Posted on 02/24/2009 1:47:02 PM PST by EveningStar
...Having sat through Oscar shows hosted by Whoopi Goldberg and David Letterman, I naturally assumed these things couldn’t get any worse. I was mistaken...
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"My Brilliant Career"
"Breaker Morant"
"Barfly"
"Rounders"
Loved “Breaker Morant”.
I noticed also he didn’t include Dr Zhivago from the 60s.
Because the choices are totally subjective, a lot of movies you might expect to find — movies such as “Gone With the Wind,” “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Dr. Zhivago,” “The Godfather II,” “Easy Rider,” “All That Jazz,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Bringing Up Baby” — aren’t included. The reason is that I didn’t enjoy them.
Glad to find another fan of "Breaker Morant"...
He mentioned earlier in the article as a film he doesn’t like. It’s not very good.
I hated Dr. Zhivago. I didn’t know who to root for.
Hmm, so that’s why Mickey Rourke did not win and they gave it instead to Penn. I had forgotten Rourke made that comment about president Bush. The academy also probably loved seeing Penn kiss up to Chavez and how can they pass up on the opportunity to reward a guy who plays a gay guy, right.
Well that’s not the reason it wasn’t good. It doesn’t hang together very well. And Omar Shariff is lousy as Zhivago.
Louis B. Mayer, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., and Mary Pickford must all be rolling over in their graves.
know=known.
Terrible list, but I can’t believe I’m not the only person who loves THE TALL GUY. It’s an unusual comedy, in that it’s actually funny.
“The rule that we followed was Rule 303!
We caught them, and we shot them, under rule .303!”
Awesome.
Everyone has different favorites. That list was pretty good because there were no clear lousy or agitprop movies.
One movie (from the 80’s) that was good was “Local Hero”. Unfortunately Al Gore (for different reasons) previously listed that as his favorite.
Of course it is in doubt that he saw it, just as I doubt he read his favorite book- Stendahl’s “The Red and The Green”. The guy flunked out of 2 graduate programs and he’s been trying to portray himself as an intellectual.
Just finished a good one two minutes ago.
Martian Child.
One of my fave that is true Romance (I am not the romantic type, a realist):
Like Water for Chocolate
Another (drama):
Reign Over Me
Out on DVD (mystery/suspense)
Trancontinintal (title may be off but it is a straight couple who are just coming off a church mission and the man loves Trains so they travel by and meet up with a nafarious couple).
Lotsa good movies out there.
Just helps to be suffer on the right cable nights from insomnia and have it be a non insomnia night for fellow freepers.
Good list by Prelutsky. I just added a few to the Netflix queue that I maintain for my parents.
Dr. Zhivago has a great scene that all FReepers should be aware of. No, not the scene where the demonstrators are cut down in the streets by mounted police. The scene where Omar Sharif comes home from the war and finds 100 people living in his house, now under the control of the people’s commissar, and sees his wife and son shivering in the corner where the commie house monitor allows them to live. Coming soon to the Socialist States of America.
Haven’t seen any of those. In truth, I haven’t watched a recent movie in over a year...
I take it he doesn't like Hitchcock.
I believe that you mean 'Stendahl’s “The Red and The Black”'.
I notice that out of 100 movies, there is no Hitchcock and no spectacular historical epics, like Ben Hur or Spartacus.
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