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Yeah, but it's still fun to listen to. Honestly, even some of the most lame-a** songs of any genre from that era are still fun as heck to hear.
Watching this flick now on the This TV network, and I actually find the main theme of the film fun and lively to listen to----it's basically a jazz tune, which makes me like it even more. I actually saw this on TV back in the '80s as a little kid (I'd already seen The Trouble With Angels at an all-girls camp at age 10) and thought it was okay, but not as much fun as TTWA. Yeah, it's dated like most films over half a century old, but it's a product of its time, and pretty much a family film, at least. I liked how Sister George was trying to get the nuns to change with the times, which they really needed to. That was just a reflection of some the major changes society was going through at the time. Sure, it's no great shakes, but it's likable, entertaining flick, at least.
Yeah, he might have gotten a little help from his dad, but the movie itself barely got any hype (or promotion) when it came out. It sounded nice and weird. Cool to hear that one of Cronenberg's kids is a chip off the old block moviewise,though.
Seriously? Rockwell is one of the more interesting, and flat-out one of the most fun actors to watch on screen today, no matter what he does. He usually shines as some weird character in a completely offbeat situation----his presence in a film usually means that it might be worth watching. Plus he's usually funny as hell,too---when allowed to be.
David:
Excuse me? Black men fought in the Civil War (on the Union side) for their own freedom, too. Don't give white men all the damn credit,like y'all usually do.
Ladymooneclispse;
Honestly, you sound so damn ignorant., Slavery is a major part of American history,and a huge part of it. Why should it be ignored just because you don't want to deal with it? And racism has mainly been kept alive in this country to this day because white people refused to let it die,and they never have (look at how trumpf whipped up racism and played on people's prejudices to run for office.) So don't even try to put that on black people--white people started that s***, and they still have it going on to this day. White folks have kept handing down racism like old clothes from one generations to the next, so it's y'all's damn fault, since you benefitted from it more than anyone else.
Jperrone:
Nobody even said that---that's just your ridiculous,close-minded take on it. The show is just a reminder that white men didn't not do everything important in history,that's all. I don't know why the hell you even have a problem with that, because it's the truth. Get over yourself, and quit whining whenever the white male hegemony on everything is challenged.
reggieweezy:
Oh,please---if you watch European films, male actors have no problem doing sex scenes with each other--it's mostly American actors and Americans in general with those hangups. Get over yourself----a straight guy dosen't automatically become gay after doing a same-sex sex scene--I mean,come on.
reggieweezy:
They do if the acting job requires them to do it. It's a job,just like anything else,lol.
Here's an accusation from an actress claiming that this actor assaulted her a couple of years ago----that's messed up if it's true:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/7/1713569/-Actress-publicly-posts-on-Facebook-that-Gossip-Girl-star-raped-her
hamish:
Oh, enough of the damn "liberal" bashing,please---yeah, he's a predator,basically, which is messed up. And this has nothing to do with Moonlight, which you obviously haven't seen. Moonlight was an indie film that took five years to even get off the ground---it has nothing to do with this subject. And enough with the anti-Semetic bull****,please.
Gastonian:
"Victimhood culture"? Oh,come the hell on. Rapp's been in this business since he was a kid, and is still working---there's nothing is this that's going to get him a part or anything. I do wonder why the hell he just never confronted Spacey about what happened and just dealt with it years ago. That makes no sense to me. And why after 30 years would he just all of a sudden make up something like this? Keep in mind that Spacey himself didn't deny the accusation---he said if it happened, that it was wrong and he apologized for it. However, he's clearly got some problems of his own to work out, since everything he's kept out of the public eye for years is coming out now. Heck, he's even been accused of harassing male employees on the set of House Of Cards as long as that show's even running----at least 8 employees on the show have accused him of inappropriate behavior with them:
http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/02/media/house-of-cards-kevin-spacey-harassment/index.html
Gastonian:
"Victimhood culture"? Oh,come the hell on. Rapp's been in this business since he was a kid, and is still working---there's nothing is this that's going to get him a part or anything. I do wonder why the hell he just never confronted Spacey about what happened and just dealt with it years ago. That makes no sense to me. And why after 30 years would he just all of a sudden make up something like this? Keep in mind that Spacey himself didn't deny the accusation---he said if it happened, that it was wrong and he apologized for it. However, he's clearly got some problems of his own to work out, since everything he's kept out of the public eye for years is coming out now. Heck, he's even been accused of harassing male employees on the set of House Of Cards as long as that show's even running----at least 8 employees on the show have accused him of inappropriate behavior with them:
http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/02/media/house-of-cards-kevin-spacey-harassment/index.html
Great interview! Really enjoyed all of it, especially about the films she said that she was glad to work on.
Heck yeah---I liked that character, because he was so upfront and direct, had the coolest hairstyle, and everything else---plus he was also funny. Was surprised to find out that the actor wasn't an actual teen when he played the role---he certainly looked young enough to be one. Anyway, I thought he was kind of cute. I also thought it was cool when he found out that his biological father was black,lol. That was something.
Loved the hell out of Homicide when it came on, but it was switched over to a different look, I think, to try and compete with the other popular cop show at the time--can recall the name, but it was on ABC for years. I need to get the boxed set---at least the first two seasons,which were excellent. Apparently, even thought it was critically acclaimed with a marvelous cast, it struggled in the ratings at one point (back in those days, a program was actually given time to find its feet and its audience, instead of being kicked to the curb after barely half a season like some shows are today,or have been) and I read somewhere that it was suggested the reason that it wasn't doing well was because at least two or three of the main characters were black, or some such nonsense like that. Can't recall when I read that from. That said, this was one of the best crime drama shows ever, and pretty much a precursor to the Wire in some cases.
nkresseslknowledge:
I get what you're saying, but, geesh, black people are human beings just like everyone else,. We make mistakes, some of us screw up,all of that, some of us go through just doing what we need to do to live and have a decent life. Dysfunction has nothing to do with your skin color,anyway. We ought to be able to show the full range of ourselves in all our strengths and weaknesses as human beings in films, TV show, and in real life.
The actress (Lucia Lynn Moses--this was her only film) was black, she was also light-skinned, which probably meant she was bi-racial too, Like Fredi Wasihngton, who starred in the original IMITATION OF LIFE.
Dude gave a hell of a performance and pretty much owned the film, but the truth is, his character was a straight-up d***, for real, and a real bastard. Plus the film's difficult as hell to watch at times.
What are you talking about? The movie is supposed to be about Bruce Lee, not some made-up white character who didn't even exist in real life. What you just said didn't make any sense at all---they didn't need a white actor to explain Bruce's story. The real Bruce Lee didn't need some white guy to explain in his movies. And you didn't give any real reason why the whtie character should have been there in the first place. Its because the filmmakers didn't have enough faith in the main character's ability to carry his own story (which he clearly could have) because he's Asian. That obviously showed some racism and bias on their part.