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There are a number of movies I saw as a kid that I admit aren't good but can still sit through as though it were good. The number of times I have watched Mannequin is mildly worrying. I forgot I tagged myself that but I guess I'm living up to it. I'll have to look up some Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire trivia. And if Taylor Anne is reading this, please bring back This Week In Feminism.

LET'S ALL STOP PRETENDING THE GOONIES ISN'T CINEMA AT ITS PUREST!!!! JK. I like Goonies but it's definitely a "see it during childhood or never" movie. With Wizard Of Oz, I don't remember how I felt as a kid but I definitely saw it a bunch. I saw it on tv as an adult and loved it. They were playing it two times in a row and watched the first half hour a second time type loved it. I haven't sat down and watched it with full attention since then but I've liked it as background entertainment. So, idk.

Those poor Chicago show attendees having to pay full price.

Judy Garland getting slapped on set or being called well fed is nothing compared to the worst stuff that happened to her. Sexual abuse, assault, forced to smoke cigarettes (and I think speed) to keep her weight down, girdle to keep her breasts from showing. She was 16. Sorry for bringing down the discussing with the first post but, Paul describing her being slapped then responding with a kiss really made me feel awful. Then describing MGM as awful and kind of skipping over the worst of it.

Since I'm getting called out, I admit I didn't care much for this when I saw it. I'm not sure if I just wasn't in the mood or what. I was very excited about this all year it all fell flat on me. I'm interested to see it again because this movie should be right up my alley (despite being a musical). So, now I'll finally have the motivation to watch it a second time.

I may have unfortunately ruined some movies for anyone who listens to these. You know how, once you became aware of the Wilhelm scream, you always notice it? Those sounds always stick out to me they pop up in a movie now.

If you want a Beatles related movie that will be a sure fire crowd pleaser like Across The Universe, have you considered Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band????

There's also this generic, non-specific jungle sound (at 44 seconds into the video): That sound is the kookaburra which is native to Australia. This scene takes place in South America. Wikipedia has a brief list of movies with kookaburra sounds in it

Or almost every owl sound is the Great Horned Owl: But owls have a huge variety of sounds:

I'm having trouble finding anything on google, but I'm pretty sure there is. A ton of animal sounds get reused in the wrong context. Here are some pretty famous examples: We've all probably heard this cat sound effect in a ton of different stuff: Or how every bird of prey sounds exactly like the red tail hawk:

I had no idea it was this long? Do you know if it had an intermission in its theatrical run? This suddenly made me remember the extended Return Of The King is 251 minutes. Although I think this version had that really really long credits that pad out the length.

This is one of those things that maybe we don't understand how controversial it was at the time. They mention their marriage would have still been illegal in parts of the US at the time. Maybe he needed to be that sanitized even for the most liberal audiences. I don't know. I know my step sister was in an interracial marriage and I believe my stepfather refused to attend the wedding (This was all before my mother ever met them, so I'm not totally clear). This would have been in the late 90s I think. So, maybe the message is still more relevant that we think it is.

I can't do this Friday. The next two are good

I'm curious how many other people watched a ton of Turner classic Movies in the 2000s. Here's a video they used to explain widescreen format using Ben-Hur as an example. Any time I think about Ben-Hur, I think of Sydney Pollack getting the heebie jeebies.

I think this is the difference between individual taste and collective taste. My top 100 is going to be different from everyone else's. When we combine everyone's lists, that's when we start seeing a homogenous list of great movies with Citizen Kane and Vertigo overlapping on on many lists. Since I don't know Jonathan Rosenbaum as a critic, his list (which has been expanded to over 1000 essential movies) doesn't hold much value to me the way Roger Ebert's or Mark Kermode's list might. A quick look through Wikipedia has some later David Lean movies as semi-joint productions between the UK and sometimes America. They'll list Horizon as the producer but call it a UK/USA movie. Doctor Zhivago is an MGM production but it's a UK/Italy movie. The only fully American production seems to be Summertime. So, I'm with you in the confusion. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner's racial politics are woefully dated. Sidney Poitier is basically the perfect man that anyone should be happy to have as a son-in-law. If he had been flawed in any way, it would have aged better. Now, it's just a well acted movie to make white people feel good about themselves.

I get his point as well. I've never been big on ranking things except maybe in small groups like a top 5. I prefer film lists being chronological but even that can lead to an implied growth or improvement over time. I glanced through his list. It's interesting. I'm completely unfamiliar with several of the movies. As someone who looks at movie lists a lot, that's unusual. I don't know if he's purposefully choosing more obscure movies or maybe he just has different taste. I'm glad Amy and Paul are choosing to not go in list order. I think that shuts down any "is this movie really better/worse than the last movie?" discussion that I find not particularly worthwhile.

This is definitely my pick but I'm surprised to see it considered American. I would consider it British. British writer, director, producer, released in the UK before the US. David O Selznick was a producer and out stars an American but ehhhhh... I think a few of these movies are questionably American. If that doesn't count as an American film, I'd probably say Giant or Close Encounters.

For some reason, I'm largely unfamiliar with Rock Hudson. I know him from reputation but I've seen almost nothing he's been in. I couldn't have even told you he was in the movies I've seen with him even though he's a major character. The only movie I would have sworn he was in (From Here To Eternity), he wasn't in at all. Looks like I have a major gap in my film knowledge that I need to rectify. From this picture, he's definitely a better choice on looks alone. Isn't Life of Brian inspired a bit by Ben-Hur? I can't imagine the Pythons missed Ben-Hur completely when they came up with the idea of "movie where some other guy keeps running into Jesus".

This makes me think of nominative determinism which is the idea that your name determines what your future to an extent. Some notable examples are Thomas Crapper, the inventor of the flush toilet, or Igor Judge, who became a Chief Justice. The idea is that, had these people had different names, they might have had totally different careers. While I'd typically write this off as coincidence in real life, we know that many common last names came from people's professions: blacksmiths inherited the name Smith, coopers (barrel makers) became Cooper, and so forth. So, it stands to reason if your name surname was Taylor and you became a tailor in real life, there could be some family history leading you down that path. Creating names for characters that line up with their character traits is pretty common in art but imagine you are in the world of Sky Captain and your name is Killhead. If nominative determinism holds any weight, you probably are going to be a murderous disembodied head at some point.

For people who don't follow HDTGM on twitter, they posted a link to watch Rad. I won't post the link here since the boards are less friendly to linking pirated material. Thank you, Pete Scudese!

They mention this in the episode. My question is that this movie takes place in the 1940s but Godzilla came out in the 1950s. Of all the anachronisms, this one bothers me most.

The robots are the Tin Man. Lawrence Olivier is a floating head like the wizard when we first see him. Giovanni Ribisi plays a dog. So, he is Toto.

Ok.Gwyneth Paltrow may have some kooky ideas, but this is just rude

I didn't want to say anything but I am. I really am.

Don't worry, Taylor. I love it for at least two people.