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crashfrog

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Message 9 of 44 (280011)
01-19-2006 12:25 PM

Before the Middle East became associated with Islam and people that want to blow themselves up, it used to be that you could make fantasy movies with a Persian feel. I'm thinking of the Sinbad movies, or the wonderful Thief of Baghdad. (good luck finding that one just about anywhere.)

Now cinematic fantasy is all Boris Valejo calendars and whiny Enya soundtracks. As great as the LOTR movies were, there's other ways to do fantasy besides chainmail and Celtic drum jigs. Fantasy can be based on a culture besides England, which is something they seem to have forgotten recently.

I like caper movies, too. To my mind, there's nothing better than The Sting, which is back out on DVD after being out of print for years.

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01-19-2006 1:26 PM

Reply to: Message 13 by berberry
01-19-2006 1:18 PM

I assume you mean the Technicolor one with the great Sabu.

I didn't know he was "great", but yeah, that's the one I mean.

Sorry, I realize you all are geezers, or whatever, but any movie older than "Howard the Duck" counts as an "old movie" to me.

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Message 27 of 44 (280153)
01-19-2006 11:41 PM

Reply to: Message 23 by bobbins
01-19-2006 10:10 PM

Re: My own (very personal - opinionated) opinion

Get a grip and stop reading Sight and Sound. Kurasawa was a western art student and the script-writer for Seven Samurai and Rashomon is a self-confessed western fan, with Stagecoach (John Wayne 1939) being a favourite. An overbearing obsession with mythical samurai.

Which is funny, because the best westerns are the ones based on the samurai mythos. (Nobody's mentioned any Sergio Leone movies? WTF? He's a great director.)

Also, Sam Raimi. Great filmmaker. I recently bought The Quick and the Dead. An almost perfect movie.

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Message 34 of 44 (280227)
01-20-2006 9:40 AM

Reply to: Message 30 by berberry
01-20-2006 5:19 AM

Re: Sabu

Sorry, I probably shouldn't have used the word 'great', but when I was a kid I sure thought he was.

No, it's perfectly fine for you to call him great. I just had no idea he was in anything but The Thief of Bagdhad.

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