My Earlist Memories- As A Babyboomer.
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telegonus — 11 years ago(February 13, 2015 07:59 PM)
I remenber
Men Into Space
well, but not the specifics, the plots, just the ambiance, the boundless, bubbling optimism, sort of
Star Trek
for grade school kids. It was my introduction to William Lundigan, whom I got reacquainted with later on, on the later afternoon airing of the Warners murder mystery
The Case Of the Black Parrot
; and then came
Underwater City
, in the theater. I thought at the time that he'd been a bigger star than he ever really was, especially as I'd see his name in leading roles in major films, which I often chose
not
to watch, such as
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
. The title kept me away, but it was Bill Lundigan, and an A picture from Fox, 1951, on
Saturday Night At the Movies
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ecarle — 11 years ago(January 31, 2015 03:00 PM)
While I enjoy the generational debate here, I think the point to talking about seeing these Rod Taylor performances as a Baby Boomer means you/we saw them in their ORIGINAL broadcasts or theatrical releases.
And that's a different memory than you will get if you see The Time Machine for the first time in 2015.
I use this example:
I saw "Bullitt" in 1968 during Christmas season after waiting on line for over an hour. Full house, giant palace theater, and EVERYBODY yelling and cheering during the car chase. Plus all the "outside the theater" feelings of 1968a dark political year(assassinations, riots, Vietnam) made just a bit more survivable watching Bullitt(a supercool Steve McQueen at his best) chase the bad guys all over San Francisco.
Today, you can put "Bullitt" in the DVD player and you will see the same movie we saw in 1968, but you won't get the same feelings about it, at all. -
melvelvit-1 — 11 years ago(January 31, 2015 03:57 PM)
In order for these movies to have staying power, they have to be seen by those of us who weren't around back in those days.
So what?
I've never seen anyone carry on the way you do whenever other people share their movie-going memories. It says alot about your mental health.
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melvelvit-1 — 11 years ago(January 31, 2015 09:39 PM)
I honestly don't care if you live or die let alone why you deleted your posts but now that you've brought it up-
I just deleted them in order to keep the thread from going too much off-topic.
That's rich, it really is. You get belligerent with the OP for (God forbid) reminiscing and then do a 180 claiming to protect his thread so it doesn't stray too far from Rod Taylor -a topic that not one of your posts here have anything to do with, btw. You obviously feel inferior to anyone who mixes memories in with movie talk and you were shamed into deleting your more offensive posts on another board. Otherwise why delete only a couple and not all -or better yet, why delete at all if you have the courage of your pathetic convictions? I guess it never occured to you that another poster quoted from them so they're
still
here, in all their imbecilic glory.
I don't know what it takes to please you guys
I don't know who "you guys" are but baby boomers are individuals and not some nebulous spectre who have nothing better to do than persecute young people (and at 38, you're not exactly young) but speakib68ng for myself, if at any time you don't like a post of mine eat sh!t.
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melvelvit-1 — 11 years ago(January 31, 2015 10:25 PM)
I've never once been ashamed of anything I've written on the web And none of my posts are offensive.
The fact you wiped your initial January 15th post and completely re-wrote it on January 27th before deleting the rest doesn't exactly weigh in your favor.
You posted on this thread 11 times and not one of them had anything to do with Rod Taylor -either the man, his movies, or your personal memories of them- so what are you trying to do, turn this into another one of your soggy bogs?
Curse Of The Swamp Creature
, indeed.
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melvelvit-1 — 11 years ago(January 31, 2015 10:55 PM)
Darker Than Amber
(Vodka & Dubonnet)
1 1/2 cups vodka, cold
3 cups Dubonnet, cold
3 cups seltzer water, cold
Refrigerate all the ingredients, pitcher and glasses at least one hour before serving. Pour vodka into large pitcher. Add Dubonnet, then seltzer. Serve in tall glasses. Serves 6.
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amyghost — 11 years ago(February 01, 2015 09:20 AM)
You posted on this thread 11 times and not one of them had anything to do with Rod Taylor
This is absolutely plain to anyone who scrolls down this thread. And none of the deleted posts had anything to do with Taylor eitherapart from using him as a launch pad for more grousing over the fact that there are people in the world older than herself, and bitching about the fact that they dare reminisce with one another in public.
I said it elsewhere, and I'll say it herecoming onto an obit/tribute thread and using it as a soapbox for personal grievances that have nothing at all relevant to say about the performer or his work is disrespectful.
And I likely should keep to my own rule about this, and not post an essentially OP message here, but this annoys me enough that I'm hard-pressed to refrain from doing so. That said, I'll not place any further posts on this thread that aren't directly relevant to Rod and his films. -
melvelvit-1 — 11 years ago(February 01, 2015 10:21 AM)
And none of the deleted posts had anything to do with Taylor eitherapart from using him as a launch pad for more grousing over the fact that there are people in the world older than herself, and bitching about the fact that they dare reminisce with one another in public.
I said it before and I'll say it again: Anything that doesn't include them -no matter what it is- is considered a personal insult to the narcissistic personality.
using it as a soapbox for personal grievances that have nothing at all relevant to say about the performer or his work is disrespectful.
And classicly passive/aggressive, at that. Call her on her boorish behavior and out comes "the victim card" -we're all a bunch of malevolent, baby-booming "long time friends" ganging up on the oldest living "newbie" in the history of IMDb, a tender lamb who only comes here to discuss film.
That said, I'll not place any further posts on this thread that aren't directly relevant to Rod and his films.
It's not you, 'amy', or me, either -it's
The Curse Of The Swamp Creature
, I tells ya.
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melvelvit-1 — 11 years ago(February 01, 2015 12:29 PM)
And who is asking anyone to reply to me?
It goes without saying that posting on an open forum invites replies whether you like them or not but since you're as thick as a slab of Canadian bacon, I'll state the obvious for you.
No one is forced to address my comments.
No one here is forced to do anything, azzhole -and what are you so defensive about, anyway, since
any
kind of attention is better than none to the
narcissistic personality
, no?
The generational issue is fair game on the film boards.
And so are you.
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melvelvit-1 — 11 years ago(February 01, 2015 12:56 PM)
Aww.resorting to personal attacks, are we? I find that some folks will generally do that when they have nothing else to say.
Awthat's the second time you've played "the victim card" on this thread. When all else fails, right? And, of course, you'd know all about having nothing to say.
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There's less to this than meets the eye as bees in honey drown