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  3. Posted

    16 hours ago, theworstbuddhist said:

    Oh, one cool thing about this movie is seeing Sarah Trigger. She was in PCU with Jeremy Piven, which is not aging well as you can probably imagine, and she was in one of the greatest TV crime dramas of all time, the short-lived EZ Streets by Paul Haggis, starring Ken Olin, Joey Pants, and Jason Gedrick. Hey Netflix, there's a show that should be revived and resolved!

    Yes! I kept seeing her as her character from PCU. I'm glad someone else mentioned it. I really liked her character in that. Here... not so much.

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    20 hours ago, sycasey 2.0 said:

    Is that all you did, or did you also use phrases like "fuck you" in doing so? Because if so I think the latter is why you would have gotten banned. In my experience people are not kicked out of that group merely for disagreeing with the hosts.

    I am beginning to see why people get banned. I appreciate moderators. 

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    20 hours ago, sycasey 2.0 said:

    2. Some of this is what Amy brought up: the assumptions about male/female roles are really rooted in the time. Not just that the failure to have kids will inevitably have a negative effect on women, but also the general social pressure to be married, that the younger couple felt an absolute need to marry because of a pregnancy that turned out to be false. Not sure you could put that in a movie today. I'm not really blaming the movie for that (those were the standards of the time), but as an all-time entry I found it a bit unfortunately dated.

    To chime in - as a single, child-free woman of a certain age, I can tell you the pressure to get married, to have kids, and to refrain from having kids outside of marriage, is alive and well. And infertility (while not necessarily reflecting poorly on the woman) still comes with the feeling that to be a woman is to be a mother, and by not being a mother, you are not a fully realized woman. 

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    On 7/13/2019 at 4:48 AM, GrahamS. said:

    Even though the Deadfall on VUDU is different, I found a 1/2 hour “Nicolas Cage” cut of the 1993 Deadfall on YouTube. I would not want to sit through this entire film, but this collection of scenes is hilarious and awful. It seems like his accent changes every thirty seconds. “Hi-fucking-yah!” Indeed.

    here’s the link:

     

    was this movie shot by Tommy Wiseau? wow.  just wow. 

    ETA: IMDb says this has an estimated $10,000,000 budget!?

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  8. Posted

    I thought this was a fun watch, but also agree that The Philadelphia Story was the better one. Grace Kelly was hands down the best part. I, too, laughed out loud at the way she greeted the reporters. And Ms. Imbrie was of course Karen in All About Eve. I was really disappointed in her accepting Sinatra at the end. He spent the entire time trying to get in Grace Kelly's pants.  

    On the Tracy-Dexter relationship - did I miss why they got divorced? I remember her saying something about him almost ruining her life, but I don't know if they ever make it clear why they split up in the first place.

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  9. Posted

    On 7/12/2019 at 1:09 AM, SeekerofJoy said:

    Rhett and Scarlett ultimately represent the unheroic, narcissistic, pleasure-seeking side of America. America First, can’t find other countries on a map, speak English! Rather watch Avengers than watch the news? Yup, that’s America too. This is America’s shadow side. We can embrace it, challenge it, and engage with it — but we can’t just repress it and pretend it isn’t there.

    I don't think anyone is trying to pretend this movie doesn't exist. I think we can (and are) challenging it, engaging with it, and deconstructing it's misguidedness. I don't think we need to embrace it or venerate it. Like confederate statues, movies like this and Birth of a Nation belong (if anywhere) in museums that can provide accurate historical context. There can be a discussion of how cinema changed because of or in spite of these movies. That doesn't mean we need to laud them and include them among the 100 BEST American Films. In fact, I think the fact that Birth was removed and this one is still on the list gets at the nature of how white supremacy has changed over time and persists today. It's no longer socially acceptable to be blatantly racist (thought that certainly seems to be changing today), but this upholds the systemic racism inherent in our society and the continual dehumanization of people of color. It also gets at how white Americans just completely erase the parts of history they find troublesome, and how slavery seems often categorized as African American history without acknowledging the white history or perpetrating such horrors on another group of people. 

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  11. Posted

    On 7/6/2019 at 4:42 AM, robtucker63 said:

    Gone With the Wind? I’ve avoided that movie my whole life. As a U.S. history teacher for almost thirty years, I’ve got little patience for films that try to put a happy face on slavery and the Confederacy. It’s going to be a tough watch.

    I've avoided this movie also and doubt I'm going to watch it unless Paul and Amy convince me it's worth my time. I'm not sticking to having to watch every single movie on the list. So far I've skipped A Clockwork Orange and The Deer Hunter. The former because I'd already seen it and that was enough; the latter because I'm just not ready for another bro-y Vietnam movie, particularly one that long. I might watch it sometime in the future. For now, I don't feel compelled to watch Gone With the Wind.

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    On 7/7/2019 at 2:09 AM, Robert Denby said:

    There’s a fingertip heart rate tester in the bar. I assume it’s there for safety reasons, in case a game of stand-off gets out of hand.

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    So, I only vaguely remember these so anyone feel free to add/correct but...

    I remember these being in malls in the 80's. You put in a quarter and insert your finger to measure your heart rate. Depending on the number, I think they were supposed to tell you something about yourself like your mood. As a little girl I was fascinated by them, but I don't fully remember why they were there. 

