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Movies Watched -- Julia (1977)
116 minute running time so 16 minutes too long ... I liked this one ... it's a thriller of sorts ... I make fun of Hanoi Jane, but she was truly beautiful and a very talented actress, and may have been at her peak here at age 40 ... young Meryl Streep makes an appearance ... I'm surprised I hadn't heard of this movie, I guess Fred Zinnemann made several good movies (High Noon, of course) and this was definitely one of them. This is a green-go. John Farr says this is a personal favorite.
Movies Watched -- Sea of Love (1989)
113 minute running time so 13 minutes too long … starring NYC and its iconic coffee cup … 1989 pre-cellphone and internet so society not yet destroyed … Al Pacino as mid-life crisis cop … interesting how closely he re-played this role in Heat (1995) and they even re-used the who? who? what are you, an owl? bit of dialogue in the latter movie … Ellen Barkin a strange femme fatale with her weirdly crooked smile, though she does have great tits … John Goodman (6’2”) fat even as a young man … father from Six Feet Under was in a lot of movies in the late 80s, but I never learned his name (Richard Jenkins, I’ll never remember that) … the story wasn’t terrible, I liked the twist, but I don’t think I’d recommend this, though John Farr does.
I believe in animal attraction.
Movies Watched -- Poor Things (2023)
141 minute running time so 41 minutes too long. I’ve seen a lot of Lanthimos movies and liked them all, he’s my kind of nut, but I can’t imagine the general public can watch these. He clearly does some serious drugs and comes up with some wacky ideas, but he’s very funny … a lot of scenes in Poor Things made me laugh out loud … I missed maybe 20% of the dialogue because I couldn’t hear it or it was unclear; I will have to re-watch with subtitles once it comes out on disc (I saw it in the theater). Emma Stone is a good sport and has guts to take on a role like this (lots of screwing).
Bad whore
Movies Watched -- The Rapture (1991)
100 minute running time so the perfect length … W.D. By (written and directed by the same person, i.e., somebody’s baby) … Mimi Rogers has amazing, huge tits, just heavenly … she plays the world’s sexiest phone operator by day who is a swinger by night … meets long-haired David Duchovny, sexiest man alive with his shirt off … soft-core porn in the beginning turns into heavy, dark movie about religion and the Rapture (the Second Coming) … how weird can a movie be?!? What in God’s name did the public make of this movie back in 1991? Just bizarre… Yellow rating alone for Mimi Rogers’ amazing bones and breasts… this was a John Farr reco. I can’t imagine anyone ever gave Tolkin money to make another movie after this one. He’s like a horny sex fiend who is also interested in deep questions and inexplicably tries to combine the two.
[Knock, knock] You have to believe. If you don't, you go to Hell.
Movies Watched -- The Parallax View (1974)
102 minute running time so the perfect length… fed into the conspiracy theories that came out of the tumultuous 1960s, political assassination, shadow government, CIA stuff, distrust of the Warren Commission report, the investigative reporter as hero (Watergate era), etc. … Warren Beatty plays Jim Morrison, sexiest man alive with the movie contracts to prove it, bra-less Paula Prentiss and her fabulous breasts in white sweater … shocking ending … this movie should be a double feature with The Conversation (also from 1974). There are some nice touches in this movie such as the damn spill gates flood, the redneck sheriff, and the final scene with runaway golf cart on the convention floor. I guess it’s a green-go, though this was a re-watch for me so I sort of sped through it. It’s a John Farr reco too.
Jealous ex-lover face … my favorite scene
Movies Watched -- Runaway Train (1985)
112 minute running time so 12 minutes too long … this was a weird one, a combination prison break / existential drama / runaway train action movie starring John Voight and his goofy Hispanic accent … the real reason I saw this (other than it being a John Farr recommendation) was it had Rebecca De Mornay in it, and I loved her in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle… mid-1980s sexism still pretty strong, a lot of cussing in this movie. Yellow rating at best.
The only person on the whole train is a woman.
Movies Watched -- Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
130 minute running time so 30 minutes minutes too long… young Al Pacino… I forgot how funny this movie is, they’re all such nitwits, both cops and robbers. I also totally forgot about the sex change angle, but of course it’s a tragedy in the end. This is a John Farr recommendation and I’d recommend it too if it were 30 minutes shorter.
He doesn't have plan. It's all a whim.
Movies Watched -- It Could Happen To You (1994)
101 minute running time so a perfect length … movies from the early 90s are the end of an era, right before cell phones and the internet destroyed everything … this is really cute, Nic Coppola playing a doofus (again) and skinny-assed Bridget Fonda (nepo babies both) along with Rosie Perez, who was annoyingly fun, not unlike the role Luis Guzmán played in Out of Sight … the undertaker from Six Feet Under, also co-starring NYC and the old coffee cups, I don’t know who else I recognized… this was not from John Farr, but from the same person who recommended The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, which I also really liked. I tried to send “Elizabeth Ervin” an email and a tweet in thanks, but received no response.
This is feel-good stuff, wholesome fun for the whole family, green-go, recommended. No swearing, no tattoos, no cell phones, plus goofy, often slightly racist humor is a win!
You want a sick day, get sick.
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High Polish Brass, two-sided Deep Carve $97. Like it, bought it.
