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And today worth 1.5 million.
My favorite David Shire score, and my first noir soundtrack LP bought back in the day at Rhino Records (they had stores with new and used). Except, that is, for his Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 score, which never was release until the late 90’s from Shire’s private tapes (masters presumed lost). You need the soundtrack releases to hear either in stereo as neither film was ever available in anything but mono. He didn’t do much score but these two are giants.
Now if I could just get an original stereo mix of the Quinn Martin’s Tales of the Unexpected theme ...
Yes — fantastic acting there.
And throughout.
See Roger Ebert’s four-star review focusing on Mitchum’s “definitive performance.”
Spot on.
50 points.
Ed Harris steals nearly every movie he’s in. And has for four decades.
Movie stars must be terrified of appearing with him.
Play stupid games,
Win stupid prizes.
It seemed the Sherpas fell down on the job with both the ropes and failure to stash O cylinders ... AND not telling anyone. Their job was critical but they just let the teams get most of the way up and THEN discover there are no lines? There should have been hell to pay for that, but also the climb leaders should have cancelled the summit and turned back. No lines, no climb — no way. None of this “We’ll just waste a couple hours we don’t have rigging our own lines with not enough rope and go anyway.” That was reckless.
The Blu-Ray is auto-subtitled during those scenes.
Despite liking the movie, I have to completely agree.
On first appearance, husband says, “They’re coming.” What does that tell you? That they’ve already discussed it. That they know they’re “coming for the horses.” And so I wondered, not five minutes in ...
What was the plan?
I ask that a lot these days — generally to resounding silence.
The fact that people make dumb decisions does not give a screenwriter license to give up thinking things through.
Hoopla currently has the 182-minute cut.
Unfortunately everything on that app is in poor quality.
YouTube’s looks great with the full 2.76-to-1 Ultra Panavision widescreen but its only 159 minutes including opening and closing music.
Maybe you don’t feel well.
Maybe you should.
You can think he got what he deserved, but he didn’t.
Next time it could be you or a close one who does something unpopular at the wrong time.
Those coincidences were the whole point.
Creepy, trippy ... and ultimately, just coincidences.
Sad and tragic, but nothing more.
Also sad and tragic were the “websleuths” who thought they were going to solve the case ... without any access to the body, crime scene evidence, suspects, or behind-the-ecenes interviews.
“I think ___________ (so-and-so killed her, there’s a conspiracy, someone knows more)” is not sleuthing, deduction, or investigating. It’s shooting your mouth off with no basis — taking your hypothesis as conclusion. It’s what a fool does.
“‘X’ sounds plausible, therefore ‘X’ happened” is not how science works. Plausibility is used to <i> pick a hypothesis</i> to test, but it then <i>must be tested</i> against known facts. Until tested, it is nothing. No matter how compelling it seems.
Jumping from hypothesis to conclusion without testing explains a lot of society today, especially on social media.
1. Don’t think everyone was in on the joke. Like Diddy. It was Borat-style.
2. Clearly most of the big celebs were there to be in on a great hoax. Otherwise they would not have participated.
3. The bed crap was too obvious. Practically camp (summer).
4. He <i>was</i> fat. Maybe channeling the De Niro-Raging Bull thing.
5. Didn’t believe the club fight and the excessive vomit. Plants and special effects (see Cohen, Larry).
6. Those scenes at the Oscars with Ben Stiller et al dressing up like JP?
Obviously none of that happened.
Average expectancy confuses many into thinking those living a century ago died younger. Mostly they didn’t — IF they survived childbirth. The high infant mortality of the times dragged the averages down considerably. Plenty of people lived to a ripe old age.
Talking movie stars, most are in their 50’s — then, today, always. You can wonder why this is as I have. One reason is well shown here: to have gravitas, a man needs to have lived awhile and show it. Wayne embodies that in his confidence, voice, cadence, and stride. Stewart not so much here, but then he mostly plays a younger, more naive man (before becoming senator).
Hence his comment that she’s cute when mad — twice.
She is just a pretty (and feisty) girl to him.
50 points, sir.
Right on.
It was supposed to be — studio or director simply decided against it, apparently at the last minute. Writers Burt Bacharach and Hal David — two of the era’s best — were likely hired by Paramount, which did pay for the studio time, according to Pitney. In fact he claims he was informed of the movie’s release while still recording it.
I don’t think it would have been consistent with the film’s tone.
It was supposed to be — studio or director simply decided against it, apparently at the last minute. Writers Burt Bacharach and Hal David — two of the era’s best — were likely hired by Paramount, which did pay for the studio time, according to Pitney. In fact he claims he was informedof the movie’s release while still recording it.
^^That.
Darth Vader v Luke Skywalker, anyone?