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yeah, he is very, very good in Rope. but I still dislike him.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

the model of the bridge has A VERY TINY JIMMY STEWART CONTEMPLATING SUICIDE MERRY CHRISTMAS :D :D :D

Nothing says Christmas like a suicidal George Bailey.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

donnie darko -> he realizes he has to go back and let himself be killed so the world can be set right
it's a wonderful life -> he realizes he shouldn't commit suicide because without him bedford falls turns into baltimore

SPOILER ALERT SORRY

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Does anyone remember the U.S. Acres cartoon where Wade is contemplating suicide and the guardian angel shows him how much happier & superior the world is without him?

― Abbott, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

but see he's about to learn! He's about to be shown the horror that is having bars and entertainment in your town!

xposts

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Stewart,%20James/Annex/Annex%20-%20Stewart,%20James%20(Ice%20Follies%20of%201939,%20The)_01.jpg

― rps, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

ok awesome

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

It puts Ferrell and Heder to shame, for reals.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

aw dude, of course IAWL is depressing! that's why i love it!
[also, i thought ghost rider was tombot...]

― stevie, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

"some terrible thing that yr gonna claim i left out"

HI DERE!

srsly, THE MORTAL STORM features an A+ performance from Stewart as he tries to save his love from the Nazis - good Borzage propaganda (Sarris said something funny about this film - something like "Borzage has an odd objection to Facism")

On the cheeseball side - AIRPORT 77

the only correct answer to this thread can be VERTIGO

― gershy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 03:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I picked Rear Window, actually, because I think Vertigo puts him almost too much in the service of Hitchcock. Stewart's big moments there -- "Did he train you? Did he tell you exactly what to do and what to say?" -- feel less like Jimmy Stewart and more like Hitch trained him what to do and what to say. In Rear Window he gets to be laid back and funny and obsessed, all in one movie, and all without walking around. It feel like it's more of him.

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 03:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, one of my favorite movies ever, so I'm biased.

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 03:13 (seventeen years ago) link

he's great in rear window.
also good in NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY w/ DESTRY co-star Dietrich

― gershy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link

IAWL is way misinterpreted because ppl never view it in the context of capra's other films - espec. "meet john doe," which is certainly among the darkest classic hollywood era movies i can think of. the genuine frustration and despair makes the corniness more poignant for me.

i think the ending's supposed to be more bittersweet than ppl assume - yes george never got to live out his dreams, but that's life, yknow? most people don't get to.

despite my love for capra and "liberty valance" i'm gonna have to go with "vertigo" since it basically affected me more than any movie ever. every time i've seen it i wind up feeling like i've witnessed a suicide or something.

― J.D., Thursday, 12 April 2007 09:15 (seventeen years ago) link

without him bedford falls turns into baltimore

Jeez, I guess I should go somewhere besides Camden Yards next trip.

btw Ally, b4 you get pissed about Ice Cube remaking Mr. Blandings, you shd be aware that this Disturbia thing coming out tomw is apparently a Rear Window ripoff with 20-year-olds (ie, whoever the fuck Shia LeBouef is).

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I know! It looks like it could be funny.

― Nicole, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

ugh morbs, that news is terrible. i have no idea what movie you're talking about but everything you just said grossed me out. i mean, disturbia??

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

All the reviews I've seen say it has zero surprises, by the numbers.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link

also, my fave interp of RW is that it's really about JS trying to figure out if he wants to marry Grace Kelly (the wedding ring, the different women/couples he spies on, etc).

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link

that's an interpretation?

― gabbneb, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link

yes.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

shia lebouef is spike witwicky in the new transformers!!!

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

it's produced by Ivan Rietman

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I read about it in the newspaper

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

but yeah disturbia is a terrible title for a film

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

or anything

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

one of my film profs lectured us on the marriage anxiety interpretation of rw. i remember him repeatedly pausing the scene in which grk wiggles her finger to show js that she has the ring.

― lauren, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i mean, i wouldn't say RW is 'about' one thing, but the settling-down theme is all over the movie and explicit. that great music thing you found - that's an interpretation

― gabbneb, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a tie!

I've never seen "Rear Window"

― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

PIKACHU???

― ghost rider, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link

in retrospect i think i prob should've voted for the shop around the corner, that one needs more love.

― ghost rider, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not sure how I missed this. Lately I rep for Anatomy of a Murder.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah jeez, not even Nora Ephron could destroy shop around the corner

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 13 April 2007 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i am regretting not voting for my second choice, anatomy of a murder, since it got no votes at all ;_;

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 13 April 2007 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i was going to go for rear window, followed by vertigo

>>>mr consensus<<<

― 600, Friday, 13 April 2007 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

No one vote for It's a Wonderful World?! I was thinking about that, but I settled for Harvey.

― Tuomas, Friday, 13 April 2007 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd probably have voted for "Shop Around the Corner", even though that's more of an ensemble piece, and not a star vehicle for Stewart.

― o. nate, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Pervy James tops Iconic Jimmy!

I first saw him on his starring eponymous network sitcom.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

What about those immortal Campbell's Soup commercials?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

my fave interp of RW is that it's really about JS trying to figure out if he wants to marry Grace Kelly

"What is it that's just above the subtext?"
"The text."

― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I would have voted Bell, Book and Candle if I'd seen this earlier.

― sunny successor, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

happy 100th...

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link

jesus ally was pushing like 45 different memes in this thread alone

― max, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 17:41 (fifteen years ago) link

i have never been a fan of this dude tho no matter how much i like vertigo

― max, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link

Those Anthony Mann westerns are really good.

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link

how's that possible, max?

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link

i have never been a fan of this dude tho no matter how much i like rear window

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link

8 votes for Harvey and only 3 for The Shop Around the Corner?

Bad show, ILX.

― Hubie Brown, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link

still haven't seen The Mortal Storm, and Harvey getting more votes than Anatomy of a Murder = disgraceful.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link

But... but... Harvey is brilliant. And Stewart in it is wonderful!

― James Morrison, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 00:47 (fifteen years ago) link

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