I am going to see Bull Durham for the express purpose of not liking it, now.

Right on!

(Seriously, you'll probably enjoy it more that way than I did, since I'm sure a large part of my own antipathy towards the movie is that before I saw it, it was pitched to me by approximately twelve zillion people as The Best Movie Ever That Everyone With A Soul Loves And I Can't Believe You've Never Seen It You Have To See It So We Can Talk About How Great It Is. And it was...a completely standard romantic comedy. About baseball. Had it been sold as such, I would have adjusted my expectations accordingly.)

And I hate High Society because I saw The Philadelphia Story first.

I don't remember which one I saw first, and I love them both! Each one has so many awesome qualitities!! Don't be a hater!

megan, I also enjoy quoting Shag with certain friends. WAY out of control, free love, bevos, etc.

It's like Smoov B, but sincere and with baseball.

Oh, how much do I love this phrase? Because yes, that's exactly the reaction I had to the bits I've seen.

And it was...a completely standard romantic comedy. About baseball.

Exactly. I love a lot of it -- the "I like" speech, certainly -- and pretty much anything Annie Savoy said, but it's not, oddly, one I rewatch often.

I am a complete sucker for Field of Dreams, though. But I do hate Forrest Gump! I hated it at the time it came out, too, not on subsesquent rewatch, and was made to feel I'd betrayed my country or something.

The only 30s movies I've seen are pretty much all gangster pictures. What does that say about me??

I can't say that the "see it in the theatre" experience always makes a difference for me, but, when you watch Lawrence of Arabia in widescreen on a 19" TV, you become aware that something is... lacking. Like a microscope, to see the characters. At the Brattle (which isn't that big a screen, even) it was a lot bigger and required less squinting.

Ben-Hur, same deal. That was in Squillo-opti-pana-tastic-vision or something, and the aspect ratio is such that in its original format it takes up only 1/3 the vertical space of a TV screen. Teeny tiny Charlton Heston, grimacing at the world!!

Krell machines seem Krellier

Ha!

Ben-Hur, same deal. That was in Squillo-opti-pana-tastic-vision or something, and the aspect ratio is such that in its original format it takes up only 1/3 the vertical space of a TV screen. Teeny tiny Charlton Heston, grimacing at the world!!

Unfortunately, Ben-Hur was also shot without any eye towards composition -- it's kind of a tragic waste of widescreen technology. The movie's worth watching for the homoerotic subtext and the chariot scene, but the only reason to see it on a big screen is if your TV is too small to make out the figures otherwise.

megan, I also enjoy quoting Shag with certain friends. WAY out of control, free love, bevos, etc.

Jesse, come on, it's not Shag, it's Shag: The Movie! The title alone cracks me up. Even my brother-in-law (who I'm sure has never sat through the whole thing) always says "beevo?" when asking if I want a beer.

So, does this mean I get to choose a different species to be, since I'm a bad human?

Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?

t /Glinda

I'm not a witch at all. Witches are old and ugly.

I'm blanking... Who plays the Celeste Holm character (the photographer) in Philadelphia Story?