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[BenWils]

I just saw Hoodwinked on DVD over the weekend. Let me tell you I was highly annoyed when I saw the trailer at the movies before it was out.....I thought, great another stupid animated flick that I will not see because they are all the same these days.....boy was I wrong! It was the BEST animated....wait scratch that...best movie I have seen in a long while.....one of the most clever and well written animated movies I have ever seen.

The voices were dead cashews on......I was laughing all throughout it and even watched it second time since I did not catch all the funny lines and twists they throw at you. What a genius way to spin Little Red Riding Hood. Hilarious!

Anyone else have any 4-star movies they have seen lately?
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[Deirdre]

All About Eve, 1950.
Bette Davis, Celeste Holm, Anne Baxter, Gary Merril, George Sanders, Hugh Marlowe.

Jeez-- everyone in it is stunning.
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[Hart]

You know, I'm actually a little bit excited about seeing Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

Which is really weird since I usually don't like Wil Ferrell movies and I'm not exactly a NASCAR nut either. Something about the way he makes seems to make fun of Earnhardt Jr.'s look appeals to me.
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[Bailey]

Picnic... 1955... got it on VHS.
William Holden and Kim Novak...
Perfect timing... the entire movie.
They don't make 'em like that anymore.
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[TC]

I've been watching silent comedies lately -- Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin.

Harold Lloyd's "Safety Last" is a good one. I don't find him nearly as funny as Keaton or Chaplin, but this movie includes the famous shot you always see of him hanging from the minute hand of a clock at the top of a skyscraper. The DVD has great commentary discussing how such a dangerous-looking series of shots was filmed.

Keaton is a genius. He can do sarcasm in a silent film. It's amazing. If you don't watch any other silent movie in your whole life, watch Keaton's "The General." It's a masterpiece. It's the story of a confederate soldier who singlehandedly sneaks across enemy lines in a train, rescues his girlfriend, and takes her back to the South, all while being chased by another train. Some of the stunts are pretty breathtaking -- like Jackie Chan breathtaking.

[Deirdre]

I used to play piano for silent movies when I was in Jr High and High school. One of my pals was a silent movie buff and collected 8mm films of the oldies.
One of the faves at the showings was The General.

A really great film indeed.

And I agree with Bailey-- they DON'T make 'em like that any more.
All About Eve was shot in 8 weeks.
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[donrandall]

Carey Grant/Ginger Rogers in "Monkey Business".

He is always great, but it's Ginger Rogers who makes this one, she does the most remarkable personality and voice changes in this movie, where they drink some sort of chemical concoction and revert to early childhood.

Carey Grant/Rosalind Russell in "His Girl Friday".

Yep, I'm a Carey Grant fan, no doubt - but again he is upstaged by his costar - this is a movie where the voicework of Rosalind Russell is just incredible.

Of course, as a grampaw, I get to take the wee kiddies to a bunch of kiddie movies these days. Some of the stuff coming out in animation these days is kinda hotrod!

[anthonyVO]

Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb

It's still very relevant.

Peter Sellers was just BRILLIANT!

Plus - although he's not a "Star" in it, James Earl Jones makes a couple of quick an appearances.

-Anthony

[Apageloman]

Memoirs of a Geisha
The Aviator
Mission to Mars

All just kind of made you think a bit