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Dennis The B

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For the past three weeks, or so, TMC has been running some very fine movies celebrating the coming Oscars. They started at the earliest, in the 1930's, and they're now up to the mid-1970's.

Tonight, they showed one of my all time favorites, "The Man Who Would Be King", based on a Novella by Rudyard Kipling. John Huston had tried to produce this movie for years; first by trying to get Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart, then Richard Burton; thought about Newman and Redford; and finally settled on Sean Connery and Michael Caine. If you haven't seen it, try TMC online, or maybe Netflix. It's very entertaining, and Sean Connery and Michael Caine are superb, each in their own right. Christopher Plummer, playing Rudyard Kipling provides a great supporting role. Saeed Jaffrey, was also very good as "Billy Fish", the loyal Gurkha rifleman.

Anyone else catch the TMC "Oscar" run?
 
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Michael Caine liked his co star so much that he married her."Man who would be King" is a great show.
 
We "cut the cable" last fall. The ONE channel I miss more than any other is TCM. :-( 31 Days of Oscar is one of my favorite themes from TCM. And, Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King" is an excellent feature film.
 
I caught "Judgment at Nuremberg"==very timely, especially Burt Lancaster's speech as Ernst Jannig (a fictional character based on a real Nazi).

Then I caught "Dr Strangelove........" by Kubrick. Fantastic acting and also timely==many spoofs that younger people might not get (such as Sterling Hayden).
 
I watched it too. I haven't seen it in a long time, it holds up well.

I watched a good number of the movies that TCM showed this month. Some were really good, some haven't aged well at all.

As the years progressed, the Oscars have become more about politics than about the quality of the movies nominated. Which is why I have zero interest in them.
 
GaryS said:
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As the years progressed, the Oscars have become more about politics than about the quality of the movies nominated. Which is why I have zero interest in them.
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My wife doesn't understand why I enjoy movies like "The King's Speech", "Tinker, Tailor...", and others which contain a lot of only dialogue.

Modern movie making has devolved into CGI, and little character development.
 
Dennis The B said:
My wife doesn't understand why I enjoy movies like "The King's Speech", "Tinker, Tailor...", and others which contain a lot of only dialogue.

Modern movie making has devolved into CGI, and little character development.
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The actors seem to do little more than just react to the CGI special effects. That's why I hardly ever go to modern movies. The few that I want to see, I wait for pay per view or Amazon Prime.
 
My Son and I are confirmed TCM addicts. It's great acting when it was a great Hollywood. Modern movies just do not compare. We sat and watched To Kill A Mockingbird with Gregory Peck last week when it snowed. My Son who is 13yrs old was way more interested in that than a game boy, play station or anything else.

A great channel and their web site if full of interesting items.
 
BruceHMX said:
My Son and I are confirmed TCM addicts. It's great acting when it was a great Hollywood. Modern movies just do not compare. We sat and watched To Kill A Mockingbird with Gregory Peck last week when it snowed. My Son who is 13yrs old was way more interested in that than a game boy, play station or anything else.

A great channel and their web site if full of interesting items.
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TCM promoted a 50th anniversary tour of To Kill a Mockingbird in 2012. It was shown in theaters in very limited release. Since it is my wife's favorite movie, I took her to see it on the big screen. Wonderful experience!

We also saw "On the Waterfront" several years ago on tour hosted by TCM's Robert Osborne. He stayed after the film ended and chatted with us. Super nice guy! If you ever get to attend one of these, don't miss it. Patricia Neal (The Day the Earth Stood Still) was in the audience. It was a small example of what Hollywood must have been like when there were real movie stars.....
 
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