07-20-2005, 04:35 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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Local Date: 09-07-2008
Posts: 14,298
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| When I picked it up I switched to "More" directors just to differentiate mine from his. |
BUSTER KEATON
Seen: 13
Like: 1
Own: 11*
Rank order:
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
The Boat (1921)
Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
The General (1927)
Our Hospitality (1923)
The Navigator (1924)
Convict 13 (1920)
Cops (1922)
The Playhouse (1921)
The Love Nest (1923)
Daydreams (1922)
Battling Butler (1926)
* - considering my no "blind buy" policy, it may seem strange that I own 10 Buster Keaton films that I don't like (at least not enough to ever watch again). Well, I bought these (there's 3 or more on each dvd) a long time ago, when I would have sworn that I would have liked at least one of them. Finding out otherwise, is part of why I adopted a strict no blind buy policy.
I like Keaton in the abstract, and admire his stunt work tremendously, but I must say that while I'm awed at his films, they don't make me laugh (with the exception of the Damfino joke in The Boat). I do like him in 3 films he appeared in later (In the Good Old Summertime, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum), but as far as silent comedies, Chaplin is far better as a director/writer, although Keaton gets the nod for stuntman (at which Chaplin was no slouch).
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock
"My great humility is just one of the many reasons that I am vastly superior to everyone else." - Ramrod Clerk
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