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    Musical Mondays Week 48 School Daze

    Better Call Saul is hands down my favorite ever attorney show. When Giancarlo Esposito enters it again, his role is much more flushed out and he brings so much to it.
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    Musical Mondays Week 48 School Daze

    Agreed. I also didn't find any of these really tied up in the end. I took the "wake up" scene to basically say that everyone needs to wake up from the notion extremism and an unwillingness to work together are productive. I think that whole message could have been better conveyed through one of the story lines, but instead Lee tried to pack in as much as possible and it became overrun with side issues.
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    Musical Mondays Week 48 School Daze

    Yes, West Side Story way more than Grease.
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    Musical Mondays Week 48 School Daze

    Isn't that the whole purpose of including women in film?
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    Musical Mondays Week 48 School Daze

    This is interesting especially seeing Lee, himself, playing the part of a pledge.
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    Musical Mondays Week 48 School Daze

    I liked the song in the beauty shop about hair. I thought it was a re-interpretation of Grease's "Beauty School Dropout." I also chuckled at the Ice Ice Baby bit. As a whole, I agree that the movie was jumbled. I wish they had gotten more into the alumni donations and divestment arguments. I found that more interesting than the frat pledging, but that may be because I have always been anti-Greek. I expected the divestment argument to come to the fore, but as Cinco says, it never got resolved. That was disappointing. Also, as June might say, the scene with Julian asking Jane to "prove" she loved him, and everything that followed after that, was upsetting. I would say Spike Lee's movies at this time have a tendency toward being anti-woman and this was definitely part of it. That was such a horribly disgusting way for Julian to treat Jane, and for Half-Pint. Just bad, bad, awful, horrible, bad.
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    Upcoming Episodes

    Perfect! Thanks!!
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    Upcoming Episodes

    The only place I could find where you can currently stream/rent Apocalypse Now is iTunes. Does anyone know if they're doing the theatrical release or the director's cut?
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    High Noon

    I would put Liberty Valance on the list instead of Unforgiven. On a first watch of Unforgiven last weekend, I just felt like everyone was trying. so. hard.
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    High Noon

    That is, in fact, my favorite Western (if it qualifies as such). Jimmy Stewart steels my heart as a lawyer teaching civics to the town.
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    High Noon

    I 100% disagree with Paul and Amy about whether High Noon belongs on the list. I maybe enjoyed this one more than has been said so far. I was absolutely taken with the women in the film, particularly Katy Jurado. And I'm generally quite partial to political parables, so the HUAC investigation backstory fascinated me. Paul and Amy questioned whether the movie would be good on its own without the backstory, but the political nature of the film was overt enough at the time that people were turning it down, so I don't think it was just the behind-the-scenes drama that made it good. I have lots more thoughts that will likely dribble out, but that's my hot take after finally finishing the ep.
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    High Noon

    There's also the scene in the stables when he considers riding off. I agree with Cam Bert that Jimmy Stewart would have been great in this role too.
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    Episode 197 - Beastly: LIVE!

    I would be concerned with concealer getting into those wounds. Eek!
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    Episode 197 - Beastly: LIVE!

    I'm beginning to wonder what the carbon footprint would be of such a trip vs. an airline. For people involved in whatever "green" committee they're on, I would think that would be a consideration.
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    Musical Mondays Week 48 Preview (Grudlian's 2nd pick)

    I don't see how you can go wrong with Spike Lee, Laurence Fishburne, and a young Giancarlo Esposito!! On non-musical Spike Lee, I also really liked Chi-Raq. I don't think it got great reviews, but the writing was magnificent. A great adaptation of one of my favorite classic plays, Lysistrata. I believe Do the Right Thing is on the AFI 100, for those following Unspooled. So that one's on my list already.
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    Episode 197 - Beastly: LIVE!

    What if, in the sequel, Zola plays the Fraulein Maria to the dad's Captain Von Trapp? Now with her children in tow, she and they bring song and sunshine to the dad's beastly form to help him learn the lessons of true family love.
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    Episode 197 - Beastly: LIVE!

    I think Kyle doesn't help his father. Not out of spite or revenge, but because, as you said, I think his father is unlikely to come to the same self-realization if he's having his hand held. I think the whole point of the curse is to look within yourself, face your faults, and find your own way to fix them. I suppose he could help set up situations in which self-realization or actualization can occur - the same way Kyle had a couple people who helped him out with the girl (whose name I can never remember, nor care to). I don't think anyone can truly achieve self-actualization or make any real, lasting change while having their hand held or receiving tons of assistance. That defeats the purpose, and is maybe why I never believed Kyle actually changed.
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    Episode 197 - Beastly: LIVE!

    100% All this guy ever did was for himself and to get his dashing good looks (was he that attractive?) back. None of his gifts or his wooing was about making her happy. Even with all Kyle's stalking he didn't take the time to get to know her and only talked about himself and how ugly he must seem to everyone. Even after she said "I love you" to him, I felt just this creepy sense that he only tricked her into it and I never got the feeling he had any genuine, non-stalkery-y feelings for this girl. She was a conquest, a goal. I did not like the dynamics of the stalking, the kidnapping, the lying, and this is supposed to be romance? Pass.
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    Episode 197 - Beastly: LIVE!

    Speaking of trying to end the curse faster, why does he not return her calls after she read the letter? "I didn't think you'd love me?" What is going ON here? She's calling. You answer. Problem solved!
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    Episode 197 - Beastly: LIVE!

    I missed it too, but didn't care enough to rewind. I looked away and when I came back there was some negotiating about whether or not "Hunter" would get to keep the girl to "protect" her. And that never comes back into play once she's holed up with "Hunter." Protect her from whom? What? And she just stays. And, apparently after their trip everything will be fine? Oh, this movie was bad. Really bad. Really, really bad.
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    Musical Mondays Week 47 Stage Fright

    Too many murderous camp cooks in the murderous camp kitchen, as they say.
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    E.T. The Extra Terrestrial

    I absolutely loved E.T. as a kid, and I haven't re-watched it in years because just thinking about E.T. dying tears a little hole in my heart.
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    Musical Mondays Week 47 Stage Fright

    It could have been a refrigerator door. Also, more odd? Isn't it more typical to decorate the outside of the refrigerator?
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    Musical Mondays Week 47 Stage Fright

    I absolutely was not a fan of the music. The songs themselves were awful, and the actual singing was cringe-worthy. I found myself skipping forward through a lot of them because I just couldn't. I kept wishing I was watching Sleepaway Camp instead. I'm coming late to the game on on this one. This was a bad and not particularly enjoyably bad one. The casting couch scenes bothered me a lot and I don't have much to add on that that hasn't already been said. Regarding the twins' ages, I did have the feeling that the twins were maybe just entering their last year of high school, or maybe had just graduated. I got the sense that this was a pre-college time for them and their last summer they had to be at the camp, so I'd put them at 18. I was also bothered by how Camille decorated the inside of that pantry door like a high school locker with a shrine to her mom. Is that a thing in kitchens - to decorate the inside of your pantry doors?
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    Musical Mondays Week 47 Stage Fright

    On one hand, I noticed the poster, noticed the twins, and knew Meatloaf was in this on some level, but had no idea he was the camp director/murderer 1 until Monday.
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