tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post4566579421467030893..comments2024-03-27T21:42:56.131-05:00Comments on 1001plus: Seems a Bit More Like HellSJHoneywellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-17766695008875301602018-01-27T07:43:03.712-06:002018-01-27T07:43:03.712-06:00Agreed. While this was a slog, there wasn't an...Agreed. While this was a slog, there wasn't anything in it that I actively hated. There's at least the skeleton of something interesting here.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-48596441407182704612018-01-27T07:34:30.102-06:002018-01-27T07:34:30.102-06:00Ya that's the other one that it would be a rea...Ya that's the other one that it would be a real struggle to wade through again. Between the two I'd have to default to Heaven Too because THAT voice in Skeffington is a trial in and of itself.joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-28649984001102349222018-01-26T20:42:35.447-06:002018-01-26T20:42:35.447-06:00I'm trying to think of a Davis film where I wa...I'm trying to think of a Davis film where I was more...not bored exactly, but uncaring. I think <i>Mr. Skeffington</i> might be the one. <br /><br />But yeah--I can think of probably 10 Davis roles I'd much rather rewatch without going to look at the list of Davis roles I've seen, and I've only seen 15. That's not a good sign.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-77721693704335742722018-01-26T20:26:02.286-06:002018-01-26T20:26:02.286-06:00If ever a movie screamed Prestige Project to appea...If ever a movie screamed Prestige Project to appease its star its this one. <br /><br />I love Bette Davis, I like Boyer and it was a hoot to see Barbara O'Neil, the portrayer of that paragon of temperance and equanimity Ellen O'Hara, having a high old time playing a total bitch but this movie aside from her gave me the grumps. It was just ssssooo slow to get anywhere and then I didn't care when it did. <br /><br />I'm sure Bette was anxious to play the put upon heroine for a change and the book was apparently a big hit of its day but once was enough for me. If I need a Bette fix I'd go for almost any of her other films over this one. <br /><br />I second the suggestions above of It's Love I'm After-a very fun little comic romp-and Fog Over Frisco-though with a certain reservation for that one. FOF is standard Warners programmer stuff and its one of Bette's last supporting turns but man alive does she inject energy into the film. Her character is a hedonistic fool hurtling head first towards trouble but when she's on screen the film is compelling, when she's not however its pretty weak sauce with the bland Margaret Lindsay & Donald Woods unable to come anywhere near her intensity. joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-6923620927709205822018-01-22T16:51:00.735-06:002018-01-22T16:51:00.735-06:00It's not even so much the Ashley Wilkes thing....It's not even so much the Ashley Wilkes thing. I just find him very vanilla, not unlike Franchot Tone.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-3643931705143123202018-01-22T14:18:16.545-06:002018-01-22T14:18:16.545-06:00Well, he got typecast as Ashley Wilkes. He's p...Well, he got typecast as Ashley Wilkes. He's pretty good in quite a few 1930s movies. He's in Stand-In (1937), a pretty funny movie (about making movies) with Joan Blondell and Humphrey Bogart. Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17921029597363212734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-2140988092981866202018-01-22T07:16:19.411-06:002018-01-22T07:16:19.411-06:00I don't know that I've seen a really obscu...I don't know that I've seen a really obscure Davis movie. I wouldn't be opposed to watching one, but I also think I'm just about done with her filmography in terms of the Oscar lists.<br /><br />Leslie Howard has never been much of a favorite of mine.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-79947715529482455062018-01-22T07:15:23.351-06:002018-01-22T07:15:23.351-06:00I speak virtually no French (I have a phrase or tw...I speak virtually no French (I have a phrase or two), but I did correctly translate the second phrase without help. <br /><br />And really, this is more like a mild Purgatory.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-81168938884990613662018-01-22T01:34:05.770-06:002018-01-22T01:34:05.770-06:00"Seems a Bit More Like Hell"
L'enfe...<b>"Seems a Bit More Like Hell"</b><br /><br /><i>L'enfer, c'est les autres.</i><br />—Sartre<br /><br />Or maybe in this case:<br /><br /><i>L'enfer, c'est un film qui est trop long.</i>Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-80343673240178335772018-01-22T01:11:03.514-06:002018-01-22T01:11:03.514-06:00The obscure Bette Davis movie that I ABSOLUTELY LO...The obscure Bette Davis movie that I ABSOLUTELY LOVE is "It's Love I'm After." Davis and Leslie Howard play a couple of stage actors famous for "Romeo and Juliet." In the opening scene they are performing the death scene and whispering mean comments to each other between the Bard's lines.<br /><br />Olivia de Haviland is socialite who's a groupie of Leslie Howard's character.<br /><br />They're all pretty awesome!<br /><br />The other obscure Davis films that I always recommend: Front Page Woman (directed by Michael Curtiz), Dark Horse (with Warren William) and Fog over Frisco. Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17921029597363212734noreply@blogger.com