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Hardrock69
12-16-2009, 08:19 PM
Just now starting, The Maltese Falcon (Sidney Greenstreet's very first motion picture).




After that, Casablanca,




then Treasure Of The Sierra Madres, followed by The African Queen.

Funny thing about Treasure Of The Sierra Madres....I had never seen it before, and it was on cable one Saturday night in 1981.

I was at a friend's house...there were 4 of us there, and we all were tripping on Silver Dragon, playing cards, and watching TV.

**SPOILER ALERT**

I am going to give up the end of the movie. Just to be fair and warn you guys who have never seen this.


Watching such a movie on acid is an exercise in extremity.

You see Bogie and his partner sweat, slave, argue, fight, scheme.....an exercise in backstabbing, desire, GREED, hope, and FUTILITY.

They are prosepectors in the Sierra Madres, looking for gold.

They go through so much hell trying to find it.

In the end, they strike it rich.

And they are bringing their findings back to civilization on several pack mules....the gold dust is tied to the saddles of the mules in cloth bags.

Suddenly they get it with a hellacious dust storm. Winds going 50 miles per hour....sand blasting everything.....

Then the unthinkable happens....in the wind, and with the motion of the mules as they go over the rocky terrain, the bags get loose from their saddles, and the gold dust is gone....blown away in the dust storm.

Our card game stopped. I just sat their fixated on the screen...freaking out.


"What? THEY LOST ALL THEIR GOLD??????

WHAT THE FUCK! THEY WENT THROUGH SO MUCH!!! THEY KILLED EACH OTHER, SCHEMED! PLOTTED! THEY TRIED TO STAB EACH OTHER IN THE BACK! THEY STARVED! THEY ALMOST DIED IN THE ELEMENTS!!!

AND NOW IT'S ALL GONE??????? HOW IN THE FUCK COULD THAT BE????"

My friends: "Uhh, hey man, it's just a movie......"


"NO! YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! IT'S ALL GONE!!!! ALL OF IT!!"

My friends: "Hey, it's ok, man....no need to get freaked out over it..."

"Heh...you think I have only been smoking POT tonight?"

My friends: "Well, no....*giggling*".

There are three films I have seen while under the influence of the Lysergic:

Treasure Of The Sierra Madres
Legend - starring a young Tom Cruise and Tim Curry as THE DEVIL (Hey Satan, I hope his performance met with your approval as a fantasy/fairy-tale piece :D )

Lastly, I saw the Jerk with Steve Martin one afternoon when it had just come out in the theaters.

I don't do that stuff anymore....WAY too intense.

But so now I have these groovy stories to tell of back in the day, lol.

That's all.....Bogie is comforting Miles Archer's wife now after his partner (Miles) was shot by an unknown assailant.

*sob*

Just figured I would mention this for all you old movie fans.

kwame k
12-16-2009, 08:24 PM
Treasure Of The Sierra Madras is a great flick! Bogie plays a dark character in that one.

Hardrock69
12-16-2009, 09:21 PM
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kwame k
12-16-2009, 09:25 PM
Seen everyone of these movies a dozen times.....they never get old....pun intended.

Anonymous
12-16-2009, 09:26 PM
I'm a huge fan of Bogart, but allow me to sidetrack this thread a bit by saying that the Legend was RIGHTEOUS!

The only bad part was Tom Cruise's acting, but even that hardly took anything from the brilliance of the film.

Last time I watched it, I was a kid, so I couldn't, huh, "enhance" my mind at the time while watching it, but I'll definitely try it out now.

Grate tip, HR... thinking about it, the movie DOES lend itself to it... Tim Curry RAWKED as a Daemon...

Cheers! :bottle: