We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
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HI JOEL
1 As that guy Bob keeps saying “Somebody should be taking a note of this” because for the first time for as long as I remember I actually agree with you. Hedy was an important star in her day but there was something that was lacking in her which prevented her from breaking into the Legends category of a Bergman, Davis or Crawford. Perhaps despite that sexy body and beautiful face an inner coldness conveyed itself to audiences.
2 You are probably aware that your pupil, Bruce Cogerson, omitted Hedy from the co-star links column on MY page. I am relieved that he hasn’t omitted me from Hedy’s new page as if he had it would have made me so mad that I would have again started pulling down pillars on everyone.
3 Still honor where honor is due and I will record that your boy is shaping up well under the guidance of yourself and that very nice wife of his and the profiles of movie stars produced on this site are top notch with Hedy’s too being very interesting, comprehensive and informative.
4 I was quite taken with among many other things the Boom Town miniature still on Hedy’s Cogerson page but a bit disappointed that your pupil couldn’t have airbrushed out of it that b*****d Tracy. The old sourpuss was all smiles for the photographer but I’m told that once the photo was taken he wouldn’t speak to the other 4 stars because he was in the sulks about Big Clark being billed before him. The nerve! Who did he think Gable was anyway – some Myrna Loy type who was used to being passed over for top billing?
5 Anyway overall your student has given us a very satisfying page on Hedy so pass on my congratulations to him. I always like comparing your pupil’s ratings with those of his pal Steve because Steve is his own man and no offence Joel but he will not be unduly influenced by you or anyone else. Steve and your protégé agree on 4 of Hedy’s Top 5 movies. Unfortunately the one that your boy has excluded is my Samson which Steve lists as his No 3 and your pupil ranks as No 12 for critic/audience merit. Was that your negative influence at work again Joel? though I have seen some critics taking the view that that Lansbury girl who has been over-promoted on the Cogerson site perhaps weakened what was in all other respects an excellent movie. I have left a copy of this post on Steve’s U Tube Videos page.
Hey Victor….good to know you and Joel agree on Hedy. I might go back and put Hedy on the Victor Mature page…you never know….lol. As for Samson and Delilah….I think this is a good example of Joel not being a heavy influence on the ratings and rankings….according to Joel Samson and Delilah was a Top 3 movie for Hedy….yet my sources do not back that up….and thus it is in 12th place when sorting the movies…..but in 2nd…in the UMR score column. Good feedback as always.
1 HI STEVE According to Dennis for some reason Mr Mumbles took an intense dislike to him and refused to be filmed with him so that scenes that they were meant to share on the screen in Apocalypse Now were shot with the two men performing separately in different areas of the set and then spliced together later.
2 My two favourite Hopper movies were Waterworld in which he played a deliciously hammy villain and Best Shot [aka Hoosiers] where he was the town drunk attempting to recover from alcoholism for the higher good of sporting achievement. Although it is an acknowledged classic I never liked Easy Rider and to be honest can’t remember much about it apart from Nicholson’s historic performance.
3 Your video profile of Hopper is a good solid 96% offering in my opinion and you have selected quite a few flicks where I had forgotten about Dennis’s association. Anyway for me the best posters were Kid Blue, Osterman Weekend, Land of the Dead, Basquait, Rumble Fish and River’s Edge. The classiest of your stills were I thought those from Giant, Waterworld, The Trip, Apocalypse Now and with Burt In Gunfight at OK Corral [ 1956- Ah! Those were the days.]. The opening solo one of the young Hopper also pleases.
Hi Bob, thanks for checking out my Dennis Hopper video, appreciate the review, rating and comment. Happy you liked the posters and stills.
Hopper eventually gave up any dreams of becoming a major movie star and became one of the great character actors of modern times, and he was a good director too.
Waterworld is a favorite of mine too, usually listed as an expensive disaster, it actually did quite well at the box office just not enough to be profitable. Species, released the same summer, was considered a hit and a sequel was put into production, yet it’s worldwide box office was less than half of Waterworlds.
I also liked Hopper as the villain in Speed.
