3DOP Posted October 19, 2014 Posted October 19, 2014 Hey GG...Did you watch The Searchers with Lis and me? TCM tonight. The filming was just so beautiful. John Ford was so great. John Wayne named one of his sons Ethan after his character. My wife told me this. In the ending scene, you have old Mrs. Jorgensen exiting happily after the kidnapped Natalie Wood has finally come home. It leaves John Wayne in the doorway, where he unexpectedly takes a pose, holding his arm by the elbow with the other arm (I don't know whether right or left). Mrs. Jorgensen was in real life the wife of the very recently passed actor, Harry Carey, and that pose holding the arm was his signature, and John Wayne did him tribute that way. Mrs. Carey (Mrs. Jorgensen in the movie) broke into tears on the set upon seeing her husband so honored. Anyway...just a big...beautiful film...with music...awesome scenery...fearful hatreds...transcendent love...and as always with John Ford...good comic relief. What a pleasure to discover such a gem at my age! May there be a few more like that before I go! 1
Garden Girl Posted October 19, 2014 Posted October 19, 2014 Hey GG...Did you watch The Searchers with Lis and me? TCM tonight. The filming was just so beautiful. John Ford was so great. John Wayne named one of his sons Ethan after his character.Anyway...just a big...beautiful film...with music...awesome scenery...fearful hatreds...transcendent love...and as always with John Ford...good comic relief. What a pleasure to discover such a gem at my age! May there be a few more like that before I go! Hello Rory...Had you never seen The Searchers previously? It is one of my favorites, and I own it in my film library so am able to watch it whenever I want... beautiful music... John Ford loved that country as so many of his films showed. Last night I watched "Stagecoach" with John Wayne and Clare Trevor... another great story... the scene of the stagecoach on the flats as they tried to outrun the indians was nailbiting... GG
3DOP Posted October 19, 2014 Posted October 19, 2014 (edited) Hello Rory...Had you never seen The Searchers previously? It is one of my favorites, and I own it in my film library so am able to watch it whenever I want... beautiful music... John Ford loved that country as so many of his films showed. Last night I watched "Stagecoach" with John Wayne and Clare Trevor... another great story... the scene of the stagecoach on the flats as they tried to outrun the indians was nailbiting... GG I had seen a few scenes. I think John Wayne suffers with the public now for his big American ways and pretty decent moral values. I am finding that I appreciate him more and more with every old picture I see. Yes...in a certain sense you can say he played himself I guess. But that Ethan character was multi-layered. Outwardly so irreverent, rough and apparently full of rage and ready for vengeance. But who carried in the girl after searching for five years that left him with gray in his hair? Ethan. Don't you love Ward Bond too in these Ford movies? Of course I love him as the priest in the Quiet Man, but he made a pretty good Protestant minster/Texas Ranger tonight too. All we missed tonight was Victor MacLaglen (sp.?). (Maureen O'Hara's brother in The Quiet Man and the good sergeant who helped burn her parents farm in another movie in the West. Rio Grande maybe? The one where John Wayne's son is in his regiment and Ben Johnson is running from the law.) Anyway, Garden Girl...It is fun to find something new that is pretty old! Edited October 19, 2014 by 3DOP
Silhouette Posted October 19, 2014 Posted October 19, 2014 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II"Always...."
Deborah Posted October 19, 2014 Posted October 19, 2014 The old John Wayne movies were the best. I especially loved him and Maureen O'Hara together. I watched a tv movie I have on DVD because I love it called "Cheyenne Warrior." Just a sweet story of how prejudices are overcome and how love doesn't solve everything and sometimes you still have to follow your own path.
Garden Girl Posted October 19, 2014 Posted October 19, 2014 There's something to be said for the "oldies but goodies." It's wonderful to be able to become engrossed in a good story and not be confronted every few sentences with profanity (particularly the F word). So many of today's movies that are built on a really good storyline for some reason think that the use of prolific profanity somehow enhances the impact or drama... or even humor.Whereas older movies were prevented from resorting to such tactics... Think such movies like Laura, Rebecca, Leave Her to Heaven, Casa Blanca... the list goes on and on of good solid screenwriting for both comedy and drama... there was no need for the profanity or nudity, or explicit scenes... we all knew what was going on when the music soared and the camera moved to the crashing waves, etc... Ha! It may seem hokey by today's standards, but it worked... and the story moved forward... GG 4
Yirgacheffe Posted October 20, 2014 Posted October 20, 2014 TSS, do you think it would still be good to someone who doesn't really like the movie Mary Poppins?I can't stand Mary Poppins.
