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As a comedy?

Terrible adaptation of the novel. King thought so too. 'Eyes Wide Shut' scared me more than 'The Shining'. Much creepier, quite disturbing at times.

Well, I saw a very enjoyable romantic comedy recently. It was called 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' (2008). Man, that Mila Kunis has great eyes. Penetrating even. I suppose I should've put this post in the "I Just Watched" thread.

Some Canadian blues-rock - The Powder Blues Band circa 1980 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4QY7VVUWbs

So, I see we get another - unexpected - Warren Oates treat on Monday (very wee small hours). 'China 9, Liberty 37' (1978) - the last of the spaghetti westerns. This one was directed by American Monte Hellman though, and in addition to the great Oates, it has fan-boy favorite (Logan's Run, American Werewolf in London) Jenny Agutter - and the legendary Sam Peckinpah doing some acting!

What makes a bad romantic comedy is when it's not very funny. The romantic part is easy - it's simple formula. But if the comedy isn't funny - doesn't produce much in the way of laughter - then it's not gonna succeed for most people. Although, I'm probably wrong about this. I didn't laugh once at 'Pretty Woman' (although I may have smirked a few times), but audiences ate it up. Okay. Never mind.

Well, Warren is the best of the bunch. You can't take your eyes off him in the second half of the movie, and you want to see more of him.

You must have seen him in 'The Wild Bunch'?? That movie - even more than 'In the Heat of the Night' - is the one that propelled him into the public's greater awareness.

I don't find Kubrick movies to be that good. My favorite is 'Eyes Wide Shut' (1999). I thought with that one he'd finally made a film that supported his reputation as a "great" director. It'd been a long time since his other "best" (Strangelove).

My first experience with him was when he had a recurring role on the early 60's series 'Stoney Burke'. Jack Lord was the star, playing a rodeo rider. Warren was strongly featured in about a third of the episodes as something of a goofball around the rodeo circuit. At first I didn't like his character (he seemed a little like the 'Angel' character played by Stuart Margolin on 'The Rockford Files'). But after seeing him a few times, I found I was beginning to enjoy his oddness. That he became as famous as he did, and got as much work as he did, was pleasing.

Nonsense. We're all equally discriminating. Some music we like, some music we don't like. Being loud about what one doesn't like doesn't make one's discrimination any more substantive. I've been told by young people that I'm difficult to please when it comes to music. I make no claim that that makes me more discriminating than anyone else. They don't care for "my" music any more than I care for "theirs". It's all personal preference. We're all equally discriminating.

She's okay, in a kind of high-maintenance, lots of time at the make-up table way. Always looked like a real boozer to me, though - that didn't make her a favorite. But, as studio-era actresses go, I guess she's one of the more sexually-alluring ones from that time in the industry.

There's nothing unusual or wrong about having opinions. If one is overbearing with one's opinions, stubbornly insistent upon repetitive and forceful statement of them - or cannot seem to allow anyone else's stated favorites go unchallenged or un-critiqued, one can be what I might refer to as opinionated, and not in a good way. Where a topic is very serious, it might be understandable to be opinionated in such a way as that - but in matters of simple preference of movie types or music, not so much. There's also just simple consideration of other people's feelings. I don't see any need to dump on what another person has said they like in a friendly "favorites" thread. It should be enough to have your own equal opportunity to post your own favorites in threads like this one.

Agree strongly with this. George had a very clever wit, quite funny when you get clued into it.

Watching her in an interview a few years back (wow, time was not kind to her looks), the interviewer asked her (perhaps mischievously) who she considered to be the love of her life. It's George. And she was emphatic about it. There was a real sense of regret over the Eric dalliance, or so I intuited, listening to her.

Well, I don't expect that to be a whole lot longer, so I'll just enjoy my craziness while it lasts.

The only reason I have 'The Haunting' in my collection is to watch Claire Bloom in it. What can I say, she's just one of those who really did it for me. Way jealous of Rod Steiger for years.

Some people can get real goofy real quick. Then it gets infectious for a while for the weaker-minded associates with whom they're in contact. For emotionally well-quipped people it can actually be quite dangerous to be around such an outbreak. I'm sure they stayed home and stashed their Beatle albums out of sight while such episodic nonsense burned itself out.

Lion in winter is a remarkable performance. I never bother with should have's for the Oscar, though. The Oscar became meaningless to me the year they gave it to Marion Morrison. Haven't watched an Oscar show since '74. Anyway, I digress. I've seen quite a number of O'Toole movies here. The one's I long for the most, however, are 'The Night of the Generals' (1967) and 'Man Friday' (1975).

Okay, then.

It was an apt remark. The Beatles at that time were in the thoughts of a billion mostly young people constantly - in an actual way, not just a habitual, by-rote, no thought, morning prayer at school way. Too deep for a lot of people to comprehend. Fetch the matches.

Nobody was talking to you, Peanut.

I think it's Claire Bloom's movie all the way. She's head and shoulders the best thing in it.

I love 'Harper'. Of all of Newman's movies in the 60's, it's my favorite. Well, maybe tied with 'Hombre' (1967). Oh, wait - I forgot about 'Cool Hand Luke'. Wow, he did some good stuff at that time in his career, didn't he.

Dang, I missed the Ottawa thing. The last thing I remember seeing before the scrub was you asking me if I was referring to my temperament or someone else's (who apparently cannot be even hinted at). PM me the Ottawa thing - you've got me real curious now.