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Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 11-01-13
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Favourite Gregory Peck Movies
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
Re: Favourite Gregory Peck Movies

To Kill a Mockingbird: an observant, intimate, uncompromising masterpiece (obviously from a great novel).
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 11-01-13
Replies: 72
Top 10 American Directors?
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
How are you defining "American"? Do you mean...

How are you defining "American"? Do you mean "American" or "Hollywood"? For strictly speaking, some of your choices aren't necessarily "American," having come of age (both in life and as filmmakers)...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 11-01-13
Replies: 72
Top 10 American Directors?
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
Re: Top 10 American Directors?

But scanning some other replies, one would be hard-pressed to look past D.W. Griffith and Orson Welles.

Thus I will now say ...

John Ford, Howard Hawks, John Huston, Steven Spielberg, Clint...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 11-01-13
Replies: 72
Top 10 American Directors?
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
Re: Top 10 American Directors?

... in no particular order, I just wrote who came to mind ...

John Ford, Howard Hawks, John Huston, Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Arthur...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 11-01-13
Replies: 72
Rank the Best Picture winners of the 1990s
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
Re: Rank the Best Picture winners of the 1990s

Unforgiven and Schindler's List; I wouldn't want to choose between the two.

Most, if not all, of the rest are rather typically "Hollywood" (which is not to say bad).
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Poll: MoFo Battle Royale Directors Edition, Round 1: Stanley Kubrick vs. Clint Eastwood
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
I would argue that Space Cowboys is actually an...

I would argue that Space Cowboys is actually an underrated film, a dexterous and seamless blend of homage and parody that perhaps only Eastwood could have pulled off. Take another look at it...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 09-24-12
Replies: 223
Clint Eastwood the director, appreciation thread
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
Not that Eastwood's singing is worth mentioning...

Not that Eastwood's singing is worth mentioning there, but I enjoy "Beers to You." Whatever one thinks of the film, the opening credits song does a great job of setting the appropriate mood.
...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 09-24-12
Replies: 223
Clint Eastwood the director, appreciation thread
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
I don't think that matters are that simple at...

I don't think that matters are that simple at all. Eastwood is not an ideological or political filmmaker and to attempt to read his films through a "libertarian" lens would be deductive and...
Replies: 103
The 2011 Major League Baseball Thread
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
Yeah, apparently $254M (to be exact) with...

Yeah, apparently $254M (to be exact) with incentives that could boost the total to $280M. With Mark Trumbo and Kendry Morales, the Angels did not possess a glaring need for a first baseman, but...
Forum: Movie Reviews 12-05-11
Replies: 140
Psycho (1960) Overrated?
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
I concur. To the people who feel that...

I concur.

To the people who feel that Psycho is overrated, how many of you have viewed the film multiple times?
Forum: Movie Reviews 12-05-11
Replies: 19
J. Edgar
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
There's no need to qualify the indefensible;...

There's no need to qualify the indefensible; "miscast" definitely represented the wrong word because you also called his performance "excellent" and "great" and the definition of "miscast" is not a...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 12-04-11
Replies: 26
What's your Favorite Movie Channel?
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
... totally; no commercials during films (and the...

... totally; no commercials during films (and the commercials between films are only for the network itself and its products); theatrical aspect ratios preserved (no pan-and-scan); no reedited...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 12-04-11
Replies: 132
My Top 10 Overrated Films
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
I'd say that Gump's lack of sophistication,...

I'd say that Gump's lack of sophistication, irony, and awareness sufficiently justify his oblivious responses. Indeed, he constitutes the consummate Tabula rasa, more a metaphor than a realistic...
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Abortion; Why?
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
I hope that you're therefore also against the...

I hope that you're therefore also against the death penalty, war, and loose gun laws that allow virtually anyone to purchase a firearm ...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 11-28-11
Replies: 193
Movies you regret seeing
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
... yeah, I wonder how he became sucked into it;...

... yeah, I wonder how he became sucked into it; maybe he needed the money or just wanted to work in Spain.
Forum: Movie Reviews 11-28-11
Replies: 19
J. Edgar
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
I concur that the film largely constitutes a...

I concur that the film largely constitutes a critique—perhaps a reconstitution—of masculinity; one can see my comments a few posts earlier.
Forum: Movie Reviews 11-27-11
Replies: 19
J. Edgar
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
Much of what one can read on-line is garbage,...

Much of what one can read on-line is garbage, anyway. Indeed, way too many movie reviewers assess films based on their personal expectations, desires, and preconceived notions, way too many movie...
Forum: Movie Reviews 11-27-11
Replies: 19
J. Edgar
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
That's exactly how the film functions. However, I...

That's exactly how the film functions. However, I feel that using two different actors would have hurt the continuity of both the movie and the character.

I really didn't see "Leonardo...
Forum: Movie Reviews 11-27-11
Replies: 19
J. Edgar
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
To the original poster: here is my response to...

To the original poster: here is my response to your comments. I’m critical of much of your criticism, but I sense that you appreciate an honest perspective.



Yeah, and Hoffman probably would...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 11-27-11
Replies: 193
Movies you regret seeing
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
Re: Movies you regret seeing

I don't know that I "regret" seeing any film, but have you ever viewed the 1968 Spanish Western titled White Comanche, co-starring Joseph Cotten and William Shatner?
...
Forum: Movie Reviews 11-26-11
Replies: 100
The Tree of Life
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
I think that the images and questions are...

I think that the images and questions are obliquely relevant and resonant, largely for the themes that I cited in post #50. But Malick's idiosyncratic manner in this film manages to be both stylized...
Forum: Movie Reviews 11-26-11
Replies: 100
The Tree of Life
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
... probably. Some filmmakers are inherently that...

... probably. Some filmmakers are inherently that way, and in those cases, the inclination would likely be even stronger in their senior years. Since I'm planning on jumping into the J. Edgar thread...
Forum: Movie Reviews 11-26-11
Replies: 100
The Tree of Life
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
I enjoyed the creation-of-the-planet and...

I enjoyed the creation-of-the-planet and development-of-life-on-earth scenes and sequences early in the film. Not only were they visually gorgeous, mesmerizing, abstractly curious, and ironically...
Forum: Movie Reviews 11-26-11
Replies: 100
The Tree of Life
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
Ironically, Citizen Kane constitutes one of those...

Ironically, Citizen Kane constitutes one of those movies that I failed to warm to upon my initial viewing, but that I then found amazing with a second screening.

With The Tree of Life, I...
Forum: Movie Reviews 11-26-11
Replies: 100
The Tree of Life
Posted By Warren'sShampoo
... you mean, "makes me cringe." Malick did not...

... you mean, "makes me cringe." Malick did not shoot and structure the film in a way that would be amenable or pleasing to mass audiences (especially in Hollywood-conditioned America), but then he...

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