Er... As I have pointed out MANY time, I was there when they were building the great pyramids on the Giza plateau!!

So again, I'AM ANCIENT!!!! (Everyone here are ankle biters to me!!! )

It's ridicules to hire someone so well known just to "do them in". Or maybe JJ Abraham was purging all ill feeling he has towards her because of her... "Issues"

Why is it important for people to know how OLD I am. I have admitted over and OVER again that I'm ANCIENT!!!

i just saw new malay movie, papadom, the cinema sold out!!!

come on bro, if you're that ancient, you be referencing chaplin, keaton, lloyd, marlene dietrich, joan crawford, noir, bogart, wilder etc. if you're so called ancient u be praising adventures of robin hood left n right. being ancient is cool, you can give us insight of whats good or whats shitty and you can tell those losers who don't watch anything pre 2000 to go die.

well a cameo is a cameo, like marlon brando in supeman or sam jackson in out of sight, martin sheen in hot shots 2, harrison (fark off) ford in bruno etc

anyway watched tony scott's revenge. this is a sequel to top gun and wish megan fox will be as hot as Madeleine Stowe in this when she's 32.

as for watchmen, i think it blows and i think Zack Snyder is a hack and the same goes to dark knight n effin nolan and bale is overrated as fark

This post has been edited by fragglerock: Oct 9 2009, 12:27 PM

Er... When I say Ancient, I mean there was this lyre player, in Karnak Egypt (during the reign of Ramses the Great, 1000 years after the Great Pyramids Giza were built), whom I know, she was....

Well, it so happens, Alfred Hitchcock's first American movie, Rebecca, is one of my all time favorite movie!!

The reason I don't often bring up movies from the 40s, 50s and 60s is because most forumer here are Gen X or Gen Y, if not later, they won't have a clue of what/who I'm talking about!?!

For example, most wouldn't know that Steve Martin's 1991 movie Father of the Bride, was a remake of Spencer Tracy's Father of the Bride (1950, Elizabeth Taylor played his daughter). Some might NOT even know Steve Martin's Father of the Bride!!?

Marlon Brando's cameo on 1978's Superman, earned him 7 million dollars (unheard of, in Cleopatra (1963), Elizabeth Taylor was paid 1,000,000 USD by Fox to play Cleopatra, and when that movie TANKED at the box-office, Fox almost went under and they took the risk of making The Sound of Music, which won the best movie, in 1964, saving the movie company) and that movie made a lot of money. The additional scene Richard Donner shot for the second movie, were never used, because he got fired after the first one, they dusted off the shelves and used in Superman Return (which I love), I doubt Wynona Ryder made much from he "cameo" in Star Trek!

I do like the works of Errol Flynn [The Prince and the Pauper (1937), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), The Sea Hawk (1940)], Mickey Rooney in the Andrew 'Andy' Hardy series, Spencer Tracy, Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, Bette David etc, etc. And the point of bringing this actors and actresses and their works up in a forum where NOT MANY would know them, would serve NO PURPOSE??

I do agree on certain level, the art of telling a story through movie is dying. Alot of movies nowadays rely on "glamour"/CGI/actors or actresses who generate a lot of news/scandals to draw people to the cinema (or buy the VCD (*GASP*)/DVD/BD, style over substance). There are Silver Linings (eg. Pixar) and stuff that Peter Jackson does.

I've been told that I frighten people (hence the moniker Mov_Freak) and do not want to frighten people away from forums I participate in, so that is why I do not tell people my age, and am very forthright in informing people that I'm Ancient!

I would love to have more Hitchcock conversations here, any time.

Psycho, man. Psycho is WIN.

Well, except for that scene with the psychiatrist at the end. That was suck.

good movie !

watched it yesterday.

a bit sad though

Hey mov_freak, are you like 80?

Been on a junk movie run, watched Land of the Lost, which isn't very bad but not worth watching, and the first three Final Destination movies. First is bad, second is fun, third is between the first and second. I cant believe they spent so much time in the third movie talking about the same mumbo jumbo about Death And How He Works which was already covered to death in the first movie. I would have skipped it, but I find it hard to tear my eyes off Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

This post has been edited by QuickFire: Oct 9 2009, 05:25 PM

Always the direct route with you isn't it!

No Quickfire, 80 isn't ancient!!

Rebecca (1940)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Produced by David O. Selznick

Several interesting facts about this movie.

