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Alan Reed? who's he?
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The Medela Effect: Alan Reed never voiced a character named Fred Flinstone!
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Wait, I swear there was a T in your post just 2 seconds ago
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This is weird - Alan Reed was also in a movie Rules just reviewed: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). I wonder if he heard Fred Flintstone in that movie?
I also remember him in Far Horizons (1955) the largely non-factual Lewis & Clark story and I think Reed played Sacajawea's French husband. Sacajawea, btw, was played by Donna Reed wearing skin paint (about the whitest, non-Native American looking actress you could think of!)
The funny thing about Alan Reed was he always sounded like Fred Flintstone (for those of us who were first introduced to his voice there) in all his appearances!
I also remember him in Far Horizons (1955) the largely non-factual Lewis & Clark story and I think Reed played Sacajawea's French husband. Sacajawea, btw, was played by Donna Reed wearing skin paint (about the whitest, non-Native American looking actress you could think of!)
The funny thing about Alan Reed was he always sounded like Fred Flintstone (for those of us who were first introduced to his voice there) in all his appearances!
Yeah, Alan Reed had a very distinct voice, to the point where it was sometimes distracting because I can't help but picture Fred Flintstone whenever I hear him.
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@Gideon58 I'm pretty confident, and would be very surprised if you DIDN'T enjoy Mr. Holmes. And CR did it a grand justice and like you said, that finally description in the review IS very fitting.
and wait a moment -- Fred Flintsone BLACKMAILS Garfield in TPART?!?!
Okay, for some oddball reason I had always been on the fence about seeing it. Don't ask, I'm not really sure why, I just was. But NOW, I wanna see Fred causing some sh@t lol
and wait a moment -- Fred Flintsone BLACKMAILS Garfield in TPART?!?!
Okay, for some oddball reason I had always been on the fence about seeing it. Don't ask, I'm not really sure why, I just was. But NOW, I wanna see Fred causing some sh@t lol
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The Medela Effect: Alan Reed regularly voiced a character named Fred Flintstone!
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WANDA (1970)
Director: Barbara Loden
Writer: Barbara Loden
Cast: Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins
Genre: Drama
About: A poor woman living without hope in a Pennsylvania coal town. Wanda Goronski shuts out the bleak life around her by drinking and sleeping the day away. She neglects her children and husband, then loses both in the courtroom. She then takes to aimlessly wondering around town where she meets a man who verily tolerates her presences.
Background: Wanda (1970) is an independent film, directed, written, edited and acted by the lead character played by Barbara Loden. Barbara was one of the first American women to direct/write and star in her own film. She was primarily known for theatrical work and for her roles in Wild River (1960) and Splendor in the Grass (1961) both directed by her future husband Elia Kazan.
Wanda debuted at Venice International Film Festival where it won an Award for foreign films. It played a couple theaters in America, then disappeared for 35 years. It was not until it's restoration and release in 2006 that audiences got a chance to look at this one time directorial debut by Barbara Loden.
Style: Wanda has been called a forerunner to the slow cinema movement. Indeed the film has long scene takes with little to no dialogue at times. It's best described as reflective. We go for a ride with Wanda, but the film does not spoon-feed us information, nor does it manipulate our emotions. Wanda is there, we watch her because it seems like we are watching real life.
Making this independent docu-drama film seem realer is the 16mm print that's been enlarged to 35mm frame size. This blowing up of the film results in grain that gives the film an archival mystique look.
Barbara Loden: herself stated that her film was auto-biographical in nature and that the character she plays is very close to her own experiences in a poor rural area. What struck me about the actress was the emotions she conveys, without saying much, her face speaks volumes. If we are in tune with the film then we can understand the power of dissolution. It's dissolution and a lack of hope that drives the film and makes Wanda take the course in life that she does.
Sadly Barbara Loden died only 10 years after making Wanda and never had a chance to direct another film. This is her swan song, and it's a good one.
Cast: Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins
Genre: Drama
About: A poor woman living without hope in a Pennsylvania coal town. Wanda Goronski shuts out the bleak life around her by drinking and sleeping the day away. She neglects her children and husband, then loses both in the courtroom. She then takes to aimlessly wondering around town where she meets a man who verily tolerates her presences.
