Edgy MD
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Somebody else saw the film first and decided to comment --- I think in the Marvel movies thread --- but didn't feel like starting a polling thread. I definitely liked this better... than The Karate Kid, Part III.
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Half way through. So far, so suck.
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The historical credibility of Casablanca is not vast.
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It was brilliant using Jimmy Stewart as a leading man, because he was cashing in all the chips that Frank Capra had earned. Jimmy Stewart's earler everyman characters had earned so much audience identification that when a Hitchcock movie opens and he seems genial enough again, the viewer has no problem going along for the ride with him. When it unfolds that his character is creepy or disturbed or coldhearted or some combination of those, it's too late for the audience to escape. They're sympathizing with him and probably not a little disturbed with themselves for doing it.
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A lot of good answers, though. My missus saw me posting in this thread and rented 39 Steps last night.
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Willets Point wrote: Vic Sage wrote: Operation Petticoat (1959) another Edwards comedy, with Cary Grant (who Curtis had just spoofed affectionately in SOME LIKE IT HOT) I saw a bio on Tony Curtis on TV several years ago and at this period Curtis was at his height of popularity and had a lot of pull with the studios. When asked what project he wanted to do next he said "I want to do a service comedy with Cary Grant." He got his wish. That's totally not a gay answer.
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The band playing CBGB in Hannah and Her Sisters was called The 39 Steps.
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A .457? That would be big. Harry carried a .44 though.
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Too hard. How big is that gun pointed at my head?
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That's a pretty good analogy in that both made the second ones seem better than they were. Of course, Bad News Bears is the sort of high quality that the Karate Kid only occasionally sniffs.
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Really almost nothing to it. I figured I had to fill in the gap in my KK awareness, but now I'm blue and almost kind of angry that I watched.
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Daniel and Miyagi come home from Okinawa (with neither of the women whose hearts they won and whose village they saved) and walk right into a revenge trap set up by Kreese, his rich karate buddy from the Vietnam days, and some guy named Mike Barnes.
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The woman raised her kids with pet lions, people. That's sort of crazy.
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16) Mostly forgotten early dramatic adaptations: * The Skin Game (1931) * Juno and the Paycock (1930)
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A side issue: The Birds is a really great film... until you become an adult. Discuss.
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Truth. This got nominated for best picture. In retrospect, it looks like a weak year, but not everything wrong with it is the script --- hammy special effects (which were also nominated), a monotonous one-theme score (which won!), and gooofy crap with the actors talking straight to the camera as they delve into their neuroses. Side splittingly hilarious stuff. I'd like to say that the 'Cock wasn't on his game yet, but this is 11 years after The 39 Steps and that was great. Only the cinematography is worthy of the name on the marquee.
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Icy-cold analyst played by Ingrid Bergman falls for a fellow practioner (Gergory Peck) of the modern science of "psychology," and when he turns out to be not what he seems, and wanted for murder, runs off with him until her badass Freudian techniques can get to the bottom of his mysterious past. Alfred Hitchcock directs, paints a landscape of cryptic shadows, and --- when we get into the dreamscape of the subconscious --- turns the wheel over Salvador Dali. Oh, yeah.
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I did that once --- the test audience thingie. I wrote and and wrote and wrote and wrote. The survey form was filled and I turned it over and wrote in the margins. We were was the last guys in the theater and my brother was pissed at me. He said the movie's representatives in the back of the theater were getting depressed watching me, but not everything I wrote was bad. Anyhow, the film was worse by the time it came out to general release.
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SNY to Feature Best Years, Worst Years, All Years
Edgy MD replied to G-Fafif's topic in New York Mets Talk
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Well, anybody who had him in the secondbase pool...
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In the final game of the playoffs, Ceciliani went 3-4 with a 2B, a run, and a caught stealing. After flirting with .400 and winning the batting title, he hit .474 in the playoffs. He even starred in the New York Penn League All-Star game. A completely excellent season for an excellent team.
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One of the great middle names in Met history: Robert Bartmess Friend. His nickname: Warrior. Bob Friend, shooting at the walls of heartache.
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Replaced by the splitter --- a similar pitch applied to greater effect by more people.
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A quick search suggests at least two current players bear the nickname: Adam Dunn and Billy Butler.
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Big sluggers were often called "Big Donkeys" at that time. Thomas certainly isn't/wasn't dumb.
