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James Dean And Finding Oil

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Tue 30 May 2006, 16:16:26

Ever see the movie Giant with Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and Dennis Hopper? That movie seems to me to sum it all up really well. The hardscrabble Texan loser who finds oil on his land and becomes bigger than anybody ever thought he could be. Then success proves a mirage and he loses in the end.

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Re: James Dean And Finding Oil

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Tue 30 May 2006, 16:23:53

Then there is the feminine metaphor, Elizabeth Taylor. She reveled in the illusions and the power to project illusions that nature bestowed upon her and ignored all warning signs, never paid any attention to anything that could in any way upset the current mood of whatever, until the ugly happened.
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Re: James Dean And Finding Oil

Unread postby Schweinshaxe » Tue 30 May 2006, 16:41:56

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', ' ')until the ugly happened.


What kind of ugly things happened? Did she end up in the Betty Ford Center in the movie too?

See, I don't watch boring boomer movies. As a generation X-er, I want a car chase, a couple of gun fights, some tits 'n ass and hilarious one liners in a movie or I get bored.

Call me superficial if you want but I want action! Give me entertainment or give me death!
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Re: James Dean And Finding Oil

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Tue 30 May 2006, 16:57:22

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Schweinshaxe', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', ' ')until the ugly happened.


What kind of ugly things happened?
Liz got ugly.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')ee, I don't watch boring boomer movies. As a generation X-er, I want a car chase . . . Give me entertainment or give me death!
The best car chase was in a boomer movie, Bullitt with Steve McQueen.
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Re: James Dean And Finding Oil

Unread postby Zardoz » Tue 30 May 2006, 17:00:25

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Schweinshaxe', 'S')ee, I don't watch boring boomer movies...Call me superficial if you want but I want action!...


Okay: You're superficial!

But I'm here to help. Here's a movie list that'll perk up some of those flaccid, squishy, underused Gen-X brain cells. Fire up some synapses with these masterpieces of intelligent filmmaking:

Long Day's Journey Into Night

The Pawnbroker

Notorious

Who's Afraid of Viginia Woolf?

A Man For All Seasons

To Kill A Mockingbird

Doctor Zhivago

Lawrence Of Arabia

Forbidden Planet

All About Eve

Paths of Glory

The Lavender Hill Mob

Young Frankenstein

All Quiet On The Western Front

The Manchurian Candidate

Annie Hall

After you've seen them and turned in a 500-word review for each, I'll give you another list.
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Re: James Dean And Finding Oil

Unread postby PrairieMule » Tue 30 May 2006, 17:18:07

All good picks. I'd like to add a few Boomer flicks:

The Graduate
They Were Expendable
Oklahoma
True Grit
To Catch a Thief
Outlaw Josey Wales

I just returned "In the Dust of Stars" from Netflix , one of the worst east german films ever made. Schwein, tell me East Germans are capable of more!
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Re: James Dean And Finding Oil

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Tue 30 May 2006, 17:24:23

What about "Cool Hand Luke" or "The Sting", or "Alien", or "BladeRunner"?
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Re: James Dean And Finding Oil

Unread postby Schweinshaxe » Tue 30 May 2006, 17:28:08

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Schweinshaxe', 'S')ee, I don't watch boring boomer movies...Call me superficial if you want but I want action!...


Okay: You're superficial!

But I'm here to help. Here's a movie list that'll perk up some of those flaccid, squishy, underused Gen-X brain cells. Fire up some synapses with these masterpieces of intelligent filmmaking:

Long Day's Journey Into Night

The Pawnbroker

Notorious

Who's Afraid of Viginia Woolf?

A Man For All Seasons

To Kill A Mockingbird

Doctor Zhivago

Lawrence Of Arabia

Forbidden Planet

All About Eve

Paths of Glory

The Lavender Hill Mob

Young Frankenstein

All Quiet On The Western Front

The Manchurian Candidate

Annie Hall

After you've seen them and turned in a 500-word review for each, I'll give you another list.


:?

Well, I saw "The Hours" which was based on "Mrs. Dalloway" and the life of Virginia Woolf, but I think Kidman smoked too much in that movie. And then I also saw "The Manchurian Candidate" remake. Meryl Streep was in both of them! You see I'm kind of a Meryl Streep guy. "The Bridges of Madison County" and "Kramer vs. Kramer" are also OK.

But I guess that doesn't count... :cry:
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Re: James Dean And Finding Oil

Unread postby Zardoz » Tue 30 May 2006, 17:30:48

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrairieMule', 'T')he Graduate
They Were Expendable
Oklahoma
True Grit
To Catch a Thief
Outlaw Josey Wales


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PMS', '.').."Cool Hand Luke" or "The Sting", or "Alien", or "BladeRunner"?


More great ones! Schwein, I guarantee you'll just get smarter and smarter as you go through our lists.
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Re: James Dean And Finding Oil

Unread postby PrairieMule » Tue 30 May 2006, 17:38:12

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Schweinshaxe', ' ')You see I'm kind of a Meryl Streep guy. "The Bridges of Madison County" and "Kramer vs. Kramer" are also OK.

But I guess that doesn't count... :cry:


Have you seen The River Wild? Not an American classic but worth a nod. Same goes for Silkwood.
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Re: James Dean And Finding Oil

Unread postby Schweinshaxe » Tue 30 May 2006, 18:10:33

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrairieMule', 'A')ll good picks. I'd like to add a few Boomer flicks:

The Graduate
They Were Expendable
Oklahoma
True Grit
To Catch a Thief
Outlaw Josey Wales

I just returned "In the Dust of Stars" from Netflix , one of the worst east german films ever made. Schwein, tell me East Germans are capable of more!


Well, East Germany doesn't exist anymore and I guess you mean "Im Staub der Sterne" which I haven't seen.

We had a thread half a year ago in Open Discussions where we discussed German movies. We've seen a lot of good or very good German films made lately. "The Edukators" [sic] (Die Fetten Jahre sind vorbei), "The Downfall" (Der Untergang), and "Sophie Scholl" (Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage) just to name a few of the movies known outside Germany.

Then we have the less known "Antibodies" (Antikörper) which is the most disturbing and scary movie I've seen and "Silentium" completely insane and bizarre (not German, Austrian).

German movies are in fact very good. We've all seen "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" and a few Fassbinder movies but Germany kicks ass right now!

It's a shame though that nothing comes from Sweden anymore. Lasse Hallström can deliver sometimes but I guess that's all... :cry:

But we're hockey world champions so who the Expletive deleted. cares! :-D
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Re: James Dean And Finding Oil

Unread postby Zardoz » Wed 31 May 2006, 01:10:03

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Schweinshaxe', '.')..You see I'm kind of a Meryl Streep guy.

Yeah, she's incredible, but my Numero Uno is the thinking man's sex symbol, Cate Blanchett:

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Re: James Dean And Finding Oil

Unread postby Doly » Wed 31 May 2006, 06:32:25

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '
')Yeah, she's incredible, but my Numero Uno is the thinking man's sex symbol, Cate Blanchett:


Funny you mention her, I'm thinking of trying to get through to her a question about peak oil through her agent. It's because she (supposedly) lives in Brighton. I'm trying to see if it's possible to get local celebs to make any comment on peak oil. Don't know what the success rate is with these kind of things, has anybody tried something on that line before?
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