Susan*

I used to really like him when I was little. He was in some things I remember vividly and remember loving. But when I re-watched them as an adult they were not good. You can still catch a Banacek rerun on odd cable channels. That show did not age well.

I think this a bellwether movie for me? I've had that moment where I am getting to know a woman my age, maybe a coworker, and I'm wondering whether I like her and whether we might become actual friends. And then the topic of this movie comes up. If she dislikes this movie, we are probably going to have a lot of other stuff in common. And we will have that moment of "I'm glad you saw through that shit too." It's a movie that guys seem to think women like but I probably have no female friends who like it. This is the classic Audrey look. I like the era and time capsule quality of some of it. But it's not a good movie. For me it's an easy no. Not just because I don't care for it. (For what it's worth, I don't "like" Triumph of the Will but it's Canon-worthy.) Wait Until Dark is probably the only Audrey Hepburn movie I really like. You would think I'd like Charade because it ticks all my boxes, but I never have liked it.

The movie is sooooo overrated. All it has going for it is the iconic Hepburn style. I re-watched Wait Until Dark a few months ago. I loved that movie as a kid and it holds up.

I enjoyed Boogie Nights when it was released, and loved the cast. I don't think it's an important movie and I don't get the argument that it had a big social impact. When this podcast talks about impact of movies, it's often more accurate when it comes to older movies. With more recent movies, maybe it's too hard for a critic to set aside his/her personal experiences. I found it tough to watch There Will Be Blood the first time, and I can't say I enjoyed it, but I think it's a perfect movie. Even though I rarely like straight dramas.

I liked it when it was released because it was odd and I was sucked into the idea that Tim Burton was a guy with a fairly unique viewpoint. I think that my disappointment with almost all the subsequent Tim Burton movies has made me like this less. Though I'm happy that Martin Landau got some acclaim so late in his career. (for this and the Woody Allen movie.)

I'm a huge old movie fan, but I'm not a Marilyn fan. I prefer all the fast-talking dames in old movies. For anyone who might be interested, How To Marry a Millionaire is streaming on netflix. For me, it's a solid movie, with some of the odd characteristics of its era. I dislike most of Marilyn's movies, it's one of the few I like at all. She's playing someone similar to the character in Gentlemen but it's Bacall's movie. (It's also fun/odd to see William Powell later in his career.)

It's funny to me how some people hook things on the line up. That's the most unlikely part of the movie. How did a criminal mastermind get the customs agents to arrest those four people and put them in a line up? yes, without the "twist" it would be a funny moment because then you've got the police putting people who look nothing like each other in a line up, and it gives the title of the movie meaning. But if there's a criminal mastermind behind it, then that's one of the only verifiable parts, and the criminal mastermind went to a lot of effort to get those people arrested and held in jail together, and released together. And then we get all the other nonsense to get them to go to LA when surely it would have been easier to just kill the guy he wants killed. But if the movie had shown us how he got the customs agents to arrest them, etc., it might have been more interesting. I think we have to believe that Kevin Spacey is the criminal mastermind because of the sketch from the witness (and because the movie would be even more infuriating if that's a lie). So again why did he go to such elaborate lengths only to leave himself at the scene where he gets arrested and ultimately escapes by only seconds with the customs agents and FBI knowing what he looks like and having spent ages talking to him. Instead of him having the guy killed and blowing things up so maybe no one knows what happened, he picks the dumbest and most unnecessarily risky and flagrant way to get the deed done. For that to be clever, you would need to explain why that was the only way he could kill the guy he wanted killed. but that wasn't the plot. I don't know if I've ever been so mad at a movie.

I thought about this all week and never came to vote because I knew I couldn't vote. Not that this website means anything. But I acted like i mattered. t knew the movie would make it, and that's probably deserved because the movie was a big deal at the time. But I think the movie is so overrated. I came to the podcast with some hope that at least one of them would discuss the weaknesses in the movie. It was the most painful Canon podcast I've listened to. I kept cringing. At least the compliment of "impeccable" was not quite delivered. I could type pages and pages but I'll summarize by saying that I think the plot is muddled and weak and the twist is an excuse so that the plot can get away with being muddled. I love crime movies, especially caper movies. This isn't a good one. When you reveal how the caper went down, you want all the pieces to fit. The pieces don't fit in this one but we can't criticize the writer because it was all fake. Honestly the remake of the Thomas Crown Affair is better! The writing in movies matters so much more to me than visuals. I couldn't believe when this won best screenplay. This deserves to be in the Canon just because it made so many people believe it was smart. I like the way they reveal the twist and love when Kevin Spacey does the walk. It's a really good few minutes. And I like all the main actors. That's why the movie was profoundly disappointing to me when I saw it on opening night all those years ago. (I've watched it since, more than I should, just because it blows my mind why people love it so.)

They were both favorite movies of my mother's so I've seen them both many times. When Gentlemen is on TV, I tend to end of watching it even though I don't love the movie anymore. But I love the whole cast. And the songs are pretty good and not too long. Some Like It Hot is one of the best movies ever. And I'm the BIGGEST Jack Lemmon fan. I love the movie despite Marilyn -- I find it painful to watch the scenes she's in because she looks too impaired/vulnerable, though I know I'm bringing too much baggage to it. And man, I love that hotel.

I hated the movie when it came out. I saw it with a group of movie-fan friends and they loved it. I was on my high horse for years, talking about how much I hated it and why. And I love caper movies! It ticked all the boxes of things I love in movies. It made me furious. I eventually made peace with the movie a few years ago. But I still can't believe it won an Oscar for the screenplay. I can't wait for this one.

This is a yes for me. This is was an interesting episode for me. When the movie was released, I was excited to see it. It got raves from all the critics I paid attention to, and I think I was really hoping for a new Spike Lee, and glad to see some actors I hadn't seen before. But it wasn't Do the Right Thing. I didn't come away thinking it was a great movie. I thought the best-of-the-year talk was too much hype. But I definitely overlooked its flaws. I think part of it was my personal reaction to the nonsense in the media at the time. Local TV played it up like you were going to get gunned down if you ventured out to the mall to see Boyz. We maybe had one little incident but it was played up by local TV. The coverage seemed so racist to me, and it brought out the stupid in even some of my otherwise smart classmates. It was an event movie in my community, and one of the few movies in my adult lifetime that had an impact like that. Man, I was cheering for Singleton. But in the next decade, I bought tickets to another few of Singleton's movies and started to reconsider whether I'd given Boyz a pass it didn't deserve. I was just so hungry to see movies by diverse filmmakers using diverse casts. I paid to see a lot of meh movies as a result. I agree that Boyz is not a good movie. I agree with much of what Devin said and that's why it didn't age well. But man, it's a landmark movie. Its place in history cannot be denied. It's Canon by my definition. (BTW, I keep thinking about whether Brokeback Mountain had the impact Devin and Amy credited to it. I'm not going to deny the experience of other people in their communities. But I live in a gay mecca and it wasn't impactful here. I also thought it was boring. But I generally don't like straight drama or love stories. Now Longtime Companion, that was an impactful movie in its day.)

Animal House is why there needs to be a "none of the above" option for vs. episodes.

I think it's so overrated. I thought so when it was released. I watched it again about a year ago. I'm not big on style over substance, or style as substance. I would have voted a strong yes for Marathon Man but I'm usually about a week behind on the podcast.