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Edited on Wed Jun-22-05 04:47 PM by KansDem
Last night the AFI (American Film Institute?) 100 all time movie quotes was aired. We don’t have cable and have not made watching TeeVee a habit in our home. However, my daughter heard about this show and thought we might all watch it. Since we have compiled a rather large DVD collection of classic movies, I thought this would be fun as many of the quotes would be familiar to the kids, so I acquiesced and at promptly 7pm (CDT), we all sat down to watch this show.:):):)
They started with No. 100 and worked their way up to No.1. The format was to introduce the quote by showing a few moments of the scene of the movie the quote is heard in followed by a remark from some Hollywood insider, usually a writer, director or actor. No problem I thought. Some of the quotes were expected, such as “I don’t need to show you any stinkin’ badges” from Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” and “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet” from The Jazz Singer, or “Here’s another fine mess you got me into!” from several Laurel and Hardy films. Some were not so obvious but once we heard them, we understood why they were selected, as in Dustin Hoffmans chanting of “Attica, Attica” in Dog Day Afternoon (the Attica prison rebellion had just occurred), or “Houston, we have a problem” from Apollo 13. But there were also many that I wondered why were selected. There were also some from Ronald Reagan ("Win one for the Gipper"), Arnold Schwarzenegger ("Hasta la vista, baby!"), and Clint Eastwood ("Do you feel lucky, punk?"). I thought “Nice touch. Include these icons of the right-wingers so there’s no griping about Hollywood being 'liberal.'” One actor who’s name escapes me was commenting on the quote from Shane. A scene was shown where Alan Ladd punches some cowboy giving him a hard time. I forgot what the quote was, but the actor, no doubt chosen to comment on this particular scene as he looked tough and rugged, said something to the effect that we need more Shanes in the country right now.:eyes:
Overall, I found it amusing as we got to see James Brolin with white hair and Ron Howard without any hair, and we saw Rob Reiner looking older than his dad. The comments tended to be somewhat illuminating, in not at times overdone. Anyway, as I indicated, there were many quotes from the “scratch my head and wonder why this one was picked” category. But, when the AFI got about halfway in their presentations, they show a scene from a movie that, I believe, starred Billy Crystal. He was talking to a woman over a meal stating that “no woman has to fake it with him.” The woman, an actress who’s name escapes me, kept telling him (referring not to him specifically but to men in general, “yes, they do…” I thought to myself they couldn’t possible be referring to what I thought they were referring to, but when the scene broke to the actress commenting on the significance of the quote, she began talking about women and “faking orgasms.” I thought, “What the f*ck?!?!:wtf: What’s wrong with these people? Why are they showing this during “prime-time” when families are supposed to be watching? Have these Hollywood shits even thought about how I’m supposed to explain this to my 13-year old daughter and 7-year son??? I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t see a need to explain “women’s orgasms” and “faking it” to my children. So I quickly turned it off and sent the kids to bed.:boring::boring:
I also remembered why I stopped watching TeeVee.:grr:
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