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lady wakasa
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:15 am Reply with quote
Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 5911 Location: Beyond the Blue Horizon
My BotFoJ story: I went through conniptions on a date with this guy because we both thought that the other person had picked movies that they personally didn't want to see (i.e., playing martyr). I thought he'd want to see BotFoJ, and I would've tolerated it, so I suggested it. I forgot what we saw (think we came up with a third option), but it wasn't Tom (and Katie probably wasn't even born, LOL).

Things went downhill after that... %^D

That has little to do with the movie, but I always remember that when it comes up.

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Trish
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:17 am Reply with quote
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billyweeds wrote:
Trish wrote:
billyweeds wrote:
Platoon sucked, as did Born on the Fourth of July, U-Turn, Nixon, Wall Street, and almost every other Oliver Stone movie except JFK, Salvador, and Any Given Sunday, which were all brilliant. Can you say uneven?

Yes, for the record, I loathed--loathed--Natural Born Killers. Will Tim resurface to shoot me down?


what was sucky about Born on the 4th of July?


Two words: Tom Cruise. A truly egregious piece of miscasting. Too handsome, too shallow, too plastic, too everything but what the real Ron Kovic was--edgy and annoying and truly heroic.

P.S. Read the book. It's amazing.

see I disagree, I think Cruise was excellent - very desrving of his Oscar nomination. I thought it was gut wrenching when he sobs to his mother "Whose gonna love me" in his wheelchair after ranting about the lost use of his er manhood

granted I never read the book or are as familiar (as you might be) with the real Ron Kovic - perhps Cruise/Stone didn't get the man right - but that aside - I thought it was a moving film
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Befade
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:50 pm Reply with quote
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I'm an embittered and cranky 28 year old.


No, you have 2 choices......The Young and the Restless or The Old and the Brooding.

Rod.......by the way.......where do you get the assortment of films that you watch? Library? Tv? And do you have a photographic memory of them.

I never watch war movies. What I've seen lately and haven't written about, but might write about another day:

Animal Factory
Mr. Deeds goes to Town
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
Baby, the Rain must Fall
Big Love, eps. 1 & 2
Analyze That
Cleo from 5 to 7
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ehle64
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:55 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 7149 Location: NYC; US&A
Befade wrote:
Cleo from 5 to 7


My Favorite Film of ALL Time.

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Marj
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:54 pm Reply with quote
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I thought Nixon was great. Guess I'm alone in that.
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ehle64
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:42 pm Reply with quote
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I totally dug Nixon. Especiallly Kevin Bacon's performance.

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Rod
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:18 am Reply with quote
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Ah-hem. The Bacon weren't in Nixon. The Bacon were in JFK. And he was my favorite thing in it. Gutsy little performance.

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Rod
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:20 am Reply with quote
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Befade wrote:
Rod.......by the way.......where do you get the assortment of films that you watch? Library? Tv? And do you have a photographic memory of them.


I pick up movies where I can - chiefly cable, video store, movie theaters...carrying good stocks of classic movies in libraries isn't something that's caught on big here.

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ehle64
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:39 am Reply with quote
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yeah, thx man. Oops I did it again.

I'm goin to Witchita. . . .

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ehle64
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:40 am Reply with quote
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Nixon was all about Joan Allen. Duh.

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Rod
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:57 am Reply with quote
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...far from this opera forever more...

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ehle64
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:03 am Reply with quote
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Rod wrote:
...far from this opera forever more...


HOTT

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billyweeds
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:53 am Reply with quote
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Miscast, sweatily overacting Anthony Hopkins + actressy Joan Allen + muddled-agenda-afflicted Oliver Stone + endless running time = wannabe JFK flick called Nixon.
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Trish
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:58 am Reply with quote
Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 2438 Location: Massachusetts
ehle64 wrote:
Befade wrote:
Cleo from 5 to 7


My Favorite Film of ALL Time.


what's that about?- I've never heard of it
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Trish
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:02 am Reply with quote
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