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lemonade kid
Old Love
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 Posted - 25/11/2008 : 22:18:03
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On the lighter side, Fred and Ginger can always lift me up & get me dancin'!!  Fred's such a treasure.....love the scene in Easter Parade (in the music shop) on the percussion instruments. He was quite a talented drummer......you'd figure so, the way he taps those toes.
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rocker
Old Love
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Posted - 26/11/2008 : 14:26:56
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now you're 'goin' back' lk...now around this holiday time I'm kind of getting nostalgic for movies..all of a sudden out of nowhere I've got this thing to watch "It's A Wondeful Life"...heh heh we're a long way from that kind of time...also I got back from Norman Rockwell's museum in Stockbridge and saw his famous painting of Main Street around Xmas time...cool picture especially up close..he sets you up for the holiday.
bobf...Talos was neat,eh? I love that flick.  |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 26/11/2008 : 18:54:57
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Originally posted by rocker
now you're 'goin' back' lk...now around this holiday time I'm kind of getting nostalgic for movies..all of a sudden out of nowhere I've got this thing to watch "It's A Wondeful Life"...heh heh we're a long way from that kind of time...also I got back from Norman Rockwell's museum in Stockbridge and saw his famous painting of Main Street around Xmas time...cool picture especially up close..he sets you up for the holiday.
bobf...Talos was neat,eh? I love that flick.
Like your new subject (Christmas Tunes) let's do Flicks too, rocker.
"Scrooge" with Alistair Simm...the defintive version for me.
"Christmas In Connecticut"
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bob f.
Old Love
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Posted - 26/11/2008 : 22:43:38
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rocker, ....Talos is awesome! a bronze stuatue come to life!
another good movie is : "20 Million Miles To Earth"(1957)
another Ray Harryhausen film! yeah! the creature, unnamed, but refered to as, "the ymir" by fans!
and.....yes.....i am a softy for classic holiday movies.
i can't help it, born 1951!
great film and music and vibes and images....and youth, and innocence, and i think it all changed around the time i saw an ad for "Disco Mickey" (Mickey Mouse). i thought, "f*** that s***!"
i loved the Christmas TV Specials from "The Charlie Brown Christmas",
, Nat King Cole, and Johnny Mathis and others, before flashy graphics and slick hip-hop/phony "country"/"American Idol" trash came .
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ALLANAGAIN
Old Love
United Kingdom
687 Posts |
Posted - 28/11/2008 : 16:21:51
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The 1st King Kong movie,Quadraphenia, One Flew over the Cuckoo,s nest.
Midnight Cowboy is great, Last Exit To Brooklyn and the great Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.Love ,em all, classic or not.
I saw "The future is Unwriten" the Joe Strummer movie the other night, thats a new favourite. |
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caryne
Old Love
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Posted - 29/11/2008 : 00:23:03
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Originally posted by ALLANAGAIN
The 1st King Kong movie,Quadraphenia, One Flew over the Cuckoo,s nest.
Midnight Cowboy is great, Last Exit To Brooklyn and the great Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.Love ,em all, classic or not.
I saw "The future is Unwriten" the Joe Strummer movie the other night, thats a new favourite.
I too love the first 'King Kong' movie... though I wonder how much sympathy there would have been for Kong if most versions shown left the bit in when he picks up people and eats them?
The Joe Strummer movie is great (Joe was one of my all time heroes) as is 'Control' about Ian Curtis/Joy Division but guess they aren't exactly 'classic movies'? |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 29/11/2008 : 13:21:49
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Originally posted by caryne
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Originally posted by ALLANAGAIN
The 1st King Kong movie,Quadraphenia, One Flew over the Cuckoo,s nest.
Midnight Cowboy is great, Last Exit To Brooklyn and the great Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.Love ,em all, classic or not.
I saw "The future is Unwriten" the Joe Strummer movie the other night, thats a new favourite.
I too love the first 'King Kong' movie... though I wonder how much sympathy there would have been for Kong if most versions shown left the bit in when he picks up people and eats them?
The Joe Strummer movie is great (Joe was one of my all time heroes) as is 'Control' about Ian Curtis/Joy Division but guess they aren't exactly 'classic movies'?
I've seen the uncut version where Kong bites the heads off natives and mashes them into the earth...many times. Didn't lessen my love for the big guy a bit. Is that telling? 
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caryne
Old Love
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Posted - 29/11/2008 : 13:54:59
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Originally posted by lemonade kid
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Originally posted by caryne
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Originally posted by ALLANAGAIN
The 1st King Kong movie,Quadraphenia, One Flew over the Cuckoo,s nest.
