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I’m going with Casablanca for 3 key reasons:
1. I’ve seen it twice; only seen Citizen Kane once (liked it, but once was enough, until nothing else is on).
2. I like romances. And it’s nice that Casablanca ends on a grey note. Not sad ending, but it wasn’t a fairy tale either.
And 3...Bogart. Haven’t seen him in too many movies (African Queen, Big Sleep), but his acting and character is more to my liking.
They’re both the greatest at what they are: Casablanca is a romance and Kane is a biography. But both do what art does, and that is to depict the deepest human truths, those truths that lie in our feelings that are hardest for humans to express.
A woulda coulda shoulda been comeback. No doubt.
I watched “Lawrence” one night when I was in high school; rented it cause I’m really into the classics, especially at that time, when I was really trying to gain an appreciation for what all came before.
It was a long watch, especially on my 15 inch TV, but I enjoyed it despite the toiling length. It told a grand story, nothing simple, nothing like I’d seen before. But yes, like I said, it took its toll. Might’ve had to watch it over 2 nights, after I’d gotten work delivering pizza.
While it’s a fantastic movie, which I watched a snippet of on TCM the other night and had to force myself not to watch it until it ended at 2 AM, I will say that ******SPOILERS******, it ended on a huge downer, whether it be rooted in truth or not. That’s part of the reason I didn’t finish it the other night, I reckon.
Hey, in any movie, from any era, if they get the sets to look good, the acting is good, and the special effects are indeed special for the time...you can probably say it’s worth a watch, right? I mean the story doesn’t have to be a total grand slam home run with the rest going for it.
Let me ask a question no one may know the answer to: How or why was Drew Barrymore able to make a slow but steady comeback from the bottom to the top in a fairly short amount of time, but not Lindsay Lohan?
Is it because Drew was a little younger when she hit rock bottom? Seems like she hit her peak about the same age Lohan fell off.
I hope he turns it around. I wasn’t too into this movie, got into a year or 2 late. But, for people I know who saw it around the same age as the kids in the movie, those kids were like, idk, teen idols for 15 minutes.
It’s about time for her to come back, like Garth did a few years ago.
I can’t say it’s overrated because it has lots of good moments, but has its faults that people have pointed out.
And an old man fashioning a kayak out of a log...?
More direct to DVD/Disney Plus movies with Olaf.
Really? Man I thought the end was pretty cool. The only thing I really didn't like about Solo was the droid.
Oh I didn't know he had said that Mookie did the right thing. To me, that's not how it was portrayed.
That's a great question. Minkus was a pretty funny and useful character. I suppose that after Michael Jacobs decided to change Topanga's character to be more normal, she completed the trio with Corey and Shawn. Therefore, there wasn't much time or use for Minkus.
They could've brought him back and featured him in a few story lines over the years, though. Like they did with Frankie, Joey, and Harley.
The thing is, no one did the right thing, despite the old head telling Mookie to always do the right thing. But no one ever does.
Whether it was written with a racist mindset, I don't know. But when Quarrel is on a mission of life-or-death and his boss, an international spy, orders him to grab his shoes, what's the big deal?
As a SW fan, I thought that the Last Jedi was alright but I enjoyed Solo quite a bit and thought it lived up to expectations.
Which one was the right woman?
Lonely in Your Nightmare
Yeah I see where you’re coming from. I like Penguin though, but he did get in the way of more screen time for Catwoman. Pheiffer killed it.
Not a bad idea. But I do think the Penguin was a good parallel character to Bat and Cat.