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Every Girl Should Be Married (1948)
Possibly the worst movie I have ever seen!
I took one look at Betsy Drake and said to myself HE married HER? UGH!! And the thing only got worse after that.
Betsy Drake plays a manipulative, obsessed, single woman who looks up and notices Cary Grant and immediately starts stalking him objective matrimony. She enlists her friend, her boss (a notorious womanizer) and Eddie Albert.
Drake's "acting" and I use the term loosely - is atrocious. Cary Grant is his usual suave self - until the end of this garbage. And yes, you can imagine the ending without me telling you.
Friends and neighbors - don't even bother. Unless you like torture. And fingernails on blackboards.
Once Upon a Mattress (1964)
I love this musical!
I actually own all 3 versions of this fantastic musical and all I can say is that each has its high points. Also where the heck is the song "an opening for a princess"??? Is that only from the Broadway production? Carol is perfect as Winnifred - and also as the Queen. My favorite Larkin is naturally Bernadette Peters! One of my favorite songs is "Normandy" - which is missing from the '72 and used incorrectly in the 2005. I love Wally Cox as the jester and of course Jack Gilford was perfect in both the early versions! I have always wished I was old enough to have seen the original Broadway play but I remember the '72 fondly!
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Sorry folks, this one just doesn't fly!
I was so looking forward to this installment of the Harry Potter series. I enjoyed this book immensely and just knew that it would make for a great movie. Well, was I ever wrong! The first mistake was in the choice of director. David Yates might be good at directing TV shows or crime dramas, but he totally screwed this up. Can we say welcome to the Imelda Staunton Show? Were they sleeping together or what? I mean REALLY! And yes, I understand the need to compress a very long book into a workable movie script, but there were so very many important plot points that were either totally ignored or else so changed as to be unrecognizable. Would it have been so difficult to work in that Ron and Hermione were PREFECTS? Did they have to make Cho the traitor - I mean what is one more small part (Marietta) in a movie that consisted of small parts - except for Imelda Staunton's part! I didn't even recognize Mark Williams for heaven sake! I thought they had gotten an actor who kinda maybe looked like him! And whose idea was the revolting...i mean revolving Daily Prophet???? Show the damn thing once and get on with the movie!! That was simply a waste of time and made most of the audience dizzy.
And another thing - why waste so much money on the set for the Ministry of Magic. It didn't look anything like it should have - maybe they could have afforded a better director and screenwriter if they had been a bit less over the top on the sets??? Where was Malfoy? Where were most of the members of the Order? You saw them for a couple of seconds and then they disappeared! I saw this movie on the day it came out - the theater was half-empty - doesn't this tell you something?? And now to find out that this MUGGLE is going to be directing the next movie too??? I thought Alfonzo Curzon was the worst thing that could possibly happen to the series...boy oh boy was I wrong!
The Black Dahlia (2006)
What a waste of film!
When I heard about this movie I really wanted to see it. I had heard about the Black Dahlia murder and had read all about it - and I thought that was what this movie was going to be about. Not lesbians, silent movies, bad cops, etc, etc, ad nauseum.
As everyone knows, the killer or killers were never caught. The only thing this movie did was to show the banned photos of Elizabeth Short in Technicolor.
I don't know why Brian DePalma bothered. And if he did bother then why is the movie named "The Black Dahlia" instead of something more appropriate - like Sex, Lies and Celluloid? I was truly disappointed in this travesty of a movie.
The Ladykillers (2004)
The worst piece of garbage I have ever seen
I have seen some awful turkeys in my time, but this little epic was quite possibly the worst movie it has ever been my misfortune to watch. When I saw the coming attractions last year in the movie theater, I was intrigued. Not enough maybe to see it at the movies, but enough to rent the video. Well! I have always loved Tom Hanks, but this - this verbiose, nasty, psychopathic creature that he played - it was wayyyyyy over the line. I could not understand half the things he said. Unfortunately I could understand almost every word that Wayans said...and with my 7 year old grandson in the room! Look, I use "language" along with the rest of the world...in its place - but what Marlon Wayans did was unnecessary and overkill. The other characters were for the most part fair...but Wayans and Hanks portrayals just destroyed what could have been a great movie. I have never seen the original, I really don't care that the Coens changed the setting from England to the deep South...they could have set it in Timbuktu for all I care!! I wasn't expecting Hanks to become Obi-Wan either...but I was expecting to be entertained...and I can tell you I was NOT.
Brigadoon (1966)
It wasn't a dream!!
I am another one who remembers this wonderful production when I was a child. I also had the cast album. I think my favorite song was "My Mother's Wedding Day" sung by "Meg Brockie" - Marlyn Mason. What a hoot! Notice that was the one song that was left out of the Gene Kelly/Cyd Charisse version! I guess it was just a touch racy. Its funny, but for years I couldn't get anyone to believe that there had ever been another version of Brigadoon besides the Kelly/Charisse version. I almost thought that I had dreamed it, but then I would look at the album cover and KNOW i was right! Even my mom didn't believe me - and she had watched it with me!
