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Post by tartanphantom on Sept 10, 2024 11:37:28 GMT -5
A fun one is House II: The Second Story. As a kid, I thought it was odd. I mean, it’s redundant. Surely any sequel is a second story? But then I read an interview with someone who worked on the film, and he talked about how “The Second Story” was a play on the word “storey”. Keep in mind that storey is almost never used in the U.S.
True. Something you probably will never hear in the USA-- "Hey mate, do you have an extra loo on the second storey of your flat? Someone is already occupying your downstairs tub room, and I really have to go."
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Post by Batflunkie on Sept 10, 2024 13:07:45 GMT -5
Return of the Living Dead II is a bit problematic (or was). In the pre-internet age, I presumed that Return of the Living Dead was a sequel to something even though it isn’t, but Return of the Living Dead II just added to my confusion. It makes me smile when I think about how there was a world before IMDb when Halliwell’s Film Guide (or film book of your choice) was the only way to get information on what you had watched. They should have just called it "The return of the return of the living dead" or "the living dead strike back"
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 10, 2024 20:49:17 GMT -5
True to form, the Naked Gun series messed with that, with Naked Gun 2 1//2 and Naked Gun 33 1/3. Also, the offshoot Hot Shots, Part Deaux.
Getting back to the question, Damien, The Omen II predated Rocky using numerical titles and Omen III: The Final Conflict, came out a year before Rocky III.
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Post by berkley on Sept 10, 2024 20:58:09 GMT -5
Keep in mind that storey is almost never used in the U.S.
True. Something you probably will never hear in the USA-- "Hey mate, do you have an extra loo on the second storey of your flat? Someone is already occupying your downstairs tub room, and I really have to go."
I think storey must have been in common use in the US at one time though, wasn't it? I remember coming across the term "second-storey man" in detective novels - though come to think of it, I can't remember exactly where so it's possible they weren't by American authors. At any rate, storey is still commonly used in Canada, as far as I know. I never knew until now that it wasn't in the US.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 10, 2024 21:04:29 GMT -5
True. Something you probably will never hear in the USA-- "Hey mate, do you have an extra loo on the second storey of your flat? Someone is already occupying your downstairs tub room, and I really have to go."
I think storey must have been in common use in the US at one time though, wasn't it? I remember coming across the term "second-storey man" in detective novels - though come to think of it, I can't remember exactly where so it's possible they weren't by American authors. At any rate, storey is still commonly used in Canada, as far as I know. I never knew until now that it wasn't in the US. We don't cotton to furin' spellings!
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Post by driver1980 on Sept 11, 2024 5:48:33 GMT -5
I think storey must have been in common use in the US at one time though, wasn't it? I remember coming across the term "second-storey man" in detective novels - though come to think of it, I can't remember exactly where so it's possible they weren't by American authors. At any rate, storey is still commonly used in Canada, as far as I know. I never knew until now that it wasn't in the US. We don't cotton to furin' spellings! You don’t even bother to put your steering wheels in the correct side of the cars, so I’m not surprised! And the eternal debate: colour or color? Grey or gray? Licence or license?
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Post by EdoBosnar on Sept 11, 2024 15:52:24 GMT -5
I think storey must have been in common use in the US at one time though, wasn't it? I remember coming across the term "second-storey man" in detective novels - though come to think of it, I can't remember exactly where so it's possible they weren't by American authors. At any rate, storey is still commonly used in Canada, as far as I know. I never knew until now that it wasn't in the US. It is, or at least was, apparently, really common when I was growing up in the US. I recall both hearing it quite a bit and using it myself and am a bit puzzled by the comments that it's hardly used.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 11, 2024 15:59:44 GMT -5
I think storey must have been in common use in the US at one time though, wasn't it? I remember coming across the term "second-storey man" in detective novels - though come to think of it, I can't remember exactly where so it's possible they weren't by American authors. At any rate, storey is still commonly used in Canada, as far as I know. I never knew until now that it wasn't in the US. It is, or at least was, apparently, really common when I was growing up in the US. I recall both hearing it quite a bit and using it myself and am a bit puzzled by the comments that it's hardly used. The word is, just not the spelling. File it with "irregardless."
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Post by 80sChild on Sept 14, 2024 15:45:45 GMT -5
As much as I love 80s movies, as a kid in the 80s I also grew to love older movies. Obviously the 80s were current at the time and we all know besides TV shows and cartoons you had to go to the movies for the latest movie (duh). Going to the movie theatre wasn't something we did every day at the drop of a hat right? For some going to see the latest release was even a luxury. Anyway I spent a lot of time watching old serials, westerns and musicals with my family and what my parents or grandparents loved when they were younger. So I am saying all of this to say as I take it around the bend and back again... I have been watching a lot of Fred Astaire movies, especially those with Ginger Rogers. I grew to love them as a kid and this week while my wife and I decided to take a break from WWE Raw, NXT and Smackdown I binged The Gay Divorcee, Top Hat, The Bandwagon, Flying Down to Rio, Shall We Dance and Swing Time. I never get tired of these classics, I might try to get in some Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra tomorrow.
