I'm on the fence. On one hand, Katherine Hepburn is my all time favorite actress. On the other hand, I could listen to Bing Crosby sing for days. But--Cary Grant! And whoever's playing the stuffy fiancé in Philadelphia Story is less annoying than whoever's playing him in High Society. But then there's the whole Cole Porter thing. Life has far too little Cole Porter in it.
Note to self: religion freaky.
Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'
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Calli - Feb 23, 2016 10:06:49 am PST #29799 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
EpicTangent - Feb 23, 2016 10:17:51 am PST #29800 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Life has far too little Cole Porter in it.
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Burrell - Feb 23, 2016 5:30:39 pm PST #29801 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I love 'em both, that's my vote
Frankenbuddha - Feb 24, 2016 7:36:42 am PST #29802 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I guess I'm in the minority because I prefer the original.
Not just you. I was disappointed in High Society because I loved TPS so much and it just didn't do it for me. Plus, as much as I'll take as much Grace Kelly as is available, IMO Sinatra (a fine actor in the right parts, I'll admit) and Crosby can't hold a candle to Grant and Stewart.
"C.K. Dexter Haven!!!"
Plus that crazed rendition of "Lydia the tattooed lady" by the younger sister.
Fred Pete - Feb 24, 2016 7:57:50 am PST #29803 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
IMO Sinatra (a fine actor in the right parts, I'll admit) and Crosby can't hold a candle to Grant and Stewart
Part of the problem there is that Kelly, Sinatra, and Crosby were all going up against icons at the height of their star powers. I think Crosby comes off the worst -- you can imagine how Tracy could be attracted to Dex as played by Cary Grant. Bing Crosby, especially at that point in his career, not so much.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 24, 2016 9:34:48 am PST #29804 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Crosby was an affable presence in movies at best (not unlike Dean Martin, actually - Rio Bravo being the BIG exception). This was not him at this most affable.
OTOH, I'll take being LDB'ed by him and Bowie any day of the year.
Fred Pete - Feb 24, 2016 11:10:18 am PST #29805 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
For something completely different, but the same era as The Philadelphia Story, may I recommend The Walking Dead? Not the current series, but an old Boris Karloff movie.
Karloff plays John Ellman, a down-on-his-luck musician who's convicted (wrongly, but when you have the Mob against you -- including your own attorney -- you don't have much of a chance). Two young scientists witness the murder and know who's really guilty, but word doesn't get to the governor before the execution (thanks to that attorney I mentioned a moment ago, played by Ricardo Cortez). The young scientists work for a doctor (Edmund Gwenn) who's working on a way to revive the dead. So, instead of saving Ellman's life in the first place, our young scientists help the doctor raise Ellman from the dead. They succeed, and somehow Ellman just -- knows -- who railroaded him. And he just wants to find out why....
It's more gangster movie than horror movie, and I can't overstate how perfect Karloff is as Ellman -- a gentle soul, too trusting that the truth will out in time to save him, then confused and hurt over why the Mob did this to him. (He comes across not unlike Buffy in early S6.) Unfortunately, his performance is so perfect that everyone else comes off poorly.
Dana - Feb 25, 2016 7:12:10 am PST #29806 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
In case you were anxiously waiting for Gods of Egypt:
Gods of Egypt is the most racist film in the last one hundred years. It is the most diabolically conceived, politically incorrect, and unapologetically racist film since Birth of a Nation (the 1915 white one, not the 2016 black one, and how cool is it that we have to clarify that now?). It is more racist than Song of the South and Soul Man, which is no small feat. It is more racist than Mississippi Burning, The Revenant, The Help and Dragonball Evolution. It is more racist than the eye-rolling Bringing Down the House and The Last Samurai. It manages to somehow be more racist than Blended and Dances With Wolves. It is more racist than Dangerous Minds and its didn’t-bring-shit-to-the-party cousin, Freedom Writers. It is magically more racist than The Green Mile. It has unseated my standing favorite, The Lone Ranger, for most racist movie, and I thought Johnny Depp’s Tonto was going to get us to at least 2020.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 25, 2016 9:58:08 am PST #29807 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
The real question is, does it exceed the racism of Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's? Because I'm assuming he had to give up Japanese food forever the day that opened to avoid death by rat poison-laced teriyaki sauce.
Dana - Feb 25, 2016 10:34:08 am PST #29808 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
That may be a question of one character in an otherwise good movie versus an entire shitty movie.