Random Thoughts: Movie Edition

I was watching an old movie with a girlfriend but she talked through most of it, asking, “Why did he do that?” and “What did she say?” and “Why did she say that?”. I finally lost my temper and yelled, “It’s because he’s got the mummified corpse of his mother on a chair in his attic!!!”. I felt bad that I lost my temper but, what was worse was the movie turned out to be Miracle on 34^th Street…

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It might be the pessimism talking but I strongly suspect Marlon Brando isn’t coming back.

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If you compared and contrasted every single movie that Frank Capra directed, you’d really be in need of a hobby… any hobby… the first hobby to come along…

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I asked my friend, Franklin, who he thought the most important character was in the first Godfather movie and his answer was priceless. He said, “I’m performing open heart surgery. Get the HELL out of my operating room!”

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When you compare every actor who’s played Batman, you have to take into account all facets of the man and character. I find that they are all equally good but Adam West wins out because he could also be used as a bottle opener.

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I saw the movie Cat People the other day and I was disappointed to see that it wasn’t about socially maladjusted shut-ins.

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There were a lot of nudist camp movies made in the 1950’s and 1960’s covering a wide variety of topics and themes including serial killers, killer gorillas and space travel in the not-too-distant future; but, one subject remains unaddressed: Porcupine wrestling…

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Casablanca was based on the play Everyone Goes to Rick’s. The Dirty Dozen was inspired by the real-life airborne division, The Filthy Thirteen; and, the horror classic It was based on the short story, Jimmy, the Sewer Clown with Pointed Teeth…

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Unlike other actresses, Jennifer Garner can only reproduce by firing out a cloud of spores into a mob of A-List actors.

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Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai is considered a masterpiece by film scholars the world over. In its three-plus hour run time, it addresses birth and death and starvation and plenty and gain and loss… every aspect of the human condition. I considered it one of my top five movies… until last year when I felt compelled to replace it with Sonic the Hedgehog: Part 2…