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VolPack22 said:
Might as well trade him wherever he wants to go in free agency and get a haul in return.
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The Astros got good great value when we traded him last off season. I’ll be watching to see what the Cubs can get for him. He’s rental bait now…
 
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CobbWebb71 said:
Apocalypse now
Jaws
Goodfellas
Once upon a time in the west(that damn annoying fly)
Ghostbusters
Sunset Boulevard(I like how the narrater is the one face down in the pool)

These are a couple that come to mind
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Nice!
I always use Apocalypse Now to illustrate the use of dissolves, not just visual ones, but audio dissolves. (choppers, ceiling fan blades, his brain "on fire," and his opposite, Buddha. And of course, for the use of music & lyrics! Guys are always glued to that one.

I used to use Sunset Boulevard, but found that younger generations were just not recognizing the guy alive at the typewriter as being the same guy dead in the pool. It still works for them if they watch the whole movie. But not recognizing William Holden's voice, the storytelling hook at the beginning is lost on them.

Billy Wilder's original opening was set in a morgue, each corpse with its toe tag, and Holden's corpse telling the others the story. But the pre-release test audience thought the scene was hilarious! They were unaware that dead bodies were given toe tags, and they thought they were price tags. So Wilder re-wrote the opening and shot it the way you see it.

For the pool scene, there were no cinematic cameras then that were waterproof or able to shoot underwater. One of the camera assistants came up with the idea of putting a large mirror on the floor of the pool, and shooting the image in the mirror from above the water. And that's the perspective you see today.
 
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BruisedOrange said:
LOL--I'm so backwards in my movie tastes that "Movies from the '90s" is trivia for me! I had to google up a list, and still had only seen maybe 12 movies from that entire decade (and most because of my wife).

I just pitched an event for our local Silver Screens Society to present a dozen or more opening scenes from classic movies for group discussion. I've offered it as a summer school class in the past, and do it monthly for some very bright oldsters who needed more mental stimulation than their regular activities were providing.
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BEST Opening/Title Scene EVER…

 
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Orange. said:
Speaking of movies earlier, this "Oppenheimer" meme still gets me every time. One of my favorite movies.
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Barbenheimer was one of the most unlikely heroes this country has ever seen. Nearly $2.5B in combined box office gross.
 
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vol66 said:
It hit me today, I guess now yesterday, @OldTimer has been missing for a year. I miss his posts. Seems like a salute is in order. Suggestions?
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Bud, I really wish we had more info.
This may sound crazy but I truly consider a lot of you guys as good friends, even though we’ve never met in person.
I almost want to exchange real names instead of just screen names, just for instances like this.
I wouldn’t want 99.9% of the goons on this site to even know my first name, but a select few “baseball” guys and gals, I would have zero hesitation knowing my full name.
This situation really stinks because we don’t have, at least I don’t think, any way of getting more info on OldTimer.
 
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Orange. said:
Speaking of movies earlier, this "Oppenheimer" meme still gets me every time. One of my favorite movies.
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A director friend challenged me to watch "Barbie" after I'd finally watched "Oppenheimer" this Spring (I'm trying to expose myself to more modern movies that might become classics). I knew he wouldn't have done that to me if it wasn't at least a well-made, serious movie.

The opening scene was the best, most thoughtful spoof of Kubrick's opening to "2001: A Space Odyssey" that I've seen (of so many). That impressed me right off the bat.

I was expecting lots of woke, 4th generation feminism, and it was there, for sure. But they also juxtaposed it with it's mirror image, which all today would recognize as toxic masculinity--and thus revealing Barbie land to be toxic femininity? I still thought maybe that was me reading into the movie my own values.

But by the end, I became convinced that "Barbie" is actually a subversive (to woke, modern feminist ideals) endorsement of motherhood.

I know. Sounds crazy. But I challenge anyone to watch "Barbie" (with your wife or daughter--you might as well gain some credit for yourself, right guys?) and just watch for how motherhood is presented--as well as how anti-motherhood and womanhood without children is presented--throughout the movie to the end.
 
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TAF said:
wyd in this situation?
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I'd stop. I'd ask her if she's okay or needs help. I'd ask her if she was standing there of her own volition.

If everything checked out okay, I'd probably say that she looked a little under-dressed for the occasion...


and ask if she'd like a pillowcase.

I'm also sure, the whole time, the musical part of my brain would be tormenting me with
🎶 "the touch, the feel, the fabric of our lives..."
 
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