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- Dan
- Father, musician, trail runner, reader, geographer, craft beer aficionado, meditator.
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Three Day Weekend14 years ago
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King New Year 201214 years ago
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Perfect Things.17 years ago
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A list so game-changing, it cannot be posted on a mere blog?
He has not come here to praise Hollywood, he has come to bury it.
Stephen: I could post it here, but it's in Excel, and much more useful if it comes in that format. Plus, I sent it out in a pretty big mass email last year and I'd lke to just repeat that.
Mixx: Some cynicism in there, certainly, but I see a lot of movies I love, too.
I should have said - feel free to discuss in this forum...
Mostly just working in some Shakespeare rather than actual cynicism. Your opening with 'friends..' sent my brain into 'Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!' Once firmly ensconced in Julius Caesar, well, there was little doubt where I was going.
ah - didn't catch the reference. Now I think I recall that line.
To quote Walter Brennan from Rio Bravo, "It's a good 'un!"
Quite a list. I can't believe I haven't actually sat down and watched Rio Bravo yet. I had it at home from the library at one point. Well, I know what I'll be watching in the next two weeks.
It's funny - for really no reason at all, I sat down with my list and IMDB open on my computer last night, and loaded all my ratings in. There were only a few movies (some of the 7s and 8s) where I was around the average rating for other viewers. So you may not necessarily share my appreciation (or lack thereof) of these various titles. Rio Bravo's average user rating wasn't all that exceptionally high. And Sword in the Stone seemed to be almost universally loved.
When I think of watching Rio Bravo, I think of statement Quentin Tarantino made, something to the effect that he could never love a woman who didn't love "Rio Bravo".
Is that true? That's the first thing I've heard about Quentin Tarantino that I've liked in about ten years.
(even better if the woman is IN "Rio Bravo." 1960s Angie Dickinson: rarrrr)
Better than the 70's version.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071216/
William Shatner was in that dog.
Not in the sequel though (13 years later...)
Ha! A film that has spent far too much time on my radar, one way or another, through the years. Though I've never seen it.
Rent it! IT COMMANDS YOU!
Back in my earlier (teenage) days of watching channels we didn't get long after the rest of my family had gone to bed, I watched at least part of it, with no sound. Desperate times, desperate measures as they say.
We went to more desperate measures than that to watch scrambled images of much lesser women than Angie Dickinson, in those days.
At your bachelor party even.
WORST bachelor party ever.
EVER!!!
the greatest love
It was what it was.
They got progressively less choreographed as they went along, that's for sure.
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