What Movies Have You Watched Recently?

[Blarg]

Yes, Thunderball is extremely fun and watchable. Quite starkly silly in some places, though. But not enough to change that the movie is really tremendous fun.

[John Cole]

Last night, Duck Soup, once more.

"This is a gala day for you."

"A gal a day is all I can handle."

I still laugh out loud, thank god, when I watch this one.

[Blarg]

Late last night I couldn't sleep, and watched One Man's Way, a movie biography of Norman Vincent Peale. It was surprisingly good all the way through. I'm like the exact opposite of its intended audience, too. Also saw a cheesy short, Here Come the Tanks, a military recruitment type film, which centered around an idiotic caricature of an, I suppose, all-American dumb patriot who can't wait to join up. I felt like this film was constantly leveling itself or me or both.

[pryor15]

i watched La Strada (1954) last night, and now i have an urge to buy a van, put a mattress in the back, and drive around the country

[Enrique]

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Last night, Duck Soup, once more.

"This is a gala day for you."

"A gal a day is all I can handle."

I still laugh out loud, thank god, when I watch this one.

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Duck Soup is excellent. Gotta love the Marx brothers.

[Blarg]

Sampano is HERE!

[Enrique]

I just watched "Breakfast Club" on TV this morning. Hadn't seen it before. I didn't think it is good, but I wanted to keep seeing it till it was over, so I guess it wasn't that bad. I have to admit some parts were funny. The movie feels very 80s.

[rothko]

though i would expect this film won't resonate with most people, it did for me. there is explicit sexual content--including homosexual--but it's not pornagraphic. still, this coupled with the subject matter and the polysexual underground world we visit would likely put many off. for those that can get into it, this picture is beautiful.

[Barcalounger]

Hopefully Short Bus gets to me next week out of my queue. It's good to hear that you liked it. I enjoyed Hedwig and the Angry Inch so much that I am pretty much resigned to watching his next film. Lots of weirdly mixed buzz around it, kind of like your post...

[troymclur]

Finally saw Stranger Than Fiction with Will Ferell and couldn't help but think that Jim Carey would have nailed the part. Will was just trying too hard to not be Will, resulting in an overly understated performance. Overall, the film was good, except for the end where it took a turn towards stupid.

SPOILERS:

<font color="white">The movie basicaly follows to an ending in which the book needs to have the main character (which is will farrel in real life) die for it to be a truely great work, and basically, Dustin Hoffmans character and the movie take the approach of "you can't have her change the ending, you need to get used to the fact that you'll die. the book is just too good for you not to die". Just kinda, WHAT??!

Of course, he doesn't die, and she does change the ending, but the fact that they used this situation as a device to talk about the worth of life and get philosophical with it was ridiculous. It might sound dumb to use the word 'realistic' in a movie about an author who is writing a book that is affecting the life of a real person, but it just wasn't realistic that once the author found out her main character was real, that anybody would entertain the possibility of not changing the ending. They could have taken it in several other directions and achieving the same results, but they took a very wrong turn.</font>