The story I would've cut first was the guy who goes to America to get laid, as that didn't seem to have anything to do with love.

Well, love can be synonymous with sex sometimes. I came to the conclusion that the movie wasn't a celebration of love so much as a celebration of cinematic love. Because it was so consciously contrived with no real pretense otherwise.

I loved the stand-ins. Them and Jamie and Aurelia were my favorites.

I would have cut the stand-ins, myself. The storyline felt distracting and "Hey, we have an R rating!" I did like Jamie and Aurelia. Because Aurelia was hot.

being the hugh sap that I am.

An appropriate typo.

BWAH! Totally appropriate.

I might hazard a suggestion that it is a better film than, dare I say it, The Wild Bunch.

Now you're just trying to get my goat. But I already shot it for wearing suspenders and a belt. How could I trust it? That goat didn't even trust its own pants.

And I certainly didn't think that a good friend would say, "It's not that I'm not sympathetic your wife just died, but bye."

That was my favourite line in the whole movie. Possibly because its the sort of thing I say. Oh dear.

That goat didn't even trust its own pants.

Hee hee. I must tag this. May I?

Oh my god. Once Upon A Time in the West made for a hilarious July 4th viewing once with my family. It's still sort of an in-joke. I can believe it's good, but I can't separate it from the MST filter. Our appreciation for westerns just didn't extend that far.

But my brother can still imitate all (or is it "both"?) of the short pieces that are used as a soundtrack for the entire, 20-hour long movie. He does the waaaa-aaaaah harmonica bit really well. And the plink-plink-plink theme.

We watched Finding Nemo with Owen for the first time on Friday and he can now say, "Disney" and "Pixar". It's amazing to me how much I rediscovered the movie watching with my own child.

He also enjoys Monsters, Inc. which is my favorite.

I need to go out and buy these movies so we can watch them without the stoopid commercials.

I need to go out and buy these movies so we can watch them without the stoopid commercials.

Heh. O is now at the age where you will watch and rewatch those movies until you've memorized them. I think Emmett's seen both Toy Story movies about 40-50 times.

Hee hee. I must tag this. May I?

But of course!

I can believe it's good, but I can't separate it from the MST filter. Our appreciation for westerns just didn't extend that far.

Oh yeah. It's one of my favorite movies, but at least one viewing has led some friends and I (under the influence of certain influences) to mock it like it was Manos, Hand of Fate. It's just soooo extreme (with the insanely long scenes, the tracking shots that seem to go on well past the breaking point, the random violence, the crazy macho pissing matches that make no sense, the abrupt anti-climax) that it's practically an über-Western.

My nephew will jump and fall down, and then yell, "Em rogin!" His folks explained that this meant he was Buzz Lightyear, and he was broken. Then he'd get fixed, and shoot at us with his arm laser.

Cute, but slightly worrying.

it's one of my favorite movies, but at least one viewing has led some friends and I (under the influence of certain influences) to mock it like it was Manos, Hand of Fate.

Oh, phew, I thought you might be shaking your head sadly at us. Between the mocking and the endlessness, we completely lost the plot, so there was a lot of "Does anyone remember what he's trying to do?" Come to think of it, we may have walked down the street to watch the Hayward fireworks in the middle, which can't possibly have helped. Or maybe that was after.