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I did catch BlacKkKlansman yesterday. It's Lee's best since "Do The Right Thing" in my opinion.
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Apparently this from a real film called The China Salesman, anyone see this?
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M. Night Shymalan movies in the past have underwhelmed... I watched 'Split' last night, and i have no words... awesome, awesome
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I watched "John Lennon: Imagine" last night. Beers were had and tears were shed.
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Saw a documentary called Heading Home on Saturday. Enjoyed it very much and thought it was well made. But talk about your niche markets! The film's about the Israeli team in 2017's World Baseball Classic. The team is made up largely of Americans who qualify to play for Israel under citizenship rules that are basically the same as for the World Cup. As it happens, the team did surprisingly and spectacularly well, which gave the film a real hook. But even the other stuff, about the team members exploring and finding their identities, Israelis coming around to support the team, the place of the athletes in US professional baseball (mostly marginal), etc. I really don't know how much anyone will like the movie if they're not at least a pretty big baseball fan and most probably Jewish. If you don't fit either of those categories and watch the movie I'd love to know your thoughts!
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Caught a 1957 flick on TCM the other day. Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal & Walter Matheau star in A Face In The Crowd. Andy’s meteoric rise as Lonesome Rhodes draws uncanny parallels to a certain petulant fuck who we all know & loathe. Check it out.
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Slipkid42 wrote:Caught a 1957 flick on TCM the other day. Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal & Walter Matheau star in A Face In The Crowd. Andy’s meteoric rise as Lonesome Rhodes draws uncanny parallels to a certain petulant fuck who we all know & loathe. Check it out.
That is my favorite ever Andy Griffith role. So against type. Money quote, talking about his audience:

Lonesome Rhodes: Those morons out there? Shucks, I could take chicken fertilizer and sell it to them as caviar. I could make them eat dog food and think it was steak. Sure, I got 'em like this... You know what the public's like? A cage of Guinea Pigs. Good Night you stupid idiots. Good Night, you miserable slobs. They're a lot of trained seals. I toss them a dead fish and they'll flap their flippers.

I think this would be more recognizable had the director, Elia Kazan, not been unfairly tarnished by McCarthy era hogshit.
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That film needed subtitles.
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That film needed subtitles.
I hear ya! :lol:

For me that would only be for Pitt's character, who was almost 100% unintelligible; otherwise my ear picks things up pretty well. Big fan of this one and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
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Can you tell my wife was out of town?

Fast and Furious: Exactly what it should have been and very enjoyable on its own limited terms.
Fast and Furious II: What a mess. Got by on amiability and charisma, but used up all the good will FFI had created for me.

The Equalizer: Another movie that was just what it should have been and enjoyable for that reason. Forgot that it was set in Boston so that was a nice extra.
The Equalizer 2: Typical sequel drop off but still watchable and better than, say, FF2 in keeping more or less to the standards established by the original.
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Whole lotta schadenfreude goin' on :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Flea wrote:
Slipkid42 wrote:Caught a 1957 flick on TCM the other day. Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal & Walter Matheau star in A Face In The Crowd. Andy’s meteoric rise as Lonesome Rhodes draws uncanny parallels to a certain petulant fuck who we all know & loathe. Check it out.
That is my favorite ever Andy Griffith role. So against type. Money quote, talking about his audience:

Lonesome Rhodes: Those morons out there? Shucks, I could take chicken fertilizer and sell it to them as caviar. I could make them eat dog food and think it was steak. Sure, I got 'em like this... You know what the public's like? A cage of Guinea Pigs. Good Night you stupid idiots. Good Night, you miserable slobs. They're a lot of trained seals. I toss them a dead fish and they'll flap their flippers.

