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| LiberalLesboPosted at 2023-06-12 17:00:12(76Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| sherbPosted at 2023-06-12 17:39:28(76Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| 1971  *A little trivia... Most of the Wonka Bars were made from wood and covered with wrappers. *Some more trivia V V V The Oompa Loompas were known for hard partying off-set, even travelling in a limo together to bars. The opening credits sequence was filmed at a Toblerone chocolate factory in Switzerland. One of the ten cast members who played the Oompa Loompas was a female. The "coat hangers" are the spray painted hands of five carpenters working on the movie. Gene Wilder's Wonka costume sold for almost $74,000 in 2012. Jack Albertson - who played Grandpa Joe - contributed the line "An educated egg-dicator." The final Oompa Loompa song took fifty takes. Most of the small walk-on parts in this movie were played by German people. | |
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| panosolPosted at 2023-06-12 17:48:25(76Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| PaneraiPosted at 2023-06-12 18:49:38(76Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| avianaPosted at 2023-06-12 19:30:18(76Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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|  THE SAND PEBBLES 1966 In 1926, the USS San Pablo patrols the Yangtze River during the clashes between Chiang Kai-shek's communists and Chinese warlords. Eight-year veteran machinist Jake Holman (Steve McQueen), new to the self-named "sand pebbles" crew, immediately draws deep suspicion due to his independent streak. Ordered to protect Americans, including schoolteacher Shirley Eckhart (Candice Bergen), Jake and the gunboat crew are unwittingly drawn into a bitter nationalistic feud that holds grim consequences. | |
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| Jase1Posted at 2023-06-12 20:10:54(76Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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|   Trivia Yakima Canutt explained how the stunt was accomplished where, as an Apache warrior attacking the stagecoach, he is "shot", falls off his horse, and then gets dragged underneath the stagecoach: "You have to run the horses fast, so they'll run straight. If they run slow, they move around a lot. When you turn loose to go under the coach, you've got to bring your arms over your chest and stomach. You've got to hold your elbows close to your body, or that front axle will knock them off." After the stunt was completed, Canutt ran to director John Ford to make sure they got the stunt on film. Ford replied that even if they hadn't, "I'll never shoot that again." | |
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| coasterPosted at 2023-06-12 20:50:13(76Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| ReaperPosted at 2023-06-13 00:25:57(76Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| ReaperPosted at 2023-06-13 00:26:26(76Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| imonlinePosted at 2023-06-13 10:16:23(75Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| panosolPosted at 2023-06-13 17:43:18(75Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| BeowulfPosted at 2023-06-13 18:02:21(75Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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|  Collateral Damage is a 2002 American action thriller film directed by Andrew Davis and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elias Koteas, Francesca Neri, Cliff Curtis, John Leguizamo, and John Turturro. The film was released in the United States on February 8, 2002 to negative reviews and was a commercial failure. The film tells the story of Los Angeles firefighter, Gordon Brewer (Arnold Schwarzenegger), who seeks to avenge his son's and wife's deaths at the hands of a guerrilla commando, by traveling to Colombia and facing his family's killers. Plot A bomb detonates in the plaza of the Colombian Consulate building in Los Angeles, killing nine people, including a caravan of Colombian officials and American intelligence agents. Among the civilians killed are the wife and son of an LAFD firefighter, Captain Gordon "Gordy" Brewer, who was injured in the explosion. A tape is sent to the U.S. State Department, in which a masked man calling himself "El Lobo" (The Wolf) claims responsibility, justifying it as retaliation for the oppression of Colombia by the United States. The FBI believes El Lobo is a Colombian terrorist named Claudio Perrini. CIA Officer Peter Brandt, the Colombia Station Chief, is harshly reprimanded for the incident by a Senate Oversight Committee, which promptly terminates all CIA operations in Colombia. Brandt angrily returns to Mompós and meets with his paramilitary allies to plan a major offensive to take down Claudio. Frustrated at the political red tape regarding the investigation, Brewer travels to Mompós to personally hunt down Claudio but is quickly arrested