Why do I watch bad old movies?

[Dis]

bad old movies seem more interesting than bad new movies. .

For some reason one of the cinemax channels was showing concord affair 79. And flipping through the channels I find it. I missed most of it, but it doesn't matter.

The special effects are truelly horrible. And can anyone tell me how a concord jet can evade 2 missiles?

And why is George Kennedy in every disaster movie in the 70's? He's not that good of an actor. I can't figure out how he found so much work.

[LordShiva]

Just put Gladiator on repeat

[ZEE]

GEORGE KENNEDY



from Wiki...

George Harris Kennedy, Jr. (born February 18, 1925) is an Academy-Award winning American actor who has appeared in over 200 film and television productions. He is widely familiar as Joe Patroni in the Airport series of disaster movies from the 1970s, or more recently as Captain Ed Hocken from the Naked Gun trilogy.

here's to you George, a fine actor...
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[Zkribbler]

Re: Why do I watch bad old movies?

Originally posted by Dis
And why is George Kennedy in every disaster movie in the 70's? He's not that good of an actor. I can't figure out how he found so much work.

You're right about George. He did a really good job in Cool Hand Luke but everything else, he just showed up for. --Maybe that was his magic: He showed up for work and knew his lines.

[ZEE]

i am intrigued by this discussion. let us delve into the career, life, and the man that is George Kennedy. Thank you in advance,
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[SlowwHand]

What you're seeing is someone acting that doesn't appear to be acting. In other words, a good actor.

[ZEE]

thank you, Sloww, thank you. i really DO try hard sometimes when i am sarcastic to appear to be... erm...

oh, you were talking about George.

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[Lord Avalon]

Originally posted by LordShiva
Just put Gladiator on repeat

Why? He said he didn't find bad new movies so interesting.

Doctors say that Nordberg has a 50 - 50 chance of living, though there's only a 10 percent chance of that.

- Capt Ed Hocken, The Naked Gun

[Lancer]

Because you don't have a job?

[Dis]

Originally posted by Lancer
Because you don't have a job?

that too.

but I have no desire to watch bad new movies.

watching bad old movies is like a glimpse in the past. Makes you glad you didn't live through the 70's (well I did, but I was real young)

[Dis]

here are his movies from the 70's

# Steel (1979) .... Big Lew Cassidy
... aka Look Down and Die
... aka Men of Steel
# The Concorde ... Airport '79 (1979) .... Capt. Joe Patroni
... aka Airport '79 (USA: short title)
... aka Airport 1979 (International: English title: informal title)
... aka Airport 1980 (International: English title: informal title)
... aka Airport 80: The Concorde (Philippines: English title)
... aka The Concorde (USA: short title)
# Never Say Never (1979) (TV) .... Harry Walter
# The Double McGuffin (1979) .... Chief Talasek
# "Backstairs at the White House" (1979) (mini) TV Series .... President Warren G. Harding
# Search and Destroy (1979) .... Anthony Fusqua
... aka Striking Back
# Brass Target (1978) .... Gen. George S. Patton
# Death on the Nile (1978) .... Andrew Pennington
... aka Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile (UK)
# Mean Dog Blues (1978) .... Captain Omar Kinsman
# Ningen no shômei (1977) .... Ken Shuftan
... aka Proof of the Man
# Airport '77 (1977) .... Joe Patroni
... aka Airport 1977 (International: English title: informal title)
# "The Blue Knight" .... Bumper Morgan (3 episodes, 1976)
- Bull's Eye (1976) TV Episode .... Bumper Morgan
- The Pink Dragon (1976) TV Episode .... Bumper Morgan
- To Kill a Tank (1976) TV Episode .... Bumper Morgan
# The 'Human' Factor (1975) .... John Kinsdale
... aka Giustiziere, Il (Italy)
# The Eiger Sanction (1975) .... Ben Bowman
# The Blue Knight (1975) (TV) .... William A. 'Bumper' Morgan
# Earthquake (1974) .... Sgt. Lew Slade
# Airport 1975 (1974) .... Joe Patroni
... aka Airport '75 (International: English title: informal title)
# Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) .... Red Leary
# A Cry in the Wilderness (1974) (TV) .... Sam Hadley
# Sonic Boom (1974)
# Deliver Us from Evil (1973) (TV) .... Walter 'Cowboy' McAdams
# Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973) .... Abe Fraser
... aka Cahill (UK)
... aka Wednesday Morning
# Lost Horizon (1973) .... Sam Cornelius
# A Great American Tragedy (1972) (TV) .... Brad Wilkes
# "Sarge" (1971) TV Series .... Father Samuel Cavanaugh (Sarge) (unknown episodes)
# The Priest Killer (1971) (TV) .... Sarge Swanson
# Fools' Parade (1971) .... 'Doc' Council
... aka Dynamite Man from Glory Jail (UK)
# Sarge (1971) (TV) .... Sarge Swanson
... aka Sarge: The Badge or the Cross (USA)
... aka The Badge or the Cross
# The Bull of the West (1971) (TV) .... 'Bear' Suchette
... aka Hot Lead
... aka Vengeance Is the Spur (USA)
# Dirty Dingus Magee (1970) .... Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill
# Zigzag (1970) .... Paul R. Cameron
... aka False Witness (UK)
... aka Zig Zag
... aka Zig-Zag
# Airport (1970) .... Joe Patroni
# ...tick... tick... tick... (1970) .... John Little

hmm, it doesn't appear he was in that movie

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078989/fullcredits#cast

Now I feel stupid. or stupider. It looked like George Kennedy. I guess that's how cheesy that movie was. Not only did they copy american disaster movies, they copied american typecast actors.

let's face it americans make the best (and worst) disaster movies.

[Dis]

there's only one thing this thread is missing.

yup, you guessed it. a badass pic of george kennedy holding a gun

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Dis
let's face it americans make the best (and worst) disaster movies.

did you hear about the combination sequel to Earthquake and Towering Inferno? It's called Shake and Bake.

[Damn, that's an old joke.]

[Perfection]

Why do I watch bad old movies?

Because the Mads make you?

[ZEE]

Originally posted by Perfection
Mads

WTFPerf?!? is this your second misspelled word in 2 posts? You are not living up to your name...
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