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Post by frankyt on Aug 19, 2020 20:24:40 GMT -5
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Post by IanTheCool on Aug 19, 2020 20:27:31 GMT -5
pulp fiction
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Post by PhantomKnight on Aug 19, 2020 21:12:14 GMT -5
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Post by donny on Aug 20, 2020 12:50:07 GMT -5
The Dude trails. Let's see if he can stage a last minute comeback.
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Post by SnoBorderZero on Aug 20, 2020 13:01:38 GMT -5
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Post by Sculder on Aug 20, 2020 17:58:42 GMT -5
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Post by Doomsday on Aug 20, 2020 19:37:25 GMT -5
PhantomKnight because I'm a man of my word I rewatched The Graduate. Yes, I certainly did like it better than when I first watched it, granted that was a decade ago if not more so I'm cutting myself some slack. I can't admit that I absolutely loved it and I would still vote Lawrence of Arabia over it however I did get a lot of enjoyment out of it and I can easily see it as a very rewatchable movie. Lots of great lines made me laugh out loud like 'I really appreciate this Mrs. Robinson' and 'I'm Dr. Smith's brother, the Reverend Smith.' Great stuff all around. I can only imagine how audiences felt when watching it in the late sixties, this off-beat and awkward sex comedy. I'm glad we shouted about it in this thread, otherwise who knows when I would have rewatched it but I'm glad I did. The worst part of the movie though has nothing to do with the movie itself. I've spent over half my life posting with you gents on these forums and I still consider myself to be a reasonably young man at 35. It was depressing to find out however that Ann Bancroft was only a year older than I am now when this movie was released. She could have been my Tinder date in another life. Oh man that's scary.
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Post by PhantomKnight on Aug 20, 2020 19:44:29 GMT -5
Glad you enjoyed it so much this time! Like you, I think I wasn't in the right place yet to fully appreciate it. But my second time with it, the sharpness of the writing -- among other things -- really stood out.
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Post by thebtskink on Aug 20, 2020 20:55:14 GMT -5
Oh dammit that age comment.
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Post by Doomsday on Aug 20, 2020 21:09:48 GMT -5
Oh dammit that age comment. If it makes you feel any better, you're the same age Russell Crowe was when Gladiator was released.
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Post by thebtskink on Aug 20, 2020 21:20:14 GMT -5
Oh dammit that age comment. If it makes you feel any better, you're the same age Russell Crowe was when Gladiator was released. I hate you so much.
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Post by donny on Aug 20, 2020 21:21:03 GMT -5
The Dude trails. Let's see if he can stage a last minute comeback. Narrator: He didn't. Pulp Fiction, one of the favorites heading into this, is the first film to advance to the Final Four. Next battle up shortly.
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Post by Neverending on Aug 20, 2020 21:39:09 GMT -5
If it makes you feel any better, you're the same age Russell Crowe was when Gladiator was released. I hate you so much. You’re the same age as Sean Connery in You Only Live Twice
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Post by Doomsday on Aug 20, 2020 21:47:55 GMT -5
If it makes you feel any better, you're the same age Russell Crowe was when Gladiator was released. I hate you so much. At least we're both older than Bruce Willis in Die Hard. And Nic Cage in The Rock.
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Post by Neverending on Aug 20, 2020 21:53:48 GMT -5
we're both older than Bruce Willis in Die Hard
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Post by thebtskink on Aug 20, 2020 21:55:34 GMT -5
At least we're both older than Bruce Willis in Die Hard. And Nic Cage in The Rock. STOP.
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Post by donny on Aug 20, 2020 22:00:09 GMT -5
Battle of the Decades
The Elite 8
1980's FinalsThe Electrifying Eighties
Team Dooms and Sno The 1980's as described by Wikipedia: The 1980's was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989. The decade saw major socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism. As economic deconstruction increased in the developed world, multiple multinational corporations associated with the manufacturing industry relocated into Thailand, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, and China. Japan and West Germany saw large economic growth during this decade. The AIDS epidemic became recognized in the 1980's and has since killed an estimated 39 million people (as of 2013). Global warming became well known to the scientific and political community in the 1980's. The United Kingdom and the United States moved closer to supply-side economic policies beginning a trend towards global instability of international trade that would pick up more steam in the following decade as the fall of the USSR made right wing economic policy more powerful. The final decade of the Cold War opened with the US-Soviet confrontation continuing largely without any interruption. Superpower tensions escalated rapidly as President Reagan scrapped the policy of détente and adopted a new, much more aggressive stance on the Soviet Union. The world came perilously close to nuclear war for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis 20 years earlier, but the second half of the decade saw a dramatic easing of superpower tensions and ultimately the total collapse of Soviet communism. Raiders of the Lost ArkSelected by: Dooms and Snoborder Released: 1981 Directed By: Steven Spielberg Who Directed: 8 Films in the 1980's Tomatoes/Meta: 95/85 Cinematography:Douglas Slocombe Score: John Williams Defeated: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Die Hard, The Shining Siskel/Ebert:" 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' is an out-of-body experience, a movie of glorious imagination and breakneck speed that grabs you in the first shot, hurtles you through a series of incredible adventures, and deposits you back in reality two hours later -- breathless, dizzy, wrung-out, and with a silly grin on your face. This movie celebrates the stories we spent our adolescence searching for in the pulp adventure magazines, in the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, in comics -- even in the movies." -R. Ebert A Decade in Music:Thoughts from the Team:One of the most universally beloved movies ever made but whose quality is equal to its likability. If there's a movie with more iconic scenes than Raiders of the Lost Ark I'd like to hear it. - Doomsday Visual Enhancements:What Happened... in the 1980's:Best selling author Tom Clancy concludes a successful decade with the publication of Clear and Present Danger in 1989. The book follows previous bestsellers The Hunt for Red October (1984), Red Storm Rising (1986), Patriot Games (1987), and The Cardinal of the Kremlin (1988). Lets Talk Spielberg: Versus
The TerminatorSelected by: Dooms and Snoborder Released: 1984 Directed By: James Cameron Who Directed: 4 Films in the 1980's Tomatoes/Meta: 100/84 Cinematography:Brad Fiedel Score: Adam Greenberg Defeated: Predator, Blade Runner, Raging Bull Siskel/Ebert:"The action seemed to be pretty much routine, a lot of the futuristic stuff that seems to be director set toymaking, the love story is kind of nice and I think within in that little love story is the potential for a full-scale film." - G. Siskel (Taken from audio clip, not an article) A Decade in Music:Thoughts from the Team:One of the action staples of the 80s, this B sc-fi movie helped launch some of the biggest names in cinema. This movie and franchise have influenced so much that came after and the fact that we're still going back to this franchise almost 40 years later proves that it's much more than just a simple action film. - Doomsday Visual Enhancements:Lets Talk Cameron:My Vote: Raiders of the Lost Ark
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Post by Neverending on Aug 20, 2020 22:02:51 GMT -5
At least we're both older than Bruce Willis in Die Hard. And Nic Cage in The Rock. STOP. You’re older than Charles Bronson in House of Wax
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Post by thebtskink on Aug 20, 2020 22:07:36 GMT -5
You’re older than Charles Bronson in House of Wax This cuts deep, with Bronson also coming from Lithuanian heritage.
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Post by thebtskink on Aug 20, 2020 22:09:39 GMT -5
Raiders
Also: Travelling Wilburys are the best supergroup of all time, imho.
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Post by PhantomKnight on Aug 20, 2020 22:11:36 GMT -5
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Post by Doomsday on Aug 20, 2020 22:43:42 GMT -5
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Post by frankyt on Aug 21, 2020 7:17:36 GMT -5
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