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  1. Edgy MD
    Which is QUITE an accomplishment, I think.
  2. Edgy MD
    Dude, Seaquest.
  3. Edgy MD
    I don't think admission is really an overarching theme in some of those, but good job.
  4. Edgy MD
    Good one. There was sorta a romantic angle in that, wasn't there?
  5. Edgy MD
    Risky Business, too.
  6. Edgy MD
    What's to think? A huge step forward in the art and science of dramatic film. A huge step backwards for the culture of the nation.
  7. Edgy MD
    There you go. Turns out, Turkish prisons don't compare so poorly on the world prison scale, and the Turks were pretty pissed about how Oliver Stone turned them into a stereotype.
  8. Edgy MD
    You'd think the being the Jewish one of the trio of contemporary brown-haired method actors (along with Pacino and DeNiro) would get him typecast. But instead, with those two being Italian-American, the typecasting played in his favor. They got to be mobsters and cops and he got to be everything else. And if Hollywood wanted a more caricatured Jewish performance, they could go with Richard Dreyfuss. (Thanks, Spielberg!) The field was wide open for him in a way.
  9. Edgy MD
    I think there are certain movies from the seventies that provoked such a visceral reaction so as to permanently insinuate a new phrase into our national lexicon of metaphors. Midnight Express gave us "Turkish prison" and this movie gave us "Nazi dentist" --- two phrases used regularly today even by folks who have never seen or perhaps heard of either film.
  10. Edgy MD
    That winter, the Mets acquired George Foster, and the Yanks acquired Ken Griffey and Dave Collins. The Newsday backpage headline at the start of spring training: "NOW PLAYING IN NEW YORK: REDS."
  11. Edgy MD
    I just want to apologize for all youse who posted in this thread. Frayed Knot, themetfairy, Ashie... even Willets who posted though you may not have seen the film... I'm sorry. You told me this plane was going down and going down hard and I climbed on board anyhow.
  12. Edgy MD
    How about films where the environmental reality is pretty much stable, but the protagonist him- or herself turns out not to be who they think they are? Examples include... spoilers... Angel Heart The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Maybe Blade Runner if you believe one or two of the eleven cuts circulating of this film are meant to imply in the end that Decker is a replicant. Maybe Total Recall, depending on your read of the ending, but I guess it qualifies one way or the other.
  13. Edgy MD
    Poo-poo ka-ka. Robert Zemeckis may want to reconsider Back to the Future IV. Go for it. I mean... it would be a better idea than Flight II.
  14. Edgy MD
    Of course, you're spoiling all these movies for me. Except Sliding Doors. I was never going to see that anyway.
  15. Edgy MD
    The first round pick from 2012 still had no forumommy or poppy. Well that's about to change, in light of his $10,000 donation to Hurricane Sandy relief.
  16. Edgy MD
    There are certain guys that have a role that's so career defining that either they continue to gravitate toward that character later in their careers, or the audience (or myself, anyhow), can't help but see that character filtering through their subsequent portrayals. I thought of this the other day when I watched The Accidental Tourist, how William Hurt in later films continued to squint puzzledly at other characters as if they were aliens from other worlds, mumbling confused responses in hurried attempts to disengage. We're talking about Dustin Hoffman in another thread. Since Tootsie, he occasionally seems to gravitate toward Michael/Dorothy, and in Stranger than Fiction, for instance, he seems to be responding with that nasally cruel sacchariness, delivering bad news to Harold with his twitchy Tootsie half smile.
  17. Edgy MD
    Detached Baltimore man grieving for his murdered child grows more detached, gets abandoned by his iced-over wife, and moves back into his childhood home with his defeated adult siblings before taking up with a woman a class or two below his stratus. It's a comedy, really. We spent part of our lovely day Saturday visiting locations from the film and then re-watching. (Coincidentally enough, one of those locations is our video store.) In reviewing our micro-adventures with friends, it turns out that most folks we know, and nobody under 37 or so, knows this film, nor the excellent novel that the film was loyally adapted from. (Native Baltamorans, even!)
  18. Edgy MD
    Yesterday's report had a scout calling him the best outfielder in the division. Not that we want to carry a bat that's utterly unready, or hamper any possible development he's got left by putting him in a position to fail, but a superior defender in the middle could help mask a lot of defensive flaws in the team's lineup.
  19. Edgy MD
    Documentary about a team of teenagers recruited to join skateboarding team in the early eighties, their beginnings just as the burgeoning pro-circuit is collapsing, and their re-inventing the sport as a skater-controlled punk underground scene, until the sport's re-emergence at the end of the decade. [youtube:2euxwh9m]XIIaJRlr6-Q[/youtube:2euxwh9m]
  20. Edgy MD
    What about the waking up and finding out it was all just a dream or computer or something, only to have that final moment where a prop or character from the dream appears in the new supposedly authentic reality, so maybe it wasn't a dream at all! That's sort of the Time Bandits ending. Sort of. You get into TV, you get into every other Twilight Zone episode, seemingly. How 'bout that one where Picard lives a whole lifetime as a flute player in the space of a few seconds?
  21. Edgy MD
    That season of Dallas when Bobby Ewing was dead but then it turned out he wasn't.
  22. Edgy MD
    Ka-POW! Potential for historical greatness and historical badness with that many chips on the table.
  23. Edgy MD
    I guess the best summary is that the producer oversees the budget and coordinates the schedule, but it's sort of a vague job description of shepherding the project form start to finish. Funny thing is that John Leguizamo, not trying to be funny here, sounded kind of like Bobby Valentine.
  24. Edgy MD
    The scope seemed somewhat limited, in part because of MLB's non-cooperation --- clearly not wanting to be part of what they couldn't control. Not really going to win Bobby Valentine any friends at MLB's offices. I gave it seven milky gloves, but I hovered over six. I just felt like there's a bigger story we're hinting at but not getting.
  25. Edgy MD
    Yeah, the film does really well on Rotten Tomatoes. I'm guessing folks who like his act project the Q-rating he earned there onto his fictionalized self in this movie. Cuz independently, which is how I'm seeing this film, I'm not with him.
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