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This is the latest movie I've watched for the Project yet (Sorry my posts are so late, by the way, really awful internet, but I have been watching). Anyways, This movie barely made the cut, being made in 1980, but when you watch it it does NOT look 30 years old. The film quality is to amazing for that.
The Coal Miner's Daughter came out, like I said, in 1980, and stars Sissy Spasek, who we'll probably see in another movie later on. The story is that of a Loretta Lynn, one of the first real woman country singers. The movie takes more than two hours to go over her interesting romance with the husband she got at 14, Moony, who is played by Tommy Lee Jones (K in Men In Black, and as I just figured out, Hank in Love Story). Their romance is both good and bad as Mooney helps her with her becoming a big country star, but he is very controlling. Aside that, this story shows Lynn on her hard way to become famous, the friends she gains, and well, shows her become a spoiled brat and be okay again at the end.
The film Is really very cute and kept my attention the whole time I reccomend it fully.
I'm gunna try and get all those posts up today, wish me luck!
Okay guys, so my internet has been awful so all of my posts are ending up late and I'm sorry. Still watching and posting though, so be patient for me?
My mother, as I may or may not have mention, works at a boarding school for wayward girls. Well, the school's motto is "Everything Happens For a reason" which is just another way of saying God knows what he's doing. Well, the couple in the movie I saw on June 15th I really think proves this.
In 1934 Alfred Hitchcock had The Man Who Knew Too Much make its debut. The movie is about Bill and Jill Lawrence as they're vacationing with their daughter. While Jill is dancing with a friend at a party, He's shot (And NOBODY NOTICED). The couple finds out he was a French spy, and as he dies he gives them specific information. Now, because of knowing this information, the assassins kid-napped the Lawrence's daughter. The couple must come up with a plan hat not only get's their daughter back, but greatly affects the mission of their friend and the assassin's (Which with Hitchcock could mean anything) . What makes the film is the creepy performance of Peter Lorre who is the assassin's head dude.
The movie was redone later, the only movie that Hitchcock ever re-did, and he did it with Mr. James Stewart, one of my more favorite actors, the dude in It's A Wonderful Life and Dorris Day. Apparently the two films are very different, and I'm looking forward to seeing the remake. The movie is Questionable for children from mild violence.
The movie is in one piece at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBTzgYuo6GU&feature=related
The Flick Chick, Signing off until my other entiry posts (hopefully the next 10 minutes)
Girls are very very interesting when it comes to guys. A lot of us will do anything for the right guy. We'll tell him what he wants to hear, do what he wants us to do and so on. Then there are some of us (Like myself) who sit on the side-lines and pity the others. This is the situation that was called again while I watched todays film.
Splendor in the Grass came out in 1961 starring (Again) Natalie Wood as cute little "Deanie" Looms from 1928. She's an adorable high-school student who loves life and is love with a guy named Bud. Typical high-school romance except that in my opinion this guy is a complete ASSHOLE. Deanie becomes the Ophelia of the 1920's which, if you know anything of Hamlet, Ophelia was his squeeze who HE DROVE INSANE.
Okay, so the entire first half of the movie is Bud trying to get Deanie to have sex with him, but she doesn't want to. She was taught not to do anything like that unless she was married. Now, the 20's were somewhat of a cultural revolution for women where they became much more free with themselves, so Deanie's being expose to girls who are very into freedom and well, sex, including Bud's own sister. Still, she's a good girl and stays a virgin (which I admire actually) so Bud, being an asshole, Dumps her and starts banging the Class slut.
Wow. Can you imagine that? "Sorry honey but because you have a decent amount of respect for yourself I like this girl more." The sad fact is that that actually happens a lot. This is my public service message: Girls, Sex should never be why a man claims he loves you. You deserve a person who will respect your decisions about sex no-matter what they may be. Really. Anyways, If you've ever been a high-schooler, you know everything gets around. So everybody knows on Monday what Deanie wasn't doing, and because of all this pressure the last half of this movie is spent watching her go crazy. Well, don't be to upset. She meets her husband in the loony bin and ends up okay.
The movie kept my attention the full 2 hours, but the story is AWFUL. It's very entertaining, but very depressing. Whats impressive is seeing Natalie Wood, Hollywood classic good girl, playing a crazy. She does a great job.
Well, in old movies there always tends to be a beautiful girl, who gets to be the damsel in distress, The villain, usually a guy who just wants money or something, and they guy who rescues the damsel, handsome guy who gets her in the end. In a technical sense, this movie has all of those, but not quite to the perfect definition.
Natalie Wood was a child star, and the most you'll prolly know her from is the musical Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story. Well, she stars as a cute little girl named Liz, who's opening scene is with her and her boyfriend on 'Lover's Loop'. (Don't play dumb. Every town has one.) Anyways, they're out there making out in his pretty little car when a creeper starts watching them. When the buff boyfriend goes to deal with him he gets knocked out and creepy drives off with Liz in that pretty car.
So Liz, as our damsel, isn't quite helpless, as she tries to get out of the creeps hands a few times, without success though. Our weirdo isn't typical either. He doesn't want money or to violate her, but rather just company, like a helpless Quasi Motto. Hes' really very insane and pretty damn scary though. Now are big guy to save the day? Not the boyfriend. Actually, it's Liz's father, who is a policeman and can't help but be on the case against his boss's will.
