"60-70,000 geese" is the new "i found 100,000 dollars"

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“The Secret of NIMH” got you covered, guys! ^^

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Sometimes I think about how modern movie going was so diffrent for previous genertions

My grandma and my great aunt would go to the movies every weekend when they were young .Being a small town the theater showed two types of movies:Westerns on Saturdays ,Musicals on Sundays .Occasionally theyd show a religious epic like the Robe ,but that was it

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Actually been talking with a colleague about that too.

Last movie I saw in the cinema was Napoleon and it was quite a disappointment.

I grew up a cinefile, we didn't had a lot of money but thankfully my parents were friends with someone who had a cinema and we got in for free sometimes, our local cinema also had special theme days, lots of moves and foster care later, going to the cinema was still something important and I'd save money to at least go watch a movie once a month in the cinema with friends in my teens, going to the cinema had gotten more expensive but it was still manageable. Then hitting my 20s, both the movies in the cinema became less and less interesting and the tickets got way too expensive to be casual visiting, one had to actually plan which movie to watch and actors I loved stopped being in movies, besides the extensive use of 3D triggered migraines which made it extremely difficult focus on the movie at all. I miss the going to the cinema but truly would only consider going to one during classic nights (movies from the 1920-00s) when I can afford them.

I mostly go to theaters if a classic is playing myself ,my local theater has a classic film every sunday

So I wanna share a story .In around 1959 or 1960, a nursing student was begged by a friend to join her on a double date,the friend was seeing her fiance who brought a friend of his own,and reluctantly the nursing student went .The nursing student met this kind of quiet nerdy guy ,and she wasnt impressed .The four went to a movie (Either starring Marilyn Munroe or Bridgette Bardot ,no party could recall ) ,and it became quite apparent to the nursing student and the nerd ,this was just an excuse for the couple to make out .So here were two people who reallly didnt want to be there ,next to a couple fully under the power of Aphrodite ,and to top it the movie was pretty bad .So with nothing really to do the nerd and the nursing student just started mocking the film making fun of it the whole way through.They actually got compliments from folks who felt their commentary was more entertaining then the film .Well while it wasnt a great date they had fun but the pair went their seprate ways and that seemed to be that ....Sometime later,the Nerdy guy called the Nursing Student ,he had some tickets for a football game,didnt have a steady girlfriend, but rembered the nursing student and wanted to invite her. the Nursing Student didnt have anything better to do ,so she accepted and they went on a date....Which lead to another .....And another and by the end of 61 the pair were married ,and remained so for 51 years

The nursing student was my grandma and the nerdy guy was my grandfather .I got premission to share this charming story ,hope you enjoyed

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"And then their grandson wrote a script for a movie about how they met that he refuses to sell Hollywood because he wants to produce and direct this film as an independent work... someday it will leave the development hell, we swear!"

....That made me cackle @ariel-seagull-wings

I'm watching Oliver Twist 1948 and while gorgeously shot and mostly well casted......My main thought is "This is good but I'd rather be watching Oliver 1968"

Also YIKES to the Fagin makeup on Alec Guinness

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“Oliver!” from 1968 is great because Oliver Reed is absolutely terrifying as Bill Sykes. He’s so charismatic that you can see why Nancy sticks around even though she’s afraid of him, but he’s also completely plausible as a heartless murderer.

Oh hands down a completely terrifying yet captivating villain

Im actually watching the 48 version to see how Robert Newton does in the same role .Newton is an actor Im mixed on ,love him as Long John Silver did not like him as Javert

Alec Guinness as Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948).  This is Alec’s second film among the top 133, after Great Expectations, another Charles Dickens adaptation written and directed by David Lean.

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Premiere of Fantasia in Brazil (1941)

President Getúlio Vargas waited in the door of the Cine Pathé, in Rio, to receive Walt Disney, who watched the premiere of the movie in Brazil with the President and his wife, First Lady Darci Vargas, who was a huge Disney fan.

Early makeup tests for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

Charles Laughton, who played Quasimodo, went back and forth with makeup artist Perc Westmore in an attempt to find a look for the hunchback which he deemed suitable. The makeup artist, on loan to RKO from Warner Bros, was often frustrated and the notoriously difficult to please Laughton’s dissatisfaction with his various designs. 

This version of the makeup differs from the final version in several ways. The deformed eye is not only lowered but is partly obscured by a growth and is misaligned. The hair appears shorter and there is a noticeable boil of some kind above the upper lip.

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Notre Dame de Paris (1911)

Here is the rare 1911 French film version of Thd Hunchback of Notre Dame, which was popularly regarded as a lost film. A big thank you to the uploader, who also seems to have translated the film into English.

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