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Hopscotch, 1980...

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just fiished.....

Once Upon a Time in the West, 1968.. pure class.

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The Devil and Miss Jones, 1941..

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Predestination, 2014. bluray.








The movie is based on Robert A. Heinlein's short story " '--All You Zombies--'".

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Mobsters, 1991...



Epilogue: "Under CHARLIE 'Lucky' LUCIANO's leadership, peace reigned in organized crime for fifteen years. Luciano died of heart failure at the age of 65."

"BENJAMIN 'Bugsy' SIEGEL helped build the first Casino in Las Vegas. In 1947, evidence of embezzlement reached the Commission, and Siegel was gunned down."

"FRANK COSTELLO remained a top mob figure for 30 years. After an unsuccessful attempt on his life, he was allowed by the Commission to retire."

"MEYER LANSKY avoided the limelight. He never served a day in jail and died peacefully, one of the richest men in America."


In real-life, Anthony Quinn was a close personal friend of gangster Frank Costello after the mob boss retired and until Costello's death.

At the banquet where Don Faranzano announces himself as the "Boss of all bosses", he names the underbosses as "Lucky" Luciano, Joe Bonnano, Joe Profaci, Vincent Mangano, and Thomas Gagliano. After Lucky orchestrated the death of Faranzano, the five underbosses became the heads of the individual "Five Families" of organized crime in New York City. Eventually, through years of succession, the Luciano family became the Genovese Family, the Mangano family became the Gambino Family, the Gagliano family became the Luchese Family, and the Profaci family became the Columbo Family. Only the Bonnano Family retained the name of its original leader.

the film was almost unanamously hated... sadly i like it...lol

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Looper. 2012..

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Little Big Man, 1970..bluray..




Chief Dan George became the first Native American to receive an Academy Award nomination for acting.

As acknowledged in the film, the self chosen names of many American native tribes simply translate as "the human beings", leading to inevitable difficulties in translating and interpreting certain sayings in their languages.

Although Dustin Hoffman plays the "younger" adopted son of Faye Dunaway's character in the film, he's actually four years older than Dunaway. Hoffman was born in 1937, while Dunaway was born in 1941. He was put in The Guinness Book of World Records as "Greatest Age Span Portrayed By A Movie Actor" for portraying the character of Jack Crabb from age of a teenager to age one-hundred-and-twenty-one.

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Titanic, 1997.. 4k




During the part where Rose and Jack are on the bow of the ship and Rose says "I'm flying, Jack," the sunset was real and not computer-generated (CGI). The set had been purposely built at a seaside location to capture natural light, and eight days of filming were available to capture the bow shot kissing scene. For obvious reasons, there were only a few minutes per day to shoot the scene, but every time, something wasn't quite right. The crew resorted to filming rehearsal shots in the hope that conditions would improve the next day. The final day had an overcast sky, so no one expected to get a better shot. But just before the day was about to end, the sky suddenly cleared. James Cameron quickly scrambled the crew together, Kate Winslet was hastily pulled out of make-up, and the scene was finished just before another cloud appeared. Due to all the haste, the shot was slightly out of focus, but Cameron nevertheless considered it the perfect sunset he had been waiting for, and this is the shot that ended up in the movie. Even though Cameron is a huge advocate for computer-generated effects, he admitted that the magic that they captured in camera that day would have been hard, if not impossible to replicate with CGI.

[Barry]

Shame to have gone to all that trouble for a largely 'so so' film. I saw it on its release and have to say I was underwhelmed.

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Shame to have gone to all that trouble for a largely 'so so' film. I saw it on its release and have to say I was underwhelmed.

didnt like it on first view or 2 either but i like it now.