for illegal entry. The guerrillas stage a prison break to free their comrades and abduct Brewer to demand a large ransom for him. Brandt's unit is alerted to Brewer's presence in Colombia but arrive too late. Brewer escapes the prison, evades capture, and secures a guerrilla zone pass from Canadian mechanic Sean Armstrong. Armstrong introduces him to drug runner Felix Ramirez, the manager of the cocaine distribution facility that finances the guerrillas. Masquerading as a "mechanic", Brewer rigs several improvised explosives and destroys the facility. Felix is blamed for the destruction of the drug plant and is executed in front of a hiding Brewer's eyes. Brewer infiltrates Claudio's headquarters and plants a bomb to kill him, but he is captured when he tries to prevent a woman, Selena, from being caught in the blast radius along with her son, Mauro. At Claudio's home compound, Selena reveals she is Claudio's wife. She and Claudio once lost their own child during an American attack, which compelled Claudio to become a terrorist; Selena found and adopted Mauro, whose parents were killed in the attack. Regardless, Selena eventually sympathizes with Brewer and admits that Claudio is planning another bombing in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, Brandt's unit locates Claudio's compound and launches an attack. During the ensuing shootout, Selena helps free Brewer and, along with Brandt, travels back to the State Department in Washington, D.C. to help the search effort for Claudio. Selena identifies Union Station as the target, and the FBI investigates. On the pretense of using the lavatory, Selena excuses herself from the command room and becomes irritated when Mauro refuses to come with her. When Brewer sees Selena make the same gesture as the masked man who claimed to be El Lobo in the tape, he realizes that she was the Wolf all along, and Claudio serves as her figurehead, and that the entire motive behind their cause is personal revenge for the death of their daughter at the hands of the US. Furthermore, Brewer surmises the real target is the State Department, and that he was used to help Selena get past the building's security. Brewer quickly throws Mauro's bomb-laden toy dinosaur out a window seconds before it explodes. Brandt, realizing Brewer's suspicions, is shot and killed trying to stop Selena from fleeing the building. Brewer chases Selena to the basement of the building where she and Claudio ride off through the tunnels on a motorcycle. Brewer finds the tunnel control console and shuts the gates, preventing their escape. Brewer uses an axe to rupture some gas lines along the walls of the tunnel and, as they ride back, Selena shoots at Brewer, unwittingly igniting the gas. Brewer jumps through a doorway just as the entire tunnel explodes. Selena and Claudio survive the blast, however, and attack him simultaneously. After a short, hand-to-hand fight, Selena is electrocuted by being tossed on the exposed circuitry of the control panel, and Claudio is himself killed when Brewer throws an axe into his chest before he can detonate a second bomb in the State Department. In the aftermath, Brewer carries Mauro in his arms as they leave the State Department. A newscast voiceover explains that Brewer will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom for preventing one of the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history from taking place. Directed by Andrew Davis Written by David Griffiths, Ronald Roose Produced by Steven Reuther, David Foster Starring ,Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elias Koteas, Francesca Neri Cliff Curtis, John Leguizam, John Turturro Cinematography Adam Greenberg Edited by Dov Hoenig, Dennis Virkler Music by Graeme Revell Production companyBel-Air Entertainment Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Release dates February 4, 2002 (Premiere) February 8, 2002 (United States) Running time 109 minutes Country United States Languages English Spanish Budget $85 million Box office $78.4 million | |
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| sherbPosted at 2023-06-13 20:48:40(75Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| 1974  *A little trivia... Alec Guinness was originally offered the role of Hercule Poirot, but was unavailable. Paul Scofield was also considered. Lumet wanted Marlene Dietrich for Princess Dragomiroff, but she refused to come out of retirement. | |
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| ReaperPosted at 2023-06-14 01:24:30(75Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| ReaperPosted at 2023-06-14 01:24:59(75Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| LiberalLesboPosted at 2023-06-14 02:03:05(75Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| panosolPosted at 2023-06-14 18:38:07(75Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| SoupPosted at 2023-06-15 02:41:48(75Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| imonlinePosted at 2023-06-15 09:55:07(75Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| LiberalLesboPosted at 2023-06-15 17:17:47(75Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| sherbPosted at 2023-06-15 19:59:47(75Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| 1935  *A little trivia... Clark Gable had to shave off his trademark mustache for this film for historical accuracy. Mustaches were not allowed in the Royal Navy during the time the story takes place. | |