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  17. Posted

    Finally making some time to comment on my own pick :) I had some oral surgery last Friday and was a bit knocked out with pain meds, and was probably thinking about Johnny's soliloquy from Dirty Dancing about how hard it was to have women throwing themselves at him and no one genuinely cared at him. That was my take on Russ. He was a man with a goal to get the ship he and his dad built together, and girls were a distraction. I do think all of the married women hit on him, and some of the guys too! I wondered why he was so hesitant to sing at the club. He could totally bank on his sex appeal and his talent without actually having to sell his body. Did working on the boat make more money? My first thought is, no, but that he just loved being on it so much. 

    I'm so glad you all enjoyed this as much as I did. What did you all think of the song with the two girls at Paradise Cove? 

    Oh, also, I was really surprised by how much I loved Laurel. Given the opening song, I really wasn't sure how much sexism I had signed up for. Not so . much, it appears. 

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    I noticed that his mom died right before he moved to Germany, so I can kind of see why he wanted Priscilla to move in with him when he came back. He must have been so lonely (though that doesn't excuse praying on a teenager). I can't even imagine what it must have been like to be born to poor parents with a mother who worshipped you and then grow up to have all girls basically worshipping you. One of the things that struck me about Girls, Girls, Girls is the discomfort of just being adored for for body while no one, except for Laurel. I felt like he was pretty familiar with women hitting on him, but seemed uninterested in his own sex appeal because no one seemed to care about who he was or why the boat meant so much to him. And I see how he felt insulted by a woman buying it for him. I think the whole reason I found him charming was because he seemed so uninterested in the girls, and I got a sense of how he must have felt as an icon with women throwing themselves at him while not knowing anything about him. Fame like that makes people crazy.  I recommend watching the Priscilla interview because she seemed to really see him for who he was despite how awful he was to her.  That's not to excuse anything he did, but I do think she genuinely loved the man, and understood that his problematic behaviors were a result of the world he grew up in and lived in as an adult. Certainly she was too young for him, but I got the sense from her that as she grew up, she understood the situation she was in. 

    Looking forward to the discussion of the movie itself. I've definitely learned more about Elvis by recommending it ;) 

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  19. Posted

    On 6/26/2019 at 6:34 PM, gigi-tastic said:

    You had me at sings about shrimp. I need no other context. I'm in!

    I'm saving my reaction for Monday, but I have to say I had never seen an Elvis movie before, and I was pleasantly surprised by how charming he was.  Then I watched a 1985 Barbara Walters interview with Priscilla Presley, and I had a few second thoughts about recommending. But he's long gone, and this was an ....interesting watch.

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  20. Posted

    On 6/21/2019 at 3:40 PM, bleary said:

    And the Pixar guys should get credit for basically being the only game in town in anthropomorphized inanimate objects.  No Disney film before had ever done it, and as far as I know, the only animated feature to do it at all before Toy Story was The Brave Little Toaster, which was also made by the original members of Pixar.  (I'm torn on how much mentioning The Brave Little Toaster helps or hurts my argument.  On one hand, it shows that Toy Story was not as groundbreaking in anthropomorphized inanimate objects as I'd like to be able to argue it was, but on the other hand, it reminds people that much of the plot of Toy Story 3 was a clear ripoff of Brave Little Toaster.) 

    Just a small nit pick, though I agree overall, Disney certainly anthropomorphized inanimate objects before Toy Story, particularly Beauty and the Beast comes to mind. Unless you're thinking they were the first without having to invoke magic... 

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  21. Posted

    I agree with Cameron H on this. I recently just watched Toy Story and realized I hadn't watched it from start to finish before. It came out when I was in high school, so I never really caught onto the fever and am just catching up now. Anyway, I just don't think it's that great of a movie. The animation is different, but not great. There are plenty of first technical achievements to be lauded, but this doesn't need to be on the list. If we're comparing this to all other American film (and we are), maybe top 150 or 200, and certainly top 100 in animation, but not overall.  I'm pretty scrupulous and would definitely appreciate more backgrounds and points of view versus more men making movies about white dudes learning how to be white dudes. 

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  22. Posted

    4 hours ago, DrGuts1003 said:

    There is one shot in the film where the son is looking at a photo of him and Mcconaughey and written on the back it says "me and dad back then"  This phrasing bothers me.  I guess that it is meant to be vague so as not to give away anything, but who would actually write it that way?  No one is going is to confuse the picture as happening in the present or future.  All pictures are of something that occurred "back then". 

    Why not write the actual year or date that the event took place?  Or give some sort of additional information about what happened then so that when you or someone else re-visits that picture there is some proper context for what you are looking at?

    I was wondering that too, and was expecting them to bring it up in the ep. Nobody says that! Although maybe it was just some shit the crappy kid actor (he did not kill it, even if he did kill his dad) came up with, in which case it would be genuine ;) I think this whole screenplay was written by a 13-year-old.  A 13-year-old who makes his dad into a prostitute and the ex-husband of a woman half his age who claimed to be his high school classmate, who's virginity he took when she was 16. 

    Part of me thinks this movie is super fucked-up. Part of me loves it. Part of me is fine just watching those leads in that setting. 

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