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Post by berkley on Sept 14, 2024 16:15:58 GMT -5
As much as I love 80s movies, as a kid in the 80s I also grew to love older movies. Obviously the 80s were current at the time and we all know besides TV shows and cartoons you had to go to the movies for the latest movie (duh). Going to the movie theatre wasn't something we did every day at the drop of a hat right? For some going to see the latest release was even a luxury. Anyway I spent a lot of time watching old serials, westerns and musicals with my family and what my parents or grandparents loved when they were younger. So I am saying all of this to say as I take it around the bend and back again... I have been watching a lot of Fred Astaire movies, especially those with Ginger Rogers. I grew to love them as a kid and this week while my wife and I decided to take a break from WWE Raw, NXT and Smackdown I binged The Gay Divorcee, Top Hat, The Bandwagon, Flying Down to Rio, Shall We Dance and Swing Time. I never get tired of these classics, I might try to get in some Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra tomorrow. I've just recently started going through the Astaire & Rogers movies too. I'm trying to take them in order, though I did watch Follow the Fleet a little ahead of time since it happened to be playing on tv. It'll take me a few months to get through them all because I'm also watching a lot of other 1930s movies - and as often happens when you start to explore something, the more 30s movies I see, the more I discover that I want to check out. Next up for me in Astaire & Rogers will be Roberta.
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Post by 80sChild on Sept 14, 2024 16:24:29 GMT -5
As much as I love 80s movies, as a kid in the 80s I also grew to love older movies. Obviously the 80s were current at the time and we all know besides TV shows and cartoons you had to go to the movies for the latest movie (duh). Going to the movie theatre wasn't something we did every day at the drop of a hat right? For some going to see the latest release was even a luxury. Anyway I spent a lot of time watching old serials, westerns and musicals with my family and what my parents or grandparents loved when they were younger. So I am saying all of this to say as I take it around the bend and back again... I have been watching a lot of Fred Astaire movies, especially those with Ginger Rogers. I grew to love them as a kid and this week while my wife and I decided to take a break from WWE Raw, NXT and Smackdown I binged The Gay Divorcee, Top Hat, The Bandwagon, Flying Down to Rio, Shall We Dance and Swing Time. I never get tired of these classics, I might try to get in some Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra tomorrow. I've just recently started going through the Astaire & Rogers movies too. I'm trying to take them in order, though I did watch Follow the Fleet a little ahead of time since it happened to be playing on tv. It'll take me a few months to get through them all because I'm also watching a lot of other 1930s movies - and as often happens when you start to explore something, the more 30s movies I see, the more I discover that I want to check out. Next up for me in Astaire & Rogers will be Roberta. There is so much classic goodness to watch. I'm always adding something to the list, who knows when I'll get to it. Damn those "Selected For You/Movies You Might Also Like" links after you click on the one movie you decided to add or watch.
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Post by supercat on Sept 15, 2024 8:05:28 GMT -5
As much as I love 80s movies, as a kid in the 80s I also grew to love older movies. Obviously the 80s were current at the time and we all know besides TV shows and cartoons you had to go to the movies for the latest movie (duh). Going to the movie theatre wasn't something we did every day at the drop of a hat right? For some going to see the latest release was even a luxury. Anyway I spent a lot of time watching old serials, westerns and musicals with my family and what my parents or grandparents loved when they were younger. So I am saying all of this to say as I take it around the bend and back again... I have been watching a lot of Fred Astaire movies, especially those with Ginger Rogers. I grew to love them as a kid and this week while my wife and I decided to take a break from WWE Raw, NXT and Smackdown I binged The Gay Divorcee, Top Hat, The Bandwagon, Flying Down to Rio, Shall We Dance and Swing Time. I never get tired of these classics, I might try to get in some Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra tomorrow. Love the classic Fred Astaire movies and yes, the Ginger Rogers pairing was just magic. She was also a great comedic actress, definitely worth checking out her non-dancing movies beyond the work she did with Fred ( The Major and the Minor is whacky and wonderful). But back on those classic Astaire films, all wonderful, and for me the movie that launched them as a pair, Flying Down to Rio, is particularly bonkers in a wonderful way. The scenes of them performing on the planes in the air is just over-the-top crazy haha. And of course who can resist the irresistible "Carioca" number?
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Post by commond on Sept 15, 2024 20:43:14 GMT -5
Recently I got the itch to watch Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy, starring Toshiro Mifune as Musashi Miyamoto. The films are far from perfect, but reminded me of the magnetic charisma that Mifune possessed.
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Post by berkley on Sept 15, 2024 21:49:45 GMT -5
Recently I got the itch to watch Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy, starring Toshiro Mifune as Musashi Miyamoto. The films are far from perfect, but reminded me of the magnetic charisma that Mifune possessed. I should watch those too sometime soon. I've never seen them but years ago I read the novel they were based on, Musashi, by Eiji Yoshikawa, and it was excellent.
Speaking of Japanese film, the other night I saw Battles Without Honour or Humanity for the first time. It was great but I hadn't realised how closely all the sequels run together - more like a tv miniseries or an LotR style movie series than a franchise like Bond or The Fast and the Furious. So I'm probably going to try to see the sequels much sooner than I'd originally intended.
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Post by Calidore on Sept 15, 2024 22:19:37 GMT -5
Recently I got the itch to watch Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy, starring Toshiro Mifune as Musashi Miyamoto. The films are far from perfect, but reminded me of the magnetic charisma that Mifune possessed. I should watch those too sometime soon. I've never seen them but years ago I read the novel they were based on, Musashi, by Eiji Yoshikawa, and it was excellent. I will enthusiastically second this. The novel was originally a newspaper serial, making it essentially the Japanese equivalent of an Alexandre Dumas novel. The English version runs close to 1000 pages, and that's an abridgment! Despite the length, having been originally published in short installments means it keeps moving. It's a very entertaining read.
Fun fact: James Clavell's Shogun ends at the historical battle whose aftermath begins Musashi.
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