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I think we may have strayed a bit here from the original post which may have been more concerned with the quality of the acting and script than the topics presented or scope of production. FWIW, I think Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy was as fine a set of movies as any made. The acting and character development may not have been the stuff of legend, but the result certainly was outstanding. While much of the pap that oozes out of Hollywood isn't worthy of a trailer on Jerry Springer, there still are fine films being made. Sort of like audio gear and music; you just have to dig for it!
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"Pretty baby" with Booke Shields as a 12 year old girl (which was her age at the time it was filmed) in a whore house being sold to the highest bidder some of the best kiddy porn ever made for the big screen Full frontal nudity doubt they would do that one again.
And no I have never watched it.
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The one I watched last night, Lawrence Of Arabia.
Politics aside the scope of the thing is just huge! Sure they could CGI the scenes of the marching armies and the battles and the desert backgrounds but it just aint the same thing. |
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Films that capture the spirit and energy of a place and time. Anyone seen the German film "M" with Peter Lorre, came out in 1931/2? The frantic explosive energy in that couldn't be duplicated, at least not in the US imo. Than there is something quirky like Monty Python & the Holy Grail or Gilliam's Brazil. Who's going to finance Brazil, how was it financed then? Maltese Falcon or Key Largo, the Big Sleep, Seven Samurai, Ran, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Bonny & Clyde. Some movies just should never be remade, like Psycho.
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There is a sad dearth of Character Actors today...You know, the Robert Emhardts, Reta Shaws, Burt Mustins...Those folks who seemingly were in every other TV program in the fifties thru the Seventies..An' a lot of the movies, too....They're all gone...and all the people who play in every backwater TV show & grade-z flick are automatically "BIG STARS"..Gimme a break..
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Musicals. Sound of Music, South Pacific, On the Town, etc, etc.
If it ain't got sex, violence or drugs people don't wanna see it. While there are some goods films out there, too many new films are more about shock than anything else and are an insult to my intelligence as well as to others. |
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Twelve Angry Men would bomb in this day and age. Dracula with Bela also. The Searchers would close in a week, as would most of the other good westerns.
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Film Noir!
Anybody a fan? Did anybody see the classic, "He Walked By Night" on TCM Sunday Night?
Big Festival in San Fran, http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/...tures/noir.php. I will have to check and see what's going on at the Senator, and the Hippodrome Theaters. The crowd has become to snooty for me. And when the hell are they going to release on DVD, "The List Of Adrian Messenger"? SPECIAL EFFECTS HAVE RUINED FILM!!! |
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"Song of the South"
Make it? Heck, they can't even release it on DVD. |
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some of those early deco flicks are pretty amazing:
Metropolis The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
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Thanks Herb. PM on the way.
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