Eureka! I've found it! Finally! The root of every storyline in every Three's Company episode can be traced directly back to Top Hat!
Ah...what can you say?...I guess when I walk outside on that first day of spring, after a long cold winter, and it looks like someone just spewed a Jackson Pollock painting everywhere and all is color and warmth...I'd like to think it's because somewhere up in the sky Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers just danced across heaven...
More lowly servitude at the hands of rich despotic high society tyrants....sounds like a job for? TARANTINO! Come in and give the maid Agnes a Thor-like hammer and start kicking some Swedish ass!
seriously...can't you see the sequel Cries and Whimpers?
Before I comment, I must admit that I'm feeling a bit pensive which might make this comment pensive and a pensive comment read thus might make a pensive reader-and for that I apologize from the bottom of my pensive heart...
I know this is based on a true story but didn't it feel like this French crew just got together one night and had an American movie-thon and watched Half-Baked and Awakenings and said 'Eureka' Nous devon faire Intouchables (We must make Intouchables)!? And that, therein, lies the problem of the movie for me. Because wouldn't Dave Chappelle and Robert De Niro have killed this movie? As this movie stands, we get ok look-alike French stand-ins who spend so much time trying to be funny that when we, the audience, are expected to take the serious parts seriously we just can't....why? Because so much time was spent on the jokes (some worked-most didn't) that the backstory was left thin.
So, overall it was refreshing to get a little political incorrectness for a change and it was nice buddy movie but does it deserve such high accolades as Oscar-worthy or IMDB 250- worthy? Uh...no.
'Don't turn around, uh-oh
Der Kommissar's in town, uh-oh
And if he talks to you
Then you'll know why
The more you live
The faster you will die'- 'Der Kommissar by After The Fire ...oh, wasn't that so true in The Testament Of Dr. Mabuse
Side note: First Las Vegas, on to Miami, and then New York....do you really think we needed CSI: Germany? And what's up with that black and white gimmick?-it'll never catch on.....seriously, I wish the CSI episodes were this good and I love CSI (ok, only the Vegas one- I wish Der Kommissar would smack David Caruso....)
Not much of a movie in terms of plot and story, not to mention that it slightly resembles The Gold Diggers of1933 with a twist, but my God what a comic extravaganza! I don't think I've ever laughed so hard at a female actress in a lead role as much as did Ginger Roger's character Jean Maitland- and that's with Lucille Ball in the cast!
And speaking of Lucille Ball, having her in the same movie with Katherine Hepburn-that to me is the female equivalent of having Steve Martin and James Stewart in a movie together which would be my dream come true but of course it could never happen...unless, of course, they make a 'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid II' to include Call Northside 777....but I digress
Well I do declare if that Gregory Peck ain't trying to-here with the Hannassey's in The Big Country and the Ewells in To Kill A Mockingbird-clean up all the white trash in Hollywood movies!
And sticking to the theme of To Kill A Mockingbird, I've seen many Gregory Peck performances and I must say
that his portrayal of [i]James McKay is probably the closest character I've seen to Atticus Finch in regards to Eastern well-educated, modest, polite, courageous without ego persona...you could almost say that this was Giant meets To Kill A Mockingbird in some ways...or as I like to call it: 'To Kill A Giant Mockingbird'
Note: Do you think during the epic sprawl on the veranda between Charlton Heston and Gregory Peck, Charlton leaned in once and said: 'Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty McKay'
[i]'Don't be angry, don't be sad
Don't sit crying over good times you've had
Well there's a girl sitting right next to you
And she's just waiting for something to do
Well there's a rose in a fisted glove
And the eagle flies with the dove
And if you can't be with the one you love, honey
[/i[i]]love the one you're with'- Stephen Stills from the eponymous Stephen Stills
Who knew those famous words could apply so aptly to a French New Wave film?
