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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 29, 2024 18:35:08 GMT -5
50th Anniversary of the release of Blazing Saddles, in all its subversive glory..... (NSFW...obviously) I often quote my favorite line, from Slim Pickens.... "What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is a-going on here?" It never ceases to amaze me that Mel Brooks released Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein in the same year. What a great year for him.
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 29, 2024 20:43:23 GMT -5
And the fact that the "beans and coffee" scene is still censored on tv airings never fails to make me laugh Do they still censor the name of Madeline Kahn's character? You can see it spelled out on a poster in one scene but when they say it, all you'd hear is "Lili von Sht-"
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Post by Batflunkie on Feb 29, 2024 20:47:39 GMT -5
And the fact that the "beans and coffee" scene is still censored on tv airings never fails to make me laugh Do they still censor the name of Madeline Kahn's character? You can see it spelled out on a poster in one scene but when they say it, all you'd hear is "Lili von Sht-" If they did, I don't really remember paying attention to it They also did something similar for the TV version of the first Austin Powers movie. The character "Alotta Fagina" was changed to " Alotta Cleavage", which I honestly thought was the better linguistical joke (but you think a lot of things are better when you're 12)
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 29, 2024 21:41:07 GMT -5
Do they still censor the name of Madeline Kahn's character? You can see it spelled out on a poster in one scene but when they say it, all you'd hear is "Lili von Sht-" If they did, I don't really remember paying attention to it Probably because you don't speak much Yiddish, so "shtupp" didn't mean anything to you.
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Post by berkley on Feb 29, 2024 21:41:15 GMT -5
I saw The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) for the first time at a local theatre last week and it was great fun. The story doesn't always make a lot of sense but mostly this is really just a fantastic showpiece for Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway and their star-power. Dunaway in particular gets to show off to marvellous effect, as she's playing a rather flamboyant character, though she does become a little more subdued later on as her feelings for Crown develop: I think she has a different hairstyle and a different outfit with pretty much every scene change - and many of them are more the kind of thing you'd imagine seeing on the runway than in real life.
I imagine this must have played on tv at some point when I was a kid but I don't remember ever seeing it, so I'm very happy to have been able to catch it finally after all these years and on the big screen too. That's two big McQueen movies I've seen at the theatre the last year or so, this one and Bullitt. I'd say Bullitt is much the superior of the two overall but no fan of '60s movies or of McQueen or Dunaway will want to miss The Thomas Crown Affair.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 29, 2024 23:20:10 GMT -5
I saw The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) for the first time at a local theatre last week and it was great fun. The story doesn't always make a lot of sense but mostly this is really just a fantastic showpiece for Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway and their star-power. Dunaway in particular gets to show off to marvellous effect, as she's playing a rather flamboyant character, though she does become a little more subdued later on as her feelings for Crown develop: I think she has a different hairstyle and a different outfit with pretty much every scene change - and many of them are more the kind of thing you'd imagine seeing on the runway than in real life. I imagine this must have played on tv at some point when I was a kid but I don't remember ever seeing it, so I'm very happy to have been able to catch it finally after all these years and on the big screen too. That's two big McQueen movies I've seen at the theatre the last year or so, this one and Bullitt. I'd say Bullitt is much the superior of the two overall but no fan of '60s movies or of McQueen or Dunaway will want to miss The Thomas Crown Affair. All I ask is that they mute that damn song! It wasn't any better when Sting covered it, either.
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Post by tartanphantom on Mar 1, 2024 0:19:13 GMT -5
Watched Chinatown (1974) this morning on Netflix. And while I thought it was a pretty good movie for what it was with plenty of twists and turns to keep the viewer engaged, the ending felt like a cinematic dead end with no real resolution for any of the plot threads (but maybe that was the point?) That was exactly the point. Life doesn't have easy endings. Or necessarily any endings this side of the grave. This is very much a throw-back to the noirs of the late 40s and early 50s only with what the Hayes Code wouldn't allow at that time.
With that context, SCTV's spoof, Polynesian Town, had a much more effective ending... and an expensive crane shot! SCTV totally ruined any serious appreciation of Chinatown for me. I can no longer see the film without seeing John Candy and Catherine O'Hara in my mind.
Well worth the 15-minute watch if you like spoof sketch humor; you'll catch a few in-jokes on the original film, as well as a very nice live performance by Dr. John. The story does go completely sideways as expected, though.
