thumbsucker, Ash, Rubicon and a List of my Favorite Movies (oldies edition)
Okay, so I decided not to go see any movies this past weekend-I had to try and talk Best Buy into exchanging my two-month old DVD player (they did it) and go to the grocery store and the comic book store...I was exhausted afterwards. So I watched my netflix movie Thumbsucker, with Lou Taylor Pucci and Vincent D'Onofrio (the reason I got it). It was really good-Lou is a teenager who still sucks his thumb to relieve his anxieties...and when he gets hypnotized into quitting, he takes all of those anxieties out on his parents (Vincent and Tilda Swinton) and his little brother. Everyone was good-the parents are well-meaning, but they don't understand him. He means well, but he isn't sure if his parents love him or each other (they do) and his little brother "has to be normal because everyone is busy dealing with all your shit". I recommend it for a good indie movie-I liked it much better than Little Miss Sunshine-these characters were much more real and not quirky characters designed for a movie.
And I finished the Ash series-and let me just say that the end ROCKED. I hated those stupid academics (and I still aren't thrilled with them) but without them the ending would not have been half as cool. And I went to Florida to see my parents (80 and sunny every day, but I was good and wore heavy sunscreen and sat under an umbrella most of the time). so, i finished Ash, I re-read Declare (still a great boo, the pleasure of Powers' words never fails me) and I started Stone, but by the time I got home, my friend Y had sent me the first season of Rome-but said I had to read Rubicon first. Luckily, I bought it when he first told me that last year, so I've put aside Stone for the pleasure of the company of a band of murderous Romans.
Okay, many people (three) have asked me for a list of movie recommendations-old and new, so (to quote Declare) here's a list:
The Philadelphia Story-flat out hilarious, with a beautiful Hepburn, a charming Grant and a diffident Jimmy Stewart. It doesn't get much better except for..
His Girl Friday, with a beautiful and sharp as a tack Rosalind Russell and someone who matches her barb for barb, Cary Grant. the words fly fast and furiously so you have to pay attention.
Bringing Up Baby-yes, it's funny and so is It Happened One Night, they may be a bit dated 9and this the only Clark Gable comedy I can take, I like him much better as a dramatic actor.
The Lady Eve-or anything directed by Preston Sturges (or Howard Hawkes, but that's a different kind of movie). Witty and sharp-you'd never think Stanwyck
could be this beautiful unless you've seen...
Double Idemnity-where she's beautiful and very evil. And let's not forget Casablanca or anything with Bogart-especially To have and Have Not, where's a charmer or
The Two Mrs Carrolls or the Treasure of the Sierra Madre, where he's no one you'd like as a friend.
Gone With The Wind is a topic close to my heart, so I don't have any perpective on it, but all the best picture nominees from 1939 are worth seeing (Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Stagecoach, Dark Victory (a noble Bette Davis, as opposed to the wonderfully bitchy Bette Davis in All About Eve), Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, Wuthering Heights...now your know why 1939 is called the best year for movies ever.
Okay, the Daily Show is starting and my dinner is almost ready, so join me next time when I move into the 40's and 50's and talk about my favorite musicals (Guys and Dolls and the Music Man).
And I finished the Ash series-and let me just say that the end ROCKED. I hated those stupid academics (and I still aren't thrilled with them) but without them the ending would not have been half as cool. And I went to Florida to see my parents (80 and sunny every day, but I was good and wore heavy sunscreen and sat under an umbrella most of the time). so, i finished Ash, I re-read Declare (still a great boo, the pleasure of Powers' words never fails me) and I started Stone, but by the time I got home, my friend Y had sent me the first season of Rome-but said I had to read Rubicon first. Luckily, I bought it when he first told me that last year, so I've put aside Stone for the pleasure of the company of a band of murderous Romans.
Okay, many people (three) have asked me for a list of movie recommendations-old and new, so (to quote Declare) here's a list:
The Philadelphia Story-flat out hilarious, with a beautiful Hepburn, a charming Grant and a diffident Jimmy Stewart. It doesn't get much better except for..
His Girl Friday, with a beautiful and sharp as a tack Rosalind Russell and someone who matches her barb for barb, Cary Grant. the words fly fast and furiously so you have to pay attention.
Bringing Up Baby-yes, it's funny and so is It Happened One Night, they may be a bit dated 9and this the only Clark Gable comedy I can take, I like him much better as a dramatic actor.
The Lady Eve-or anything directed by Preston Sturges (or Howard Hawkes, but that's a different kind of movie). Witty and sharp-you'd never think Stanwyck
could be this beautiful unless you've seen...
Double Idemnity-where she's beautiful and very evil. And let's not forget Casablanca or anything with Bogart-especially To have and Have Not, where's a charmer or
The Two Mrs Carrolls or the Treasure of the Sierra Madre, where he's no one you'd like as a friend.
Gone With The Wind is a topic close to my heart, so I don't have any perpective on it, but all the best picture nominees from 1939 are worth seeing (Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Stagecoach, Dark Victory (a noble Bette Davis, as opposed to the wonderfully bitchy Bette Davis in All About Eve), Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, Wuthering Heights...now your know why 1939 is called the best year for movies ever.
Okay, the Daily Show is starting and my dinner is almost ready, so join me next time when I move into the 40's and 50's and talk about my favorite musicals (Guys and Dolls and the Music Man).
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