Note: To think I wasted all that time and money in college and all I had to do was watch 'My Night At Maud's [/i]
Along the cinematic path of life, one finds movies...and then through the forest of films one starts to see Movies...and, if one is lucky enough, he or she may stumble upon a MOVIE in the valley of visuals...but every so often, on that rare occasion, you climb the mountain of motion pictures and discover a MOVIE!...such is Winter Light...enough said
And Rudolph Gore-Slimey, having been humiliated by his mentor Theodore Rimspoke who beat him in the race, slithers away from his snake oil pit to the North Pole only to suffer further ignominy as another old man named Santa Claus forces him to drop his surname, get on all fours, and wear a red nose.....and now you have the rest of the story
What a fantastic little gem of a movie! The story may have lapsed in places but the humor and the intricacy of the visuals were more than accommodating...and all that while sober!...just imagine this movie with, shall we say, some enhancement
Poor Ivan never gets anything...it's always Masha, Masha, Masha!
This is one of those rare films, and by no means am I saying this is a bad movie-quite the opposite, that I almost wish I could stop the motion of the picture. Meaning, take each individual scene like a painting and hang them up in a museum next to each other and just study them for awhile to truly grasp the beauty of what I just witnessed-each scene felt like a meticulously crafted charcoal still....
10,9,10,10,9,10,10,8....an 8? What? That must have been from the Russian judge....huh? what? oh, really.....so this was not the Winter Olympic figure skating trials? It was a film noir? Come on...you're pulling my leg...
Notes: the opening number definitely gets my Academy Award vote for best musical ice folly in a film noir and doesn't Barry Sullivan (who played Joe Morgan) look like Jimmy Smits?
'Say the word, love' - from the song The Word by The Beatles off of Rubber Soul
'Sagen, das ewige wort......Liebe' ( or 'say the eternal word- Love' from Faust
Faust and the Beatles.....who knew?....what a small world...
And speaking of Small World, this movie was fantastic but the soundtrack behind the version I watched made me feel like I was trapped on Disney World's Haunted House ride with a crazy man playing every possible pre-programmed sound from his synthesizer! Hope I can find another version of the movie with better backing music......
Update: yes there is a better version with a fantastic score by Timothy Brock...that's what you want to look for...
Outside of Saving Private Ryan, I'll have to say that could be the most intense beginning to a film I've ever seen...and then that abrupt ending...it's almost like the beginning of the film was the end and the end was the beginning....ah, the circle of life....
and that little girl grew up to be.....Courtney Love
Isn't it funny how Thomas Mitchell (Jonah) handled money brilliantly
with the wallet in the water trick
at the end but in It's A Wonderful Life as Uncle Billy he foolishly turned over $8000 of Bailey Building and Loan money to the evil Potter...
And I think if you close your eyes and listen closely throughout the entire movie you will hear the voice of every cartoon character you ever watched as a kid....
Art Garfunkel?!! As in Simon and Garfunkel? As In Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme? Oh no...I can no longer ever think of that album in the same way again! It's now Perversely, Rage, Ravishment, and Crime! forever more
Subtitles? Who needed subtitles? I couldn't understand half of what was being said in English anyway...but it didn't matter... what mattered were the moments without words, the silence, the pauses, the looks on faces, that building of tension, the waiting...the waiting....for that.....BOOM! Thrilling (not boring)- That was the universal language being spoken here....overall this movie was not my cup of tea but I'll give credit where credit is due-this was one fantastic piece of film making...
And as a side note: think of what Cameron had to work with in 1997 when Titanic was made compared to what Peterson had to work with in 1981 when making Das Boot in regards to computer generated special effects...I'll take Dis Boat over Dat Boat anyday!
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Movie comment on Top Hat
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Eureka! I've found it! Finally! The root of every storyline in every Three's Company episode can be traced directly back to Top Hat!Ah...what can you say?...I guess when I walk outside on that first day of spring, after a long cold winter, and it looks like someone just spewed a Jackson Pollock painting everywhere and all is color and warmth...I'd like to think it's because somewhere up in the sky Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers just danced across heaven...
Movie comment on Viskningar och rop
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More lowly servitude at the hands of rich despotic high society tyrants....sounds like a job for? TARANTINO! Come in and give the maid Agnes a Thor-like hammer and start kicking some Swedish ass!seriously...can't you see the sequel Cries and Whimpers?
