Gone with the Wind is too long.
Ah, yes, of course. The gypsies, they gave you your soul. The gypsies are filthy people. Ptui! We shall speak of them no more.
Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'
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Dana - Jun 21, 2007 8:16:27 am PDT #9400 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
DavidS - Jun 21, 2007 8:17:29 am PDT #9401 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Raging Bull is nothing but a stylish exercise in brutality about a sociopath.
P.M. Marc - Jun 21, 2007 8:19:19 am PDT #9402 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
He's a great comic actor too. Check out Nothing Sacred with Carole Lombard.
Seconded.
megan walker - Jun 21, 2007 8:22:47 am PDT #9403 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I think I'm looking at the wrong list. Link please?
Hayden - Jun 21, 2007 8:23:36 am PDT #9404 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Transformers is a brilliant and postmodern little slice-of-life comedy.
JZ - Jun 21, 2007 8:24:47 am PDT #9405 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I've seen 71. If it's a big sprawling Biblical, Western or Mob epic, I have probably not seen it.
And the omissions -- holy shit! I like Shawshank as much as the next gal and I've defended my love for Titanic right here in this very thread, but even I'm not cracked-out enough to attempt to defend bumping The Third Man and The Manchurian Candidate to make room for them. That's insane.
Also not sold on Sullivan's Travels as the lone Sturges film. They couldn't toss out Forrest Gump to make room for The Lady Eve? (Though you could also make a strong case for Palm Beach Story, Morgan's Creek or Unfaithfully Yours -- in point of fact, Sturges is on the list about four times fewer than he deserves and Gump once more than it deserves).
megan walker - Jun 21, 2007 8:25:36 am PDT #9406 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
They couldn't toss out Forrest Gump
Do you even need the rest of that sentence?
Kathy A - Jun 21, 2007 8:26:00 am PDT #9407 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Megan, Wikipedia has it here.
Hayden - Jun 21, 2007 8:26:05 am PDT #9408 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
in point of fact, Sturges is on the list about four times fewer than he deserves and Gump once more than it deserves
You are so very, very, very, very, very right.
Megan, the list: [link]
Sean K - Jun 21, 2007 8:26:37 am PDT #9409 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Color me VERY surprised at that list of movies Hec has never seen. I'm agog.
Also color me surprised that Corwood hasn't seen Best Years of our Lives. (Side note, the non-actor in question actually has two hooks and no hands, and won an Oscar for that performance that year).
And yes, as Hec said, it's a bit of a message movie, but it's VERY GOOD, and I LOVE IT! Mostly for Fredric March, but also for my secret silver screen girlfriend, Myrna Loy. The rest of the cast is pretty damned fantastic too.
As for saying something about a movie I've never seen:
Pippi Longstocking is Swedish, and therefore stupid and boring.