― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)
― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)
― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)
"You don't even know your own mind."
― mamieOrourke, Monday, 12 December 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)
guy in vest pushes up window in tenement window, scratches armpit, takes stoagie out of mouth "Hey, you kids! Scram"
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)
― Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)
― the pinefox, Monday, 12 December 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)
"nuthin'"
"well let's have a *look* at some o' that nuthin!"
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)
― Chris L, Monday, 12 December 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)
― Chris L, Monday, 12 December 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)
"Why I oughta...!"
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)
― Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)
― Chris L, Monday, 12 December 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)
― Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)
"don't be ridiculous!"
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)
― the bellefox, Monday, 12 December 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)
Bloke takes off his uniform cap, scratches his head with the same hand that's holding the cap, then replaces cap on head.
also
"Come come, officer. I'm a respectable man."
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)
"Here, son, I'll take one of those"
― kingfish trampycakes (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)
― nein Socken (nein Socken), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)
This was also in Platoon.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)
― stet (stet), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)
― kingfish trampycakes (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)
also, all men wearing hats
― kingfish trampycakes (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)
― kingfish trampycakes (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)
― JTS, Monday, 12 December 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)
― nein Socken (nein Socken), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)
Far more common (especially among middle-aged couples) than I ever imagined.
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)
― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)
― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)
why hello there mister so and so!
how doooo you do?
― Kim (Kim), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)
― Chris L, Monday, 12 December 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)
― Slumpman (Slump Man), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)
― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)
Ha ha "The Sting" is one of my fave movies
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)
― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)
― bsj30 (bsj30), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)
Garbage can lid used as percussion.
― Mayor of Dutchtown (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)
― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)
― Slumpman (Slump Man), Monday, 12 December 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)
Or a gay man, as in The Maltese Falcon.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 06:25 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)
― The Other Kate (papa november), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 07:40 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer: Deutsch Bag (latebloomer), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer: Deutsch Bag (latebloomer), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 09:25 (twenty years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)
Falling in love with the singer at The Kit Kat Club.
Four single girls living in a room with a double bed with stockings draped over every surface.
Going for a night on the town by walking down a conveyor belt as neon signs flash tantalisingly by.
Men standing about with their hands in their trouser pockets.
Typewriters.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)
― Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)
"Say what does a guy have to do to get served around here?"
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)
"Say, who turned the lights out?"
Birth scene:
"Get me hot water... and lots of it."
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)
― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)
― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)
"Why, I can't quite recall now..."
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)
"I wouldn't kid you about a thing like that, honest I wouldn't"
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)
"Go on, beat it"
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)
― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)
(Since Dadaismus took Johnny, I went with Charlie)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)
"Just what makes you think I can remember something that happened so long ago?"
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)
That happens in every episode of CSI Miami, doesn't it? But with the names changed to Pedro and Miguel, obviously.
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)
Officer O'Hagan: "Get a hold of yourself Joe!"Officer O'Brien: "... it's just that little punk..."Officer O'Hagan: "... I know, but we ain't gonna catch Mayor Flotsky's murderer by flying off the handle like that, are we?"Officer O'Brien: "Yeah Jim, you're right but when I think of Mayor Flotsky, gunned down in front of his own wife and kids... well, it turns my stomach Jim"Officer O'Hagan; "Hold on, what were Mayor Flotsky's wife doing in the Kitty Kat Club?"Director; "CUT!!"
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)
"It's quiet out there now""Yeah, too quiet"
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)
"Careful? Is that why you rubbed your mitts all over the mayor's phone while placing a call to Alice Crabtree? What were you tryin' to do, impress her?"
Jimmy Stewart"You see that fella over there? Goes by the name of Johnny. Just Johnny. Presents himself to the public as a purveyor of pinball machines. There's a lot of p's in that sentence. It'll be a few more years before I can say the word 'panties' in a motion picture."
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)
Woman putting on earrings at dressing table discusses her date with maid.
― Joe Kay (feethurt), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)
(x-post)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)
... gone a bit Star Trek there
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)
... this would work in a horror movie too
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)
"Oh Bob, hold me"
"Now now Jane, you're safe now"
CUT! REWRITE!
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)
"I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!"
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)
― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)
― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)
― Chris L, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)
― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)
― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 05:24 (twenty years ago)
― PJ, Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)
Elvis looks slightly confused, or bored.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)
CUT TO FIREPLACE
― stet (stet), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)
― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)
The gay nineties, specifically what happened in the Bowery, exerts an fascination nothing can possibly quench.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 15 December 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)
― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 15 December 2005 02:07 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 15 December 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 15 December 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)
― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 16 December 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 16 December 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 16 December 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 16 December 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 16 December 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)
Harry: not bad for an old dog! [ both men laugh ] Have a seat. [ Johnny sits ] How's the film going?
Johnny O'Connor: Well, I just shot the last scene. [ re-enacts that last scene for Harry ] There I was in the cockpit, surrounded by zeroes, enemy aircraft carrier in my sight! My machine guns were empty! I had one bullet left! [ screams ] Aaaagggghhhhhhh!!!!
Harry: [ jumps up ] Alright, snap out of it!
Johnny O'Connor: You snap out of it!
Harry: You snap out of it! [ slaps Jonnhy's face ]
Johnny O'Connor: Sorry, Harry. I think I got a little lost in this role.
Harry: Yeah, I guess you did.
Johnny O'Connor: Anyway, I'm sure "Yankee Kamikazee" is going to be a real winner.
Harry: Well, I hope you're right..
Johnny O'Connor: [ reflecting ] Maybe I've made too many of these war movies. Maybe I should take a rest, huh, Harry?
Harry: Well, I'm glad you brought that up, Johnny.. I was thinking you should take a rest, too. A permanent one.
Johnny O'Connor: [ confused ] What do you mean?
Harry: I'm letting you go.
Johnny O'Connor: You mean..?
Harry: Yes. Your contract isn't being renewed.
Johnny O'Connor: But, Harry, I..
Harry: You're finished, Johnny!
Johnny O'Connor: Don't mince words!
Harry: I think you stink!
Johnny O'Connor: Listen, Harry, if you're unhappy with my work, tell me now!
Harry: You're through, do you hear me, through! You'll never work in this town again!
Johnny O'Connor:Don't leave me hanging by a thread! Let me know how I stand!
Harry: I think you're the worst actor I've ever seen, and I get five hundred letters a day telling me the same!
Johnny O'Connor: What's the word on the street?
Harry: [ angry ] Now, you listen to me, Johnny O'Connor: you've been flying in that airplane too long, and it's time you were grounded!
Johnny O'Connor: Nobody shoots down Johnny O'Connor.. You're forgetting something, Harry! I'm a hero! I've made twelve war movies for you, Harry, and they've all made gold! I've knocked more Mitsubishis out of the sky than any man alive!
Harry: Look, Johnny.. Johnny, you're forgetting something: the Japanese are our allies now. The war is over, Johnny. So are you.
Johnny O'Connor: [ persistent ] Is it the booze, Harry? The dames? I'll cut back!
Harry: No, no, Johnny..
Johnny O'Connor: Is it the pills?
Harry: No.
Johnny O'Connor: The sheep?
Johnny O'Connor: The ducks?
Johnny O'Connor: Your wife?
Harry: No, not.. what?!
Johnny O'Connor: What?!
Harry: What?! Oh! Get off!
Johnny O'Connor: [ near tears ] I'm sorry if I let you down, Harry. You've always been like a father to me..
Harry: [ reconsidering ] Oh, Johnny.. Johnny.. Alright. I'm going to give you one more chance..
Johnny O'Connor: [ excited ] Do you mean it, Harry?
Harry: Yes, I'm afraid I do.. Now, listen - I'm doing a new picture: "Reptilla". A lizard gets mutated by an atomic blast, see? It swells up, twenty stories high! And there's a fire-breathing tango all over Tokyo!
Johnny O'Connor: [ thinking ] Yeah.. yeah.. I think I can play a giant reptile..
Harry: Don't be ridiculous! Reptilla will be played by a man in a rubber suit.
Johnny O'Connor: Oh.. I don't want my face covered.
Harry: Of course not. Now, the part I have in mind for you is this one.. [ flips through script ] You're Man #3.
Johnny O'Connor: Man #3.
Harry: You're on an elevated train. You slip off, and get squished by Reptilla's toe. Here, read this line.
Johnny O'Connor: [ looks at the line and recites it dramatically ] Aaaagggghhhhhh!!
Harry: Good! You can start packing, we sail a week from Tuesday.
Johnny O'Connor: Thanks, Harry, you won't regret it! [ walks away from Harry ]
Harry: Hey, don't forget your script!
Johnny O'Connor: [ returns, grabs script ] Yes! Science fiction! The wave of the future!
― gear (gear), Friday, 16 December 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)
― nein Socken (nein Socken), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 05:47 (twenty years ago)
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 07:44 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 08:03 (twenty years ago)
― Der, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)
― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 9 February 2006 04:47 (nineteen years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 9 February 2006 06:37 (nineteen years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 9 February 2006 06:45 (nineteen years ago)
― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 9 February 2006 06:49 (nineteen years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 9 February 2006 06:57 (nineteen years ago)
― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 9 February 2006 07:02 (nineteen years ago)
― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 9 February 2006 07:05 (nineteen years ago)
― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 9 February 2006 07:06 (nineteen years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 9 February 2006 07:26 (nineteen years ago)
― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 9 February 2006 07:27 (nineteen years ago)
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Thursday, 9 February 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 9 February 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 9 February 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)
― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 9 February 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)
― Pangolino 2, Friday, 10 February 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 10 February 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)
― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Friday, 10 February 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 10 February 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 10 February 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)
― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)
"Why you ungrateful little wretch! I brought you into this house to bring you up properly. You never wanted for anything and all you do is behave like that father of yours. As for this little creature, he doesn't belong in here"
"No, you won't hit my pet rabbit, Fluffy!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)
― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)
― Dave AKA Dave (dave225.3), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)
― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)
― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)
― latebloomer: band to the planet mars (latebloomer), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)
― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)
― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 02:04 (nineteen years ago)
― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 02:07 (nineteen years ago)
― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 02:12 (nineteen years ago)
"Tell me the truth, Doc... *COUGH/wheeze*"
"He learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature and because of it, the greatest in the universe."
― Jimmy Mod: My theme is DEATH (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 02:26 (nineteen years ago)
― latebloomer: filled with vanilla pudding power! (latebloomer), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)
― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)
― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)
*Charlie turns away and punches wall*
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)
― Jimmy Mod: My theme is DEATH (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)
― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)
― Jimmy Mod: My theme is DEATH (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)
― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)
― Washable School Paste (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)
Director: "You've left yourself wide open for a crack ... I'll let it pass."
(actually, only in Busby Berkeley's Footlight Parade w/ Cagney, now on DVD)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)
Ha, I came here to post that one - I was going to add, fruit cart owner shakes fist at departing cars, shouting insults in french or Belgian.
