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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion, Part II
[Re: Paul Pisano]
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10/18/09 11:45 PM
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I rewatched the GF trilogy for the millionth time. It is truly a classic. I wish however that the studio would release the chronological novel for television. It had more Sonny scenes in it. You nailed it dude, in like 4 sentances. Turnbull pointed out in another thread that how Brando was actually only 5 years older than Duvall, and 16 years older than Pacino & Caan. I had always assumed there was in reality a much wider generational gap, and never fully appreciated the job the make-up artists did until the other night (my brother was watching number 1, and it just "pulled me back in") Diane Keaton & Talia Shire were only 26 at the time. I, for one, love Talia Shire; i think she's gorgeous and a great actress (i like her small role in I HEART HUCKABEES, and of course loved her in Rocky. ADRIAN!!!) Some people dont like some of her work in 1,2 & 3, but whatever, i think she owns the role. As does Sofia Coppola in 3, IMHO, which i'll prolly catch some shit for. I found this interesting, though most people probably already knew; Talia Shire (nee Coppola) is Jason Schwartzman's mother, and her being the biological brother of Francis Ford, Schwartzman is not only related to the Coppola's but actor Nicholas Cage as well. Hows that?
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion, Part II
[Re: Mickey_MeatBalls_DeMonica]
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12/28/09 10:40 AM
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I just re-watched A Shock to the System , a 1990 film featuring Michael Caine, Peter Riegert, Swoosie Kurtz, Will Patton,and Elizabeth McGovern. The movie tells the story of a somewhat decent midlevel ad exec named Graham Marshall (Caine) who is in debt, not quite where he wants to be in his career and trapped in a sexless and loveless marriage with a nagging wife (Kurtz). His only daily release is a mild flirtation with an office assistant (McGovern) who really seems to feel sorry for him more than she's attracted to him. Nevertheless he's grinning and bearing it because as he sees it he's up for promotion to office head , which will not only tremendously increase his salary but stop his wife from nagging him and allow him to run the office in a more humane way. Of course he doesn't get the promotion. The job goes to Bob Benham (Riegert), an obnoxious and soulless yuppie half Graham's age who finds all sorts of sneaky and blatant ways to embarrass and humiliate Graham. Benham speaks and dresses in the stereotypical power style of a Gordon Gekko. He's young, in shape and with a hot wife. The powers that be didn't think Graham had the fire in the belly or was tough enough to lead. Quite sarcastically Graham's wife "forgives him for failing". And then the movie takes a very morbidly humorous turn. Dejectedly returning home one night Graham finds himself in a position where quite by accident he pushes an aggressive panhandler into the path of an oncoming train, killing him. No one sees him do this.
After this shock to the system it's literally game on for Graham as he is more than energized to deal with all threats to his career or his self-worth in quite decisive terms. His self-confidence goes through the roof. The Will Patton character asks Graham about someone at his workplace, saying "Now he was your superior, is that right?" And Caine coolly responds "No. He was my boss." The movie is fun because no matter how outrageous the events become Graham has a plan to deal with them and will no longer back down from anyone. It's a funny and effective satire of 80's consumerist culture and business practices.
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." Winter is Coming
Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion, Part II
[Re: Paul Pisano]
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01/04/10 10:21 PM
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I just watched this documentary. Ten of Ali's top opponents discuss their fights with Ali and his impact on their lives others. The director lets the fighters do all the talking. Not all of these men have the greatest love for Ali, Terrell and Frazier especially still have some bitterness but all of them have the utmost respect for a man they recognize as the greatest. There are lots of clips from their fights with Ali and each other. Holmes gives a voice over for his fight describing how he hated to hit Ali in the body because he knew that Ali couldn't take it by that time. It's a powerful film. In some respects it's an indictment of boxing. The viewer sees the toll that boxing took on these men, many of who have somewhat slurred speech or other health issues. But as Chuvalo points out, boxing was a preferred career path compared to the alternative of poorly paid backbreaking labor (Chuvalo's mother plucked chickens for a penny a bird) or more sinister jobs (Lyle and Shavers describe actually considering being a thug or hitman as a viable option). Age and other issues have slowed these men down but it's apparent that most of them still have a love for the sport and the instincts for the sweet science. Watching a 70 year old man seemingly lose 50 years of age/infirmity and start throwing combinations as he describes his battles is something else. There's even a bit of mob lore shared. George Chuvalo claims that the reason he got a fight with Ali before Ernie Terrell was that Bernie Glickman, who was Terrell's manager, (and really a front for Accardo-who Chuvalo names) had gone to Ali's manager, Herbert Muhammad and in quite insulting terms told Herbert Muhammad that Ali was to throw the fight to Terrell and that if he didn't that Herbert might find himself in serious trouble. According to Chuvalo, Herbert Muhammad wasn't the sort of man to take threats lightly and he had his bodyguards beat Glickman within an inch of his life. So Terrell was dropped and Chuvalo inserted. Lyle sums it up at the end of the film when he says that the fighters love Ali.
