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The film is still pretty well made, but, as I've said before, the serial-killer genre REALLY needs to bring itself back down to Earth.
I re-watched One Hour Photo the other day, and was once again reminded about how refreshing it was in that film to see a lonewolf villain(not technically a serial killer, but in the general moral vicinity) who operates within the limitations of an average person.
As opposed to some supposed neighbourhood sociopath, whose got a sexual-sadism dungeon built into his basement, state-of-the-art torture equipment, video feeds to paying snuff-afficianadoes around the world, and several Swiss bank accounts to keep it all afloat.
I think I really have to blame Silence Of The Lambs for that genre's unfortunate embrace of the Highbrow Monster archetype. Well, that and Se7en.
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Totally agreed. Se7en was horrifying, but One Hour Photo was chilling on a completely different level, because it showed how normal and near crazy could be.
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We saw A Walk in the Woods at the movies yesterday -- yes! we left the house and went to the big movies. For once I thought the film did a fine job of capturing the book. Hiking the Appalachian Trail has long been a dream/ now fantasy of mine, so there's that, and Nick Nolte was absolutely hilarious. Lots of critics thought it was boring but we definitely didn't.
One warning is a scene where they hitchhike a ride from a drunk couple with some fairly obvious sex going on in the front seat. Why movies have to throw out these moments that add little and might ruin a film as something you could take your child or grandmother to is mystery to me.
Kelly, thanks for the film shorts link above!
You're welcome! Nifty little site, huh?
(RE: AWITW: I think the Drunk Couple scene was actually described in detail in the book, the point being that our two intrepid travelers were trapped in a car with two people who had no business being behind a wheel, for multiple reasons.)
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Just viewed Reel Injun, a documentary about the history of Hollywoods depiction of Indians. I liked it quite a bit. Nice balance of emotional tone.
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I saw and enjoyed Mr. Holmes with Ian McKellen. Wrote a review of it.
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I saw and enjoyed Mr. Holmes with Ian McKellen. Wrote a review of it.
What a lovely movie! I would expound, but the reasons I loved it would highlight plot points best experienced whilst viewing.
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It is not a spoiler to mention that Ian McKellen does a boffo job in the title role. To watch him fade in and out of mental acuity is amazing. A perfect role for him.
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The trailer looked good. Released on DVD here next week - time for a pre-order, I think.
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ETA: Yeah, probably not for you, Twilight.
Heh. Thanks Lyda. I'm not quite as prudish as I sound when seeing a movie by myself, but I like to be prepared before I watch something with my son. He turns different colors and runs away mortified not to return until dinner time.
Quite understandable on both of your parts.
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Stetson
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FINALLY saw Singin' In The Rain, about 30 years after my parents tried unsuccessfully to cajole me into watching it on TV. (They were of the age-group that would have been its original target audience).
Kind of interesting to see a "movie about movies" from over 60 years ago, because I tend to regard that as a fairly contemporary genre. I suspect if it had been made today, it would be talked-up as some sort of po-mo rebuttal to the Hollywood musical, or something like that.
As far as any social insights went, I did find myself reflecting upon what an upheavel the transition from silent to sound must have been for the film industry. In the scene where all the Hollywood stars and execs gathered at the party watch a sample of a talking picture, you have to think that impending unemployment was on the minds of a lot of them. Not that this issue was unique to that time, place, or industry.
Other than that, I'm not a huge fan of musicals, and I've now filled my quota for about the next five years.
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Originally posted by Stetson:
Kind of interesting to see a "movie about movies" from over 60 years ago, because I tend to regard that as a fairly contemporary genre.
Oh, bless your heart. You can find examples of that genre practically as old as movies themselves. Take, for example, Souls For Sale (1923).
Yes, I said 1923.
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Stetson
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Originally posted by Hedgehog:
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Originally posted by Stetson:
Kind of interesting to see a "movie about movies" from over 60 years ago, because I tend to regard that as a fairly contemporary genre.
Oh, bless your heart. You can find examples of that genre practically as old as movies themselves. Take, for example, Souls For Sale (1923).
Yes, I said 1923.
Yeah, I figured there must have been some MAMs prior to the early 50s, but my knowledge of early film is pretty spotty, so I really couldn't have said for sure.
It occured to me while watching Singing In The Rain that the Angry Movie Director Yelling "Cut Cut Cut!" has become a stock image, almost entirely as a result of movies themselves. It must be kind of odd for directors to direct that particular scene.
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I went with a group of friends to see A Walk in the Woods. The very best part of the movie was the scenery, IMHO. And Emma Thompson.
