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| billyweeds |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Never saw Pretty Woman, never will.
Not that I really would push for it, but how come?
Didn't know Law & Order had recurring villains. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 9:34 am |
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| I liked Pretty Woman. I know I'm probably a minority of one on here, but it was fun to watch and most of the criticism I've heard is a lot of PC crap. If someone just thought it was not a good movie, that's different. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 9:37 am |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Never saw Pretty Woman, never will. |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 9:38 am |
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marantzo wrote: I liked Pretty Woman. I know I'm probably a minority of one on here, but it was fun to watch and most of the criticism I've heard is a lot of PC crap. If someone just thought it was not a good movie, that's different. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 9:39 am |
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marantzo wrote: I liked Pretty Woman. I know I'm probably a minority of one on here, but it was fun to watch and most of the criticism I've heard is a lot of PC crap. If someone just thought it was not a good movie, that's different.
Agree. The movie is a piece of cheese but a fairly well made one, possibly Garry Marshall's best (this is saying basically nothing). It's fun, though, and Julia Roberts and Richard Gere have chemistry. And then there's Larry Miller's wonderful cameo. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 10:47 am |
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billyweeds wrote: Joe Vitus wrote: Never saw Pretty Woman, never will.
Not that I really would push for it, but how come?
Didn't know Law & Order had recurring villains.
Completely uninterested.
He played a killer who evaded Jack McCoy twice. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 12:51 pm |
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| I enjoyed Pretty Woman. Julia Roberts at her prettiest and most lovable. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 1:06 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: marantzo wrote: I liked Pretty Woman. I know I'm probably a minority of one on here, but it was fun to watch and most of the criticism I've heard is a lot of PC crap. If someone just thought it was not a good movie, that's different.
Agree. The movie is a piece of cheese but a fairly well made one, possibly Garry Marshall's best (this is saying basically nothing). It's fun, though, and Julia Roberts and Richard Gere have chemistry. And then there's Larry Miller's wonderful cameo.
The movie he directed after Pretty Woman was Frankie and Johnny, which I thought was very good. A former girlfriend of mine, Lucinda Crosby played the abused woman in FaJ, only close up in a scene in the supermarket. Looked great, even with the black eye. Unfortunately we never got past the "friend' relationship. She was also in PW, playing the tennis ref sitting in the high umpire's chair. After F&J Marshall made Exit to Eden, one of the worst movies one can imagine. Lucinda was also in that and had a much bigger part, but I rented it and couldn't recognize her in whatever outrageous S/M costume she was wearing.
The Flamingo Kid is supposed to be quite good also. I just caught the first 20 minutes or so on TV once. Overboard was awful. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 2:54 pm |
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| It's been a long time since I've seen The Flamingo Kid, but I remember enjoying it. It has good performances by Matt Dillon as the Kid, and Richard Crenna as a dubious car dealor who becomes the Kid's mentor. |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:07 pm |
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The Cat Returns is a fun fantasy that was packaged with one of the Miyazaki films. It's directed by Hiroyuki Morita rather than Miyazaki, but don't let that stop you. It's a charming kid's fantasy about a schoolgirl who rescues the Cat Prince. As a reward, the Cat King starts showering with gifts (since he's a cat, you can imagine what kind of gifts he thinks are appropriate), then decides she is to marry the Prince. She befriends a Cat Baron who loves to fight for just causes, like rescuing a fair maiden and giving her some self-esteem in the process.
I've got a bunch of friends who love this film, and not all of them have kids. |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 7:52 pm |
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Caught the last half of Airforce One yesterday on TV. I thought it was the last half. The bad guys took over the plane and Ford was fun to watch hiding out and dispatching some of them, but the drawn out anguished passenger sequences were just annoying. Don't directors know that we get it quickly and drawing it out is off putting except for the sadistic element in the audience. Well the terrorists were finally dispatched after one turn of events after another, but that wasn't the end of his marathon. It just went on and on with the same music playing ceaselessly. Cheers from the home crowd when things seemed good and sorrow when thing went badly. Could have been an exciting action film, but it was just another example of sophomoric film making that ended up quite ridiculous.
I have to look up who the director was. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 7:58 pm |
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| Jesus, Wolfgang Peterson. What the hell happened to him after Das Boot? Did the U.S. drain him of his talent. Did he marry Madonna? What? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 8:13 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Jesus, Wolfgang Peterson. What the hell happened to him after Das Boot? Did the U.S. drain him of his talent. Did he marry Madonna? What?
I loved Air Force One. Peterson also directed a crazily entertaining piece of utter kitsch called Shattered. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 12:24 am |
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marantzo wrote: ......I slogged through The Little Drummer Girl and that was enough Le Carre for me.....
BTW, I haven't slogged through any book I didn't like since college. That was Winston Churchill's advice, and I've always applied it to movies as well. That's why you dont see me in Movies I HATE. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 12:37 am |
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yambu wrote: marantzo wrote: ......I slogged through The Little Drummer Girl and that was enough Le Carre for me..... You picked the wrong one. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is his best by far. BBC made a very faithful production of it, with Alec Guinness perfect as George Smiley.
Alec Guinness is possibly my favorite film actor of all time, but I was bored silly, stiff, and blind by T,T,S,S. |
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