Background: Wanda (1970) is an independent film, directed, written, edited and acted by the lead character played by Barbara Loden. Barbara was one of the first American women to direct/write and star in her own film. She was primarily known for theatrical work and for her roles in Wild River (1960) and Splendor in the Grass (1961) both directed by her future husband Elia Kazan.
Wanda debuted at Venice International Film Festival where it won an Award for foreign films. It played a couple theaters in America, then disappeared for 35 years. It was not until it's restoration and release in 2006 that audiences got a chance to look at this one time directorial debut by Barbara Loden.
Style: Wanda has been called a forerunner to the slow cinema movement. Indeed the film has long scene takes with little to no dialogue at times. It's best described as reflective. We go for a ride with Wanda, but the film does not spoon-feed us information, nor does it manipulate our emotions. Wanda is there, we watch her because it seems like we are watching real life.
Making this independent docu-drama film seem realer is the 16mm print that's been enlarged to 35mm frame size. This blowing up of the film results in grain that gives the film an archival mystique look.
Barbara Loden: herself stated that her film was auto-biographical in nature and that the character she plays is very close to her own experiences in a poor rural area. What struck me about the actress was the emotions she conveys, without saying much, her face speaks volumes. If we are in tune with the film then we can understand the power of dissolution. It's dissolution and a lack of hope that drives the film and makes Wanda take the course in life that she does.
Sadly Barbara Loden died only 10 years after making Wanda and never had a chance to direct another film. This is her swan song, and it's a good one.
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Oh well, I appreciate your review but I strongly disagree with your thoughts on Patriot's Day.
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Oh well, I appreciate your review but I strongly disagree with your thoughts on Patriot's Day.
If the final confrontation with the terrorist hadn't been turned into a Hollywood action flick mega explosion scene, I might have given it a 3/5... But like I explained to Gideon, I was outraged by the crappy & campy way the director trivialized the events by showing us multiple car explosions. I don't like films that pretend to be serious but then go for the all mighty buck with gasoline bomb explosion. It didn't help that Mark Wahlberg starred, I find him stoic, he's sort of like Matt Damon to me, in fact sometimes I get them confused
Last edited by Citizen Rules; 09-23-17 at 11:12 PM.
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What everyone said during and after the crazy chase and shootout, when bullets were flying and bombs were being thrown out of a car, was that it was like something out of a movie. Everyone who was there said the movie captured the scene perfectly, and they had Watertown police on the set as advisors.
I can understand your feeling on Mark Wahlberg. I have mixed feelings toward him, but he's been in a lot of movies I like or love.
I can understand your feeling on Mark Wahlberg. I have mixed feelings toward him, but he's been in a lot of movies I like or love.
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What everyone said during and after the crazy chase and shootout, when bullets were flying and bombs were being thrown out of a car, was that it was like something out of a movie. Everyone who was there said the movie captured the scene perfectly, and they had Watertown police on the set as advisors.
I can understand your feeling on Mark Wahlberg. I have mixed feelings toward him, but he's been in a lot of movies I like or love.
I can understand your feeling on Mark Wahlberg. I have mixed feelings toward him, but he's been in a lot of movies I like or love.
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I didn't know that, about the shoot out. But still gasoline bombs to blow up cars? I learned that's what Hollywood does for car explosions from watching Myth Busters. I just didn't like the way that was filmed, or the way the first 30 minutes was filmed. I did really like the entire scene with the Chinese boy, that was damn good.
If you're talking about how the movie looked when you say how the movie was filmed, my wife and I couldn't believe how real it looked, like we were actually standing there live.
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William Castle, that's the guy who gets more or less played by John Goodman in Matinee?...
William Castle, that's the guy who gets more or less played by John Goodman in Matinee?...
Matinee
Not a blockbuster - but it is memorable as it captures a snapshot of a particular era: the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, duck-and-cover, Atomic-mutation-B-sci-fi movie era. And how all that serves as the backdrop for a movie theater and the horror movies it shows.
It's a movie that appeals particularly to film history buffs, people who lived through the era and experienced being a kid at that time, and fans of the black and white low budget sci-fi movies (like many of the ones you review here).
Not a blockbuster - but it is memorable as it captures a snapshot of a particular era: the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, duck-and-cover, Atomic-mutation-B-sci-fi movie era. And how all that serves as the backdrop for a movie theater and the horror movies it shows.
