I appreciate your love for Holiday - it's one of my favorites.
I love HOLIDAY. The 1930 version is also quite good: Ann Harding & Mary Astor play the sisters and (hilariously) Edward Everett Horton plays Nick Potter yet again.
Gunn: Well, how horrible is this thing? Lorne: I haven't read the Book of Revelations lately, but if I was searching for adjectives, I'd probably start there.
'Hell Bound'
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megan walker - Mar 26, 2022 10:36:19 pm PDT #3106 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Sophia Brooks - Mar 27, 2022 6:34:47 am PDT #3107 of 3455
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I also love Holiday! I have played Susan Potter (Nick Potter’s wife). I am not sure if she exists in the movie because I haven’t watched in 20 years! But she was extremely fun to play- I used my Anya “I will barf too!” Imitation.
DavidS - Mar 27, 2022 9:20:45 am PDT #3108 of 3455
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I have played Susan Potter (Nick Potter’s wife). I am not sure if she exists in the movie because I haven’t watched in 20 years!
Oh indeed she's in the movie and delightful. It's one of Jacqueline's favorite screwballs, and Neddy is on her short list of all-time Woobies.
megan walker - Mar 27, 2022 10:17:44 am PDT #3109 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Oh indeed she's in the movie and delightful. It's one of Jacqueline's favorite screwballs, and Neddy is on her short list of all-time Woobies.
I think my love for Lew Ayres in Holiday is one reason I loved All Quiet on the Western Front so much.
I have played Susan Potter (Nick Potter’s wife). I am not sure if she exists in the movie because I haven’t watched in 20 years!
I can't remember the name of the actress in the '38 version but in the '30 version it's Hedda Hopper!
Sophia Brooks - Mar 27, 2022 1:46:12 pm PDT #3110 of 3455
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Oh indeed she's in the movie and delightful. It's one of Jacqueline's favorite screwballs, and Neddy is on her short list of all-time Woobies.
My Nick Potter actor was way too young for me in reality, but I sort of fell in acting love with him! But it was so much fun to play, and I so rarely act. It made me want to act again (I was doing it as a a favor to a director friend). But it is fun that Hedda Hopper played her, and that helps me see why he asked me (He is known for his whole directing style is casting the right person and just letting them go).
JZ - Mar 30, 2022 9:49:17 am PDT #3111 of 3455
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
The Potters are absolute marriage goals. As much as I love everything else about the film as it unfolds, I got sucked in on the very first watch in the very first couple of minutes as poor Johnny Case is standing outside their apartment door ringing the bell and pounding on the door, and they're both sitting serenely in their comfy chairs in front of a fire, buried in books and newspapers with more books and newspapers stacked up all around them, and they're both so warm and content and happily lost that neither wants to be the one to set down their reading and answer the damn door.
-t - Apr 01, 2022 6:25:35 am PDT #3112 of 3455
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I thought I’d make a double feature of Murder on the Orient Express and Death in the Nile after work yesterday, but I got too sleepy to finish the second one. Woke up early for whatever reason and finished it off this morning. Now, there are a lot of choices made in Branagh’s adaptations that I don’t mind or actively applaud but there are definitely some that grate. Perhaps foremost among the latter is giving not only Poirot but specifically the famous moustaches a tragic backstory. I do not approve. No.
Tom Scola - Apr 01, 2022 6:38:11 am PDT #3113 of 3455
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They did the same thing to Jean-Luc Picard this season. I mean, not the moustache—they gave him a new, tragic backstory that they never referred to before. So unnecessary.
-t - Apr 01, 2022 8:32:51 am PDT #3114 of 3455
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Argh. Stop that, people!
I do keep forgetting to watch Picard. I should get on that.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 01, 2022 8:44:28 am PDT #3115 of 3455
"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
They did the same thing to Jean-Luc Picard this season. I mean, not the moustache—they gave him a new, tragic backstory that they never referred to before. So unnecessary.
I haven't watched past the first few episodes of the first season, but I've heard that Q is messing around with the timestream this season. Is it possible that the tragic backstory could be new within the narrative as well as on a meta level?