Technicolor Consultant: Natalie Kalmus
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 18 January 2008 17:10 (eighteen years ago)
Closeup still shot of some expository document (newspaper, invitation to fancy dress ball, etc.) with the relevant portion of text helpfully illuminated
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 29 May 2008 12:45 (eighteen years ago)
This is a great thread.
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 29 May 2008 17:58 (eighteen years ago)
WHAT'S THE MEANING OF ALL THIS?
― amateurist, Thursday, 29 May 2008 18:32 (eighteen years ago)
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=GLOSSARY
― kenan, Thursday, 29 May 2008 18:55 (eighteen years ago)
FREUD
PSYCHOANALYSIS
― Joe, Thursday, 29 May 2008 19:01 (eighteen years ago)
a hayride
― Sparkle Motion, Thursday, 29 May 2008 19:38 (eighteen years ago)
Long opening credits, no closing credits.
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 29 May 2008 19:40 (eighteen years ago)
"A good cast is worth repeating"
― Matt #2, Thursday, 29 May 2008 20:07 (eighteen years ago)
this thread was my proudest ilx achievement.
― J.D., Thursday, 29 May 2008 22:23 (eighteen years ago)
It's a great thread, JD. And it spawned a host of similar threads, if I recall.
― moley, Thursday, 29 May 2008 23:15 (eighteen years ago)
"Guards! Seize him!!"
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 29 May 2008 23:41 (eighteen years ago)
"Say, what goes on?"
― James Morrison, Friday, 30 May 2008 02:07 (eighteen years ago)
old, spectacled bookshop owner answering hero's inquiries while shelving books on a ladder
― Hurting 2, Friday, 30 May 2008 02:18 (eighteen years ago)
"Hello?" ... "Yes?" ... "Harry? My god, well what's the..." ... "He did?" ... "He did?" ... "HE DID..." ... "Well, I'll be over there right away."
― Hurting 2, Friday, 30 May 2008 02:20 (eighteen years ago)
well, that's just my dumb luck
― amateurist, Friday, 30 May 2008 04:59 (eighteen years ago)
aaaaaahahahahah SO TRUE!
― Z S, Friday, 30 May 2008 05:12 (eighteen years ago)
Yes what were the other "in every X ever" threads? I know there were TV and/or horror film ones but a search came up bupkiss for me.
― Trayce, Friday, 30 May 2008 05:16 (eighteen years ago)
has anyone used the word "swell" after 1970?
― latebloomer, Friday, 30 May 2008 07:02 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.arcollectibles.com/oveur.jpg
― Granny Dainger, Friday, 30 May 2008 07:22 (eighteen years ago)
"Gee, y'all remembered my birthday after all"
― JTS, Friday, 30 May 2008 21:05 (eighteen years ago)
Susan: "Say mother, why can't I wear something a little more *BECOMING* for the prom this Saturday?" Mother: "You're a Dillinger, Susan, and Dillingers wear the family velour!" (cut to ugly 1920s picture of mother in bad prom dress) Susan: (weeps, formulates elaborate plan somehow using her 14 year old brother's baseball skills, gets interrupted at pivotal moment of prom by mother, prom is stopped momentarily, principal jumps in as mediator, a lesson is learned by everyone, mother dances lightheartedly with principal as the final frame)
― JTS, Friday, 30 May 2008 21:14 (eighteen years ago)
a tycoon/shop owner who is fat and grumpy for a majority of the film
― modernism, Saturday, 17 January 2009 09:19 (seventeen years ago)
"hey now, break it up you two!"
― modernism, Saturday, 17 January 2009 09:20 (seventeen years ago)
"now i want you two to shake hands and make friends."
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 17 January 2009 09:21 (seventeen years ago)
"boy, i'm not feeling well -- would you run across the street and get me some bicarbonate of soda?"
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 17 January 2009 09:22 (seventeen years ago)
bumbling but lovable east european sidekick
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 17 January 2009 09:24 (seventeen years ago)
soundtrack by a former German/Austrian. (great thread!)
― Ludo, Saturday, 17 January 2009 10:36 (seventeen years ago)
"I'll wash your mouth out with soap!"
― Joe Bob 1 Tooth (Hurting 2), Saturday, 17 January 2009 15:20 (seventeen years ago)
People standing up, walking slowly round the room, and/or staring glassily into the distance in the middle of a conversation for no apparent reason. If one is a woman there may also be unnecessary hand-wringing.
― chap, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:28 (seventeen years ago)
stage-y scene where the hero makes the angry mob do a 180 through sheer eloquence
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:33 (seventeen years ago)
a crippled millionaire
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:38 (seventeen years ago)
spitoon --> *ding*
girl's umbrella turns inside out on NY sidewalk, "excuse me miss, would you like a hand?" then dinner, italian and/or coffee, black.
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:40 (seventeen years ago)
the children actually do their chores when they're told and without complaint
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:45 (seventeen years ago)
frantic rotary phone dialing moment
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:46 (seventeen years ago)
a doorman
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:47 (seventeen years ago)
woman's scream 14 times louder than everything else in the movie
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:48 (seventeen years ago)
The tough-gal waitress chews gum and cracks wise as she dispenses coffee to working men at the roadside diner.
"Drop a nickel on me some day, Shorty, and I'll show you a good time."
― Aimless, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:49 (seventeen years ago)
housewife/femme fatale sunbathing by mansion backyard pool, "oh, mr smith, why my husband wont be home for another three hours."
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:51 (seventeen years ago)
Married couples sleeping in different rooms.
― chap, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:52 (seventeen years ago)
"now why are you so ornery"
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:54 (seventeen years ago)
a lady's hand moving down the staircase banister
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:55 (seventeen years ago)
"Murder's a dirty business... a DAMN dirty business."
― chap, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:55 (seventeen years ago)
a badly superimposed model plane
a shady transaction at the docks
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:58 (seventeen years ago)
kid loses ball, bad guy stops it coolly by stepping on it, exaggerated shot of bad guy from kid's perspective, "uh thanks mister.." "hi billy, is your mother home?" no answer, kid runs away freaked out.
― See you dudes on the G train (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 01:06 (seventeen years ago)
"Oh darling, I'm so terribly terribly happy!"
― chap, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 01:16 (seventeen years ago)
Couples in love doing a weird shoulder-graspy cheek-nuzzle thing rather than actually kissing.
― chap, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 01:18 (seventeen years ago)
An overweight policeman blowing a whistle.
― chap, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 01:27 (seventeen years ago)