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Not really :tongue

Well, it's got a rather grim view of Hollywood for a movie from the 50s. It's about a star of the silent movies, who can't accept her glory days are over, and a younger sleazy writer who hooks up with her and becomes a kept man, while secretly writing a screenplay with a younger editor.

It's really quite good.
 

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Well, it's got a rather grim view of Hollywood for a movie from the 50s. It's about a star of the silent movies, who can't accept her glory days are over, and a younger sleazy writer who hooks up with her and becomes a kept man, while secretly writing a screenplay with a younger editor.

It's really quite good.

And do I really need to mention that the editor is a pretty girl? :D
 

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It's about a star of the silent movies, who can't accept her glory days are over.

Played by Gloria Swanson, who was really good at it - it's a long time seen I've seen it, but Gloria played the part to a 'T' from what my foggy brain recalls.

I wonder if it was based on anything real, there were plenty of forgotten silent movie people around.
 

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Sunset Blvd. Is great! Another good about Hollywood also made in the 50's is The Bad And The Beautiful.
 

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Good morning Cantina. Rather uneventful in my neck of the woods, though it's really cold again and snowy.

When it comes to classic films, I think I've seen exactly three. Gone With the Wind - I wanted to punch Scarlet throughout the entire thing - Citizen Kane - I was lost from the moment it started - and finally To Kill a Mockingbird, which I actually liked. Didn't mind the book either.

I need to write today.
 

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I have written words, knitted the toe to a sock and learnt to play all eight bars of Barbara Allen with less than ten mistakes all through.

I feel very accomplished.

May I start my chocolate early?

I have :Coffee:
 

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Aaaand I have backread. *ropes Sian so she cannot vanish into Chat*

Junely, hope your mom is doing better than she was.

Today I shall write many many words on one of those weirdass sort-of-military-SF novellas of mine. Yeahuh.

“The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils."

Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.”

WIN.
 

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I always try and watch classic movies but the ones I genuinely get into are few and far between. A lot of the ones I've seen are ones I've only sat all the way through because I felt like I had to at least once, even if I did subsequently barely pay attention and forget everything that happened.

Most recent "classic" film I've seen is the original Godzilla. And regardless of the flaws that have come with age, it's still a damn good film.
 

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Speaking of which... Can someone with better knowledge of decades-old movies than me tell me whether Random Harvest and The Whole Town's Talking are worth the watch?
 

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How would y'all define "classic"? Is there a year or something? Because I've seen a fair share of older movies, but not sure if they're "classic" or not.
 

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How would y'all define "classic"? Is there a year or something? Because I've seen a fair share of older movies, but not sure if they're "classic" or not.
You know, that's a damn fine question. I never really think about the defintion, I just always seem to know if a film is a "classic" or not. Like some kind of really obscure and essentially kind of pointless 6th sense.

Though even with that I get turned around sometimes, mostly by personal opinion. Did you know the original Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th films are classics? I didn't, but apparently to some they are. I knew the original Halloween was, but that kind of deserves to be.
 

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Somewhere in a Dresden book, Jim Butcher defines 'classic' books as 'the ones people have heard of but have never read'. I've always applied the same thing to movies.

I wonder if "The books/movies nearly everyone has read/seen" could apply as well.
 

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On Star Trek - it wasn't so much that fanfic becoming canon was exciting and revolutionary (that has happened since the 50s at least, in varying degrees of "official"), but that a major creator was cool with the notion that his two stars of an internationally-acclaimed series might have been gay. That, alone, was freakin' MASSIVE. It is a real pity that TNG was so lame (and they killed off the one openly gay character after a SINGLE APPEARANCE), so any claims that the franchise is "friendly" is... debatable.

Yeah, I cannot watch pretty much any mobster film made before like, 2010. I don't know why, but they bore me to death, hence my still not having seen The Godfather.

I haven't seen that either. Tried on numerous occasions but never made it very far in before I felt the overwhelming need to just watch something else. Didn't matter what. Just needed to watch something other than The Godfather.

*is speechless*

There was a book?!

*chokes on disbelief*

*turns blue*

I... really don't know how anyone could not have watched The Godfather. Seriously, it is one of the formative influences of my youth, up there with Ghost In The Shell and giant non-fiction books. I must have seen the films (yes, even Part III) at least thirty or more times each. I even have the DVDs.

You know, I had forgotten all about that sub-plot until Max mentioned it. What a strange predicament to have.

Ask Kevin Smith. I'm sure he will talk endlessly about his wife for you. Go on - he's on twitter, and isn't afraid of... sensitive topics.

Just in case anyone's counting - I believe Fen said that I had to beat Bos in this thread under pain of death or something...

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Man, I really need to post moar.

How would y'all define "classic"? Is there a year or something? Because I've seen a fair share of older movies, but not sure if they're "classic" or not.

It is like the quote about the line between erotica and pornography - don't ask me to describe it, but I'll know it when I see it. King Kong is a classic, The Magnificent Ambersons is a classic... even something like Boys Town (no apostrophe) falls into the category. A lot of films from the 30s through to the 60s might land in Classics when they are shown on television or released on DVD, but aren't really. Some are downright awful, but because they are old some people insist on sticking them into the same lists.
 

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*Checks nerd card at the door*

I have never seen this film.

Neither have I.

But really, there are soooo many movies and books and TV shows out there, there is no way one person could consume them all.

Unless of course, they have absolutely no life what so ever.
 

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*Checks nerd card at the door*

I have never seen this film.
I hadn't until yesterday. After watching some videos about old science fiction movies I decided to try it. And really liked it. This is the same reason I want to finally watch 'Metropolis' too.
 

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It is like the quote about the line between erotica and pornography - don't ask me to describe it, but I'll know it when I see it. King Kong is a classic, The Magnificent Ambersons is a classic... even something like Boys Town (no apostrophe) falls into the category. A lot of films from the 30s through to the 60s might land in Classics when they are shown on television or released on DVD, but aren't really. Some are downright awful, but because they are old some people insist on sticking them into the same lists.

I have seen all the Godfather movies at least once. My dad loves them.

Also, I think I've seen nearly every John Wayne movie he ever made. Again, thanks to my dad.

Some of my favorite classics are Gone With the Wind, Ben-Hur, Ten Commandments, most John Wayne stuff. I've seen a lot of Marx Brothers stuff too, thanks to the husband.

:shrug: My movie viewing is kind of random.
 

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This is the same reason I want to finally watch 'Metropolis' too.

The classic silent film which was (relatively recently) restored, or the expansive anime which took chunks of Astro Boy as well as inspiration from the original?

Surely you haven't consumed everything there is to consume?

Well... Not everything, but I'm working on that. :D
 

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When it comes to classic film, in the grand scheme of things I'm massively under-educated. But that's nothing compared to how inexperienced and clueless I am in terms of classic literature.

Name a classic novel and there's a 99% change I've not even attempted to read it. Which really is not a good thing in any way.
 
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