Is there really a series of movies titled Asian Anal Sluts? Some Like It Hot mystifies me. Of course, I lack any sense of humor. I have watched that film several times without once laughing. I did not understand Planet of the Apes and Apocalypse Now. Those films simply baffle me.

I did enjoy Pulp Fiction and appreciated Alien.

I don't think there is any comparison between the original version of Cape Fear with Robert Mitchum and that so-so remake with Denero. The original was much better because the fear and violence didn't have to be shown, it is much more horrible because it takes place in the dungeons of our own imagination. Besides, Robert Mitchum was PERFECT in his role as was Gregory Peck.

Kudos on the choice of The Hunger. The brief lesbian scene between Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon is very tasteful (no pun intended) and probably the most erotic lesbian scene ever filmed.

If you are a fan of cavalry/war flicks, I highly recommend The Lighthorsemen. The charge at the end of the movie took 2 weeks to set up and is a feast for the eyes. I liked the scene where the lighthorsemen are waiting in a wadi and one of the troops takes a sip from his canteen and gives his horse the rest of the water.

Has anyone else seen Johnny Got His Gun with Timothy Bottoms and Jason Robards?

One movie that always makes me bawl like an old woman is *Batteries Not Included with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Any one else have movies that do that to them?

Also, I have to hold back whenever I see the train station scene in Casablanca where Rick gets the letter from Ilsa and as he reads it the rain is hitting the pages causing the ink to run like teardrops. You can see is heart breaking. God, I have to swallow the lump in my throat just thinking about it.

Blaise (imported) wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2005 10:30 pm Is there really a series of movies titled Asian Anal Sluts? Some Like It Hot mystifies me. Of course, I lack any sense of humor. I have watched that film several times without once laughing. I did not understand Planet of the Apes and Apocalypse Now. Those films simply baffle me.

I did enjoy Pulp Fiction and appreciated Alien.

Well, some of those little Asian girls are as sweet as honey dew melons on summer evening under a full moon. The only 'ANAL' thing is some of the movie directors...

O.K., Softee, Planet of the Apes was supposed to be one of those 'cyclic' sci-fi flicks where the world runs in cycles of destruction and renewal. After Charlton Heston saves the world from the "Brutal" apes he discovers that the apes were in control because of the expotenially greater "brutality" of man that destroyed the world with nuclear weapons. This was exemplified by the finding of the Statue of Liberty on the beach half buried in sand...

Apocalypse Now illustrated how the armed services make mass murders and cold blooded killers out of the meekest of fat, dumpy wimps. The artistic part is where the creation of the brutality by the system eventually destroys the system at the hands of that which it creates.The system is represented by the drill instructor whom the 'fat boy' kills before killing himself. I didn't buy it then, I don't buy it now.

Whatever...

Marilyn Monroe is sexy enough to make sensuality and sexuality funny. She weilded her sexuality like a club, conquering athletes, actors, politicians and anybody else that got in her way when she was in the mood.

Most likely it all ended with a retention enema of sodium seconal on top of a significant drunk. No needle marks. Probably she had used suppositories to ward off nausea and vomiting that accompanies anebriation and she made the mistake of trusting somebody to call their private doctor in. You know, next to an I.V. injection, one of the fastest ways to put EtOH or drugs on board is through the walls of the Colon. No residue in the stomach, either. Autopsys usually do not bother to look in the Colon for residual drugs unless they have a reason.

I won't mention any names...Camelot did not have a place for a blonde Guinevere who knew too much and who was poised to bring down the Walls of the Castle...dance with the devil and pay the piper...

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Billy Wilder was a great director. He simply lost it with Some Like It Hot, except for the last line of the movie, the line that almost redeems the silly movie.

Charlton Heston starred in many great movies such as The Greatest Show on Earth and Touch of Evil, which revealed how great he was be under a superior director.

However, Planet of the Apes makes no sense. I understand what the movie makers intend. They simply fail in doing what they intend.

I think that you confuse Apocalypse Now with Kubrick’s awful movie on the American War in Viet Nam Full Metal Jacket. Both movies were, I suppose, indirectly about that war, but they indicated a more general theme. Of course, Homer did the same thing. I keep waiting for a film about that war from the point-of-view of the people of Viet Nam. Casualities of War was a good effort in that direction.

A-1 - Regarding your reference to Apocalypse Now and the fat frat boy that shoots his drill instructor before killing himself. I think you are mixing movies. The bathroom murder/suicide was from Full Metal Jacket.

Kudos for someone mentioning A Touch of Evil.

A movie that few have seen but is incredible because it has one set and only two actors is Closet Land starring Madeline Stowe and Alan Rickman. The entire movie is the interrigation of a children's book writer accused of planting antigovernment messages in her stories. A VERY intense psychologic movie.

Another good movie suggestion is Rasputin starring Alan Rickman, Greta Sachi and Ian McKellan.

When you talk about not laughing in a movie theater- - -

When I was a senior high school my family went to "The Mouse That Roared" which is a brilliant British comedy by Peter Sellers. I thought it was hysterically funny and laughed out loud. However the people next to me didn't appreciate the humor and asked me (in very haughty tones) to stop all that giggling, laughing and snickering and to be quiet so they could enjoy the story.

Go figure!

I loved that movie. Obviously they just didn't get the jokes.

I did enjoy The Passion of the Christ and even added a Mystery Science 3000 running commentary.

I absolutely lost it and got to giggling hysterically while watching "The Mouse That Roared" when the Soviet and American Ambassadors are playing chess on the hood of a limosine and argueing over which country is going to surrender to the Duchy of Fenwick first.

A very priceless moment!

Taylor (imported) wrote: Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:49 am A-1 - Regarding your reference to Apocalypse Now and the fat frat boy that shoots his drill instructor before killing himself. I think you are mixing movies. The bathroom murder/suicide was from Full Metal Jacket.

Kudos for someone mentioning A Touch of Evil.

A movie that few have seen but is incredible because it has one set and only two actors is Closet Land starring Madeline Stowe and Alan Rickman. The entire movie is the interrigation of a children's book writer accused of planting antigovernment messages in her stories. A VERY intense psychologic movie.

Another good movie suggestion is Rasputin starring Alan Rickman, Greta Sachi and Ian McKellan.

Nobody is perfect...I stand corrected...thanks, Softee and Taylor for keeping me honest..so, the smell of Napalm in the morning,,,that was Apocalypse now..Right?

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Both Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket are great films. Yet, in my brain, they are not about the Viet Nam War. They are, of course, but they are not--in my mind's eye.

Kubrick shot his movie in London--I know that one does not have to be too literal, but, darn, his Viet Nam looks like London because it is London.

The current issue of The New Yorker has tumbnail reviews of Some Like It Hot and Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast. I think that you can read them online.

I know that the Billy Wilder movie is funny and I know that the acting is great. Yet, the film just never works for me. The flaw must be in my eye--not in the eye of anyone else.

The Cocteau film is one of my three favorite movies. My former wife introduced me to it. It is a splendid movie.