Five films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – Speed, Blue Velvet, Giant, Easy Rider and Apocalypse Now. The highest rated Dennis Hopper movie at IMDB is Apocalypse Now followed by True Romance and Blue Velvet. The only Hopper film scoring 4 out of 4 in Maltin’s book is Giant.
Easy Rider will make a third and final appearance on my videos this friday.
1 HI STEVE Movie statisticians have claimed that DVD and Video sales as well a good overseas haul in cinemas there eventually put Waterworld into profit. George Clooney said in a recent general speech about the modern movie markets that it was time journalists stopped regarding Waterworld as a flop.
2 Still it was castigated for being such a flop when it was released that Costner’s career never got back to the heady pre-Waterworld days of mega hits like Robin Hood, The Bodyguard, Dances with Wolves, JFK etc.
Hey Bob and Steve
1. Good Dennis Hopper conversation.
2. Just added Steve’s video to “his” UMR page…so others can see what you are talking about.
3. Hey Bob – “I never liked Easy Rider and to be honest can’t remember much about it apart from Nicholson’s historic performance.”….I am right there with you….could not have said this better myself.
4. Sad that Brando and Hopper did not get along better.
5. I would say my my Top 3 Hopper movies are Speed, Hoosiers and True Romance…..his all-time classic movies….Rebel Without A Clause, Giant, True Grit have Hopper in pretty easy to forget roles.
6. I like the fact that it looks like John Wayne was one of his biggest supporters in the 1960s.
7. Hey Steve….I agree with you about him becoming “great character actors of modern times”….love seeing him popping up in movies.
Good feedback.
HI STEVE1 Peter is of course a blood-part of the Fonda dynasty but in terms of consistent stardom not in the league of pop Henry and sis Jane. The 4th wheel of that dynasty is Pete’s own daughter Bridget who for a while had modest success in the 1990s with movies like Doc Hollywood, Godpop 3, It Should Happen to You and most especially Single White Female. She doesn’t seem to have made any flicks since 2001 and quit TV work the following year. Perhaps her absence has been the consequence of being involved in a serious car crash in 2003.
2 Peter probably is though reasonably satisfied with his own all-round success because apart from television work he wrote for and directed and co-starred in a few of projects with which he was involved. Off the top of my head the only films of his that I can usually remember are Ule’s Gold, The Hired Hand, Wanda Neveda and of course his brainchild Easy Rider where he was star, co-writer and producer.
3 Unfortunately when many moviegoers think of the latter they perhaps like me instantly recall it as Jack Nicholson’s breakthrough film. Jack in a supporting role was given just subordinate billing but I would be at one with Bruce in being firmly convinced that in Easy Rider Jack’s was one supporting part that should be given maximum credit. Wikipedia refers to Peter’s movie persona as that of a “Counter Culture Figure.”
4 For me your Peter Fonda video has been a useful “voyage of discovery” given my lack of familiarity with most of his movies. Ignorance is bliss though when it comes to appreciating posters because you can judge each on its own merits your, perception unclouded by perhaps a negative opinion of the movie. My pick of the best are Killer Force, Wanda Nevada, Two People, The Trip, Futureworld, and in a class of excellence all by themselves Nadja and Wild Angels.
5 First-class stills for my money are Henry with his two kids, Ghost Rider, Peter with gun in Fighting Mad, Tammy and the Doctor, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry and perhaps the best the iconic ones from Easy Rider. I could find WH ratings for only 2 of your Top 5 – Russell Crowe’s 3.10 to Yuma and of course Easy Rider. Bruce’s average rating for the two is 78.3% compared with your own average of 81.3% – reasonably close. Superb video overall meriting 96% rating in my opinion.
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, rating, comment, info, trivia, observation and comparison, mucho appreciado. Glad you liked the pictorial presentation.
I’ve done videos on three of the Fonda clan, Henry, Jane and Peter, only little Bridget left (oh jeez she’s 53 now!), Peter’s daughter.