Yirgacheffe Posted October 20, 2014 Posted October 20, 2014 The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,True Grit, It Happened One Night, The Halleluiah Trail, Cat Ballou are all movies I remember my parents having me watch as a kid either on TV or VCR, there were more but those come to mind from what others have said here. I liked them I should look into getting my kids to watch them. 1
thesometimesaint Posted October 20, 2014 Posted October 20, 2014 TSS, do you think it would still be good to someone who doesn't really like the movie Mary Poppins? Yes; Particularly if they don't like the movie Mary Poppins. 1
Tacenda Posted October 20, 2014 Posted October 20, 2014 (edited) One of my favorite Redford movies is the one with Jane Fonda titled "Electric Cowboy" where she is a TV reporter covering a corporate story in Las Vegas and he is the aging rodeo star... the Corporation is using a 12 Million dollar horse in a promotion and "Sonny Steel" (Redford, who also works for the Corporation) is hired to ride the horse out on stage during a show... Redford decides the corp is mistreating the horse, drugging him, etc., so he decides to steal him and set the horse free among the wild horses in a Utah canyon area. The story follows Fonda's quest to find Sonny, the horse, and get Sonny's story... naturally in the course of things she falls under Sonny's spell as she accompanies him as he takes to horse from Nevada to Utah... a very entertaining film... touching... particularly the last scenes of the horse running free... beautiful photography. GGI was in St. George Utah visiting, and got to watch them film the scene at the café. This makes me want to watch "Electric Cowboy" now! Edited October 23, 2014 by Tacenda 1
thesometimesaint Posted October 25, 2014 Posted October 25, 2014 Monuments of Men. Star packed drama about the waning days of WW2 and the effort to recover stolen art from the NAZIS. Not for under the 12 set( Adult situations and violence). Well worth the look.
thesometimesaint Posted October 25, 2014 Posted October 25, 2014 I can't stand Mary Poppins. It's not about Mary Poppins. It's about the back story of how the movie came to be.
Calm Posted October 25, 2014 Posted October 25, 2014 (edited) The books of Mary Poppins are great and much like the movie.Edit..that was supposed to be not much Edited October 25, 2014 by calmoriah
thesometimesaint Posted October 25, 2014 Posted October 25, 2014 The books of Mary Poppins are great and much like the movie. Unfortunately I never read the books. I must confess I have had a long fascination with movies, how they made, and their back stories.
Garden Girl Posted October 25, 2014 Posted October 25, 2014 (edited) Monuments of Men. Star packed drama about the waning days of WW2 and the effort to recover stolen art from the NAZIS. Not for under the 12 set( Adult situations and violence). Well worth the look. TSS... I loved this movie and wonder if people appreciate what this group of men did to save and preserve the priceless pieces of art, culture and history... And I could have cried when the Nazis set fire to that room filled with hundreds of masterpieces... reminded me of anciently when one people conquered another the first thing they did was destroy their culture like when the library at Alexandria was destroyed... and I nearly cried when the "Monuments Men" discovered the Madonna statue... GG Edited October 25, 2014 by Garden Girl
thesometimesaint Posted October 25, 2014 Posted October 25, 2014 TSS... I loved this movie and wonder if people appreciate what this group of men did to save and preserve the priceless pieces of art, culture and history... And I could have cried when the Nazis set fire to that room filled with hundreds of masterpieces... reminded me of anciently when one people conquered another the first thing they did was destroy their culture like when the library at Alexandria was destroyed... and I nearly cried when the "Monuments Men" discovered the Madonna statue... GG I don't know. It was all over except for the war movies by the time I came along. My great fear is that we have forgotten the actions of these brave caring men. That we too have failed to learn the lessons of history and are repeating its tragedies. There were at least 4 different fires that partially or completely destroyed the library at Alexandria. But very sad none the less.
Silhouette Posted October 25, 2014 Posted October 25, 2014 The last movie I watched was Dark Shadows, with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham-Carter. It came on last night on ABC Family.
Deborah Posted October 26, 2014 Posted October 26, 2014 I watched "Snowpiercer." Dark and intense but very interesting, not for everyone but totally engrossing.
Tacenda Posted October 27, 2014 Posted October 27, 2014 My son talked me into watching the 1st episode of "Walking Dead" on Netflix. Now I'm hooked, anyone else like that? I'm blazing through the season's. But feeling guilty because it's not a good way to spend a Sunday.
bluebell Posted October 27, 2014 Posted October 27, 2014 I'm totally hooked on it. Be prepared because it gets a lot darker. I don't think I could handle more than one episode a day, if that often.
Tacenda Posted October 27, 2014 Posted October 27, 2014 Bluebell, I fast forward a lot of zombie action, but a particular person has just died that was among my favorite, don't want to give anything away but very sad he won't be on the show. The acting is wonderful. For so long I was just amazed that my older kids would even watch it, now I know why. It's too bad It's gotten darker, and heard that it has, possibly why there is a later start time now, not appropiate for prime time I guess. But does seem to have semi good morals, unlike what I thought it had.
Stargazer Posted October 27, 2014 Posted October 27, 2014 Saw "Fury" last week. Wow. Really good film, overall, but dark. Excellent tank action, and quite realistic. And true-to-actual-tank-warfare. But if you thought Saving Private Ryan was too intense, you better stay away from this one. Brad Pitt is a hugely outstanding actor. He is just amazing. He is the commander of the tank named "Fury". Shia LeBoeuff (he of the Transformers flicks) had an important part in this one, but I didn't know it was him until the credits! He was very very good. I now forgive him for Sam Wiwicky. Perhaps this will reboot his career.
Stargazer Posted October 27, 2014 Posted October 27, 2014 Not a film, exactly, but the BBC series "Sherlock". The one with Benedict Cumberbatch. I might have mentioned this in this thread already. I just finished the 3rd Season and am disappointed that they haven't even started production on the 4th season yet. I hate waiting. One excellent series!
KevinG Posted October 27, 2014 Posted October 27, 2014 Shia LeBoeuff (he of the Transformers flicks) had an important part in this one, but I didn't know it was him until the credits! He was very very good. I now forgive him for Sam Wiwicky. Perhaps this will reboot his career. If that doesn't this certainly will:
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