meme, movies
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the_revOkay. Maybe I want to play too. I did this before, a long time ago, and had fun, so. Stolen from everyone.
Ask me my fannish Top Five [Whatevers]. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all ina new comments to this post.
Now, of course, old movies!
Notorious (1946). Hitchcock, Cary Grant, and Ingrid Bergman. Phew! Is it warm in here or is it just the hottest makeout scene ever?
Also, nailbitingly awesome! It's a Cary I've never seen before. Stern and straight-faced and not silly at all, even once. And the kind of love story I enjoy best! The angsty ones! In which everyone loves each other but are too stupid/proud/stubborn/whatever to accept it, to say it, to realize their love is returned! I love Ingrid Bergman more with every film of hers that I see. I'm eager to see Casablanca now. Anyway, this one needs to be owned and viewed many times!
The Innocents (1961). Based on The Turn of the Screw. Actually watched this a week or two ago and forgot about it! I generally enjoy Deborah Kerr and she was good in this, but I'd like to see her play someone not nice. Or not *so* nice at least. The movie itself was effectively creepy, but confusing at the end. I've read that the book is also ambiguous at the end.
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). I loved the ending, and many other scenes, but some of it was just a little boring. I'm sorry. I'm sure this means I fail at classics, but I don't enjoy the party lifestyle now and I apparently wouldn't have enjoyed it then. Buddy Ebsen was (a little heartbreakingly) fun!
She Done Him Wrong (1933). Another way in which I fail at classics: I don't like Mae West. I watched this in spite of my better judgement, mostly because the Captain was late coming home and I was bored waiting, and it's only sixty minutes. And, of course, Cary Grant. Mae is too conceited for me to like her. She's funny sometimes, but the constant mention of how beautiful and wonderful she is, and clever and kind... and then she call's her maidservant "eight ball".... I skipped through to the Cary parts, making a sixty minute movie something like twenty.
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (1969). This one's been on my netflix queue since I had an account, and my mental queue for as long as I can remember. I'd seen scenes but never the whole film, and of course, I already knew how it ended. I loved it. How could I not? The buddy western to beat all buddy westerns! Cute guys, horses and guns! And humor. And, as always, Robert Redford is one hot bastard.
Amused to find that after watching it last night (from Netflix), AMC aired it this morning.
Ask me my fannish Top Five [Whatevers]. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in
Now, of course, old movies!
Notorious (1946). Hitchcock, Cary Grant, and Ingrid Bergman. Phew! Is it warm in here or is it just the hottest makeout scene ever?
Also, nailbitingly awesome! It's a Cary I've never seen before. Stern and straight-faced and not silly at all, even once. And the kind of love story I enjoy best! The angsty ones! In which everyone loves each other but are too stupid/proud/stubborn/whatever to accept it, to say it, to realize their love is returned! I love Ingrid Bergman more with every film of hers that I see. I'm eager to see Casablanca now. Anyway, this one needs to be owned and viewed many times!
The Innocents (1961). Based on The Turn of the Screw. Actually watched this a week or two ago and forgot about it! I generally enjoy Deborah Kerr and she was good in this, but I'd like to see her play someone not nice. Or not *so* nice at least. The movie itself was effectively creepy, but confusing at the end. I've read that the book is also ambiguous at the end.
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). I loved the ending, and many other scenes, but some of it was just a little boring. I'm sorry. I'm sure this means I fail at classics, but I don't enjoy the party lifestyle now and I apparently wouldn't have enjoyed it then. Buddy Ebsen was (a little heartbreakingly) fun!
She Done Him Wrong (1933). Another way in which I fail at classics: I don't like Mae West. I watched this in spite of my better judgement, mostly because the Captain was late coming home and I was bored waiting, and it's only sixty minutes. And, of course, Cary Grant. Mae is too conceited for me to like her. She's funny sometimes, but the constant mention of how beautiful and wonderful she is, and clever and kind... and then she call's her maidservant "eight ball".... I skipped through to the Cary parts, making a sixty minute movie something like twenty.
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (1969). This one's been on my netflix queue since I had an account, and my mental queue for as long as I can remember. I'd seen scenes but never the whole film, and of course, I already knew how it ended. I loved it. How could I not? The buddy western to beat all buddy westerns! Cute guys, horses and guns! And humor. And, as always, Robert Redford is one hot bastard.
Amused to find that after watching it last night (from Netflix), AMC aired it this morning.
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Date: 2009-08-10 07:58 pm (UTC)I wondered about that "handsome" remark. Like, really?
And I remember thinking wtf? at the janitor line! It was so random. I think I laughed for that reason. I still don't think I get it! Maybe next time, in context. :)