The entire conceit hinges on him being smarter than everyone else in the room. So at the point where it looks like he makes the only error in judgement that we can spot, it really stands out, and it precipitates the tailspin for the characters for the rest of the movie. It's hard to be sympathetic when you're thinking "WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST DO THE THING WITH THE THING WHEN THE THING BEFORE???"
And then had a better reason for the same damned tailspin, since it's their fucking fictional scenario...
TCM has North by Northwest on tonight. FYI.
I caught
Giant
last night, right at the beginning! Such a fantastic movie. Elizabeth Taylor's Leslie Benedict is the most badass character in the movie.
After finally getting up to the Griffith Observatory, I want to watch Rebel without a Cause again. Which I know will end up being followed by Giant and East of Eden.
I haven't seen any of the three movies in a few years. Netflix doesn't have them on streaming.
I was so excited to see
Giant.
I haven't seen it in years, and it has a lot of meaning for me, too -- my first boyfriend took me into New York to see it on a big screen on our first date.
Awwwwwww.
Who just went searching online for a used copy of the James Dean Collection? New sets are selling for $56+. I found one for $20 that is in "very good" condition. Let's hope so!
Score!
For the record, we did make out for an awful lot of the movie. But I've seen it many times since then!
The World's End
was a lot of fun! Edgar Wright clearly picked up a thing or two about fight scenes during
Scott Pilgrim,
holy fucking crap. Also, the
"What the fuck?" exchange
was great, but I was dying at the bit about
pronouns.
