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What was the last film you watched?
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Turd Alert: I watched "I See You", allegedly a horror movie starring Helen Hunt. It´s absurd, and pointless, a waste of time. The only interest is find out what "phrogging" is (Miss Piggy had an orgasm when she heard the word!). Poor Hunt looks as if she were 100 years old and is as expressive as a green tomato.
On the other side... "Number 23" turned out to be a really enjoyable mystery thriller, with Jim Carrey good in an unusual role and Virginia Madsen reminding me what a superb, underrated actress she has always been. Not a masterpiece but it has a lot of terrific moments!!
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BRÜNO
Reese Witherspintzel, Stevie Wunderbar, Bradolph Pitler, Baby OJ.
And to top it off, an epic gay scene featuring Céline Dion's smash hit.
Reese Witherspintzel, Stevie Wunderbar, Bradolph Pitler, Baby OJ.
And to top it off, an epic gay scene featuring Céline Dion's smash hit.
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HALLOWEEN (1978). I've never really loved it, but it has the right idea. Jamie Lee is perfect casting, but the other girls are terrible.
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Good movie, and I thought the crossover cameo in the very last scene was something that had never been done before.
But then I discovered that these movies are connected and unfortunately it took the twist out of it. Dammit, it could have been so cool.
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Run For You Wife (2012)
I saw the West End theatre production of this play in the 1980s and enjoyed it very much so when I heard they were adapting it for a film I looked forward to seeing it. However, it was a mega flop and never really got much of a cinematic release so I never got to see it until last weekend when someone gave me a copy.
The film is a comedy about a bigamist and his attempts to hide his wives from each other. It's also a who's who of British entertainment with most of the supporting roles and many of the background artists played by well know figures including Cliff Richard, June Whitfield, Richard Briars, Bernard Cribbins, Barry Cryer, Judy Dench, Russ Abbott, Sylvia Syms, Donald Sinden and many others.
The film lacks the frantic panic of the stage play where characters miss each other by seconds between one door opening and another shutting and without that it's just a weak far-fetched story with very few laughs. The only interesting thing about the film was identifying the famous faces in the background.
I saw the West End theatre production of this play in the 1980s and enjoyed it very much so when I heard they were adapting it for a film I looked forward to seeing it. However, it was a mega flop and never really got much of a cinematic release so I never got to see it until last weekend when someone gave me a copy.
The film is a comedy about a bigamist and his attempts to hide his wives from each other. It's also a who's who of British entertainment with most of the supporting roles and many of the background artists played by well know figures including Cliff Richard, June Whitfield, Richard Briars, Bernard Cribbins, Barry Cryer, Judy Dench, Russ Abbott, Sylvia Syms, Donald Sinden and many others.
The film lacks the frantic panic of the stage play where characters miss each other by seconds between one door opening and another shutting and without that it's just a weak far-fetched story with very few laughs. The only interesting thing about the film was identifying the famous faces in the background.
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I remember those, they were very popular in the 70s and 80s and often had a touch of ooh-lala.
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Good Lord. That's pretty much everyone in British light entertainment. Even though the film sounds terrible, I'm intrigued.
Don't you love farce?
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You're right. At the time when I saw the play Run For Your Wife it was was the second longest running comedy in London's West End after No Sex Please Were British, which was a similar farce but not as funny (an almost equally awful film adaptation was made of this play too).
June Whitfield, Geoffrey Palmer, Lionel Blair, Derek Griffith, Tony Britton, Maureen Lipman, Wendy Craig, Robin Askwith and others that I can't remember. As I said in my previous post, the most fun aspect of the film was recognising that the man in the pub background was Timothy West or the woman in the in the exercise class was Lisa Goddard in a non-speaking role. In fact there were so many cameos you couldn't keep up with it. Ray Cooney must have called in favours from all his theatre chums to have pulled it off.
Yes, isn't it rich?
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Oh how we laughed and laughed. But now I think it looks rather hysterical and exhausting.
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Charles & Diana A Palace Divided.
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I had already watched 4 hours of FARGO so initially I was going to watch 10 minutes-of-something before I went to bed. However, being a fan of the dysfunctional dramasty, I found it unstopwatchable.
That J.D. Vance decided to write his memoirs is just fine with me, and to put thoughts and feelings into written words usually helps us to understand the essence of whatever it is we're trying to understand.
But is it a quintessential hillbilly story, or even a quintessential American story? Personally, I don't think so because you can find these families and communities everywhere.
And the message that you can decide who you'll become without forsaking your heritage is far, far from original.
From that point of view I'd say this is nothing but a melodramatic TV movie, but one that entertained me from start to finish. And of course it was great so see Glenn Close in a lead role again.
There's a guest role for Bo "Dynasty" Hopkins, and considering the demise of several prime time soap icons this year I found myself appreciating it more than I'd usually do.
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I’m going to watch this because I really like the two leads. Amy Adams was fantastic in Sharp Objects which was very dark but fascinating 
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I don't think I've ever watched an Indiana Jones movie, or at least not in its entirety.
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Me neither. I know I’m in the minority with this opinion but I never really could get into them. The only one I’ve seen from beginning to end is the fourth one which was made many years after the original three. And I didn’t enjoy it