I had all the time in the world to write this yesterday, because I actually finished watching movies Thursday, but I guess I'm just used to doing this Sundays now. xD
The Princess Bride (1987): I somehow forgot to include this last week, which is clearly unacceptable. Everyone should know this and have seen it, and if you haven't seen it, then drop everything and watch it. Something that really struck me this time -- I re-watched this after reading the book, and man, the movie really breezes through some scenes that go on for a few pages in the book. Not really a complaint at all, but the quick pacing really hits you after you read the book, haha.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975): Again, required viewing for anyone with a sense of humor. (Which, I hope, includes all who read this dinky little World.) It's amazing how many scenes Holy Grail has that will never, ever get old no matter how many times I see them. I'd list them all, but I would pretty much be highlighting the entire movie. My favorite scene, though, is everything from Tim leading the knights to the cave and showing them the Killer Rabbit ("Look at the bones!") to the knights blowing the hell out of the rabbit with the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. The Killer Rabbit's initial kill has me dying with laughter every time I see it. The kill is such a hilarious, deliberately cheap effect. I love it.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974): This is an interesting movie because it follows a classic sort of storyline -- the main character, Alice, works at her dream to become a singer and finds love along the way -- but Alice isn't a normal type of heroine. What sets her apart from a lot of others is her relationship with her son. She's protective of him, but she is also sarcastic with him, acts goofy with him, can be hard on him and so on. Much of the first half of the movie deals with how they relate to each other, and a lot of that feels very real to me, because Alice is a similar figure to my mom and my aunts. I don't like the second half quite as much, because the romance feels a bit off to me, but it doesn't compromise Alice's character, either, which is good because forcing a change in Alice would have ruined her character.
On the queue for this week: Spellbound (1945), Frenzy (1972) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Total Movies: 64 (Gaslight, The Last King of Scotland, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Darjeeling Limited, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Diary of the Dead, Bullets Over Broadway, Interiors, Husbands and Wives, The Professional: Golgo 13, Lars and the Real Girl, Lolita, Quills, Hamlet, Iris, Manhattan Murder Mystery, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, The Savages, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, The Stranger, Love and Death, Harold and Maude, Spartacus, Scarlet Street, Sabrina, Zelig, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), Stardust Memories, Barry Lyndon, Be Kind Rewind, Radio Days, Deconstructing Harry, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Creating Rem Lazar, Undefeatable, Ninja Terminator, Ninja Dragon, Rumble Fish, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, In Bruges, The Bank Dick, Marathon Man, Clannad, Air, Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress, MirrorMask, Slither, It's a Gift, Splendor in the Grass, Waitress, North by Northwest, Monkey Business, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, The Brave One, 3:10 to Yuma, Bringing Out the Dead, Gurren Lagann: Gurren-hen, There Will Be Blood, Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder, The Princess Bride, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore)
