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Jack Me'hoffer February 16, 2013 at 09:25 pm
I agree those dopey retards should all see that flick, and also forced fed birth control.
Tim Gallagher February 19, 2013 at 05:32 pm
I really enjoyed Dead Poet's Society. It was extremely well acted and captured the Prep world pretty…Read More well in my opinion. I believe that some teachers can reach students while some parents are more concerned with their own image than their children's strengths or goals. As far as Braveheart, I watched it once and thought it was decent. Most individuals will not look at this film in historical context but will just want to be entertained by the action and bravado. I usually appreciate Robert's point of view (whether or not I agree) but did not care for this. His depiction of Sideshow clearly took over this piece. In my opinion, the point that we may determine whether we will like or dislike a film based on the source of the recommendation could have been made without getting into the paragraphs of detail about a guy that he truly despised. This is too much personal information. Robert's decision to resort to stereotypes based on one's birthplace and the neighborhood and religious affiliation of that area seemed to be that of a very angry individual.
Linda Barnes February 19, 2013 at 07:00 pm
I live in Burbank and am from Ocean City. Wonder if she lives close by.
Dan Leo February 18, 2013 at 07:41 am
It's the last line of Brett's starring vehicle, The Sun Also Rises.
Ned Bulmash February 8, 2013 at 09:31 am
Again, a well written blog.
I think Baxter is one of the most strangest movies I had ever heard of.…Read More
Maybe because every "dog" film I have known is valiant and good, not like Baxter.
And the ugliness of Baxter. ! have seen some pit bulls-like Petey in the "Our Gang_
comedies and others. Baxter was cast for ugliness probably for his malevolent thougts..
I will watch it now in its entirety.
Kelli February 3, 2013 at 03:20 pm
My experiance growing up with Sally Starr was much like apmost every other child of our era, I…Read More watched her on television. She had a warm smile and a enthusiastic outlook that drew me to her. But the one thing that stands out the best in my mind is the total crush my grandfather had on her. He use to tease my grandmother about it for years. And it became the family chuckle around the dinner table.
On my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary, my grandfather had been seriously ill but was up for a family party. His illness had left him sad and defeated, then the telephone rang. It was Sally Starr, my aunt had written her and asked her to call. He lit up like a kid at Christmas and spoke to her for about ten minutes. They were the most precious ten minutes in the world. We lost him a few short months later, but she gave him something none of us could.
I thank her for that and will always remember her fondly.
Tim Dixon February 3, 2013 at 09:44 pm
Captain Noah and his Magical Ark..the person to introduce me to the music of Woody Guthrie! He also…Read More had a monster who ate trash! Every day I always remembered to "feed Momwop!" Then there were friends of ours who got their big break on the Chief Halftown Show! "ees da sa sussaway" Trible members!!
Ned Bulmash February 3, 2013 at 05:52 pm
This essay is excellently written.
I have to view Pyscho again.
All I can remember is when Marion…Read More and Norman have a discussion while she is eating her meal and of course, the shower scene.
Oh, and the fantastic music score. If I see it again maybe I see the comedy.
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Jack Taylor January 26, 2013 at 03:02 pm
One person i finally got to see, after years and years of being a wrestling fan was superfly. It was…Read More a hot day in Atlantic City..He had just got done wrestling on the beach..He was driving away in a golf cart about 50 yards away, back to me.So I yelled top of my lungs...JIMMYYY..and he turned around an found the voice, stood on the golf cart an did his high flying pose..Thanks jimmy that was priceless..One of your many fans..Jack(captain)Taylor.
Ned Bulmash January 29, 2013 at 10:55 pm
I read the blog twice and to be frank I don't understand the comedic elements.
Robert Castle January 30, 2013 at 04:13 am
Hitchcock suggested the comedic element. I take him at his word. I look at the film. We don't get…Read More past the credits and he's messing around with the title -- what I call the psychotic break -- and does the same thing with his name. He's drawing our attention to something.
I am making another stab at the "comedy" element in the next article. Possibly, the comedy lies in the way people perceive themselves. Mrs. Bates, via Norman, is hung up about not swatting a fly. Her paranoia and worries at the end have an absurdity or ridiculousness to them.
All I'm showing is that Psycho is a very complex film and can be examined from many perspectives. Psycho as comedy is by no means the final frontier of the film.
Ned Bulmash January 18, 2013 at 05:02 pm
I don't know anything about Peter Greenaway. I will see if the Camden County Library has DVDs of his…Read More films.
L. Eaves March 24, 2013 at 09:30 pm
I have rarely experienced a more thoroughly comedic filmmaker in all my years than Peter Greenaway,…Read More myself. This is a man who recreates the tempest in Shakespeare's The Tempest with a child urinating from a swing! And where the films are not comic, they are often tragicomic or satirical, two other modes which I would attribute to comic expression. A Zed and Two Noughts is hilarious, Drowning By Numbers is essentially a giant non-sequitur full of wordplay and visual puns, and 8½ Women is essentially a continuation on this thread. To flip your comment on its head: "most of his films lack levity or lightness (an affliction many difficult directors suffer)", I think many difficult directors' films are seen as lacking levity due to the viewer not picking up on the humor because it's not telegraphed, or it is melded within rather than detracting from the drama/tragedy/etc. The list of films I find full of levity that others find absolutely bereft of it is long, and I continually look for more films that will fit in that vein, because they're often the subtlest and most clever.
