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| whiskeypriest |
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billyweeds wrote: bartist wrote: Be a good double feature with that bowling movie where a man's rug is peed on.
Do you mean Kingpin?. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 6:54 am |
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bartist wrote: WP, felicitations on joining the clean plate club. Went down your list and mostly applied checks, except for ILD which somehow left me feeling, hey, where is the character arc? Maybe I just missed it. I should see it again, but that's too depressing to contemplate in February. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 7:35 am |
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| On pretty much the same page as bartist about your list, whiskey. However, I really don't enjoy seeing O'Toole go over the top--or doing anything, for that matter. Sorry, but I am NOT a member of the Peter O'Toole fan club. I was remarkably disappointed in ILD as well. But about Ida and Becket (one T, btw, unless you saw a bio of the writer of Waiting for Godot) we are in agreement. I liked them even less than you did, and found Becket boring throughout, not just intermittently. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 10:01 am |
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whiskeypriest wrote: bartist wrote: WP, felicitations on joining the clean plate club. Went down your list and mostly applied checks, except for ILD which somehow left me feeling, hey, where is the character arc? Maybe I just missed it. I should see it again, but that's too depressing to contemplate in February. Character arc is over rated. How much arc can there be in a week of an adult life?
You've never seen 12 Angry Men? Die Hard? 
Seriously, arc isn't always essential in a movie, but ILD somehow raised the expectation of one. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 10:42 am |
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Carrobin, I saw One Million B.C. when I was a kid. I had a great time watching it and I saw it a couple of times when TV began. Just like you said, it was silly but had you watching it.  |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 7:58 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: On pretty much the same page as bartist about your list, whiskey. However, I really don't enjoy seeing O'Toole go over the top--or doing anything, for that matter. Sorry, but I am NOT a member of the Peter O'Toole fan club. I was remarkably disappointed in ILD as well. But about Ida and Becket (one T, btw, unless you saw a bio of the writer of Waiting for Godot) we are in agreement. I liked them even less than you did, and found Becket boring throughout, not just intermittently. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 8:25 pm |
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| I've always liked O'Toole, but mostly in comedies like "My Favorite Year" and "What's New Pussycat"--and of course, "The Ruling Class." And even when his movies were boring, he was always nice to look at. |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 10:08 pm |
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I generally like O'Toole, especially in The Lion in Winter, My Favorite Year, Lawrence of Arabia and Creator (the last a good example of a good movie made from an unreadable novel). I've never seen Becket, though, which sounded like a humorless variant of A Man for All Seasons. (Yes, I know, different Henrys, but a related theme.)
Besides, I never had much sympathy for Thomas Becket, and I do for Thomas More. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 6:19 am |
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| My Favorite Year is My Favorite O'Toole. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 7:43 am |
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whiskeypriest wrote: My Favorite Year is My Favorite O'Toole.
I would agree with this, though I find it slightly distasteful that O'Toole excels playing himself--i.e., a drunk.
The performance is expert, however--no doubt about that. |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 7:45 am |
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whiskeypriest wrote: When you wrote "Costner is at his very best" recently it was all I could do to not ask if that was meant as high or faint praise.
LOL. Costner is a little bit polarizing, I've always found. If you don't get his message, you really don't get his message. |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 5:20 pm |
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Philomena, with Steve Coogan and Judy Dench, is about a mother whom the nuns had separated from her son fifty years previous. Coogan, a writer, helps her find him.
This is a road movie, a buddy movie, a mystery and suspense. Dench, of course, is aging, but she's got stones, and can talk around anyone.
I feel I should know Coogan, but he hasn't worked in many films, other than as script writer. (He wrote this). He's terrific as the jaded atheist, giving himself some wonderfully funny lines. |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 9:45 am |
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Yambu, you may want to check him out in...
The Trip (and its sequel, ...to Italy)
A Cock and Bull Story
Coffee & Cigarets
He's also a regular in the Night at the Museum movies. |
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He also starred in Hamlet 2.
Disraeli (1929) is the film for which George Arliss won the third Academy Award for Best Actor. He was a stage actor who was famous for playing the role in the stage play. I approached it with a bit of trepidation because the second and fourth winning performances were so stagey, but this one's a lot of fun, with Disraeli snatching the Suez Canal from the Russians* while getting his young protege married off. I swear Arliss had Disraeli's forelock tattooed to his scalp--in other words the makeup is odd--but Arliss is good. The screenplay is witty, too. Joan Bennett, who would later become a great film noir actress, plays young Clarissa very well. A pleasant surprise. (8.0 of 10)
*Disraeli's personal secretary is a Russian spy, which Disraeli knows very well. He's hired the spy to feed misinformation to the Russians. |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:42 pm |
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From IMDb comments on this film, Arliss appears to be the male equivalent of Marie Dressler: stage stars who were about 60 when when sound came (both were born in 1868), weren't pretty faces but were always the best thing in any film they were in, won early Academy awards and were very popular. (Dressler was the #1 box office star in 1932 and 1933.) One wonders what would have happened if they had made a film together.
They also appear to be the earliest born of actors to win Oscars. Arliss was about seven months senior. I'm going to seek out more Arliss films. (He also played Richelieu and Wellington, but he also did non historicals.) Dressler's one of my favorite actresses and I already seek out her films. |
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