Watched part of "thoroughly Modern Millie" for tonight's workout. While I cannot recommend the movie as a whole, Julie Andrews singing "Mazeltov" at a Jewish wedding is one of the funniest scenes ever. She also looks like she was having a ball
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Why don't I rec the movie in spite of having some great numbers?
1) Horribly racist stereotypes of Chinese are too key a part of the plot to ignore. In 1967 there was no fucking excuse
2) Horribly padded. When I first saw the run time of the movie, I thought that time has to include commercials. Nope. It opens with an instrumental overture, played over a static title card of no great interest. I did not time it. But it feels like it lasts for ten minutes. Just about every scene was spoiled by running too long. Somebody refused to allow footage to land on the cutting room floor or save them for an outtakes reel where they belonged.
I admit, Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore worked wonderfully well together. And no, their interactions did not rise to a level of sweetness that would aggravate my diabetes.
There is a sickeningly sweet ending. But the fault for that lies with the writers, not the acting.
3) Gender roles are ummm not awesome. Though they do use the tangled plot as an excuse to get James Fox into drag.
As CA:TWS is leaving the last second run place, I have finalized my in-theatre total as of this afternoon, and my tally is 17.
(It would be 19, but I managed to miss two adult playdates to see it over the last month.)
A non-trivial number of those viewings have been since I had a perfectly cromulent digital copy.
That tweet was perfection.
GotG fans, check out Chris Pratt's first headshot:
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I am agog.
That is amazing. Even more so if you compare to Andy Dwyer from Parks & Rec -- the guy in that picture can grow up to be Starlord no problem. Andy? NSM.
I'm glad to see he was able to find someone who could exorcise the spirit of Leif Garrett after that photo was taken.
I finally got around to watching Winter Soldier (which was awesome!), but in reading the comments here from back in April, I saw this:
Didn't Ferris Bueller even have a post-credit scene? Where he peers out and says "Why are you people still here?"
So, I know this is five months late, but THE MUPPET MOVIE, PEOPLE! I always felt that Ferris was riffing on Animal.
An acquaintance of mine was ranting on Facebook a few months ago about how Captain America was giant douche and whatnot. Myself and a couple others defended Cap, but she didn't understand the appeal.
I just got a message from her that she watched Cap 2 the other day, and now she gets it.
He's not douchey!
Maybe she was thinking of Chris Evans in Fantastic Four?
Now that was douchey.