Dennis Hopper directed, Peter Fonda produced and starred, but it was supporting actor Jack Nicholson who eventually became a global megastar from the cast of Easy Rider, a surprise hit in 1969. Jack received his first Oscar nomination for that film, the first of 12 in his career, 3 of them wins.
Only one film scored 10 out of 10 from this chart – Easy Rider, and one 9 – Spirits of the Dead, a French/Italian Edgar Allan Poe anthology which I am curious to see some day. It’s French title is – Histoires extraordinaires.
Hey Bob. Good thoughts on Peter Fonda. As for Bridget Fonda, she is the only Fonda officially retired. I did not think that was going to last when she announced her retirement in the early 2000s….,but after 15 plus years think she was serious.
Yep Jack’s part was the start of his superstar run. There are a few of Steve’s highly rated movies I want to see The Hired Hand and 92 in the Shade come to mind. His early movies have aged horribly but back then they were cutting edge…. The Trip, The Wild Angels and Easy Rider come to mind. Good stuff as always.
Looking at my files – out of a list of about 9,000 movies – 5,800 have been rated so far, most of them released before 1980.
My top 5 so far –
The Godfather – 9.60
Casablanca – 9.45
Citizen Kane – 9.45
Godfather II – 9.45
Psycho – 9.42
– followed by –
Gone With The Wind
It’s a Wonderful Life
Lawrence of Arabia
Singin’ in the Rain
All About Eve
The Bridge on the River Kwai
North By Northwest
Rear Window
2001 A Space Odyssey
Modern Times
On the Waterfront
Sunset Boulevard
The Wizard of Oz
Seven Samurai
The Third Man
The General
The Searchers
Some Like it Hot
Vertigo
Fritz Lang’s M
102 films have scored 9 and over. 500 scoring 8 and over. But there are still hundreds of modern movies I haven’t rated yet. For example – Jaws, Schindler’s List, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Shawshank Redemption. I’m sure that little lot will score highly when I get to them eventually.
HI JOEL
1 As that guy Bob keeps saying “Somebody should be taking a note of this” because for the first time for as long as I remember I actually agree with you. Hedy was an important star in her day but there was something that was lacking in her which prevented her from breaking into the Legends category of a Bergman, Davis or Crawford. Perhaps despite that sexy body and beautiful face an inner coldness conveyed itself to audiences.
2 You are probably aware that your pupil, Bruce Cogerson, omitted Hedy from the co-star links column on MY page. I am relieved that he hasn’t omitted me from Hedy’s new page as if he had it would have made me so mad that I would have again started pulling down pillars on everyone.
3 Still honor where honor is due and I will record that your boy is shaping up well under the guidance of yourself and that very nice wife of his and the profiles of movie stars produced on this site are top notch with Hedy’s too being very interesting, comprehensive and informative.
4 I was quite taken with among many other things the Boom Town miniature still on Hedy’s Cogerson page but a bit disappointed that your pupil couldn’t have airbrushed out of it that b*****d Tracy. The old sourpuss was all smiles for the photographer but I’m told that once the photo was taken he wouldn’t speak to the other 4 stars because he was in the sulks about Big Clark being billed before him. The nerve! Who did he think Gable was anyway – some Myrna Loy type who was used to being passed over for top billing?
5 Anyway overall your student has given us a very satisfying page on Hedy so pass on my congratulations to him. I always like comparing your pupil’s ratings with those of his pal Steve because Steve is his own man and no offence Joel but he will not be unduly influenced by you or anyone else. Steve and your protégé agree on 4 of Hedy’s Top 5 movies. Unfortunately the one that your boy has excluded is my Samson which Steve lists as his No 3 and your pupil ranks as No 12 for critic/audience merit. Was that your negative influence at work again Joel? though I have seen some critics taking the view that that Lansbury girl who has been over-promoted on the Cogerson site perhaps weakened what was in all other respects an excellent movie. I have left a copy of this post on Steve’s U Tube Videos page.
