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Re: Favorite Movies

Postby up148 » Mon Feb 19, 2018 1:55 pm

chuck wrote:Heat is excellent. Scene in diner between Pacino and De Niro was shot face to face in real time with two camera's, one behind/over the shoulder of each actor.

Frankenheimer was one of my favorite directors, Seven Days in May, Manchurian Candidate, The Train, Ronin.


He did a great job on "Heat". I've seen them all, but didn't realize he did them or who he was.

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Re: Favorite Movies

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:44 pm

Elizabeth Taylor.
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Re: Favorite Movies

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:46 pm

MurphOnMillerAve wrote:Elizabeth Taylor.
Your viewpoint?


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Re: Favorite Movies

Postby Seaboard Air Line Fan » Mon Feb 19, 2018 5:42 pm

Roy wrote:Just finished watching Twelve O'Clock High. I also liked the TV show version.


That movie, Flight Of The Phoenix with Jimmy Stewart, and The Thing with James Arness were my favorites.
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Re: Favorite Movies

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Mon Feb 19, 2018 7:17 pm

Agreed, BobD, The Thing, with James Arness, one of my best ever. When the scientists spread out on the ice and discover the shape of the UFO buried underneath ; when they open the door to the greenhouse room for the first time and The Thing strikes out at them, as a boy , I knew we were in for some good story telling(!)
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Re: Favorite Movies

Postby chuck » Mon Feb 19, 2018 7:48 pm

Michael Mann did Heat.

Young Elizabeth Taylor was a knock out (Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) and a great actress. Not so found of her later works.

Hitchcock is another favorite, particularly the earlier US works like Shadow of a Doubt, Rope, and Lifeboat. I also like Dial M for Murder, To Catch a Thief, North by Northwest, and Rear Window.
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Re: Favorite Movies

Postby v8vega » Tue Feb 20, 2018 10:35 am

Elizabeth Taylor in a day in the Sun or something like that looked about 18 and truly was pretty. Good classic movie too. After that she always looked about 40 and fat.

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Re: Favorite Movies

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Tue Feb 20, 2018 10:52 am

v8vega wrote:Elizabeth Taylor in a day in the Sun or something like that looked about 18 and truly was pretty. Good classic movie too. After that she always looked about 40 and fat.

First time I ever saw her in a movie was "Elephant Walk," It was 1954, and I was a boy. My mother laughed for several days afterward due to my exclaiming often how beautiful Elizabeth Taylor was. I still think she was beautiful - not simply "pretty" - in that movie, with a fantastic waist and shapely overall figure, riveting face, especially the eyes, and without watermelon-sized breasts that seemed to dominate some actresses' images.

The only time I was disappointed in her appearance was her role in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf." I don't go for loud, screechy, shrill women, and they seemed to play-down her physical beauty in the story, but she sure could act well at being the very unattractive loud shrew.

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Re: Favorite Movies

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue Feb 20, 2018 10:57 am

MurphOnMillerAve wrote:..........but she sure could act well at being the very unattractive loud shrew.


Was that acting or what everything else acting?
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Re: Favorite Movies

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Tue Feb 20, 2018 11:30 am

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
MurphOnMillerAve wrote:..........but she sure could act well at being the very unattractive loud shrew.


Was that acting or what everything else acting?

A very valid question. I had wondered that myself when first seeing that awful movie.

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Re: Favorite Movies

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue Feb 20, 2018 11:37 am

MurphOnMillerAve wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
MurphOnMillerAve wrote:..........but she sure could act well at being the very unattractive loud shrew.


Was that acting or what everything else acting?

A very valid question. I had wondered that myself when first seeing that awful movie.


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Re: Favorite Movies

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Tue Feb 20, 2018 11:50 am

The entire ensemble was awful, which I interpreted as the purpose of the whole story . The only question , for me, was why I was sitting through the entire pile.

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Re: Favorite Movies

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue Feb 20, 2018 12:19 pm

MurphOnMillerAve wrote:The only question , for me, was why I was sitting through the entire pile.


You need to visit the library and pick up a shopping bag full of entertainment.
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Re: Favorite Movies

Postby rogruth » Tue Feb 20, 2018 12:52 pm

The last time that went to a movie theatre was to see "Phantom of the Opera".
I do like the story and the music but found the CD to be more exciting than the movie.
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Re: Favorite Movies

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue Feb 20, 2018 12:56 pm

rogruth wrote:The last time that went to a movie theatre was to see "Phantom of the Opera".


Lon Chaney?
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