MOVIES I MISSED

Subject: MOVIES I MISSED Sat Jun 27, 2009 2:06 pm

Is there a movie you missed but wish you had seen? Here's the thread to let us know what you'd like to have shelled out your hard earned bucks for, but didn't. Now you're waiting for them to hit the DVD sale basket in WalMart.

The first one I can think of is IDIOT JOE

“Idiot Joe” starred Joe Pescipo, Joe Pesci, and Jo Ann Chan (Jackie’s daughter). The movie won an Oscar in 1963 for best sub-plot in a comedic action train movie. It centered around all of the Joes trying to figure out what kind of large cat (a sex panther) was in the the top branches of a peanut tree in Allybamy. The reason it was called “Idiot Joe” was because none of the Joes ever figured out that peanuts do not grow on trees, they grow on stalks.

Boy, I sure wish I hadn't missed that one.

Next time I'll post about the classic PIMP RIDERS OF THE PURPLE DILLWEED

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Sat Jun 27, 2009 2:33 pm

I feel terrible that I missed IDIOT JOE. Why didn't I know about this when it was setting records at the boxoffice?

For 70 years I've regretted missing RIDERS OF THE WHISTLING SKULL. My dad and I were going to a movie. I voted for it, he turned thumbs down. Some people have no class.

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Sat Jun 27, 2009 2:57 pm

Which brings us to movie number two in our list of movies we wish we'd seen.

PIMP RIDERS OF THE PURPLE DILLWEED

In 1987, best score for a pimp movie went to “Pimp Riders of the Purple Dillweed” starring Ho Chee Ming, Beyonde, Eddie Albert Washington, and Bill Cosmo as the main purple pimp rider. The Pimp Riders rode the Purple Dillweed every evening at dusk, gathering feathers and foux bling so they could pay the Arraphoes their ransom and get back Princess Beyonde, who was fading fast from an unknown disease, a disease so horrible that it didn’t even have a fund raising telethon. The movie ended blissfully when Princess Beyonde was returned to the Pimp Riders and at dawn of July 4^th, they all rode off into the sunset.

Nothing like a great western movie, is there?

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Sat Jun 27, 2009 4:41 pm

Dear E. Don,
There are movies that I watched way back when that I wish I could watch again. Alas, they are not there any more to be bought or watched. Small B movies.

Love,
Betty

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Sat Jun 27, 2009 4:49 pm

Check out this site, Betty:

http://www.amctv.com/b-movies/

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Sat Jun 27, 2009 5:07 pm

Perhaps some of them are. La Dolce Vita with Liv Ulman is one. Lolita is another. Lilies of The Fields is another, To Sir With Love is another.

E. Don, there are so many beautiful things written with just the words to entrance a person. The movies are just an added extra.

It really is the decline of the human mind to expect to see the visualization of our thoughts on a screen in our living room. I wonder about this as the future of thoughts. Somehow it it seems that the tv screens and writers give valididation to our small minds.
It might be the beginning of the ends.
Love,
Betty

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Sat Jun 27, 2009 5:17 pm

Dear Shelagh,
Those old B movies were something. Did you ever know how nice you really are and how out of the way you go for people like me who have a little whim of a post about old B movies?

You are something. I do not say that lightly.

Love,
Betty

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Sat Jun 27, 2009 7:17 pm

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:31 am

Dave loves the Andromeda Strain. As far as I am concerned it is the worst movie ever made.

I love:

The In-laws--Peter Falk and Alan Arkin
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation--Jimmy Stewart
The Out of Towners--Jack Lemon
Life is Beautiful--Benito Beninni
Princess Bride
It's a Wonderful Life--Jimmy Stewart
Scrooge--George C. Scott
Lovebug, Herbie all of them
Reach for the Sky
Sound of Music

Of note --none of these did I see in a movie theater.

I didn't set foot in one until I was over 40 years old.

