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[Plain Old Tele]

I don't remember a whole lot about LESS THAN ZERO except that I didn't really care for it.

 

Sorry @baumer

 

 

[baumer]

3 hours ago, Tele Came Back said:

I don't remember a whole lot about LESS THAN ZERO except that I didn't really care for it.

 

Sorry @baumer

 

 

 

[The Futurist]

That s the movie when Iron Man and Ultron first met, right ?

[Kalo]

2 hours ago, TalismanRing said:

Not in my top 25 (1987 is packed) but worth watching.  Less than Zero is an OK movie with an brilliant star making performance .

 

 

You also get to see Ultron pimp out Iron Man.

 

 

 

 

 

TalismanRing, how old are you? if you don't mind my asking, I always thought you were around my age. But you seem to have a vast knowledge of older films, I'm catching up, but most of my movie knowledge is still in the 90s and onwards. 

[TalismanRing]

1 minute ago, The Futurist said:

That s the movie when Iron Man and Ultron first met, right ?

 

No they did an earlier movie together where RDJ played Spader's sidekick - the iconic (hah) Turf Turf

 

 

[TalismanRing]

3 minutes ago, Kalo said:

 

TalismanRing, how old are you? if you don't mind my asking, I always thought you were around my age. But you seem to have a vast knowledge of older films, I'm catching up, but most of my movie knowledge is still in the 90s and onwards. 

 

I'm probably almost as old as Tele - 732.

 

 

[aabattery]

2 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

 

I'm probably almost as old as Tele - 732.

 

 

 

I thought Tele was 9 ?.

[TalismanRing]

Just now, aabattery said:

 

I thought Tele was 9 ?.

 

When you get to a certain age you start turning back toward childhood.  It's the unspoken part about the circle of life.

 

 

[Kalo]

7 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

 

I'm probably almost as old as Tele - 732.

 

 

 

Oooh.. I take it you are his wife then, it would be difficult finding anyone else in your age range. I know he has a couple hundred on you, but once your north of 500, you can't be too choosy.   

Edited May 18, 2017 by Kalo

[aabattery]

Just now, TalismanRing said:

 

When you get to a certain age you start turning back toward childhood.  It's the unspoken part about the circle of life.

 

 

 

I wasn't aware that Benjamin Button was actually a biology lesson.

[TalismanRing]

22 minutes ago, Kalo said:

 

Oooh.. I take it you are his wife then, it would be difficult finding anyone else in your age range. I know he has a couple hundred on you, but once your north of 500, you can't be too choosy.   

 

If only I had invested more wisely, I could have bought myself a trophy husband who loves the MCU and The Wizard of Oz.  But at least we have Lawrence of Arabia in common.

 

 

 

Edited May 18, 2017 by TalismanRing

[Goffe]

Maurice: ending left me quite underwhelmed, souring my view on the film as a whole. It really needed a strong ending to stand apart from other similar movies. 7/10

 

Broadcast News: one of these films where the direction is so good that makes you interested in the director's filmography. Holly Hunter is fantastic and the humor had me rolling a dozen times. Unfortunately, things take a sharp decline when conflicts start to resolve at the sound of cheesy 80s piano tunes. 8/10

 

The Last Emperor: a long, dramatized info dump. 3/10

 

Moonstruck: every bit as bad as I expected it to be. Most of the time it wasn't so awful, but that final scene... yikes. Also, over-the-top Italian characters are a big no for me, can't stand them. 2/10

Edited May 18, 2017 by Goffe

[Kalo]

1 hour ago, Goffe said:

Maurice: ending left me quite underwhelmed, souring my view on the film as a whole. It really needed a strong ending to stand apart from other similar movies. 7/10

 

Really? I really liked the ending of Maurice,

Spoiler

most gay themed films end so depressingly, it was refreshing.  

 

 

Edited May 18, 2017 by Kalo

[Goffe]

Just now, Kalo said:

 

Really? I really liked the ending of Maurice, most gay themed films end so depressingly, it was refreshing.  

 

 

the ending was almost fairy-tale-like, there could be a title card at the end saying "and they lived happily ever after" and it wouldn't be too out of place. I expected a lot more given the greatness of the first two acts.

[Kalo]

 

 

Predator: incredible, my favorite so far, I liked it much better than Alien actually, it was such a lean, tension based film, I thought Arnold was great, and the Jungle atmosphere really helped the creepiess of it all. A

 

The Untouchables, also fantastic, I was afraid I might get bored with it, but that wasn't the case at all, Sean Connery was incredible. A

 

Three Men and a Baby had it's moments and I liked it overall, but it made the guys are so stupid at parts, and it wasn't all that funny, really dated, however Tom Selleck still managed to be charming I'll go easy on it and give it a B.

 

Some Kind of Wonderful, wasn't as Wonderful as I remembered. but still pretty great. wasn't thrilled about the ending though. Elias Koteas as Duncan was my favorite part of the movie. B+

 

Edited May 18, 2017 by Kalo

[Kalo]

6 minutes ago, Goffe said:

the ending was almost fairy-tale-like, there could be a title card at the end saying "and they lived happily ever after" and it wouldn't be too out of place. I expected a lot more given the greatness of the first two acts.

 

I see where your coming from, but it is a possible ending imo, considering the relationship he had with his friend, and they were happy for the moment, considering the time period it's hard to say it lasted with certainty.  besides I kind of liked the fairy tale like ending.  

[TalismanRing]

8 minutes ago, Kalo said:

 

I see where your coming from, but it is a possible ending imo, considering the relationship he had with his friend, and they were happy for the moment, considering the time period it's hard to say it lasted with certainty.  besides I kind of liked the fairy tale like ending.  

 

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“A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn’t have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense Maurice and Alec still roam in the greenwood. […] Happiness is its keynote–which by the way has had an unexpected result: it has made the book more difficult to publish.”  --  E.M. Forster (Terminal note of Maurice – p. 236)

 

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Forster could have played it safe to assure that Maurice was published during his lifetime: “If it ended unhappily, with a lad dangling from a noose or with a suicide pact, all would be well, for there is no pornography or seduction of minors” (236)

 

It was published decades later in the 1970s but it was written as a contemporary novel in 1912.  In the 1960s he wrote an epilogue of Maurice's sister encountering he and Alec together years later but decided against it because he wanted to keep the story untouched by any WWI context.

 

https://angelmatos.net/2013/10/07/e-m-forsters-maurice/

 

 

[Kalo]

6 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

 

 

 

It was published decades later in the 1970s but it was written as a contemporary novel in 1912.  In the 1960s he wrote an epilogue of Maurice's sister encountering he and Alec together years later but decided against it because he wanted to keep the story untouched by any WWI context.

 

https://angelmatos.net/2013/10/07/e-m-forsters-maurice/

 

 

 

Makes me like the ending even more. 

[Goffe]

@Jake Gittes have you seen Blind Chance?

[Jake Gittes]

3 hours ago, Goffe said:

@Jake Gittes have you seen Blind Chance?

 

No.