Blu-ray Review What’s So Bad About Feeling Good? Blu-ray Review (1 Viewer)

[Matt Hough]

George Seaton’s What’s So Bad About Feeling Good? is an entertaining satirical comic fantasy that has been unfairly neglected for many decades.



What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968)



Released: 31 Jul 1968
Rated: N/A
Runtime: 94 min




Director: George Seaton
Genre: Comedy



Cast: George Peppard, Mary Tyler Moore, Don Stroud
Writer(s): Bill Danch, Vincent McHugh, Tedd Pierce



Plot: A new infection that simply makes people feel happy is treated as a threat by the authorities while its "victims" work to spread it to others.



IMDB rating: 6.6
MetaScore: N/A





Disc Information



Studio: Universal
Distributed By: Kino Lorber
Video Resolution: 1080P/AVC



Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1...

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[Rob W]

Thelma Ritter ? No idea she was in this or it was her final appearance.

Looks like a purchase.

 

[Mark-P]

Looking forward to getting to see this again. I may be way off base, but I always thought the “virus” in the movie was meant to be metaphor for recreational drug use.

 

[Darby67]

This would be a blind buy for me, but your review, Matt, has moved the needle into the "must purchase" category. Your reviews are always enjoyable reads.

 

[roxy1927]

I remember when they used to show it on local stations in the NY area a lot. Fun movie. Maybe the only movie(at least that I know of) that Michael Bennett worked on.

 

[JamesSmith]

Looking forward to getting to see this again. I may be way off base, but I always thought the “virus” in the movie was meant to be metaphor for recreational drug use.

You know. . . I never thought about it like that. You may have ruined the film for me. And here I just thought it was a fun, romantic comedy. If you're right I may have been supporting a subversive movie of intense corrupting evil and decadence.

--jthree

 

[usrunnr]

Can't wait to see this. Just watched "Pick Up on South Street" in which Thelma Ritter steals the entire movie (and everyone's hearts).

 

[Matt Hough]

Can't wait to see this. Just watched "Pick Up on South Street" in which Thelma Ritter steals the entire movie (and everyone's hearts).

Yep, she's absolutely funny and ultimately heartbreaking in Pickup on South Street. The Oscar should have been hers for that. Her few moments in this film serve as a nice coda for her career.

 

[AlexNH]

Amazon.com just canceled my order so I'm going through Kino directly.

 

[haineshisway]

I love that everyone can't wait to see this and that it's a must purchase. It was a huge bomb when it came out and anyone who saw it back then, including me, pretty much hated it. I watched it recently and it was as bad as I remembered. Glad the color seems fine.

 

[MatthewA]

The casting is no coincidence; Mary Tyler Moore was in a flop musical version of Breakfast at Tiffany's, and George Peppard, of course, was in the movie.

 

[Sadsack]

Someone on another site mentioned a scene appeared to be edited down, compared to what he remembered. This might be corroborated by the fact that the Kino run time 94 minutes is 2 minutes shorter than old TV broadcast copies. I have one from Comedy Central, but don't have the Kino yet for a direct comparison. The scene might have been trimmed for cinema, and uncut for TV (as famously done for JAWS).
To add more confusion, back in March, an Australian PAL dvd was listed on Amazon with 94 min. running time.

 

[AlexNH]

Great movie, great transfer. The commentary is terrible, one of the worst I've heard.

 

[Vegas 1]

Ordered my copy from KL, I will order all KL discs from their site not sure what's going on with Amazon.
Anyway this was a blind buy for me enjoyed the film.