Hey Victor….good to know you and Joel agree on Hedy. I might go back and put Hedy on the Victor Mature page…you never know….lol. As for Samson and Delilah….I think this is a good example of Joel not being a heavy influence on the ratings and rankings….according to Joel Samson and Delilah was a Top 3 movie for Hedy….yet my sources do not back that up….and thus it is in 12th place when sorting the movies…..but in 2nd…in the UMR score column. Good feedback as always.
1 HI STEVE According to Dennis for some reason Mr Mumbles took an intense dislike to him and refused to be filmed with him so that scenes that they were meant to share on the screen in Apocalypse Now were shot with the two men performing separately in different areas of the set and then spliced together later.
2 My two favourite Hopper movies were Waterworld in which he played a deliciously hammy villain and Best Shot [aka Hoosiers] where he was the town drunk attempting to recover from alcoholism for the higher good of sporting achievement. Although it is an acknowledged classic I never liked Easy Rider and to be honest can’t remember much about it apart from Nicholson’s historic performance.
3 Your video profile of Hopper is a good solid 96% offering in my opinion and you have selected quite a few flicks where I had forgotten about Dennis’s association. Anyway for me the best posters were Kid Blue, Osterman Weekend, Land of the Dead, Basquait, Rumble Fish and River’s Edge. The classiest of your stills were I thought those from Giant, Waterworld, The Trip, Apocalypse Now and with Burt In Gunfight at OK Corral [ 1956- Ah! Those were the days.]. The opening solo one of the young Hopper also pleases.
Hi Bob, thanks for checking out my Dennis Hopper video, appreciate the review, rating and comment. Happy you liked the posters and stills.
Hopper eventually gave up any dreams of becoming a major movie star and became one of the great character actors of modern times, and he was a good director too.
Waterworld is a favorite of mine too, usually listed as an expensive disaster, it actually did quite well at the box office just not enough to be profitable. Species, released the same summer, was considered a hit and a sequel was put into production, yet it’s worldwide box office was less than half of Waterworlds.
I also liked Hopper as the villain in Speed.
Five films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – Speed, Blue Velvet, Giant, Easy Rider and Apocalypse Now. The highest rated Dennis Hopper movie at IMDB is Apocalypse Now followed by True Romance and Blue Velvet. The only Hopper film scoring 4 out of 4 in Maltin’s book is Giant.
Easy Rider will make a third and final appearance on my videos this friday.
HI STEVE
1 HI STEVE Movie statisticians have claimed that DVD and Video sales as well a good overseas haul in cinemas there eventually put Waterworld into profit. George Clooney said in a recent general speech about the modern movie markets that it was time journalists stopped regarding Waterworld as a flop.
2 Still it was castigated for being such a flop when it was released that Costner’s career never got back to the heady pre-Waterworld days of mega hits like Robin Hood, The Bodyguard, Dances with Wolves, JFK etc.
Hey Bob and Steve
1. Good Dennis Hopper conversation.
2. Just added Steve’s video to “his” UMR page…so others can see what you are talking about.
3. Hey Bob – “I never liked Easy Rider and to be honest can’t remember much about it apart from Nicholson’s historic performance.”….I am right there with you….could not have said this better myself.
4. Sad that Brando and Hopper did not get along better.
5. I would say my my Top 3 Hopper movies are Speed, Hoosiers and True Romance…..his all-time classic movies….Rebel Without A Clause, Giant, True Grit have Hopper in pretty easy to forget roles.
6. I like the fact that it looks like John Wayne was one of his biggest supporters in the 1960s.
7. Hey Steve….I agree with you about him becoming “great character actors of modern times”….love seeing him popping up in movies.
Good feedback.
Added Steve’s Clint Eastwood and Peter Fonda You Tube Videos to this page.
Thanks again Bruce!
Hey Steve… Glad these conversations have a home. Almost 100 comments already. And the videos look sharp all lined up at the top.
HI STEVE1 Peter is of course a blood-part of the Fonda dynasty but in terms of consistent stardom not in the league of pop Henry and sis Jane. The 4th wheel of that dynasty is Pete’s own daughter Bridget who for a while had modest success in the 1990s with movies like Doc Hollywood, Godpop 3, It Should Happen to You and most especially Single White Female. She doesn’t seem to have made any flicks since 2001 and quit TV work the following year. Perhaps her absence has been the consequence of being involved in a serious car crash in 2003.
