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Mar 9, 2019 8:35:34 GMT -8
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Post by Bick on Mar 9, 2019 8:35:34 GMT -8
Looks like Danny Roman was right, Credo.
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Mar 9, 2019 13:21:44 GMT -8
Post by ProfessorFate on Mar 9, 2019 13:21:44 GMT -8
No, Shane did not die. He dispatched the villain's hired gunslinger and left the valley--never to return. Correct. He left the valley because: 1. He had romantic feelings for Marian, and he knew she felt the same, while still loving her husband. Shane had too much love for the whole family to put himself and them through what would almost certainly have come. 2. He realized that he couldn't leave his identity as a gunfighter behind, and that it was Marian's wish that there would someday be no guns at all in the valley. He told Joey that he was not seriously wounded, "I'm all right, Joey." If he wasn't, he could have stayed long enough to heal, and then moved on. I didn't like the movie that much when I first saw it, but as I delved deeper into it, it grew on me. I now watch it whenever I see it on TV, mostly because of #1 listed above. |
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Mar 10, 2019 13:20:42 GMT -8
Post by davidsf on Mar 10, 2019 13:20:42 GMT -8
No, Shane did not die. He dispatched the villain's hired gunslinger and left the valley--never to return. So... what if leaving the valley, never to return was a metaphor for death? |
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Mar 10, 2019 15:00:43 GMT -8
Post by ProfessorFate on Mar 10, 2019 15:00:43 GMT -8
I need a happy ending! (No not that kind...well maybe that too). Life is depressing enough without movies that have an unhappy ending. The 70s movies were the worst for that.
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Mar 10, 2019 18:12:37 GMT -8
Post by Bick on Mar 10, 2019 18:12:37 GMT -8
I need a happy ending! (No not that kind...well maybe that too). Life is depressing enough without movies that have an unhappy ending. The 70s movies were the worst for that. Except for Quint, Jaws had a happy ending. I can't believe that movie scared the heck out of me. But the one that did a REAL number on me was the Exorcist. I happened to be reading the book at the time, and got every bit of the nuanced symbolism. Going to the theater back then was a real experience. Waiting in line for the next showing...watching the people ashen faced coming out of there...the anticipation...the nightmares. William Friedken was one twisted dude. |
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Mar 10, 2019 19:12:38 GMT -8
Post by Luca on Mar 10, 2019 19:12:38 GMT -8
I went to Georgetown University where a lot of that was filmed. They have those gargoyles on the building, the campus chapel and that long stairway where the priest finally fell to his death. But when I’d walk around there at night time when it was foggy and saw those streetlamps, it was creepy. I could’t help but turn around to make sure no one was following me.
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Mar 11, 2019 17:59:26 GMT -8
Post by Credo on Mar 11, 2019 17:59:26 GMT -8
The PC mob is determined to ruin everything, but we won't let them ruin our favorite classic films.
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Mar 13, 2019 14:24:44 GMT -8
Post by Bick on Mar 13, 2019 14:24:44 GMT -8
I blame the Godfather for starting us down this warpath.
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Mar 14, 2019 8:03:41 GMT -8
Post by davidsf on Mar 14, 2019 8:03:41 GMT -8
I blame the Godfather for starting us down this warpath. I blame Blazing Saddles. |
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Mar 14, 2019 9:20:21 GMT -8
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Post by Bick on Mar 14, 2019 9:20:21 GMT -8
Marlon Brando was in Blazing Saddles?
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Mar 14, 2019 10:14:44 GMT -8
Post by davidsf on Mar 14, 2019 10:14:44 GMT -8
Marlon Brando was in Blazing Saddles? No... but Mel Brooks put stuff in that movie that we had previously thought funny only to ourselves. That was before we got all PC concerned about every little offensive thing, though. |
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Mar 14, 2019 10:17:33 GMT -8
Post by Bick on Mar 14, 2019 10:17:33 GMT -8
Yeah, but Brando started us down the road of actors politicizing movies to the point the Academy Awards is now unwatchable.
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Post by MDDad on Mar 14, 2019 10:43:49 GMT -8
Brando may have started it, but DeNiro broke all bounds of decency with his comments last year. What an ass. There must be something about starring in a Mafia movie.
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Post by Bick on Mar 14, 2019 10:57:09 GMT -8
Brando may have started it, but DeNiro broke all bounds of decency with his comments last year. What an ass. There must be something about starring in a Mafia movie. Agree. One of my favorite actors I won't look at the same way again. There's others that are now in the same bucket. I guess they didn't realize their only appeal was the fantasy their characters portrayed. |
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Post by Bick on Apr 29, 2019 7:21:09 GMT -8
Watched Mr Church on Netflix last night. Critics pretty much hated it. I loved it... and so did nearly every non-critic that wrote something about it.
Eddie Murphy like you've never seen before.
There seems to be a real thirst for movies that are about good personal values, and this nails it.
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