Movie comment on Intouchables
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Before I comment, I must admit that I'm feeling a bit pensive which might make this comment pensive and a pensive comment read thus might make a pensive reader-and for that I apologize from the bottom of my pensive heart...I know this is based on a true story but didn't it feel like this French crew just got together one night and had an American movie-thon and watched Half-Baked and Awakenings and said 'Eureka' Nous devon faire Intouchables (We must make Intouchables)!? And that, therein, lies the problem of the movie for me. Because wouldn't Dave Chappelle and Robert De Niro have killed this movie? As this movie stands, we get ok look-alike French stand-ins who spend so much time trying to be funny that when we, the audience, are expected to take the serious parts seriously we just can't....why? Because so much time was spent on the jokes (some worked-most didn't) that the backstory was left thin.
So, overall it was refreshing to get a little political incorrectness for a change and it was nice buddy movie but does it deserve such high accolades as Oscar-worthy or IMDB 250- worthy? Uh...no.
Movie comment on Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
locovoco
'Don't turn around, uh-ohDer Kommissar's in town, uh-oh
And if he talks to you
Then you'll know why
The more you live
The faster you will die'- 'Der Kommissar by After The Fire ...oh, wasn't that so true in The Testament Of Dr. Mabuse
Side note: First Las Vegas, on to Miami, and then New York....do you really think we needed CSI: Germany? And what's up with that black and white gimmick?-it'll never catch on.....seriously, I wish the CSI episodes were this good and I love CSI (ok, only the Vegas one- I wish Der Kommissar would smack David Caruso....)
Movie comment on Stage Door
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Not much of a movie in terms of plot and story, not to mention that it slightly resembles The Gold Diggers of 1933 with a twist, but my God what a comic extravaganza! I don't think I've ever laughed so hard at a female actress in a lead role as much as did Ginger Roger's character Jean Maitland- and that's with Lucille Ball in the cast!And speaking of Lucille Ball, having her in the same movie with Katherine Hepburn-that to me is the female equivalent of having Steve Martin and James Stewart in a movie together which would be my dream come true but of course it could never happen...unless, of course, they make a 'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid II' to include Call Northside 777....but I digress
Movie comment on The Big Country
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Well I do declare if that Gregory Peck ain't trying to-here with the Hannassey's in The Big Country and the Ewells in To Kill A Mockingbird-clean up all the white trash in Hollywood movies!And sticking to the theme of To Kill A Mockingbird, I've seen many Gregory Peck performances and I must say
that his portrayal of [i]James McKay is probably the closest character I've seen to Atticus Finch in regards to Eastern well-educated, modest, polite, courageous without ego persona...you could almost say that this was Giant meets To Kill A Mockingbird in some ways...or as I like to call it: 'To Kill A Giant Mockingbird'
Note: Do you think during the epic sprawl on the veranda between Charlton Heston and Gregory Peck, Charlton leaned in once and said: 'Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty McKay'
Movie comment on Ma nuit chez Maud
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[i]'Don't be angry, don't be sadDon't sit crying over good times you've had
Well there's a girl sitting right next to you
And she's just waiting for something to do
Well there's a rose in a fisted glove
And the eagle flies with the dove
And if you can't be with the one you love, honey
[/i[i]]love the one you're with'- Stephen Stills from the eponymous Stephen Stills
Who knew those famous words could apply so aptly to a French New Wave film?
Note: To think I wasted all that time and money in college and all I had to do was watch 'My Night At Maud's [/i]
Movie comment on Nattvardsgästerna
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Along the cinematic path of life, one finds movies...and then through the forest of films one starts to see Movies...and, if one is lucky enough, he or she may stumble upon a MOVIE in the valley of visuals...but every so often, on that rare occasion, you climb the mountain of motion pictures and discover a MOVIE!...such is Winter Light...enough saidMovie comment on Kes
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It's all so crystal clear now... I finally get the ikigai (Japanese: 'reason for being') of the Sex Pistols....Movie comment on Flåklypa Grand Prix
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What a fantastic little gem of a movie! The story may have lapsed in places but the humor and the intricacy of the visuals were more than accommodating...and all that while sober!...just imagine this movie with, shall we say, some enhancement
Movie comment on Ivanovo detstvo
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Poor Ivan never gets anything...it's always Masha, Masha, Masha!This is one of those rare films, and by no means am I saying this is a bad movie-quite the opposite, that I almost wish I could stop the motion of the picture. Meaning, take each individual scene like a painting and hang them up in a museum next to each other and just study them for awhile to truly grasp the beauty of what I just witnessed-each scene felt like a meticulously crafted charcoal still....
Movie comment on Suspense
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10,9,10,10,9,10,10,8....an 8? What? That must have been from the Russian judge....huh? what? oh, really.....so this was not the Winter Olympic figure skating trials? It was a film noir? Come on...you're pulling my leg...Notes: the opening number definitely gets my Academy Award vote for best musical ice folly in a film noir and doesn't Barry Sullivan (who played Joe Morgan) look like Jimmy Smits?
Movie comment on Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage
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'Say the word, love' - from the song The Word by The Beatles off of Rubber Soul'Sagen, das ewige wort......Liebe' ( or 'say the eternal word- Love' from Faust
Faust and the Beatles.....who knew?....what a small world...
And speaking of Small World, this movie was fantastic but the soundtrack behind the version I watched made me feel like I was trapped on Disney World's Haunted House ride with a crazy man playing every possible pre-programmed sound from his synthesizer! Hope I can find another version of the movie with better backing music......
Update: yes there is a better version with a fantastic score by Timothy Brock...that's what you want to look for...
Movie comment on 45 Years
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I imagine when I get to be 70, though many may try and stop me, I too will spend all afternoon grappling with my ballcock....Movie comment on Cet obscur objet du désir
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Rebecc-A, Laur-A, Gild-A, Lolit-A, and now Conchit-A...that's A whole lotta women taking down men in Hollywood film lore...can I get an A-men?Movie comment on Jeux interdits
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Outside of Saving Private Ryan, I'll have to say that could be the most intense beginning to a film I've ever seen...and then that abrupt ending...it's almost like the beginning of the film was the end and the end was the beginning....ah, the circle of life....and that little girl grew up to be.....Courtney Love
Movie comment on Out of the Fog
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Isn't it funny how Thomas Mitchell (Jonah) handled money brilliantlyAnd I think if you close your eyes and listen closely throughout the entire movie you will hear the voice of every cartoon character you ever watched as a kid....
Movie comment on Bad Timing
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Art Garfunkel?!! As in Simon and Garfunkel? As In Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme? Oh no...I can no longer ever think of that album in the same way again! It's now Perversely, Rage, Ravishment, and Crime! forever moreMovie comment on Das Boot
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Subtitles? Who needed subtitles? I couldn't understand half of what was being said in English anyway...but it didn't matter... what mattered were the moments without words, the silence, the pauses, the looks on faces, that building of tension, the waiting...the waiting....for that.....BOOM! Thrilling (not boring)- That was the universal language being spoken here....overall this movie was not my cup of tea but I'll give credit where credit is due-this was one fantastic piece of film making...And as a side note: think of what Cameron had to work with in 1997 when Titanic was made compared to what Peterson had to work with in 1981 when making Das Boot in regards to computer generated special effects...I'll take Dis Boat over Dat Boat anyday!
Movie comment on 7 Men from Now
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Did I miss something during the movie? I coulda swore those seven men were from Silver Springs.....Movie comment on Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
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I guess it was O.K.Movie comment on Incendies
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Movie comment on Roman Holiday
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Step aside Bogey and Bacall and make room for Atticus and Audrey...holy crap, what chemistry!There was a movie? What movie?
Movie comment on Avatar
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Unobtainium? Are you kidding me? How about I wish this movie had not been AVA-TAR-ILABLE!Movie comment on The Elephant Man
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A left arm that is fully formed and genitals intact....now, really-what more could a man ask for?All joking aside, to use an apropos English saying...it was bloody brilliant!
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