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I just feel bad for all the people who lost their jobs to Big Mannequin.

Zonkers? Got it.

I mean the movie tried a bit to play with the idea that his innocence is questionable but ultimately I think it puts too much into the innocent side to really leave it a question for the viewer to determine. Again, I think the novella keeps this a bit more ambiguous. Andy helps Tommy turn his life around and when he finally does he magically remembers this story that can prove Andy's innocence. The timing is questionable enough but in the novella the warden doesn't have him murdered rather transfers him to another prison. He may be innocent of the murder of his wife but was certainly guilty of fraud. Also he felt guilt for the murder because he felt his actions pushed her away and ultimately lead to her death. Anyway, to me the issue of Andy's innocence or not doesn't effect the movie too much because I always viewed it as Red's story. Yes, it literally is his story as he's telling us what happened but it is more than that. While Andy does get his redemption from his guilt, it's more about how his actions and his way of thinking changed Red and the prison in general. It's not a story of one man's personal redemption but rather how his actions gave hope to others and through that many got their chance as well. He's the catalyses for change and we see that in the actions of others and ultimately through Red. To compare briefly to one of my all time favourite films and a far better prison movie, Cool Hand Luke. Luke's actions on the surface seem very self serving, but what he is doing is not for him but it's for the other inmates and gives them hope. Andy to the a lesser degree is that in Shawshank and that change he brings is not hindered or hurt by his guilt or innocence. While I agree it would make his character more complex, but making him guilty I think would go against the not so subtle "Andy suffered for their sins" religious allegory of the film.

It was pretty good, but I’m looking forward to the Arbor Day Rodeo... We watched:

I should have expanded on the "abrupt" comment. didn't see any signs he was falling in love at all throughout the entire movie. I admit I didn't care for any of the characters but Hannah. They all seemed like cads , impressing their own agendas on everyone else. An IMDB trivia note mentions how every time Lawford called Nadine he gave a different number. In a different context that may seem charming but here it's just odd.

This movie is a bit My Fair Lady, isn't it?

Fred Astaire as a hobo reminded me of Eliza Doolittle's dad in My Fair Lady.

my favorite part is the "content count" tally instead of a "post count."

When I started watching I couldn't get over the ladies in the hat shop. I get that the dresses kept the focus on the hats and not the ladies. But did they have to dress like that to come to work or change into those dresses whenever someone wanted to see a hat? That was also an awful large number of ladies to keep around just to model hats. Lastly, wasn't it Easter Sunday when the movie opened and the shop still had that many hats available to sell? Maybe they weren't such great hats (as confirmed by Judy Garland later in the movie :-D)

Another nitpick, I don't like the alternating white/gray background between forum names on the listing. Makes it hard to read.

Yes!!!! He seems uninterested in Nadine at first because of Don's feelings for her, but then after talking to Don in the bar goes back to her. Then he tries to pretend he's not going to be rich in case that's why she was into him, and she's unfazed. Then later on it seems as if they are dating, or at that point was Nadine dating Ziegfried? Then it's played up as if he's going to break Don and Hannah up so he can be with Hannah. Yet he was still being supportive. It was confusing and so was his accent but I loved his fashion.

Just to start off here, but am I the only one who thinks Peter Lawford's accent has always sounded fake? Also, what was the point of his character? You think he's going to provide some kind of conflict and then...nothing. Even at the end when he calls Nadine and tells her to "bring all the dogs" I was like, "Uh-oh, what do those two have planned?" But, no. He was just settling, I guess...

thinking about doing a post later, what kind of post would you guys like to see?

This is the first Ann Miller performance I have seen. Now I understand her being referenced in Rocky Horror Picture Show shout-outs. When Columbia is doing her tap dance someone shouts out "Eat your heart out, Ann Miller!".

Up, in my opinion, is better than Wall-E. Nemo is great but I feel like Up is an AFI kinda movie with the way you sob in the first 10 minutes. Also I wonder if they're trying to get you to honestly watch all of the films instead of just picking the best in each franchise with Fellowship and Star Wars. If they tell you to watch only the best ones then someone who had never seen them before will be dropped in the middle of the stories, but if they tell you the first ones then you get into the best ones once you continue.

Agree completely. I wasn't sure about Astaire and Nadine but definitely with Hannah and Lawford. I really did think there was a My Fair Lady/Pygmalion thing going on but that was because of the casting of Astaire. He seemed so much older than everyone else, even Ann Miller.

Not only that, but did you feel like Astaire's turn around on Hannah was...abrupt? He was annoyed with her for so long. Then he disappears for a couple of days and he comes back and he's like, "No, I wasn't mad. I was apparently falling in love with you." Honestly, I thought the movie was going for "these people all love the wrong person" thing. I thought Hannah and Lawford were going to end up together and Astaire and Nadine. I was really, really wrong....

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YES!!!! What was with that guy? I'll be honest, I was having a myriad of playback issues, so I was afraid I might have missed something, too. I was like, "Does she have a chain smoking body guard now?" Initially, when I saw the smoke, I thought Astaire had somehow caught fire - lol

What's worse is I had stepped away when "Fella with an Umbrella" started. I just heard it and thought it was Astaire singing it. It wasn't until I rewatched it that I saw it was Peter Lawford. I agree, his character did seem pointless.

Unless I missed something, they never really explain who he is either. He's just this friend (groupie?) that shows up for seemingly no reason. Like are he and Astaire supposed to be the same age or something? Why is this famous song and dance guy friends with this random college kid?

Besides, I want everyone else to suffer, er, enjoy it like I did

Is this Fortnite?

Also I think I must have missed something because why was Astaire escorted away by a cop at the end?

LANDO!!! I hope you've been well! I do agree with that criticism. It's not a deal breaker for me, but it would have made the movie a bit more complex.