day of the dolphin is on instant watch fyi ive been meaning to watch it for a while and havent
― johnny crunch, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
"Man, don't you know who I am? I'm Big Dick Blaque."
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
georgie looks like samuel beckett on that poster
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
Petulia is quite good.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
paul sorvino!
buck henry!
shit i need to see this!
― goole, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
i probably won't vote because i haven't seen very many of these, but i'd probably go for patton. so watchable, so instense.
― goole, Monday, July 18, 2011 11:12 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
Same. Patton is pretty great but I just haven't seen enough of the others.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
it's between Patton and Hardcore but I love this guy whatever dreck he's in really.
also, the remake of Football in the Groin seems to be missing.
― dave lool (Noodle Vague), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
But yeah the Hustler is an amazing performance and one of my favorite movies so that.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0LzAEn3yZ4&feature=related
― dave lool (Noodle Vague), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
i think my favorite little moment in patton doesn't involve scott tho
there's a neat little piece of exposition, there the german general staff is watching an intelligence film put together about the american leadership, with the added little characterization that the intelligence officer has more respect for patton and (especially) bradley than his own superiors.
― goole, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
hardcore is great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Toj8nkaPdtA
― DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED (Princess TamTam), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
sold
― goole, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
honestly did not recognize george c. in that clip for a while!
Don't forget to like Big Dick Blaque on Facebook.
― clemenza, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
anybody who's never seen that made for TV version of 12 Angry Men needs to get on it btw, as well as George chewing the scenery you get James Gandolfini, Tony Danza, and in a surprise 90s twist the racist juror is a black guy.
― dave lool (Noodle Vague), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED (Princess TamTam), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
oh and Jack Lemmon is Henry Fonda
― dave lool (Noodle Vague), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
I can imagine Scott chewing on a curtain or table, maybe Danza's fingers if they're in the way.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
Ha! That IS amazing! Never seen it. I'm assuming it's a satire.
xxpost Sarris OTM as usual.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, July 18, 2011 11:08 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark
it's not satire. it's also not nearly as exciting as it sounds. probably more than half of it is gcs using baby talk to speak to a dolphin.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
― dave lool (Noodle Vague), Monday, July 18, 2011 11:22 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark
OTM. It's almost as great as the production we did in my all-girls HS of 12 Angry Women. Almost. I was the old one btw.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
is that on netflix
― goole, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
i am genuinely baffled by the praise for 'petulia.'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
Petulia is an interesting period piece, but imo not a good movie. Patton is likely to take this in a walk, bcause it is a genuinely omgwtf bit of filmmaking. It sucks that Nixon was obsessed with it and probably watched it 50 times, but I refuse to let this tawdry fact put me off of GCS's juiciest role.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
I am not going to 'buck' my natural inclination for Strangelove, but this guy was even great in crap, usually. Also, best Scrooge ever.
Have always meant to check out a few episodes of East Side/West Side, which co-starred Cicely Tyson.
― joyless shithead (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
also really funny in both halves of Movie Movie
― joyless shithead (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
Elvis Presley was apparently also obsessed with Patton, and spent his down time on Hollywood sets reciting George C. Scott's speeches word for word.
A pity that Nixon and he couldn't bond over this during their historic meeting.
― Virginia Plain, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
One of my fave actors! Seen a lot of these, potential toss up between They Might Be Giants and East Side/West Side
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
Well worth checking out. If anything, go track down the episode where James Earl Jones plays a father whose child is killed by a rat.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
Much better than Paul Newman here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLgqgstPnIQ
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
on the other hand he doesn't have to deliver Newman's terrible monologue.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
He was almost always good, sometimes excellent, but at worst watchable. I can't help but go with good old Buck Turgidson.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
Final Scene of Day of the Dolphin, so, uh, spoiler alert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Mx_c3duF0
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 21 July 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KmJZs5I4r8
― buzza, Thursday, 21 July 2011 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
dont sleep on the rescuers down under yall
― DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 21 July 2011 06:04 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 21 July 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
no real surprises here, yes?
― der Honigdachs kümmert sich nicht ... das ist ihm egal! (Eisbaer), Thursday, 21 July 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
Mr. President (TV series) (1987–1988) - President Samuel Arthur Tresch
this was so weird
― No Broehner (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 July 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
as lurid as hardcoreis, its really really fun imo. obv, the gag for a lot of it is gawk @ scott's character, fish out of water, etc but it's really played naturally (as much as possible) & 2 drive the plot. that whole scene where he poses as the casting director is classic as hell
these are good nuggets from imdb -
George C. Scott and director Paul Schrader did not get along, so much so that at one point Scott refused to come out of his trailer and threatened to quit the film. Scott only agreed to come out after forcing Schrader to promise that he would never direct again (obviously, Schrader went back on his promise).
