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11-14-2004, 05:49 AM
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Re: Best movie you\'ve ever seen.
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I've already told my wife that any son we have will take tap classes from an early age so that he can become a middle infielder. [/ QUOTE ] LOL I agree with you on the beauty and greatness of dance when it's done by people like Gene Kelly(though I like Donald O'Connor better, and Astaire too), but I have to admit, it sounds laughably cruel to put your son through multiple ridiculous goals like that just so you can achieve one of your own, and not even directly, but by the proxy of your poor bewildered kid. That was one of the more hilariously disturbing things I've read in a while. 
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#133
11-14-2004, 06:16 AM
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Re: Best movies you\'ve ever seen.
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Coolhand Luke I had a good friend years ago in the Marines that got out and moved to Vegas. Last time I talked to him he was working at the sports book at the California downtown. I tried to call him once after not speaking to him for like 10 years, and his answering machine still had the same message. It was him doing this perfect imitation, "Whta we've got here... is a failure... to communicate. So leave your name and number at the beep....." Great message. [/ QUOTE ] Cool Hand Luke is much loved but still very under-rated. It has that central theme of, "just play by the rules and we'll go easy on you -- all you have to do is give up. Just give up your soul." It was the same theme that was so chilling and great in "Catch 22." "Say you like us. Just say you like us." They don't make films like that anymore. Now you're not supposed to worry that you may have sold out, but that somebody else who hasn't might infect you. The one exception I can think of is "Trainspotting," with its hilariously ending of the main character defiantly pretending to conform to a whole lifestyle and set of beliefs he couldn't have less respect for, after having cheated and misbehaved as much as possible to get there in the first place, and in very comfortable fashion. You can definitely tell Cool Hand Luke was written by someone who had been around the block a few times. The guy who wrote it had worked in a prison chain gang himself. What a shame there are hardly ever any movies anywhere near as brave and challenging as that anymore -- or that even want to be.
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#135
11-14-2004, 08:54 AM
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Re: Best movie you\'ve ever seen.
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[ QUOTE ] Hey, I also said Citizen Kane wasn't one of my favorites either, aren't you going to compliment me for my lack of pretensions? [/ QUOTE ] I figured you would be too busy reading translated books to augment your pseudo-intellectual material for other discussions to bother further with such a pedestrian topic such as film. [/ QUOTE ] What the heck does that mean?
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#138
11-14-2004, 12:50 PM
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Re: Best movie you\'ve ever seen.
#1 A River Runs Through It
and it's not even close.... Also: #2 Dead Poet's Society Titus A Beautiful Mind The Hustler Regarding Henry Cassablanca Sling Blade
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#139
11-14-2004, 01:37 PM
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Re: Best movie you\'ve ever seen.
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#1 A River Runs Through It and it's not even close.... [/ QUOTE ] What didn't even get close was my vomit didn't even get close to the toilet after I watched that movie cuz I couldn't get there fast enough. It sucked.
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