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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: McQ (1974)
« on: June 10, 2016, 10:41:30 AM »If we are comparing McQ to Brannigan: Branigan, not a very good movie, is like a Best Picture Oscar winner compared to McQ!
Finally, a voice of raisin!

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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: McQ (1974)« on: June 10, 2016, 10:41:30 AM »If we are comparing McQ to Brannigan: Branigan, not a very good movie, is like a Best Picture Oscar winner compared to McQ! Finally, a voice of raisin! ![]() 32
Off-Topic Discussion / Re: McQ (1974)« on: June 09, 2016, 02:25:35 PM »
I never thought I'd hear people claiming McQ was a masterpiece.
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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: Muhammad Ali R.I.P.« on: June 09, 2016, 05:55:59 AM »
That antiwar womanizing socialist?
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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: Muhammad Ali R.I.P.« on: June 08, 2016, 05:28:22 PM »
It would help to have a point of comparison to determine real vs. fake heroes.
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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: Muhammad Ali R.I.P.« on: June 08, 2016, 09:00:49 AM »
And who is the author of that article positing as a real "Civil Rights hero"?
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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: Rate The Last Movie You Saw« on: June 07, 2016, 09:01:52 AM »
Double Indemnity - 8/10 - 3rd viewing.
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For a Few Dollars More / Re: An eye for an eye: what the story behind this song?« on: June 07, 2016, 07:27:40 AM »
Surely that isn't the Main Theme but Sixty Seconds for What?
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Other Films / Re: True Grit (2010)« on: June 06, 2016, 08:05:27 PM »
Yeah, if we're going to complain about long-winded, aureate dialogue in a Coen Bros. film...
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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: Rate The Last Movie You Saw« on: June 05, 2016, 07:19:02 PM »
Faust (1960) - 7.5/10 - Recording of Gustaf Grundgens' legendary performance as Mephistopheles. Not cinematically interesting, but a worthwhile curio: Grundgens was the German Olivier, if Olivier were a Nazi collaborator, and this is his most famous role. Very happy to have found this: YouTube works wonders!
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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: Lawrence of Arabia (1962)« on: June 04, 2016, 06:18:22 AM »
Joseph Fiennes is currently playing Lawrence in a Chichester Festival revival of Terence Rattigan's Ross:
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/whats-on/theatre/joseph-fiennes-talks-te-lawrence-as-he-returns-to-chichester-festival-theatre-1-7415428 42
Off-Topic Discussion / Re: Rate The Last Movie You Saw« on: June 03, 2016, 08:08:28 AM »
The Quare Fellow - 7/10 - Grim British prison drama with Patrick McGoohan as a warder whose first job is to oversee a hanging. Sylvia Sims is the condemned man's wife. I understand Brendan Behan's original play is much more comic; this is dark, grim kitchen sink stuff with only a few dashes of dark humor.
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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: Rate The Last Movie You Saw« on: June 02, 2016, 12:12:04 PM »
PT-109 - 6/10 - Cliff Robertson reenacts John F. Kennedy's wartime exploits in mediocre vanity project.
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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: Rate The Last Movie You Saw« on: June 01, 2016, 03:07:26 PM »
My Life for Ireland - 3/10 - More Anglophobic Nazi propaganda. The most entertaining things were the YouTube rants by plastic paddies and neo-Nazis in the comments section.
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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: Rate The Last Movie You Saw« on: June 01, 2016, 05:32:58 AM »
Titanic (1943) - 5/10 - Herbert Selpin's Nazi-approved take on the Titanic tragedy is a snooze. Endless Brit bashing mixed with assorted melodramatic plot strands. The sinking scenes are well-done but don't come until two-thirds of the way through. James Cameron obviously saw it as several scenes are copied almost verbatim.
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