Shannon L.
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He's probably more known for tv now, but Adam Baldwin is really doing it for me these days. We started watching Chuck and it wasn't more than a few episodes and I was thinking "Oh my...." whenever he was on the screen. Then, the family insisted that I watch Firefly and Serenity and "mmm....." . I'll be in my bunk*, indeed!
I saw My Bodyguard once back when it first came out and, of course, never thought that Adam would become an actor with longevity, so it's kind of cool to be watching him now and thinking of him in that movie.
*If you've never watched Firefly, but you've heard that expression, Adam Baldwin's character is the one who introduced it into our vernacular.
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I watched Best Little Whorehouse in Texas so many times, I practically knew it verbatim. The music was great and it was just fun. I still say, sometimes, "I could read his lips--every hell, God damn and bullshit!" and, when a politician isn't answering a question, I start humming "Sidestep".
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She was gorgeous, back when she first broke through in movies.
Sadly, that's true for most of them. Renee Zellwegger was adorable in Jerry MaGuire, but by the time Chicago came around? Skeletal.
I like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and believe that they truly do want to help instead of just using their causes to make them look good.
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Female spies always wear tight black clothing and knee high boots with spiked heals when on a mission.
The leaders of a SWAT or FBI team are allowed to go into a dangerous situation without their helmets on.
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I hate (on different levels from dislike to loathing) characters so stupid it's a wonder they survived past the age of 16. Mallory on Family Ties, Woody on Cheers, Kramer on Seinfeld, Brittany on Glee!, Kevin on The Office, Jeff and Lester on Chuck, etc, etc.... There must be some love for these types of characters or they wouldn't still be writing them. Heck, it goes back decades--remember cousin Ernie on I Love Lucy? I just don't find them funny, except for maybe the extremely rare moment that might make me smile.
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Every Christmas, while picking up or putting up our tree: "Lot's of sap in here!" and, my husband is always saying, to my chagrin, "Bend over, I'll show you" (only to certain people--he doesn't say it to people who won't get it :)
ETA: Those are from Christmas Vacation, in case anyone is unsure.
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Bohemian Rhapsody on Wayne's World. I lol every time they get to the Galieo part.
For me, it's the "let me go..." part :)
So, this got me thinking about an article I read a few months ago that listed why movies were so great in the 80s and one of the reasons was because of the theme songs. Actual songs by famous musicians that were played either over the opening credits or during a montage. Some of them included:
"You're the Best" from Karate Kid
"Danger Zone" from Top Gun
"I'm All Right" from Caddy Shack
"Holiday Roads" from National Lampoons Vacation
"Footloose"
etc, etc.....
And it occurred to me that the article was right--very few movies now have fun songs like that.
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We used to attend a church-run summer school that played Grease and Grease 2 on repeat on the VCR.
That's hysterical! I remember some of my friends' parents being really upset with some of the songs in that movie.
"Reproduction"
"Let's Do It for Our Country"
"Let's Bowl"
"Who's That Guy?"
"Prowlin'"
"Back to School"
"We'll Be Together"
No, I didn't look these up and yes I could even sing pretty big sections of each song (Including "Cool Rider" and "Girl for All Seasons" :)
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Ok, this one hasn't made heavy rotation on tv yet (at least not the stations I've got), but, if when it is, I will more than likely stop for Rock of Ages every time I see it. Damn was Tom Cruise hot in that movie and, imo, quite impressive. When he commits to a role, he really commits to a role. Also, I lived in Hollywood in from 1987-1989, from the age of 18-20, and I was in most of those clubs, listening to those songs, dressing that way......so, nostalgia plays a part.
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Thank you, spaceytraci1208, for both the correction and the info!
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I learned what "69" was when watching WKRP in Cincinnati (I was between the ages of 9 and 13 when it came out). They made a joke about it and I asked why it was funny and my friend told me.
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I had no interest in this at all, but then saw an interview with Tom Cruise last night and suddenly, I'm thinking I might like it. Rotten Tomatoes certainly has some great reviews of it.
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Wow, lot's of posts over the past few days. I've been in Hawaii on vacation for the past week, so I have some catching up to do.
Totally agree about No Country for Old Men. It bored me to pieces.
I'll go a step farther: The only Cohen brothers' film I've enjoyed was True Grit and that was a remake. I couldn't make it through enough of the movies that I tried to watch, that I no longer even try. I don't get what's so great about them. At. All. Some cute moments, sure, but their movies as a whole? Yawn.
Same goes for Woody Allen movies. No, I haven't seen Annie Hall and I probably will never see it. The only two movies of his that I liked were Purple Rose of Cairo and Midnight in Paris--and he wasn't in either one of them. Hrmm....maybe there's something to that. I should check out other movies by Woody that he's not in.....
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The first one I thought of was Hugh Grant dancing in Love Actually:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcgxBHBsl-4
I also love the training sequence with Antonio Bandares and Anthony Hopkins in Zorro, mostly because I loved the score playing at the same time. The tango with Katherine Zeta-Jones and Arnold Schwarzenegger in True Lies was hot, too.
I also really love the score in the ship scenes in Pirates of the Caribbean.
Can someone explain to me how to post a video instead of just the link?
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I'd love to see a show about the Karp-Ciampi family in the novels by Robert Tannenbaum. The plots are convoluted, but he creates such great characters.
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My first post in an episode thread (and it's not going to be a profound one) as I just discovered this forum the other day. We watched the final episode last night. This show was getting better with every episode and I was enjoying it more and more with each one. I share in the fans frustrations that it was canceled so soon. It's nice that Joss wrote a movie to tie things up for the fans--I'm looking forward to watching it.
This wasn't my favorite episode, but I did get some laughs out of it: Shepherd and Jayne's discussion in the kitchen, a few of the comments made by River at the end and the occasional line from the bounty hunter.
(What was it River had her do? She pushed a bunch of buttons, but it wasn't clear to me what they did.
She unlocked the cabins so Mal could get out.
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Which brings me to another one: Rhinestone. Stupid personified, if, you know, a film was a person. And yet, it has been part of my collection on VHS, laserdisc and DVD. The powers of Dolly.
I loved that movie when I was a kid! Watched it over and over. Can still throw out a few quotes, too ("I'm lying in the road, looking at a duck".)
I really like Miss Congeniality, too. Again, many quotable lines in that one, with my favorite being about her talent being nothing more than converting oxygen into carbon dioxide.
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I learned from Mallory Keaton that SCUBA means Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus ( and that it wasn't invented by Magellan :)
Thanks. He was with someone somewhere under fire, right?Yes, he was. I remember that scene well.
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I fucking love the chemistry between Stallone and Talia. Gave me the tummy flutters when I watched their first kiss.
Oh man...that first kiss! Every time I see a topic about the best movie kisses I always list that one. The way he carefully moves in to her and then she grabs him? *sigh*
I haven't seen II-V in years (even decades), so I don't remember a lot, even though I saw them multiple times. I remember loving it in Rocky II when he stumbled through reading to Adrianne when she was in the coma. Nice touch. Also, that he refused to see the baby until he could see them together. I remember thinking the second one was almost as strong as the first.
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Rocky III was my first introduction to the series and my friend and I loved it so much (we were 13 or 14 at the time) that we watched it all the time--and every other Stallone movie. When I watched Rocky I, I found it a bit dull and preferred Rocky II because of the romance storyline between him and Adrianne (again--I was a kid :). I've seen Rocky I again as an adult and can now appreciate how good it is. And, of course, I loved Rocky IV as well. After that, I wasn't too impressed with part V and didn't even see Rocky Balboa.
However, it's because of Rocky I-III (especially the first one) that I will defend Stallone to the death--no matter what kind of "meh" movies he's done since then.
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Good Will Hunting (tuned in for about an hour)
Blast From the Past (last 30 minutes)
Ah yes....two more that should have gone on my list. I could watch that bar room scene from Good Will Hunting once or twice a week and never get bored with it and Blast from the Past is just so much fun.
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I live for wild pitches so I can say, "Just a bit outside."
We don't watch baseball, so that doesn't come up often, but when my son was in Little League, oh yeah....it was quoted a lot.
Also: "You sayin' that Jesus Christ can't hit a curve ball?!"
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From Major League:
"I hate this f%$#ing song."
"You may run like Hayes, but you hit like shit."
"So cross him off then."
And from Bull Durham:
[singing "Try a Little Tenderness"] "Oh, she may be wooly, and young girls they do get wooly, when they're under lots of stress...."
Skip: You guys. You lollygag the ball around the infield. You lollygag your way down to first. You lollygag in and out of the dugout. You know what that makes you? Larry!
Larry: Lollygaggers!
Skip: Lollygaggers.
And I love the whole sequence when a few of them are on the pitcher's mound and instead of discussing the next play in the game, they're talking about everything but.
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I actually liked Titanic, but this:
I think I was forever labeled a curmudgeon among my friends because I found nothing romantic about her dumping the necklace in the ocean.
Seriously? That was supposed to be considered romantic? I thought it was down right stupid. And even if I didn't think it was stupid--if I understood why she did it--romantic is the last word I'd use to describe it.
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Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
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Ok, so here's my odd comment: As I said above I had no interest in this whatsoever, mostly because of the genre. However, because of the great reviews, I decided to see it. I just got back and my thought is this: I liked it more than I expected, but not as much as I thought I would :)
It really was fun and I was impressed with the special effects. I do, however, have a hard time following these kinds of movies (although, this one was mostly cut and dried), so it's possible that I missed something, but I don't understand how he made it to the bar that one day. If he kept waking up at the same exact time, in the same location, on the same day, then how did he get to the motorcycle and off the base?
Aside from that I liked Emily Blunt and her character. If only I could have her arms and shoulders!
Agreed. His personal life aside, I, too, don't think he gets enough credit for what he does on screen. To this day, I can't get over the fact that he wasn't nominated for an Oscar for his role in Rain Man.