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Post by stepper on Jan 20, 2014 21:04:24 GMT -6
From Here to Eternity - It won eight Academy Awards and the Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr beach kiss scene is still one of the best known movie kiss scenes. In the book, they did more than kiss.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 24, 2014 7:20:34 GMT -6
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) - Ellen Burstyn won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Alice Hyatt. The movie inspired the television show "Alice" in which the lead role was played by Linda Lavin.
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Post by stepper on Jan 24, 2014 20:34:28 GMT -6
Alice in Wonderland - with, Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Mia Wasikowska, Stephen Fry, Alan Rickman, Michael Sheen, and Timothy Spall. Despite its short timeline and mixed reviews, the film grossed over $1.02 billion worldwide. At the Academy Awards, Alice in Wonderland won for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design; it had also been nominated for Best Visual Effects. The film generated over $1 billion in ticket sales and, as of October 2013, it is the fifteenth highest-grossing film of all time.
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Post by katina2nd on Jan 25, 2014 19:35:22 GMT -6
You're right, Kat, about which musical is best. To each his own. Yep, no doubt Siren. Which leads me to ask, did you have a preference for one or the other, Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire? The Disappearance of Alice Creed - Fairly standard thriller from a few years back.
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Post by stepper on Jan 26, 2014 12:18:47 GMT -6
The Dirty Dozen - one of MGM's biggest moneymakers of the 1960s and the sixth highest-grossing film in the studio's history.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 28, 2014 7:07:58 GMT -6
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) - based on the lives of the Gilbreth family, who was obviously a family with 12 children.
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Post by Siren on Jan 28, 2014 21:12:29 GMT -6
Yay, Gams - that's a Myrna Loy flick!
"The House By The Cemetery" (1981) - An extremely gory Italian-made zombie flick concerning a long-dead surgeon, a family living in an isolated, scary house, and the secret in the basement.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 1, 2014 8:41:20 GMT -6
Ooo, Siren, Italian zombies? Sounds interesting because you just know those Italians have to be tall, dark, and...uhm...gruesome.
Murder by Death (1976) - comedy with a star-studded cast including Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness, Truman Capote, Peter Falk, Nancy Walker, and others. I honestly don't remember much about the movie, except the title; it still makes me laugh.
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Post by stepper on Feb 1, 2014 22:03:23 GMT -6
Death Becomes Her - A rather dark comedy with Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, and Bruce Willis.
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Post by Siren on Feb 5, 2014 20:41:09 GMT -6
The Game Of Death (1978) - Bruce Lee stars as a martial arts movie star who must fake his death to find those who are trying to kill him.
The film was made years after Lee's death, cobbled together from genuine fight scenes of him, and the rest with stand-ins.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 7, 2014 7:20:44 GMT -6
Death Proof (2007) - Quentin Tarantino movie that pays homage to action/thriller movies of the 70s...sort of; homage with some spoofing, I think. Stars Kurt Russell as an aging has-been stuntman turned psycho-killer and Zoe Bell (Lucy's stuntwoman for Xena episodes) as herself. Excessively violent, yet cheesy fun.
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Post by Siren on Feb 8, 2014 12:44:51 GMT -6
Oh, Gams, I saw your comment earlier about Italian zombie movies. I have gathered that the Italians are considered the best at gory zombie flicks. Well, I guess that everyone is good at something!
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Proof of Life (2000) - Alice (Meg Ryan) hires a professional negotiator (Russell Crowe) to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.
Famous as the film that led to an affair that ended Meg Ryan's status as "America's Sweetheart", and permanently damaged her career.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 9, 2014 7:55:52 GMT -6
I'm not sure why, but I always get Meg Ryan and Melanie Griffith mixed up.
The Secret Life of Bees (2008) - stars Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson, and Dakota Fanning. Great movie - it receives a Five Kleenex Box rating from me.
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Post by Siren on Feb 17, 2014 15:00:15 GMT -6
I need to see that one, Gams. Good cast!
The Secret Of My Success (1987) - Michael J. Fox plays a mail room clerk who poses as an executive.
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Post by katina2nd on Feb 17, 2014 18:39:11 GMT -6
Sweet Smell of Success - Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis in probably their strongest collaboration as a columnist and a press agent without scrupuls.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 18, 2014 6:41:50 GMT -6
It's one of those "weekend" movies - movies that seem to be on television often on Saturday or Sunday afternoons so I've seen it quite a few times...and dang-it, I always cry.
Sweet Home Alabama (2002) - romantic comedy starring Reese Witherspoon and Josh Lucas
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Post by Siren on Feb 20, 2014 21:59:05 GMT -6
Far From Home (1989) - Drew Barrymore stars in the tale of a girl and her father who are pursued by a killer after their car runs out of gas
Chick flicks like "Sweet Home Alabama" are not my thing. But Josh Lucas' cuteness redeemed it, though it seemed to me that he was doing a Matthew McConaughey imitation. And it was fun that one of the co-workers who tagged along on Reese's trip home was played by Rhona Mitra, an interesting actress I've always liked.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 21, 2014 7:58:19 GMT -6
I'm not one for those sorts of romantic comedies either, Siren. LX went through a period of liking them a lot though, so I've seen more than my fare share, or at least, more than I wanted.
Far and Away (1992) - Romance - this time not a comedy - starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. I'm sure I mentioned this before, but this movie was the inspiration for BP's name. It's not that it's a particularly exceptional movie, or that I even care for it that much; I give it an "ok". It just happened to be on T.V. at the time we'd run through the list of names, none of us (LX included) agreeing on anything, and it was getting down to the wire. "How about Shannon?" I threw out partly in desperation to come up with something, while watching Nicole on the screen. It goes well with our last name, it didn't remind Hubs or I of someone we hadn't particularly cared for in our pasts, and LX didn't hate it, so "Shannon" it was. Not a great story to tell BP of how she got her name, but better than drawing it out of a hat, I suppose.
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Post by Siren on Feb 24, 2014 23:27:48 GMT -6
I think I somehow missed that BP was named after that movie. Neat! And I've always liked the name Shannon. "The Big Country (1958) - A New Englander arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land." www.imdb.com/title/tt0051411/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1What a great cast - Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Chuck Connors, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Carroll Baker. The leads are young and so beautiful. It's a big, eye-filling Cinemascope spectacle. And it's a film that my family quotes - when Gregory Peck is about to mount a mean and dangerous stallion, the Mexican man holding the horse says, "Doon't do eet." Many times, my bunch has quoted that.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 26, 2014 5:00:32 GMT -6
North Country (2005) - loosely based on the first successful sexual harassment case in the United States; Lois Jenson filed a class-action suit against the mining company where she worked after suffering years of abuse, and won.
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Post by Siren on Mar 6, 2014 8:19:24 GMT -6
Open Season (1974)- Three violence-crazed war veterans terrorize people at an isolated cabin, before a victim's father takes his revenge. Peter Fonda and William Holden star.
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