X-Men The Last Stand
Rewatching this one knowing what was going to happen reinforced my earlier ideas: rushed, too much action, character assassination, all the subtlety of a brick to the head. This has become the Hugh Jackman/Halle Berry show to the detriment of Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan and the rest of the cast. Sophomoric plotlines (Rogue's jealousy), cringe worthy one-liners (I'm the Juggernaut...bitch) and a movie predicated on the action...yuch.
The Fox and the Hound
One of the films from Disney's flop age, this one takes entirely too long to get up to speed because, by the time it does, the audience is either comatose from boredom or uninterested. A terribly short running time of 86 minutes doesn't help; nor do reused major plot elements from nearly every previous Disney flick. There is a message, as is standard for the course, but...damn, it takes too long to get there.
Another annual visit to a great Christmas movie. As with all movies I'm rewatching, I've already spoken about these movies and what makes them great, and preferring pithiness to verbosity, I have no intention of being bullied into having to repeat myself. The very fact that I am rewatching them is in essence the highest rating I can give a film - one worth rewatching!
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
well I'm putting those two in my netflix list, I've been looking for some new, good christmas movies. I would like to know what you like about them or what distinguishes them, since I don't remember what you wrote a year, two or five ago.
Another annual visit to a great Christmas movie. As with all movies I'm rewatching, I've already spoken about these movies and what makes them great, and preferring pithiness to verbosity, I have no intention of being bullied into having to repeat myself.
Aw, that's not very much in the Christmas spirit!
But I actually see what George means here. I like THE HOMECOMING myself and if I watch it again this year I probably wouldn't comment on it again. So I can relate, but like Adam has also said, I can't recall what (or if) George already gave his views on the film a year (or years) ago.
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The very fact that I am rewatching them is in essence the highest rating I can give a film - one worth rewatching!
There are films which don't seem worthy of rewatching after the first time, then later on with a second viewing they actually become favorites. There are so many factors I find which may inhibit a really fulfilling experience the first time out - the time of day, what mood you're in at the time, etc.
Which is why I'm thinking of trying IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE again this year.
The Homecoming is really the pilot for the Waltons, but is far better in my opinion than any episode of that show ever was. The kids are the same, but the adult actors were of a higher quality in this film. And while the story is certainly sentimental, not in a bad way. This isn't the first filming of a boyhood story by Earl Hamner, Jr. (the real John-Boy Walton), that would be Spencer's Mountain, an OK film, but not as good as this one IMO.
Christmas in Connecticut is a comedy about a Rachel Ray or Martha Stewart type (played by Barbara Stanwyck) who is a magazine writer living in a NYC apartment and writing about her imaginary Connecticut farm and family, and her imaginary culinary skills. It's not slapstick at all, but it's got that kind of plot (she has to host a Christmas dinner, producing a farm, a husband and a baby, all the while entertaining and falling in love with a sailor). The cast is top notch (including Stanwyck, Sidney Greenstreet, S.Z. Sakall). If you've ever wondered how good Stanwyck would look without that wig in Double Indemnity, this film, a year later, shows you.
Kwaidan
4 Japanese ghost stories. Hoichi the Earless is the best, but they're mostly fairly predictable.
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
I would like to know what you like about them or what distinguishes them, since I don't remember what you wrote a year, two or five ago.