Posts by JohnWayneFan4Life

I think Obama will win a second term even if the Republicans retake Congress.

I was surprised they turned King Edward II into some effeminate homosexual when in reality he fathered at least 5 children by two different women. If I were Scottish I would certainly have been offended by the way the film portrayed King Robert the Bruce.

Braveheart was just a stupid, racist piece of rubbish. Hitler would be very proud of garbage like that. I hope Mel gets lung cancer.

No they didn't, one reason why The Sons of Katie Elder was nowhere near as good as Rio Bravo. Stewart should have taken Anthony Mann's advice and forgotten about Night Passage, his worst weetern of the 1950s.

[quote='Gorch','http://dukewayne.com/bb/index.php?thread/&postID=90096#post90096']I thought that Christopher Lee made a neat replacement for Vincent Price in the Gene Kelly version.[QUOTE]

It was Charlton Heston who replaced Vincent Price. Along with Richard Chamberlain he was one of the few Americans in the movie. I only really liked Oliver Reed in "Oliver!", the last great musical. If his uncle hadn't been the legendary Sir Carol Reed he would never have become famous.

Wasn't The Red Badge of Courage his best film? I heard The Unforgiven, intended as a response to The Searchers, was a complete disaster.

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Why do I get the idea you just don't like Mel Gibson?

Mel Gibson is a Nazi. I never cared for his wooden acting even before he turned into an anti-semitic nutcase.

Braveheart was the worst film I ever saw because it was just a stupid, badly acted, historically worthless piece of crap. The Patriot was pretty bad as well.

I saw Night Passage and thought it was awful. It was a strange idea anyway casting 6'3" Jimmy Stewart and 5'5" Murphy as brothers.

Will he be running the site forever?

Oh, I didn't know he was on this site. It's fine if he removes posts because they're not relevant, quite another thing if he deletes them just because he disagrees with the poster's opinion.

This was a great movie with another excellent villainous turn from Richard Boone. The only thing I didn't like was the awful acting by Christopher Mitchum.

I said British, not English. Christian Bale is Welsh. Errol Flynn may have been Tasmanian but he always sounded English, I suppose due to the British Empire covering two-thirds of the world when he was born.

In Robin and Marian, Sean Connery was 44, slightly younger than Crowe when he starred in his version. Connery's Robin was supposed to be an elderly veteran, past his best. Really, we all know that no version will ever surpass the 1938 version. I didn't like Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with a badly miscast Kevin Costner, although it was nice to see Jack Wild on screen again.

Crowe reminds me a lot of the late Oliver Reed. Reed always wanted to be like Errol Flynn, but he got fat too quickly and was too bulky to play swashbuckling roles.

I think they should have cast a younger actor and someone who is actually British, like Christian Bale. Crowe's English accent in Master and Commander was very poor and at his age and bulk he would be more suitable as the Sheriff of Nottingham.

I saw a double bill of Cary Grant movies - Holiday (1938) and My Favorite Wife (1940). The first was a reteaming of Grant and Katharine Hepburn, much less well known than Bringing Up Baby. It's always a delight to see the great character actor Henry Daniell. The second film was very predictable but still amusing in parts. Very funny seeing Randolph Scott in a romantic comedy, before he starred in all those westerns.

Crowe is 45, any man that age would be considered old in the 12th century. At least Errol was only 28.

They shouldn't have made the latest Robin Hood movie with a far too old Russell Crowe. Errol Flynn will always be the best Robin Hood.

It was very much like Ives' performance in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, which he had played on Broadway and the London stage before the movie was filmed. Unfortunately cencorship prevented the film version from being as good as the play.

I always knew McCain was going to lose, aside from anything else he was too old.

Yes he greatly admired Tito. Some people believe the reason Burton never won the Oscar despite being nominated seven times was due to remarks he made about the anti-communist witch hunts in Hollywood while he was filming The Robe.