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The high priest was Batman's butler wasn't he? Alfred?
Mole People was one of those quintessentially so-bad-it's-good flicks, where you can make MST3K jokes as you watch, and pick apart the bad science. I like the intro, with Frank Baxter, who was sort of the Bill Nye of the 50's.
Tarantula was a far better film, which really tapped into the 50's fears about radiation and nukes. Also rather ahead of its time in having a woman scientist, who was interning with Leo G. Carroll and earning her PhD in biology. Though I have to say, have never seen a PhD candidate in the sciences who looked quite that stylish every moment. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 12:28 pm |
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https://tinyurl.com/yaugotzo
Before you click, can you guess what happened 20 years ago yesterday? |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2018 10:57 am |
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| I will be enjoying it on the big screen this fall - already got my tickets. |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2018 12:09 pm |
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| You're an Achiever! |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2018 2:38 pm |
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| More of a suburban achiever probably, but I'll take it. |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2018 6:36 pm |
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When I first watched Lebowski, I thought Walter was too harsh on Donnie (who is then killed off). The anarchists were too cartoonish. And the lead/end narration unnecessary.
Otherwise I enjoyed it a lot. There was a lot to process that intentionally didn't add up to much, which probably helped baffle some critics. As well as the stoner/slacker lead character, which makes it easy to dismiss or undervalue. Part of the Coens return to form -- and to their comic stylings in Raising Arizona -- after a fallow period mid-90's. TBL is kind of like Blood Simple and Raising Arizona mashed together.
I'm mostly a fan of Coen comedies:
1. Raising Arizona
2. O Brother Where Art Thou
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Blood Simple
5. A Serious Man
6. Burn After Reading
then some combination of Inside Llewyn Davis, Barton Fink, Fargo, Miller's Crossing to round out the Top 10.
Did anyone see Surbibicon?
I've been thinking of picking it up. Clooney directed from an old Coen script. Haven't heard anything good about it. but also haven't heard much about it at all (which isn't good).
Turturro was supposed to be making an upcoming film based on his Jesus Quintana character from Lebowski. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Places_(upcoming_film)
But I'm not sure what the status is. |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2018 8:52 pm |
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I am least fond of their straight up comedies.
1. Fargo
2. No Country for Old Men
3. A Serious Man
4. Blood Simple
5. Barton Fink
6. The Big Lebowski
7. Inside Llewyn Davis
8. Miller's Crossing
9. O Brother Where Art Thou?
10. Burn After Reading
11. The Man Who Wasn't There
12. True Grit
13. Hail, Caesar!
14. Raising Arizona
15. The Hudsucker Proxy
16. Intolerable Cruelty
17. The Ladykillers.
Fair sized drop off from 4 to 5, Huge Drop off from 12 to 13, chasm from 16 to 17. |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 11:06 pm |
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Quote: Take Hitler and stick him on the funny page. |
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| In the comedy western, A Big Hand for the Little Lady, Jason Robards plays a cattle man named Henry Drummond. What is odd about that? |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 4:08 pm |
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| Did Robards play the Darrowesque Henry Drummond in one of the thirty or so filmed versions of Inherit the Wind? |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 11:38 am |
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| There are 3 versions, IIRC, but yes, you got it. |
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A bit of weekend fun: imagine famous movies that have been remade for an audience of dogs.
A couple to get started:
Bark Victory
The Good German Shepherd |
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Un Chien Andalou
There Will Be Bloodhound
Fantastic Mr. Foxhound
The Dachshund of the Baskervilles
When We Were King Charles Spaniels
Papillon
I Am Samoyed |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2018 9:40 am |
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The Dachshund of the Baskervilles - Holmes investigates terrifying incidents of chewed slippers? I so want to greenlight this project!
The English Retriever Patient
Raging Bulldog |
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The Third Doberman
The Boston Terrier Strangler
Chow-ards End
The Dead Poodle
Daddy Day Cairn
Barefoot in the Bark
American Were Woof in London
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