I can remember from AAE is all the smoking that Bette Davis did.  The big tobacco companies should use clips from this film to show that cigarette smoking is fine, Bette lived until 81 while smoking like a lunatic.

    Totally. AAE made me consider smoking. It looked so cool. 

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  25. Posted

    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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