![]() LOVE Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and really want to see Woman's World, it's been on my watch list for a while now. Gene was never a GREAT actor, but that natural "smug self satisfaction" was perfect for the part of Don. UGH I love Jean Hagen in Singin in the Rain SO. I felt depleted at the end, full of disgust for all the world. Perhaps because when I saw the film I had determinedly remained as uninformed as possible it hit me especially hard. GGGRRRRRRRRRRĭisgust-Sophie’s Choice (1982)-I think everybody knows what the choice is by now and the film is a grindingly sad study of man’s inhumanity to man. The movie is flabby in the middle but to me has the most tension filled first and last 15 minutes of any one I can think of, so intense that in a particularly taut moment my cousin was so scared that the baby jumped and made her scream! For weeks after I couldn’t go to sleep at night until I had checked that all the closets were empty and the doors firmly shut.Īnger-Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998)-I don’t like to be cheated or deceived at any time, who does, but when watching a movie it makes my blood boil! This so called romantic comedy spends almost the entire movie leading the audience down the garden path that its two leads are headed to a great realization that they belong together only to have the rug pulled out from under them in the last few minutes and have the pair go off with characters we’ve never seen before!! A dirty cheat of a film, I was spitting nails when I left the theatre and to this day when I think about the film I feel my bile rising. ![]() She was heavily pregnant at the time and desperate to get out of the house and see a movie and this one was starting the soonest so in we walked, lambs to the slaughter as it were. I think it’s fair to say that it’s a film that has such a bleak outlook it’s too sad to make you cry.įear-When a Stranger Calls (1979)-My cousin and I went into this without a lot of foreknowledge of the plot. To know that it’s based on an event, marathon dances that were a real occurrence and traded on people’s desperation makes it even more tragic. This incredibly powerful study in nihilism is enough to drain any joy you might have felt for several days on end. Sadness-They Shoot Horses, Don’t They (1969)-Now I’m not a crier so I picked something that made me feel sorry for the whole stinking world. It has very little connection to reality but whether I’m happy or blue when I start by the time I’m done watching this delicious concoction I feel completely satisfied. Joy-Woman’s World (1954)-A big, lush, shiny soap opera set during a corporate power struggle this is full of talented actors wearing beautiful clothes in expensive sleek settings and trading clever occasionally humorous dialogue. ![]() Joy was the toughest for me to decide since like you I have many films I can turn too to brighten my mood but it boiled down to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes which in its bright glitz and terrific chemistry between its two leading ladies never fails to entertain and a film that is categorized as a drama but which I find endlessly uplifting in its sometimes fevered melodrama so that's the one I went with. This is a great idea so I came up with some as well: I'm sure I've mentioned my indifference to the first Toy Story so I haven't seen the others but I know they're beloved. I LOATHED all the LOTR movies, I couldn't imagine subjecting myself to The Hobbit ones. No wonder you haven't seen the whole thing.ĭell made an excellent case for fear with Requiem for a Dream but like you I felt mostly disgust when I watched and its something that I will never rewatch. I was older when I saw Poltergeist in the theatre and it was eerie and a great deal of fun but I can see how those ads would freak a kid out. So is Kelly but while there's no denying he was madly talented his smug self satisfaction has always been a bit of a turn off for me and kept him from being a favorite. For me Jean Hagen is the MVP in it but both Donald and Debbie are wonderful. While I don't love Singin' in the Rain nearly as much as you do I can certainly see its joyful qualities. Excellent choices of the ones that I've seen!
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