Manbird wrote: 
what, no kiss?

 oldviolin wrote: 
by clenching or pushing?

 Manbird wrote: 
let's dance

 oldviolin wrote: 

 Manbird wrote: 
this from a man called bird...

 oldslabsides wrote: 
double booth - and if you drop a quarter better just leave it there. 

 cc_rider wrote: 
Most films made for the American market these days are aimed at adolescent males.  For whatever reason, they are the target demographic for Hollywood these days.  This is why I rarely bother to go see a movie in the the theater.

"Secretariat."
Makes you feel all victorious when it's over!

 cc_rider wrote: 
The Straight Story was awesome! I loved Richard Farnsworth.

 ptooey wrote:  Okay okay, you're right of course. One of my favorite movies is 'The Straight Story', which has very little action, but some wonderful characters. Movie audiences seem to want, or directors seem to want to MAKE, movies that are, well, not that kind of movie. I think it is easier to keep people entertained with bright lights and loud noises, so mainstream movies tend to reflect that reality.

Another reason I'm loath to set foot in a movie theater. Unless it's an Alamo Drafthouse.

 cc_rider wrote: 
Sure they are.  Unfortunately, most screenwriters don't take the time to make them so. They go for the easy action.

 ptooey wrote: 
I was with friends at some little sawdust floor bar that had milk jugs with tractor seats for bar stools somewhere just out of the Badlands a few years ago.  There was an indian fellow sitting at a booth just behind us and some young wanna be, (what I don't know) was attempting to talk to him.  Every other work out of the kids mouth was an F-bomb and his sentences all ended with, "Know what I'm sayin?" When he finally left the guy looked at me and said, "I guess they didn't teach grammar where he went to school." We had a few more beers, (it was 104 that day) and climbed back on the scooters.  That fellow was pretty interesting to talk to and just folks seems to be the correct description.

 ptooey wrote:
  Quite a good point. Problem is, 'folks' just aren't that interesting.

 cc_rider wrote: 
The newer ones aren't much better, IMO.  Everything's too one-dimensional.  Natives are used as the wise spirit guides, the eccentric hermits, etc., but almost never as just folks.  That's what they are, y'know.  Folks.

 ptooey wrote: 

 ptooey wrote:
  Agreed. Many older movies portrayed natives in disgusting ways. UNLESS the character was played by a non-native, like Tony Quinn or Ricardo Montalban or Horst Buchholz or whoever. Actual natives were often enlisted as extras, especially for horse-riding scenes, but generally they were treated as second-class citizens or grotesque caricatures.

 oldslabsides wrote: 
I think you're right.  And dammit, good on 'im for it.

 ptooey wrote: 
True. 

 ptooey wrote: 
Agreed.  I think in his case he wasn't really acting much - he was just bein' himself.

 oldslabsides wrote: 
This one's from Little Big Man

Grandfather:  Am I still in this world?
Little Big Man:  Yes grandfather.
Grandfather:  (in a sighing type voice) Hoy.