― ratty, Wednesday, 12 April 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 03:14 (nineteen years ago)
― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 07:38 (nineteen years ago)
― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)
― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)
― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)
― In The Court Of The Redd King Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Saturday, 10 June 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)
― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Saturday, 10 June 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 June 2006 00:21 (nineteen years ago)
― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Saturday, 10 June 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)
― gear (gear), Saturday, 10 June 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)
― DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Sunday, 11 June 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)
JOEY: "C'mon, baby, don't be like that. This time things'll work out, just like I promised."
SALLY: "I've heard that all before, Joey!"
JOEY: "Baby, I'm closer than ever before! I'm gonna be big time. Heck, we BOTH will!"
SALLY: "Aw Joey, those're just more empty promises!"
Joey grabs her by the shoulders and shakes.
JOEY: "Why don't you believe in me?! Why? Why?!"
Joey raises his hand to backslap Sally.
Sally starts crying. She pushes Joey away.
SALLY: "Joey, you're scarin' me!"
Joey looks at her and then turns around, biting his lip.
JOEY: "Oh jeez...sorry, baby, I...I don't know what came over me..."
― gear (gear), Sunday, 11 June 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)
".......it was a snub-nosed 44"
― PhilK, Sunday, 16 September 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)
detective wearing shirt with sleeves rolled up, loosens tie while talking into old fashioned rotary dial phone: "I'm gonna nail that sick sonofabitch even if the chief takes my badge!"
― snoball, Sunday, 16 September 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)
No, you didn't hear anyone called a sick sonofabitch in an old movie. Unless you're talking about True Grit or later.
― Rock Hardy, Sunday, 16 September 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)
Technicolor Consultant: Natalie Kalmus
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 18 January 2008 17:10 (seventeen years ago)
Closeup still shot of some expository document (newspaper, invitation to fancy dress ball, etc.) with the relevant portion of text helpfully illuminated
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 29 May 2008 12:45 (seventeen years ago)
This is a great thread.
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 29 May 2008 17:58 (seventeen years ago)
WHAT'S THE MEANING OF ALL THIS?
― amateurist, Thursday, 29 May 2008 18:32 (seventeen years ago)
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=GLOSSARY
― kenan, Thursday, 29 May 2008 18:55 (seventeen years ago)
FREUD
PSYCHOANALYSIS
― Joe, Thursday, 29 May 2008 19:01 (seventeen years ago)
a hayride
― Sparkle Motion, Thursday, 29 May 2008 19:38 (seventeen years ago)
Long opening credits, no closing credits.
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 29 May 2008 19:40 (seventeen years ago)
"A good cast is worth repeating"
― Matt #2, Thursday, 29 May 2008 20:07 (seventeen years ago)
this thread was my proudest ilx achievement.
― J.D., Thursday, 29 May 2008 22:23 (seventeen years ago)
It's a great thread, JD. And it spawned a host of similar threads, if I recall.
― moley, Thursday, 29 May 2008 23:15 (seventeen years ago)
"Guards! Seize him!!"
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 29 May 2008 23:41 (seventeen years ago)
"Say, what goes on?"
― James Morrison, Friday, 30 May 2008 02:07 (seventeen years ago)
old, spectacled bookshop owner answering hero's inquiries while shelving books on a ladder
― Hurting 2, Friday, 30 May 2008 02:18 (seventeen years ago)
"Hello?" ... "Yes?" ... "Harry? My god, well what's the..." ... "He did?" ... "He did?" ... "HE DID..." ... "Well, I'll be over there right away."
― Hurting 2, Friday, 30 May 2008 02:20 (seventeen years ago)
well, that's just my dumb luck
― amateurist, Friday, 30 May 2008 04:59 (seventeen years ago)
aaaaaahahahahah SO TRUE!
― Z S, Friday, 30 May 2008 05:12 (seventeen years ago)
Yes what were the other "in every X ever" threads? I know there were TV and/or horror film ones but a search came up bupkiss for me.
― Trayce, Friday, 30 May 2008 05:16 (seventeen years ago)
has anyone used the word "swell" after 1970?
― latebloomer, Friday, 30 May 2008 07:02 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.arcollectibles.com/oveur.jpg
― Granny Dainger, Friday, 30 May 2008 07:22 (seventeen years ago)
"Gee, y'all remembered my birthday after all"
― JTS, Friday, 30 May 2008 21:05 (seventeen years ago)
Susan: "Say mother, why can't I wear something a little more *BECOMING* for the prom this Saturday?" Mother: "You're a Dillinger, Susan, and Dillingers wear the family velour!" (cut to ugly 1920s picture of mother in bad prom dress) Susan: (weeps, formulates elaborate plan somehow using her 14 year old brother's baseball skills, gets interrupted at pivotal moment of prom by mother, prom is stopped momentarily, principal jumps in as mediator, a lesson is learned by everyone, mother dances lightheartedly with principal as the final frame)
― JTS, Friday, 30 May 2008 21:14 (seventeen years ago)
a tycoon/shop owner who is fat and grumpy for a majority of the film
― modernism, Saturday, 17 January 2009 09:19 (sixteen years ago)
"hey now, break it up you two!"
― modernism, Saturday, 17 January 2009 09:20 (sixteen years ago)
"now i want you two to shake hands and make friends."
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 17 January 2009 09:21 (sixteen years ago)
"boy, i'm not feeling well -- would you run across the street and get me some bicarbonate of soda?"
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 17 January 2009 09:22 (sixteen years ago)
bumbling but lovable east european sidekick
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 17 January 2009 09:24 (sixteen years ago)
soundtrack by a former German/Austrian. (great thread!)
― Ludo, Saturday, 17 January 2009 10:36 (sixteen years ago)
"I'll wash your mouth out with soap!"
― Joe Bob 1 Tooth (Hurting 2), Saturday, 17 January 2009 15:20 (sixteen years ago)
People standing up, walking slowly round the room, and/or staring glassily into the distance in the middle of a conversation for no apparent reason. If one is a woman there may also be unnecessary hand-wringing.
― chap, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:28 (sixteen years ago)
stage-y scene where the hero makes the angry mob do a 180 through sheer eloquence
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:33 (sixteen years ago)
a crippled millionaire
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:38 (sixteen years ago)
spitoon --> *ding*
girl's umbrella turns inside out on NY sidewalk, "excuse me miss, would you like a hand?" then dinner, italian and/or coffee, black.
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:40 (sixteen years ago)
the children actually do their chores when they're told and without complaint
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:45 (sixteen years ago)
frantic rotary phone dialing moment
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:46 (sixteen years ago)
a doorman
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:47 (sixteen years ago)
woman's scream 14 times louder than everything else in the movie
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:48 (sixteen years ago)
The tough-gal waitress chews gum and cracks wise as she dispenses coffee to working men at the roadside diner.
"Drop a nickel on me some day, Shorty, and I'll show you a good time."
― Aimless, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:49 (sixteen years ago)
housewife/femme fatale sunbathing by mansion backyard pool, "oh, mr smith, why my husband wont be home for another three hours."
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:51 (sixteen years ago)
Married couples sleeping in different rooms.
― chap, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:52 (sixteen years ago)
"now why are you so ornery"
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:54 (sixteen years ago)
a lady's hand moving down the staircase banister
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:55 (sixteen years ago)
"Murder's a dirty business... a DAMN dirty business."
― chap, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:55 (sixteen years ago)
a badly superimposed model plane
a shady transaction at the docks
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:58 (sixteen years ago)
kid loses ball, bad guy stops it coolly by stepping on it, exaggerated shot of bad guy from kid's perspective, "uh thanks mister.." "hi billy, is your mother home?" no answer, kid runs away freaked out.
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 01:06 (sixteen years ago)
"Oh darling, I'm so terribly terribly happy!"
― chap, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 01:16 (sixteen years ago)
Couples in love doing a weird shoulder-graspy cheek-nuzzle thing rather than actually kissing.
― chap, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 01:18 (sixteen years ago)
An overweight policeman blowing a whistle.
― chap, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 01:27 (sixteen years ago)
http://s5.tinypic.com/316nudw.jpg
― Ludo, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 09:27 (sixteen years ago)
Pretty sure noone has said this; but no colours!
I used ot think that that's how the world was: BW. hahaha
― the tip of the tongue taking a trip tralalala (stevienixed), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 10:34 (sixteen years ago)
Immobile hairstyles.
― chap, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 13:25 (sixteen years ago)
woman leaning against convertible, smoking, waiting for dude, what took ya so long, jimmy?
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 14:02 (sixteen years ago)
Opening credits. Which are longer than the actual film.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 15:25 (sixteen years ago)
Man picks up phone receiver:
"Hey Mabel, get me Johnny Shoeshine in Poughkeepsie."
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 16:28 (sixteen years ago)
"How do you do?" with the response "How do you do?"
― Dewey B., Wednesday, 11 March 2009 17:23 (sixteen years ago)
People calling each other 'chum' or 'pal'.
― chap, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 17:29 (sixteen years ago)
A man gets shot, clutches his heart, gurns in agony, and crumples slowly to the floor. No blood is visible. He is probably wearing a fedora, in which case it falls off.
― chap, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 17:35 (sixteen years ago)
― chap, Tuesday, March 10, 2009 9:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
Who is nearly knocked over by a crowd* of people running in the opposite direction.
*Often represented by like 5 extras
― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 18:02 (sixteen years ago)
...and as he is almost up, he gets knocked over by a straggler.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 18:05 (sixteen years ago)
Over-lit, over-long close-up of a letter written in cursive.
― chap, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 19:14 (sixteen years ago)
"That kid's got moxie!"
― craven, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 19:52 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/theend.jpg
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 21:30 (sixteen years ago)
Recently happened to see On The Waterfront, before Schulberg's passing, and saw the whole Johnny and Charlie thing in full bloom.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 August 2009 01:48 (sixteen years ago)
"I'm sure I don't know what you mean!"
― claws of jungle red (Stevie D), Sunday, 9 August 2009 23:24 (sixteen years ago)
The classic melodramatic image (one character faced away from the others; all faced towards us) needs to return (to Hollywood film; it's still all over TV soaps):
http://joancrawfordbest.com/46hum13.jpg
http://joancrawfordbest.com/wm54jg4.jpg
http://joancrawfordbest.com/46hum8.jpg
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 10 August 2009 00:01 (sixteen years ago)
First and third pix from Humoresque (1946), second from ILX's beloved Johnny Guitar.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 10 August 2009 00:15 (sixteen years ago)
no one did that look like her
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 10 August 2009 00:19 (sixteen years ago)
"if you'll excuse me..."
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 10 August 2009 00:20 (sixteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APUQeQalRsU
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 April 2011 14:18 (fourteen years ago)
Was meaning to come to this thread to post
Man in office shaves with electric razor while carrying on plot-advancing discussion.
― destroy poll monsters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 April 2011 14:22 (fourteen years ago)
^^^unless it's a really old movie, in which case it's a straight razor (w/standard undershirt)
― I was bored/trolling one day (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 14 April 2011 16:12 (fourteen years ago)
- unacquainted man & woman meet, go on 2 dates, promptly get engaged
― i can tina turner (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 14 April 2011 16:19 (fourteen years ago)
"I know it seems unbelievable, Mr. Mayor, but I'm begging you - you've got to hear me out! If what Jimmy and Janey says is true, then the whole county could be in danger!"
