tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post2290356492717447216..comments2024-03-27T21:42:56.131-05:00Comments on 1001plus: Winner of "Least Imaginative Title" Goes to...SJHoneywellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-70164085550979446872015-05-29T14:05:14.974-05:002015-05-29T14:05:14.974-05:00It's a surprisingly good film. It's worth ...It's a surprisingly good film. It's worth a watch, because I think it's a much smarter film than you're giving it credit.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-64146158053229084042015-05-29T13:31:49.011-05:002015-05-29T13:31:49.011-05:00I've seen Frogs and The Thing with Two Heads f...I've seen Frogs and The Thing with Two Heads fairly recently, but I haven't seen X for more than 30 to 35 years! Maybe if I saw it again I wouldn't lump it with the other two.<br /><br />Milland is also in DIal M for Murder, one of my favorite Hitchcocks. Like Suspicion, it seems to get more love from me than from other Hitchcock fans. Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17921029597363212734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-85542829456797496272015-05-28T17:35:01.052-05:002015-05-28T17:35:01.052-05:00It's entirely possible that I could be wrong a...It's entirely possible that I could be wrong about <i>Love Story</i>. Roger Ebert gave it four stars, after all.<br /><br />I am a huge fan of <i>X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes</i>.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-29908106844965822672015-05-28T17:21:48.285-05:002015-05-28T17:21:48.285-05:00Ray Milland is in this!?!? I love late-career Mill...Ray Milland is in this!?!? I love late-career Milland so much! <br /><br />He made three movies - X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, The Things with Two Heads and Frogs - that I call Ray Milland's Terrible Movie Trilogy, but I love them all.<br /><br />I had no idea he was doing stuff like Love Story while he was making the trilogy.<br /><br />Um, for some reason, knowing Milland is in it doesn't make me want to see Love Story at all.<br /><br />P.S. I saw What's Up, Doc? recently and it's as awesome as ever! Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17921029597363212734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-30686992887392261982015-05-28T13:14:10.107-05:002015-05-28T13:14:10.107-05:00It's a surprisingly easy movie to parody. Anyt...It's a surprisingly easy movie to parody. Anything that goes this sappy, maudlin, and aggressively manipulative is.<br /><br />The greatest single review of this film ever comes from Judith Crist, who called it, "<i>Camille</i> with bullshit."<br /><br />I agree completely on the "Let's not tell 'em they're sick" trope. One of the best handlings of that is in <i>Ikiru</i> where that trope is actually played out with the knowledge that if the patient is told that it's nothing serious, it's actually reall serious. I've never understood this as being something to do. Why the hell would you hide this from someone? Because ignoring leukemia is what will make it go away?<br /><br /><i>Love Story</i> might scrape it's way up another half star or so without that trope, but that really pisses me off.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-70738329040735653842015-05-28T09:04:40.999-05:002015-05-28T09:04:40.999-05:00I didn't care for this, either. I saw parodie...I didn't care for this, either. I saw parodies of it long before I ever saw the movie. I tend to avoid movies where I know beforehand that someone will probably die a tragic and prolonged death. There's a few dozen other things I'd rather see in a movie before that. (And just to show I'm schizophrenic, I've watched many movies that have happened to have this happen, but I didn't know about it beforehand, and I've considered them to be very good.)<br /><br />I hate the "don't tell someone they are dying because it's for their own good" trope. Hate it. I'd want to know, damn it. I used to think that was just a movie thing, lazy writing to leave having to address the death until the end. Sometime in the last year, though, I read a long article about Lou Gehrig and it turns out that his doctors deliberately lied to him, telling him he was showing improvement, and that he might even be able to play baseball again, when in fact they did know he was declining and would die. They had his wife in on the deception "for his own good" and it's this correspondence between doctors and wife that was found that revealed all of this.<br /><br />One of the Love Story parodies I saw was in the early 70s movie What's Up, Doc? with Ryan O'Neal and Barbra Streisand. Late in the movie he says something about love and in a straightfaced way she says "Love means never having to say you're sorry." then flutters her eyelashes at him. After a beat or two he responds, "that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard."Chip Laryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-31260798973010880212015-05-28T08:01:33.814-05:002015-05-28T08:01:33.814-05:00In my cynic's-eye-view of this film, my respon...In my cynic's-eye-view of this film, my response to Ryan O'Neal's lack of tears is at the heart of the problem. Why should he cry? He's not the one dying. And if he did cry, it would be all about how he's losing her, not that she's losing her life. <br /><br />I have no idea why <i>Love Story</i> hit a nerve in 1970, but it evidently did. Then again, that's the beginning of the "me" decade, so maybe it's just presaging the general social pattern to come. SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-85330278952090087152015-05-28T06:20:14.379-05:002015-05-28T06:20:14.379-05:00A friend of mine says he hates watching films in w...A friend of mine says he hates watching films in which the major problems can all be solved with functioning cell phones. But that's neither here nor there.<br /><br />Just watched the final ten minutes of "Love Story" on YouTube. After our family's crisis, it became really hard for me to watch any sort of drama in which a terminally ill person is lying, weak and helpless, in a hospital bed. But I have to say... I watched Ryan O'Neil and Ali McGraw's acting and was completely unmoved. Didn't feel a thing. Maybe it was just the 70s-style line readings. Maybe it was O'Neal's lack of tears. Not sure what it was, but the scene left me as cold as Jenny Cavalleri's corpse.Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-72386476351191224942015-05-27T21:52:44.796-05:002015-05-27T21:52:44.796-05:00@Doug--what would give you that impression?
@Ipec...@Doug--what would give you that impression?<br /><br />@Ipecac--Hate-filled reviews are always more fun to write. Always.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-74163191706969146322015-05-27T21:03:51.763-05:002015-05-27T21:03:51.763-05:00Best. Review. Ever.Best. Review. Ever.Ipecachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15157560182505626755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-9987334189696969092015-05-27T20:20:05.920-05:002015-05-27T20:20:05.920-05:00So I'm guessing you didn't like this one.....So I'm guessing you didn't like this one...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02807403839771464383noreply@blogger.com