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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 01/08/2007 : 7:41:20 PM
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Also worth mentioning, since somebody brought up The French Connection:
L.A. Confidential also begins at Christmastime. And that "Bloody Christmas" riot that causes the LAPD such a scandal...? That wasn't the work of some screenwriter's fevered imagination. That actually happened. |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
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Posted - 01/09/2007 : 12:24:06 PM
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Many novels by James Ellroy start with riots or ramdom violence acts. There's the fights between latinos and sailors in The Black Dahlia (I think they are historical, I remember them in American Me as well)* and the Watts' riots appear in the first chapter of Blood in the Moon.
+EDITED: They are, just found out they are the so-called "Zoo suit riots" in L.A. during WWII. |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 02/06/2007 : 12:21:58 PM
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| The Bourne Identity. Forgot that one. |
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Culfy
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02/07/2007 : 4:29:29 PM
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Originally posted by zombiewhacker
The Bourne Identity. Forgot that one.
Groan!
Just watched it the other day - what about Terry Gilliam's Brazil?
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 02/07/2007 : 5:16:37 PM
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Hey, Brazil was set at Christmas! Didn't even think of that.
"Meeting you makes me want to be a real noodle cook"
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 02/19/2007 : 6:58:46 PM
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Watched MST3K last night. Might as well toss one bad un-Christmassy episode into the mix:
Mitchell. |
Edited by - zombiewhacker on 02/19/2007 6:59:52 PM |
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jackspencerjr
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 02/19/2007 : 7:58:52 PM
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| Recently watched this one: Lady in the Lake (1947) An interesting piece based on the Raymond Chandler novel. The most striking aspect is how most of the movie is filmed through the eyes of the protagonist, Phillip Marlowe. Kind of funny how it's touted as the greatest innovation since talkies in the advertising. At least it's obvious why this kind of technique has been used sparingly since this film was released. |
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BradH812
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 02/19/2007 : 10:19:48 PM
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Saw The Night Listener last week. Not great, but I didn't feel cheated out of my four bucks. It takes place over Christmas, but it ain't no Christmas-y movie.
Jack, I forgot all about Lady in the Lake. Not a bad movie, but it wasn't great, and that first-person camera technique didn't really work.
Anyone other than me notice that we're still talking about not-so-Christmasy Xmas movies two months later? |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2007 : 01:16:07 AM
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Well, this is the un-Christmas season.
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2007 : 02:40:51 AM
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One more:
The Apartment
HA!
(What're you all looking at me like that, for? Would you rather we deleted this thread and then next Christmas have start the same thread all over again? Cheez! |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 12/10/2007 : 11:09:39 PM
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Originally posted by John Nowak
The Fleischer short, Peace on Earth and of course Lion in Winter are my favorite anti-Christmas films.
I was thumbing through Leonard Maltin's "Of Mice and Magic" today and discovered Peace on Earth wasn't from Fleischer studios after all. It was actually from MGM, directed by Hugh Harman. Interestingly, it was released in 1939.
Another footnote: it was remade by MGM scene for scene as Good Will Toward Men in 1955, directed the second time around by none other than Hanna-Barbera (before they ankled from MGM to start their own studio).
Most astonishing, it was nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Short both times -- and lost both times. The cartoons that did win? In 1939, it was Disney's The Ugly Duckling. In 1955, it was Warner Bros' Speedy Gonzalez.
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Citizen Carrier
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 12/10/2007 : 11:37:45 PM
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I thought I mentioned this back when this thread originally appeared.
The most awesome Christmas movie of all time. Period.
Die Hard
Who needs A Christmas Carol or some stop-animation flick with Gumby rejects and a voice over from Bing Crosby when you can gather the family around the boob tube on Christmas Eve and watch John McClain break some guy's neck and then dress him up in a Santa Claus outfit so as to discomfit a group of slick, Eurotrash criminals?
Gosh, I'm starting to tear up just thinking about it.
Good times. Good times... |
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niccolom
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Canada
118 Posts |
Posted - 12/18/2007 : 12:12:15 AM
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| I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the most un-Christmasly movie of all time - Bob Clark's 1974 hit Black Christmas. |
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BradH812
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1294 Posts |
Posted - 12/18/2007 : 05:32:42 AM
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Thud. I can't believe it. No one's mentioned Black Christmas? Okay, what were we THINKING?!
This goes especially for me; I saw it earlier this month. I was impressed by how well it holds up, and by how creepy it is, even when I know what's gonna happen at the end. |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 12/18/2007 : 10:41:42 AM
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| Saw this one the other night: The Lemon Drop Kid. A mostly second-rate comedy about Bob Hope getting mixed up with some gangsters during the Christmas season, but it's of historical significance because it introduced the song "Silver Bells". |
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