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TV or film? if we're talking TV I'd have to say Beth Behrs on that otherwise forgettable show "Two Broke Girls". She's the only reason to even look at that crap. Her voice grates my nerves but her figure is hard to beat.
In film there are about 25 in my top 10.
Fionnula Flanagan! All I recall about her career is that she was a cast member on the TV western "How the West Was Won" starring James Arness. Her character wasn't sexy but she had the beautiful older woman thing going on. High cheekbones and all.
The spanking scene in "McLintock!" was pretty hot.
The only one I can think of is Carpenter's "The Thing", which wasn't really a remake as it stayed truer to it's original source, the novella "Who Goes There?". To me the whole remake thing, especially with films that have come to be regarded as classics by large numbers of film fans is similar to new covers of classic rock songs that one hears occasionally, which are always inferior, lacking the heart and soul of the original. What's the use? i maintain it's all subjective but I know what I prefer.
I was mostly a lurker for years, much as i am on other sites/boards. I infrequently wrote about films I liked or had a question about. I had countless hours of enjoyment perusing the threads, especially pertaining to world cinema,indie, films from particular eras and of course my personal favorites. Those threads were/ARE invaluable and such discussions weren't to be found anywhere else. Especially after MUBI shutdown their discussion boards previously, a real betrayal to the dedicated subscribers on that niche site.
The vast majority of films I see have no effects but i can always do without CGI.
Remaking classic films is a travesty and money grab. Lesser films that had more potential but failed are fair game I suppose but that's subjective, as is "classic".
Thank you.
Yes it does. I just signed up yesterday. I decided to wait a bit for the dust to settle after the shutdown. So far these boards come closest to what I like, I'm happy to be here. Some of the others are on life support.
I think it's all been derivative since 1968.
I don't know about best but I'd have to include Patty McCormack, The Bad Seed 1956
Not one of my favorite Hitchcock's but most anything from that man is good if not great.
Yes, she was a direct descendant. She appeared in a handful of spaghettis, including starring in an awful one "Garter Colt" would be the English title. She lived the last 20+ years of her life in Seattle,WA teaching Italian at the university and returning home to Italy as a tour guide.
The producers,directors and most but not all actors were Italian. Many but not all were filmed in Spain and there were a number of Spanish actors also. I say Italo or spaghetti westerns but two that I listed are actually French made films. The films were set in the American west, specifically the southwest,typically near the Mexican border or in Mexico.The Tabernas Desert in Spain looks very much like parts of the American southwest. Eastwood was an American TV actor dissatisfied with where his career was going, who was either 'discovered' by Leone or was suggested by another actor, depending on who you talk to. Either way he became an international box office star by the end of the Leone trilogy, paving the way for his great success in American film.
I'll leave it there.
Navajo Joe also has the very beautiful Nicoletta Machiavelli. A pretty good spaghetti overall.
Hollywood seems to be short on original ideas, reducing it's self to remakes or super hero fluff. Of course a large share of the movie-going public is just fine with that, so maybe that's the greatest idea yet. Spend a fortune on CGI, add gratuitous violence and sexual innuendo, forget about direction,plot,character development and make bank on the less discerning movie-goers. I think remakes are a travesty but to each their own.
In very recent memory I'd say 'Hannibal" on NBC. First season was great and unlike anything on television, second season built on that and third and final season was a disaster. True, it was near the bottom in ratings all along but popularity doesn't necessarily equate quality. I think it was the best show on TV the first 2 seasons.
Funny thing is I'm not a fan of American westerns.
More than one but a favorite would be Italo-westerns, aka "spaghetti westerns". many of the films have been remastered and released on DVD and some on blu-ray in recent years. My collection has grown pretty large.
Some favorites would of course include Sergio Leone's "Dollars trilogy", featuring Eastwood but my all-time favorite film, The Good,the Bad and the Ugly, may bill Eastwood at the top but the real star and central character of the film is Eli Wallach as Tuco.
Others:
Django
The Great Silence
The Mercenary
Cemetery Without Crosses
Death Rides a Horse
Bandidos
I could go on and on. It's a fun genre. Foreign films in general are my greatest love.