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Sun Jun 28, 2009 4:59 am

W. Lane Rogers wrote:: Saw "The Bramble Bush" in the late 50s. A doctor, Richard Burton, cares for a dying friend only to have an affair with his wife. Remember little about it but something touched a nerve. I've wanted to see it again.

Apparently, I'm one of about ten folks on the planet who remember it.

Amazon has it on VHS for 2.98 plus shipping. Tell your daughter to get it for you instead of fish oil capsules.

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:07 am

Although your 'Pimp Riders ...' sounds like a winner, I must say that if I didn't see it, I most likely am not sorry I missed it. If a movie is any good, it usually shows up on tv sooner or later. If my set is turned on when it shows up, maybe I'll catch it.

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:23 am

If Zada is correct and only the good movies show up on TV I shudder to think what the bad ones must be like.

If Betty is right and someday our thoughts will show up on a screen, within six months only one human will remain alive. Think of a room crowded with people when a pretty woman or a handsome man walks in and everyone's thoughts show up on a screen.
The mere thought of it makes me hope Pimp Riders arrives at a nearby theater before that time. I wouldn't be alive for five minutes after the thought screen became a reality.

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:19 am

Been watching The Godfather. Brutal mpvie.

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:34 am

I loved the old Columbo series on TV, Peter Falk as the perennial sleuth - seeking out wives who poisoned their husbands inside glamourous beach houses.

MOVIES I MISSED Columbo

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:43 am

A Ahad wrote:: I loved the old Columbo series on TV, Peter Falk as the perennial sleuth - seeking out wives who poisoned their husbands inside glamourous beach houses.

I loved it too--have you watched The Inlaws?

Peter Falk was at his best in this movie.

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:43 am

Many years ago on a travel writers fam tour I was with the group having lunch in the cafeteria at the Burbank Studio. Peter Falk came in and one one of the men, a writer from Louisville, called, "Hey, Peter."
He came over to the table, bent down with his hands on the man's shoulders and talked for several minutes. He spoke to everyone, asked where we were from and seemed like a genuinely nice guy, not someone doing a PR job or trying to impress anyone.

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:19 am

Funny how he never changed the rain coat, ever, in any episode. I expect it became rather tatty by the end of all the filming!

Alice, it sounds like a great movie.

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:05 am

The Godfather is downright chilling.

Our kids love it and are showing it to us.

I said to Dave today, "What is the matter with folks nowadays? Why do they want euthanasia?

All they need to do is get crosswise of the mob.

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:12 am

There is one movie starring Jack Lemon and Walter Matthau I have missed called Buddy Buddy. I have seen clips of it which made me laugh.
Matthau plays a hit man living in an apartment next to Jack Lemon who is struggling through a broken marriage. It's another spin on the Odd couple theme but really funny.
I hope it comes out on DVD soon.

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:17 am

Did anyone ever see The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes? I keep seeing it listed as the worst movie ever made, but I know of no one who actually saw it.

Ann

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:33 am

Ann and everyone else. You guys are aware that "Idiot Joe" and "Pimp Riders of the Purple Dillweed" are not actual movies. Right?

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:34 am

I had hoped to open up a can of creativeness and see what interesting movies everyone could dream up that they'd missed.

As many are posting names of real movies, I don't think my idea is working.

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:51 am

Sorry I never realised ok then how about:

Son of Thunder the Rise of the Baked Bean Kid.
Honey I Sold the teenagers.

Mr and Mrs Smitherington Ponsonby Jone's Dairy.

Confession's of a Sports Writer.

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:58 am

E. Don, you forgot to use a "tongue-in-cheek" emoticon.

Ann

Subject: Re: MOVIES I MISSED Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:10 pm

Annie, Annie, Annie. You know I don't use smileys. (Course you do, and I know you know, and you know that I know you know.)

D, not bad for titles, now, who stars in those movies, what are the plots, and is there anything else you can tell us about them?

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