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| Befade |
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The Fugitive Kind: I loved it when I was young and dreamed of a Marlon-like guy to rescue me from my stiffling marriage. But I rewatched it recently and have to agree it's tainted love.
Anyway.....here's a thought: Name movies that have all star casts and badly fail.
Nine
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 5:10 pm |
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Befade wrote: The Fugitive Kind: I loved it when I was young and dreamed of a Marlon-like guy to rescue me from my stiffling marriage. But I rewatched it recently and have to agree it's tainted love.
Anyway.....here's a thought: Name movies that have all star casts and badly fail.
Nine
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Town & Country; the remake of All the King's Men, Nine; Inchon |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 5:27 pm |
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| Well, another Brando vehicle that might fit the category: Desiree with Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon and Michael Rennie. Can't blame it on Brando though, because he was forced to make it because his contract called for another movie that year. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 5:34 pm |
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| How about The Boys From Brazil with Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason and Lilly Palmer? Probably the worst performances of Peck's and Olivier's career. And an awful movie all around. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 5:36 pm |
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marantzo wrote: How about The Boys From Brazil with Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason and Lilly Palmer? Probably the worst performances of Peck's and Olivier's career. And an awful movie all around.
Can't quite go there with you. It's kind of a guilty pleasure for me. Peck is completely miscast but fascinatingly awful rather than boring. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 5:38 pm |
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The remake of The Women. The musical remake of Lost Horizon. House of the Spirits. Airport 77 (although I actually enjoy that one for its cheesiness). Weekend at the Waldorf.
As for(soon-to-be) Current Films, here's Linda Woolverton on her screenplay for Tim Burton's deconstruction of Lewis Carroll:
LA Times: Hero Complex: 'Alice in Wonderland' screenwriter is ready for haters: 'It's audacious, what we've done' |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 5:46 pm |
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When Time Ran Out... aka Earth's Final Fury aka The Day the World Ended, a 1980 disaster (in more ways than one) starring (wait for it):
Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Edward Albert, Red Buttons, Valentina Cortese, Veronica Hamel, Alex Karras, Burgess Meredith, Ernest Borgnine, James Franciscus, and Pat Morita. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 5:51 pm |
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marantzo wrote: How about The Boys From Brazil with Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason and Lilly Palmer? Probably the worst performances of Peck's and Olivier's career. And an awful movie all around.
Olivier was having quite a run around then: The Betsy (Olivier, Katherine Ross, Tommy Lee Jones, Jane Alexander), The Jazz Singer, Inchon, Clash of the Titans (which I sort of like for Medusa), The Boys from Brazil. Though I've heard A Little Romance isn't bad. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:02 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: When Time Ran Out... aka Earth's Final Fury aka The Day the World Ended, a 1980 disaster (in more ways than one) starring (wait for it):
Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Edward Albert, Red Buttons, Valentina Cortese, Veronica Hamel, Alex Karras, Burgess Meredith, Ernest Borgnine, James Franciscus, and Pat Morita.
A feather in all their caps, I imagine.
You are right, Peck's character wasn't boring, it was startling. Olivier's was embarrassing. Guilty pleasure is appropriate.
What was amazing is the fact they expected the audience to take it seriously. An absurd plot in the first place, done very badly. The book was a big best seller. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:29 pm |
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| My friend Larry Olivier was actually a stage actor and his real good stuff in movies usually calls for a more stage like performance. I think the same thing was true for John Barrymore. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:25 pm |
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Colin Firth plays George VI in his next movie, The King's Speech, which has a pretty high-powered cast, both of characters and the actors playing them:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1504320/
Somehow I think it's about more than speech therapy. Curiously, I don't see a credit for the future Queen Elizabeth II as a child; the 'Queen Elizabeth' being played by Helena Bonham Carter is the Queen Mom. |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:02 pm |
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| Interesting, just last week one of the PBS stations showed the 2002 Masterpiece Theater "Bertie and Elizabeth," with Alan Bates and Eileen Atkins as King George V and Queen Mary (and very starchily impressive they were). James Wilby was George VI and Juliet Aubrey was Elizabeth. It was a nice mini-movie but not particularly emotionally involving--at least, after the king died and Edward VIII abdicated. (Oops--is that a spoiler?) |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:15 pm |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:21 am |
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Carrobin wrote: Quote: ...and Edward VIII abdicated. (Oops--is that a spoiler?)
Hardly. Unless of course there are some video game playing victims of your current education system 18 to 23 year olds on here.
Marc, I'm eager to hear what you think of A Serious Man. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:37 am |
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marantzo wrote: Carrobin wrote: Quote: ...and Edward VIII abdicated. (Oops--is that a spoiler?)
Hardly. Unless of course there are some video game playing victims of your current education system 18 to 23 year olds on here.
Marc, I'm eager to hear what you think of A Serious Man.
Marc has registered his extremely strong distaste for this masterpiece in Couch. |
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