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[Crow]

Mary. Ugh. Bad by any standard.

I ate 4 times as many mushrooms but liked it 1/4 as much as Capone, which was terrible, but it at least memorable in many ways.

1/16 as good as Capone which I think was a 7/10 so 7/160?

Edit I don’t think my math is right let’s call it a 4/10. Acting wasn’t too bad I guess just everything else.

 

[kihei]

Hopefully a high paid one (if such a thing exists) that can take care of mom and dad in their old age

Actually you got me thinking about what movies I saw when I was 7, and only Disney came to mind. But my mom, who raised me, in all other aspects your normal, non-controversial, basic mom, decided I didn't need a filter shortly after that. This resulted in me seeing "mature" movies from 8-years-of-age onwards, a decision that I absolutely loved. So my early film education went something like this

8-years-old: From Here to Eternity; Stalag 17; Shane

9-years-old: On the Waterfront; Sabrina; Rear Window; A Star Is Born (Garland); Vera Cruz; Desiree

10-years-old: Rebel without a Cause; The Man with the Golden Arm (still my favourite soundtrack music); The Night of the Hunter; East of Eden (the only one that bored me); The Blackboard Jungle; The Bridges of Toko-Ri; The Desperate Hours; Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

11-years-old: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (scared me but in a fun way); Giant; Moby Dick
(thought Peck was miscast--so I am already developing into a little critic); The Bad Seed; The Harder They Fall

12-Years-old: 3:10 to Yuma; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; An Affair to Remember; 12 Angry Men; The Bridge on the River Kwai; Witness for the Prosecution; Night of the Demon (Tournier) (I thought it was brilliant).

My point is, some kids can handle adult fare with aplomb. Even now, looking back, I don't remember feeling the least bit surprised about being allowed to see all these movies so young. They just seemed, with rare exceptions like East of Eden and Giant, like interesting movies, my kind of movies. No big deal whatsoever In fact, they, and the additional Disney and Hitchcock stuff, whetted a life-long interest in cinema in all likelihood. It may seem weird to contemporary parenting, but for me, it was just normal. Given the level of carnage, core, questionable language, and violence in movies now, I doubt a contemporary version of my mother would be so sanguine anymore. But I am grateful that she was at the time.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Watched Last Night:

7.5/10

 

[kihei]

Maria (2024) Directed by Pablo Larrain 6B

Chilean director Pablo Larrain makes brilliant, insightful movies (No; The Club; El Conde), but he also has a curious predilection for making biographies of women who were, in one way or another, 20th century cultural icons who felt overwhelmed by the lives they had thrust upon them. Like Jackie and Spencer before this one, Maria is immaculately presented but a trifle on the dry side. As opera diva Maria Callas, Angelina Jolie is imperial, acerbic and tends to speak in pointed rejoinders. Most of the movie is her talking to an interviewer or engaging in flashbacks. There is no plot here, only a glance at the last rather lonely days of her life. It all adds up to something that is aesthetically engaging and of a piece with Larrain's other explorations of female icons. However, Maria is also rather desiccated, a stylish but pallid exercise in how certain famous women can get trapped within a situation and/or a persona that doesn't have an escape hatch. For me, Maria was like looking at a really beautifully built table. If I was actually interested in tables, I probably would have liked it more.

 

[Unholy Diver]

Actually you got me thinking about what movies I saw when I was 7, and only Disney came to mind. But my mom, who raised me, in all other aspects your normal, non-controversial, basic mom, decided I didn't need a filter shortly after that. This resulted in me seeing "mature" movies from 8-years-of-age onwards, a decision that I absolutely loved. So my early film education went something like this

8-years-old: From Here to Eternity; Stalag 17; Shane

9-years-old: On the Waterfront; Sabrina; Rear Window; A Star Is Born (Garland); Vera Cruz; Desiree

10-years-old: Rebel without a Cause; The Man with the Golden Arm (still my favourite soundtrack music); The Night of the Hunter; East of Eden (the only one that bored me); The Blackboard Jungle; The Bridges of Toko-Ri; The Desperate Hours; Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

11-years-old: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (scared me but in a fun way); Giant; Moby Dick
(thought Peck was miscast--so I am already developing into a little critic); The Bad Seed; The Harder They Fall

12-Years-old: 3:10 to Yuma; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; An Affair to Remember; 12 Angry Men; The Bridge on the River Kwai; Witness for the Prosecution; Night of the Demon (Tournier) (I thought it was brilliant).

My point is, some kids can handle adult fare with aplomb. Even now, looking back, I don't remember feeling the least bit surprised about being allowed to see all these movies so young. They just seemed, with rare exceptions like East of Eden and Giant, like interesting movies, my kind of movies. No big deal whatsoever In fact, they, and the additional Disney and Hitchcock stuff, whetted a life-long interest in cinema in all likelihood. It may seem weird to contemporary parenting, but for me, it was just normal. Given the level of carnage, core, questionable language, and violence in movies now, I doubt a contemporary version of my mother would be so sanguine anymore. But I am grateful that she was at the time.

I am probably a tinge too lenient with some of the things we take her to, nothing quite as heavy or dramatic as most on your list but there have been plenty of PG13 movies, mostly light fare like super hero stuff, or Ghostbusters and Beetlejuice, though she joined me for the re-release of the extended cuts of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and made it thru all 900 or so hours of that fairly unscathed. Popcorn can be a miracle worker