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..."You, yes YOU-with the thick neck!!!!!....fie on thee and your abstract references!!!!!!!!!!.......*finger pops off stage*
Today, the original Odd Couple with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon.. what great lines were in this movie. Walter Matthau "can you imagine getting a suicide telegram she still has to tip the kid a quarter!." And Walter again, "It took me 2 hours to figure out that F U meant Felix Unger!"
I caught this on TMC a few years ago. Great script. I laughed until it hurt.
This reminds me of a short story - by Joe Hill, maybe? For the life of me I can't place it.
Teen Titans Go! To The Movies - TV series spin-off, loaded with super-hero comics/movies in-jokes. Only for comics fans/small kids.
Yes, you are right, I believe in the short story collection 20th Century Ghosts Joe Hill wrote a story about a box fort that goes into another dimension or something similar.
....I don't recall such a story and can't locate anything similar in a quick look-see through my copy.....
I don't have a copy nearby, but think it might be Voluntary Committal. ??
....that's the one!!!.....nice one Ms. Morgan!!!!....
The Lair of the White Worm 1988
I had never seen this. My mind is now filled with more trivia.
Peter Capaldi and Hugh Grant in this one. Hugh looks exactly the same. Peter, not so much.
How in the hell do some movies get made?
I had never seen this. My mind is now filled with more trivia.
Peter Capaldi and Hugh Grant in this one. Hugh looks exactly the same. Peter, not so much.
How in the hell do some movies get made?
The New Murder on the Orient Express
I have a sentimental place in my heart for the Peter Ustinov Hercule Poirot, but Kenneth Branagh did a fantastic job with this. I enjoyed him. The rest of it was sort of a fail for me. Pretty cinematography though.
I have a sentimental place in my heart for the Peter Ustinov Hercule Poirot, but Kenneth Branagh did a fantastic job with this. I enjoyed him. The rest of it was sort of a fail for me. Pretty cinematography though.
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I'm watching some of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies they're showing here. I'd never seen them. I think before Benedict Cumberbatch and Robert Downey Rathbone was the best known actor in the role.
I don't find them all that special to be honest. They're fun, sure, but a bit simple in terms of the mysteries. It's more that they're just using Holmes in general adventures rather than doing Holmes as he was written. Also Watson is a bit of a fool, which is wrong I think; he is a doctor after all - his intellect just pales compares to Holmes, but then so does everybody's.
The Rathbone films were for the cinema, but they feel like tv epsiodes now, because they're only around an hour. I wonder how they showed them at the time, because an hour is too short for a cinema showing, so they must have added something else you would think.
The Arrow blu-ray of Hammer's Hound of the Baskervilles (with Peter Cushing as Holmes in a Hammer-like atmosphere although not quite as gory as their horror titles) has a great bonus programme of Christopher Lee hosting a tv-special from 1985 where he goes through all the films and actors that have portrayed Holmes to that point - and there are a lot, I think it's the most filmed fictional character bar none.
Isn't it remarkable that the 1985 movie Young Sherlock Holmes, which was directed by Barry Levinson and produced by Spielberg has NO well-known actor whatsoever, who was famous at the time or has become famous since:
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) - IMDb
It played here in cinemas and I saw it, but it was called Pyramid of Fear instead - probably to show it off as more of an Indiana Jones type of story, which it partly was I believe but it's long since I last saw it.
I don't find them all that special to be honest. They're fun, sure, but a bit simple in terms of the mysteries. It's more that they're just using Holmes in general adventures rather than doing Holmes as he was written. Also Watson is a bit of a fool, which is wrong I think; he is a doctor after all - his intellect just pales compares to Holmes, but then so does everybody's.
The Rathbone films were for the cinema, but they feel like tv epsiodes now, because they're only around an hour. I wonder how they showed them at the time, because an hour is too short for a cinema showing, so they must have added something else you would think.
The Arrow blu-ray of Hammer's Hound of the Baskervilles (with Peter Cushing as Holmes in a Hammer-like atmosphere although not quite as gory as their horror titles) has a great bonus programme of Christopher Lee hosting a tv-special from 1985 where he goes through all the films and actors that have portrayed Holmes to that point - and there are a lot, I think it's the most filmed fictional character bar none.
Isn't it remarkable that the 1985 movie Young Sherlock Holmes, which was directed by Barry Levinson and produced by Spielberg has NO well-known actor whatsoever, who was famous at the time or has become famous since:
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) - IMDb
It played here in cinemas and I saw it, but it was called Pyramid of Fear instead - probably to show it off as more of an Indiana Jones type of story, which it partly was I believe but it's long since I last saw it.
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I'm waiting for it to come on tv or for the blu-ray to become low priced. It looks good, but I have no total confidence in it that it will be great somehow. It apparently did well enough, because Branagh is doing Death on the Nile next.
I really did like Branagh. I thought he did a very nice job stepping into those shoes. But again, I'm partial to Peter. Albert Finney did a good job too. I don't know. I've liked all 3 men in that pivotal role. Not as forgiving to those side characters. I wonder why that is for me?
Watched Avengers:Infinity War last night. I am a big fan of this series, so enjoyed and hated it at the same time! 
Interestingly enough, in light of the above comments, there are several scenes with Benedict Cumberbatch and Robert Downey, Jr. together. My daughter and I got a kick out of the two Sherlocks!
Interestingly enough, in light of the above comments, there are several scenes with Benedict Cumberbatch and Robert Downey, Jr. together. My daughter and I got a kick out of the two Sherlocks!
I really did like Branagh. I thought he did a very nice job stepping into those shoes. But again, I'm partial to Peter. Albert Finney did a good job too. I don't know. I've liked all 3 men in that pivotal role. Not as forgiving to those side characters. I wonder why that is for me?
Does it offer anything different from the 1974 Sidney Lumet film or does it just follow the template?
Maybe they should have done something new with it. I wonder if you could reinvent and modernise Agatha Christie too, like they did with Sherlock Holmes. It doesn't seem to be done a lot, they mostly leave Christie as it is.
No, they did revamp it visually. It is definitely its own thing. Which I appreciate the creativity of that. I just have my little attachment to the old one.
I loved the opening sequence where we meet Poirot in the Branagh version.