You know, they really didn't need all the F bombs that were sprinkled so liberally throughout. And why (spoiler alert!) would they not use their hiking sticks?
The whole movie seemed disjointed to me. I'm glad we went, but won't be adding it to my DVD collection.
Most of our group had been at several of the locations pictured in July. That was probably the most enjoyable part of the movie for us! At the local hamburger joint later that evening, we had a good laugh remembering our experiences at those places, completely ignoring the characters' adventures in those same places! Oh well!
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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
I saw and enjoyed Mr. Holmes with Ian McKellen. Wrote a review of it.
We saw it. We liked it. Rather a long drive to the cinema where it was showing, but worth it. Cumberbatch never fails.
Can you provide a link to your review?
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Originally posted by Hedgehog:
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Originally posted by Stetson:
Kind of interesting to see a "movie about movies" from over 60 years ago, because I tend to regard that as a fairly contemporary genre.
Oh, bless your heart. You can find examples of that genre practically as old as movies themselves. Take, for example, Souls For Sale (1923).
Yes, I said 1923.
Hedgehog, I think you just took the Film Nerd crown. ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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Brenda Clough
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Here is my review of Mr. Holmes. I review just about every performance or movie I see (not TV, because I rarely watch it) and review it on this site.
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I am watching TheOmen.
(Reply number 666 on this thread.)
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Stetson
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I am watching TheOmen.
(Reply number 666 on this thread.)
I've only seen that on TV, and the re-make in a theatre, but...ugh. Definitely the downhill phase for 1970s theological horror.
For starters, we've got an archeologist solemnly informing us that "some scholars believe that the Common Market is the Antichrist." I'd really like to meet the archeologist who considers Hal Lindsey to be a scholar.
And I somehow doubt that the American ambassador to the United Kingdom would need to have "Anglican" tranlated into "Episcopalian"(as in "...the goings-on at an Episcopalian wedding") for him. Though presumably an American audience might.
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Kelly Alves
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I am watching TheOmen.
(Reply number 666 on this thread.)
Ok, Hedgehog may have to give up the crown...
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Left Behind - about the rapture. Even sillier than the belief itself but quite entertaining
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Stetson
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Left Behind - about the rapture. Even sillier than the belief itself but quite entertaining
It was fun a few years back to watch A Thief In The Night on YouTube, and laugh it off as 70s kitsch.
But then you realize "No, no, they're still making these films."
The other night I watched Trash(not the Paul Morrisey thing from the 60s), a film set in the slums of Rio De Janeiro, and mostly in Portguese, but scripted by Ricahrd Curtis and directed by Stephen Daldry(who did Billy Elliot), with Martin Sheen doing a minor role to generate some star-power.
Not an entirely successful hybridaztion of sensisbilities. It came off as Disney Does The Third World(though it's not actually a Disney film).
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Kelly Alves
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God, that sounds cringeworthy.
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Stetson
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God, that sounds cringeworthy.
Well, as a caveat, I'll throw in that I had a bit of difficulty following the plot(it's sort of a crime caper thing, with twists and turns), which somewhat marred my enjoyment of the movie. So my perception might be a little tainted by that.
For anyone who likes movies about slum-urchins getting into mischief, it's probably worth a look. Don't expect something on the calibre of Slumdog Millionaire, though.
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Saw 'Captive' at the weekend. Largely enjoyed it but felt that the filmmakers chickened out with the way they ended the movie. I liked both the leads but, having invested in making the escaped convict vulnerable and understandable, it finished with a list of his crimes and basically said we were fools for feeling sorry for him. It seemed as if the studio was scared into adding the 'But he didn't deserve your sympathy!' codicil.
ETA - the Cineworld summary of the film was way off. 'A devout young woman reawakens her captor's faith by reading from "A Purpose-Driven Life".' The only accurate thing about that was the name of the book.
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I've saw MacBeth by Justin Kurzel two days ago and am still thinking about it. Definitely some new interpretation of the words and some brilliant moments and also slightly surreal. Lots of words cut and moved about. I will have to go again to decide whether I really liked it or really didn't!
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I went to see "The Martian" and quite enjoyed it. It is a rather old fashioned tale of can-do spirit, a lot of pretty decent people (even the crusty head of NASA wasn't a monster), and a hell of a hostile universe. It reminded me of rundowns of creative writing plot options: man again man, man against society, man against his own nature, man against fate, or finally man against harsh, natural circumstances. I wouldn't want a steady diet of human near-perfection on screen, but this was fun for a change of pace.