It's a movie that appeals particularly to film history buffs, people who lived through the era and experienced being a kid at that time, and fans of the black and white low budget sci-fi movies (like many of the ones you review here).
I love recommendations, and I've seen a lot of neat films that way, thanks to fellow MoFos
So now I'll review it. Any other recommendations based on what I like? just shout em out!
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You should seek out "Split" from 1989 directed by Chris Shaw. Then you should review it here, for us MoFo's.
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You should seek out "Split" from 1989 directed by Chris Shaw. Then you should review it here, for us MoFo's.
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Matinee (Joe Dante, 1993)
Cast: John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Robert Picardo
Genre: Comedy Drama
About: In 1962 Florida during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a colorful B budget movie producer blows into town to promote his next horror flick, MANT. The producer is big on talk and promotional gimmicks but without a dime in his pocket. He whips the town into a frenzy to sell movie tickets, playing on the residents fear of atomic destruction.
A scene from MANT, a movie within the movie. Cathy Moriarty not only plays the lead in MANT, but in Mantinee as well, where she's the producers girlfriend & assistant. She even plays a fake nurse...a gimmick based on the real William Castle who had actresses playing nurses in the movie's lobby, just in case someone was scared to death by his film!
Gawds this was a fun movie! It ain't the greatest movie, but I loved how huckster and low budget movie producer Lawrence Woolner (John Goodman) was based on William Castle. Castle was the king of movie promotion gimmicks in the late 50s and 60s. I've been watching a lot of William Castle films lately, which include archival clips of Castle standing in front of movie theaters and promoting his films in the most ingenious way, just like in this film.
If you notice the name of the director, it's Joe Dante, who directed such well known films as: The Howling, Gremlins, The 'Burbs. But what you might not know about Joe Dante is he cut his directorial teeth working for the other King of B movies, Roger Corman, directing such B classics as: Piranha &Rock 'n' Roll High School .
Love the run down look of the movie marque and the FIGHT PAY T.V. sign...
Check out the period piece movie posters. Panic in the Zero, I've heard that's a good one.
So what does all this movie history have to do with the review of Matinee (1993)? Everything! the entire movie is an ode to the great B horror films of the past. We see parts of the fictional movie MANT (a man fused with an ant), on the screen as kids watch and shriek. This movie in a movie is only part of the fun.
Add to that a whole high school teen age romance complete with a juvenile delinquent who loves poetry, bomb shelters and the infamous Duck and Cover bomb drills, and if that's not enough nostalgia, theres guest appearances by Dick Miller and Kevin McCarthy (and others) who appeared in the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers. With Matinee you get a fun time machine back to a simpler time when all a boy had to worry about was if he would kiss the girl before the atom bomb dropped on his head!
and a bunch of ++++ for nostalgic fun!
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Thanks guys! I just watched Matinee (1993)...a fun film for a fan of William Castle. And I had never heard of it until you guys mentioned it... Very cool.
I love recommendations, and I've seen a lot of neat films that way, thanks to fellow MoFos
So now I'll review it. Any other recommendations based on what I like? just shout em out!
I love recommendations, and I've seen a lot of neat films that way, thanks to fellow MoFos
So now I'll review it. Any other recommendations based on what I like? just shout em out!
BTW, Cathy Moriarity who appears in Matinee has always been just entirely sexual. I remember her from Neighbors (1981) where she was the temptress next door. She just had a certain something. She's the penultimate vamp!
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WALL·E (2008)
Writers: Andrew Stanton & Pete Docter (story)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Sci Fi
Studio: Disney Pixar
Rating: G
Length: 98 minutes
Everyone loves WALL-E, the critics loved it! the fans loved it!..it won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film and was nominated for five other Oscars as well. WALL-E has a very high user rating of 8.4 on IMDB. But why all this love?
Myself, I was amazed at parts of the movie, I loved certain aspects of it, I enjoyed it, it was fresh (mostly) and yet there were a few things that didn't work for me...and two aspects of the movie that I out right hated.
What did I love? and hate? and what impressed me? Keep reading.
I loved the...opening scenes on a post apocalyptic Earth. An Earth that seemed to be filled with trash and remnants of some strange future society, now vanished...except for one lone robot.
