closer
I mean Hagerty has things to do, she loses the nest egg.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
TIE 14. The Apartment (1960, dir. Billy Wilder)225 pointshttp://www.impawards.com/1960/posters/apartment_ver3.jpg
TIE 14. The Princess Bride (1987, dir. Rob Reiner)225 pointshttps://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/11/A70-5610
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
also distinguishing screwball from romantic comedies, yeah let me know when you see ppl doing that ITT
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
work's over, enjoy the rest of the alternating VegGrrl/Dr M choices
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
xp You aren't exactly keeping your votes or at least rooting interests secret here.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
loved the apartment when i saw it as a kid but kinda got ruined when it was on tv and a friend with a more active social life saw jack lemmon wearing the bowler and asked why we're supposed to like this guy again. the whole "doormat with a heart of gold" thing just ain't been appealing since
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
I'll save the top 10 for Monday just for you morbz
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
(Labor Day)
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
13. Bringing Up Baby (1938, dir. Howard Hawks)6 votes, 234 points
https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/95/MPW-47852
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
say anything has a similar "i'll just be a glutton for punishment until she realizes she should take my virginity" quality as the apartment (and hey who released a book of interviews with wilder, cameron crowe that's who) but i got more fondness for the ensemble in that, even if shirley maclaine's way better than ione skye
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
love the all of me-trouble in paradise tie. i put all of me very high.
bringing up baby bugs me.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 29 August 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
TIE 12. The Palm Beach Story (1942, dir. Preston Sturges)6 votes, 252 pointshttp://www2.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/sc/posters/web/Picture58.jpg
TIE 12. The Philadelphia Story (1940, dir. George Cukor)6 votes, 2 no. 1 votes, 252 pointshttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nX5fPYwu6ds/T7VRgAsrkrI/AAAAAAAAAJA/H2LIWIbuvXE/s1600/PS+poster.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
11. Roman Holiday (1953, dir. William Wyler)6 votes, 259 points
http://www2.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/sc/posters/web/Picture71.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
ok that's it for today
Now, The Palm Beach Story I do kinda like.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
bringing up baby is another one where on second viewing i just couldn't get past the obvious but ignored toxicity of the romantic dynamic. the sense that katherine hepburn was blatantly NOT WELL.
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
it's nice that neither you or your friend understood The Apartment, croup -- whoosh
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 August 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
xxxxps: the scene with the bowler, when he takes her aside at the christmas party to show off his status symbols, all of which rely on getting closer to the guy he doesn't know stomped on her heart, culminating in actually showing her w oblivious hierarchy-happy pride the generic christmas card w the picture of the guy and his happy nuclear family, is the painfulest/best thing in the apartment, which i didn't vote for for some reason.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 29 August 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
I really can't stand Katherine Hepburn
xp
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
i LOVE the palm beach story. maybe my favorite movie about money.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 29 August 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
i feel like kirk van houten just told me he sleeps in a race car
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
is Mary Astor more sinister in TPBS or TMF?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 August 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
― Οὖτις,
Nicht, Toto, nicht.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 August 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
xp more sinister IRL, now
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
voted for palm beach and philadelphia story which i've always loved. one of the best films ever about philly (even tho it actually takes place outside philly)
― Mordy, Friday, 29 August 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
I can understand the Hepburn repulsion: the accent, the mannerisms, the range. In her early films she's more weird than good. She only starts looking like a human being in Holiday – then The Philadelphia Story spends most of its running time destroying what makes her unique.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 August 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
it's not hepburn per se for me, the character just comes off like a psycho
re the apt, i'll admit my own embarrassment over masochistic pining shit in my youth makes me less sympathetic towards portrayals of the archetype today
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
i know i dug the palm beach story when i saw it but couldn't remember anything specific so i didn't vote for it.
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
it's a divorce-com
― Mordy, Friday, 29 August 2014 17:17 (nine years ago) link
http://thefilmexperience.net/storage/messages-soused.jpg
― Number None, Friday, 29 August 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
I can understand the Hepburn repulsion: the accent, the mannerisms, the range.
yeah idk it's something about her stiff, brittle manner it just really rubs me the wrong way. my wife prob hates her more than I do so I p much never see her stuff anyway. I remember hating African Queen when I saw it in high school.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
number none otm
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 29 August 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
hmph I voted for the Apartment AND Princess Bride, 'alternating'
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 August 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link
The Palm Beach Story is just the best.
― I Don't Wanna Ice Bucket With You (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 29 August 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
And Joel McCrea is damn cute
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 August 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
yeah Morbz is making a mistaken assumption about the uniformity of people's ballots, most covered both eras
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
Looking at my ballot, I had several movies from the 30s/40s/50s, several from the 80s/90s/00s, but only one from the years between 1960 and 1983. This was not intentional in any way, but I guess there really was a golden age for this stuff in the years around WWII, and the second golden age didn't start until the mid-80s?
― Tuomas, Friday, 29 August 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
Though I think the second golden age is over already? I voted for only a couple of movies from the last 10 years, Safety Not Guaranteed is really the only truly remarkable romcom I've seen in recent years. And even that one stretches the romcom formula quite a lot, though it undoubtedly belongs to the genre. The best "traditional" romcom that I've seen lately is The Mindy Project, which is a TV series.
― Tuomas, Friday, 29 August 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
My ballot dropped off -- drastically -- after 1950.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 August 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
I only had 12 on my list, and six were from that 1960-83 bracket. I'm probably doing it all wrong--is there anyone here who lets you know when you're doing it all wrong?
― clemenza, Friday, 29 August 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
ask Dr. Nadir.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 August 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
idr morbz were you on the action thread complaining too? bc that seems like it'd be even worse in this regard.
I was not, because there were no Hollywood films called "action movies" until the descendants of The French Connection were thoroughly lobotomized and hyperedited inro the sacred work of Mel, Ahnuld and Bruce. There were swashbucklers, cop thrillers, westerns etc, with characterizations instead of catchphrases.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 August 2014 04:54 (nine years ago) link
so there
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 August 2014 06:27 (nine years ago) link
in fairness to Morbs, it is awful for him when people have opinions.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Saturday, 30 August 2014 06:30 (nine years ago) link
only when theyre wrong
I don't care what YOU ppl think about anything, unless you rule the world after Hillary drops the bomb
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 August 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link
Who Bomb the World (Girls)
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 August 2014 15:04 (nine years ago) link
Morbz you spend hours every day telling us what we think is wrong. You care so much its funny.
― da croupier, Saturday, 30 August 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
complaining about Hepburn being "psycho" in BUB seems kind of like complaining that Bugs Bunny is a psycho, though I can see how her character being the ur-manic pixie feels sour in 2014
― rob, Saturday, 30 August 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
the point of nice-guy schlub Bud Baxter's awakening in The Apartment is not that he's a DOORMAT, but that he's a PIMP.
why don't you guys diagnose zany housewife Lucy Ricardo next
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 August 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
Is jack Lemmon gonna have to choke a bitch?
― da croupier, Saturday, 30 August 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link