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 5 April 2013 05:12 (twelve years ago)
"I believe I've heard quite enough of your stories, Doctor! Miss Blankman, show this man to the exit!"
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 5 April 2013 05:13 (twelve years ago)
Awesome revive of awesome thread.
― What About The Half That's Never Been POLLed (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 April 2013 05:30 (twelve years ago)
this thread is my proudest achievement, i think
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 5 April 2013 05:32 (twelve years ago)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=aPZxhk56O_M#t=50s
― c21m50nm3x1c4n (wins), Friday, 5 April 2013 17:03 (twelve years ago)
ComedianMaster 3 years agohe's great and one of the best if not best actor of all timeReply · 45
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:29 (twelve years ago)
haha, I think we know whose username that is
― c21m50nm3x1c4n (wins), Friday, 5 April 2013 18:43 (twelve years ago)
I do like him tho, and his standup is surprisingly decent!
― c21m50nm3x1c4n (wins), Friday, 5 April 2013 18:44 (twelve years ago)
Bathrooms definitely contain sinks, may contain bathtubs, but NEVER contain toilets.
― Word Salad Username (j.lu), Saturday, 6 April 2013 03:36 (twelve years ago)
I'll say this for Ebert, at least he didn't feel superior to "old movies."
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 April 2013 04:08 (twelve years ago)
Who feels superior to what now?
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 6 April 2013 04:30 (twelve years ago)
this thread's clearly coming from a place of affection, not condescension, but as we know some ppl can't tell the difference
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 6 April 2013 04:32 (twelve years ago)
Or was the remark about Ebert meant as faint praise...? No professional critic scorns "old movies".
― Guy on the internet (B'wana Beast), Saturday, 6 April 2013 08:32 (twelve years ago)
Oh lighten up you stuffy fusspott, how do you think we know enough about 'old movies' to contribute to this thread, by not watching them and not appreciating them? Speaking of which...
― Step not on a loose unforgiving stone on a pyramid to paradise (Tom D.), Saturday, 6 April 2013 08:47 (twelve years ago)
Picking up the story six years on...
Charlie: "Joey! But I thought you were... "
Joey: "...yeah, you and a lot of other mugs, but the whole thing was a set up, Charlie... there were no feds at Delancy's that night, it ain't that easy to rub out Kid Lombardi, especially not if you're a stinkin' copper! See, I needed to lay low for a while, let the heat die down and see what might... transpire... if the Kid was no longer around."
Charlie: "Why you I oughta!"
Joey: "Now settle down there Charlie boy, careful you don't give yerself a heart attack, we wouldn't want for you to end up in the city morgue. Dead."
Charlie: "But Johnny told me, he said ..."
Joey: "Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, I had you figured for being smarter than that...."
Charlie: "Johnny... (blankly) was in on it from the start...(angrily) why that lousy... and Shorty?"
Joey: "Well you know Shorty, always runnin' off at the mout'... but then you fixed him good, didn't you, Charlie? No more singin' like a boyd for old Shorty..."
Charlie: "...now look, I had nuttin' to do wit' that!"
Joey: "Sure Charlie, sure."
Charlie: "Say just wait a minute there, whaddabout the funeral? The whole of the neighbourhood was there and if Kid Lombardi wasn't layin' in that casket just who was?
Joey: "Oh, some stiff fished outta the East River."
Charlie: "And Mrs Lombardi? Could you do that to your own muddah?!?!?"
* voice from behind Charlie*
Little Old Lady: "Oh don't worry about me, Charles, this whooooole thing... *removes wig*... was my idea."
Charlie: "Father Flotsky!"
Meanwhile at the script meeting:
Director: "Right. I got a few problems with this goddamned script. First of all there was an open casket at Joey's funeral, how in holy hell do we explain that? I mean if the whole of the neighbourhood was there surely someone would have noticed it was just some random bum lying in the coffin?"
Screenwriter #1: "Ah, who said it was just some random bum?"
Director: "OK...right. Not some random bum. I'm liking it. I'm liking it. I can see where you're going there... I think?"
Screenwriter #2: "Don't worry, CJ , we can work something up for you tonight, have it in your trailer by tomorrow morning."
Director: "OK, I'll let that ride. Next, what's happened to Johnny? I liked that guy!"
Screenwriter #2: "Uhhhhhhhh. Can you field this one, Myron?"
Screenwriter #3: "Yah, the thing is, CJ, Johnny is scheduled to make a surprise entrance later in the..."
Director: "... another surprise entrance? Goddamn it, we've already had the Kid springing back from the grave, not to mention Father Flotsky, who's next, that little schmuck, Shorty? And while we're on the subject of Father Flotsky, didn't he used to be Mayor Flotsky?"
Screenwriter #4: "But CJ, he was Father Flotsky at the start of the script.... uh, wasn't he?"
Director: "He may well have been but sure as eggs is eggs he was goddamned Mayor Flotsky when he was shot at the goddamned Kitty Cat Club! Jesus H. Christ, this script has more holes in it than Mayor stroke Father Flotsky!"
Screenwriter #1: "I think I've got it: 'Father Flotsky, a simple neighbourhood priest who, thanks to his selfless work with kids growing up in the slums of the Lower Eastside, rose to become Mayor?'"
Director: "He had a wife and kids, Nussbaum, explain to me that one!"
Screenwriter #2: "Twin brother?"
Director: "No!"
Screenwriter #3: "Twin sister!"
Director: "You're fired!"
― Step not on a loose unforgiving stone on a pyramid to paradise (Tom D.), Saturday, 6 April 2013 08:50 (twelve years ago)
Grown ups drinking big glasses of milk
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 6 April 2013 10:16 (twelve years ago)
just havin' you on a bit
Euphemistic cursing ("jeez louise!"), made into an art form by WC Fields.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 April 2013 13:50 (twelve years ago)
saying "good morning" to mean "goodbye"
― pea hen (clouds), Saturday, 6 April 2013 13:54 (twelve years ago)
Grown ups drinking big glasses of milkotm. Especially when said glasses have a luminous glow, as if there were a lightbulb within.
― What About The Half That's Never Been POLLed (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 April 2013 13:58 (twelve years ago)
carrying poisoned (?) milk up staircases
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 April 2013 14:15 (twelve years ago)
Close up of a gun in a bag/drawer, accompanied by ominous string swell.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 6 April 2013 14:25 (twelve years ago)
An extremely low bodycount by today's standards.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 6 April 2013 14:26 (twelve years ago)
studio system-related notices in the credits, e.g. "miss gardner appears with kind permission from metro-goldwyn-mayer studios"
― pea hen (clouds), Saturday, 6 April 2013 14:28 (twelve years ago)
"costumes by edith head"
― sleepingsignal, Saturday, 6 April 2013 16:35 (twelve years ago)
''But that would mean that you ---''''Uh huh!''''And him ---''''That's right, Johnny.''''...I must be dreamin'!'' (faints, others catch him, laughter)
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 7 April 2013 00:11 (twelve years ago)
"Gorblimey, ain't you a sight for sore eyes and no mistake!"
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:25 (twelve years ago)
Ah new thread, bear with me...
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:26 (twelve years ago)
Bad guy with accent quoting "your marvelous poet Shakespeare."
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 September 2013 01:50 (twelve years ago)
Hahaha, that one never gets old.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 13 September 2013 02:04 (twelve years ago)
"That's a load of bunk and you know it"
"You can't chisel me out a dollar, sister"
― karla jay vespers, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 03:25 (nine years ago)
The proper stance for shooting a pistol is to stand sideways and move your other arm completely behind your back in a very exaggerated way.
― Evan, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 05:14 (nine years ago)
"Say, Jimmy, I think your imagination's getting away from you! Sure, the Professor's a little eccentric - but who wouldn't be, stranded out here by himself for so long?"
― stein beck ii: the wrath of grapes (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 28 January 2017 04:09 (eight years ago)
thought of this thread the other day when i saw an old episode of mister ed where somebody says "oh, a wise guy, eh?"
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 28 January 2017 07:09 (eight years ago)
*whistles* "She sure is a beaut!"
― Frobisher, Sunday, 29 January 2017 00:50 (eight years ago)
Watching Scarlet Street. Has a lot of these.
― In Walked Bodhisattva (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 January 2017 05:14 (eight years ago)
"Remember back when we were kids in the old neighborhood, Smitty?" There's always an old neighborhood.
― larry appleton, Sunday, 29 January 2017 05:24 (eight years ago)
While being arrested/dragged away/shunned: "Don't listen to him -- he's crazy, I tell ya!"
― stein beck ii: the wrath of grapes (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 29 January 2017 05:26 (eight years ago)
One of the cars in the car chase has random body parts fall off after hitting a pothole, speedbump, or because they took a turn too fast.
― "I must believe that my charm was not in my ass." (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 29 January 2017 06:01 (eight years ago)
...and then if said car is wrecked, we later see the passengers fixed up with neckbraces, arms in slings, and bandage wraps on heads.
― "I must believe that my charm was not in my ass." (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 29 January 2017 06:05 (eight years ago)
Car crash itself is pokey and unspectacular as Model A gently veers onto dirt shoulder; sound effects and quick cuts to those in car throwing arms in front of faces stand in for excitement.
― stein beck ii: the wrath of grapes (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 29 January 2017 06:10 (eight years ago)
Either:
1. "THE END" appears and that is the actual end of the film2. 100s of film crew ignored in closing credits
― Josefa, Sunday, 29 January 2017 12:41 (eight years ago)
^ excellent, though 100s of film crew, including many of the cast, are routinely ignored in the opening credits too.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 January 2017 13:04 (eight years ago)
oh and after the stars, one title card stuffed with all the other actors making it unreadable
― Frobisher, Monday, 30 January 2017 00:13 (eight years ago)
Lots of actors in credits with only an initial for their first name.Substitute that for just a last name in old French films.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 30 January 2017 00:55 (eight years ago)
"Miss (big name actress) appears courtesy of (big name movie studio)"
― clouds, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 17:56 (eight years ago)
(Performer)'s Wardrobe by (famous designer)
― "I must believe that my charm was not in my ass." (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 18:02 (eight years ago)
Something momentous happens - the dam bursts, the President shoots the Pope, the moon explodes. Montage of politicians, generals, and people in the street establishes that this has the whole city/nation/world spellbound. Cut to a shot of a newspaper, with blaring headline and 1-2 other stories directly responding to this nightmarish development - but, oddly, the remaining columns are still filled with "Tax Board OKs County Plan" and "Aluminum Dealers Conference Kicks Off."
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 15 April 2017 17:59 (eight years ago)
Lol
― TS Hugo Largo vs. Al Factotum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 April 2017 18:42 (eight years ago)
https://hugelolcdn.com/i/362930.png
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 15 April 2017 20:33 (eight years ago)
inappropriate cigarette smoking/drinking
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 15 April 2017 20:51 (eight years ago)
''Fine'' used in the way of ''swell'' or ''wonderful'': ''We have the Presidential Suite at your disposal, if it would fit your needs.'' ''Say, that'd be fine.''
(Possibly just a strange tic specific to Cary Grant.)
