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Moonlight said:
another old man, young woman rom/com
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Nothing close to a romcom but a highly under rated and little-known May/December romance movie that completely caught me off guard was Middle Of The Night starring Fredrich March and Kim Novack.

This film made me a fan of Novack's acting.  March's performance is incredible.  Possibly the best acting in a movie that most film buffs haven't heard of let alone seen.  

 
Ilov80s said:
Being the Ricardos was a big nothing. It was fun watching everyone do their impressions but that can’t carry a 2 plus hour movie. It tried to be about major issues like communism, blacklist, the strict standards of the time, fidelity, etc. In the end it took no stands and had nothing to say about those issues (other than maybe thank goodness for the FBI and Hoover). It comes off like it was a leftover screenplay for a CBS miniseries circa 2000. Worst of all, it makes I Love Lucy and especially Lucille Ball come off as not funny. 
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The movie sure looks good, but it doesn't have have much feeling, and what feeling it does have seems wrong.

Sorkin clearly did not want to deify Lucy but he also did not delve too deeply into her flaws. Her trying to "fatten" up Vivian Vance was presented as something quirky rather than Lucy's genuine insecurity over Vance's real-life elegance and sophistication.

JK Simmons never gives a bad performance, and he should have had more screen time as William Frawley.

 
Moonlight said:
 I Support you standing up for As Good As It Gets. Really enjoyed the film. Won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress. Kinnear was nominated for Best Supporting Actor but lost out to Robin Williams ( Good Will Hunting). I would have voted for Kinnear.
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Slow down there - it didn't beat out Titanic for Best Picture.

In addition, LA Confidential and The Full Monty were significantly better that year, too.

 
Bracie Smathers said:
Nothing close to a romcom but a highly under rated and little-known May/December romance movie that completely caught me off guard was Middle Of The Night starring Fredrich March and Kim Novack.

This film made me a fan of Novack's acting.  March's performance is incredible.  Possibly the best acting in a movie that most film buffs haven't heard of let alone seen.  
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i've been on about Frederic March in this thread several times. The classic roles when he was younger (Jekyll/Hyde, Vronsky, Valjean, Norman Maine) and then the ultimate ol fart in Best Years of our Lives, Death of a Salesman (he had turned down Miller's offer to originate Loman on Broadway), Inherit the Wind. It's just a shame that he left his most legendary roles in ONeill plays without a screen equivalent.

And this. You'll never see midlife crisis done better than March as this guy who never knew there was so much life to life who gets his heart woke up. And Novak is so raw and flighty as the wakerupper. Deelish - great recommendation.

 
wikkidpissah said:
i've been on about Frederic March in this thread several times. The classic roles when he was younger (Jekyll/Hyde, Vronsky, Valjean, Norman Maine) and then the ultimate ol fart in Best Years of our Lives, Death of a Salesman (he had turned down Miller's offer to originate Loman on Broadway), Inherit the Wind. It's just a shame that he left his most legendary roles in ONeill plays without a screen equivalent.

And this. You'll never see midlife crisis done better than March as this guy who never knew there was so much life to life who gets his heart woke up. And Novak is so raw and flighty as the wakerupper. Deelish - great recommendation.
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Many people today don't know how huge he was in his day.

From his IMDB page.  One of my favorite trivia tidbits on March.  He trounced every actor in the world by a 2 to 1 margin in this poll:

In 1955, an informal poll of some 30 top stars, directors and producers was tabulated and announced. March was picked as Best Film Actor two to one, with runners-up Marlon Brando, William Holden, Ronald Colman and Spencer Tracy.

 
Bracie Smathers said:
Nothing close to a romcom but a highly under rated and little-known May/December romance movie that completely caught me off guard was Middle Of The Night starring Fredrich March and Kim Novack.

This film made me a fan of Novack's acting.  March's performance is incredible.  Possibly the best acting in a movie that most film buffs haven't heard of let alone seen.  
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Never heard of it as you suggested. Will need to check it out.

 
Ill recommend recommend my favorite romcom that I can't find available any more... Chacun Cherche son Chat (When the Cat's Away). Great/fun/interesting look at a Parisian neighborhood and its characters (many of whom I think were locals and weren't actors previously) as it goes through gentrification.. and a missing cat. 

 
Don Quixote said:
On the topic of TCM, pretty good lineup for MLK day tomorrow… The Defiant Ones with Sidney Poitier, Sounder with Cicely Tyson, and Nothing but a Man (a personal favorite).

A couple of Howard Alk’s documentaries on the schedule too, including 1971’s The Murder of Fred Hampton.
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Watched Defiant Ones this morning. It was very good. Portier and Curtis were both great. I enjoyed it.

 
Tonight it's a 90s horror movie I keep seeing praised on lists now,  but I wonder if that is a new interest because of a rise of movies with more obvious social commentary. 

 
KarmaPolice said:
Tonight it's a 90s horror movie I keep seeing praised on lists now,  but I wonder if that is a new interest because of a rise of movies with more obvious social commentary. 
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Well, don't keep us in suspense. 

 
James Daulton said:
Well, don't keep us in suspense. 
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Trying to do the 80s thing and get you all guessing.    It was The People Under the Stairs.   I know I watched it a few times in HS and remember laughing about it and didn't think it was that great.   Like I said above, I keep seeing it pop up now on horror lists, but I think a bit has to do with the emergence of stuff like Get Out that has a message.    Still not sure how good it is, but I can definitely see it getting a resurgence now in that light, and what's going on in the neighborhood.  

