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Re: Categorical - washingtonismoney - 07-22-2014

I always enjoyed Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Martin and Michael Caine.

Re: Categorical - oman - 07-22-2014

(07-22-2014, 08:09 AM)washingtonismoney link Wrote:I always enjoyed Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Martin and Michael Caine.

My real name is Ruprecht.

tiggle tiggle tiggle.....

Re: Categorical - teejers1 - 07-22-2014

The line/scene that made me chuckle (beyond opening one) was when Steve Martin, down on his luck after product craters, says (I'm paraphrasing):  "I don't need any of this . . . except this lamp . . ." 

It was so quirky it made me giggle.



Re: Categorical - CowboyIndian - 07-22-2014

(07-21-2014, 09:36 PM)ferrari link Wrote:I met Clint in a cheap bar, in Spain, while he was filming Un Pugno Di Dollari.

Sounds sordid....although I like it as an opening sentence.

Re: Categorical - FarmBoy - 07-22-2014

teejers: that's a fantastic scene. The full quote, from IMDB:

Quote:Well I'm gonna to go then! And I don't need any of this. I don't need this stuff, and I don't need *you*. I don't need anything. Except this.
[picks up an ashtray]
And that's the only thing I need is *this*. I don't need this or this. Just this ashtray... And this paddle game. - The ashtray and the paddle game and that's all I need... And this remote control. - The ashtray, the paddle game, and the remote control, and that's all I need... And these matches. - The ashtray, and these matches, and the remote control, and the paddle ball... And this lamp. - The ashtray, this paddle game, and the remote control, and the lamp, and that's all *I* need. And that's *all* I need too. I don't need one other thing, not one... I need this. - The paddle game and the chair, and the remote control, and the matches for sure. Well what are you looking at? What do you think I'm some kind of a jerk or something! - And this. That's all I need.
[walking outside]
The ashtray, the remote control, the paddle game, and this magazine, and the chair.
[outside now] And I don't need one other thing, except my dog.
[Shithead growls at him]
I don't need my dog.


Re: Categorical - martyup - 07-22-2014

I sat and had lunch with Jonathan Winters several decades ago.  He is always "on" and seemed certifiable but funny as can be.  Very nice man.

Re: Categorical - martyup - 07-22-2014

(07-22-2014, 03:45 PM)ferrari link Wrote:[quote author=martyup link=topic=10113.msg92784#msg92784 date=1406068946]
I sat and had lunch with Jonathan Winters several decades ago.  He is always "on" and seemed certifiable but funny as can be.  Very nice man.

I envy you.  Were you able to eat?  Did he?  Anyone choke? :)
[/quote]

To be honest, I can't remember anything about the food.  I just remember he couldn't stop cracking jokes.

Re: Categorical - oman - 08-10-2014

So just got around to seeing Boyhood today.

Curious as to your thoughts.  Saw it with my college daughter who liked it a good deal.  My initial thought was that it was kind of a flick that more men than women would relate to, but after thinking about it, don't necessarily feel that way.

Oh, I thought it was pretty wonderful.

Re: Categorical - Nan3cy - 08-10-2014

Thanks for your thoughts about Boyhood, Oman - a friend and I are planning to see it tomorrow.

The spouse and I saw A Most Wanted Man last week. I thought it was very good, though my husband was very frustrated with the ending. Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance was just spectacular.



Re: Categorical - FarmBoy - 08-11-2014

My wife was out of town with the kids a few weeks back, so I ended up checking out a few films: Boyhood, Chef, and Guardians of the Galaxy.

Boyhood was good, but not great. While it was fascinating to see the children grow before our eyes, the story was not very compelling, the writing felt a bit amateurish and some of the acting was stilted, in my opinion. Arquette and her professor husband were particularly bad. The only seen with Arquette that I believed was her final scene at her kitchen table. It was definitely worth seeing for it's uniqueness, but it did little than pass the time for me.

Chef was nice, but predictable and formulaic. Still, Favreau chews up scenery nicely and I liked a lot of the characters. Worth seeing, but not a great film.

Guardians of the Galaxy was a surprise pleasure. I actually had no interest in seeing it until a neighbor invited me and I didn't want to be anti-social. Chris Pratt has a lot of charisma and the jokes were so well written and the physician humor, much of it done with animation and live action interplay was very well done. It's by no means a great film, but I must admit, it was the best of the three.

Re: Categorical - Hulk01 - 08-11-2014

Solid with farmboy on Boyhood and Chef.