It;s a quick hour and 15 minute drama that really keeps your attention. I didn't expect it to be good at all but really did end up liking it. Nothing on Youtube but it was on TCM when I saw it.
Now, in today's T.V. and movies and books, Women fighting over men makes a 'great' story. Women are devious, everyone knows, but it's no new fact that they go crazy for a man and won't stop at anything. Apparently the same was true in the 1950's where our film takes place.
Invitation came out in 1952 starring a Dorothy McGuire as Ellen, a sick housewife who's just so happy to have her perfect husband. The man who plays her husband we know from The Last Time I Saw Paris, A Mr. Van Johnson. He's Dan, Ellen's perfect husband who does everything he can for her in her frail state.
Well, Ellen goes out to visit her rich father one day, she also stop by an old friend, Maud. Well, we find out in a flashback that the two were once great friends, and that Maud had her eyes on Dan, who randomly married Ellen and made her so happy. Well, now Ellen knows that Maud is still after Dan, ad that she's more ready than ever to start up the fighting again. But wait! Dan gets an invitation to some super private medical shindig that Maud just so happens to also be going to? (And I though I was a manipulative..... witch). While looking into everything to protect her man, she actually finds out that the only reason Dan married her is because her rich daddy bought him for her because she's going to die in a few months. The rest of the movie is all the drama in figuring this out, but with an actually happy ending.
YouTubes got nothing, but the movie is on TCM every now and then guys. Its only like, 2 hours long and a quick paced drama. Kids would get bored, but if your into any mild soap on ABC Family You'll get a kick out of this one
In 2002 Nicholas Sparks wrote a movie called A Walk to Remember. If you're a teenage girl or have ever dated one, you are more than likely to have seen this movie about a girl who is very innocent and sweet, and the popular guy who falls for her. In the mean time, everyone on the planet seems to be giving them Hell about it. When everything finally works out, The main character dies of Leukemia.
But Thirty years beforehand, a movie, Love Story, came out in 1970 with an extremely similar plot-line. The Difference? Sparks pulled it off just a little bit better. Love Story stars a girl named Ali MacGraw as Jenny, a low class student of music who loves to question everything, and a dude named Ryan O'neal as Oliver Barret, her to the Harvard fortune and , as expected, student of law. Well, the two meet and their relationship consists of 'verbal volleyball' and casual making- out. (Yeah......relationship....sure). But then they decide they're in love after, what else, sex. After that it's all happy events. Then when the two decide to get married, Oliver's father disowns him (Good times). So the two live whats a really boring life if you're watching it as a movie, but prolly great if you're living it. And then, she dies. Not suddenly, it takes 20 minutes, but she does and not as nicely as in the movies counterpart.
This film is rather boring, and, as my mother calls it 'A serious Puke Fest'. So, lets call this one a make out movie...
Make Out Movie: A movie with a slow enough plot line that you could fall asleep, but perfect enough music that you may as well just make out. (Not to mention, duded, Girlfriends will appreciate you attempting a romantic movie even though you'll both be bored to tears)
Okay, so there is always a movie that when you see the actor or actress playing the part, you'll never imagine them as any other character the right way again. For instance, after Jack Black did Kung-Fu Panda, it was hard for people to take anything he did that was more serious (Yes, he has done some) seriously without thinking of Po, the lovable awkward panda.
For me, I can never imagine Tim Curry the same after seeing him as a singing Transvestite scientist like he is in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
The film came out in 1975 after being a successful musical on the stage. The hilarious part of the movies success is the story, which was written by a man who was venting his sexual confusion. The story follows Janet (Susan Sarandon, the evil witch in Enchanted) and her finance Brad as they decide to go visit a friend. These two are serious innocent squares. If they've ever heard of sex it was in a textbook they weren't aloud to read. The movie is a musical, and the first two songs are very traditionally cheesy, but then they get suck at a dead end road with a flat tire. The couple ends up walking to a castle for help. (Typical. "Go to the eerie castle and ignore the 'enter at your own risk' sign you crazy stupid kids"). So they go up to thee door for help and maybe to use a phone (poor seventies people without cells ) but end up getting thrown into this weird castle thats flooded with people who think they are aliens from the planet Transsexual in the Galaxy of Transylvania. (The wasn't a snide remark, they really do think exactly that). So the two squares are forced into different shapes with all the weird things that happen to them in this place to steal their innocence. (Oh yeah, and the music got way better the second they got in that place, starting with The Time Warp that is now a classic).
There are some fun things to know about this film. It was a serious flop until they started showing it at mid-night, then it became a classic. When your in the theater to see it, the audience participated in 4-D affects that you can look up online, because you do need to do a little shopping and cooking beforehand. The Castle is an actual place, and the writing of the story owns it. You can tour the building very cheap. Admission: Doing the Time Warp dance in public.
The movie is ridiculous and nearly completely about sex, but its hilarious the same way Psychomania was in a way. It's deffinatly rated R; no kids. trust me.
