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Some Like It Hot
The Godfather
Taxi Driver
. . actually anything with Marlon Brando or Robert Di Nero
Taxi Driver...
WOW!!
So intense and creepy
Good one
Those are good movies, too.
I must say, however, that Some Like it Hot, has a rather sadistic ending to it.
How so? Please explain.
shareWell, the fact that everybody in the hotel was in the middle of partying and celebrating, and then all of a sudden, two men with guns emerged from what looked like a huge, huge birthday cake and started shooting into the crowd with machine guns was a rather sadistic ending.
shareBut that's not how it ended. It ended with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in the boat with Marilyn Monroe and Joe. E. Brown.
shareI dont really understand your sadism statement either...watched it with my Nan when i was really little...seemed pretty lighthearted and silly to me..?
shareSome Like It Hot was funny, light-hearted and silly, but in the end, when everybody was inside the hotel partying and celebrating a birthday, two men came out of what looked like a life-sized birthday cake and opened fire on the crowd with machine guns. That, to me, was a rather sadistic ending. It was a weird twist to an otherwise funny movie.
shareOh, boy!
West Side Story is my all time favorite movie...hands down! When it's not playing here in the Boston, MA area, I've even made special road trips to the opposite end of the state, or to neighboring states, to see it.
West Side Story, as a movie, always feels fresh and new to me, like I'm seeing it for the first time, and I never get tired of seeing it over and over again. The MGM quote "Unlike other classics, West Side Story grows younger." is SO true!
It IS a wonderful movie!
They made me study it in middle school and i did so under protest (y'know...teen boys and dancing/musicals/'girly' stuff) and i came away with a long time appreciation for it
Great stuff!
Hi, ShogunofYonkers.
Glad to see that you also like the film West Side Story.
My love for West Side Story began with my introduction to it through the soundtrack of the original Broadway stage production of it, during the summer of 1962, prior to entering the sixth grade, while attending day camp out west, in Tucson, AZ. One girl in the group I was with who'd received a copy of the LP soundtrack to the original Broadway stage version of West Side Story brought it to camp one day and played it for the rest of the group. My love for West Side Story and the very story behind it took off, instantly.
West Side Story-mania was in the air that summer, as kids roamed the halls in packs, snapping their fingers and singing all the songs from West Side Story. The WSS songs rang through the bus to and from camp 5 days a week. When I got home, I played my parent's copy of the same LP soundtrack on their Hi-Fi whenever I could, and liked to bang around with the songs on the piano, much to my parent's distress.
I didn't get to see the film version of West Side Story until around Christmastime of 1968, as a high school Senior, at a now-defunct cinema north of both Boston and the suburb that my siblings and I grew up in, during a big national re-release of it. I fell in love with the film version instantly.
For afew years afterwards, I put West Side Story on the back burner, and got into seeing other films. In the spring of 1972, three years after graduating from high school, West Side Story came on TV in two parts. I watched it, along with other people in my evening jewelry-making class at the School of the museum of Fine Arts here in Boston. That summer, while on a six-week trip to Europe, my love for the film West Side Story was re-awakened when another person in the group I was with had brought along a cassette tape of the soundtrack to the film version, which was played almost every evening during free hours.
Wow!
Thats a really nice personal story...thx for sharing and MUCH respect for caring enough to share your fond memories:)
I liked it for the fighting and tragedy ( tho as a dumb young buck me and my pals reenacted much of it like fruity ballerinas...lol...12 year old boys and all that! )
Thank you for sharing mplo...most gracious
Great movie!
Again, you're welcome, ShogunofYonkers. Thank you for your compliments, and for the sharing of your neat memories of seeing this great golden oldie-but-keeper of a classic movie-musical. It sounds like you and your friends also had lots of fun that year!
I like this film for the same reasons you do/did, and for the fact that it's not only a great work of art, but I also liked it for the fact that when West Side Story was transferred from stage to screen, it was preserved as a larger-than-lifesized piece of theatre. That is one of the things that sets WSS apart from most other movie-musicals.
Since I was still a teenager in high school when I first saw the film version of West Side Story, I identified with the Jets, the Sharks, and their girls, regarding kids being kids and so on, but when I got a little older and began seeing WSS in repertory movie theatres in and around Boston, I began to appreciate it more for the work of art that it really is, as well as other things. Thanks again for your compliments, and for sharing your experiences, regarding a fabulous movie.