Random Movie Talk XIII: In Which I Cannot Come Up With a Relevant or Witty Title

[corianderstem]

*weeps*

 

[lazarus]

But XZIBIT was in it, Cori.

X to the Z.

Why can't you just use the A to Z scale like Rotten Tomatoes??

Wait, am I in the right thread?

 

[No spoken words]

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[corianderstem]

I rated that film as Crocodile.

 

[No spoken words]

I'm sure I'd have rated it as "suck-fuck" from the scale I posted while buzzed last evening.

 

[corianderstem]

You were buzzed?

 

[lazarus]

I'm sure I'd have rated it as "suck-fuck" from the scale I posted while buzzed last evening.

You loved it long-time?

 

[No spoken words]

You were buzzed?

Yeah, had a few at a baseball game...they were free and I was kind of in the mood to have a few. Wasn't drunk or anything but was not exactly sober. I raided OOC for a bit then let posted in the threads I normally post in.

 

[corianderstem]

I was buzzed last night too, but I spent it by singing obnoxious karaoke with my friends.

 

[Jive Turkey]

I was buzzed last night too, but I spent it feeling like an anti Semite

 

[No spoken words]

I was buzzed last night too, but I spent it by singing obnoxious karaoke with my friends.

The friend I was with was not buzzed. I don't even know if he realized that I was. I did no singing. I drink so infrequently that I can remember the last time I had imbibed.....mid March, 2009.

 

[No spoken words]

I was buzzed last night too, but spend my night feeling like an anti Semite

 

[corianderstem]

I drink so infrequently ...

I remember you telling me that eons ago, which is why I had to take a moment to comment and mark the occasion.

 

[No spoken words]

I remember you telling me that eons ago, which is why I had to take a moment to comment and mark the occasion.

I'm drunk on life and snobbery. And orange soda.

 

[lazarus]

That ain't all.

 

[corianderstem]

I'm drunk on vaseline and crickets. And Faygo.

 

[lazarus]

I'm drunk on vaseline and crickets.

OH HAI.

 

[corianderstem]

Oh, is that why there's teeny singing noises coming from my belly?

 

[lazarus]

Sounds like you made the wrong wish, Pinoccori.

 

[corianderstem]

He was a delicious wish.

 

[deep]

I've had Turner Classic Cable TCM channel on my cable forever

I rarely check what's on it. Last week they had a Dennis Hopper day

They had this film from 1960, Hopper plays a sailor in love with a sideshow attaction mermaid woman. It was ok.

Anyways. a few films they have coming up for those of you that may have not caught these classics yet.

400 Blows
East of Eden
Watermelon Man
The Searchers
Rebel without a Cause
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
Killer of Sheep (1977)
The Third Man (1949)
The Snake Pit (1948)


Set your dvrs.

 

[deep]

First time I watched East of Eden, a few years back,
there was this actress,
wow, she knocked me out. (I may have done it to myself)

 

[No spoken words]

That's one of my favorite books, but I've never seen the film.

 

[deep]

Back then Steinbeck got top billing

people were semi-literate, in the 50s

 

[If you shout...]

I don't have cable and only ever had it for a few months, in college, so I'm ignorant. Am I right to be surprised that TCM is showing Killer of Sheep? Because I am. God damn, though, that is a brilliant-ass film.

 

[deep]

yes, it will be airing

Jun 23, 10:15PM

 

[lazarus]

That's one of my favorite books, but I've never seen the film.

The story is severely truncated; if I'm not mistaken only the last third or so of the book was adapted for the film.

Having said that, it really is handsomely mounted; one of Elia Kazan's most visually interesting films with some great use of the widescreen format. And I'd argue it's the best of the three films James Dean was in (I find Rebel Without a Cause ridiculously overrated).

Well worth a watch.

 

[No spoken words]

The book is fairly gargantuan, especially by Steinbeck's standards...so, no surprise to read the above.

 

[lazarus]

Have you seen John Ford's adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath?