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None of them ring any bells with me Lenn. Probably the only two old movies I've ever seen that I remember are "Wizard of Oz" and "Roman Holiday". I've seen "Breakfast at Tiffany's", but can't remember anything about it. I've also seen "African Queen" and "The Bridge Over the River Kwai" only because my parents own the movie and have watched them several times with me in the background. The only line I remember from the African Queen was, "are we going to shoot the rapids" and the only part of the Bridge Over River Kwai was whistling while they marched. Hell, I've never seen "Gone With the Wind" or "Wuthering Heights" and other movies that I've heard about or read about. Also, my girlfriend is literally half my age. She gets upset when I play a movie that was made before she was born (which was 1984) although I did get her to watch "The Graduate" because she wanted to watch a movie with Jennifer Aniston which was a sequel to the Graduate and I convinced her it would be a lot easier to understand if she watched The Graduate first. She did so begrudgingly. She likes sappy romance movies and teenagers like in American Pie type movies. I like thought provoking movies as well as some serious violence and I do like good comedy (which is rare in movie form). Compromising is a bitch! 

Anyway, you were right with Dave ,Desperado , and My Cousin Vinny - great movies IMHO

And the two new ones I was hoping Jimv would take on are a little obscure unless you were a fan of Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Paul Newman, etc. Those actors are about as old as I remember...well, I remember Jimmy Stewert because of Christmas movies 

Quote from: LennG on October 12, 2020, 02:03:24 PM
Again, great cast, and I simply love Devito in anything, but I just never got into Teavolta's character and just didn't like the movie. Maybe I'll give it another shot one day, but I enjoyed the clip.

Did you ever see Ruthless People with Bette Midler and Devito. I laugh just thinking about it.

Yeah, Get Shorty had an incredible cast. It was a bit hard to follow the plot at first unless you were really into it since the first half hour has nothing to do with Hollywood and then Chili Palmer goes to LA. I agree that the sequel was not nearly as good and pretty much a waste of time. And I kind of liked Travolta's "Chili Palmer" character. The best I ever saw Travolta act though was in a really great movie called "Phenomenon" (if you haven't seen it, it's a must - it's one to watch with the wifey). That's another movie with a great cast with the likes of Robert Duvall, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, etc.

Never saw "Ruthless People", but thanks for the tip and I'll check it out if I can find it

The leftovers with clues:
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"If you want justice, go to a whorehouse. If you want to get fvcked, go to court" [Richard Gere / Edward Norton]

(clue: one of the best legal dramas ever...and scary as hell)

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A few more clues:

[Reese Witherspoon]: "You fvcker! You killed my grandma!"
[Kiefer Sutherland]: "That's not all I did to grandma"

(Another clue: a spoof made on "Little Red Riding Hood")

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"He's not a President. He's an ordinary person. I can kill an ordinary person."

(no clue given as this one is just too easy...must be a lot of people haven't seen this thread because it's that easy) Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver
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In a confession booth:
"Bless me, Father, for I have just killed quite a few men"
"No sh!t"

(another fairly easy one IMO. Clue: incredible amount of death and blood, even Tarantino in a cameo appearance gets shot in the face and his head blown off [now it's a gimmee])

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"Because a split second before the torque wrench was applied to the faucet handle, it had been calibrated by top members of the state and federal Departments of Weights and Measures, to be dead-on balls accurate."
"Dead-on balls accurate"?
"It's an industry term."
"I guess the fvckin

Quote from: LennG on October 11, 2020, 07:57:12 PM
Funny, I hated Get Shorty and the second one also. Can't really say why, but I just never got into it. BUT, I LOVED, We Bought a Zoo, as did my wife. Just a great feel good movie and it hit the spot at the right time. Wish more people would have seen it.

I'm glad to hear that someone else besides me loved "We Bought a Zoo". It was definitely one of those feel good movies. Probably the best "feel good" movies I can think of was "Second Hand Lions" with Michael Caine and Robert Duvall (both actors rank right up there with my favorite of all time). Just a really great family movie. If you haven't seen it, you must!

I liked "Get Shorty" as I am a fan of Travolta...as well as Renee Russo (yum, yum when I think of "The Thomas Crown Affair") and Danny Devito. I really liked (must put it in "past tense") Dennis Farina (played Ray Barboni) who passed away shortly after the movie. The scene of him kicking the crap out of Gene Hackman makes me laugh just thinking about it. It's kind of a movie that focuses on the Hollywood mentality of people in the movie business (like "State and Main" or that recent one, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood") and that genre always interest me.

Here's that scene with Farina kicking Hackman's butt...LOL. Love it when the guy looks at Farina's gun and says, "what's that? a WOP 9, the fiat of guns?". Laughed so hard my sides hurt!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O31rBYqYkuQ

Quote from: LennG on October 11, 2020, 12:24:15 PM
We bought a Zoo


Get Shorty

Yup - good job. I thought the "We Bought a Zoo" might be tough...kind of an obscure movie that really showcased the talent of Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson.

There was a lot of good quotes in "Get Shorty" that would be obvious, but the one I picked was also a little less so.

Adding even more clues for the ones left that will give them away

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"Aren't you gonna do something?"
"What are you talkin' to me for? She's the one with the gun."   
Double Jeopardy

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Just remember, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas....well, except Herpes, that shlt will follow you home" 
The Hangover

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"we got to get rid of this broad...I know a great place up the road...lots of alligators"
"We're not getting rid of the broad"
"What's your angle?"
"No angle, I like her"
RED

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"What did you bring her here for?"
"One, I had no choice...two, I might have suffered a slight concussion and three, she's mentally imbalanced to a spectacular degree!"
Bandits

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"If you want justice, go to a whorehouse. If you want to get fu&^ked, go to court" [Richard Gere / Edward Norton]

(clue: one of the best legal dramas ever...and scary as hell)

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"You don't want me! I'm filled with Scotch, bitterness and impure thoughts"
We Bought a Zoo

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A few more:

[Reese Witherspoon]: "You f&^cker! You killed my grandma!"
[Kiefer Sutherland]: "That's not all I did to grandma"

(A clue: a "Little Red Riding Hood" spoof)

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"He's not a President. He's an ordinary person. I can kill an ordinary person."

(no clue given as this one is too easy...must be a lot of people haven't seen this thread because its so easy) Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver
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In a confession booth:
"Bless me, Father, for I have just killed quite a few men"
"No sh!t"

(another fairly easy one IMO. clue: incredible amount of death and blood, even Tarantino gets shot in the face [now a gimmee])

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"I once asked this literary agent, uh, what kind of writing paid the best... he said, 'Ransom notes'".
Get Shorty

Two more right answers - good job Lenn! 

Ding, ding, ding -  two right:
The Hangover, and Bandits. Actually a little surprised someone got Bandits. I thought that was kind of tough being a bit of an obscure Bruce Willis flick. Good job.

I'll throw a couple out there. I am not a movie aficionado of movies before 1970 so bear with me:

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"Aren't you gonna do something?"
"What are you talkin' to me for? She's the one with the gun."

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Just remember, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas....well, except Herpes, that shlt will follow you home"

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"we got to get rid of this broad...I know a great place up the road...lots of alligators"
"We're not getting rid of the broad"
"What's your angle?"
"No angle, I like her"

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"What did you bring her here for?"
"One, I had no choice...two, I might have suffered a slight concussion and three, she's mentally imbalanced to a spectacular degree!"

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"If you want justice, go to a whorehouse. If you want to get fu*#^ked, go to court"

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"You don't want me! I'm filled with Scotch, bitterness and impure thoughts"

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Quote from: ozzie on October 06, 2020, 01:47:26 PM
I watched the first couple of episodes of the first season, with Colin Hanks playing the sheriff, but I just couldn't get into it.
But people on this forum have been raving about it and now knowing that each season doesn't relate to the previous seasons, I have started recording this season's episodes.
I haven't watched any of them yet, but the promos looked good and I like Chris Rock so I figured I'd give it another try.

They tend to start out a little slow building the foundation for the story. Seems each episode new players are introduced into the story line - mostly bad people. If you stick with it, I think you'll find what most people find...and that is, they love it. I consider it "dark comedy"...sometimes, very, very dark 

Just a heads up. Fargo 4 has started on Hulu. I loved the Fargo series so far, but haven't delved into 4 yet because there's only a couple of episodes and you have to wait a week between each new one so I'm waiting until the series is over so I can binge it. I hate waiting a week for the next episode. Getting spoiled from all the options available - watch a whole season without commercials, etc.

Anyway, just wanted Fargo fans to know no. 4 has started.

Quote from: LennG on September 23, 2020, 04:13:03 PM
At 74, I don't watch movies to get my 'mojo' woking either, but when a gorgeous looking lady wants to 'show us what she's got', I won't turn it off.   

Well, after watching the trailer for Wild At Heart, I think I am going to pass. It might be a David Lynch film, but it just doesn't seem interesting to me. As far as catching some nude shots, mehh. My girlfriend is half my age, in incredible shape and walks around without clothes all the time. I don't need a blurry half second shot of a nudey from 30 years ago to get my mojo going...LOL

Quote from: LennG on September 21, 2020, 05:00:53 PM
Maybe this should go in the movie thread, but I am really not trying to review this movie. The other day I DVRed a movie, Wild At Heart. The synopsis sounded interesting, great actors in it,  and when I saw David Lynch was the director, I thought, why not take a chance. Overall, I am NOT a fan of David Lynch and his sense of anything. I know some people simply loved Twin Peaks and consider it classic TV, but not me. I did a search of Lynch's other works and looking at the list, I can say there were a couple of things I enjoyed, so I'll give this movie a shot. I was wrong. It was so typical David Lynch, I almost couldn't make it thru to the end. If it wasn't for the fact that Laura Dern was naked about every 10 or 15 minutes, I would have turned it off. Nick Cage was the star and it was so typical of him. He played the brooding guy tricked into some crime he didn't want to do and the rest is just Lynch with weird plot lines, to me, just silly story, direction. I should have turned it off earlier but I enjoyed watching Miss Dern parading around in her birthday suit much of the time. I would think anyone who enjoyed Twin Peaks would love this movie.

You had me at "so typical David Lynch"...LOL

I've noticed the show on Netflix, but haven't tried it because I'm just plain not a fan of Nicholas Cage. However, I was unaware that it was a Lynch film. Now I know I absolutely must watch it. Lynch is famous for his style which is (according to Google) "uniquely disturbing and mind-bending visual work. His films juxtapose the cheerfully mundane with the shockingly macabre and often defy explanation".

And BTW, for anyone following this thread, "Twin Peaks" is the best TV series in history. If you haven't watched it, do so but whatever you do DON'T Google who killed Laura Palmer or it kills everything. The show "Lost" was always compared to Twin Peaks and considered to be a very "David Lynch type series" and the producers or Lost learned from Twin Peaks that allowed viewers to figure out who the killer was and there was nowhere to go after that. That's why Twin Peaks was only a 2 season show and the 2nd season was nothing to write home about because the main story line had already come to a conclusion and finality. That is why Lost tried to keep the plot going instead of letting you figure it out because they didn't want it to end...and, as a result, it became nearly unwatchable by the 6th season and people still don't know WTF happened.

In Twin Peaks, there were terrific actors and terrific cascading alternate plots going on - most were extremely devious at best. David Lynch even acts in the show as a near deaf FBI deputy who thinks he has to yell to be heard...LOL. I loved the acting of Miguel Ferrer (played "Albert" an obnoxious FBI agent (it's a shame he passed away several years ago...dittos with the passing of Peggy Lipton (played Norma Jean owner of the restaurant last year).

Regardless, if you haven't watched it, at the very least watch the first episode and make up your own mind.

A couple of weeks ago I started watching "Punisher" on Netflix. It's based on the Marvel Comic series of the same name. It started slow for the first few episodes (almost gave up on it), then started to get pretty good. Now I'm halfway through the second series and I am hooked. Unfortunately, there are only two seasons and there won't be a third season on Netflix due to some rights that now belong to Disney or something like that. Regardless, it's not Ozark, but it's pretty good if you don't mind a lot of gore. Very brutal scenes and an incredible amount of killing bad guys for which the Punisher (called "Frank Castle") says he didn't "murder" them, but rather they died of "terminal stupidity". The Punisher is an ex-marine special ops guy who was given orders by the CIA's Dept. of Covert Operations while in Afghanistan and now is taking down that same corrupt department he worked for in the past. Also, some pretty graphic sex scenes so this is not for kids even though it's based on a Stan Lee comic.