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Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-04-23
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Pairs of actors who should have worked together in a movie, but didn't
Posted By Flipper
Re: Pairs of actors who should have worked together in a movie, but di

Stretching the definition of "actor" a little:


Richard Simmons and Pauly Shore.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-02-23
Replies: 63
Ten Most Well Acted Psychotic Characters in Movie History
Posted By Flipper
You can thank Hitchcock for starting that...

You can thank Hitchcock for starting that...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-02-23
Replies: 44
Pairs of actors who should have worked together in a movie, but didn't
Posted By Flipper
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-02-23
Replies: 63
Ten Most Well Acted Psychotic Characters in Movie History
Posted By Flipper
Re: Ten Most Well Acted Psychotic Characters in Movie History

Armand Assante as actor Richard Mansfield in Jack the Ripper (1988, starring Michael Caine as Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline; a cinematic achievement even if technically a "miniseries"). ...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-27-23
Replies: 63
Ten Most Well Acted Psychotic Characters in Movie History
Posted By Flipper
You may be focusing on the visual look of it; I'm...

You may be focusing on the visual look of it; I'm thinking more of the choreography & direction and unfolding of plot. Thrillers and related genre movies from the 90s back with rare exceptions...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-27-23
Replies: 63
Ten Most Well Acted Psychotic Characters in Movie History
Posted By Flipper
Re: Ten Most Well Acted Psychotic Characters in Movie History

How could I forget? Rutger Hauer, the psychopath who terrorizes C. Thomas Howell in Hitcher (1986) -- a rare 80s movie that doesn't seem dated.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-26-23
Replies: 63
Ten Most Well Acted Psychotic Characters in Movie History
Posted By Flipper
Re: Ten Most Well Acted Psychotic Characters in Movie History

It seems there is a distinction between



1) parenthetically mentioning something that could broadly speaking be construed as referring to something "political"


and
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-25-23
Replies: 63
Ten Most Well Acted Psychotic Characters in Movie History
Posted By Flipper
The irony is that Leftists used to be against...

The irony is that Leftists used to be against State & bureaucratic tyranny. For some reason yet to be explained, they flipped in the last 3 or so years and now seem to embrace it.



Speaking of...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-25-23
Replies: 63
Ten Most Well Acted Psychotic Characters in Movie History
Posted By Flipper
Re: Ten Most Well Acted Psychotic Characters in Movie History

Is there a way to "mute" or "block" certain members who behave like pricks?
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-24-23
Replies: 44
Pairs of actors who should have worked together in a movie, but didn't
Posted By Flipper
Re: Pairs of actors who should have worked together in a movie, but di

Ricky Gervais and Nathan Lane. They could star in a comedy called Two Wickedly Clever Fat Guys
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-24-23
Replies: 63
Ten Most Well Acted Psychotic Characters in Movie History
Posted By Flipper
Nurse Ratched [spelling] would certainly be a...

Nurse Ratched [spelling] would certainly be a good head nurse to have around when society is becoming a fascist state mandating everyone get injections from a substance still experimental against a...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-24-23
Replies: 34
Books you really want to see turned into FAITHFUL movies
Posted By Flipper
Re: Books you really want to see turned into FAITHFUL movies

The first pic she looks a lot like Leah Remini
https://i.imgur.com/dUMdfjq.png
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-23-23
Replies: 63
Ten Most Well Acted Psychotic Characters in Movie History
Posted By Flipper
Re: Ten Most Well Acted Psychotic Characters in Movie History

Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet


Michael Rooker in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer


Gert Frobe in Goldfinger
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-23-23
Replies: 34
Books you really want to see turned into FAITHFUL movies
Posted By Flipper
Re: Books you really want to see turned into FAITHFUL movies

Casting is often crucial for a cinematic rendition of a book. My pick: Cormac McCarthy's Suttree -- but non-negotiable, it would have to star David Morse in the lead role.

...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-23-23
Replies: 44
Pairs of actors who should have worked together in a movie, but didn't
Posted By Flipper
Those are good. I remember I expressed...

Those are good.


I remember I expressed this on another forum long ago, wishing that Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda had worked together -- then they told me about The Cheyenne Social Club (1970),...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-23-23
Replies: 44
Pairs of actors who should have worked together in a movie, but didn't
Posted By Flipper
The pairing has to have them together throughout...

The pairing has to have them together throughout the movie, involved in some kind of plot together -- as friends, as lovers, as colleagues, etc.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-18-23
Replies: 57
With rare exceptions, I only watch movies once.
Posted By Flipper
I guess I meant I can't know if I would change my...

I guess I meant I can't know if I would change my mind until I watch it again. I doubt a movie I like a lot I would not like on subsequent viewings; but the reverse no doubt can happen.




...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-17-23
Replies: 44
Pairs of actors who should have worked together in a movie, but didn't
Posted By Flipper
Yeah but it wasn't a substantive collaboration.

Yeah but it wasn't a substantive collaboration.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-17-23
Replies: 57
With rare exceptions, I only watch movies once.
Posted By Flipper
Most of the time I have a good enough memory of...

Most of the time I have a good enough memory of the movies I like to discuss them. As for a movie I changed my mind about, I guess I won't know unless I watch it more than once, but I'm not eager to...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-17-23
Replies: 25
Is There A Better Voyeuristic Movie Than "Peeping Tom"
Posted By Flipper
Re: Is There A Better Voyeuristic Movie Than "Peeping Tom"

This might be interesting. Michael Powell directed "The Boy Who Turned Yellow" in 1972.


"On his way home a boy turns yellow, a strange adventure ensues as he looks for his pet mouse in the...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-17-23
Replies: 25
Is There A Better Voyeuristic Movie Than "Peeping Tom"
Posted By Flipper
Re: Is There A Better Voyeuristic Movie Than "Peeping Tom"

I see the director of Peeping Tom, Michael Powell, although he lived to 1990, didn't seem to make many films after 1960. He made "Age of Consent" in 1969 -- which sounds more provocative than it is,...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-17-23
Replies: 25
Is There A Better Voyeuristic Movie Than "Peeping Tom"
Posted By Flipper
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 02-17-23
Replies: 25
The best actor at playing stoic
Posted By Flipper
Re: The best actor at playing stoic

Paul Newman -- The Mackintosh Man, Pocket Money, The Verdict.


Sam Elliott -- Conagher
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-17-23
Replies: 57
With rare exceptions, I only watch movies once.
Posted By Flipper
I've been amazingly lucky in finding good stuff...

I've been amazingly lucky in finding good stuff to watch. I don't see that much of a difference between a series like Dexter or Lost or Burn Notice or Better Call Saul, and a movie. They are...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-16-23
Replies: 18
The Whale (2022)
Posted By Flipper
Re: The Whale (2022)

Brendan Fraser's role as a prison guard John Gunther in season 3 of the series "The Affair" may have been a premonition of this role in some ways -- he was unusually bloated -- though I think his...

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