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I, unfortunately (?), own this movie now, since renting it was the same price on Amazon Prime.

I'm of the opinion the trailer looks super creepy. There's a cut floating around with the "Us" "I've got Five On It" mix and it seems way more fitting.

After reading the IMDb synopsis, I'll have to see if this is similar to Juliet, Naked, which I liked much more than I expected to.

Yes! I kept seeing her as her character from PCU. I'm glad someone else mentioned it. I really liked her character in that. Here... not so much.

I am beginning to see why people get banned. I appreciate moderators.

To chime in - as a single, child-free woman of a certain age, I can tell you the pressure to get married, to have kids, and to refrain from having kids outside of marriage, is alive and well. And infertility (while not necessarily reflecting poorly on the woman) still comes with the feeling that to be a woman is to be a mother, and by not being a mother, you are not a fully realized woman.

This is a really delightful show! And now of course I'm starting through Magnum, PI because I've never actually seen any full episodes before.

was this movie shot by Tommy Wiseau? wow. just wow. ETA: IMDb says this has an estimated $10,000,000 budget!?

I thought this was a fun watch, but also agree that The Philadelphia Story was the better one. Grace Kelly was hands down the best part. I, too, laughed out loud at the way she greeted the reporters. And Ms. Imbrie was of course Karen in All About Eve. I was really disappointed in her accepting Sinatra at the end. He spent the entire time trying to get in Grace Kelly's pants. On the Tracy-Dexter relationship - did I miss why they got divorced? I remember her saying something about him almost ruining her life, but I don't know if they ever make it clear why they split up in the first place.

I don't think anyone is trying to pretend this movie doesn't exist. I think we can (and are) challenging it, engaging with it, and deconstructing it's misguidedness. I don't think we need to embrace it or venerate it. Like confederate statues, movies like this and Birth of a Nation belong (if anywhere) in museums that can provide accurate historical context. There can be a discussion of how cinema changed because of or in spite of these movies. That doesn't mean we need to laud them and include them among the 100 BEST American Films. In fact, I think the fact that Birth was removed and this one is still on the list gets at the nature of how white supremacy has changed over time and persists today. It's no longer socially acceptable to be blatantly racist (thought that certainly seems to be changing today), but this upholds the systemic racism inherent in our society and the continual dehumanization of people of color. It also gets at how white Americans just completely erase the parts of history they find troublesome, and how slavery seems often categorized as African American history without acknowledging the white history or perpetrating such horrors on another group of people.

YES!

I've avoided this movie also and doubt I'm going to watch it unless Paul and Amy convince me it's worth my time. I'm not sticking to having to watch every single movie on the list. So far I've skipped A Clockwork Orange and The Deer Hunter. The former because I'd already seen it and that was enough; the latter because I'm just not ready for another bro-y Vietnam movie, particularly one that long. I might watch it sometime in the future. For now, I don't feel compelled to watch Gone With the Wind.

I'm going to give this a listen while I'm stuck in airports tomorrow

Also a good one (and I own it). But I think my favorite of Hitchcock's movies with Grace Kelly, I'd have to go with Rear Window. But, it really depends on my mood.

So, I only vaguely remember these so anyone feel free to add/correct but... I remember these being in malls in the 80's. You put in a quarter and insert your finger to measure your heart rate. Depending on the number, I think they were supposed to tell you something about yourself like your mood. As a little girl I was fascinated by them, but I don't fully remember why they were there.

I had a similar thought!

I'm so excited about this!! I loooooove Grace Kelly!

Finally making some time to comment on my own pick I had some oral surgery last Friday and was a bit knocked out with pain meds, and was probably thinking about Johnny's soliloquy from Dirty Dancing about how hard it was to have women throwing themselves at him and no one genuinely cared at him. That was my take on Russ. He was a man with a goal to get the ship he and his dad built together, and girls were a distraction. I do think all of the married women hit on him, and some of the guys too! I wondered why he was so hesitant to sing at the club. He could totally bank on his sex appeal and his talent without actually having to sell his body. Did working on the boat make more money? My first thought is, no, but that he just loved being on it so much. I'm so glad you all enjoyed this as much as I did. What did you all think of the song with the two girls at Paradise Cove? Oh, also, I was really surprised by how much I loved Laurel. Given the opening song, I really wasn't sure how much sexism I had signed up for. Not so . much, it appears.

I noticed that his mom died right before he moved to Germany, so I can kind of see why he wanted Priscilla to move in with him when he came back. He must have been so lonely (though that doesn't excuse praying on a teenager). I can't even imagine what it must have been like to be born to poor parents with a mother who worshipped you and then grow up to have all girls basically worshipping you. One of the things that struck me about Girls, Girls, Girls is the discomfort of just being adored for for body while no one, except for Laurel. I felt like he was pretty familiar with women hitting on him, but seemed uninterested in his own sex appeal because no one seemed to care about who he was or why the boat meant so much to him. And I see how he felt insulted by a woman buying it for him. I think the whole reason I found him charming was because he seemed so uninterested in the girls, and I got a sense of how he must have felt as an icon with women throwing themselves at him while not knowing anything about him. Fame like that makes people crazy. I recommend watching the Priscilla interview because she seemed to really see him for who he was despite how awful he was to her. That's not to excuse anything he did, but I do think she genuinely loved the man, and understood that his problematic behaviors were a result of the world he grew up in and lived in as an adult. Certainly she was too young for him, but I got the sense from her that as she grew up, she understood the situation she was in. Looking forward to the discussion of the movie itself. I've definitely learned more about Elvis by recommending it

I'm saving my reaction for Monday, but I have to say I had never seen an Elvis movie before, and I was pleasantly surprised by how charming he was. Then I watched a 1985 Barbara Walters interview with Priscilla Presley, and I had a few second thoughts about recommending. But he's long gone, and this was an ....interesting watch.

Just a small nit pick, though I agree overall, Disney certainly anthropomorphized inanimate objects before Toy Story, particularly Beauty and the Beast comes to mind. Unless you're thinking they were the first without having to invoke magic...

I agree with Cameron H on this. I recently just watched Toy Story and realized I hadn't watched it from start to finish before. It came out when I was in high school, so I never really caught onto the fever and am just catching up now. Anyway, I just don't think it's that great of a movie. The animation is different, but not great. There are plenty of first technical achievements to be lauded, but this doesn't need to be on the list. If we're comparing this to all other American film (and we are), maybe top 150 or 200, and certainly top 100 in animation, but not overall. I'm pretty scrupulous and would definitely appreciate more backgrounds and points of view versus more men making movies about white dudes learning how to be white dudes.

I was wondering that too, and was expecting them to bring it up in the ep. Nobody says that! Although maybe it was just some shit the crappy kid actor (he did not kill it, even if he did kill his dad) came up with, in which case it would be genuine I think this whole screenplay was written by a 13-year-old. A 13-year-old who makes his dad into a prostitute and the ex-husband of a woman half his age who claimed to be his high school classmate, who's virginity he took when she was 16. Part of me thinks this movie is super fucked-up. Part of me loves it. Part of me is fine just watching those leads in that setting.

I guess we know what kind of peanut butter he likes.

Okay, I've made a new pick: It's available for free on Amazon Prime and for rent on YouTube. I could be persuaded to host a rabbit screening over the weekend if I'm not too knocked out with pain killers from oral surgery