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TM2YC said:
Wait, did Empire Strikes Back copy the poster of Muppet Movie?
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Masirimso17 said:Wait, did Empire Strikes Back copy the poster of Muppet Movie?
TM2YC said:The text on the Muppets poster "Frankly, Miss Piggy, I don't give a hoot!" is a GwtW reference.
TM2YC said:Masirimso17 said:Wait, did Empire Strikes Back copy the poster of Muppet Movie?
That would be amazing but I think it's probably, this:
Then this:
Then this:
mnkykungfu said:I think Scorsese had a sprawling near-4 hour historical epic in mind like Once Upon a Time in America, and that kind of film usually goes over like death on a general audience. Even look at The Irishman or The Aviator... he keeps telling these historical tales that even his fans admit are overlong.
TM2YC said:The Irishman is too long but The Aviator was too short for me . Generally I find Scorsese and Schoonmaker's editing to be pretty damned tight and well paced, though perhaps it has gotten looser in the last couple of decades. This one is only 109 minutes...
TM2YC said:77 years ago...
TM2YC said:78 years ago...
The cast all deserve Oscars
I read that not only was the FBI and various government agencies harassing Ford and the crew while they were trying to film (so much so that between them and various business interests, they felt they had to lie about the production and film in secrecy), but that many of the cast and crew were hounded afterwards and accused of being communists. JOHN FORD was accused of being a communist! He practically bled conservative capitalism in most respects!For the political climate of 1940s America, I thought the film was daringly close to sympathizing with Socialist/pro-Union principles.
Regarding The Philadelphia Story, I read (and totally believe) that this is the first case of Academy voters giving the sympathy vote to an actor because they realized the vote had broken the wrong way the previous year, i.e. Stewart got Best Actor in '41 because he should've won the previous year for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Thereupon starting a long-running trend of voting based on extraneous factors instead of the merit of the category that year.TM2YC said:^ That is a bit of an odd choice, not least because Cary Grant is better by a whisker in the same film.
Totally agree with this comment about The Pianist btw! This was one of the first Oscar films I watched where I was like "That's it?! So just make a long film about a tragedy and they hand you an award?!"The first 50-minutes showing the lovely Szpilman family's sad decline is perfect, humane, fiercely dramatic and beautifully acted. The other 90-minutes in which Wladyslaw is alone and often hiding in a single room, unable to talk and make noise is less powerful and engaging. Yes the length successfully conveys his grim isolation but I think the movie would've worked better with more of the former and less of the latter and still achieved the same ends.
TM2YC said:'Rocky' has gone from a film I didn't mind, to a total soul stirring masterpiece.
TM2YC said:The Pianist (2002)
Director: Roman Polanski
Country: Poland
Length: 150 minutes
Type: Drama, War
asterixsmeagol said:TM2YC said:The Pianist (2002)
Director: Roman Polanski
Country: Poland
Length: 150 minutes
Type: Drama, War
I just watched this recently, knowing nothing about it except that it had Adrian Brody and it was supposed to be good. I thought it was going to be about a pianist's musical career so I was totally unprepared for what I got instead. I did think it was really well made, but I didn't really enjoy it, partially due to the nature of the subject matter, and partially because I was not in the right head space to watch it. I'll have to give it another viewing when I'm more prepared.
TM2YC said:Clueless (1995)