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This more than makes me sad. It makes me livid and angry. It's a horrible, sad day in Hollywood history when the name of a motion picture pioneer around for over 100 years is wiped from all memory.

Three of these would most likely not even have been seen by most Academy members.....

Not that any of this relates to Madea or Cats, but if I was to state the worst movies i ever saw, I would pick the following 10. Please note that for the most part I try to avoid films I think I'll dislike, but Baby Geniuses (seen when i was super young and naive) was so bad I still remember the stench 20 years on. August Rush Baby Geniuses Bless the Beasts and Children Crash (2005) [Best Picture or not, I hated it] Desire Under the Elms Easy A The Florida Project In Like Flint Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous Two Loves

First reaction to the ghastly prospect of a zombie Madea haranguing her soon to be victims with bad jokes before moving in for the kill.....

Exactly. At 4 years old, everyone is that way. They were just 36 shy of a full load....

10, plus an animated film and a cameo in another. I see that the chararcter, supposedly sworn off on the big screen is appearing in a final stage play called Madea's Farewell. If this little farewell tour continues for much longer, it is going to take up more time than Cher's famously endless farewell tour.

Rambo and Madea, coming soon to empty theatres everywhere! Roger Ebert's famous quote about Madea....

Bad theatre marquees: the sequel. Annie, underneath that red wig, was full of evil.... More detail than I needed to know.... I'll still keep my Garlic close by. Sarcasm. Heavy on the movie references huh. i have no words for how bad this one is. Bad typo. Final line seems accurate on the ears That attic is busy..... the perils of poster arrangement..... X-rated robots?

Cats had 10 mentions, Rambo and Madea had 8. Godzilla had 6.

i guess. Doesn't seem like a very high bar, when the most acclaimed version of the story has a Metacritc score of 46, but there you have it. (Rex's has a 34, the new Robert Downey Jr version has a 28).

Universal has pulled off the impossible. Fresh from the Cats debacle, they pick themselves up, go about their way, and enter 2020 with their first release of the new decade, Dolittle, and it has a lower critical score than Cats! (and for the record, an even lower critical score than the lambasted 1967 Rex Harrison version of the same story)

They have been zapped for now.....

I'm still reminded by that scene in 2004's The Aviator where Howard Hughes appears before the Production Code office regarding Russell's buxomness in The Outlaw by showing them enlarged pictured of low cut numbers on actresses in films passed without a hitch. I have a feeling that if the actresses in question were still alive when the movie was made, they would not have been happy campers.

Boys night Out also shows the rarely seen, but quite enchanting comic chops of Kim Novak. She really shines in it.

Also little sidenote about two of the premieres: Report to the Commissioner was the film debut for Richard Gere. Texasville, though hardly a critical or financial success, was the sequel to The Last Picture Show with most of the original cast returning. Quiet musing: sequels to movies based on Larry McMurtry books don't seem to go over well. The Evening Star, critically mauled in late 1996 (and despite that, Marion Ross was [deservedly] up for a Golden Globe for it), was the sequel to Terms of Endearment.

I know The French line was in 3d, that i know, because many were outraged at that. I'm not certain on Underwater, and it is indeed on the schedule, so HD print ahoy!

Not certain, but maybe likely judging from the blu-ray cover , which seems to really emphasize that certain something about Jane......

Premieres: Fingers (1978) Report to the Commissioner (1975) Cover me Babe (1978) Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972) Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972) Cry of the City (1948) Black Mama White Mama (1972) Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972) Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972) The man Who Never Was (1956) Saint Jack (1979) Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the land of Demons (1973) Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974) Texasville (1990) Fireworks (1997) youth of the Beast (1963) Foxfire (1955) Across 110th Street (1972)

I wonder if Jane Russell was picked just so they could show off the new HD print of Underwater......

OK, lets see.... will take a few days. Feb. 1 Lawrence Oliver (Entertainer to Wuthering Heights) Flora Robson (heights to Caesar and Cleopatra) Leo Genn (Caesar to Quo Vadis) Peter Ustinov (Vadis to Billy Budd) Terrence Stamp (Budd to Far from the Madding Crowd) Julie Christie (Crowd to Doctor Zhivago) Omar Sharif (Zhivago to Funny Girl) Barbra Streisand (Funny to Way We Were) Robert Redford (Way to The Candidate) Feb 2 Melvyn Douglas (Candidate to Ninotchka)

The expanded nominations might have produced a directing nod for Gerwig (who was likely in 7th place), but if it was a field of 10, she would have been the only female nominee. Likewise, even if the acting categories were expanded to 10 this year, you'd likely only see 4 additional Black acting nominees (if that). Eddie Murphy in Dolomite is My name, Alfre Woodard in Clemency, Lupita nyongo in Us, and Jaime Foxx in Just Mercy. But two of those films (Clemency and Just Mercy, both of which came out late in December) were widely reported as not being seen by many Academy members because of the deadline for voting as they were not considered important enough to take the time to view. I kind of the dread the controversies coming with the nods every year.

I think we all knew that Budapest would be coming for a long time (since Criterion handles all of Anderson's films), but its still nice to see as its one of the best modern films.

Also the last real hurrah for Albert Finney, who's explosively good in it.

Running on Empty was a beautiful film from him in the 80s, and I'm also partial to the wistful Garbo talks and the somewhat genre-mislabled The morning After as well, but Family Business, Q & A, and A Stranger Among Us? That's three films in a row that kept getting worse with every successive one. I caught up with his last, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead in December, and that's a pretty good crime story as Greek tragedy, if you can get past that horrific opening sex scene between Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Marisa Tomei.

Had no idea that Davies was a write-in candidate for the lovely Peg O' My Heart. She was so good in that film.