I think this would be more recognizable had the director, Elia Kazan, not been unfairly tarnished by McCarthy era hogshit.
GREAT movie... jarring to see ole Andy like that
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drommel56 wrote:unfairly tarnished
Why do you say that?
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drommel56 wrote:unfairly tarnished
Why do you say that?
I said that. I said it because his compelled testimony against non-violent non-criminals who had not been demonstrated to be a threat to "Truth, Justice, & The American Way" should not have been used as a broad brush to derail his career and denigrate his previos works. If I am mistaken, educate me.*

*Edited because I misspelled "educate". :lol: **

**Edited again because I did it a second time!
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Flea wrote:
beantownbubba wrote:
drommel56 wrote:unfairly tarnished
Why do you say that?
I said that. I said it because his compelled testimony against non-violent non-criminals who had not been demonstrated to be a threat to "Truth, Justice, & The American Way" should not have been used as a broad brush to derail his career and denigrate his previos works. If I am mistaken, educate me.*

*Edited because I misspelled "educate". :lol: **

**Edited again because I did it a second time!
I have a more reasoned argument against it, but this is the one which literally hangs on the wall of my home.

That said, he was still a great director. The tarnish, he deserves; to apply it to his works is unfair.
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Flea wrote:I said that. I said it because his compelled testimony against non-violent non-criminals who had not been demonstrated to be a threat to "Truth, Justice, & The American Way" should not have been used as a broad brush to derail his career and denigrate his previos works. If I am mistaken, educate me.*
Boy, that's a lot to unpack in a single sentence.

It seems to me that you're at least partly saying that Kazan should not have had to testify. I don't think many people would disagree w/ that. But he did and he "named names'. I read you as criticizing the existence of the McCarthy hearings which is not the same as supporting Kazan. As I read it, nothing about your description of the hearings makes the hit Kazan took to his reputation unfair.

Off the top of my head I'm not sure how much Kazan's career was tarnished or derailed by the reaction to his testimony. On the Waterfront is probably his most famous work and that was released after the hearings. Streetcar, which is probably his second most famous, was released just a little before and has not seemed to suffer. East of Eden,, another highly regarded film, was released in 1955, just two years before A Face in the Crowd. I'm sure he wasn't invited to a lot of parties, but I'm not sure his career was derailed and I really don't see his works being denigrated. A Face in the Crowd gets 8.2 out of 10 on Imdb. No less an icon of moviemaking than Martin Scorsese made a laudatory documentary about him. Stanley Kubrick, another leading light, is quoted on Imdb as saying about Kazan "without question, the best director we have in America, and capable of performing miracles with the actors he uses." IOW, it is my understanding that Kazan's personal reputation definitely suffered and continues to suffer for what seem to me to be fair reasons, but his career seems to have proceeded just fine and resulted in much adulation and respect.

JohnA, I wish I could have read that link but the text is too small for me and I couldn't enlarge it.
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beantownbubba wrote:JohnA, I wish I could have read that link but the text is too small for me and I couldn't enlarge it.
If you click the image, you'll get an enlargement, which can be adjusted up to at least a hundred percent. If you bump it up way high, you can see (I think--I'm not an expert) where the register varies a little bit. Mine is #190. I ought to get it down and compare it to this one carefully. Feiffer has been a great cartooning hero of mine since my teens.

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Tag is good harmless comedy, Isla Fisher alone makes it worth watching

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I had forgotten about Pryor as Amin. Thanks for the reminder. Imagine if we did give out medals for lying...

Entebbe is of course indelibly etched in my mind.
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Excellent film documenting the issues surrounding the Eel River.
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Roma (on Netflix): A beautiful and beautifully made movie but I find that I really can't do sad & poignant anymore, which sucks, because so many of the best movies for grown ups are some combination of sad and poignant, or at least have those elements making large contributions. Recommended to anyone who's not me. But I really and truly don't understand whose idea it was to do the end credits in white letters on a mostly white background. Didn't anyone actually watch them before they released the movie? It's unlikely that I've heard of anyone in this particular cast and crew so it's not like I'm angry about missing something, but I would think the pros would care quite a bit about getting their credits. Strange. While not the same at all, and also very low budget, it reminded me a bit of the white on white subtitles in The Harder They Come.
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this is one of the craziest, most fucked-up, hardest-to-comprehend stories I've heard in ages :shock: :shock: :shock:
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