Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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I can't even bear to try and make a top ## list. I always get near the end and suddenly start thinking of more movies than the number I'm trying to keep the list under.
Also, different movies mean more to me on different days (seeing the recent Criterion THE THIRD MAN with the commentary made me realize I'd let the movie slip down my list mentally when it's somewhere in the top 20, if not 10).
It's some kind of a movie. What does it matter what you say about cinema?
Bwahahahahahaha!!!
It's some kind of a movie. What does it matter what you say about cinema?
::takes bite of candy bar::
Need to throw Touch of Evil and Wild Bunch on my netflix queue.
I believe I really liked it but spent the entire movie waiting for someone to say "Play it again, Sam."
Like a number of "famous" movie quotes, it's never actually spoken in the film, but is a telephone-like bastardization of the line "Play it, Sam. You played it for her, you can play it for me."
Also? Seekrit message to Kath: I CAN HAS LINGENBEREEZ?
::takes bite of candy bar::
You're a mess honey. You better lay off those candy bars.
What's the big deal about "Plastics"?
That movie is the one thing that makes Charlton Heston tolerable to me (not his performance, just the fact that he pushed so hard for it to be made -- studios were already getting a little tetchy about Welles and Heston's enthusiasm for the script and the director made it very hard for them to turn Welles away).
What's the big deal about "Plastics"?
Aside from the line in The Graduate?
That's what I mean. Why is it A Famous Line?
Why is it A Famous Line?
For me, it's all about delivery. Well, that combined with the 1960's idea of technological advances being The Thing.