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4 hours ago @ Crasstalk - Midweek Nap Time Open ... · 0 replies · +5 points

Looks like the one on Netflix is a remake and a limited series and it looks interesting.

The Italian original is on the Criterion Collection. Or try here for free. https://www.bitchute.com/video/FZpuuV5vez7d/

5 hours ago @ Crasstalk - Midweek Nap Time Open ... · 1 reply · +5 points

The Hays Code was strict about romanticizing or promoting crime and I think it had specific rules against mentioning the mafia. You couldn't make criminals sympathetic and you couldn't be morally ambiguous about violence or crime. The bad guys always had to be bad. And they always had to suffer consequences. The law always had to triumph.

5 hours ago @ Crasstalk - Midweek Nap Time Open ... · 2 replies · +3 points

Check out The Leopard, directed by Luchino Visconti. It's not about the mafia per se, but about the historical circumstances that gave rise to the organized crime that became the mafia. But see if you can find the restored version; the US version was badly cut.

When the novel first came out I remember it being extremely sensational, particularly for the wedding sex scene between Sonny and one of the guests. It was barely mentioned in the movie, but it was quite a shocker at the time. Poor Lucy is so overwhelmed by Sonny's size that no other man can satisfy her and she even gets her own subplot to correct her predicament.

1 day ago @ Crasstalk - Midweek Nap Time Open ... · 0 replies · +3 points

They remind me of the 90s, and Los Angeles, and New Age phrases like "healing energy." And going to Marianne Williamson lectures on A Course in Miracles at some church on Hollywood Blvd.

2 days ago @ Crasstalk - Start Over Again Open ... · 0 replies · +6 points

Alice Cooper. 1973.

5 days ago @ Crasstalk - Mellow Weekend Open Th... · 4 replies · +8 points

Watched Anora last night. I just didn't get it. The other Mr thought it was hilarious and I didn't laugh once. The worst part? Making a 90 minute movie last almost two and a half hours.

1 week ago @ Crasstalk - Almost Spring Open Thread · 1 reply · +18 points

I'm 40 minutes into Wicked and it's honestly insufferable and it still has two more hours to go. I remember disliking the Broadway show but loving the book, but this is like Legally Blond, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and Barbie smushed together into one overblown, overstuffed sausage of a movie. I remember the book being very adult but this, at least so far, is nothing but sugar coated sugar. Yuck.

2 weeks ago @ Crasstalk - Ready for it Open Thread · 1 reply · +7 points

And hantavirus. That's so strange too. Less than 1000 cases in the past ten years. The whole story is sad and tragic and horrible.

2 weeks ago @ Crasstalk - Ready for it Open Thread · 0 replies · +8 points

Captain Kangaroo with Ozempic face?

2 weeks ago @ Crasstalk - The Weekender · 1 reply · +6 points

How does she get her hips to do that? If I even tried I'd be bedridden for a week.

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