Entertainment things you HATE
POSTED BY: Wishimay
UPDATED: Thursday, August 3, 2023 09:11
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There many horrific scenes from the movie that stuck with me many years later...
"I had a complication of my complication"
Torture by electric drill
Driving thru a wasted jungle, with decorate billboards by the side of the road to take the place of the landscape beyond.
It was a great movie, and made its points brilliantly. Perhaps a little too brilliantly.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Princess Bride. (which he used to great effect in Twister and X-Files)
Breaking Away (yes that is Dennis Quaid, very young)
Wait, Cary Elwes was in Xfiles?? Oh, that's after I stopped watching when it became more about bureaucracy and less about fun conspiracies. And I think everyone likes that movie because it had a sexy couple, pirates, and fun one liners, not because the characters were perfect people. It's also a good example for kids to show them that sometimes they may think they might not like a book or movie, but to keep an open mind, because you never know...
I can't tell you how many times hubbs and I have used the line "NEVER MESS WITH A SICILLIAN WHEN DEATH IS ON THE LINE!" when we serve each other drinks
P.S. Luuuv Dennis Quaid!
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Originally posted by Wishimay:
I hit the umpteenth page of Grapes of Wrath where they talked about how dry and dusty is was for page after page after page and JUST COULD'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!! We GET IT. It was dry and dusty and horrible..
I will stick up, briefly, for Grapes of Wrath. The novel, not the film. It is a novel driven by its politics-- in terms of influence it's right up there with Uncle Tom's Cabin. And Steinbeck does an amazing job of manipulating his readers' emotions (and isn't that what any novelist's job is?)-- if you're not radicalized by the end, there's something wrong with you.
But I get your point-- in college, I had a prof who loved, and assigned, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the book that the film Apocalypse Now is based on. About 300 pages of a trip up an African river, thru the jungles, while nothing happens. And then about 10 pages of resolution-- the guy they were looking for had "gone native", and was either dead or they killed him. SO boring I had managed to forget the entire thing. And the prof argued that the boredom was the whole point.
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Oh yes, in the lab, when something goes terribly wrong, we sometimes say "INCONCEIVABLE"!
I liked Andre the Giant, I liked Montoya (Patinkin), Vizzini (Shawn), and the grandfather (Falk). I guess it's only the two main protagonists that I dislike. You're right- it had its moments!
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I didn't see the movie till I was at least 26. It was probably 4 or more years after I read Brave New World and 1984. It scared me. [Brazil]
How old were you when you saw it sigs?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh yes, in the lab, when something goes terribly wrong, we sometimes say "INCONCEIVABLE"!
I liked Andre the Giant, I liked Montoya (Patinkin), Vizzini (Shawn), and the grandfather (Falk). I guess it's only the two main protagonists that I dislike. You're right- it had its moments!
Seriously, no love for Cary Elwes, Sigs?
Have you never seen "Robin Hood: Men in Tights", some of the most entertaining episodes of "Psyche" ever made... or even better, the very little known "Comic Book Villians" also starring a bunch of aging people who starred in every teen movie in the mid-to-late 90's and were still kinda cool in 2002.
Seriously Sigs.....
If nothing else, you gotta see this movie.
In a role very unlike anything I've ever seen him do, Cary is only a supporting character, but he's the guy I related the most too. This movie was Cary Elwes' "Number 23".
It's too bad nobody else noticed since nobody else ever saw it.
Seriously, I'm the only person who's ever seen this great movie.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
[ SO boring I had managed to forget the entire thing. And the prof argued that the boredom was the whole point.
I get enough boredom IRL, I guess. Entertainment is supposed to be an escape only lightly marred by morality.
Maybe I'll try the movie when I get to the end of my Netflix list this summer...And yes I like Cary Six, but I can see why others might not. I see a wry smile, not so much a smirk, but I can see both ways. Some have said he was too good looking, like a Ken Doll, and I feel that way about a lot of female actresses...
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A little something for Cary Elwes fans:
Cradle Will Rock,
a mostly true story, the film by Tim Robbins. Cary plays John Houseman, at the time a chubby closeted homosexual who was producing a play for the Federal Theatre Project with Orson Welles. The government sent the U S Army to shut it down, because it was so radical. So they paraded up the street to a vacant theatre and did a performance on the bare stage, with the actors singing from the audience. (And all that much of the story is absolutely TRUE.)
Cary looks entirely different, but gives a brilliant performance. And the film is an " all-star" deal, LOTS of great actors in excellent performances in all the roles.
One of the great moments of 20th century theatre history, and one of my lifetime Top 20, maybe Top 10, films.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh yes, in the lab, when something goes terribly wrong, we sometimes say "INCONCEIVABLE"!
I liked Andre the Giant, I liked Montoya (Patinkin), Vizzini (Shawn), and the grandfather (Falk). I guess it's only the two main protagonists that I dislike. You're right- it had its moments!
And Miracle Max and Valerie... "Have fun stormin' the castle..." "You think it'll work?" "It would take a miracle."
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
There many horrific scenes from the movie that stuck with me many years later...
"I had a complication of my complication"
Torture by electric drill
Driving thru a wasted jungle, with decorate billboards by the side of the road to take the place of the landscape beyond.
It was a great movie, and made its points brilliantly. Perhaps a little too brilliantly.
Oh yeah, its a very disturbing movie. Partilarly the ending.
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