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They killed THE STARS. No wonder there wasn't a Django 2.
The story keeps getting passed on such as copying the tape, more word of mouth, and now in the news.
There's a great line in the movie about it.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editor: You're fired.
Rachel: You can't. I'm working on too good a story.
That's a good theory. Samara made a tape because it was her way to continue to do evil. It's better than waiting for someone to look into or visit the well.
I'm not a fan of this movie because of not liking Bill Murray, but I'm not a homophobe. It sounds like you are tho.
Yep. Miscast. For what reason would Bourne come back in?
It holds up for the people who went through some or all of it. It prolly doesn't hold up for the young libs, atheists, and sexual deviants of today.
Section 8 would be for a mental disorder and not low IQ. Forrest may have had a low IQ, but he was able to follow instructions and excelled at that. I think if the test doesn't weed them out, the drill sergeant would have found out in basic training. The sexual stuff that Klinger was trying to get out for didn't apply for Forrest.
Even if you couldn't talk about it, look at all the movies that it affected.
Oh. I thought you meant how the blonde fell in love with the beast.
Dalton is funny especially the "Salt corrision" line. However, he didn't want to do more than three Bond films. The third one was delayed and eventually canceled. Thus, I think he ended up being cast in a negative light. It gave Pierce Brosnan an opening and his Bond to take over. I think women liked Brosnan while men liked Dalton more, but Dalton didn't want to continue.
ETA: Even if Dalton wanted to continue as Bond, the production had legal problems and he would've been too old to play Bond. Likely, he would've been replaced either way. It's too bad that his third Bond ran into legal problems and eventually canceled. He would've been good in GoldenEye.
Nah. I like to look at Ranker or Listverse. One needs to compare the POTUSs -- https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-u-s-presidents-from-best-to-worst
>>I didn't pass!<<
C'mon. I didn't think it was p/f. You could've put some of the things you write here lol. I'd give you an 'A.'
Anyway, I got into a discussion about who the top actors and their films are. It seems Leonardo DiCaprio leads the list with Brad Pitt following for the Gen Xers. Tom Cruise and John Travolta, while they had "one or two" good movies are vaginas. Actually, they had more but who's counting. It's the perception. The era has changed. I didn't even know about one movie called Boiler Room they were so keen on. LDP also explains why we see so many -- https://www.tvovermind.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gastsby-whatgatsby.jpg.gif.
I found The Birds from Mr. Smith's English class. It is suspenseful, so can see why Hitchcock was sucked in. If you've read it already, then go to the last page where he asks questions as homework lol. Have to watch The Birds again as well as Rebecca (and read the novel afterward). She's a pretty good writer.
https://mrnsmith.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/the-birds-by-daphne-du-maurier.pdf
You're welcome. I was happy to find and read it since it's short. I'll have to look up The Birds and Rebecca or buy the kindle. After reading your takes on RW, I really appreciate Hitchcock getting the studio to build the set. I've lived in apartments in Nob Hill while growing up in San Francisco and know one doesn't really see all that if they actually lived there. But Hitch made it enjoyable, suspense filled, and getting us into the characters and what they are experiencing. He made it believable.
If anything, the beginning of Dirty Harry is what one sees from some of the high rise apartments in San Francisco besides the gorgeous views. (I think DH and the Eastwood movies did the reverse in that the films spawned a book series.)
>>"Movies are more like short stories than like novels...they can't cover the time involved in a novel, they follow the rising curve of a short story."<<
That's interesting. Maybe too many scenes which makes it difficult to tell the story one wants to. Usually, I can accept the book as a framework and then go from there. The characters could be the same or different. Hitchcock seemed to want to tell his version, so the framework or idea of the story gave him motivation. Usually, I'll read the book after the movie as reading the book usually spoils the movie. The opposite doesn't usually hold true unless it gives away the ending of a mystery. Even then a well written book or story is still interesting on its own.
>>I've never read "It Had to Be Murder" but I have read that it was pretty short. (Its like Joe Stefano said about the short story "The Birds" when he declined to write the screenplay: "It was short, but not a story." I don't think the man in the Woolrich story had a girlfriend for instance. I wonder if the murderous neighbor was heavyset(I do know, from Hitchcock/Truffaut, that in the story, the villain fires a short back across the courtyard and the hero holds up a statue of Beethoven or somebody to get the bullet.)<<
I didn't know The Birds was a short story, too. Hitchcock must have some kind of vision to pull it off and turn it into a major film. He does look at things as a play.
Here's a link to Cornell Woolrich's story which Rear Window is based on 13 pgs -- https://www.miettecast.com/woolrich.pdf
It's not bad. More than some books I've started reading.
Rear Window is one of those movies you wonder how it got made. I think Raymond Burr was over 300 lbs in the movie. The story is based on a short story called "It Had to Be Murder" and takes place mostly in an apartment. It seems more like one ready for an Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode. Yet, James Stewart, Grace Kelly, and Raymond Burr pull it off. Oh yeah, the was a guy name Hitchcock, too.
The one on the left has a human mask on. Without mask is on the right. Both have zombie brainz and now they're prolly gonna run the country in 2021. Horrors! Get it now?
Lol. Good one.
I had this one, but yours is much better -- https://makemeazombie.com/static/images/biden.jpg
They had much better food, drinks, alcohol, and service back then.
Donald Trump will run again four years and undo what Joe Biden did. Just like he undid what Barack Obama did.