Paul, Steve, Greg, and Tim
I am watching "The Guns of Naverone" tonight- one of the best WWII movies I've seen. Can't get better than Gregory Peck- Atticus Finch- the most noble man ever created. Watching it is making me think of another favorite of mine that I've been meanaing to buy for a while- "The Great Escape." I really miss not having AMC or TCM on our very basic cable that we have here. old movies do so much kick new movie butt. I was watching something on PBS recently on minority representation in films, and a famour director (I've forgotten his name at the moment) actually detailed to the millions how much he could get depending upon 1 or 2 african american leads vs. a lily-white cast, and how nowadays "no one is making art anymore, it is all business." It makes me sad. I do think that some are making art, but even those are required to contain some money-making guaranteed formulaic components in order to satisfy the studio that it won't go bottom up. Man, I am so ADD tonight. But I keep gettng distracted by ships blowing up, murder plots, and storms.
Back to "The Great Escape." I love that movie and they recently came out with a 2 Disc Collector set of it- which will surely rock. But its $27 online, so don't think I'll be doing that any time soon. I know that this is probably whacked out for a female, but I really love movies of this genre, and it got me thinking about some of my other favorites- "Shawshank Redemption" - Tim Robbins "Cool Hand Luke" - Paul Newman. None of those fit the contemporary standard of a heartthrob, but they all are real actors. Why aren't there more of those today? Oh well, back to my movie for now.
"Sir, I've inspected this boat, and I think you ought to know that I, um, can't swim."- David Niven
I am watching "The Guns of Naverone" tonight- one of the best WWII movies I've seen. Can't get better than Gregory Peck- Atticus Finch- the most noble man ever created. Watching it is making me think of another favorite of mine that I've been meanaing to buy for a while- "The Great Escape." I really miss not having AMC or TCM on our very basic cable that we have here. old movies do so much kick new movie butt. I was watching something on PBS recently on minority representation in films, and a famour director (I've forgotten his name at the moment) actually detailed to the millions how much he could get depending upon 1 or 2 african american leads vs. a lily-white cast, and how nowadays "no one is making art anymore, it is all business." It makes me sad. I do think that some are making art, but even those are required to contain some money-making guaranteed formulaic components in order to satisfy the studio that it won't go bottom up. Man, I am so ADD tonight. But I keep gettng distracted by ships blowing up, murder plots, and storms.
Back to "The Great Escape." I love that movie and they recently came out with a 2 Disc Collector set of it- which will surely rock. But its $27 online, so don't think I'll be doing that any time soon. I know that this is probably whacked out for a female, but I really love movies of this genre, and it got me thinking about some of my other favorites- "Shawshank Redemption" - Tim Robbins "Cool Hand Luke" - Paul Newman. None of those fit the contemporary standard of a heartthrob, but they all are real actors. Why aren't there more of those today? Oh well, back to my movie for now.
"Sir, I've inspected this boat, and I think you ought to know that I, um, can't swim."- David Niven
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