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DaveyTee
Fourth Love
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 26/10/2008 : 11:11:28
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Originally posted by MorpethBhoy
sorry for the typos - too much whisky
Getting used to the Tiree lifestyle?
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 27/10/2008 : 21:15:58
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"Newer classic horror greats would be Night Of The Living Dead & Halloween, for starters. What movies do you all like for Halloween season?
Music, maybe a little Son Of Schmilsson. 
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9876 Posts |
Posted - 03/11/2008 : 18:01:43
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Some great silent movies. Charlie Chaplin "The Gold Rush" & Buster Keaton in "The General".
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caryne
Old Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04/11/2008 : 01:46:53
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Originally posted by lemonade kid
"Newer classic horror greats would be Night Of The Living Dead & Halloween, for starters. What movies do you all like for Halloween season?
Music, maybe a little Son Of Schmilsson.
We don't (or didn't till recently) get so worked up about Halloween over here. Personally I find graphic horror boring and unimaginative, far better is something like 'The Innocents' (based on 'The Turn of the Screw') where, even when the film ends you really are not sure what was going on.
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caryne
Old Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04/11/2008 : 01:48:13
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Originally posted by lemonade kid
Some great silent movies. Charlie Chaplin "The Gold Rush" & Buster Keaton in "The General".
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Harvey & I warm ourselves in these golden moments.
We came as strangers - soon we have friends. ---Elwood P Dowd
Never got into those silent comedians, guess because a lot of it was slapstick and I can't stand that kind of humour. For a silent great I would go with Nosferatu or Metropolis. |
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John9
Old Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04/11/2008 : 09:53:40
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| Chaplin and Keaton were geniuses - as were in a completely different setting, FW Murnau and Fritz Lang. And here's the really good news....you can have it all......it's all there to be enjoyed and treasured. |
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caryne
Old Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04/11/2008 : 12:59:22
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Originally posted by John9
Chaplin and Keaton were geniuses - as were in a completely setting, FW Murnau and Fritz Lang. And here's the really good news....you can have it all......it's all there to be enjoyed and treasured.
Yes, you can have it all, I just choose not to have what I don't like |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 05/11/2008 : 21:32:17
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Originally posted by caryne
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Originally posted by John9
Chaplin and Keaton were geniuses - as were in a completely setting, FW Murnau and Fritz Lang. And here's the really good news....you can have it all......it's all there to be enjoyed and treasured.
Yes, you can have it all, I just choose not to have what I don't like
I know, you gotta be in the mood for slapstick. What kind of comedy do you enjoy, caryne? Monty Python, for example or a more subdued type humor.....?
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caryne
Old Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06/11/2008 : 12:47:47
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Originally posted by lemonade kid
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Originally posted by caryne
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Originally posted by John9
Chaplin and Keaton were geniuses - as were in a completely setting, FW Murnau and Fritz Lang. And here's the really good news....you can have it all......it's all there to be enjoyed and treasured.
Yes, you can have it all, I just choose not to have what I don't like
I know, you gotta be in the mood for slapstick. What kind of comedy do you enjoy, caryne? Monty Python, for example or a more subdued type humor.....?
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Harvey & I warm ourselves in these golden moments.
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I like some Monty Python, Life of Brian and Holy Grail are great comedy films but some of their sketches can fall a bit flat. I enjoyed the musical Spamalot which I saw in London a few months back.
I have to admit I've never found much American humour funny (especially the TV shows) though I am very fond of the comedian Rich Hall (who, I think, lives over here now).
My favourite TV comedy in recent years has been 'Father Ted', no matter how often I watch that it still raises a smile and I was also very fond of a programme called 'Black Books' (which didn't get the credit it deserved).
Favourite comedians, past and present, include Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Bill Bailey, Rob Newman, Jeremy Hardy, Mark Thomas and, no doubt, others when I think of them. |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 06/11/2008 : 16:20:40
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I agree with you, caryne, about American TV comedy. It's the ones that are more "British" (since I prefer the dry wit of British humor also)that I like..."The Office" (US version, haven't seen the UK show), "Pushing Daisy's", "My Name is Earl", "30 Rock", "Bones"(comedy/crime drama)& "Monk". Some of my favorite UK shows are "Black Adder", Monty P., Jeeves & Wooster, ...of course I like Hugh Laurie (do you get "House"?). As you can see we don't get a lot of contemporary British comedy. BBC In America & PBS tend to play the same shows over & over. "Are you Being Served" & "Keeping Up Appearances", "As Time Goes By", "To The Manor Born" were all worn out long ago for me, which still air....over... & over .....& over here!