Paul Schrader originally had Scott's character discover that his daughter was been killed in a totally unrelated car crash, at which point he simply goes back home. He changed it to Scott finding her against his better judgment.
was been killed
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
i liked Petulia. hadnt known going in that the DP was Nic Roeg. flash forwards! i feel like i need to watch it again, actually, maybe after a few months.
it was amazing to me the # of locations/set-ups --srsly like a seasons worth of arrested development. a lot, maybe most, that dont repeat. must've taken forever! there was a short making-of on the dvd but id be interested to know a lot more info
― johnny crunch, Monday, 12 September 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
The Hospital feels very much like Network in miniature--Chayefsky really had a thing about black radicals, didn't he? I liked it just about as much, meaning not a great deal. The atmospherics are good, and it would make a good double-bill with Frederic Wiseman's Hospital from a year earlier. (Where Chayefsky got the idea? There were other hospital films around too--Such Good Friends, The Doctors, etc.) Scott looks exactly like his character ought to look, but this is probably where he begins to cross the line into self-caricature (assuming he's good in Patton, which I haven't seen for ages). His big diatribe when he's in his office with Diana Rigg is too much by half. It's good that she points out to him that he's in love with the sound of his own voice, but she means the character, and it's better directed at the actor. (The scene made me think of Jack Lemmon's don't-sell-me-America monologue in Save the Tiger.) The rest of the time, he grimaces a lot while summarizing plot points: "You mean to tell me..." As always, enjoyed spotting various character actors.
― clemenza, Sunday, 23 March 2014 14:21 (ten years ago) link
Chayefsky really had a thing about black radicals, didn't he?
and youth, and women... he was a vile man.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 March 2014 04:41 (ten years ago) link
A familiar New York intellectual except he wasn't invited to the Trilling, McCarthy, Mailer, Kazin, etc parties.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 March 2014 11:49 (ten years ago) link
p cool tcm showed a 'portrait of an actor' on him which was filmed while he was on the set of 'the last run', they compare him to bogart several times which….idk
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 22 November 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
its here -- 156 views !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxnnPYhHNeE
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 22 November 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, July 20, 2011 7:25 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
interesting! yea I am reading the bk 'david Susskind: a televised life' & this is discussed somewhat in depth. ep is called "Who Do You Kill?" im a have to check it out
― johnny crunch, Friday, 23 December 2016 18:35 (seven years ago) link
so the Quad in NYC is showing The Savage Is Loose, best described as Scott's "self-distributed incest movie." Alec Baldwin will be discussing it afterward with George's son Campbell!
http://www.cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/9328-WE-WANT-OUR-DVD!-THE-SAVAGE-IS-LOOSE-1974-STARRING-GEORGE-C.-SCOTT-AND-TRISH-VAN-DEVERE.html
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:40 (seven years ago) link
i'd never heard of the savage is loose before - it sounds utterly deranged
In 1902, John (Scott), his much younger wife Maida (Scott's real-life wife, Trish Van Devere) and their infant son David (played by both Lee Montgomery and John David Carson) are the only survivors of a ship that crashes into the rocky beach of an uncharted island during a violent storm. By 1912, David, now a seemingly happy 12-year-old boy, begins to enter puberty. By the time he is 17, David is consumed by lust for his mother, which drives a wedge between him and his father to the point where they hunt each other down for the affections of the only woman on the island.
and the tagline was 'no woman is an island... forever' which is memorably awful
have you seen it before, morbs?
― adolf hitler, the moses hightower of national socialism (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:46 (seven years ago) link
no, i remember local TV ads for it in '74, but for some reason didn't ask Dad to take me.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 13:02 (seven years ago) link
really doesn't seem like family entertainment, that's for sure
― adolf hitler, the moses hightower of national socialism (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 13:56 (seven years ago) link
desert island dicks
― virginity simple (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 14:10 (seven years ago) link
incest-fantasy island
― adolf hitler, the moses hightower of national socialism (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 14:12 (seven years ago) link
swiss family fuckin'-son
― adolf hitler, the moses hightower of national socialism (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 14:15 (seven years ago) link
to steal a later Woody Allen title, Oedipus Wrecks
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 14:23 (seven years ago) link
nice
― virginity simple (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 14:40 (seven years ago) link
I'm going tonight to The Savage Is Loose, I'll be v curious to gauge its batshittery AND to hear Baldwin's approach in interviewing Campbell Scott.
https://quadcinema.com/film/the-savage-is-loose/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 May 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
p sure I have seen it, don't recall it being too great
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 18 May 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link
I expect few in attendance are expecting it to be great. If I need to see it once, might as well be in a theater as it's 2.35:1 ratio.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 May 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
V Canby in '74:
A heavily portentous line spoken early in the film by the son (played as an adolescent by Lee H. Montgomery) points the way: "Mother, when I grow up, can we get married?"
Trouble erupts 10 years later when the son, now played by John David Carlson, has started to court his mother in earnest. He leaves orchids by her coconut-shell soup bowl and asks pointed questions on the order of: "Who was Cain's wife?" When Mom and Dad make love, he likes to peek.
Says Mom to Dad in the semi-privacy of their bamboo-walled bedroom: "We've got a lusting male with no outlet." That is, no *satisfactory* outlet. Mom has found that the boy has constructed a curious substitute woman, apparently out of the all-purpose coconut shells, in a jungle hideaway.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 May 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link