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Post by katina2nd on Aug 4, 2012 22:02:55 GMT -6
Geronimo, a somewhat tepid film about the Apache warrior leader.
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Post by Phalon on Aug 5, 2012 6:54:03 GMT -6
And the movie that gave BP her name. We'd been around and around with names; all three of us (LX, six at the time, had to have her say too) could not agree on anything, and we were coming down to the wire. "Far and Away" just happened to be on T.V. one night. "How about Shannon?", I asked (Nicole Kidman's character). So Shannon it was....thank god, cuz she was born a couple of days later - hours after going to the movies, and in my after childbirth delirium, her name just might have been "Shrek".
None of us thought about both girls' names starting with "Sh"....which has proved to be quite confusing at times.
Hairspray
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Post by stepper on Aug 5, 2012 10:51:13 GMT -6
In the Heat of the Night
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Post by Siren on Aug 5, 2012 22:07:30 GMT -6
Having two kids whose names are similar is especially tough when you're trying to scream the right name in fury, right? ;D
"Jezebel" (1938) - Bette Davis in an Oscar-winning role as a spoiled, willful southern belle whose behavior costs her the love of her life. Does that plot sound familiar? It should. The story goes that Bette's studio gave her "Jezebel" in consolation after she didn't get the role of Scarlett in "Gone With The Wind".
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Post by stepper on Aug 6, 2012 20:48:15 GMT -6
The Karate Kid
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Post by Siren on Aug 6, 2012 21:23:15 GMT -6
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951) - Bob Hope plays a racetrack swindler who accidentally gets crosswise with a mobster. The film is forgettable, except that it introduced the classic holiday tune, "Silver Bells".
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Post by quettalee on Aug 6, 2012 21:55:20 GMT -6
My Favorite Martian
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Post by Phalon on Aug 7, 2012 6:14:18 GMT -6
There are times when I'm screaming names in a fury, it doesn't really matter whose name I'm screaming.....because they're both in trouble.
Night of the Living Dead
I got a double, I got a double, I got a double...
<doesn't happen often, so I gotta celebrate in sing-song when I can>
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Post by stepper on Aug 7, 2012 17:19:49 GMT -6
Congratulations phalon!
Saving Private Ryan
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Post by Phalon on Aug 8, 2012 5:28:39 GMT -6
Quadrophenia - teenage angst in London during the sixties set to The Who's rock opera of the same name
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Post by stepper on Aug 8, 2012 16:42:55 GMT -6
Robin Hood
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Post by Siren on Aug 8, 2012 21:58:19 GMT -6
What a cast! Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, and Christopher Lee co-star in 1970s "Scream And Scream Again", a tale of London police on the trail of a serial killer.
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Post by quettalee on Aug 9, 2012 15:42:24 GMT -6
Tommy Boy
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Post by stepper on Aug 9, 2012 19:52:23 GMT -6
Up
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Post by quettalee on Aug 9, 2012 22:17:00 GMT -6
One of the best of all time, Step!
The Vanishing
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Post by Siren on Aug 10, 2012 7:38:41 GMT -6
Wuthering Heights (1939, Hollywood's greatest year) - Poor boy Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) and rich girl Cathy (Merle Oberon), caught up in a weird, co-dependent romance long, long before the "Twilight" kids were a gleam in great-grandpa's eye.
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Post by xenawp7706 on Aug 10, 2012 10:53:25 GMT -6
I read the book but I never saw that movie
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Post by katina2nd on Aug 11, 2012 21:16:28 GMT -6
Not many to choose from and it's probably been done, but .............
X Men.
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Post by quettalee on Aug 12, 2012 20:46:57 GMT -6
The Yearling
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Post by Phalon on Aug 13, 2012 4:16:49 GMT -6
The Dead Zone - Tagline: "In his mind, he has the power to see the future. In his hands, he has the power to change it." Based on Stephen King's book of the same name.
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Post by Siren on Aug 13, 2012 7:27:23 GMT -6
Nice one, Gams! The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) - "The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved." www.imdb.com/title/tt0035015/
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Post by stepper on Aug 13, 2012 17:34:42 GMT -6
The Bad News Bears
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Post by Phalon on Aug 14, 2012 6:14:58 GMT -6
Chicago
My co-worker's comment when we all went to see it when the movie was released: "It was okay, but I could have done without all the singing."
"Yes, well...musicals sometimes have singing, you know."
(eye-roll)
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Post by Siren on Aug 14, 2012 7:02:04 GMT -6
Lol! There are a few musicals I can take. But most, no. I'm too literal; it's stupid to me that a character bursts into song at a crucial moment, or that two people who have never met can suddenly do a dance in perfect unison. A friend was appalled when I told her that because the dance numbers in the Nicole Kidman "Moulin Rouge" gave me a headache, I fast-forwarded through them all to watch the love story. D is for "Day of the Dead" (1985), in which, "A small group of military officers and scientists dwell in an underground bunker as the world above is overrun by zombies." www.imdb.com/title/tt0088993/
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Post by stepper on Aug 14, 2012 18:43:13 GMT -6
I thought Chicago was great!
From Here to Eternity
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Post by Phalon on Aug 15, 2012 6:49:53 GMT -6
Fargo
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Post by stepper on Aug 15, 2012 17:52:05 GMT -6
Girl Interrupted - With Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg, and Brittany Murphy. It's not possible to have a bad movie with a cast like that.
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Post by vickiej on Aug 15, 2012 20:01:12 GMT -6
Highlander
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Post by Siren on Aug 15, 2012 20:30:41 GMT -6
"Girl, Interrupted" - terrific movie. And you're right, Step, a wonderful cast.
"Ice Castles" (1978) - Small-town ice skater is on the verge of huge stardom when tragedy strikes.
I was 13 when this film debuted, and thought it was the greatest. I had the soundtrack album, and played it a zillion times. The Oscar-nominated theme song, "Through The Eyes Of Love", was composed by the great Marvin Hamlisch, who passed away last week.
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Post by Phalon on Aug 16, 2012 4:36:30 GMT -6
I loved "Ice Castles" back then!
Benny & Joon - with Johnny Depp as the loveable, quirky Sam, maker of ironed grill cheese sandwiches.
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