I like WALL-E the robot. He was personable and charming with his childlike curiosity over the discarded junk of a dead society. He was a bit sad too. Seemingly all alone on a planet void of life. I was so glad to see his cockroach friend. Not so much so that he wouldn't be all alone, but because one lone cockroach gave a glimmer of hope that the world had not become a barren planet void of all life.
I bet you didn't think of that did ya?
World building...The movie did world building, so well! Each frame of the film was full of detail. Even in the furthest corners of each frame, I could see layers of someone's ideas that were put on the screen and yet if you blinked you'd miss them. I love the background sets of films, and this movie was richly designed. The animation was a real joy to behold.
I also loved...the way the first scenes on Earth played out like an old Charlie Chaplin film with WALL-E as the little tramp exploring his world in a Chaplinesque type of way. Gosh I wish the film had went with that idea.
Hitchcock once said that the audience is always one step ahead of the film, anticipating what they will see next. I did this too, and I was disappointed when the film didn't turn out to be WALL-E going about his daily routines and in the process discovering the mystery of what had happened to humanity. I suppose that would be too bleak for Disney, but oh well I can dream can't I.
What I hated it...was Eve. I hated the way the robot looked. It had no charm and looked antiseptic and rather cheaply done. It moved like a exile for the cartoon The Power Puff Girls, which I actually like, but I sure didn't like Eve.
Even worse was the voice, which instantly took me out of the film as it sounded like an actresses voice, and not a robot. I bought into WALL-E sounding real, as he was mechanical sounding, but EVE sounded like a person duping their lines in the studio.
I really didn't care...about the romance between the two robots. That was cooked, I didn't buy it, and I didn't care in fact it was poorly done without much character building..By the time they leave Earth and head into space, I was thinking the film was a total loss.
But then it got real good!...when they got aboard the Axiom. Hot damn! Disney has some guts to do what they did with the humans. I couldn't believe they made their social commentary and satire, so blatant. I approve too! I'm talking of course about the humans who had grown grotesquely fat in the distant future after living a sedentary, self indulgent life abroad the Axiom.
Some of my favorite scenes...Monty Python would've been proud of Disney.
In one scene a portly human falls out of his cart and couldn't even get up, holly crap, that was bold of Disney to show. Will anybody take the social message of the film and improve their own life styles? I doubt it, but it was funny none the less.
I doubt anyone got this...but, the Axiom is not a space ship at all, it's a giant cruise ship...complete with a regenerative food buffet none the less, ha. I loved the reference to 'Gopher', I doubt the kiddies got it, but I sure did. I mean all one has to do is look at the ship and see it's a supersized cruise ship. They even had the big pool on the lido deck. So if you've ever been on a cruise you can appreciate just how priceless all that was. Loved this part of it!
But you know what I hated?...The insidious cat-walling of the two robots saying over and over again E VAAA....WALLLL E....E VAAA... Repeat that a 100 times and I got space sick. I mean I literally got a headache over the dumbnumbdaness of it.
I didn't really care about the bad robots vs the good robots...or the Captain vs the AutoPilot, nor did I care that they went back to Earth. I was actually hoping they would stay in space, cause Earth seemed better off without the Humans.
Question: don't know if I missed something, but there's all this hoopla about EVE being in possession of a plant, but they open her up and OOPS! the plant is gone! (Later it shows up somewhere else on the Axiom). Where did it go and how did it get out of her compartment? Did I miss a scene or something?
Also, I like the comment on what happened to the humans due to their sedentary lifestyle, but a one point, the movie almost seems to pull a cop out by saying the state of the humans is due to the resultant bone loss of zero gravity (was this just supposed to be the computer providing an "excuse" for the humans?) This is a very real danger for humans in a non-gravity environment in space... But A: there's obviously gravity throughout the ship and B: if humans had suffered bone loss the way the computer displayed then there'd be no way the Captain could just will himself to get up and walk (i.e. all the humans would've been complete & permanent cripples).
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I've got a bunch of them, but I can never think of them until I'm reminded by something else!
Silly rhyme, sorry!
BTW, Cathy Moriarity who appears in Matinee has always been just entirely sexual. I remember her from Neighbors (1981) where she was the temptress next door. She just had a certain something. She's the penultimate vamp!
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