'Serenity'
A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
The Great Race with Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk.
Two of my favorites, especially The Great Race.
Same for The Hallelujah Trail.
I loved that movie when I was young, but I haven't seen it in decades, so I have no idea how it holds up.
Oh wow. Did anyone already know that Bobby Cannavale and Annabella Sciorra are a couple? If they have children we'll all be blinded by the combined pretty.
Pooh meets the Oliphaunt
And I immediately flashed to "Pooh on the Pellanor Fields? Running around desperately not to get trampled by the Rohirrim or an Oliphaunt! Run, Pooh, run!"
The Great Race is a glorious movie. Jack Lemmon doing the dual roles of the villain and the king, Peter Falk having way too much fun for any human being ... I would watch that if I had the DVD. Sometimes you just have to watch the "he was save by a small friar--he was was saved by chicken?" scene.
I didn't have problems with Nolte's character, so much as his playing of it. I think if he'd given a better performance, his speech wouldn't have seemed to come out of nowhere so much.
I completely agree. I mean, it wouldn't have been impossible to tie all those elements together at all, but he didn't, so it just ended up being really confusing.
But everything else was great.
Can I get thoughts on Harold and Maude? I saw it last night and am not sure what to think. I liked the acting and the quirkiness of the story, but there were two plausibility points that were just so sloppy they took me out of the movie. (I didn't believe Ruth Gordon was a Holocaust survivor, and I didn't believe the relationship as shown in the movie happened in a week or so.)
I hate it when my logic-brain takes me out of a film.
Why don't you believe she was a Holocaust survivor?
I adore Harold & Maude. It's one of my favourite movies. As for the timeframe, it seemed reasonable for a movie, and for a kid like he was. But I never paid attention to the numbers.
Why don't you believe she was a Holocaust survivor?
Because if she was born in 1890, and left Austria in 1945 (or thereabouts), she would have a thick accent.
I can imagine a scenario where she wouldn't have one, of course, but it would have been easier to either cast an actress with the right accent or just scrap that element of the screenplay.
I wasn't counting days on the time frame based on onscreen events, but it felt to me like months were passing, based on how Harold was changing and the other stuff happening in his life.
I do't know-- I just adored Harold and Maude. I believed at least the emotional reality of the story, if not the "real" reality. Also, it was a play, too, and I adore that as well.
Because if she was born in 1890, and left Austria in 1945 (or thereabouts), she would have a thick accent.
Well, not necessarily. Some people can lose their accents quickly. Other people never lose their accents. I think it depends on how much you want to lose it, how much of a mimic you are.
t /Picking up accents wherever I go.
All the ~ma in the world to Requeen, Gandalf.