I tried to learn to pickpocket the way he taught the rookies.
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Watched The Girl on the Train last night.
Like the book, it was completely overrated.
Like the book, it was completely overrated.
What Price Hollywood? (1932, RKO). A pre-code drama that does its best to expose the seedier side of tinsel town. Lowell Sherman plays a perpetually drunken director who makes a star out of Brown Derby waitress CONSTANCE BENNETT (s'why I watched it). George Cukor directed this flick, which is so much like the later-filmed A Star is Born that RKO considered suing. Interestingly enough, Cukor would eventually direct the musical remake of ASIB starring Judy Garland.
But, to hell with all that. I just wanted a heaping helping of my beloved Connie Bennett, and I got it.
But, to hell with all that. I just wanted a heaping helping of my beloved Connie Bennett, and I got it.
Never actually applied my knowledge in an 8 to 5 pickpocket situation.
How well did you learn it though, DJ, now I'm fascinated... a pickpocket on the board! (Makes me think of Hannibal though, so watch out for psychotic psychologists in the crowd) Now I saw The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer which wasn't bad. Usually a sequel/prequel isn't as good as the original, but in this case I thought it was better than Rose Red. Although you have to watch both to know some of what's going on. For some reason the actors, the direction, the way the story flows has I guess, maybe taken more time to gel or marinate, and in this case improvement results. It's the curse of the white man from town again, like in Thinner, well not exactly, the husband getting away with inflicting his wickedness for a season, and then finally all his consequences coming due, in this case, learning to fly whether he wants to or not .....
I was a little kid. If you saw the movie, Coburn had a unique way of teaching his pickpockets how to lift a front lapel wallet. I posted about it somewhere on here my dedication to learning this. hahahaha! I never actually pick pocketed anyone in my life, unless of course you call taking the loose change out of my dad's pants in the laundry pick pocketing.
I didn't even know there was a movie of that!
Twilight Zone: The Movie. I haven't seen this is YEARS, so when I saw a DVD at the grocery store for $4, I had to have it 
Holds up pretty well, actually, aside from the special effects. I remember the first bit with Ackroyd and Brooks scaring the CRAP out of me in the theater when I first saw it, and even when it first hit DVD; now, it's sort of funny. The first story is far weaker than I remembered, the second just as smarmy (Serling would have LOVED it), but the last two still charmed me. I find that I prefer the Shatner TV version of the last bit, but Lithgow isn't bad in anything. Well worth watching again!
Holds up pretty well, actually, aside from the special effects. I remember the first bit with Ackroyd and Brooks scaring the CRAP out of me in the theater when I first saw it, and even when it first hit DVD; now, it's sort of funny. The first story is far weaker than I remembered, the second just as smarmy (Serling would have LOVED it), but the last two still charmed me. I find that I prefer the Shatner TV version of the last bit, but Lithgow isn't bad in anything. Well worth watching again!
Get Out -- I enjoyed this. Found it entertaining enough to keep me in my seat.
I agree with everything you just said. That opening really is scary and I love the way the audience is thrown into the movie with little preamble and it's all fun and games and singing...until it's not. There is something so real about that opening scene, I can't figure out what it is.Twilight Zone: The Movie. I haven't seen this is YEARS, so when I saw a DVD at the grocery store for $4, I had to have it
Watched The Girl on the Train......Like 80s fan, I found it to be just sort of Meh, and overrated.
I cannot watch this movie again (after seeing it in the theater when it was released) as it does contain a few seconds of the actual film where the man and two kids are killed (in real life) by the helicopter blades. It happened for real. It makes me feel bad for those kids. It is a good movie minus that part though!Twilight Zone: The Movie. I haven't seen this is YEARS, so when I saw a DVD at the grocery store for $4, I had to have it
Twilight Zone: The Movie. I haven't seen this is YEARS, so when I saw a DVD at the grocery store for $4, I had to have it
Awesome movie. Wasn't ready for the Ackroyd and Brooks scene the first time I saw it eons ago, about jumped out of my seat, which is one of the reasons I liked it so much. I thought the story about the kid who had the mental powers was a good one. Wasn't that the kid from E.T.?
Best Back in the Business. But where's her cigarette?
Yep, I remember when that happened. I think that's why that section is probably the worst--they had to reimagine where the vignette was going. The Vietnam scene was really truncated and awkward--just him showing up in the rice paddy and coming upon American soldiers. He starts yelling that he's an American, and they open fire (thinking he's Viet Cong, I imagine). Then right back to WWII.
Nope, but I do recognize him from somewhere. Fun Fact: The girl who plays his sister is the woman who has voiced Bart Simpson for the last eon