How many of you movie fans have ever had this happen? You get the urge to see a movie you own, you think about it for a bit, you walk to your library and then just stare blankly at your choices, unable to make a decision. I do this quite a lot but it isn’t because I have (totally not bragging) over 500 DVD/Blu-Ray titles staring back at me. It is solely because I just can’t find the time to watch what I really want to watch. Now that’s what truly gets me sometimes. I mean, if you have this wonderful assortment of toys just dying to be played with, wouldn’t you want…
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Acting on TV: No Longer the “Death-Knell” for Film Actors
Think back, if you will (or can), to the years ago before Will Smith, Bruce Willis, Johnny Depp and George Clooney were household names. Do you remember their roles on Moonlighting, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, 21 Jump Street and The Facts of Life? Some of you just might be able to I’m sure. Will and Bruce are among the very few actors who have successfully, and for a continued amount of time, enjoyed the transition from TV to film. They pump out movie after movie and are the poster children for successful cross-overs. But what about the reverse effect? Do any actors successfully going from film to TV get similar recognition? Or are…
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The 82nd Academy Awards: Na'vi for "Suck it, Cameron"
Well boy was I very very impressed with the Oscars last night. While I’m not going to do a very thorough recap of the Oscar, I’ll simply say that they again were an amazing success. Following a similar path to the look and feel of last year’s show (hosted by master-classman Hugh Jackman), the 82nd Oscar ceremony went a slightly more funny route but still retained oodles of class. That’s something that I believe has been missing in recent years and I’m glad to see the return to form. So while I’m not going to give the nominees, the winners and an entire dissertation of my thoughts, here’s a quick rundown of…
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Oh Happy Day…today is the G-S-T Reunion!!
Well after what seems like entirely too long, G-S-T foreign correspondent Rob has made it back to our fair country to grace us with his presence. The reason?? He’s here for my wedding!!! That’s right, my wedding is this Saturday and both Rob and Pete will be groomsmen. I’m so very glad he got to make it back for this. So what was nearly an eternity (last time he was here was October 2008), the G-S-T trio is back for a limited engagement. Oh, I sure wish there were karaoke bars in Dallas to compare with the caliber of high-end karaoke bars in Tokyo. Rob, will you settle for a…
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Random Film Thought of the Day…01.26.10
Does anyone recall that scene in Fellowship of the Ring, where Baromir has just died and they are about to send him over the falls? Stop right there…does anyone see a problem with this picture? Well I do. First off, imagine yourself in Aragorn and Gimli’s shoes (or boots rather) I know you just had a huge forest battle with some Orcs and you probably are saying, “well we don’t have time to bury him“, but really? Over the falls? Now this is just one instance where something in a movie sounds like a good idea or something very dignified…but it’s not. Here’s my thoughts on why:
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G-S-T makes the 'IMDb Hit List' Again…Wow!
Hello World, Marc Here: When we started Go, See,Talk! we loved writing about the things we loved writing about: namely movies. While I try to keep my self from being a self-promoter, something happened that I just had to tell you all about. Last December, our post “Does Nostalgia Make a Movie Better Than It Is?” was featured on the IMDb Hit List. While it was amazingly flattering to be featured on their site, I never thought it would happen again. Well, it seems the fates (or just the guys running the site) thought G-S-T had something else to offer the world and so today they are featuring another post I wrote called…
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Blog post hits and the madness behind the search engines…
This goes out to all you fellow bloggers, both pros and “ham and eggers” like myself. How many of you have noticed this? You toil and slave over a very personal post, spend night and day making it absolutely perfect and yet despite the time invested get very few hits. Other times you can write something that you either didn’t put that much effort into or like writing that much and with this post, you get scores of hit on your site. My stance is that hits are hits and it means someone has found your site, may like what they see, and decide to stick around for a while. But back…
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Looking Back At Films/TV of Old: Does It Spoil Our Memories?
I’d like to thank a recent G-S-T reader/commenter for the inspiration and advent of this post. After writing a post on “Nostalgia”, I got quite a lot of flack for saying I just don’t get Blade Runner. I also got some (actually far more than I imagined) agreement and a good number of readers concurred with me. But where as my post was asking “Does Nostalgia make a movie better than it is?“, I believe this post can branch out (thanks to the suggestion from Stuart) and explore how going back to something we one loved as a kid but now find it is nothing like (or worse) what we remembered.…
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Random Film Thought of the Day…12.28.09
You know, I don’t know if I say this enough, but I just love me some Memento…actually, all Christopher Nolan films now that I think about it. Anyway, as much as I adore the story of ‘Leonard Shelby’ trying to find his wife’s killer and the hope that he will remember it once he’s avenged her, I have one big problem with the film. Think about this: A man is hit on the head. When he wakes up in the hospital, and after the doctors assess him, they deduce that he has brain damage. While not fully impaired due to his injury, he’ll never be the person he was either.…
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Merry Christmas from G-S-T
Hello World, Marc Here: What can I say except that this a has been one great year!! When we first started G-S-T, we never thought that we would have so much fun with the site. But we have and are just so glad that we’ve gotten to converse with other movie lovers and all you great bloggers out there. Thanks to all our friends, family and new readers who make G-S-T a joy to keep running. Here’s wishing you and yours an awesome Christmas and Holiday Season!! In closing, I’d like to leave you with one of my very favorite clips from one of my very favorite Christmas movies…Enjoy!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46WcFObgYhI Merry…