tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post5540660773105648671..comments2024-03-27T21:42:56.131-05:00Comments on 1001plus: Jung at HeartSJHoneywellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-7564949234660295772015-12-29T23:28:52.002-06:002015-12-29T23:28:52.002-06:00"Sinister Glurge"--if only I'd thoug..."Sinister Glurge"--if only I'd thought of it.<br /><br />I have no idea how this damn thing got added when they still haven't put a single Ray Harryhausen film on, or <i>The Great Dictator</i> or <i>Safety Last!</i> There's so little here to recommend it. <br /><br />Films like this make me feel stupid--like if I knew more I'd understand why it was added.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-41928219075497286232015-12-27T12:14:28.805-06:002015-12-27T12:14:28.805-06:00Even when I don't particularly like one of the...Even when I don't particularly like one of the movies on the List, I can usually understand why it was important and why it's on the List. But I am entirely baffled by Peter Ibbetson. Was it a very popular film? I know it was a big hit on Broadway and had been filmed before. You see great films from the 1930s but you also see some stuff that was wildly popular that just leaves you scratching your head.<br /><br />I liked the opening. Dickie Moore was in a couple of the funniest Our Gang comedies (Free Wheelin' and Forgotten Babies) and I really like seeing him in feature films of the time. (He's memorable in Blonde Venus, and it's hard to be noticed in a movie where Marlene Dietrich is dressed as a gorilla.) And Virginia Weidler adds a lot to her most famous movies The Philadelphia Story and The Women, especially the latter. So I stand by my earlier statement that this would have been a better movie about fugitive street urchins in the City of Lights. <br /><br />Otherwise, I didn't like this too much and found it a bit hard to sit through, although I did repress the urge to yell "Just die already!" at the end.<br /><br />You should change the review title to The Sinister Glurge.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17921029597363212734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-74625676232664027962015-12-27T11:04:59.863-06:002015-12-27T11:04:59.863-06:00I had to take a break at the 50-minute mark,
Ear...I had to take a break at the 50-minute mark, <br /><br />Earlier in the film, there was a super-creepy moment: Peter comes back from Paris and his co-workers ask him if he had fun with the ladies.<br /><br />He says there was just one lady.<br /><br />The co-worker says: "Oh! It sounds serious!"<br /><br />Peter says: "She was eight years old. I'll never forget her."<br /><br />The co-workers look rather shocked as he strides away.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17921029597363212734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-11049238810086061132015-12-27T09:37:30.205-06:002015-12-27T09:37:30.205-06:00I haven't watched very much of it but I get th...I haven't watched very much of it but I get the feeling it would be a better movie if Dickie Moore and Virginia Weidler had escaped from Douglas Dumbrille (who, by the way, is doing a very good job in the Sir Cedric Hardwicke role) and survived as streets urchins in the wilds of Paris. With Charles Boyer as a French Fagin and Luise Rainier as a sidewalk flower salesgirl. Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17921029597363212734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-78373030709024250312013-12-29T18:40:07.865-06:002013-12-29T18:40:07.865-06:00Yeah, for my money, Ida Lupino was a better bet.Yeah, for my money, Ida Lupino was a better bet.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-33130096971599577282013-12-28T13:54:50.052-06:002013-12-28T13:54:50.052-06:00"glurgey", I like that. Romantic overloa..."glurgey", I like that. Romantic overload galore.<br />Well, neither did I ever have any psychic connection with anybody, so what do I know, but to turn down Ida Lupino like that? tsk tsk...<br />TSorensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12208153011927807857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-41871491395352373322013-09-27T08:19:49.254-05:002013-09-27T08:19:49.254-05:00Ah, the scorn. Cue the Korea.Ah, the scorn. Cue the Korea.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-84432954634825304132013-09-27T03:14:19.361-05:002013-09-27T03:14:19.361-05:00You're in Korea? Me, too!You're in Korea? Me, too!Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08092564511948736386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-88421240909526191612013-09-27T00:25:08.469-05:002013-09-27T00:25:08.469-05:00I smell the acrid scent of your scorn all the way ...I smell the acrid scent of your scorn all the way from Korea.Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-849711171030207672013-09-26T23:12:52.647-05:002013-09-26T23:12:52.647-05:00Had I world enough and time...
I got this (as not...Had I world enough and time...<br /><br />I got this (as noted above) from the local university library. It's a five-movie set including this one, <i>Design for Living, Beau Geste, The General Died at Dawn</i>, and <i>The Lives of a Bengal Lancer</i>, which I have seen and liked well enough.<br /><br />I think you're right, but the dream sequences didn't feel all that special to me. I thought the whole thing was pretty dippy.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-35247760048650478442013-09-26T23:01:26.617-05:002013-09-26T23:01:26.617-05:00This is probably redundant since you saw my rankin...This is probably redundant since you saw my rankings of the 49 additions in my last post, but I felt this film was just okay. I couldn't really see why this particular film was added when hundreds of others just like it were not. The book's focus on the dream sequences seem to be the reason.<br /><br />In fact, the other Gary Cooper movie on the Netflix DVD (1933's Design for Living - directed by Lubitch, starring Cooper, Fredric March, and Miriam Hopkins fresh off Trouble in Paradise) was a film I liked a lot more. If you've still got the DVD you may want to check it out.Chip Laryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.com