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I loveee all of those!
I’m trying not to swing at that amazingly easy pitch; so I’ll just say...umm.
Almost anything by Aaron Sorkin. Or Shonda Rhimes (but actually written by her) And the first couple of seasons of David Mamet’s The Unit.
I’m 45 but started watching movies from this era and before at 8 or 9. It really is wonderful to see so many young people loving old movies. They’re so different from movies today and I was pretty sure appreciation and knowledge of them would just vanish.
I was so glad to see Holiday on someone’s list. It was a huge influence on my life from the time I saw it at 13.
Others I don’t remember seeing listed that I think are awesome:
Now, voyager
The Lady Vanishes
Watch on the Rhine
His Girl Friday
My Man Godfrey
Ruggles of Red Gap (hi-larious)
The Man Who Came To Dinner
The Women
The Stranger
Adam’s Rib
Night of The Hunter
Rope
Arsenic and Old Lace
Mr Smith Goes To Washington
I had a similar dad. Though he did graduate from womanizer to serial monogamist eventually. I don’t think it’s ‘psycho’. But there is a lot t of immaturity and fear which goes with that mindset; whether the ideas rest in a brain that is male or female.
I did at first. They were uncomfortable because it wasn’t what I was used to. And the language around sexual orientation when I was growing up, I can now recognize as insane ‘which one of you is the man?’, ‘Which is the bride?’; type of stuff. Questions which are an amazing display of the entitlement, discomfort and mental laziness of the asker, but for a time we’re considered ‘reasonable’ confusion.
Now the answers are pretty obvious. Overcoming the discomfort was good us. Just as sitting still long enough to get comfy enough to recognize the beauty of love in same sex weddings; has been for me.
And I’m also gonna say the rights they have today aren’t “theirs”, they’re yours as well. Human rights.
Lots of great movies here
For me essentials, in no particular order, include:
Cleopatra (Mankiewicz’s)
Holiday 1939 (
Little Women (LeRoy’s)
Once Upon A Time When We Were Colored
The Women (Cukor’s)
Casablanca
The Joy Luck Club
Selena
Shadowlands
To Sleep With Anger
Empire Strikes Back
Titanic (cameron’s)
Back to the Future
Christmas Story
Sound of Music
Singin’ in the Rain
Henry V (both Olivier and Branagh version)
Harold and Maude
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Independence Day
Iron Man
Something New
Carmen Jones
Stand and Deliver
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Swept From The Sea
Philadelphia Story
It Happened One Night
Now Voyager
The Bourne Identity (Liman’s)
Wonder Woman
The Black Panther
One of the things I liked in this movie was the gentle subversion of it. In a movie like this where Michaels character is played by a woman, she’s more like an avatar into which the two guys imbue personality and virtues, but possesses little in terms of being interesting as a person.
Michael wasn’t all that interesting as a person. In different ways both women filled him up with their own desires and expectations. It wasn’t that much about him at all. Though I think Kimmy was closer to seeing him for who he was than Jules.
I agree too.
I gotta say I think Rupert Everett is one of the most beautiful human beings in existence; male or female, gay or straight. But both he and Dermot are different kinds of sexy to me; more of a Cary Grant vs Gene Kelly type of thing.