Midnight Cowboy is great, Last Exit To Brooklyn and the great Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.Love ,em all, classic or not.
I saw "The future is Unwriten" the Joe Strummer movie the other night, thats a new favourite.
I too love the first 'King Kong' movie... though I wonder how much sympathy there would have been for Kong if most versions shown left the bit in when he picks up people and eats them?
The Joe Strummer movie is great (Joe was one of my all time heroes) as is 'Control' about Ian Curtis/Joy Division but guess they aren't exactly 'classic movies'?
I've seen the uncut version where Kong bites the heads off natives and mashes them into the earth...many times. Didn't lessen my love for the big guy a bit. Is that telling?
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It's not just the natives he kills (in those days the film makers didn't seem to worry about the 'natives', often a 'native' would fall of a bridge, for example, and the 'hero' would say "There goes the supplies"!!) there are also scenes of him killing people in New York too. |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 29/11/2008 : 20:29:39
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Originally posted by caryne
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Originally posted by lemonade kid
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Originally posted by caryne
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Originally posted by ALLANAGAIN
The 1st King Kong movie,Quadraphenia, One Flew over the Cuckoo,s nest.
Midnight Cowboy is great, Last Exit To Brooklyn and the great Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.Love ,em all, classic or not.
I saw "The future is Unwriten" the Joe Strummer movie the other night, thats a new favourite.
I too love the first 'King Kong' movie... though I wonder how much sympathy there would have been for Kong if most versions shown left the bit in when he picks up people and eats them?
The Joe Strummer movie is great (Joe was one of my all time heroes) as is 'Control' about Ian Curtis/Joy Division but guess they aren't exactly 'classic movies'?
I've seen the uncut version where Kong bites the heads off natives and mashes them into the earth...many times. Didn't lessen my love for the big guy a bit. Is that telling?
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. ---- William Saroyan
It's not just the natives he kills (in those days the film makers didn't seem to worry about the 'natives', often a 'native' would fall of a bridge, for example, and the 'hero' would say "There goes the supplies"!!) there are also scenes of him killing people in New York too.
Right! I left out that secret pleasure, caryne! You go, Kong!!
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ALLANAGAIN
Old Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/12/2008 : 18:01:41
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Kong fans unite! I didn,t have any problem with him eating people n biting heads off in U.S.A or with the natives! It kinda made the movie, showing how bad and dangerous the big fella was.
When i took the kids to see the remake at the cinema, i thought K.K. skating on a frozen lake was laughable.
Long Live the Black n White Kong!! |
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rocker
Old Love
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Posted - 01/12/2008 : 20:51:24
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yes lk...Scrooge will go on again shortly...old Alastair is the Scrooge for me...and I like the sets!
And "Kong" is something else. In wonder if Mr.Merian C Cooper thought his film would be seen today and everybody still seeing Fay Wray screaming her head off! And for vintage NYC subway cars well you got'em right there in the flick! |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 01/12/2008 : 21:43:25
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Originally posted by rocker
yes lk...Scrooge will go on again shortly...old Alastair is the Scrooge for me...and I like the sets!
And "Kong" is something else. In wonder if Mr.Merian C Cooper thought his film would be seen today and everybody still seeing Fay Wray screaming her head off! And for vintage NYC subway cars well you got'em right there in the flick!
Alastair is the man. I also like a more obscure movie of his called "Green For Danger". ............he is the detective investigating a murder.
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caryne
Old Love
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Posted - 02/12/2008 : 13:27:00
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Originally posted by ALLANAGAIN
Kong fans unite! I didn,t have any problem with him eating people n biting heads off in U.S.A or with the natives! It kinda made the movie, showing how bad and dangerous the big fella was.
When i took the kids to see the remake at the cinema, i thought K.K. skating on a frozen lake was laughable.
Long Live the Black n White Kong!!
Hey, don't get me wrong, Kong is one of my all time favourite films. I just wondered if he would have been quite so universally loved if they hadn't edited all the 'killing' scenes from most versions shown over the years |
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rocker
Old Love
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Posted - 02/12/2008 : 15:01:11
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| And King for its time was certainly skirting some bounds particularly in the area of sexuality. I know it was a pretty racy movie for its time even though it was supposedly pure escapist entertainment. The censors did cut some scenes that I don't think ever saw the light of day. |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9876 Posts |
Posted - 15/12/2008 : 17:42:15
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Time for those Bing Crosby Holiday classics. White Christmas, The Bells Of Saint Mary's, Going My Way, & one of my faves--Holiday Inn.
What are your Christmas faves?
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Let's talk Classic & favorite Movies! Yours?!