And yes, I dearly wish this was available on VHS or DVD!
YIPPEE!!! There are 9 pieces of it on YOUTUBE - including Charlie singing Come To Me Bend To Me to Jeannie!!
The Music Man (2003)
The Wells Fargo Wagon Had An Accident
Having grown up loving the story of Harold Hill and Miss Marion, I was expecting to somewhat unfavorably compare the new Disney version of The Music Man to the absolutely perfect one starring Robert Preston and Shirley Jones. What I didn't expect was Disney turning the quiet librarian as played by Shirley Jones into the hip-swivelling town slut as played by Kristin Chenoweth! And Victor Garber as Mayor Shinn?? PUHLEEZE!! Paul Ford played the bumbling Mayor to perfection..Victor Garber just plays him as mean! I started taping this, as I love Matthew Broderick and have since I first saw him in Brighton Beach Memoirs, but I have to tell you that 10 minutes into the show I turned off the VCR! This is just another one of Michael "The Kiss of Death" Eisner's forays into the ruination of classic American theater.
I guess Michael Eisner doesn't care what he messes with as long as he can pretend that he is Walt Disney on Sunday nights. Why can't he just do what he is supposed to do as Walt's inheritor instead of rewriting classic musicals????
First Rogers & Hammersteins Cinderella, now The Music Man...what's next...The Sound Of Music with Maria being played by a cross-dresser from Taipei?? Enough already Eisner...why don't you just get yourself frozen like Walt and give someone else a chance??
Cinderella (1965)
A Lovely Night...A Lovely Show!
I remember the first time I saw this wonderful movie. It was the very first night it was broadcast. I saw it with my parents and my sister and I was 8 years old. I fell in love that night...with the Prince (Stuart Damon), Cinderella (Lesley Ann Warren), and the rest of the cast as well! I saw it everytime it aired...up til the last time! Who knew, when I misbehaved that day and got sent to bed that it was the last time it would air on broadcast tv??
I remembered all the songs, all the costumes. Who cared if the sets looked cheesy? This was the very first movie that ever spoke to me. I have remembered it all my life. And today I finally got to see it again! I just bought the video today - and I've watched it 3 times already tonight! (making up for lost time <grin>)
I would have loved to see the Julie Andrews version...but it was aired the year I was born and never aired again. I did see the Disney 97 version...and I HATED it! Not worth my time! (except maybe for Jason Alexander! <nuther grin>
For pure simple family entertainment this movie tops my list. And it should top everyone else's as well!
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Sean Connery is the ONLY Bond!
Yes, I admit it, I am of an age to have seen ALL the James Bond movies AT the movies! I have been in love with James Bond since I was a kid and You Only Live Twice is my favorite of all the Bond flicks. When I was younger it was because it was set partially in space, and I was a space-crazy child - I wanted to go to the moon with Armstrong, etc. - but as I grew up I found that I loved it for its own sake.
As far as I am concerned, Sean Connery IS James Bond. Roger Moore smirked thru his pictures, making Bond into a joke. Lets not even TALK about George Lazenby! Timothy Dalton turned Bond into 00-Robocop. The only Bond that even comes close to Connery is Pierce Brosnan - he looks good in a tux, he is tall, dark and good looking like Connery, but he still doesn't quite make it - maybe with a little more practice!
The Happiest Millionaire (1967)
One of my all-time favorites!
When I saw this movie as a little girl, in the movie theater, I loved it for its songs and the dancing and especially Tommy Steele! Now that I am a grandmother, I still love it - for the above and for lots more. This movie makes me feel good - and isn't that what movies are for?
The Perfect Storm (2000)
A perfect 10!!
I have been reading the comments made by others here and all I can say to them is WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?? Plot development? Story line? Character development?
This is the TRUE story of a REAL crew of 6 REAL men who went to work on the sea and died for it. This is also the TRUE story of REAL rescue personnel who put their lives on the line every day. It is true that we will never know the exact fate of the Andrea Gail and her crew. However, Wolfgang Peterson took the stories that Sebastian Junger collected from survivors of other Gloucester fishing disasters and used them to show what MIGHT have happened to the Andrea Gail.
The Air Force Rescue team really did have to abandon their helicopter. They really were rescued from the sea by the Coast Guard vessel Tamaroa. One of them died - Search and Rescue looked for him for about 10 days after he was lost. This was their JOB. These people are highly trained rescue specialists and to mock them and their sacrifice is a disgrace.
Clooney, Wahlberg and company did a beautiful job as Gloucestermen on their final, fateful voyage. They didn't play it larger than life, they played it as if they truly were the people they were portraying.
A little more factual information. The Andrew Gail was a 70 foot steel boat. If indeed a wave swamped her as shown in the movie it would have had to be over 100 feet high. Recording buoys in the area that she went down showed super-waves of over 100 feet and wind speeds over 100 mph during the storm.
For reality...a 10. For special effects...a 10. For the actors...a 10. For the people of IMDb who mocked this film....a copy of Sebastian Junger's book, a new set of values and a box of popcorn so that they can see this wonderful movie again with open minds.