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 15 April 2017 23:53 (eight years ago)
Leg brace on child because polio
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 15 April 2017 23:55 (eight years ago)
Alcoholics
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 15 April 2017 23:56 (eight years ago)
The ubiquity of maids, butlers, and other servants.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 April 2017 00:08 (eight years ago)
I've thought about the "fine" thing before and I reckon the equivalent of the 1930s/40s fine would be the way we now say "great" or "cool" in a casual sense.
"Oh you walked the dog already? Fine! Then let's leave…"
― Josefa, Sunday, 16 April 2017 00:33 (eight years ago)
Yeah, that's how I read it too, it's just always so odd - a bit of the idiom that seems to have died a sudden, total death at some point.
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 16 April 2017 02:01 (eight years ago)
We still have that sense in reference to art, dining, she's so, which makes it even odder that colloquially it only ever really means "just ok"
― briscall stool chart (wins), Sunday, 16 April 2017 10:53 (eight years ago)
I guess you could say the word has aged like an acceptable wine
― briscall stool chart (wins), Sunday, 16 April 2017 10:54 (eight years ago)
I still use it a lot. Back to the thread in question:
Trumpeter in jazz band in nightclub from below at an angle.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Sunday, 16 April 2017 13:06 (eight years ago)
^well done
― TS Hugo Largo vs. Al Factotum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 April 2017 13:45 (eight years ago)
Women described as 'handsome'.
― chap, Sunday, 16 April 2017 13:55 (eight years ago)
Women wearing hats.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 April 2017 20:51 (eight years ago)
And gloves, anywhere and at all times.
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 16 April 2017 21:28 (eight years ago)
Anyone, arriving at anyone's home or place of business at any time of day, will be offered a drink or the opportunity to fix themselves one. The wetbar may be more or less fully stocked depending whether this is a millionaire's study or the office of the Chief of Police, but an ice bucket with tongs is invariably present.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 14 July 2017 23:41 (eight years ago)
Hot-cha! Hot-cha! Twenty-three skidoooooo!
― Dippin' Sauce on my Nice New Slacks (Old Lunch), Friday, 14 July 2017 23:59 (eight years ago)
a fistfight where everyone just slaps each other
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 15 July 2017 08:21 (eight years ago)
Foreign professor in a bow tie
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 15 July 2017 13:34 (eight years ago)
My friend needs information or they'll die! I must physically move myself to them to pass it on in the nick of time.
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Sunday, 16 July 2017 00:23 (eight years ago)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand)
Fistfights generally pretty tame/dull in Golden Age movies.
― chap, Sunday, 16 July 2017 16:48 (eight years ago)
Declarative sentences beginning with "Why,...!"
― Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 16 July 2017 16:59 (eight years ago)
Barman ducks as a glass or bottle smashes into the wall/mirror behind him (Westerns section).
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 16 July 2017 17:03 (eight years ago)
good one!
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 16 July 2017 17:06 (eight years ago)
lol read that as Batman
― Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 17 July 2017 09:55 (eight years ago)
Yeah everything is funnier in costume
― Evan, Monday, 17 July 2017 18:50 (eight years ago)
distressed woman has heard quite enough and screams, "get out!"
― clouds, Sunday, 23 July 2017 23:56 (eight years ago)
"Say, Jimmy, you just might be on to something with that idea. You're a regular Albert Einstein!""Wow, Albert Einstein... gee, thanks, Professor! (pause) Who's Albert Einstein?"
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Monday, 24 July 2017 00:05 (eight years ago)
A rider on a galloping horse is shot. Both go down; the human stays down while the horse struggles to its feet.
― Diana Fire (j.lu), Monday, 24 July 2017 00:53 (eight years ago)
With stock library 'Neigggh!' dubbed in slightly out of time.
― chap, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 17:40 (eight years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsJmMoCdjE4
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 17:46 (eight years ago)
Also, the footage of the galloping horse is sped up just enough to tip it into the uncanny valley, and the coconuts intended to give the sound effect of horses' hooves are in full use.
― Diana Fire (j.lu), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 23:04 (eight years ago)
Plucky kids put on a show.
― okapi paste (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 23:24 (eight years ago)
Any scene in a jungle anywhere in the world features Australian kookaburras laughing on the soundtrack
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 31 July 2017 01:52 (eight years ago)
― Awaiting On U-Haul: Alfie's Best of Stig O'Hara (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 31 July 2017 02:04 (eight years ago)
Two characters have conversation; director has somehow contrived to have them both facing camera.
― chap, Monday, 31 July 2017 13:34 (eight years ago)
Character asked simple question. Gazes into middle distance and recounts entire life story.
― chap, Monday, 31 July 2017 13:36 (eight years ago)
Life story is flashback running for several minutes or perhaps nearly the entire length of the film. The person who asked the question hardly bats an eye and only grows more fascinated.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Monday, 31 July 2017 13:48 (eight years ago)
bonus points if this is staged using an eye-watering split-diopter lens
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 31 July 2017 13:54 (eight years ago)
UK edition: Drunk batchelor falls down stairs and wakes the landlady who tells him to pack and leave
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Monday, 31 July 2017 14:32 (eight years ago)
Married couples sleeping in seperate beds (surely been mentioned?)
Watched All About Eve last night and it's chock full of these.
― chap, Monday, 31 July 2017 15:33 (eight years ago)
I was watching an old movie ("The Gilded Lily" with Claudette Colbert) and right on cue in the first reel a transit cop gets pushed to the ground, the next shot shows him sputtering, fuming, pushing his cop cap back on his head and stating (I quote):
"Oh, a wise guy, eh?"
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 31 July 2017 15:54 (eight years ago)
another variant: mirror hung in unlikely location permits us to see both faces even with characters facing each other.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Monday, 7 August 2017 04:53 (eight years ago)
― chap, Sunday, July 16, 2017 4:48 PM (three weeks ago)
every fistfight in an old movie seems to start with someone turning his back as if he's about to walk away, then abruptly turning around and knocking the other guy down
i suspect this would not actually be a wise move in real life
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 7 August 2017 05:26 (eight years ago)
I guess by old, you mean '30s and '40s. If it's a late-'60s/early-'70s romance involving young people, there will be snow, and there will be frolicking in the snow. Maybe snow angels, maybe tumbling around, maybe a pretend snowball fight. As they frolic, something that sounds like the Association will play on the soundtrack.
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/S8tncYfSFzI/hqdefault.jpg
― clemenza, Monday, 7 August 2017 06:18 (eight years ago)
As action or antics spill into a bar or performance space: "Wow, are they part of the show?" "Boy, those sure are some crazy costumes!" "Say, that's a pretty cool new dance!" etc.
― if you steeleye spanshine (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 20 January 2018 04:43 (seven years ago)
i'm imagining all those ADR'ed over the actual scene which probably has not been shot with sync sound
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 21 January 2018 01:30 (seven years ago)
those fuckin... the old phones
― flappy bird, Sunday, 21 January 2018 02:33 (seven years ago)
Lip reading cons in the day room, visiting area or on the factory floor.
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 January 2020 13:04 (six years ago)
A bottle of hair tonic.
― henry s, Sunday, 12 January 2020 18:49 (six years ago)
flypaper gets stuck to hands. one of the lesser scenes in kane.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Sunday, 12 January 2020 19:27 (six years ago)
Shabby alcoholic (ex-)doctor who will remove stray bullets from hoodlums for the price of a bottle of bourbon.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 10:50 (five years ago)
the other week i watched "the bride came c.o.d.", a 1941 comedy with james cagney and bette davis that felt like the ultimate "old movie" as defined by this thread. someone even gets to say "oh, a wise guy, eh?"
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 11:05 (five years ago)
also includes an angry heiress, spinning newspaper headlines, and that one shot of police cars and motorcycles zooming out of the station, with the sirens blazing
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 11:07 (five years ago)
Must watch this!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 12:05 (five years ago)
Bonus points for police motorcycles with sidecars
― dominance and transmission (Matt #2), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 12:11 (five years ago)
I caught an old film on daytime TV last week that actually featured a monocle popping out in shock, can't remember what it was though...
― emil.y, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 12:46 (five years ago)
Street urchin selling newspapers. Cop/PI/suspect takes one from him, starts reading it and is about to walk off with it when the seller tugs his sleeve for the dime he owes him.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 21:17 (three years ago)
― chap, Sunday, July 16, 2017 5:48 PM (four years ago)
The fight at the end in Uncle Silas stands out, seems brutal for the era
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 21:33 (three years ago)
An expression of a hunger for hamburger sandwiches and French fried potatoes.
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 22:28 (three years ago)
And one of them having at least one foot on the floor.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 23 June 2022 00:59 (three years ago)
"Why, I oughta pound you!"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 June 2022 01:37 (three years ago)
Aw, don't be a sap.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 23 June 2022 01:38 (three years ago)
My recollection is that every film set in New York until the modern era starred people who looked like this and dressed in these clothes (from Wolfen), but it could be Six Days of the Condor, The French Connection, Ghostbusters, Kramer vs Kramer, literally every film shot in New York):http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-ray_reviews_67/wolfen_blu-ray_/960__wolfen_06_blu-ray__blu-ray_.jpg
Everybody was older then. Was it cheaper to film in New York in the winter?
Do people still go to psychotherapists in films? As with the greatcoats, literally every Oscar-baity film shot in the last half of the 1970s was about a professional couple who were splitting up and they were both in therapy. Because it was the "me" decade, which has led to the hilarious spectacle of people who grew up in the "me" decade complaining on the internet that kids nowadays are self-centered.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Thursday, 23 June 2022 20:22 (three years ago)
Let's try that again:https://i.imgur.com/glQ2loB.jpg
― Ashley Pomeroy, Thursday, 23 June 2022 20:23 (three years ago)
NB I'm not shitting on Wolfen. It's a mess, but it was shot at a particular time in New York's history that feels alien today:https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMmZmZjIzZjgtNWExZi00ZDY0LTkxNDItYzlhZTUzYjYwYmYwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzk5MDQ0NA@@._V1_.jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YO_9LKblcJw/UGSBFpQNsyI/AAAAAAAAAec/KcKbLAwg1EM/s1600/bronx.jpeghttp://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/wolfen-new-york-city-bridge-twin-towers-world-trade-center-albert-finney-edward-james-olmos.jpghttps://www.framerated.co.uk/frwpcontent/uploads/2021/07/Wolfen10.jpg
It's like a visual representation of the first two Talking Heads albums.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Thursday, 23 June 2022 20:30 (three years ago)
Cary Grant does some scary driving along an incredibly twisty road, complete with shots of water crashing against cliffs below.
― Ride into the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 June 2022 21:39 (three years ago)
Car chase, speedometer goes all the way to 70.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 20:35 (two years ago)
two somewhat middle-aged men - one married, the other newly divorced - discuss the situation while playing a very indoor racket ball game
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 20:50 (two years ago)
^otm
― It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 20:54 (two years ago)
preferably George Segal and Elliot Gould if at all possible
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 21:00 (two years ago)
one guy in a hat slugs another guy in a hat
then takes the hat
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 21:00 (two years ago)
racket ball one is brilliant
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 22:19 (two years ago)
Yet another opportunity to mention Patriot on Amazon Prime: Let me Walk You Through Our Donnely Nut Spacing
― It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 22:31 (two years ago)
I'd also like to see Ryan O'Neal and John Cassavetes playing racquet ball, maybe I can ask the AI to create that scene & dialogue
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 22:36 (two years ago)
Town's sheriff is cowardly and ineffectual.
