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Yukon 
"Co-editor of FWFR book"
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 Posted - 03/14/2006 : 22:30:13
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Give your brilliant review from a little-known movie some votes.
Post it here and me, along with all the people who post a review is this thread, will vote for it.
My obscure FWFR is for Slap Shot. (It pains me to call this an obscure review as most ice hockey fans can recite this movie from 1977 line-for-line.)
The joke is the Hanson Brothers are brought on to a struggling hockey team. They are goons who get into fights and through violence, they turn the team into a winner.
One of their dirty tricks is to tape tinfoil to their hands to scratch their opponent's faces when punching.
In the real hockey world, that scene has created the popular phrase, "putting on the foil"
So my Slap Shot review is "Hanson Brothers 'foil' opponents"
http://www.fwfr.com/display.asp?sort=2&id=2509&Mode=&Rows=100&Start=1&do=
Post your obscure review and I'll hit it with my voting stick in about 24 hours.
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silly 
"That rabbit's DYNAMITE."
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Posted - 03/14/2006 : 23:49:24
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I'll give it a shot!
Here's one from one of my favorite movies: The Big Blue
This is the movie that truly sold me on Jean Reno, who is near the top of my list of "people I'd like to buy a drink and sit and chat with awhile."
In the movie, Jean's character and Jean-Marc Barr's characters are childhood friends that have always been ultra-competitive, and remain so up until the end. |
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 03/15/2006 : 03:38:53
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You know me, anything for a vote. 
"Carmen Jones" was an updated version of Bizet's Carmen:
Carmen, without the bull |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 03/15/2006 : 07:42:32
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I'm giving you The Impossible Years. I added the film, and am the only one who has written a review of it.
Probably the only reason I remember this film myself is because my family decided to experience New Year's in New York for 1968-1969. One of the things we did was go to see the Christmas Show (well, things were less politically correct back then) at Radio City Music Hall. The show wasn't much, but afterward they put on a movie - and this was it. It was also played on the largest movie screen I'd ever seen, with the exception of a drive-in.
It really wasn't a bad movie - pretty cute, actually - but I've never seen it again, and haven't noticed it being played on TV. Its also not available on VHS or DVD so this is probably why no one knows of it. I was only 11 years old when I saw it, but from that one-time viewing, I had a crush on David Niven and a soft spot for British accents ever since*.
My review is a spoiler - Niven's daughter is in love with an artist who paints a nude of her. Niven is appalled that his daughter has posed nude, but she and the artist deny it. We later find out that a dab of mustard got onto the painting, exactly where she has a mole on her rear, and the removal of that proves their innocence. Now is that obscure enough for you?
(*Maybe that's why I married an ex-Londoner.)
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/15/2006 : 11:42:04
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I don't know whether this film is obscure enough, but I think the reviews are nice and still not doing well. Just in case... Bobby is a Skye terrier. He waits a long time. He is sad.  |
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silly
"That rabbit's DYNAMITE."
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Posted - 03/15/2006 : 17:28:46
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We saw "What's Up, Doc" at Radio City Music Hall in 72 (during my one and only trip to NYC) and yes, it is a biiiig screen, or it seemed to me as a seven year old.
I'm also a sucker for British accents, although I prefer the women.
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
I'm giving you The Impossible Years. I added the film, and am the only one who has written a review of it.
Probably the only reason I remember this film myself is because my family decided to experience New Year's in New York for 1968-1969. One of the things we did was go to see the Christmas Show (well, things were less politically correct back then) at Radio City Music Hall. The show wasn't much, but afterward they put on a movie - and this was it. It was also played on the largest movie screen I'd ever seen, with the exception of a drive-in.
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Yukon
"Co-editor of FWFR book"
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Posted - 03/16/2006 : 01:24:18
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silly
"That rabbit's DYNAMITE."
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Posted - 03/16/2006 : 01:43:02
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Likewise, Yukon, but I found I've already voted for a whole bunch of your reviews. (still found some good ones I hadn't voted before, though)
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