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  1. Doctor Strange

    Movies that had Great Initial Success and, then, Chirp, Chirp, Chirp

    I'm sure you guys know that when King of Kings was being made in the late fifties, Jeffrey Hunter was considered by many in the industry to be too young, lacking the gravitas required for the role. Hence it was waggishly referred to as "I Was A Teenage Jesus"!
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    Movies that had Great Initial Success and, then, Chirp, Chirp, Chirp

    Lizzie, I feel that way about nearly all the prestige biopics of the thirties, like the ones with Paul Muni as Pasteur or Zola. They haven't aged well. Just last night, I watched the promising-in-advance Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) with Fredric March. It was terrible! Not just in the...
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    Movies that had Great Initial Success and, then, Chirp, Chirp, Chirp

    When I get some time, I should be able to think of some movies for this thread. Regarding yesterday's... Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice was a very of-its-time film, though it ultimately (and quite perceptively) showed its intended foursome - trying their hardest to be "cool and with it" - not...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    For the record, I was a fan of the TV series in the sixties and I HATED this film. Full disclosure: I hated Guy Ritchie's earlier films too... but I also thought the film did an especially poor job of honoring the TV show. Other U.N.C.L.E. fans disagree - I'm sure Benzadmiral will come to...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Curtis Hanson, L.A. Confidential director: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/curtis-hanson-dead-la-confidential-861160
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    Thoughts on leather of Schott leather jackets!

    I have never put anything on any of my leather jackets. Even the oldest - a 15-year-old G&B goatskin that's gotten lots of wear - shows no signs of "drying up". I don't understand the whole leather treatment thing at all, apart from on seriously old worn jackets... It strikes me as some kind...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I understand completely. We have way too many "event films" that are overhyped these days. For me, the most intensely disappointing film of the last year was Mad Max: Fury Road. I kept hearing it described as "the best film of last year" and an award-worthy four-star movie... and I found it...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I liked Gravity a lot more than this film. It's a far more remarkable example of Lubezki's amazing photographic skills than The Revenant (so is Birdman). It's one of the few films I've seen in 3D where I thought the 3D added anything (though it's nearly as effective on my 48" Sony with the...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Revenant. It was well done, but honestly, I think it was insanely overpraised. It's a remarkable true story, and it was beautifully photographed by the brilliant Emmanuel Lubezki, but geez, it's just Man In The Wilderness all over again. Leo won the Best Actor Oscar for a role that mostly...
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    Bush Jackets

    You can also find them in arts & crafts stores, and department store crafting sections.
  13. Doctor Strange

    Akubra Campdraft

    Actually, it's called Mid-Brown. I had a Fed III that color and eventually got rid of it: in most lighting conditions, it looked more green than brown. And green is NOT my color. (I believe the Dark Brown of the Fed IV has a reddish cast, not green.)
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The 33, about those poor trapped Chilean miners. Good film, amazing story.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I don't want to oversell it. It IS goofy and random sci-fi stuff, with not very believable TV-budget CGI. But it has a very sure handle on the character, and Melissa Benoist (who I'd ironically hated when she was one of the younger students in the late seasons of Glee) is outstanding in the...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I never watched Teen Wolf, but yeah, that's the way he's being mentioned. He's also one of the stars of the new Richard Linklater film, Everybody Wants Some!, about college baseball jocks in the seventies. And yeah, I recommend that you give Supergirl a try. It gets some things wrong, but it...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Re Wonder Woman... While Wonder Woman's appearance was one of the few not-entirely-awful things in BvSDoJ, I personally have little hope in her own film being great. Or for that matter, Justice League, which will be coming out first... or any of these DC films. I think Warners/DC has made...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I think you must mean The Knick.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Beloved Infidel from 1959, a highly fictionalized account of the late-1930s relationship of rising gossip columnist Sheilah Graham (Deborah Kerr) and falling novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald (Gregory Peck). I really wanted to like this film: two stars I love... who exhibit zero chemistry together...
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    Autumnal Thoughts........

    We FINALLY had some cool weather here - it was in the 50s this morning when I left for work, shortly before sunrise. The first proper jacket weather since spring! So I finally wore a new M-1941 OD field jacket repro I got over the summer (At The Front's cotton-lined "summer" version) for the...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    It's great, but to reply to your comments... Spock yelled his lines because the embryonic conception of the character when they shot was that he wasn't yet comfortable speaking English. NBC specifically wanted Number One off the show, as they insisted audiences wouldn't accept a woman with...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    The season premiere of Showtime's Masters of Sex. This show was outstanding in its first season, but ultimately lost its way in seasons two and three in terms of storytelling. (Though the acting and production have remained excellent throughout.) It looks like the new season, poised to move...

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