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Rewatching movies from our pasts -- still good?
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Mandy21 on June 08, 2009, 03:31:15 pm ---Oh, and on the subject of Bull Durham, doesn't Tim Robbin's naked butt in the locker room count as graphic?
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:laugh: OK. But for a movie about a woman having affairs with two different men, it's pretty low on sex!
--- Quote ---Min, I think Katherine was referring to Tim in movies lately like "Mystic River", where he plays a very messed-up older man.
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Yup. And he plays a crazy codger in War of the Worlds, too.
Speaking of Kevin Costner, Mandy, I thought you might appreciate this piece from Slate, if you didn't see it already. It's a defense of the much-maligned Waterworld.
http://www.slate.com/id/2210436/
Did you see The Upside of Anger? He was great in that.
optom3:
My taste in movies is a real mixed bag. I love GiGi with Maurice Chevalier, anything at all with Audrey Hepburn. I sit mesmerised by her beautiful face. I also have a big soft spot for Lawrence of Arabia, Peter O'Toole had quite the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. Pretty woman, yes I know, but not all life can be tragic, it's nice to have a happy ending.
I also loved Angela's ashes and My Left Foot. The talented Mr. Ripley is worth watching several times, and I do. Death in Venice, is exquisite, as is the English Patient. The only genre I cannot watch are horror movies. I saw the exorcist when I was 15 and have never watched a horror movie since.
Monty python's Life of Brian. Oh I should stop I am going on and on.
serious crayons:
Oops! I just noticed I originally forgot to include the link I referred to in my post above. I've updated the post with the link.
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: optom3 on June 08, 2009, 07:48:46 pm ---My taste in movies is a real mixed bag. I love GiGi with Maurice Chevalier, anything at all with Audrey Hepburn. I sit mesmerised by her beautiful face. I also have a big soft spot for Lawrence of Arabia, Peter O'Toole had quite the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. Pretty woman, yes I know, but not all life can be tragic, it's nice to have a happy ending.
I also loved Angela's ashes and My Left Foot. The talented Mr. Ripley is worth watching several times, and I do. Death in Venice, is exquisite, as is the English Patient. The only genre I cannot watch are horror movies. I saw the exorcist when I was 15 and have never watched a horror movie since.
Monty python's Life of Brian. Oh I should stop I am going on and on.
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Fiona, if you love Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole, do you adore the very cute How to Steal a Million? I have enjoyed that movie several times.
I was raised watching Gigi, and still love the songs from it, but now that I'm older and understand that she was a child being groomed to be a (what's the right word?) courtesan, it's got an ick factor that has made me not see it in years. But, like I said, I love the songs, especially I Remember it Well.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sISWPzEqHLQ[/youtube]
Ellemeno:
K, I liked the Upside of Anger too. I was very pleasantly surprised by the quality of the dialogue in it. But my favorite Kevin Costner movie - though I'm not at all saying it was his best, was No Way Out. Anybody seen that? A very cool concept. It has Gene Hackman in a significant role, where he is partly a bad guy and partly not such a bad guy, kind of similar to the role he (Gene Hackman) plays in another one of my favorite movies, The Firm. Anybody else like those two movies?
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