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." Winter is Coming
Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion, Part II
[Re: Lilo]
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01/14/10 09:12 PM
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just watched "Burn After Reading" again yesterday and I have to say that the Coens just pulled out the best scene of the decade with the pre-ending John Malkovich outburst when he surprises an intruder, a gun in one hand, a whisky glass in the other, and assumes it's his wife's lover, then recognizes the man... "You're the guy from the gym"... to which he replies "I'm not here representing HardBodies" and then Ozzie goes off: Oh, yes. I know very well what you represent; You represent the idiocy of today. ("I don't represent that either") Yeah. You're the guy at the gym when I asked about that moronic woman...You're in league with that woman. You are part of a league of morons... you are one of the morons I've been fighting my whole life. My whole fucking life. But guess what... Today, I win. that is priceless. I only wish I could've watched it without knowing anything in advance, you'd think it's a spy movie and from the very first scene when Ozzie first explodes you'd be wondering if it's a poorly made serious movie or a comedy anyway... "I have a drinking problem? Fuck, you are a mormon. Next to you, we all have a drinking problem."
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion, Part II
[Re: Yogi Barrabbas]
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01/21/10 06:29 PM
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It was actually PB. Very good indeed. You should check out his other Anglo-accent works CHAPLIN and his brief appearance in Ian McKellen's RICHARD III. Both I recommend, RICHARD III especially I highly suggest. Yeah I liked SHERLOCK HOLMES too. Maybe too much of the contemporary heavy FX, heavy action theatrical spectacle...but what really works is Downey and Law's chemistry. That real conflicting bromance between two best long-time buddies, so close that outsiders might even call them queer. A good Guy Ritchie movie isn't necessarily a guarantee, so its nice he didn't shoot himself in the foot here in his comeback. Being free of Madonna helped. 
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion, Part II
[Re: ronnierocketAGO]
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01/23/10 04:11 PM
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Watched 3 films yesterday. Firstly with the kids i sat through TRANSFORMERS 2. Enjoyable old tosh. Plenty of stunts and explosions mixed in with good robots,bad robots and funny ass robots. The kids loved it! Then with my wife later i watched BRIDE WARS which i cannot even bring myself to remember or talk about thank you  Then later by myself i watched TAKEN starring Liam Neeson as a tough ex- CIA guy whose daughter gets kidnapped in Paris by dodgy Albanians and goes after her....and them. Spectacularly. A great film this,thoroughly enjoyed it!
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion, Part II
[Re: Yogi Barrabbas]
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01/23/10 10:49 PM
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Just watched Disney/PIXAR's UP (2009) via Netflix. Great movie, and always amazing stuff from PIXAR... BUT W-T-F!!!!! I HATE when it starts the previews for you, rather than going to the main menu. BUT THIS HAD NO MAIN MENU -- AT ALL??!! One of the "previews" talked about all the great extras and all, that I wanted to see -- but there was no menu or any way to access them?? Netflix doesn't mention a Disc 2. I go to the support site and there was an entire category for "UP Rental Questions" so I thought great, it'll tell me how to access the features. NOPE! It takes me to a web form so I can email support with my question. WHAT???  They spend millions on a movie, but can't author a fucking DVD properly??? 
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey!  lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion, Part II
[Re: Sicilian Babe]
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01/24/10 03:08 PM
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Cars was fun, too -- I think anything out of PIXAR rawks
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey!  lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion, Part II
[Re: J Geoff]
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01/24/10 03:10 PM
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BTW, reading around the web, it seems I got a "Rental" copy of UP which has no special features, menu, scene selection, or closed captioning or ANYTHING except auto-run previews and the movie itself. WTF, Di$ney?? 
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey!  lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion, Part II
[Re: J Geoff]
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01/24/10 03:11 PM
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Ratatouille was great, too
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey!  lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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