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Post by butterscotchgreer on Aug 1, 2007 11:10:06 GMT -5
oh dan!! i cant wait. i told you you would like how green was my valley. its a good movie. just sad. walter pidgeon gave a very fine performance in that movie. to kill a mockingbird is such a great movie. i highly recomend it. you will love that one most definitely. gregory peck deserved that oscar. atticus finch is one of my favorite hero characters. i loved the book too. i think i had to read it in the 7th grade. iremember it being so boring, but when i watched the movie, i had to read it again, b/c i loved the movie so much. i ahd already been obssessed with old movies, so that really helped. heehee! i would like to let you know that i just had to buy random harvest on dvd. it is one of my favorite love stories. if you are a chick flick lover, then boy you will go head over heals for this movie dan. i cant ewait to hear your opinion about that movie. i also have the rest of the movies you said that were on netflix. you should rent them all one at a time, b/c they are just tooo incredibly special to me. you dont have to, but if you like all these gary movies, then you will like all these greer movies. ronald colman got nominated that year for an oscar for his role in random harvest. needless to say he did a jolly good job.heehee
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Post by CoopFanDan on Aug 1, 2007 14:51:20 GMT -5
Well Netflix came through for me today as I will getting Mrs. Miniver, Random Harvest, To Kill a Mockingbird tomorrow in the mail and they will be shipping 3:10 To YUMA from Florida tomorrow right before my membership runs out as I will be taking a break from renting for a while. I did finish watching How Green Was My Valley. It was a very good movie but not as good as Sergeant York in my view. It had it's moments but there was far to little dialouge in the first half of movie which seemed to be replaced by singing coal miners. Also, I thought that Howard Hawks was better at shooting scenes and the viewing angles than John Ford. It is all just a personal preference I know but when tying to compare any movie to what I consider perfection in Sergeant York, I guess it is a lost cause. So my final thoughts was that while it was a good and entertaining movie, it came no where near the status of Sgt York for story, film editing, actors/actresses or film shots/camera angles.
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Post by CoopFanDan on Aug 1, 2007 14:54:38 GMT -5
Also walter pidgeon was a fine actor who reminded me a great deal of Gregory Peck I think if I had to compare him to any other actor.
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Post by butterscotchgreer on Aug 1, 2007 15:01:52 GMT -5
well i definitely agree with you on the fact that srgt york is a much better movie. i too notcied the very little dialogue in the first half hour of the movie. i would have taken out a little of the singing, but all in all itsw still a movie worth seeing.
that is a very interesting comparison. walter pidgeon didnt ever remind me of gregory peck, but i can see where you are coming from now that you mention it. to me, wlater was always an actor with his own acting style. he was just always so different to me, maybe thats why i like him so much. now i am not comparing him to gary cooper, but hes like gary in the fact that i had always thought that gary had his own style of doing things also. am i maiking any sense? i hope so.
i do hope you enjoy the movies you will be getting in the mail. happy watchings dan. heehee!
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Post by CoopFanDan on Aug 1, 2007 15:31:28 GMT -5
I don't know but his voice is probably what reminded me most on Gregory Peck. If I were to compare him to be closer to Gary Cooper or Gregory Peck at least in that movie I would go with Gregory Peck. However, as you state he was his own actor. This was the first time I had ever seen him in a movie and so I am very much unfamilar with him and didn't even know that he existed until seeing this movie.
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Post by butterscotchgreer on Aug 1, 2007 15:55:48 GMT -5
i found it very intriguing to find out that your family was in the mining business. i have never known anyone who was in the mining business. im glad you liked the movie. i cant see myself comparing walter with anyone really, but now that you brought it to my attention, i can sorta kinda see why he reminds you of gregory peck in a way. i love both actors.
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Post by CoopFanDan on Aug 1, 2007 18:30:41 GMT -5
Yes I guess it is pretty common to assoicate an unfamilar actor with someone that is known more to you as was my case in comparing him to Gregory Peck. I certainly don't see him as a Gary Cooper and I bet with the more familar I get with seeing him in movies I will have the same views as you do that he was his own kind of actor. Well with living in western Pennsylvania in the alleganies mountains that also go through West Virginia it is a good bet that many of the people that live around where I do had ancestors that were coal miners. Actually I live in Johnstown. This is the city that had the great flood of 1889 and a few other ones. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_FloodAlthough I live on the upper part near where the dam broke and would not have been effected in any of the floods.
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Post by butterscotchgreer on Aug 1, 2007 21:32:22 GMT -5
i had heard about that flood on the history channel once. there was a documentary on it and my dad started to watch it so i did as well. i found it quite interesting. im glad you dont live where the flood could effect you, that is always a good thing. i always find it so interesting when i hear other people's family history stories, and i have never heard one like yours before. so its real nice. coal mining always sounded so dangerous to me though. i woulkd be too much of a wimp to even try to go near a mine. your ancestors must have been brave people.
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