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 19 August 2024 03:25 (one year ago)
If there's an outdoor funeral, then it must be raining at some point.
― Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 23 November 2024 02:50 (one year ago)
Speeding-car effect achieved by severely undercranking the camera, such that the car seems to be traveling at a cartoonish 150mph
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 23 November 2024 16:33 (one year ago)
lol, love that one.
― the last visible dot (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 23 November 2024 18:19 (one year ago)
Piss-poor back projections seen from inside supposedly-moving vehicles
― chucky's in love (Matt #2), Saturday, 23 November 2024 19:36 (one year ago)
Kids and cops hitching a ride by standing on a car’s running board.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 24 November 2024 08:38 (one year ago)
The Western Electric model 302 telephone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_302_telephone
― Josefa, Sunday, 24 November 2024 14:48 (one year ago)
Then cut to switchboard operator:
‘Let me try to connect you’ . Puts jack plug into switchboard.
‘I’m sorry sir, the number’s engaged. Would you like me to hold?’
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 24 November 2024 17:21 (one year ago)
Old man runs inside, dons his old military uniform and comes back outside brandishing an antiquated weapon at some modern-day threat.
― felicity, Sunday, 24 November 2024 18:00 (one year ago)
Motorist turning steering wheel wildly back and forth while driving in front of rear-projection, as if road is zig-zaggine
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 25 January 2025 21:21 (eleven months ago)
...zagging
Then when they stop turning the wheel the projection takes a really sharp turn
― Evan, Saturday, 25 January 2025 22:03 (eleven months ago)
the biggest worry a woman has in the workplace is a run in her pantyhose
― adamt (abanana), Saturday, 14 June 2025 13:57 (seven months ago)
People swinging themselves onto moving trains as they pull out of the station, in contravention of every health and safety regulation imaginable
― submission drift (Matt #2), Saturday, 14 June 2025 14:41 (seven months ago)
And coppers jumping onto the back or side of a moving car to chase the suspect.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 14 June 2025 14:46 (seven months ago)
Models whose job is to put on clothes in department stores and walk around a bit so rich ladies can decide whether they would look good in that.
― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 7 October 2025 09:46 (three months ago)
Been watching a lot of Old Movies lately and the amount of smoking is unbelievable. People lighting up on planes, spacecraft, in surgery(!), everyone doing it everywhere and anywhere. Absolutely gross.
― for the 1975 german film, see fox and his friends (Matt #2), Tuesday, 7 October 2025 12:41 (three months ago)
Seem to remember some pretty great doctors smoking in a hospital content in The Day The Earth Stood Still #onethread
― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 7 October 2025 13:20 (three months ago)
I remember seeing actual doctors smoking in a hospital emergency room in Spain in the early 2000s. Certainly that had been prohibited in US hospitals for a long time by then.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 7 October 2025 13:27 (three months ago)
A character coughing means they're dying of consumption or some other incurable disease.
― so far so noir (Matt #2), Monday, 13 October 2025 21:34 (three months ago)
A "nightclub" where customers sit at tables and watch costumed performers dancing.
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 13 October 2025 21:42 (three months ago)
In modern movies, coughing blood = you dead and throwing up = you pregnant.
― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 13 October 2025 21:45 (three months ago)
plate glass window being carried across the street.
just park as close as you can in the first place!
― encino morricone (majorairbro), Tuesday, 14 October 2025 04:35 (three months ago)
In modern movies, coughing blood = you dead
raining blood = you shred
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 October 2025 15:03 (three months ago)
To find out what's going on you get a newspaper from a sidewalk stand, and you have to kind of thwack the folded-up paper with the back of your hand.
"See? It's right there in black and white."
Helps if you have a pencil behind your ear as you say this.
― putting the cad in decadent (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 14 October 2025 15:23 (three months ago)
Newspaper is then immediately thrown into a nearby bin without anyone reading beyond the headline. Also, item of interest is always the banner headline on the front page.
― so far so noir (Matt #2), Tuesday, 14 October 2025 15:40 (three months ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi8COKSTJ1Q
― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 October 2025 15:44 (three months ago)
Not necessarily old old movies, but on a similar tip:
- Picking up the phone and going "YEAH?!", listening for 3 seconds, saying "Okay" and hanging up without another word. - Promptly switching off the TV once the top-line newsreel is announced. Better yet if control of the TV had been wrested from people who had previously been watching a ball game.
― Now read it backwards. (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 October 2025 15:48 (three months ago)
Alternatively, watching big news unfold on a demo TV in the window of a TV shop.
― putting the cad in decadent (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 14 October 2025 15:55 (three months ago)
To find out what's going on you get a newspaper from a sidewalk stand
For the full effect the newspaper seller has dwarfism
― so far so noir (Matt #2), Tuesday, 14 October 2025 16:12 (three months ago)
the seller gets onto you for grabbing and reading without paying so you begrudgingly toss a few coins at him
― andrew m., Tuesday, 14 October 2025 16:20 (three months ago)
or...
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, June 22, 2022 9:17 PM (three years ago)
― andrew m., Tuesday, 14 October 2025 16:23 (three months ago)
People paying for things in general by extracting a wad of banknotes from their pocket and rudely tossing a couple of them onto the counter, then stalking away
― so far so noir (Matt #2), Tuesday, 14 October 2025 16:23 (three months ago)
Newsboys are saying "extry extry read all about it"
― putting the cad in decadent (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 14 October 2025 16:26 (three months ago)
Character is pushed or falls into window frame, which then shatters into matchsticks and they tumble through to their death.
― throbbing gristle vs the barron knights (Matt #2), Tuesday, 18 November 2025 23:23 (one month ago)
― putting the cad in decadent (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, October 14, 2025 10:55 AM
May have mentioned this before, but what did these windows look like at 3 a.m., once the national anthem had played and there was nothing left but static?
Stores always look closed already when everyone's gathered around the window watching the martians land.
― pplains, Wednesday, 19 November 2025 00:00 (one month ago)
some one gets water in the face
― Minty Gum (Latham Green), Friday, 21 November 2025 20:29 (one month ago)
Oh, a wise guy, eh?
― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 21 November 2025 20:47 (one month ago)
In a fit of existential angst, character collapses face down on a bed.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 14 December 2025 21:40 (one month ago)
To be fair I've done that more than once irl
― chap, Sunday, 14 December 2025 23:52 (one month ago)
Music By Dimitri Tiomkin
― oh the traffic around here (Matt #2), Monday, 15 December 2025 00:17 (one month ago)
"Help! Police!"
Car chase winds up in street market, stacked display of tchotchkes/fruit/stuffed animals gets taken out just after seated vendor dives out of the way
― henry s, Monday, 15 December 2025 01:50 (one month ago)
Frustrated man slams receiver repeatedly against pay phone
alternately, sneaky man looks up name in white pages, finds it, then rips the page out and pockets it
― henry s, Monday, 15 December 2025 01:54 (one month ago)
everyone in hats
― Ste, Tuesday, 16 December 2025 14:48 (four weeks ago)
A hat will be comically crushed or forgotten or blown by a fortuitous wind
― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 16 December 2025 20:02 (four weeks ago)
Whenever a character goes abroad, there's stock footage of a Boeing 707 touching down, perhaps followed by a clip of the hero - a man in a suit with one suitcase, wearing a hat, jacket over his arm - breezing through customs. In fact there's a classic example in Dr No:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLCISmswIrA
It stands out because I can't remember the last time I saw a film where the film-makers felt the need to insert a stock shot of an airliner to indicate international travel. When James Bond goes abroad nowadays the film just cuts to e.g. Sofia or Naples etc with a caption that says SOFIA or NAPLES. We don't follow him through the airport.
Whether it's because the shot of the airliner is a waste of space, or because international travel is so routine that we don't need to be shown how the characters got there, or because the sight of Bond having to shuffle through the non-EU passport line wouldn't be glamorous, or because in practice he'd be transported on an official flight so the filmmakers would need to explain that detail, I have no idea.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Tuesday, 16 December 2025 21:54 (four weeks ago)
Um you can't land in a plane that has not first traversed a stylized map with exotic place names.
― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 16 December 2025 22:13 (four weeks ago)
https://i.sstatic.net/MBqWJ.jpg
― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 16 December 2025 22:16 (four weeks ago)
https://moviemezzanine.com/wp-content/uploads/indy_map2.jpg
― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 16 December 2025 22:18 (four weeks ago)
desperate man on the run through the woods, encounters child fishing with a bamboo pole and a tin can of worms
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 16 December 2025 22:24 (four weeks ago)
monocle falls from astonished man's eye
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 17 December 2025 00:25 (four weeks ago)
"Honey! Honey... set another place at the table, will ya?"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 17 December 2025 21:16 (four weeks ago)
Somehow reminded of this line delivered by Bette Davis: “Cute! I’d like to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair. Bye!”
― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 December 2025 21:21 (four weeks ago)
Dissolve from shot of a lit cigarette to the same cigarette, burnt down.
― jmm, Wednesday, 17 December 2025 21:39 (four weeks ago)
Or close-up of hand grinding cigarette into ashtray, possibly directors still do this
― oh the traffic around here (Matt #2), Wednesday, 17 December 2025 22:11 (four weeks ago)
Shot of unaccompanied still-smoldering cigarette on ground in or in ashtray signifies departure of mysterious figure, the murderer perhaps.
― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 December 2025 23:19 (four weeks ago)
Passionate kiss = shoulders up, grab partners arms, shove mouth against mouth firmly (no lips visible), smear head back and forth as if you’re a lizard trying to kill your prey
― Evan, Wednesday, 17 December 2025 23:37 (four weeks ago)
bringing the boss home for dinner
― Modollno Kahn (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 17 December 2025 23:48 (four weeks ago)
What was it about dames always washing their hair on a certain night?
― pplains, Thursday, 18 December 2025 03:44 (four weeks ago)
I'd love to one day take all the quotes in this thread and order them into a semi-coherent screenplay
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 18 December 2025 04:12 (four weeks ago)
Man wearing a shirt and tie shaves with an electric razor in a small bathroom area or in his office while conducting a conversation through the mirror.
― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 December 2025 04:21 (four weeks ago)
Last night I was watching a movie from 1942 — Larceny, Inc. with Edward G. Robinson. He's playing a crook who's bought a luggage store so he can break through the wall and rob the bank next door. The store on the other side sells lingerie and of course the female proprietor is pursuing EGR. At one point she invites him into the store to see her lingerie and he responds, "Sure, and I'll show you my trunks." I'd never heard that particular entendre before and I laughed out loud.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 18 December 2025 05:06 (four weeks ago)
idgi
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 December 2025 09:12 (four weeks ago)
TH: Trunk luggage, trunks male underwear.Agree with man alive that reading this thread does feel like watching every old movie ever - vivid imagery galore.
― Naledi, Thursday, 18 December 2025 09:32 (four weeks ago)
If she ran a luggage store that would make sense
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 December 2025 10:39 (four weeks ago)
... er, no?
― Salted Peanuts (A Student's Plea) (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 December 2025 10:40 (four weeks ago)
Why would the double entendre be about luggage
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 December 2025 10:59 (four weeks ago)
You can tell I've got a lot of work on at the moment right
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 December 2025 11:00 (four weeks ago)
She owns a lingerie shop. Edward G. is pretending to own a luggage store. She invites Edward G. to her store to see her lingerie, Edward G. replies "Sure, and I'll show you my trunks."
― Salted Peanuts (A Student's Plea) (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 December 2025 11:08 (four weeks ago)
lol i skipped right past that part in the original description
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 December 2025 11:17 (four weeks ago)
They are very fast paced these 40s comedies.
― Salted Peanuts (A Student's Plea) (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 December 2025 11:31 (four weeks ago)
"HEY! WILL YA KEEP IT DOWN? SOME OF US ARE TRYNA SLEEP!"(Throws shoe out the window, which accidentally hits an alleycat)
― Now read it backwards. (dog latin), Thursday, 18 December 2025 11:56 (four weeks ago)
Oh, have we had rotating news pages with large headlines coming out of the screen?
― Now read it backwards. (dog latin), Thursday, 18 December 2025 11:57 (four weeks ago)
Addressed a few times upthread
*spinning newspaper headline*― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, December 12, 2005 9:55 AM (twenty years ago)
― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 18 December 2025 12:04 (four weeks ago)
I love "old movie" as a category.
― jmm, Thursday, 18 December 2025 13:41 (four weeks ago)
When a younger person refers to some film from the 90s or 00s as an 'old movie' then you know that you yourself are old
― oh the traffic around here (Matt #2), Thursday, 18 December 2025 14:24 (four weeks ago)
I sat down to watch "Clueless" w my kids a couple of years ago and for them it might as well be pre-historical
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 December 2025 14:30 (four weeks ago)
I guess my idea of old movies is still, roughly, film pre-1960, pre-New Wave. My cutoff for it doesn't seem to advance with time.
― jmm, Thursday, 18 December 2025 14:40 (four weeks ago)
^this
― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 December 2025 14:52 (four weeks ago)
― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 December 2025 14:54 (four weeks ago)
In my case "I almost saw Rockpile"
Press skip ⏭️ to go back to your black and white movie.
― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 December 2025 14:55 (four weeks ago)
Cop twirls baton at trio consisting of two romantic leads plus third wheel funnyman dancing their way through backlot version of a NYC alleyway.
― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 December 2025 15:03 (four weeks ago)
Protagonist sits at end of Murphy bed, insomnia exacerbated by flashing vertical neon sign partially visible through apartment window.
― bendy, Thursday, 18 December 2025 16:09 (four weeks ago)
(mournful saxophone)
― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 18 December 2025 16:30 (four weeks ago)
on the rare occasion when a character has boarded the train on time and without having to do this, someone runs along the platform waving to them or trying to tell them one last thing, then stops when they reach the end of the platform and watches the train recede away from them.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 18 December 2025 16:33 (four weeks ago)
Cross-country bus trips
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 18 December 2025 16:52 (four weeks ago)
― pplains, Thursday, 18 December 2025 17:42 (four weeks ago)
My 1920's apartment has a special closet that used to house a murphy bed (Wall-Bed was the brand)... I kinda wish it was still there
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 18 December 2025 17:51 (four weeks ago)
Had to google "Murphy bed".
― Salted Peanuts (A Student's Plea) (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 December 2025 17:54 (four weeks ago)
I think they were a San Francisco bay area invention (I'm in Oakland)... I have a buddy in Downtown LA who has one that he actually uses. You don't have to really make the bed, you just lift it out of sight
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 18 December 2025 17:57 (four weeks ago)
It was a recurrent slapstick element in many Keystone Studios productions of the 1910s, including Cursed by His Beauty (1914), Fatty's Reckless Fling (1915), He Wouldn't Stay Down (1915), and Bath Tub Perils (1916). Charlie Chaplin's 1916 One AM also features an exaggerated encounter with a Murphy bed.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 18 December 2025 18:00 (four weeks ago)
Laurel & Hardy too, I forget which film. Possibly several.
― oh the traffic around here (Matt #2), Thursday, 18 December 2025 18:06 (four weeks ago)
Doctor walking into hospital room, cheerfully greeting patient whilst wearing one of those mirror/reflector headbands.
― henry s, Thursday, 18 December 2025 18:14 (four weeks ago)
Just used a modern Murphy bed in a beach condo, lifted into what looked like a giant wardrobe, all in Airbnb beige
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP.WQaFU4Qy67wvMdzfYSb69wHaDF%3Fcb%3Ducfimg2%26pid%3DApi%26ucfimg%3D1&f=1&ipt=1280685d20f2f0898975775f28de6da171de36f7bf73da3051c970101370a7bd&ipo=images
― bendy, Thursday, 18 December 2025 18:15 (four weeks ago)
Believe I just saw an interview with Carol Burnett in which she talked about a Murphy bed figuring into growing up with her grandmother in a small apartment
― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 December 2025 19:25 (four weeks ago)
i know somebody in NYC who currently has a murphy bed in her studio apartment, but she just leaves it down all the time. back in my 20s i knew a guy who had one in his much smaller studio apartment and her really did need to put it up and out of the way or her wouldn’t have had any room at all. they’re not solely “old movie” material imo!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 December 2025 20:08 (four weeks ago)
Yeah last time i was apartment hunting (this was in portland) i saw one studio with a murphy bed and likewise you would need to be putting it up to have any space.
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 18 December 2025 20:33 (four weeks ago)
Believe I just saw an interview with Carol Burnett in which she talked about a Murphy bed figuring into growing up with her grandmother in a small apartment― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, December 18, 2025 2:25 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, December 18, 2025 2:25 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
yes this was in the new yorker profile of her a couple months ago. great article
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 18 December 2025 20:38 (four weeks ago)
People walking dogs together on an ocean liner deck as a form of flirtation
― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 December 2025 13:45 (three weeks ago)
Not sure I've seen that in any movie tbh, old or not.
― Salted Peanuts (A Student's Plea) (Tom D.), Friday, 19 December 2025 13:52 (three weeks ago)
Just saw it twice this week
― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 December 2025 14:20 (three weeks ago)
Was thinking of padding it with other ocean liner deck hijinks to accommodate the likes of you but decided against it.
― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 December 2025 15:26 (three weeks ago)
"That's what YOU think"
― Minty Gum (Latham Green), Friday, 19 December 2025 16:55 (three weeks ago)
"Well, we'll just get to the bottom of this right now!"
Goes to the phone on the small decorative console table in the front foyer of the house, dials someone. "George here tells me that Elizabeth wasn't even there that night" ... "Yes, that's right" ... "Oh she did, did she?" ... "Mmm hmm" ... "I see" ... "Thanks, you've been very helpful." Hangs up.
"See, I told you there's nothing to worry about" (there is indeed something to worry about)
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 19 December 2025 19:21 (three weeks ago)
"Let's see.. I'll have the pork chop with a side salad.. coffee, a slice of apple pie... and your phone number."
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 19 December 2025 19:53 (three weeks ago)
*casual offhand reference to celebrity, brand, or cultural artifact no one will understand 30-80 years hence*
― Clever Message Board User Name (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 19 December 2025 20:06 (three weeks ago)
"I guess my idea of old movies is still, roughly, film pre-1960, pre-New Wave. My cutoff for it doesn't seem to advance with time."
I was surprised to find out, possibly from this very website, that the oldest movie on Netflix is The Sting. Which came out in 1973. Although according to this site Netflix also has Frenzy, Airport, Elaan, and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, which predate it. But it only has 42 films from the whole of the 1970s.
I work with someone who was born in 1996. We got to talking, and it struck me that my generation was probably the last generation for whom Edward G Robinson, James Cagney, and stars of that generation were a thing, because they were frequently parodied in Bugs Bunny cartoons, which were shown as part of Rolf's Cartoon Club, which obviously isn't repeated a lot. And when I was young there was Hooray for Harold Lloyd. Nah-nah, nah-nah, nah-nah, nah-nah-nah. Harold Lloyd. Etc. Pair of glasses and a smile.
So on the one hand film stars from the 1930s no longer have any cultural presence, but on the other hand they had a good run.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Friday, 19 December 2025 20:19 (three weeks ago)
Peter Lorre as well^^^
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 19 December 2025 20:23 (three weeks ago)
Funny that Buster Keaton has made a small comeback, thanks to his silent movie expressions being perfect for reaction gifs.
― pplains, Friday, 19 December 2025 20:25 (three weeks ago)
Paid off for Ron Johnson, Pacific Stereo salesman, in Fast Times at Ridgemont High
― henry s, Friday, 19 December 2025 20:31 (three weeks ago)
his silent movie expressions being perfect for reaction gifs
and in the public domain!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 19 December 2025 20:34 (three weeks ago)
Edward Everett Horton is due for a reaction gif blowup.
― jmm, Saturday, 20 December 2025 12:56 (three weeks ago)
lol
― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 December 2025 13:03 (three weeks ago)
Okay but not before Margaret Dumont reaction gifs
https://alchetron.com/cdn/margaret-dumont-a32cbc0f-9861-4e9a-8969-eb5281eefa8-resize-750.jpeg
― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 20 December 2025 13:12 (three weeks ago)
Eric Blore reaction gif
https://resizing.flixster.com/htUzCOziN3WeM41rd13TWheJiz8=/fit-in/705x460/v2/http://media.baselineresearch.com/images/111095/111095_full.jpg
― Josefa, Saturday, 20 December 2025 13:25 (three weeks ago)
Heh, was just about to mention him as well. "We are Bates!"
― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 December 2025 13:40 (three weeks ago)
> Goes to the phone on the small decorative console table in the front foyer of the house,
Bought a home from 1935 and one of the selling points ( for us) was a built-in phone shelf in a small alcove in the hall. The iPod dock of its day.
― bendy, Saturday, 20 December 2025 18:25 (three weeks ago)
Trying to remember which Lubitsch movie it is when a shellshocked Edward Everett Horton opens his bedroom door after the night of his wedding and someone out of frame throws a newspaper at him. Design for Living maybe.
― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 December 2025 19:57 (three weeks ago)
I work with someone who was born in 1996. We got to talking, and it struck me that my generation was probably the last generation for whom Edward G Robinson, James Cagney, and stars of that generation were a thing
I've mentioned this elsewhere, but i used to work with a guy who claimed to be a big film buff but when i first knew him he had never seen any b/w movies -- the oldest movies he'd seen were the likes of The Godfather and Star Wars. He wasn't that much younger than me, probably born no later than the early-80s, but the difference between us was that I grew up watching countless old movies on UK tv, and he (in the US) had never had similar exposure to that sort of stuff.
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 20 December 2025 20:11 (three weeks ago)
I have a college-age film fan friend and it's similar, but yeah, I was aware that there was a generational shift decades back.
― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 December 2025 20:22 (three weeks ago)
Anyway:Executioner banters, shares tricks of the trade, laments changes in the profession or argues with a rival colleague while prepping for his current gig.
― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 December 2025 21:58 (three weeks ago)
in every shakespeare play ever
― Modollno Kahn (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 20 December 2025 22:21 (three weeks ago)
My half-developed pet theory is that each generational cohort loses a connection to any pop culture past their grandparents' days.
In the same way that I have really very little knowledge of much before the 1960s, 1950s at a push, for the majority of people a decade or two younger than me stuff like The Beatles or Elvis Presley are just a step too far removed to be significant.
And stuff goes in and out of fashion too, of course. 90s and 2000s culture is considered the hip retro thing right now, and I somehow doubt there are many youngsters thinking fondly of disco, new wave and 80s pop like I did in my 20s.
So I can imagine it's similar to cinema in many ways. I really haven't watched a lot of movies from before the 60s or 70s. Sure, It's A Wonderful Life, Colonel Blimp. A few others. But even those, I only watched out of a sort-of curiosity
― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Saturday, 20 December 2025 22:26 (three weeks ago)
the beatles are really popular with gen z, as i assume any other band that's in the bracket of biggest bands of all time spanning six decades or whatever will always be. i don't even need to google it cos there have been so many articles about it.
― LocalGarda, Saturday, 20 December 2025 22:39 (three weeks ago)
Cultural references tend to hang around for a generation or two as well. Even if people my age (born late 1960s) don't really know who Betty Grable or Jimmy Cagney are you'd have picked up references to them made by older people. Anyone born a decade or two later wouldn't even know the names, not unless they're into Old Movies. Not sure of the equivalent now, Farrah Fawcett or something?
― oh the traffic around here (Matt #2), Saturday, 20 December 2025 22:46 (three weeks ago)
― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 December 2025 23:22 (three weeks ago)
Not at all convinced the Beatles are that popular with Gen Z. I hope they aren't anyway.
― Salted Peanuts (A Student's Plea) (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 December 2025 23:32 (three weeks ago)
Elvis hasn't, um, left the building either, nor have The Rolling Stones.
The Rolling Stones are still of marginal interest to people under 50 because they still exist and still do new things (they had been planning to tour in 2026, though it's now cancelled). Elvis, I feel, is basically gone, totally irrelevant to contemporary culture. I'm 54 and I think I'm on the young edge of Elvis fandom.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, 20 December 2025 23:40 (three weeks ago)
to be fair, Baz L's Elvis movie three years ago made $288 worldwide. don't think that was all old Elvis fans but could be it was largely millennial Baz fans.
― Hiphoptimus Rhyme (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 21 December 2025 00:06 (three weeks ago)
I dare say
― Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 December 2025 00:22 (three weeks ago)
I think a good bit of the younger Elvis fandom is tied up in him being a "Style Icon" ala his contemporaries like Marilyn Monroe or Audrey Hepburn.
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 21 December 2025 00:35 (three weeks ago)
In every very old movie ever: waiflike girl lays head onto table and sobs into her arms
― oh the traffic around here (Matt #2), Sunday, 21 December 2025 01:14 (three weeks ago)
Cultural references tend to hang around for a generation or two as well. Even if people my age (born late 1960s) don't really know who Betty Grable or Jimmy Cagney are you'd have picked up references to them made by older people.
Tangent: Even though I've never lived in New York and rarely go there, I've always had a vague idea that to be culturally "American" in the mid-20th century implied sort of default New Yorkishness. Dorothy Parker, bookies, hotels and cabbies and supers, extry extry read alla bout it.
That said, much of my 1920s/30s reference bank is from NYT crosswords and New Yorker cartoons; therefore everything will be understandably New York-skewed.
― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 21 December 2025 17:42 (three weeks ago)
when I was a kid, there was this total Ned Flanders guy at our church that did a monthly thing called 'Film Fare' where he'd show old movies on an actual film projector, with popcorn etc... probably 50/50 silents/talkies. My dad would take me because there wasn't much else to do. So I saw a bunch of old B&W films with Buster Keaton, Tom Mix stuff, Charlie Chaplin, Three Stooges.. also some really bad 'horror' and sci-fi stuff, Bela Lugosi et al.
I remember them being kind of boring at the time, but at least I was exposed to them, I know what they are, even though they were made decades before my birth
I'm just wondering what would be the equivalent for kids today... 'Princess Bride' was mentioned in the Reiner thread, but I'm also thinking about spaghetti westerns, Rosemary's Baby, maybe some late 70's or early 80's films... are they seeing these anywhere? Or are they just hopelessly out of date to modern viewers?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Sunday, 21 December 2025 20:10 (three weeks ago)
Lyle Talbot
― Minty Gum (Latham Green), Monday, 22 December 2025 16:23 (three weeks ago)
― Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 December 2025 17:50 (three weeks ago)
lol seconded.
― Modollno Kahn (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 22 December 2025 18:21 (three weeks ago)
Watched the 1946 version of The Postman Always Rings Twice last night and I feel like "a tacked-on moralistic 'happy' ending" belongs on this list.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 22 December 2025 18:42 (three weeks ago)
One thing that guaranteed millenials would be able to get a lot of classic Hollywood references: wide availability of Looney Tunes, on vhs and on Cartoon Network.
― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 22 December 2025 18:59 (three weeks ago)
But anyway yeah I was born in 1985 but couldn't imagine thinking of "old movies" as anything but the 30's/40's.
― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 22 December 2025 19:00 (three weeks ago)
I don't think I saw that many super old movies as a kid (born '84), with the exception of Chaplin, who was a hero of mine. And of course Disney and The Wizard of Oz. The Simpsons prepared the ground for a lot of references.
― jmm, Monday, 22 December 2025 19:09 (three weeks ago)
Watched “It’s A Wonderful Life” two nights ago for the first time since the early 90s last night, which was the reigning “oldest movie” I’d seen for a very long time (and may still? I’d have to think harder about that, also unsure whether some of the Disney cartoon classics reissued in the 80s predate it)
That film is totally different to watch as a 48 year old man vs as a 12 year old. It also feels modern in a way I didn’t expect, despite some technical stuff that’s weird in comparison with contemporary filmmaking (for instance, if someone made this now a lot of scenes would be rendered as a single shot, as opposed to the the same scenes in this movie being very obviously made of 4-5 awkward noticeable cuts)
― Clever Message Board User Name (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 22 December 2025 19:16 (three weeks ago)
count me among those who think “old movies” = ‘30s/40s
― budo jeru, Monday, 22 December 2025 19:46 (three weeks ago)
i absolutely adore it’s a wonderful life, curious to know in particular felt modern to you. off the top of my head there’s the scene toward the beginning where george stretches his arms out and there’s a freeze frame and the two narrators are talking about him, always get a kick out of that
― budo jeru, Monday, 22 December 2025 19:50 (three weeks ago)
i love it's a wonderful life too - it's been way too long since i've watched it!
so many films from the 30s-50s feel brisk and cutting in ways i wouldn't expect, one of the things i love about the experience of watching something from so long ago.
― map, Monday, 22 December 2025 20:23 (three weeks ago)
That is something about movies from that era, the rapid/rhythmic cadence of dialogue, compared to a contemporary counterpart, which can be a delight in and of itself.
― henry s, Monday, 22 December 2025 20:36 (three weeks ago)
^^^^ Thin Man movies come to mind
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 22 December 2025 20:39 (three weeks ago)
That freeze frame blew my mind, I think I called that out when it happened
― Clever Message Board User Name (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 22 December 2025 20:44 (three weeks ago)
I watched It's A Wonderful Life at the cinema last night and the freeze frame moment was so unexpected I thought the film had stopped
― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Monday, 22 December 2025 21:53 (three weeks ago)
Xps there is a reason for the fast talking cadence of old films, but I can't remember it exactly. Might simply be down to the amount of film they could afford to shoot on
― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Monday, 22 December 2025 21:55 (three weeks ago)
I mean, IAWL would have been a 3 hr epic if they'd spoken at a regular speed
― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Monday, 22 December 2025 21:56 (three weeks ago)
My guess is a lot of the screenwriters were also playwrights, or at least that kind of snappy dialogue style worked its way into the first decade or two of talkies.
― oh the traffic around here (Matt #2), Monday, 22 December 2025 22:03 (three weeks ago)
I often find modern romcoms that deliberately try to emulate that style wanting because the pace is too slow.
― Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 December 2025 22:04 (three weeks ago)
IAWL for me feels like the _newest_ "old movie" to me, because it's clearly post-WWII (indeed it's a plot point). It seems modern to me in comparison to 30s movies. Compare "It Happened One Night."
― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 00:55 (three weeks ago)
I don't think I've seen any "old" movies then. If it's black and white, it's "old" to me.
Like, this is a bit like people discussing what "old school" hip hop means
― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 01:58 (three weeks ago)
Psycho - oldColonel Blimp - modern
That's how it works and how you know
― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 02:01 (three weeks ago)
If it's black and white, it's "old" to me
what about The Lighthouse??
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 02:11 (three weeks ago)
i think of old as the golden age of hollywood, so 30s-50s. talkies + a few years of transition to start. 60s and "new wave" to end.
― map, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 02:28 (three weeks ago)
The Lighthouse came out in the 2010s. Old.
― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 02:38 (three weeks ago)
I don't think I've seen any "old" movies then
You've not seen any movies from the 30's or 40's???
― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 12:27 (three weeks ago)
My parents had a similar attitude to DL. They were puzzled why I watched old B&W films on BBC 2 on Sat afternoons.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 12:38 (three weeks ago)
― Jonk Raven (dog latin),
It depends! Warner Bros films have faster cadences, whereas MGM productions can feel stodgy to us (and felt stodgy to alert fans then).
― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 12:43 (three weeks ago)
This is hardly a novel thought for one. But I reckon its wrong anyway, as social media will re-package the past in strange and random ways.
Its also limited by framing it through pop. Cultures in general are re-packaged and does come back and can really be taken up with widespread enthusiasm.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 12:46 (three weeks ago)
Of course there are going to be exceptions (the Welllerman sea shanty craze is one example). But I'm not expecting a broadly mainstream resurgence in doo-wop music among young people any time soon. I mean, even the Beatles, I live in a young-people city and I personally haven't heard or seen a lot of signs that they're still especially popular with people under 30 despite what LocalGarda might say. Of course ymmv, but they're more into garage and dnb, and if they're interedted in "old" music, it's 90s rock, indie, hiphop, dance etc. Or they're listening to funk, disco, soul. But The Beatles and 60s rock music in general are ancient, archaeological.
Sure, it's not like young people haven't heard of them, but that music is less connectedly important than it was when I was growing up with Britpop etc. The Beatles were my parents' music, we sang the songs in school; so I had a kinship with that era despite being born long after.
― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 13:17 (three weeks ago)
And yeah, growing up, there was always some weird dude who collected old 78s and was into that sort of thing, but they were very much outliers because that music fell way beyond the collective memories of most people
― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 13:20 (three weeks ago)
i just think it’s a feature of how recording technology has advanced that music from 50 years ago doesn’t sound as ancient as music from 1915 would’ve sounded in 1965. also i think there’s strong evidence that youth culture is more past-oriented than it has ever been, albeit filtered through the flattened presentism of our ubiquitous internet world. but i think young people likely hear the Beatles as yet more fodder for inspiration and identity formation rather than some inscrutable dusty relic
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 13:34 (three weeks ago)
Blips of highly specific retro are fascinating
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy formed 1989Cherry Poppin Daddies formed 1989Red, Hot + Blue released 1990Swing Kids released 1993
See also
Sha Na Na / Happy Days / Grease
― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 13:43 (three weeks ago)
In some old (B&W, late 50s) movies ever: Elvis reads these latest posts and says "ILX, I don't know what the hell you're talking about!"
― Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 13:51 (three weeks ago)
Sorry to be a bit rude and I contributed to the problem myself but surely there are like twenty threads where we could dig down into whether gen z loves the Beatles or not, this thread is an all timer and should be kept to its original premise.
― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 14:10 (three weeks ago)
The Beatles? Why you I oughta!
― Donald Crump (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 14:17 (three weeks ago)
We're OTMWe're OTM
― Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 14:22 (three weeks ago)
Daniel otm tho i’m likewise to blame
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 14:37 (three weeks ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pekhxxngQ3s
― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 14:43 (three weeks ago)
Whatsamatter, nobody ever told you that ILX loves talking about the Beatles? Why, surely everybody knows that, mista!
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 14:55 (three weeks ago)
Daniel is right tbf. Please delete my earlier posts.
― LocalGarda, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 15:05 (three weeks ago)
All of them
You all talking about the freeze-frame in It's A Wonderful Life — every time I see that dance seen where the floor opens up and everyone falls into the completely full swimming pool underneath it, I wonder, "Was that really a thing back then?"
In Bedford Falls, USA!
― pplains, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 15:08 (three weeks ago)
(I rarely do this, but dance scene, my Lord.)
― pplains, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 15:09 (three weeks ago)
that’s the pool at Beverly Hills High School, which is, amazingly, still in operation today
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 15:25 (three weeks ago)
Yup. Real thing. Called the Swim Gym. Capra decided to include the scene wheb he heard about it
― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 17:11 (three weeks ago)
HOT DOG!
― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 17:14 (three weeks ago)
"We'll wait for ya, baby!"
(Just straight quoting It's A Wonderful Life at this stage)
― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 17:15 (three weeks ago)
weird because apparently you’ve never seen it!
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 17:21 (three weeks ago)
In one old movie ever
― Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 18:20 (three weeks ago)
(Was thinking of trying to pivot to, say, another Donna Reed movie, but am too out of it right now to make it work)
― Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 18:21 (three weeks ago)
weird because apparently you’ve never seen it!― budo jeru, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 17:21 (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 17:21 (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I saw it for the second time the other night. I posted about it above and also in the thread about frequency illusions
― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 23:11 (three weeks ago)
didn't realize that It's a Wonderful Life was a box office bomb upon release
The film recorded a loss of $525,000 at the box office for RKO.
A few critics weren't crazy about it either
Bosley Crowther, writing for The New York Times, complimented some of the actors, including Stewart and Reed, but concluded, "the weakness of this picture, from this reviewer's point of view, is the sentimentality of it—its illusory concept of life. Mr. Capra's nice people are charming, his small town is a quite beguiling place and his pattern for solving problems is most optimistic and facile. But somehow, they all resemble theatrical attitudes, rather than average realities."
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 23:57 (three weeks ago)
Yeah critics thought it was sappy and oversentimental, and audiences didn't take to it either. It was marketed a bit strangely too, as a tentative return to cinema for a lot of the key players after the war. So it only really picked up a wider audience because the copyright expired i. The 1970s and started getting distributed and shown on TV etc.
― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 00:04 (three weeks ago)
Anyway we should migrate here... although something somehow keeps pulling me back...
It's A Wonderful Life
― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 00:06 (three weeks ago)
The Sound of Music soundtrack outsold Sgt. Pepper
― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 00:36 (three weeks ago)
Well sure. That Sgt. Pepper soundtrack sucked.
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 December 2025 01:59 (three weeks ago)
I presume you're thinking of the Sgt. Pepper movie soundtrack wherein the BeeGees cover a variety of Beatles songs. Yeah, it sucked. So did the movie.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 04:02 (three weeks ago)
Can't get anything past you, amos.
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 December 2025 04:20 (three weeks ago)
Wise Guy eh
― Minty Gum (Latham Green), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 15:32 (three weeks ago)
Why, officer, I can explain everything. You see the first man told me blah blah blah only it wasn't the first man but the other man blah blah so you see etc.
― Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 16:16 (three weeks ago)
Yeah yeah yeah, tell it down at the station.
Book 'im, boys.
― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 16:30 (three weeks ago)
Crime boss getting a shave in the chair, our gumshoe catches him off guard to ask a few interesting questions
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 24 December 2025 18:36 (three weeks ago)
‘Where can we get in touch with you?’
‘You can reach me at my club. It’s number is Chelsea 123.’
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 24 December 2025 18:50 (three weeks ago)
re: fast dialogue. Whilst watching the 1931 Front Page I had to use all my powers of concentration to follow the dialogue or get hopelessly lost within seconds.
― Modollno Kahn (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 18:55 (three weeks ago)
Same for me with His Girl Friday, which unsurprisingly is derived from the same theatrical source material.
― clapton cocaine bust (Matt #2), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 19:46 (three weeks ago)
||this thread is mainly for examples, not discussion||
― Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 19:49 (three weeks ago)
Ha, keep doing that, sorry. Still getting over this nasty cold
― Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 19:50 (three weeks ago)
merry christmas to you too
― Modollno Kahn (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 19:50 (three weeks ago)
Evil curmudgeon tries to take over, dismantle, destroy and permanently poxy fule ILX.
― Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 19:58 (three weeks ago)
soda jerk puts towel over his shoulder, asks 'what'll it be, bub?'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 24 December 2025 20:00 (three weeks ago)
🎄
― Modollno Kahn (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 20:00 (three weeks ago)
in every movie with a christmas scene: everyone sings carols together without self consciousness
― Modollno Kahn (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 20:01 (three weeks ago)
tough cowboy orders a shot of rotgut whisky, puritanical missionary woman orders a Sarsaparilla
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 24 December 2025 20:07 (three weeks ago)
american couples say “darling” to each other
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 28 December 2025 16:06 (two weeks ago)
They don't anymore?
― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 December 2025 16:16 (two weeks ago)
"Darling" is generally sarcastic these days, I think.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 28 December 2025 16:57 (two weeks ago)
I use it all the time.
― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 December 2025 16:57 (two weeks ago)
One must live as campily as possible.
― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 December 2025 16:58 (two weeks ago)
Cab driver: "Where to, Mac?"
― jmm, Sunday, 28 December 2025 17:10 (two weeks ago)
"Just drive"
― a stadium filled with people in cheesecloth shirts (Matt #2), Sunday, 28 December 2025 18:23 (two weeks ago)
or “Follow that car”
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 28 December 2025 18:45 (two weeks ago)
"Bosley Crowther, writing for The New York Times (about It's a Wonderful Life) etc"
It's more a kind of "there were mammoths when the pyramids were built" thing, but I find it striking that Crowther's career was long enough to shit all over It's a Wonderful Life and also Bonnie and Clyde. It feels as if those two films belong to two different geological eras.
I learn from the internet that he was asked to retire in the wake of Clyde. His face looks exactly like his name sounds.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 28 December 2025 21:47 (two weeks ago)
Rex Reed's career has spanned long enough for him to review Georgy Girl and Poor Things (rave and pan, respectively).
― Josefa, Sunday, 28 December 2025 23:36 (two weeks ago)
― Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 December 2025 00:38 (two weeks ago)
old drunk sitting in bar declares in a very dignified tone that he will never touch the stuff again, turns to window and sees something bizarre, turns back to bar and asks for another drink "and fast!!"
Alternatively, town drunk sees something bizarre, looks at the bottle he's drinking from, throws bottle away.
― Donald Crump (Tom D.), Monday, 29 December 2025 07:45 (two weeks ago)
"See ya in the funny papers!"
― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 19:21 (two days ago)
Office doors with frosted glass windows and someone's name painted on them
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 19:25 (two days ago)
Shenanigans on a train!
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 19:27 (two days ago)
XP the opening scenes show the occupant walking into his first day on the job and they're still stencilling his name on the door. He quickly gets fired and the stencil artist has to start over
― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 20:04 (two days ago)
Crossing the road by striding out into heavy traffic, causing passing cars to screech to a halt and angrily toot their horns
― one man against the cistern (Matt #2), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 20:07 (two days ago)
Key plot point revolves around not being able to get to a payphone
― one man against the cistern (Matt #2), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 20:09 (two days ago)
A caller must be kept on the phone, in order to trace the call.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 23:37 (two days ago)
ha I just watched High and Low for the first time the other day and wondered how old that device is
― rob, Tuesday, 13 January 2026 23:44 (two days ago)
"Boy am I glad to see you!"
"Aren't you a sight for sore eyes"
― rob, Tuesday, 13 January 2026 23:45 (two days ago)
Bartender wiping down bar.
"What'll it be?"
― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 23:47 (two days ago)
Guys being flirty with the telephone operator
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 23:48 (two days ago)
― Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 23:53 (two days ago)
"Whisky. Straight."
― one man against the cistern (Matt #2), Wednesday, 14 January 2026 00:34 (yesterday)
Crossing the road by striding out into heavy traffic
this is me pretty much everyday
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 14 January 2026 00:45 (yesterday)
Or, crossing lane by lane as traffic continues to speed past.
― visiting, Wednesday, 14 January 2026 00:47 (yesterday)
"Can I cash a check here?"
"Not a problem, sir."
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 14 January 2026 00:50 (yesterday)
Pseudo-scientific explanations for female behaviour proffered by middle-aged male clinicians (or complete amateurs) - 'schizophrenia' (i.e. MPS), nymphomania, hysteria etc.
― one man against the cistern (Matt #2), Wednesday, 14 January 2026 01:43 (yesterday)
iirc that wasn't exactly exclusive to the movies.
― visiting, Wednesday, 14 January 2026 02:31 (yesterday)
whatever the diagnosis, some fresh sea air will be prescribed. especially if it creates dramatic tension by pulling our character away from the action to convalesce at the seaside
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 14 January 2026 07:48 (yesterday)
You're suffering from the vapors. I'm going to prescribe a week of sea vapors.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 14 January 2026 13:36 (yesterday)
I wish doctors still prescribed fresh sea air.
― Wearing red lipstick and maintaining a neutral expression (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 January 2026 13:39 (yesterday)
"Taking the waters."
Cf. Casablanca: "My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters."
― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 14 January 2026 13:58 (yesterday)
There's a great bit in camp classic The Bad Seed (1956) featuring a very confident lecture on the state of modern psychology delivered by...a surgeon.
― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 14 January 2026 14:14 (yesterday)
"Taking the waters."Cf. Casablanca: "My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters."
― Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 January 2026 15:02 (yesterday)
We're in the desert.
― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 14 January 2026 20:00 (yesterday)