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caryne
Old Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06/11/2008 : 16:29:44
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Originally posted by lemonade kid
I agree with you, caryne, about American TV comedy. It's the ones that are more "British" (since I prefer the dry wit of British humor also)that I like..."The Office" (US version, haven't seen the UK show), "Pushing Daisy's", "My Name is Earl", "30 Rock", "Bones"(comedy/crime drama)& "Monk". Some of my favorite UK shows are "Black Adder", Monty P., Jeeves & Wooster, ...of course I like Hugh Laurie (do you get "House"?). As you can see we don't get a lot of contemporary British comedy. BBC In America & PBS tend to play the same shows over & over. "Are you Being Served" & "Keeping Up Appearances", "As Time Goes By", "To The Manor Born" were all worn out long ago for me, which still air....over... & over .....& over here!
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Harvey & I warm ourselves in these golden moments.
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Ah yes, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, I am very fond of their humour (have several of their 'A bit of Fry and Laurie' series on DVD) but I did worry about Stephen Fry when he said, a few weeks ago, he preferred John McCain, as I'd always thought he was an intelligent sort of bloke. We do get 'House' over here but it's not my cup of tea. Actually, with the exception of 'Buffy' and 'Angel' (very british is style) I really don't want anything imported from the USA.
I did like the first series of Blackadder, Peter Cook was great in it, but it went a bit downhill after that. Still worth watching but just not as good.
I enjoyed The Office and Extras (Ricky Gervais' next series) but don't like the American version, don't think the characters work so well and, of course, unlike ours which ended, sensibly after two series, the US one seems to be dragging on and on. Quit while you are ahead, I say, it worked for 'Fawlty Towers', which is still funny to this day.
I used to love 'Are you Being Served' when I was young and it was first on but I feel sorry for you if it's still being shown over in the US these days |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 06/11/2008 : 20:58:42
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| Glad to see all you movie and comedy aficionados! Ah what would life be without'em just like a good piece of music. I usually add some vino to that too! Once weekly have to watch something on Fawlty, one of the gretest comedies ever. I know John Cleese's high standards. That's why the ones that we still see are at the top of the sit com game. Another comedey..Abbott & Costello tv shows. Zany and hilarious. And gotta pop in some film noirs, Double Indemnity, Laura, Maltese Falcon, war films Guns of Navarone, The Dambusters, 12 o'clock High, Battle of Algiers, drama A Man For All Seasons (right john), Lawrence of Arabia, sci fi 2001, Forbidden Planet, animation Nightmare before Xmas,Corpse Bride and classics like Casablanca and the Wizard. |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 06/11/2008 : 22:28:21
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Originally posted by rocker
Glad to see all you movie and comedy aficionados! Ah what would life be without'em just like a good piece of music. I usually add some vino to that too! Once weekly have to watch something on Fawlty, one of the gretest comedies ever. I know John Cleese's high standards. That's why the ones that we still see are at the top of the sit com game. Another comedey..Abbott & Costello tv shows. Zany and hilarious. And gotta pop in some film noirs, Double Indemnity, Laura, Maltese Falcon, war films Guns of Navarone, The Dambusters, 12 o'clock High, Battle of Algiers, drama A Man For All Seasons (right john), Lawrence of Arabia, sci fi 2001, Forbidden Planet, animation Nightmare before Xmas,Corpse Bride and classics like Casablanca and the Wizard.
Wow, rocker! We could have made the same list. Throw in Hitchcock's "Rope",
"Arsenic & Old Lace" and one of my all time favorites...."The Lady Killers" (original of course!)--Briitish dark comedy at its best. Maybe "Our Man In Havana" & "The Man In The White Suit"! Needless to say, I love Sir Alec!! I know he hated Star Wars,, but what would they be without him! 
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bob f.
Old Love
USA
1308 Posts |
Posted - 07/11/2008 : 04:07:38
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speaking of British films, "Village Of The Damned", with George Sanders! still, one scary and finely crafted movie. i've always liked George Sanders, and he's great in this great one!
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rocker
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 07/11/2008 : 14:16:38
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good ones there bob and lk....Village I picked up a few months ago...very good in the genre and Hitch's movies are for all time.
bob...since you saw Plan 9 I'd suggest "Ed Wood" and the set the Bela Lugosi Collection. Tough that Bela had so much success with Dracula that it typecast him so much. But in the collection he comes across as really giving life to the "eerie" in those clips. |
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Let's talk Classic & favorite Movies! Yours?!