2 Peter probably is though reasonably satisfied with his own all-round success because apart from television work he wrote for and directed and co-starred in a few of projects with which he was involved. Off the top of my head the only films of his that I can usually remember are Ule’s Gold, The Hired Hand, Wanda Neveda and of course his brainchild Easy Rider where he was star, co-writer and producer.
3 Unfortunately when many moviegoers think of the latter they perhaps like me instantly recall it as Jack Nicholson’s breakthrough film. Jack in a supporting role was given just subordinate billing but I would be at one with Bruce in being firmly convinced that in Easy Rider Jack’s was one supporting part that should be given maximum credit. Wikipedia refers to Peter’s movie persona as that of a “Counter Culture Figure.”
4 For me your Peter Fonda video has been a useful “voyage of discovery” given my lack of familiarity with most of his movies. Ignorance is bliss though when it comes to appreciating posters because you can judge each on its own merits your, perception unclouded by perhaps a negative opinion of the movie. My pick of the best are Killer Force, Wanda Nevada, Two People, The Trip, Futureworld, and in a class of excellence all by themselves Nadja and Wild Angels.
5 First-class stills for my money are Henry with his two kids, Ghost Rider, Peter with gun in Fighting Mad, Tammy and the Doctor, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry and perhaps the best the iconic ones from Easy Rider. I could find WH ratings for only 2 of your Top 5 – Russell Crowe’s 3.10 to Yuma and of course Easy Rider. Bruce’s average rating for the two is 78.3% compared with your own average of 81.3% – reasonably close. Superb video overall meriting 96% rating in my opinion.
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, rating, comment, info, trivia, observation and comparison, mucho appreciado. Glad you liked the pictorial presentation.
I’ve done videos on three of the Fonda clan, Henry, Jane and Peter, only little Bridget left (oh jeez she’s 53 now!), Peter’s daughter.
Dennis Hopper directed, Peter Fonda produced and starred, but it was supporting actor Jack Nicholson who eventually became a global megastar from the cast of Easy Rider, a surprise hit in 1969. Jack received his first Oscar nomination for that film, the first of 12 in his career, 3 of them wins.
Only one film scored 10 out of 10 from this chart – Easy Rider, and one 9 – Spirits of the Dead, a French/Italian Edgar Allan Poe anthology which I am curious to see some day. It’s French title is – Histoires extraordinaires.
Hey Bob. Good thoughts on Peter Fonda. As for Bridget Fonda, she is the only Fonda officially retired. I did not think that was going to last when she announced her retirement in the early 2000s….,but after 15 plus years think she was serious.
Yep Jack’s part was the start of his superstar run. There are a few of Steve’s highly rated movies I want to see The Hired Hand and 92 in the Shade come to mind. His early movies have aged horribly but back then they were cutting edge…. The Trip, The Wild Angels and Easy Rider come to mind. Good stuff as always.
Looking at my files – out of a list of about 9,000 movies – 5,800 have been rated so far, most of them released before 1980.
My top 5 so far –
The Godfather – 9.60
Casablanca – 9.45
Citizen Kane – 9.45
Godfather II – 9.45
Psycho – 9.42
– followed by –
Gone With The Wind
It’s a Wonderful Life
Lawrence of Arabia
Singin’ in the Rain
All About Eve
The Bridge on the River Kwai
North By Northwest
Rear Window
2001 A Space Odyssey
Modern Times
On the Waterfront
Sunset Boulevard
The Wizard of Oz
Seven Samurai
The Third Man
The General
The Searchers
Some Like it Hot
Vertigo
Fritz Lang’s M
102 films have scored 9 and over. 500 scoring 8 and over. But there are still hundreds of modern movies I haven’t rated yet. For example – Jaws, Schindler’s List, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Shawshank Redemption. I’m sure that little lot will score highly when I get to them eventually.
HI STEVE
5,800 is some achievement but keep going !