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| Thread ID: 91128 | 2008-06-27 05:07:00 | Old movie actors | kenj (9738) | PC World Chat |
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| 682943 | 2008-06-27 05:07:00 | Not a great lover of the film industry and the stuff they have put out in the last few years. To much violence, gratuitous sex and bad language. More of a documentary type am I. However, I have just watched on SKYTv, a film from the past. I first saw it when it was released in 1956. Has there ever been another actor as good as Gregory Peck? As Capt. Ahab, he was brilliant. The film was scratchy, special effects crappy, colour awful and Moby Dick stuttered and stopped all the time. All of this was ignored as I hung onto every word Peck spoke. I don't think any of todays actors could turn in a performance like that. Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 682944 | 2008-06-27 05:15:00 | I think the directors idea is that cool special effects will make up for bad acting. Sometimes it does. Most of the time it doesn't. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 682945 | 2008-06-27 06:57:00 | I like John Carpenter films. I dont knowwhy, they are not flash or nothing, just appeal to me. Everything from Halloween to Big trouble in little china. Ive started collecting them but I see remakes are taking over the catalogues. |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 682946 | 2008-06-27 22:49:00 | I love old movies, and watched a lot of John Wayne, Glenn Ford, Tony Curtis, and Richard Widmark on TCM on Sky. Unfortunately I had to dump Sky movies though, because paying the extra for them was killing my budget! Some other great actors, like Doris Day, Barbara Stanwyck, Natalie Wood also come to mind. |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 682947 | 2008-06-27 23:57:00 | Yep - the oldies are the goodies (hmm, The Goodies....). Storylines were generally more realistic (except the sci-fi movies from the fifties and sixties) and the acting was far better. Wratterus is SO right about the special effects!!! Stimulating the imagination is far more fun for the viewer... |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 682948 | 2008-06-28 00:15:00 | Not a great lover of the film industry and the stuff they have put out in the last few years. To much violence, gratuitous sex and bad language. More of a documentary type am I. However, I have just watched on SKYTv, a film from the past. I first saw it when it was released in 1956. Has there ever been another actor as good as Gregory Peck? As Capt. Ahab, he was brilliant. The film was scratchy, special effects crappy, colour awful and Moby Dick stuttered and stopped all the time. All of this was ignored as I hung onto every word Peck spoke. I don't think any of todays actors could turn in a performance like that. Ken Another good old one is Mackenna's Gold which I own. Starring Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif as the lead actors which also has some old actors in minor parts, Telly Savalas, Lee J Cobb, Raymond Massey and Anthony Quayle. The film was made in 1969. The title song was Old Turkey Buzzard sung by Jose Feliciano. :) |
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