'Never Leave Me'
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Heh. So S put on Flower Drum Song on TCM. I'd never seen before.
And who should I see on my screen as the handsome young asian leading man? James Shigeta, Die Hard's Joseph Takagi! Okay possibly cool to just me, but it made me instantly like Flower Drum Song, which already has lots good going for it.
it's hard to care about a bunch of useless humans when there's a faulty robot beach umbrella to pay attention to, you know?
Awww.
Can't wait!
Oh, and the short is fantastic this time around too. I don't think I've enjoyed a Pixar short this much since the original Luxor Jr one.
Boundin' is still my favorite.
Speaking as someone who's recently had to watch Pixar's entire oeuvre 17,985 times, Cars is fine. There's no real bad guy, there's no shooting, and it's mild enough for me to tolerate umpity-thousand times. Also, I love Steve Purcell, so I dig on all the car stuff going on in the landscape.
And I really don't like Finding Nemo. It's a mess, saved by good performances. But still a mess. There are three too many endings, and three too many "Nemo's-dead-no-he's-not!" moments.
The reason a Cars 2 is not so much because of box-office performance, but rather because it made BEEELIONS of dollars in merchandising.
but rather because it made BEEELIONS of dollars in merchandising.
I guess we should expect many new characters in this one then.
lots of sidekicks.
About time! Crition releases Anthony Mann's western The Furies
This is a great movie and it hasn't been in print, or on cable for the last several years.
Walter Huston is incredibly good in this, as is Dame Judith Anderson. Barbara Stanwyck is less nuanced and in more of a Force Of Nature mode. Great supporting performances all around.
As the review notes, this is more like Mann's shot at King Lear than your average Western. The melodrama is a little big in places but it's got tremendous force.
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