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Myself, I really liked this version, I especially loved the Marilla in this one, but so many of my friends back home in the U.S. are stuck on the Megan Follows series and can't open their minds to any other adaptation. I have a feeling they weren't alone in that sentiment. I don't think enough people gave this one a chance.
I thought Bruce was brilliant in this and can't imagine anyone else in the role now. He mastered so many subtle facial expressions, for starters. My favorite is when they are ordering at the restaurant and he tells the waitress he wants the fried chicken but his wife overrides him and says "he'll have the flame-broiled". She snatches the menu out of his hands and his facial expression quickly goes from looking like he wants to smack her to tired resignation. He keeps his hands in the position in which he was holding the menu for a few seconds before turning back to staring down at the table and giving up.
Another example is when his wife is explaining to the sons that the Westendorfs are good people, Woody very subtly goes from seeming disinterested to looking over at her with the teeniest, tiniest hint of a smile in agreement and almost as if he's proud of her for saying something good for once. Brilliant.
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If I'm not being too nosey, how was your experience getting the new car? The reason I ask is, I had read once about a young woman who won a new car on The Price Is Right but had to sell it just to be able to pay her income taxes the next year and the sales tax.
I agree. I love the stagecoach banter about their Civil War experiences and also the exchange between General Smithers, Mannix, and Marquis about Baton Rouge, but after Mobrey says "if you shoot this unarmed old man..." it goes downhill after that.
I agree. Wonderful synopsis of her character. The first time I saw the movie, during the scene at the end when Woody is driving the truck through town and she steps out in time to see him drive by, my husband said "she still loves him". I suppose Payne could have meant to imply that, but I tend to think it was more wistfulness on her part. I feel she was probably thinking about how "the roads untaken" in life affect us and how things might have been if life events (war) and weaknesses (drinking) didn't change us.
I see it’s been six years since you posted this, but I agree The Straight Story is so good. Harry Dean Stanton at the end was perfect. I also love Nebraska.
Same here. I found Conway annoying, not funny.
I rewatched this a few days ago and I kept being struck by the fact that she had really great legs for her age. I thought maybe she kept them in shape because she was always dancing around.
I've read the book twice and I feel like a much bigger deal was made of this in the movie than what it was in the book. Hollywood exaggeration for drama, of course. But still...I agree. I thought it added some unnecessary grossness to the book and movie that wasn't really needed.
Well, I just meant that I've said that a couple of times in the past and no one seems to get it's from White Men Can't Jump. I guess not many people I know have seen the movie or remember that line.
When Sydney's wife tells Gloria "It's your boyfriend, Girlfriend..."
I've tried quoting that a few times in my life but no one seems to get the reference.
I find Mrs. Maisel's stand-up act obnoxious, but maybe that is the point? Maybe that's supposed to be a statement on stand-up comedy of the 1950s? But I do like the storylines that happen when she's not on stage. To me the comedy gold is the interactions with Midge and Joel's parents and Alex Borstein is brilliant as Susie.
I hate that scene where she goes to Salieri's house and I think it was good that they cut it out of the original, but I agree that without it her line "I regret I have no servants to show you out" doesn't have the impact. When I saw the original I just assumed it was meant to convey they had no servants because Mozart squandered their money.
On Saturday evenings I like a good suspense/scary movie and thought this would be one. It wasn’t, really. And I just didn’t have much sympathy with the main character, I felt like she brought a lot of it on herself.
Now that the show has been released on Netflix I’m doing a rewatch. I actually didn’t mind her storyline, but I got to thinking – – if her character were completely cut from the show it would make no difference at all to the story.
“Lastly, Will was in possession of stolen items including a gun. How was he not under arrest and under watch of the police? The officer talks to him and then leaves him!!”
Because she wasn’t interested in arresting him. She was off to go look for the gold for herself with her accomplice on the phone.
I took it that she was touching her to make sure she wasn’t a ghost.
I kept thinking it would have been more interesting if it was really her husband who was the stalker/killer and the weird guy ended up saving her in the end. 🤷♀️
I'm a bit behind the times, just watching Season 5 now. I don't mind it except for the whole Pope thing. That storyline where he kidnapped the woman's kid and gave her money to go to Canada was completely unrealistic and stupid. I live in Vancouver, BC, it's one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in. That wad of cash he handed her wouldn't last a week here and with no friends or contacts here she'd end up homeless on the streets or a prostitute in the Downtown Eastside in no time. I've never taken the train from Washington to Vancouver, but I doubt what he said about no checkpoints is true. They may not check passengers disembarking in Vancouver but I'm sure they probably have to go through customs in Seattle, Bellingham or the border at Blaine.