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Post by pippsheadache on Feb 2, 2020 12:17:06 GMT -5
You mentioned Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot." I'm sure you know some of that was filmed at the Hotel del Coronado near San Diego. They used to have a nice exhibit there on the movie. One of my favorite places to stay, both the Del and Coronado itself. If I could afford to live there I would. Did Jack Lemmon ever give a bad performance? I'm sure he must have, but I never saw it. Yes. Getting Away With Murder with Dan Ackroyd. If you have never seen it, be thankful and don’t see it. Haven't seen that one, GF. I figured there had to be a few clunkers out there. I will hereby avoid that one. |
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Post by inger on Feb 2, 2020 12:31:08 GMT -5
That one was chilling. The ancient feel of the movie makes it even more so. It was one of the staples of Theater Arts classes back in the day. From before the time when Peter Lorre settled into a comfortable career as a character actor in Hollywood. He was also one of those guys, like Cary Grant or James Cagney or Edward G. Robinson that every bad impersonator used to do back in the 1960s. Hey pipps, don't forget Jimmy Stewart. I can even do his voice. Yeah, well well I can can even d-do Stewart in in ty-type... (How’d I do)?... 😎 |
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Post by greatfatness on Feb 2, 2020 12:36:40 GMT -5
Yes. Getting Away With Murder with Dan Ackroyd. If you have never seen it, be thankful and don’t see it. Haven't seen that one, GF. I figured there had to be a few clunkers out there. I will hereby avoid that one. Terrible idea for a script. Lemmon plays a nazi. Maybe that’s all you need to know. |
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Post by greatfatness on Feb 2, 2020 12:37:27 GMT -5
Speaking of great movies
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Post by inger on Feb 2, 2020 12:38:42 GMT -5
Hey pipps, don't forget Jimmy Stewart. I can even do his voice. Oh yeah, he was another that guys like Frank Gorshin made a living doing. People we could all do!! Boris Karloff, John Wayne. Cagney: "You're the rat who killed my brotha." Cary Grant: "Judy, Judy, Judy." Where have all the impressionists gone? (Gone to marry sailors, every one?). Frank Gorshin, Rich Little, Jonathan Winters dabbled in Impressionism, but to me he seemed to always appear like Jonathan Winters doing an impression, if that makes any sense. It seems there were lots of them, but now I can’t think of many. I guess the didn’t make much of an IMPRESSION on me. (See what I just did. I can’t stop myself, really. Somebody else will have to)..., |
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Post by pippsheadache on Feb 2, 2020 12:45:16 GMT -5
Don't forget David Frye back in the day. And George Kirby. A man who used to do Ella Fitzgerald impressions.
I think there are still a lot of people who are impressionists. It's just that they also do other things.
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Post by inger on Feb 2, 2020 13:28:23 GMT -5
I guess we do have Dana Carver, Jim Carrey, etc. now...And Carvey adds those odd characters he’s invented too, like the Church Lady, although I’m pretty sure that the Church Lady does exist, because I’m pretty sure I’ve met her a time or two...
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Post by inger on Feb 2, 2020 13:29:39 GMT -5
Lol at the Whack-A-Mole... |
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Post by sierchio on Feb 3, 2020 8:11:41 GMT -5
Watched 1917. I thought it was pretty good, but not great. Then again, I've never been known to have great taste in movies.. I'm sure I missed a lot..
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Post by kaybli on Feb 3, 2020 8:34:00 GMT -5
Watched 1917. I thought it was pretty good, but not great. Then again, I've never been known to have great taste in movies.. I'm sure I missed a lot.. I mean its a good movie. Its not Apocalypse Now or Full Metal Jacket. You have to admit the cinematography was incredible though. |
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Post by sierchio on Feb 3, 2020 9:26:19 GMT -5
Watched 1917. I thought it was pretty good, but not great. Then again, I've never been known to have great taste in movies.. I'm sure I missed a lot.. I mean its a good movie. Its not Apocalypse Now or Full Metal Jacket. You have to admit the cinematography was incredible though. I can get behind this statement 100%... Full Metal Jacket is one of my favorite movies.. Hardly any movies compare. |
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Post by sierchio on Feb 3, 2020 9:27:51 GMT -5
Funny story.. first time I watched Full Metal Jacket, I was a kid on vacation with my grandparents.. When my grandpa found out I was watching the movie.. he waited upstairs in the place we were staying and when the time was right... he came down doing the "this is my rifle, this is my gun" part. It still cracks me up...
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Post by sierchio on Feb 3, 2020 9:31:31 GMT -5
Reminds me of another time we were on vacation and there was a big biker rally around the same time... so there was all these bikers hanging out in the motel. I'm like 6 years old... give or take. I see all these bikers crowded around my grandpa and I thought they were gonna jump him. He was just entertaining them... he was in a Georgia Bulldogs sweatshirt.. and he had a belly on him.. and he was "making the bulldog bark" and they were all cracking up. Later that day, I got my first biker jacket and had my pics taken on a bunch of awesome bikes. Miss my grandparents.  |
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Post by kaybli on Feb 3, 2020 10:28:15 GMT -5
Reminds me of another time we were on vacation and there was a big biker rally around the same time... so there was all these bikers hanging out in the motel. I'm like 6 years old... give or take. I see all these bikers crowded around my grandpa and I thought they were gonna jump him. He was just entertaining them... he was in a Georgia Bulldogs sweatshirt.. and he had a belly on him.. and he was "making the bulldog bark" and they were all cracking up. Later that day, I got my first biker jacket and had my pics taken on a bunch of awesome bikes. Miss my grandparents. Your grandpa sounds like a good dude! |
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Post by sierchio on Feb 3, 2020 11:59:07 GMT -5
Hell yeah... Funny as hell. My words can't replicate it
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