https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0NcH_XIzKY
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
Watched Micki & Maude for the first time in 35 years -- a Kael favorite (she compared Dudley Moore favorably with Cary Grant). Definitely doesn't all work, but it doesn't shrink from judging the wacky bigamist ("when it comes to value judgments, he's up there with Nixon and Custer"). Also has a great gag in the last reel, when Ann Reinking is beating up a disguised housebreaking Moore; he takes his beard off, and she starts hitting him harder.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
also Amy Irving's dad being a pro wrestler was sort of a genius touch
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
I thought Micki And Maude was hilarious back in the day, Victor/Victoria is a straight up masterpiece. How come he's not better respected i wonder? I mean.. Tiffany's, A Shot In The Dark.. guy deserves to be better remembered IMO.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
He's mostly remembered for the Sellers connection, esp Clouseau, and Tiffany's as well
then for being married to Julie, then maybe "10"
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 21:39 (four years ago) link
I can see why Operation Petticoat was his breakthrough. Grant and Curtis are ideally cast, and it plays funnier than M*A*SH now. A submarine is really a fine setting for a delirious wartime sex comedy...
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 September 2019 03:03 (four years ago) link
supporting cast features three future smash-sitcom second bananas -- Gavin MacLeod is very funny, Dick Sargent too; alas Marion Ross is the least visible of the nuses.
It was written by the same guys who did Pillow Talk that same year, but while nearly as 'dirty' it's a bit less smarmy.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 September 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
watched "10" over the weekend, probably first time in 20+ years
gen very good slapstick, and maybe best Julie Andrews perf in one of his films
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 January 2020 17:00 (four years ago) link
i rewatched a shot in the dark a while back and it is really very good, the wordless intro before the credits is particularly marvelous
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 6 January 2020 17:12 (four years ago) link
also the Dudley-Julie argument about his use of the noun "broad" would pass all but the most rigid language police standards (she wins)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 January 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
The Tamarind Seed is by no means a total dud, but Julie Andrews is so bloodless when she doesn't sing or clown, and despite the Hitchcock references, Blake was no Hitch. Kind of amazing to see a Maurice Binder title sequence in a non-Bond film too.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 February 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
Julie IS James Bond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR4-PADx-V0
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
The Tamarind Seed on Amazon Prime. I should stream it then, aye?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 11:11 (four years ago) link
it's OKKKKKKKK
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 11:23 (four years ago) link
I saw our KJB's extravagant praise a decade ago and figured I could play you two off each other.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 11:26 (four years ago) link
not takin' the bait
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 11:36 (four years ago) link
Great score. John Barry?
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 13:33 (four years ago) link
That's Life! is one of the worst films I've ever seen. Jack Lemmon should've been frogmarched to The Hague.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 July 2022 13:08 (one year ago) link
Experiment in Terror bangs so hard
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 14 July 2022 13:45 (one year ago) link
I was at my mother's house the other day and it's quite a clutter zone. One thing that stood out was a dvd of Darling Lili on a table. It's a garbage movie but she has an attachment to it because her fave little brother who drank himself to death two decades ago is an extra in it. I'm keen to find the scene he's in it to get a grab but even she doesn't know. She doesn't even own a dvd player.. lol
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 31 July 2023 22:35 (nine months ago) link