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richard
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response 100 of 144:
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Jun 18 05:30 UTC 2004 |
re #82..."American Beauty" doesn't quite count as "overlooked" since it won
the best picture oscar in 2000. But it is a great movie.
Speaking of films that won best picture, and today might be overlooked by
younger generations, I was in the video store the other day and was
looking at a dvd and a kid of 17 or 18 saw it and said, "never heard of
it, any good?" The movie was "Midnight Cowboy", the 1969 best picture
winner.
"Midnight Cowboy" is a great movie, a story of friendship and love between
two drifters, Joe Buck (Jon Voigt) and Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) It is
really a love story, about how we all need and look for someone to love
and care about. There is great chemistry between Voigt and Hoffman in
this movie. One of the most moving scenes in any movie I can recall is in
this, when Ratso Rizzo dies on the bus, and Joe Buck (Voigt's character)
puts his arm around him and holds him tightly as the bus goes down the
road. In a lonely world, if you find something or someone you really care
about, you hold onto it for all its worth. When you find love, you don't
want to let it go.
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jvmv
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response 101 of 144:
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Jun 19 07:48 UTC 2004 |
I agree with you Richard, "Midnight Cowboy" is a great movie.
"Midnight Cowboy" is director John Schlesinger's best movie.
I believe Schlesinger had luck of getting a good screenplayer
(Waldo Salt)to write this beautiful story. Unhappily Schlesinger
doesn't have a great philmography; his movies oscillate
between reasonable quality movies.
The performance of Dustin Hoffman is magnificent. Dustin knew
how to give to his character a convincing & touching charisma.
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jvmv
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response 102 of 144:
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Jun 19 08:32 UTC 2004 |
re #99
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign
you're not doing anything very innovative.
quote by Woody Allen
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jvmv
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response 103 of 144:
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Jun 19 08:52 UTC 2004 |
re #99
I forgot to say that we don't need to try the flavor
of the acid to feel its "impact".
We just need knowledge.
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jvmv
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response 104 of 144:
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Jun 19 09:05 UTC 2004 |
Marlon Brando remember me a great John Huston movie,
"Reflections in a golden eye".
This movie is a classic as well as John Huston for
the movies.
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tod
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response 105 of 144:
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Jun 21 15:56 UTC 2004 |
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jvmv
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response 106 of 144:
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Jun 22 05:28 UTC 2004 |
John Carpenter isn't a filmmaker,
he's a truck farmer.
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remmers
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response 107 of 144:
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Jun 25 21:38 UTC 2004 |
Nah. He's done some turkeys (e.g. "Ghosts of Mars"), but at his best,
he's pretty good.
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jvmv
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response 108 of 144:
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Jun 26 06:16 UTC 2004 |
John Carpenter should work at a grocery store, he's a
great salesperson of green vegetables or something
like that.
Although his products have few nutritious as well as
the films he directs.
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mary
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response 109 of 144:
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Jun 26 12:52 UTC 2004 |
You should tell him that next time you sit down to lunch. ;-)
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jvmv
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response 110 of 144:
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Jun 27 07:25 UTC 2004 |
Yes. And I shall ask to him personal questions
relating to his life. Ex. "Did you ask Pumpkin
whether he bought the yatch yet?"
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tod
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response 111 of 144:
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Jun 27 18:41 UTC 2004 |
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jvmv
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response 112 of 144:
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Jun 28 07:51 UTC 2004 |
I thought about Bob Crane thing but it's been
in all media gossip columns, y'know. :P
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tod
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response 113 of 144:
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Jun 28 15:55 UTC 2004 |
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remmers
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response 114 of 144:
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Jun 29 01:55 UTC 2004 |
No, it's a different John Carpenter.
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jvmv
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response 115 of 144:
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Jun 29 07:17 UTC 2004 |
I'm afraid we're talking of the same Carpenter.
Are there how many Carpenter & Crane in the same situation?
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tod
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response 116 of 144:
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Jun 29 17:23 UTC 2004 |
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salad
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response 117 of 144:
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Jun 29 21:36 UTC 2004 |
That's a damn lie.
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jvmv
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response 118 of 144:
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Jun 30 07:31 UTC 2004 |
Here we go again...like Halloweenn series( I want your blood...)
Is it just me, or has John "Truck Farmer" Carpenter made more
bad movies than most other directors can even dream off?
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tod
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response 119 of 144:
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Jun 30 16:34 UTC 2004 |
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jvmv
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response 120 of 144:
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Jul 1 05:55 UTC 2004 |
Well, one thing you must learn from the movies is to
force you to think, no matter how hard it is to
contradict you.
American History X wont force you to think.
John Truck Farmer Carpenter's films will force
you to think in pumpkins.
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tod
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response 121 of 144:
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Jul 2 13:40 UTC 2004 |
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jvmv
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response 122 of 144:
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Jul 3 07:19 UTC 2004 |
This is the second step, tod.
First you'd force your brain to think over ideas.
Pumpkins aren't ideas.
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tod
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response 123 of 144:
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Jul 3 22:50 UTC 2004 |
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jvmv
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response 124 of 144:
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Jul 5 07:09 UTC 2004 |
You're right tod, we don't have to understand the ideas for
a movie to happen. Perhaps this is the simple reason which
Hallowen was made for people that don't think.
But all good film says a message.
And speaking honestly tod, I don't believe that an intelligent
guy like you is just going to the movies to see images, special
effects and dialogues.
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