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Who was that woman?
Great acting performances that were not even Oscar-nominated
What Did the Actors Who Played Doc's Crew Do After 'TMOB'?
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Great, thanks! BTW, didn't she lose an arm in 'Love & Thunder'? Did anyone notice if she was visibly minus one in 'The Marvels'?
There have been both classic films and total schlock produced in every era. We keep on watching, enjoying and extolling the virtues of films made in decades past, while forgetting or ignoring that a lot of crap was being churned out in those days, too. They made 365 studio movies in 1939, that enchanted year of 'Gone With the Wind', 'The Wizard of Oz', 'Stagecoach', 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington', etc., but how many people have watched even a tenth of them?
I was five years old in 1959 when my mother took me to see my first movie in a theatre. It was a double feature - Hitchcock's 'North By Northwest' and 'Tarzan's Greatest Adventure' with Gordon Scott. Both of those very different films are classics.
Perhaps one reason for the perception that true "classics" are scarce these days is that we are literally overwhelmed by the sheer number of films being produced - too many for one person to keep up with, and many of them (especially since Covid) made for non-theatrical release. Almost every week I find something, a movie or a mini-series, that blows me away. It might have been released ten years ago and I either never heard of it or had just never taken the time to check it out, or it is something brand new. As the once-firm line between theatrical and non-theatrical release continues to dissolve and big-name actors, writers, directors and producers elect to tell their stories on the small screen, sometimes in chapters/episodes, we find ourselves having to look beyond the brick-and-mortar movie house to find the "classics".
But to answer your question more directly, the sci-fi film 'Oblivion' strikes me as being a classic. Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. The mini-series 'Godless' is an absolute must-see for Western fans. The majority of the Coen Brothers films will be watched and enjoyed pretty much forever. The 2017 re-make of 'Papillon'. As for the MCU, the first 'Iron Man' movie absolutely rocks, as does the first 'Guardians of the Galaxy' film.
Deadpool and Deadpool 2
Raiders of the Lost Ark and (skipping over Temple of Doom) I.J. and the Last Crusade
Honestly I'm torn between wanting to binge-watch the last two-and-a-half seasons and wanting to prolong my watching so that it lasts longer. 'Breaking Bad' is an amazing show, and I'll admit to being one of those people who have a hard time letting go of characters I've come to - not so much love, in most cases, but whom I've grown accustomed to having around.
BTW, I finally had to look it up because it was driving me crazy. The actor who plays George Merkert, Hank's DEA boss, the tall, grey-haired guy with the mustache - his face and voice were so familiar but I couldn't place him. He played Jury White, the SoA club President who Jax shoots on 'Sons of Anarchy'. Michael Shamus Wiles. Coincidentally (?) he also appeared with Brian Cranston in a couple of episodes of 'Malcolm in the Middle'.
Wow! I never watched 'The Sopranos', so I had no idea. That's really kind of weird, that he would be cast as a cancer surgeon in two different shows. I mean lots of actors get cast as cops a lot, that sort of thing, because they just LOOK like cops...but playing a cancer surgeon twice? I wonder if whoever was casting 'Breaking Bad' remembered McMurray from 'The Sopranos' and thought it would be funny to have him do it again. I was actually kind of hoping that he'd be playing the same character in both shows - sort of a subtle crossover - but that didn't happen.
I began watching 'Breaking Bad' just a couple of weeks ago. I almost quit the series about midway in Season 1 Episode 4 because it all just seemed so depressing. It was actually Walt's impromptu torching of the loudmouth jerk's car with the squeegee on the battery trick that made me think, "Now it's getting interesting" and kept me watching.
As someone else mentioned, the whole "getting rich as a criminal" theme is something that fascinates many (maybe most) people at some time or another. It isn't that we (most of us) admire or want to emulate Walt necessarily, or that we don't ultimately turn a blind eye to the human destruction his "product" is causing - Vince Gilligan certainly can't be accused of glamorizing meth use - but the forbidden nature of the enterprise, the cat and mouse game between the criminals and the authorities and all the suspenseful "almost getting caught" moments are highly entertaining.
My all-time favorite t.v. series is 'Sons of Anarchy' and regardless of how much you loved or identified with those characters, at the end of the day you had to admit, as Jax did toward the end of his life, that they were criminals and bad guys. Jesse says pretty much the same thing about himself in one episode, and Walter's angst about his own actions is visible on his face much of the time.
I'm midway through Season 3 at the moment - Hank has just been put in the hospital by the two brothers from Mexico, and Walt has managed to get Jesse installed as his new assistant at Gus's high tech lab.
"Who is that actor?" side-note: In the episodes just before and after Walt's cancer surgery, the surgeon is briefly seen, and his face was so familiar. It took me a couple of minutes to place him: 'Glen' from 'Raising Arizona', Sam McMurray. The man is a very in demand actor - almost 200 screen appearances on IMDB.
The audience in the theater where I saw this movie laughed at that scene, as did I...I think because it seemed to be at the same time forced, inappropriate and just silly.
Heather Lisinski (Sprague Grayden): "Watch out for giant radioactive ants out there!"
Jake Green (Skeet Ulrich): "Always do."
Being a "ginger" - or as most people in the U.S say, a "redhead" - doesn't seem to be the problem, in terms of image or popularity, in this country as in Britain...although I suspect that some Americans have taken up the dissing of "gingers" in an effort to appear...what, cool? About the only stereotype I can think of about red-haired people in America is that redheaded women are supposed to have fiery tempers. I've been on British discussion forums and read the comments on Brit news sites, and anyone with any hair color but black, dark brown or platinum blond is in danger of being labeled a "ginger" and then the moaning begins. I remember when Daniel Craig was selected to be the new James Bond, there arose a loud, weird chorus of anguish that they'd chosen "a ginger" to play the role. In what universe does Daniel Craig have red hair?
I get it, dude. Everything that [b]you[/b] don't like or appreciate that others do is only popular because someone has brainwashed them into believing they like it.
And to think I left a political discussion board to come to a place where stupidity and arrogance were not on the daily agenda. Oh, well.
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