Robert Castle March 24, 2013 at 10:24 pm
I agree with you wholeheartedly. You seem to be more tuned into Greenaway than I am. Perhaps I…Read More find The Falls a comic tour de force, the humor/comedy of his other films doesn't strike me as hard. Yet, I'm a big fan of his. The two films on Rembrandt are excellent (his sardonic humor comes through on his documentary dealing with Rembrandt's Nightwatch). Glad to see a Greenaway fan in this area of the world.
Kathleen Maher January 13, 2013 at 01:05 am
By now I wonder if Theseus or Daedalus (some ancient Greek like that) could find that bathroom past…Read More the musician's break room, even with an empty bladder.
Dan Leo January 13, 2013 at 10:04 am
Odysseus finding his way home was nothing compared to Arnold trying to make it to a men's room.
Matt Skoufalos (Editor) January 4, 2013 at 01:52 am
bayboat, have you checked out the blog entry that was the precursor to this? If you're charitable…Read More towards the idea, here's where Bob lays out his concept:
http://collingswood.patch.com/blog_posts/the-worst-movies-i-never-saw-the-concept
Tim Gallagher January 4, 2013 at 03:19 pm
Based on the thesis Robert proposed, I believe that bayboat has every right to state his opinion of…Read More Robert. At first glance, I found the title of Robert's latest blog to be purposely contentious. After reading the thesis, I believe that he feels there are some films for which little or no exposure would be ideal. He has the right to say so. bayboat apparently feels from the sampling of Robert's works that he is a grump. Without really knowing him (my perception), he has formed an opinion based on limited information. The blog and bayboat's opinion of Robert both happen to be negative. I happen to like many of Robert's blogs and have no idea what he is really like. I consider my self reasonably intelligent. I enjoyed both films for varying reasons. Forest Gump was a proposperous yet vulnerable character who was carried by a fantastic sound track and a video anthology of an individual view of the times. I felt good after it was over but did not let it insult my intelligence or alter my views of those times. I thought that A Beautiful MInd was well acted while offering a somewhat sensationalized view of Schizophrenia. I left thinking that I was sure John Nash was far more complex than could possible be portrayed in a film but I enjoyed the entertainment of the vehicle. Lastly, while I agree that this format is best served by using real names, there are many individuals who do not feel comfortable doing so for varying reasons. We just have to accept that people are different.
Richard H is smarter then Mini Minster January 7, 2013 at 05:40 am
I didn't read this story but the writer is an idiot!!!
I agree with you bayboat.
Ned Bulmash December 26, 2012 at 12:26 pm
I love movies but I never saw the relationships in film presented by Mr. Castle i.e. the birds in…Read More Psycho and The Birds. Does Hitchcock really think out the development of movies with similar motifs like this?
I really have study and watch some films more.
The Truman Show was unsettling to me . The way a human whole "being" was snatched away for ratings. I did see it all from beginning to end but I felt quesy afterwards. I think reality show viewers have to get a life and get off the "tube!"
Ned Bulmash December 22, 2012 at 07:54 pm
I think of the Monolith as a composite of curiosity and intelligence.
Humankind has to disable…Read More HAL-the supercomputer-because this invention is theatening our own lives.
Sean Gallagher December 23, 2012 at 01:45 am
I think the monolith is alien in nature and is designed to spark mankind's evolution. One of my…Read More favorite movies of all time. There are so many different intrepretations, which is great. The only filmmaker today who comes close to Stanley Kubrick's ambiguity is Paul Thomas Anderson.
Mike Gerety May 12, 2013 at 02:38 am
The film stands the test of time as the most awesome movie of all time!
Shirley December 17, 2012 at 06:29 pm
We used to make mix tapes with a reel-to-reel tape recorder, although they weren't always romantic…Read More songs to sent to the latest teen crush. Often we made mix tapes of favorite songs or just bits of songs - I think that's called sampling these days - to make something amusing. Can't you make a mix CD?
Jamie Blanchard December 17, 2012 at 09:07 pm
You can but for the sake of not writing too much I kept the story shorter. Mix cd's are fine but to…Read More me it's a drag and drop process so some of the art/romance was lost. To me sitting on your living room floor with a book of cd's open waiting for to press stop and record was always some painfully sweet gesture. Reel-to-reel is pretty neat, did you hang onto it? I imagine the memories alone is worth keeping it for.
Ned Bulmash December 12, 2012 at 07:10 pm
I think Andy Griffith was a very talented actor.
My grandmother loved Lawrence Welk and when I…Read More sometimes watched it with her
and remember the Geritol sign behind the band. Geritol "the solution to tired blood."
What is tired blood anyway?
Terri Ashman Wallowitch December 11, 2012 at 03:49 pm
Thank you so much for your coverage of our band this season. You've captured some wonderful moments…Read More & have preserved some great memories!
Robert Castle December 8, 2012 at 08:10 pm
What does "just another opinion" or "right to an opinion" mean? If one doesn't…Read More want to engage the opinion being made, the better option is silence. I know I have an opinion or interpretation. I make it because I think it's valid. I gave me reasons and examples. I checked the "blink" site that Matt mentioned. It's more about instant cognition. Gladwell's describing a mental process that, perhaps, we take for granted or are oblivious to. My "worst movies" concept is more about the way we construct our judgments. As the follow up to it will show, I'm less interested in being "correct" about how good the movie is than what exactly am I responding badly to when, say, I see a trailer for a movie or hear someone comment on it.
Matt Skoufalos (Editor) December 9, 2012 at 01:31 am
Somewhere in the strain of these arguments is this guy, Bob, who applies Gladwell's…Read More "thin-slicing" to the title credits of a movie as his quick-judgment criteria. An interesting example of it, provided within, is the title sequence from Se7en:
https://modestmovie.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/thin-slicing-and-good-movies/
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