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Cleopatra (1963)
« on: Thu, 25 March 2021, 11:41:03 »


Why didn't this movie do well ?

Just watched it now (in full), it's pretty decent,  felt no lesser, than ben-hur/ 10 commandments, big epics of the day.

+Elizabeth Taylor @ her most Thicc.

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Re: Cleopatra (1963)
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 25 March 2021, 13:18:42 »
My recollection was that it was very popular and catapulted Elizabeth Taylor to the stratosphere.

When I was a teenager "Cleopatra" was a euphemism for an extremely attractive woman.
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Re: Cleopatra (1963)
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 25 March 2021, 15:07:02 »
Hrrrm.. maybe they meant' only financial flop.
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Re: Cleopatra (1963)
« Reply #3 on: Thu, 25 March 2021, 18:41:51 »
Many things age in strange and unexpected ways. The top TV show that year was the Beverly Hillbillies and a couple of years later a show called Star Trek came on but was cancelled early due to poor ratings.

So, commercial popularity, critical acclaim, profit, and longevity are often very disjointed from each other.
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"Starting in 2011, the deficits again started to shrink. During Obama’s term  the deficit was reduced by $900 Billion  before finally in 2015 the GOP managed to wrangle a “reconciliation” bill out of Obama where he again cut corporate taxes, as well as made permanent some of George W. Bush’s original tax cuts. This is the year everything reversed. Before this, under Clinton, Bush and Obama the deficit in almost every year was gradually decreasing. The balance we had of taxes and the economy was bringing the deficit down, the money coming in was slowly catching up with the money going out until 2015. Trump’s subsequent tax cut has continued the new trend even after the rest of Bush’s cuts have since expired. Obama had an average GDP of 2.3%, with 11.6 million jobs created and unemployment peaking at 10% in 2009, then falling to 4.3% in 2016. If we had continued on that downward deficit track, we would have again reached balance and another surplus in 2017-2018.
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Re: Cleopatra (1963)
« Reply #4 on: Thu, 25 March 2021, 19:56:57 »
I think it was pretty popular, at least in Poland, it was like hundreds of times on polish tv when I was a kid (80s-90s).
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Re: Cleopatra (1963)
« Reply #5 on: Fri, 26 March 2021, 16:46:56 »
Quote from: phinix on Thu, 25 March 2021, 19:56:57
I think it was pretty popular, at least in Poland, it was like hundreds of times on polish tv when I was a kid (80s-90s).


was it broadcast in letterbox or 4:3 aspect ratio ?
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Re: Cleopatra (1963)
« Reply #6 on: Fri, 26 March 2021, 17:19:34 »
Quote from: tp4tissue on Fri, 26 March 2021, 16:46:56
Quote from: phinix on Thu, 25 March 2021, 19:56:57
I think it was pretty popular, at least in Poland, it was like hundreds of times on polish tv when I was a kid (80s-90s).


was it broadcast in letterbox or 4:3 aspect ratio ?

4:3, dude, it was 90s:)
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Re: Cleopatra (1963)
« Reply #7 on: Fri, 26 March 2021, 17:51:50 »
Quote from: phinix on Fri, 26 March 2021, 17:19:34

4:3, dude, it was 90s:)

Took some 640x480 screenshots to remind ourselves how good we had it with PAL broadcast.    Of course we definitely didn't have this kind of color/ fidelity, but the image softness is endearing and nostalgic.



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