David O. Selznick had produced Gone with the Wind and it was a smashing hit. He then brought a famous director form England to Hollywood to make Hollywood movies. He lured Alfred Hitchcock to Hollywood by buying the rights to Rebecca a popular book and he knew that Hitchcock wanted to direct the movie version of it (Hitchcock himself wanted to buy the rights to the book).

Having "invited" Hitchcock to the States, it was immediate apparent that both person have strong will and did things differently.

David O. Selznick wanted the movie to be a word to word translation of the book, and Alfred Hitchcock wanted to take some artistic licensing (changing things that would not work for a movie)

David O. Selznick was a workaholic and is often sleeping on his couch in his office at night whislt Hictchcock would be home for dinner.

Through David O. Selznick "adamentness" Hitchcock was able to make Rebecca the way his intended. One of the way he managed that was that everytime David O. Selznick was on Location, no filming was done (therefore he cannot intervene) and as soon as he left the stage, Hitchcock would quickly filmed what he want!!

Now for the movie itself.

There were conflict between the two leads. Laurence Olivier was already a well known actor at the time whilst Joan Fontaine was very new to the game. Apparently Laurence never gave Joan the time of the day between the takes. There was even a story which states that everyone threw Joan a birthday party because it was her birthday during the filming of the movie, and Laurence didn't even drop in!!

This could be due to the fact the Laurence wanted his real girlfriend of the time, Vivien Leigh, as the role whom Joan is currently playing.

Another interesting note is that the role whom Joan played, has no name, and the movie title Rebecca is actually the name of Laurence character's first dead wife, who she (Joan) feels like she is still competing with.

The story is interesting. Shy girl meets rich widow man, widow man falls for shy girl, sweeps her off her feet and marries her. They toured Europe and everything is great until he brings her home... where the proverbial $hit hits the fan.

I don't want to say more until the interested parties had the chance to see this

I hope this is what you meant Makakeke!

Finally got to re-watch Kill Bill 2. Had assignments like mad, didn't have the time.

Funny how Kill Bill 1 is rated 18+ and Kill Bill 2 is rated MA15+ here on the dvd covers in Australia.. I found Kill Bill 2 a little more violent and sadistic.

Kill Bill 1 had some intestines falling out of stomach and Lucy Liu's japanese minions getting owned by Uma Thurman.

But Kill Bill 2 had some Uma Thurman popping an eye. That gave me the heebiie jeebies And the part where Uma Thurman was dropped into the coffin. The thought of it, closterphobic maybe? Heheheh.

Both of them, superb. Brilliantly written.

Next show to watch - Armageddon

This post has been edited by swks26: Oct 9 2009, 09:24 PM

I cannot imagine. I always thought you were like maybe 30 or 40. To think you might be triple that...

Wait.. Mov_Freak is 80years old?
Or I just didn't get it

We are STILL on about my age!!!! As Fragglerock said, INCONCEIVABLE!

This post has been edited by Mov_freak: Oct 10 2009, 12:15 AM

I actually didn't really like Rebecca. Sorry, old man.

Sorry mov_freak, that doesn't prove you're a Hitchcockian. That proves iMDB and Wiki makes everyone an instant movie buff

Okay, what did you not like about it? The casting, the story the direction??

Er... Never said i was Hitchcockian??!

Didn't you mention earlier back you're a Hitchcock fan? never mind. Just messing with you.

Came back from (500) Days of Summer. What I can say though is that if Billy Wilder were still alive, you wouldn't bet against this movie being made by him. I've read a lot of reviews comparing this to Annie Hall and High Fidelity and I don't know why (never watched those movies) but this movie reminded me a lot of The Apartment. JGL played his character the same way Jack Lemmon played his in The Apartment- funny, sympathetic, quirky but most certainly believable.

I don't know what to think of it in the long run but I certainly haven't seen anything like this before. The first great romantic comedy of the new century? I think it would be in the Top 10.

I'm a fan of Hitchcock sure! I have watched MOST of his stuff (I think there are 2 or 3 movies of his and also about 4 seasons of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) that I have not seen (not to mention the remakes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents 80s). I don't go around calling myself Hitchcockian the same reason for some people don't go around calling themselves Trekkie! Never much cared for labels.

If you want to mess with me, I'll mess back!!?!

This post has been edited by Mov_freak: Oct 10 2009, 08:05 PM