What is your favorite Chuck Heston movie?

[book_worm]

Poll question: What is your favorite Chuck Heston movie?

okay, I think he was a right wing tool too (though I apprecite that he did walk with Dr. King). I also think he was a blow-hard actor who could be as subtle as William Shatner (and had an equally bad hair piece), but he still managed to make a few good movies in his fifty-odd year cinema career.

What's your favorite?

[tekisui]

1. Other: Bowling for Columbine.

[virginia mountainman]

3. Nice, of MM, to beat up on a Alzheimer's patient..

Since I am dealing with Alzheimers in my own family, I would love to spit in his face for that.

[MADem]

6. Did he know at the time? He might not have.... nt

[tekisui]

7. I am sorry for what you and your family must be going through.

Heston's Alzheimer's did not wipe clean his previous comments and very poor taste.

[book_worm]

8. I'm not sure it was known at the time that Heston had Alzheimers

but I agree it's a terrible way for anybody to go.

[Warpy]

16. It was only announced after the movie was filmed

so "beating up a poor old Alzheimer's patient" doesn't quite fit.

[fascisthunter]

9. But Did He Target His Alzheimer's in the Movie? NOPE...

nice try though.... he attacked the man's support of guns. Are you saying his point of view regarding guns was off limits due to Alzheimer's.... ? I guess his support for guns was always in question then since you tie the two together so well. Now I think I understand...

[melody]

11. No one knew Heston had it at the time. And Moore called him on his past actions.

When he didn't have Alzheimers.

[cnk_clark]

31. I have Alzheimers

My mind is slowly going and I find myself saying stuff that is weird. My thinking is slowly getting more and more bizarre. There are lots of people that have it and are not diagnosed. My guess is that Chuck Heston had it and didn't know it.

Mine was diagnosed because they were looking for something else and it showed up in an MRI. If I hadn't had the MRI then I would just be looked at as weird. Now I guess I have an excuse.

It is a horrible disease and soon I will not know my wife of 30 years or my kids and grandkids. I had to quit my job as a Paramedic since I had trouble with medication dosages. I was not forced out, I quit on my own as I was afraid of killing some one.

Strangers have made fun of me in my confusion. They are both Democrats and Republicans. But I have to say the worst and most embarrassing was at a Democrat fundraiser when I went off on something and the people at the table were so mean that my wife and daughter started crying. I guess we left as I don't remember much about it.

I have my good days and my bad days. It is getting worse though, at least according to my wife. I am in a study that will track me over time and I am on some medication that could be real or a placebo.

Soon I will disappear into my own world. My hope is that I die before I forget my family as they are all I have.

I remember when my grandmother got it. She didn't know who we were and she was so different and was nothing like I remembered hjer when I was younger. It was like visiting a stranger.

We need to be kind to everyone. Being mean doesn't get anyone any mileage. We are all humans and can have our differences and we need to allow these differences.

To be honest mean people suck. I guess that was a mean thing to say. Sorry.

[usaftmo]

33. We didn't know Heston had it at the time;

that doesn't erase his horribly insensitive position/conduct immediately after Columbine. He wasn't just a gun-nut, he was elected by the nra to represent all gun-nuts. The good things the nra has done is significantly overshadowed by their ultra-rightwing motives.

Where was Heston's staff/family/friends? I'm shocked that he personally greeted MM, and nobody was there to help shield Heston from something unpleasant (from his viewpoint).

My father has Alzheimers, but that doesn't erase the fact he's voted for every rethuglican starting with nixon.

In conclusion, horrible past actions aren't voided by a later medical condition that robs memory.

[fascisthunter]

5. Lol....

:thumbsup:

[seabeyond]

29. mm came out looking worse for wear than heston. there was nothing

to condemn heston on in that interview. i thought the man handled it respectfully. he has a different opinion. after watching it again just this moring cause of all the shitty things being said about heston, i have to say moore is the one that looked like an ass.

[JBear]

30. Same here!

Bowling for Columbine was is best performance ever. In case you missed it, he played his sad little self.

:bounce:

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. Planet of the Apes favorite movie but his best role was

Touch of Evil that showed his range as an actor.
But, I think Orson Wells had something to do with that.

[MADem]

4. MIDWAY. nt

[watrwefitinfor]

10. Will Penney.

[Blue_In_AK]

25. I had forgotten all about that movie.

That was a sweet story.

[Blue_In_AK]

26. Oops -didn't mean to answer myself.

[asthmaticeog]

12. Apes, followed closely by Omega Man. nt

[ThomWV]

13. Fahrenheit 451

[tridim]

14. Other: Bowling For Columbine

[MikeNearMcChord]

15. I like The Ten Commandments(though Yul Byrnner stole the show), Planet of the Apes also.

I did like him also (sheepishly admitting this) in the exploitation movie, Two Minute Warning. Also I enjoyed him and Richard Harris too, in Major Dundee.

[theoldman]

17. ;Although I do not think it is fair to attack a person who has

Alzheimer's it certainly is fair to criticize them for past poor performance when their brain was still working. If Hitler had developed Alzheimer's he still would have been a mass murderer.

[Uncle Joe]

18. The next time you watch The Ten Commandments,

during the scene where Moses (Heston) is building a new city for Ramses The First and Ramses' no account son; W Ramses (Yul Brynner) is trying to undermine Moses while they're putting the black obelisk in place to honor the elder Ramses, imagine the obelisk as white and you have them raising the Washington Monument.

[soleft]

19. Airport 75

[Recursion]

20. It's people. It's people!!! (nt)

[DFW]

21. Other: True Lies

He only had a bit part, where Jamie Lee Curtis was brilliant,
but any movie that starts out at "Lake Chapeau, Switzerland"
will stick in my memory. I was laughing from the first scene.

I'm sure he would not have preferred to be remembered for that
one, but at least it didn't pretend to be anything but a spoof,
where Planet of the Apes pretended to be serious.

[Poiuyt]

22. The Big Country

Great music

[laststeamtrain]

23. What? No "55 Days at Peking"?

I vividly remember him slapping Ava Gardner &...'taking' her.

His line was something about her being a 'soldier's woman'.

I was 11.

Good times.

[Toasterlad]

24. This One:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1kqqMXWEFs

[Blue_In_AK]

27. I liked the Biblical epics because they were so over-the-top

but my very favorite was Planet of the Apes.

[DainBramaged]

28. None

[theophilus]

32. I really like The Big Country.

He co-starred with Gregory Peck and many other greats. A timeless tale, imo.

[havocmom]

34. other: The Private War of Major Benson

What? You thought Major Payne was original?

[XOKCowboy]

35. I liked Will Penny also

but then I'm partial to old sentimental Westerns.