Thursday, September 12, 2019

2 Classics Return

Two great classic movies return to the big screen in Jackson this month.

Something for the Trekkies.....



September 15
Malco: 1

September 18
Malco: 7


And everyone's favorite movie in The Fondren:



September 22
Malco: 4
Tinseltown: 4, 7

September 24
Tinseltown: 7

September 25
Tinseltown: 7
Malco: 7

If neither movie is your speed, there is always Rob Zombie



September 16, 17, 18
Tinseltown: 7

Unfortunately, no midnight showings.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great except for Tim Robbins...perhaps 11 years and 2 children with Susan Sarandon produced a vulcan mind meld. Although Robbins would probably be considered ultra-conservative now...estimated net worth...$60,000,000.00.

If you ever get bored, read the SAG union contract and their healthcare benefits, pensions, ect and costs. This is why you see actors doing 15 min video shorts. Not to make money, but to remain qualified for the benefits. They have a 2 tier benefit schedule, and you only have to earn around 17k or 34k per year to qualify.

https://www.sagaftraplans.org/health/benefits/plan-i


A few of his bio quotes...

Was kicked off his high school hockey team for fighting.???

I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper.

After the September 11 attacks, he tried to fly out of New York City to be with Susan Sarandon and their children in Hollywood. Upon finding out that all flights were grounded, he and a friend drove from New York City to Los Angeles in a 56-hour trip that began on the morning of September 12, 2001.

Admits that he only did Howard the Duck (1986) for the money.

Hollywood is full of closet Republicans, and also you're sometimes not sure who your friends are. When the whole Bull Durham (1988) controversy happened there were three people who came very vociferously to our support, all either very conservative Democrats or Republicans - Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner and Jack Valenti. And how many liberals? I didn't see any. So I am not one that makes a judgment on someone because they are Republican. I know enough Republicans that are decent people, they love their families, we might have differences of opinion but we can find common ground....but this was the 1988 Tim Robbins.

Something ... this way comes said...

Definitely will be there for Shawshank and I'm not from Fondren. Lol

Anonymous said...

Shawshank, Yes! Buttered popcorn and airplane size Jack Daniels for large coke. Turn off them damned phones!

Where's the 'big screen in Jackson'?

Hermit King said...

I really wish they would do a showing of Jeremiah Johnson.

Gul Dukat Did Nothing Wrong said...

@Kingfish
We prefer to be called Trekkers and we consider "Tr*kkies" to be a pejorative similar to the N word.

Burke said...

Geez, 1:58, get a grip. Time for you to de-politicize. Elia Kazan, for an example from the right, was a staunch anti-Communist, but he was also a top-five director. Robbins did a fine job, mostly as a foil to Freeman, and that's all he needed to do to help create one of the classics.

Anonymous said...

ST:TMP is such an underrated film. Yes, it's long and could have benefited by editing leaving 30 minutes or so on the cutting room floor, but of all the ST movies (including the reboot), it is THE most "Trek-like". I didn’t care for it as a kid, but I’ve come to love and appreciate it so much more as I’ve gotten older.

Anonymous said...

I agree with your sentiment @3:58 PM, but it ain't no date movie.

Anonymous said...

Burke...Kazan was a member of the American Communist Party. He bumped heads with it's leadership because he thought it should be more like Stalin's Party in Russia.

"But for years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. I still believed in it. But not in the American Communists. I used to make a difference and think: "These people here are damned fools but in Russia they have got the real thing," until I learned about the Hitler-Stalin pact, and gave up on the USSR.

What in fact happened was that like many party leaders, they are capitalists. And Kazan decided to become a surviving Capitalist. Having watched almost all of his films, I would highly recommend "A Face in the Crowd". Which was Andy Griffiths 1st movie, even before his tv series. And Andy is so good, because Andy isn't acting, he is being himself.

An enemy of your enemy isnt necessarily your friend. Korea was given to the communists as an incentive to get Russia to fight Japan, but they did nothing as the war was almost over.
If you know about Ayn Rand, then you'll enjoy the WWII propaganda movie, Mission to Moscow.

However, the most pro-Soviet movie was 1943 “Mission to Moscow.” It was made at the request of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and based upon a book by U.S. ambassador to the USSR Joseph E. Davies. The ambassador was the main character of the film. They say that Roosevelt met with Davies several times in the course of the film's production.
The movie starts with the real Davies stating that, “no leaders of a nation have been so misrepresented and misunderstood as those in the Soviet government during those critical years between the two world wars.” The filmmakers did not stop at this. In the movie Davies hints that the Moscow show trials of members of the Communist Party elite during the late 1930s should be taken at face value: those condemned then were guilty as they confessed in their attempted plots against the Soviet state.

“Based on 20 years’ trial practice, I’d be inclined to believe these confessions,” the main character says. In his book Davies went further and wrote that Stalin’s purges helped to remove the “fifth columnists” – those who worked for Germany and Japan – and this contributed to the low level of collaboration with the Nazis occupiers in the USSR during the war. The HUAC criticized the film and its scriptwriter, Howard E. Koch, was denounced as a Communist and blacklisted by Hollywood despite his earlier Oscar for “Casablanca”.

When MGM ousted Mayer, and replaced him with Dore Schary, Schary had learned the valuable tool of propaganda during the war years. His focus was on "message movies", and molding public opinion.

In the late 1960s, TV networks really got on board, especially CBS (referred to as the Rual Puge). Television was and is a powerful tool to mould public opinion, especially while young. Parents didn't know the power the tube would have over their children.

Here is a memorable quote from that era...

The numerous cancellations prompted Pat Buttram ("Mr. Haney" on one of the canceled shows, Green Acres) to observe, "It was the year CBS canceled everything with a tree—including Lassie."

Being in the age group that was formed watching tv in the 70s, I attempted to re-watch the MASH series. I could only make it to the episodes where Wayne Rogers left. The messages aren't veiled. And grandma and grandpa Walton were both communists, although grandma wasn't as die hard.



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