So a free library DVD rental for @manhn for making me feel my work is noticed. 
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Entertaining enough but the ending seemed rushed.
I have passes to "Disney Presents: The Finest Hours". I had no idea what this movie is about when I took the free passes. I figured with Chris Pine and Casey Affleck in it and being put on by Disney, it was worth a shot.
Except it's got 20% on Rotten Tomatoes and also it turns out it's about a "daring rescue at sea" which is not really something I want to watch a movie about.
So I'm trying to give them away and no one wants them.
Well...Max is going to Worlds...and you still have your free library DVD rental.
But a movie's gotta have lots of boys, right?
Watched 1956's "High Society" recently. I liked it alright. The highlight was when Grace Kelly pretended not to be her character, but a parody of her character. That's the most enjoyable I've seen her on screen. Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra were fine, but I'm not an uber-fan of either. I think maybe if Grace Kelly and Celeste Holm's characters had run off on a road trip, then that would have been something to see!
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I agree about Celeste Holm and Grace Kelly's characters, I would watch the crap out of that theoretical movie.Watched 1956's "High Society" recently. I liked it alright. The highlight was when Grace Kelly pretended not to be her character, but a parody of her character. That's the most enjoyable I've seen her on screen. Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra were fine, but I'm not an uber-fan of either. I think maybe if Grace Kelly and Celeste Holm's characters had run off on a road trip, then that would have been something to see!
It was shown on CNN. They produced it.
With people talking recently about the best films of all time, I went looking for a list for us to talk about. There was one list which polled actors and other movie industry people, but it was one of those websites where you had to keep finding an arrow to click on to move to a new page to see the next movie. Too time-consuming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years...100_Movies_
I was disappointed with The Square, which was Oscar-nominated for best documentary in 2014. I found the movie to be a mess, but the subject matter was a mess. The movie focusses on a group of Egyptians who want to bring down their government. Which they do. But they had nothing better organized to replace their government, so a military government took over, which was even worse. Then the activists worked to bring that government down...again with having nothing better to take its place. To me, this movie made the Egyptian people look like whackjobs who invited turmoil into their lives. When a Muslim-based government eventually wins an election, the disdain and anger aimed at a Muslim man who was worked with this group of people is horrible to watch. They use him as a scapegoat while he has patiently worked with them as an ally. A quite unenjoyable movie.
I find that talking about the best movies of all time to be a difficult subject. This list focusses on big hit movies, I'm sure there have been a lot of smaller American movies made over the years that are superior to some of the movies on this list. I also find it difficult to acknowledge movies that were groundbreaking for their time, but now seen date, some to the extent that I might not be able to sit through them. The flip side of this is some of Mae West's movies, which I think stand up quite well in 2016. And to refer to the "Oscars So White" stuff happening now, it seems this list had a lot of input from old straight white males. Anyway, of the list, the ones that I think I would enjoy to watch more than once would be:
10. The Wizard of Oz, 1939
72. The Shawshank Redemption, 1994 NEW
87. 12 Angry Men, 1957 NEW
88. Bringing Up Baby, 1938
89. The Sixth Sense, 1999 NEW
91. Sophie's Choice, 1982 NEW
100. Ben-Hur, 1959
But I do have to admit that there's a number of movies on this list that I haven't seen in decades, and some that I've either yet to have seen...or don't feel a strong desire to see.
