The MOVIE thread

[Baz]

Can't smile without you.....Selma Blair is smokin' - I agree!

[Baz]

For my fellow romantics....."Same Time Next Year" with Alan Alda and Ellen Burnstyn. One of my fav. "tear jerker" movies. If you haven't seen it you should. Watch it with your significant other for best effect.

This is a very tiny snippet - Alda is fantastic though throughout.....great stuff!

[techweenie]

Dead Man



Great soundtrack by Neil Young

[Baz]

Thanks for the Dead Man!

From "Four Brothers" - Victor Sweet gets what's coming to him from Bobby "Don't screw with the Mercer brothers" Mercer...

[techweenie]

Baz, Dead Man is a great film, but this one, well, it's unique:

[71scgc]

No Monty Python??
This thread sux...
Carter

[Baz]

Originally Posted by techweenie

Baz, Dead Man is a great film, but this one, well, it's unique:

Wow.....how cool! Joe Walsh! And look how young Don Johnson is...

I'll have to watch the whole movie when I get a chance - thanks for the posting!

Hey how about some Monty Python?

[URY914]

[Baz]

Saw it the first night it premiered....then went back the next night to see it again! Great movie! Thanks, Paul...great photo!

This is when I was living in Lehigh Acres (Ft Myers)

[techweenie]

Baz, if you're into offbeat, I have three I particularly like in that category:

[Baz]

Pretty wild TW...thanks!

With the passing of Sid Ceaser and subsequent discussion of It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World I thought it a good time to post some new material....

[Baz]

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is on FXM right now with an encore coming up later.

It took me a while to get through the whole movie - and after watching it a couple more times I've grown to appreciate it all the more. Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett give amazing performances.

Cate's a hottie....and that alone is worth the price of admission!

[Baz]

Not really a movie as much as a documentary or an educational film - I am old enough to remember watching this one in grade school.

The creativity in this era is unmatched.....

[Baz]

More movie trivia......the Sherman Brothers who were responsible for some of the best song writing in motion picture history.

The Sherman Brothers were an American songwriting duo that specialized in musical films, made up of Robert B. Sherman (December 19, 1925 – March 6, 2012) and Richard M. Sherman (born June 12, 1928).

The Sherman Brothers wrote more motion-picture musical song scores than any other songwriting team in film history.[1] Film scores of the Sherman Brothers include Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Jungle Book, Charlotte's Web and The Aristocats.

Sons of Russian Jewish immigrants, Robert and Richard Sherman began writing songs together in 1951 on a challenge from their father, Tin Pan Alley songwriter Al Sherman. The brothers wrote together and with different songwriting partners throughout the rest of the decade.

In 1958, Robert founded the music publishing company Music World Corporation, which later enjoyed a landmark relationship with Disney's BMI-affiliated publishing arm, Wonderland Music Company. That same year, the Sherman Brothers had their first top-ten hit with "Tall Paul," sung by Mouseketeer Judy Harriet on the Surf Records label and then covered by Mouseketeer Annette Funicello. The success of this song yielded the attention of Walt Disney, who eventually hired the Sherman Brothers as Staff Songwriters for Walt Disney Studios. The first song they wrote on personal assignment by Walt Disney was "Strummin' Song" in 1961. It was used in the Annette Funicello made-for-television movie called The Horsemasters.

While at Disney, the Sherman Brothers wrote more motion-picture musical scores than any other songwriters in the history of film. They also wrote what is perhaps their best-known song, "it's a small world (after all)" for the 1964 New York World's Fair. Since then, some have claimed that this has become the most translated and performed song on Earth, although this is largely due to the fact that it is played continuously at Disney's theme park "it's a small world" attractions of the same name.[2]

(more here):

Sherman Brothers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Baz]

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[techweenie]

Originally Posted by Baz

Cate's a hottie....and that alone is worth the price of admission!

Baz,

Gotta love her as Galadriel.



But speaking of short educational films, this - for me - is the winner:

[Baz]

Thanks TW........I agree on both counts.

Right now on AMC a movie from 1997 "Copland" - I remember seeing it in the local movie theater when it first came out.

Check out this great cast:

Sylvester Stallone as Sheriff Freddy Heflin
Harvey Keitel as Lt. Ray Donlan
Ray Liotta as Officer Gary "Figgsy" Figgis
Robert De Niro as Lt. Moe Tilden
Michael Rapaport as Officer Murray "Superboy" Ba*****
Robert Patrick as Officer Jack Rucker
Peter Berg as Officer Joseph "Joey" Randone
Arthur Nascarella as Officer Frank Lagonda
John Spencer as Det. Leo Crasky
Malik Yoba as Det. Sam Carson
Noah Emmerich as Deputy Bill Geisler
Janeane Garofalo as Deputy Cindy Betts
Annabella Sciorra as Liz Randone
Cathy Moriarty as Rose Donlan
Frank Vincent as PDA President Vincent Lassaro
Victor Williams as Officer Russell Ames
John Ventimiglia as Officer Vic Trollio
Edie Falco as Berta (Bomb Squad Agent)
Mel Gorham as Monica Lopez
Paul Calderón as Hector the Paramedic
Vincent Laresca as Robert the Paramedic
Deborah Harry as Delores (4 Aces bartender)
Tony Sirico as Tony "Toy" Torillo (photo only)
Method Man as Shondel

[Baz]

R.I.P. Mr. Ramis