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It's the dimples. ;)
(I'm so bummed. I logged in just to participate in this thread, but you can't just "like" or "thumbs up" a post? That's terrible. This is my kind of thread!)
Imagine it with Steve Carrel and Tina Fey, like Date Night.
I didn't know they were married IRL. For some reason that pleases me.
I agree that they both gave solid performances in this. They've both been on my favorites list since I first saw them act.
I hate so many things about this movie and feel that as an audience we've been sold out when they could so easily have made a truly scary and plausible movie. But those things have been discussed elsewhere.
The point is that I fully enjoyed watching these two act, and I'm glad I got a chance to see them act together. I'd watch it again just for their performances. They can both sell their stuff.
Who would've been a better actress for Kim?
Anyone.
For a while, I thought she was meant to be brain damaged or mentally challenged.
Still watching. Still loving it. Still moved and inspired by it. Still sobbing like a child throughout the last third of the movie and aching for my father.
If I think too much about it, I'll end up with 300 instead of 3, so I'll write down the two that just now popped into my head, and force myself to stop.
1. Big Daddy, the courtroom speech by Sonny to HIS dad about what a good father is, and everybody in the room starts pulling out their phones and calling their fathers, their voices thick with tears.
2. Dumbo, where the most mournful lullaby in the world plays over clips of all the contented mother and baby circus animals snuggling, while the imprisoned Mrs. Jumbo and baby Dumbo strain to reach each other through the door of the prison wagon.
... or Ben Hanscomb
a) Because she wasn't very smart.
b) Probably because she had no leverage and not much body weight to throw around. The bed was at least queen sized and the frame looked very heavy. I'm not sure she could have shimmied the bed. She should have tried, though.
c) Because she wasn't very smart.
It's a gem.
Agreed! I love Keener. I have no idea what I first saw her in, I only know that I fell in love with her acting immediately. She's extremely natural and intensely likable.
I love everybody in this cast, and I think they were all perfect for their roles.
ALL phones used to be rotary dial, and all of them were black until they started making them in color in the mid-50s, for an extra price. Those huge rotary dials, though! From today's perspective, it took forever to dial a number. LOL.
Also, all phone numbers began, not with numbers, but letters of the alphabet which were an abbreviation of the telephone exchange you lived closest to. Think of it like the area covered by your zip code. You were supposed to memorize which numbers on the dial corresponded to your exchange, but when you spoke your phone number aloud, you always said the words. For instance, say you lived in the Whitehall exchange, your phone number might be WH1-1234, or "Whitehall 1-1234".
Almost every line in this movie is funny, and imminently quotable.
Oh, I did. And I do every time.
If you're a Garland fan, it's simply impossible to watch this number and not end up with a grin on your face so big it hurts. Not mention watch it and keep entirely still. This and Kelly's dance number with the newspaper are solid old time gold.
Of course, the team of Garland and Rooney were the stuff of legend, but I can't imagine this movie with anybody but Gene Kelly. In fact, I can't imagine the world without this musical. It would surely be a sadder place.
I just finished watching it again, after decades of having lost track of it. It made me weep just as it did when I first saw it as a child.
[quote]I have that sound associated with the anticipation of the beginning of a movie (like Pavlov's dog). Every time I hear it I get that same feeling that I'm about to watch a movie 😀[/quote]
Contrarily, I can never go to see a movie that contains that THX trailer without wanting to curl up into a frightened ball. :D
p.s. Interestingly, that sound is trademarked and is called the Deep Note (not even "A" Deep Note, but "The.")
LOL
However, I must award multitudes of bad-ass point to a movie cop who states flat out and unashamedly that he intends to kill the scumbag bad guy.
Not to mention that said pot belly must be made of pure muscle, as he can rip a door right off its hinges by barging through it, kind of like the Kool-Aid man bursting through the wall.
And finally, I love Charles Durning and he can do no wrong. ;-)
Didn't you notice his expression when Miss Casswell kicked off her shoes and took up her Karate stance to reveal a typical man's dream of a beautiful, intelligent, stacked broad of his own age who can match him in a fight? She was pushing all of his buttons. Not gay!