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Re: The Last non-Monster movie you have watched?
« Reply #240 on: December 29, 2019, 08:13:49 AM »
Meet Me In St. Louis.

Don't you love Tootie's full-hearted embrace of the Halloween spirit?

Garland was wonderful in that movie.
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Re: The Last non-Monster movie you have watched?
« Reply #241 on: December 31, 2019, 03:49:58 AM »
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Re: The Last non-Monster movie you have watched?
« Reply #242 on: December 31, 2019, 10:50:15 AM »
Jumanji, the next level.
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Re: The Last non-Monster movie you have watched?
« Reply #243 on: December 31, 2019, 12:48:28 PM »
Jumanji, the next level.

Weren't there any "monsters" in it?
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Re: The Last non-Monster movie you have watched?
« Reply #244 on: January 01, 2020, 12:27:49 AM »

It's a Wonderful Life, 1947 - A potential suicide is distracted by his guardian angel and given the chance to see what the world would have been like without him.

James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell and Gloria Grahame.


Such a good movie.  If you don't like this one, you must have identified with Old Man Trump Potter when he kept the Bailey Savings & Loan's $8,000 cash deposit and acted magnanimous by offering the people he robbed fifty-cents-on-the-dollar of their own money to buy their shares.

As much as I love this old Capra Corn, even as a kid, it never rang true that the angel was showing George what the world would have been like if he had never been born.  Suicides don't wipe out their previous lives - just whatever would have followed.

And as a kid, I thought from all the old movies I had seen on TV that the bad guy wasn't supposed to get away his crime.  (I've since learned that the world isn't so simple.)


I was so happy when the studio rescued this movie from public domain.  Watching this on TV, it was a crapshoot what you'd see.  The 210 min. film was offered in whatever edit the TV station who owned a scratchy 16mm print wanted.  Too often, it was edited down to fit in a standard 90 min. broadcast slot, including commercials.

I watch it every year.
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Re: The Last non-Monster movie you have watched?
« Reply #245 on: January 01, 2020, 02:28:53 AM »
Watched Star Wars Episode IX yesterday.  I went in with an open mind.  Episode VII was okay.  Episode VIII was absolutely horrible.  This new movies was...I have to say...pretty good.  Although the humor seemed forced, the story and character growth was good.  The movie also took plenty of shots at Rainn Johnson's Star Wars movie, which was awesome!  It was good to see the characters finally grow, and the old characters get some respect.
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Re: The Last non-Monster movie you have watched?
« Reply #246 on: January 01, 2020, 11:21:26 AM »
Suicides don't wipe out their previous lives - just whatever would have followed.

He didn't commit suicide, because he was never born.

And as a kid, I thought from all the old movies I had seen on TV that the bad guy wasn't supposed to get away his crime.
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Re: The Last non-Monster movie you have watched?
« Reply #247 on: January 01, 2020, 11:15:48 PM »
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Re: The Last non-Monster movie you have watched?
« Reply #248 on: January 02, 2020, 08:38:47 AM »
Once Upon a Time in America (1984) - The restored, 4 hour long version...
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Re: The Last non-Monster movie you have watched?
« Reply #249 on: January 03, 2020, 05:41:34 AM »
Cats. It wasn't a great film, but critics be damned, my gf & I liked it. I'm not sure what the legion of naysayers expected it to be.
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Re: The Last non-Monster movie you have watched?
« Reply #250 on: January 03, 2020, 03:20:09 PM »
 Wag the Dog (1997) -

 I haven't seen this in decades, but a mention from Adam reignited my interest. It all makes perfect sense, now.

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Re: The Last non-Monster movie you have watched?
« Reply #251 on: January 03, 2020, 04:29:41 PM »
Wag the Dog (1997) -

 I haven't seen this in decades, but a mention from Adam reignited my interest. It all makes perfect sense, now.

I love the "Green Beret" song parody.


Of course, the movie came out just before Bill Clinton was accused taking advantage of the poor little intern who admitted telling her friend that she was getting "presidential kneepads" and going to work in the Whitehouse. 

Later, a popular crime show (forget which one) made reference to a victim's dress-deposited DNA sample as a "Clinton Corsage".

Life is funnier (and more tragic) than any mere movie.
 
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Re: The Last non-Monster movie you have watched?
« Reply #252 on: January 03, 2020, 05:31:54 PM »
Oh, we've gone much lower than Clinton's "fellacio-gate", since then.

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Re: The Last non-Monster movie you have watched?
« Reply #253 on: January 03, 2020, 10:51:40 PM »

3 Godfathers, 1949 - Three desperadoes on the run promise a dying mother to take care of her newborn son.

John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond and Ben Johnson.

John Ford directed this old TV standard western filler film.  I had not seen it for so many years that I disremembered it as being B&W.  (Probably broadcast that way, when it was being shown so frequently.)  I was shocked when I saw a newer DVD and discovered it was not only in color, the film was beautifully filmed and the hues had survived the intervening years in spectacular condition.

I was even more surprised that I did not remember it is a Christmas film!  I guess the lack of snow, decorations and carols threw me. 


This is a pretty decent telling of this oft-remade tale.  I enjoyed seeing it again (almost for the first time) after so many years.


Fun, rediscovering an old friend.
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Re: The Last non-Monster movie you have watched?
« Reply #254 on: January 03, 2020, 11:08:45 PM »
Inherit the Wind-1960
To Kill a Mockingbird-1962
Both powerful and poignant, films.
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