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Marj
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 4:37 pm Reply with quote
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That doesn't surprise me, Tim. But then I've always been a fan of Downey's work.
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chillywilly
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 4:38 pm Reply with quote
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I'm with you and Tim with RDJr in Less Than Zero.

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Marj
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 4:40 pm Reply with quote
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Chilly - I've never seen Less Than Zero. But it's going on my queue ASAP!
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chillywilly
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 4:42 pm Reply with quote
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Marj wrote:
Chilly - I've never seen Less Than Zero. But it's going on my queue ASAP!

It's a must watch. Andrew McCarthy, Jamie Gertz (wonderful actress, BTW), RDJr.... it's kind of got a brat pack feel to it, but the movie was well done, the story was great, the characters were very convicing and it just worked.

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Mr. Brownstone
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 5:11 pm Reply with quote
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It's got a definite Brat Pack feel to it, but the talents of Downey & Spader are obvious in the film.

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chillywilly
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 6:09 pm Reply with quote
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Yes... I forgot to mention Spader, who was great as well.

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billyweeds
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 6:36 pm Reply with quote
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It is the movie that nails Downey's cred as no other does.

Chilly--Interesting that you praise Jami Gertz. You may have read my hate-filled rant against the current so-called comedy, Keeping Up with the Steins. I was unfair to the movie in only one respect. Gertz--and only Gertz--actually rose above the carnage with a controlled and convincing performance of the nice-guy wife to Jeremy Piven. Piven is uncharacteristically dull, but Gertz manages to invest her woefully written character with a good amount of humanity.
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ehle64
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 6:53 pm Reply with quote
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I still remember (thanks be to those on high) when Times Square had the 24-hour movie houses, some with Porn, but most with double-features. I was a poor East Village monkey that moseyed uptown one hot summer day and my first Times Square Double Feature was Less Than Zero and Die Hard. I think it was like $5 admission.

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lady wakasa
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 8:20 pm Reply with quote
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The Castro Theatre did something like that - double features (unless something special like the film festival was going on) all day, with tat guy playing The Mighty Wurlitzer inbetween, and once you were in, you were in until you decided to go home.

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lady wakasa
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 8:23 pm Reply with quote
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I actually came on to ask a question of the actor folk in these parts. Not sure how many of you have seen Louise Brooks, but was wondering what you thought about her acting skill. I'm finishing up an excellent biography (Louise Brooks, by Barry Paris) and I have a pretty solid opinion of what I think was going on.

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mo_flixx
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 8:25 pm Reply with quote
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lady wakasa wrote:
The Castro Theatre did something like that - double features (unless something special like the film festival was going on) all day, with tat guy playing The Mighty Wurlitzer inbetween, and once you were in, you were in until you decided to go home.


The theaters on L.A.'s skid row were like that except they closed for 2 hrs. to get the bums to leave. Many were the grand old Fox movie palaces from the '20's.
The Clark Theater in Chicago used to have a different classic double bill everyday, and women could sit in the "Little Gal-lery" (balcony) if they didn't want to be molested in the orchestra. [Or to meet their Lesbian girlfriends.]

The Clark, IMO, was one of the gt. movie theaters of all time.


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Marc
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 8:34 pm Reply with quote
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There was no place like THE DEUCE in the '70s. Double bills for $1.50 -
SEVERED TORSO/TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, BLUE SUNSHINE/MONDOMACBRE, BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR/THE OPENING OF MISTY BEETHOVEN. The smell of fried chicken, ammonia, cannabis, cum and b.o.. Occasional gunfire. Hookers giving blowjobs in the backrow.
Yer shoes stuck to the floor, gum or cum?
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mo_flixx
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 11:08 pm Reply with quote
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Marc, obviously I missed THE DEUCE experience. Where was this theater?
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Marc
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 11:10 pm Reply with quote
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FORTY DEAUCE.
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mo_flixx
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 11:13 pm Reply with quote
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Marc wrote:
FORTY DEAUCE.


Actually, I was hoping for the name of a city.
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