'Shindig'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Heh. So very not surprised.
Yeah, I know. When I was 10, it was the late-night movie that was airing on the night Dad and I put up the tree. I was being allowed to stay up as late as I wanted, because Dad was hoping it would distract me (and probably him) from our waiting to hear if Mom would be allowed out on a Christmas day pass from the oncology ward. To this day, my Dad and I can crack each other up by saying "I'm not their nephew! I'm the son of a sea cook!"
Okay, HAL was pretty great. I do find myself saying, "What are you doing, Dave?" on occasion.
"Open the pod bay door, Hal" comes off my lips fairly often.
Though I'm generally meh about 2001 and think the whole last portion is doofy pot-head Symbolism! And yes, I've seen it in a theater more than once. My favorite parts were like...the stewardess uniforms and the instructions on how to flush the toilet.
People that don't like Bull Durham are simply bad human beings. I don't mean to impugn your taste, but it's a proven fact. Really, it's not even a question of taste, it's about your worth as human beings on this planet. Consider yourselves judged.
The same can be said about people who do like Forest Gump.
Don't bother to complain to me about your failings! I don't make up these rules. I'm just explaining them to you.
I need to watch some movies with Gloomcookie's GF.
My feeling about Kubrik in general is that he is probably the best craftsman in the history of film, but he is not nearly as intelligent as he thinks he is.
Another movie I love is The Thin Man I watch it every time it comes on TCM even though I've seen it dozens of times.
Love The Thin Man! That, High Society, and (bizarrely) Shag: The Movie are three movies that my sister and I will always watch and quote constantly.
Other classics that get repeated viewings Arsenic and Old Lace, It Happened One Night, The Palm Beach Story, The Lady Vanishes, His Girl Friday. Basically, if it's a screwball comedy, or by Hitchcock, I'm there; except I'm very meh on Bringing Up Baby and Philadelphia Story (but that's only because I saw High Society first and the dialogue is almost exactly same).
People that don't like Bull Durham are simply bad human beings.
The parts of it I've seen (because I've never watched the whole thing) don't really grab me. But then, the only reason I liked Field of Dreams was for the fantasy/magical reality aspects of the story. Movies about sports (and especially movies about baseball) Are Not My Thing. At all.
So, does this mean I get to choose a different species to be, since I'm a bad human?
And I hate High Society because I saw The Philadelphia Story first.
freakish loathing of Martin Sheen
It's like I don't even know you.
I'm telling you, a formative-years viewing of The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (in which Sheen plays a totally creeptastic pedophile) can scar a girl for life.
::stuffs a camel through the internets::
Better now?
I liked FG when I saw it, but not on rewatch. I've, uh, changed a bunch, to put it mildly. Bull Durham is so sexy I forgot I know nothing of baseball. Although I do know little stuff now from being a Countdown fangirl... KO's always got some '60s southpaw to give geek props to.
I am going to see Bull Durham for the express purpose of not liking it, now.
Better now?
sniff
A little.