 
KarmaPolice said:
Trying to do the 80s thing and get you all guessing.    It was The People Under the Stairs.   I know I watched it a few times in HS and remember laughing about it and didn't think it was that great.   Like I said above, I keep seeing it pop up now on horror lists, but I think a bit has to do with the emergence of stuff like Get Out that has a message.    Still not sure how good it is, but I can definitely see it getting a resurgence now in that light, and what's going on in the neighborhood.  
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Thanks, will give it a watch.

 
KarmaPolice said:
People Under the Stairs
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Really underrated late nineties/aughts independent hip hop group from California. Notorious crate diggers for samples. Good stuff from them. 

I know you're talking about the movie -- I think they cribbed their name from it. 

 
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rockaction said:
Really underrated late nineties/aughts independent hip hop group from California. Notorious crate diggers for samples. Good stuff from them. 

I know you're talking about the movie -- I think they cribbed their name from it. 
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:yes:   that too.   I was just listening to some over the weekend.  

 
rockaction said:
Wow. Really? Cool. Which album or song, if I might inquire (and then I'll stop so as not to derail the thread too much more)? 
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Not sure why, but I've been listening to a bunch of hip hop since the start of the year.   I was looking at some lists and seeing stuff I've never listened to or just not in awhile.   I listened to O.S.T. over the weekend.   This year I also dug into Jedi Mind Tricks, Madvillain, Pharcyde, Cunninglynguists, and a few others I hadn't listened to in years.  

 
I was listening to a pod this am, and I loved the correlation they were making.  I made the obvious correlation to something like Get Out with People Under the Stairs, but they made the interesting tie to They Live and the political themes Carpenter was going for a few years earlier too.   Been a long time since I've watched They Live, so I might have revisit that one soon too.  

 
Catching up on some Jane Campion since she’s all over streaming now. In the Cut with Meg Ryan (playing way against type), Mark Rufalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Kevin Bacon was pretty interesting. It had the set-up of a standard 90s murder sex thriller but was interestingly shot. It actually felt a lot like a Wong Kar Wai movie in its music video like quality (though oddly minus a lot of music). Not sure I loved it but I was definitely entertained. 

 
Ilov80s said:
Catching up on some Jane Campion since she’s all over streaming now. In the Cut with Meg Ryan (playing way against type), Mark Rufalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Kevin Bacon was pretty interesting. It had the set-up of a standard 90s murder sex thriller but was interestingly shot. It actually felt a lot like a Wong Kar Wai movie in its music video like quality (though oddly minus a lot of music). Not sure I loved it but I was definitely entertained. 
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we saw that in the theater... which I wouldn't have remembered, because all I remember about it now was thinking- bleh. not good.

 
El Floppo said:
we saw that in the theater... which I wouldn't have remembered, because all I remember about it now was thinking- bleh. not good.
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Yeah I know it got absolutely panned at the time but I’ve also read a lot of contemporary reviews calling it genius. I’m somewhere in the middle. It’s not genius but it’s much better than the average sex thriller movie and it was very captivating even if I was disgusted by a lot of it.

 
KarmaPolice said:
My Cousin Vinny is funnier than I remember.   
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Vinny meeting the friend in the cell while his cousin sleeps was a great scene. So many classic lines..

Yea, like you blend.

....2 kids lives in my hand, not to mention your biological clock.. Lets see, can we pile any more crap on.. Ok, maybe it was the wrong time to bring it up.

Imagine you are a dear, you bend down to drink some water and BANG, a bullet rips through your head.. Tell me would you give a bleep what the ******* was wearing?

:lmao:  

 
snogger said:
Vinny meeting the friend in the cell while his cousin sleeps was a great scene. So many classic lines..

Yea, like you blend.

....2 kids lives in my hand, not to mention your biological clock.. Lets see, can we pile any more crap on.. Ok, maybe it was the wrong time to bring it up.

Imagine you are a dear, you bend down to drink some water and BANG, a bullet rips through your head.. Tell me would you give a bleep what the ******* was wearing?

:lmao:  
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Yeah, the back to back scenes with the miscommunication of the can of tuna then why Vinny was in the cell were great.  

 
Has anyone else watched Annette yet? It’s on Prime. This is one of the wildest movies I’ve ever seen. I don’t even know what to say- truly unsure if I absolutely loved it or thought it was so stupid .I’ve definitely never seen anything like it .

 
Still in the 90s.  Tonight's choice might be between Adam Sandler's best movie and a movie I saw in the  theater with a date that she found so scary she was crying.    :oldunsure:

 
Ilov80s said:
Has anyone else watched Annette yet? It’s on Prime. This is one of the wildest movies I’ve ever seen. I don’t even know what to say- truly unsure if I absolutely loved it or thought it was so stupid .I’ve definitely never seen anything like it .
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I have it in the queue after a podcast suggested it.   It's a musical, right? 

 
snogger said:
Vinny meeting the friend in the cell while his cousin sleeps was a great scene. So many classic lines..

Yea, like you blend.

....2 kids lives in my hand, not to mention your biological clock.. Lets see, can we pile any more crap on.. Ok, maybe it was the wrong time to bring it up.

Imagine you are a dear, you bend down to drink some water and BANG, a bullet rips through your head.. Tell me would you give a bleep what the ******* wasn't wearing?

:lmao:  
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The deer speech gets me every time

 
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