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bocce wrote: billyweeds wrote: [i]Love with the Proper Stranger,
whoa, i missed this on the first pass. are you serious? his fumbling, bumbling overacting on this film is only saved by a charity performance by natalie wood. you've gotta be kidding me...
Wow. Do we ever disagree on this. McQueen reacted while Wood acted up a storm. Of course she may have been at her most beautiful. So, I can see how one couldn't take their eyes off of her.
Still this was the movie that endeared me forever to Steve McQueen. |
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| bocce |
| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 4:59 pm |
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| she was equally great in SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS, in which she out outplayed novice warren beatty for what should have been an academy award... |
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| bocce |
| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:07 pm |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:22 pm |
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bocce wrote: she was equally great in SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS, in which she out outplayed novice warren beatty for what should have been an academy award...
I agee, bocce. She was wonderful in Splendor in the Grass. Also as some of us have discussed she was also a great Louise in Gypsy. Considering how bad that movie was, it's surprising anyone was. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 6:07 pm |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 6:52 pm |
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Lee Remick's aunt was the exec. secretary at the secondary school I attended. Needless to say, there was absolutely NO ressemblance.
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BTW, I wonder why Hitchcock never used Remick for one of his icy blondes. She probably wasn't icy enough, but she definitely could have played the part. She was a much better actress than 'Tippi' Hedren. I wonder how important it was for Hitch to cast a model like Hedren who could have possibly been more easily manipulated in his storyboarded oeuvre.
It sounds as if the Hitch developed odd crushes on his leading ladies (the story of the little coffin with a Hedren doll inside) in his later years. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:47 pm |
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I was never a huge fan of Natalie Wood's acting, except in Miracle on 34th Street and Gypsy. There was almost always something fake about her IMO.
About her looks I was a verrry huge fan. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:51 pm |
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Well, I saw WALL-E, and although I liked it, I can't join the chorus of hosannas proclaiming it an instant classic. It's really well made and intermittently very effective, but it drags a bit in spots and isn't visually exciting all the time. I think it's on its way to becoming one of the most overpraised films of all time.
That said, it makes a strong statement, one which I'm glad children (and their parents) are going to hear. I'd certainly recommend it, but not with overwhelming enthusiasm. |
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| shannon |
| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:54 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Maybe due to low expectations, I got a kick out of The Happening. The deaths are morbidly entertaining and Shyamalan is willing to not take himself so seriously all the time (what a relief). Mark Wahlberg is way miscast, Zooey Deschanel looks and acts like Meg Ryan in a black wig, the basic premise is impossible. But I've spent much worse nights at the movies. Like a merely okay episode of The Twilight Zone, it entertains without revolutionizing your concept of entertainment or life as we know it.
Agreed. I thought it was a whole lot of fun. Reminded me of The Birds. |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 8:03 pm |
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shannon wrote: Joe Vitus wrote: Maybe due to low expectations, I got a kick out of The Happening. The deaths are morbidly entertaining and Shyamalan is willing to not take himself so seriously all the time (what a relief). Mark Wahlberg is way miscast, Zooey Deschanel looks and acts like Meg Ryan in a black wig, the basic premise is impossible. But I've spent much worse nights at the movies. Like a merely okay episode of The Twilight Zone, it entertains without revolutionizing your concept of entertainment or life as we know it.
Agreed. I thought it was a whole lot of fun. Reminded me of The Birds.
That's enough for me. Joe + shannon = theater visit. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 8:12 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: I was never a huge fan of Natalie Wood's acting, except in Miracle on 34th Street and Gypsy. There was almost always something fake about her IMO.
About her looks I was a verrry huge fan.
I've read several bios. of Wood. She had the stage mother to end all stage mothers. She was insecure...having been a child actress who happened to successfully make the transition to adult actress. After her teen affair with Nicholas Ray and a rape (by a prominent Hollywood figure - I'm pretty sure I know who it was), she was never quite the same. I did happen to work with her very pretty, busty sister Lana Wood, who never attained the same degree of success.
When I was in my teens and early twenties, people often told me that I looked like her...so I never saw her as very beautiful...as I was not a huge fan of my own looks. But I had the same big eyes. It was funny - in the '70's I shared the same dry cleaners as Linda Ronstadt. The owners got us mixed up all the time. [Do all brunettes look alike??] Of course, I look completely different (ugh) now. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 10:34 pm |
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Billy,
Never saw Baby, the Rain Must Fall. But I'm willing to check it out. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:39 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Billy,
Never saw Baby, the Rain Must Fall. But I'm willing to check it out.
It's Horton Foote's stage play The Traveling Lady with a new title. The Broadway show starred Kim Stanley. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:50 am |
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billyweeds wrote: Well, I saw WALL-E, and although I liked it, I can't join the chorus of hosannas proclaiming it an instant classic. It's really well made and intermittently very effective, but it drags a bit in spots and isn't visually exciting all the time. I think it's on its way to becoming one of the most overpraised films of all time.
That said, it makes a strong statement, one which I'm glad children (and their parents) are going to hear. I'd certainly recommend it, but not with overwhelming enthusiasm.
Sorry, Billy, you missed it. The film is an original, and the flaws are because it was trying something new. I hadn't seen this film before. How many times can you say that? |
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| jeremy |
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For the record, Rafael Nadal, desperate to enjoy his Sunday lunch and that evenings’ football final, without having to fret over a half-finish match, duly and ruthlessly, despatched Nicolas Kiefer in straight sets. Federer must be getting nervous.
No doubt, Rafa’s mood will have been further enhanced, when Spain beat Germany 1-0 in the final of The European Championship. Not quite the hoped for feast of football, but whenever do finals quite live up to their promise.
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