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Post by tartanphantom on Mar 1, 2024 0:26:23 GMT -5
And the fact that the "beans and coffee" scene is still censored on tv airings never fails to make me laugh Do they still censor the name of Madeline Kahn's character?
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Post by Rags on Mar 1, 2024 0:36:56 GMT -5
I like the classic The Mechanic....Jan Michael Vincent looked dreamy in this even though he's a POS when he poisons Bishop...
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 1, 2024 0:59:21 GMT -5
That was exactly the point. Life doesn't have easy endings. Or necessarily any endings this side of the grave. This is very much a throw-back to the noirs of the late 40s and early 50s only with what the Hayes Code wouldn't allow at that time.
With that context, SCTV's spoof, Polynesian Town, had a much more effective ending... and an expensive crane shot! SCTV totally ruined any serious appreciation of Chinatown for me. I can no longer see the film without seeing John Candy and Catherine O'Hara in my mind.
Well worth the 15-minute watch if you like spoof sketch humor; you'll catch a few in-jokes on the original film, as well as a very nice live performance by Dr. John. The story does go completely sideways as expected, though.
I owe Vic Hedges my life for bringing that sketch to me!
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 1, 2024 1:08:06 GMT -5
I like the classic The Mechanic....Jan Michael Vincent looked dreamy in this even though he's a POS when he poisons Bishop...
Yeah, that was long before the booze destroyed him. He didn't have the greatest range in the acting world; but, when he was in the right project, with the right character, he was fantastic. My favorite turn for him is The Kid, in Bite The Bullet. Nice character arc in that one, which lets him play around a bit more.
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Post by berkley on Mar 1, 2024 1:51:11 GMT -5
I saw The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) for the first time at a local theatre last week and it was great fun. The story doesn't always make a lot of sense but mostly this is really just a fantastic showpiece for Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway and their star-power. Dunaway in particular gets to show off to marvellous effect, as she's playing a rather flamboyant character, though she does become a little more subdued later on as her feelings for Crown develop: I think she has a different hairstyle and a different outfit with pretty much every scene change - and many of them are more the kind of thing you'd imagine seeing on the runway than in real life. I imagine this must have played on tv at some point when I was a kid but I don't remember ever seeing it, so I'm very happy to have been able to catch it finally after all these years and on the big screen too. That's two big McQueen movies I've seen at the theatre the last year or so, this one and Bullitt. I'd say Bullitt is much the superior of the two overall but no fan of '60s movies or of McQueen or Dunaway will want to miss The Thomas Crown Affair. All I ask is that they mute that damn song! It wasn't any better when Sting covered it, either.
I like the song myself. I think it's a really nice composition, both melody and lyrics, though I'd agree that there's something about the way it's performed in the movie soundtrack that doesn't seem quite right - maybe a bit too fast?
Dusty Springfield does an interesting version that might change your mind, depending on your tastes: its starts off very slow, then slides into a Joao Gilberto style jazz sound, then gets a bit more bombastic at the end (the one part in this version that I think doesn't work as well as the rest of it).
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 5, 2024 8:51:06 GMT -5
I imagine this must have played on tv at some point when I was a kid but I don't remember ever seeing it, so I'm very happy to have been able to catch it finally after all these years and on the big screen too. That's two big McQueen movies I've seen at the theatre the last year or so, this one and Bullitt. I'd say Bullitt is much the superior of the two overall but no fan of '60s movies or of McQueen or Dunaway will want to miss The Thomas Crown Affair. Thanks for the heads up! It's now added to me Tubi list.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 9, 2024 22:39:45 GMT -5
I’m watching Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980). I just started episode number four.
Franz has just gotten out of prison. He made a vow to be a better person and try to stay out of trouble. He tries so hard. But not everybody in 1920s Berlin is being cooperative.
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Post by berkley on Mar 10, 2024 0:14:58 GMT -5
I’m watching Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980). I just started episode number four. Franz has just gotten out of prison. He made a vow to be a better person and try to stay out of trouble. He tries so hard. But not everybody in 1920s Berlin is being cooperative.
I've been meaning to watch this for years and still haven't gotten round to it. I read the book back in the late 1990s or early 2000s, I think it was, but there's a new translation that's come out since then that I want to try eventually but maybe I'll go ahead and watch the series first - it was a tv series, wasn't it?
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