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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2020 20:42:56 GMT
I liked it a lot. Except those bits I hated.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jul 14, 2020 0:30:22 GMT
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jul 26, 2020 13:15:11 GMT
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Post by Charlie O. on Jul 26, 2020 17:54:47 GMT
^ Never seen it. How was it?
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Post by Sneelock on Jul 26, 2020 22:51:40 GMT
Did you know Ridley Scott directed a Robin Hood movie? I just sat down in the living room with a sandwich and watched the last half hour or so. I may be mistaken but as near as I can tell it sucked Donkey Dicks.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jul 31, 2020 13:20:41 GMT
Watched last night. Really only worthy for watching Suzanne Pleshette and Tippi Hendren. My version would have a lesbian sex scene.
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Post by Charlie O. on Aug 2, 2020 1:57:48 GMT
First time. There's so much wrong or at least not quite right with it (hard to know where to begin) that I find myself clinging to what pleasures there are - Petula Clark, who doesn't have nearly enough to do but does it winsomely; the startling (and unknown to me) Barbara Hancock as Susan The Silent (though when she does inevitably start talking it's actually a bit of a letdown); Fred Astaire, growing old gracefully; a handful of terrific songs (though the witty "When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love" feels shoehorned in); some nice camerawork... I do wish that when Astaire swung a shovel at Tommy Steele, in their first scene together, he had connected. Man, that guy's annoying. With the drippy "Look To The Rainbow" having successfully earworm'd its way into my brain ( Follow the fellow who follows a dream), my subconscious coughed up this variation a few minutes ago: Follow the river Follow the snail Follow the lizard that swallows its tail Have at it, lay psychologists!
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Aug 2, 2020 9:34:07 GMT
When I was about 18 I worked the follow spot for some local am dram performances, and one show I was involved with was Finian's Rainbow, so for two weeks I heard those songs night after night. I can still sing them through, words and all.
'Old Devil Moon' is the standout, I think (didn't Sinatra cover it?) and 'How Are Things In Glocca Morra?' is a good 'un too. But yeah, Tommy Steele was always a pain in the arse. I don't know that anyone even back then thought much of him.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Aug 2, 2020 14:12:06 GMT
With Alan Parker's recent death, I rewatched this. I liked it a lot more at the time.
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Post by DarknessFish on Aug 2, 2020 20:20:48 GMT
Not sure it really gets under the skin of either the man or the music. He comes across as something of a lost soul, really, especially when showing the hours sat at fruit machines or at the bar of the Rainbow Bar & Grill. Didn't know what to do with life when not playing music, and he didn't even really seem to play the sort of music he'd want to listen to. Odd character, certainly had some self-awareness and intelligence, but just looked like he'd kinda given up on life before life gave up on him.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Aug 6, 2020 12:14:30 GMT
My son's favorite movie. We had to watch it last night.
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Post by Sneelock on Aug 6, 2020 19:02:24 GMT
the 87 Hour version?
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Post by Charlie O. on Aug 8, 2020 22:56:04 GMT
Godard's Made In U.S.A. (1966). It was okay. Lovely to look at, certainly, and fairly funny too. Marianne Faithfull has a cameo - singing an a cappella "As Tears Go By" no less.
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Post by DarknessFish on Aug 9, 2020 20:34:11 GMT
Pretty tense and grim horror about a family falling apart through grief and blame, with a kinda Rosemary's Baby undercurrent running throughout. Ending is a bit silly (but then, so is Rosemary's Baby), but the immediate aftermath of the daughter's death is properly traumatic, it's unusual for a horror to go to that kind of place. Also quite traumatic to watch, as Dwayne does a digital Die Hard and saves his family from terrorists, a towering inferno, and some truly shocking CGI.
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Post by Charlie O. on Aug 10, 2020 16:24:42 GMT
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