Boyhood seemed a tedious as childhood often was, and lasted almost as long.

Chef was a nice confection.  I was happy to see the sexpot get to play in something other than a cartoon.

The Phillip Seymour Hoffman movie confused me when it wasn't drawing my eyelids together.  Honestly.  But several movies have put me to sleep in the last 18 months.

Fingers crossed on the James Brown film. 

Best of all, heading to the setting of my novel, which my editor says will be a movie, in nine days,  With my lovely class of '73 mate,

Thanks for the reviews, everyone.



Re: Categorical - Bruce Wang - 08-11-2014

(07-21-2014, 06:48 PM)leftcoast link Wrote:By the way, Publius, I liked your Avengers cartoon.  If you are going to take on a full scale Alien invasion of New York using only a pistol look cool while doing the job. 

Was that a Publius original?

Of course not.  I'm not that talented.

I also saw Guardians.  Thought it was good.  Mostly enjoyed the comic book fanboy nerd easter eggs especially the post credits scene which brings the whole genius of Disney's acquisition of Star Wars and Marvel together.

What bothered me most about Guardians, what pierced the suspension of disbelief.  Not the talking raccoon.  Instead - I don't care how awesome it is.  Nobody can listen to the same mix tape for 20 years.

Re: Categorical - oman - 08-11-2014

Yeah, let me know Nan3cy -- I know you have the Texas ties and I am wondering if we Texans are giving it a complete and total free pass.  I certainly have felt that way about Slacker and especially Dazed and Confused. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/us/texas-gets-love-letter-in-boyhood.html?_r=0

I think that Boyhood simply isn't a comparable film to just about anything.  I think I could see someone thinking it was overpraised beyond the initial clever idea that it is based on.  I wouldn't respect that opinion all that much, but anyone who has recently spoken to a teenage boy or an alcoholic knows the dialogue is going to be pretty stilted. 

I'm still thinking about the movie and will be thinking about it for months and years to come. 

We can talk about issues of great import and see films that address great topics, but the idea of this film about the simple passage of time pretty much hit me like -- not like a ton of bricks -- but like the inevitable passage of time. 




Re: Categorical - fullmetal - 08-11-2014

AFAIK, the hierarchy goes

EMT-P(aramedic)
EMT-I(ntermediate)
EMT-B(asic)
ACLS
BLS
First Responder certified
First Aid/CPR certified

where EMT = emergency medical technician.

3D - Rally - 08-11-2014

I know it is panned, disrespected, etc. But we watched our first 3D movie tonight, on our new (today) Sony 4K set, Gravity, and it was very different than watching it sometime ago in regular.  Interesting, with a few Holy Sh.it moments for us old guys. No fuzziness, no blurs, great color, smooth motion.  Watched the HBO On Demand version on Fios. Does anyone else find this format interesting?

Re: Categorical - Robbie - 08-11-2014

(08-11-2014, 05:19 PM)fullmetal link Wrote:AFAIK, the hierarchy goes

EMT-P(aramedic)
EMT-I(ntermediate)
EMT-B(asic)
ACLS
BLS
First Responder certified
First Aid/CPR certified

where EMT = emergency medical technician.

There's also Emergency Medical Responder somewhere in the list. And then above the top is a variety of  things - Critical Care Nurse; Physician. There's also Wilderness EMT and Outdoor Emergency Care which are more or less parallel to this scale, but focused on backcountry response. And the military has its own levels of specialization. When push comes to shove whoever is on scene who knows what to do is the person who does it.

And for what it's worth, I'm getting my EMT-B license this fall.


Re: Categorical - fullmetal - 08-12-2014

Yeah, I was thinking of pre-hospital care.  I took an EMT-B course but never sat for the registry exam.  Probably should have, just for kicks.

ACLS/BLS are certifications that hospital healthcare providers are required to have, but I'm not sure if they're required for EMT licensure at any level.  They do seem to be more endorsements than certifications.

Re: Categorical - oman - 01-10-2015

Just a reminder that the super great Boyhood is out on DVD!  (If it is out I am sure there is a copy of Chef available.)

But seriously, this week Marc Maron's WTF podcast had a really great interview of Paul Thomas Anderson and a very solid one of Richard Linklater. 

PTA  is just awesome and the interview made me want to rewatch all his stuff.  Linklater was just so damn down to earth that it took the interview a while to get going, but by the end you realize what a blue collar badass Linklater is. 

Maron is a terrific interviewer, especially when the guest is not a comedian he already knows.