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| BeowulfPosted at 2023-06-16 10:43:10(75Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| __SpaceCowboys(5).jpg) Space Cowboys is a 2000 American adventure drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood. It stars Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner as four older "ex-test pilots" who are sent into space to repair an old Soviet satellite. Plot In 1958, two U.S. Air Force pilots and aspiring astronauts William "Hawk" Hawkins and Frank Corvin are testing a modified Bell X-2[4] when Hawk decides to break speed and altitude records. The plane stalls and they are forced to eject, narrowly missing a Boeing B-50 Superfortress flying with navigator "Tank" Sullivan. On the ground, Frank punches Hawk, but their fight is broken up by flight engineer Jerry O'Neill. Their boss, Bob Gerson chastises Hawk before taking them to a press conference, where he announces that the newly created NASA, rather than the USAF, will be conducting space flight tests. In the present day, NASA is tasked to prevent a Soviet communications satellite, IKON, from decaying out of orbit and crashing to Earth because of the uplink loss. The satellite's archaic electronics are based on those of Skylab that Frank had developed. Bob, now a project manager at NASA, requests Frank's help. Frank still despises Bob, but agrees provided he has the help of "Team Daedalus" including Hawk, Tank, and Jerry. Bob plans to have younger astronauts shadow the four, so as to replace them before launch. When the press learn of Frank's team, the Vice President convinces Bob that they must be part of the mission for publicity. The old and young teams soon work together, with the older astronauts showing off skills learned without the aid of onboard computers. The Space Shuttle Daedalus finds the satellite. It is not a communication satellite but in fact houses six nuclear missiles, relics from the Cold War and a violation of the Outer Space Treaty. Frank discovers that the satellite control system was stolen from Bob's files by the KGB, and without a control signal from the ground via the damaged uplink, the satellite's computers will launch the missiles at predetermined targets. NASA and the crew plan to use the payload-assist rockets to push the satellite into deep space. However, one of the younger astronauts, Ethan Glance, acting under Bob's original orders, tries to put the satellite into stable orbit himself. He sets off a chain reaction: the satellite collides with the shuttle, damaging most of the shuttle's computer systems and engines, destroying the solar panels on the satellite, and sending it into a faster decaying orbit, while Ethan is knocked out and dragged along with the satellite. While Tank and Jerry tend to the other young astronaut Roger Hines, who suffered a concussion on the impact, Frank and Hawk space walk to the satellite in time to activate a booster rocket and slow the orbit's decay. As they see to Ethan, they realize that the only option is to have someone ride on the satellite as they fire the missiles' engines so that it escapes into deep space. Hawk, who was recently widowed and who has eight months to live from pancreatic cancer, sacrifices himself, hoping that he will be able to land on the Moon to fulfill his life's dream. Frank, Tank, and Jerry now plan to bring the shuttle down over water since landing it would be difficult, but the shuttle comes in too fast. After safely bailing out Ethan and Roger, Tank and Jerry stay with Frank regardless of the risk. Frank recalls a maneuver Hawk had used before, purposely increasing the shuttle's angle in the flare to bring the aircraft near a stall, thus allowing the shuttle to drop its speed quickly and allowing him to land the shuttle safely. The film ends with the Frank Sinatra song "Fly Me to the Moon", zooming in on the surface of the Moon showing that Hawk had indeed landed there before he died. Directed by Clint Eastwood Written by Ken Kaufman, Howard Klausner Produced by Andrew Lazar, Clint Eastwood Starring Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, James Garner Marcia Gay Harden, William Devane, Loren Dean, Courtney B. Vance, James Cromwell Cinematography Jack N. Green Edited by Joel Cox Music by Lennie Niehaus Production companies: Village Roadshow Pictures, Clipsal Films Malpaso Production, Mad Chance Productions Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Release date August 4, 2000 Running time 130 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $60-65 million Box office $128.9 million | |
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