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My Other Half has just watched the 2014 version of Godzilla. He described it to me as “a pile of steaming horse manure” with not enough screen-time for the eponymous creature, poor (too dark to see anything) monster sequences and too much over-sentimental idiocy in a dreadful script.
I have decided that, on reflection, I’ll give it a miss.
I am looking forward to seeing The Martian.
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Originally posted by Full Circle:
I've saw MacBeth by Justin Kurzel two days ago and am still thinking about it. Definitely some new interpretation of the words and some brilliant moments and also slightly surreal. Lots of words cut and moved about. I will have to go again to decide whether I really liked it or really didn't!
We saw it a week or so ago. It was ok, but I thought they mucked about too much with it, especially in the bizarre way they killed Lady Macduff & co (no spoilers!) and the way Birnam Wood came to Dunsinane.
Also, although I know of course that films usually cut dialogue, I felt they cut away too many good lines which illustrated the characters' behaviour.
Yesterday I rewatched a dvd of the Polanski Macbeth, and still think it a much better version....not least because I could *hear* the dialogue ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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I went to see "The Martian" and quite enjoyed it. It is a rather old fashioned tale of can-do spirit, a lot of pretty decent people (even the crusty head of NASA wasn't a monster), and a hell of a hostile universe. It reminded me of rundowns of creative writing plot options: man again man, man against society, man against his own nature, man against fate, or finally man against harsh, natural circumstances. I wouldn't want a steady diet of human near-perfection on screen, but this was fun for a change of pace.
There was a subtle utopianism running through that movie. For instance, in the near future, things are apparently so good between the Chinese and the Americans that a guy can get an important job with an American space agency even though his uncle occupies a similar position with the Chinese agency.
But Ridley Scott's films often contain a liberal-tinted glorification of the military and its allied institutions. In G.I. Jane, for example, the drill seargent is portrayed as an urbane devotee of J.M. Coetzee novels. I remember watching that scene and thinking "You wouldn't see Gunnery Sergeant Hartman reading that!"
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The space and science agencies are not as tight, security-clearance-wise, as the true military. Nor does having relatives in a foreign country prevent you from getting a top clearance, especially if you can state that you are not cozy with them or perhaps have not even met them.
And it would astonish you, the things that members of the US Armed forces can do. My daughter was stationed in Afghanistan, where it turns out the wifi is not very good. So, feeling dull, she wrote a novel.
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Originally posted by Full Circle:
I've saw MacBeth by Justin Kurzel two days ago and am still thinking about it. Definitely some new interpretation of the words and some brilliant moments and also slightly surreal. Lots of words cut and moved about. I will have to go again to decide whether I really liked it or really didn't!
I enjoyed Macbeth much more than I thought I was going to having seen some of the reviews. Knowing it was going to play fast and loose with some of the text helped. I thought it was very clever how the text had been cut; the one or two places where events had been shifted served the story well. The deaths of the MacDuff family being the catalyst for Lady MacBeth becoming unhinged, something that doesn't happen in the original, makes sense.
Apart from any storytelling reservations, the film is just stunning. The misty Scottish landscape and the low-key medieval homestead background all serve the atmosphere of desperation.
The last scene was an interesting addition, implying that we hadn't seen the last battle of succession for the Scottish throne.
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Originally posted by Full Circle:
I've saw MacBeth by Justin Kurzel two days ago and am still thinking about it. Definitely some new interpretation of the words and some brilliant moments and also slightly surreal. Lots of words cut and moved about. I will have to go again to decide whether I really liked it or really didn't!
We saw it a week or so ago. It was ok, but I thought they mucked about too much with it, especially in the bizarre way they killed Lady Macduff & co (no spoilers!) and the way Birnam Wood came to Dunsinane.
Also, although I know of course that films usually cut dialogue, I felt they cut away too many good lines which illustrated the characters' behaviour.
Yesterday I rewatched a dvd of the Polanski Macbeth, and still think it a much better version....not least because I could *hear* the dialogue
Sorry for the double-post, I've only just noticed this. Although I obviously enjoyed the film more than you did, Full Circle, you're right about the Birnham Wood thing. It was a bit of a reach.
I've never got on with the Polanski Macbeth though, I much prefer the semi-stage Ian McKellen version (especially Bob Peck as MacDuff).
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The space and science agencies are not as tight, security-clearance-wise, as the true military. Nor does having relatives in a foreign country prevent you from getting a top clearance, especially if you can state that you are not cozy with them or perhaps have not even met them.
And it would astonish you, the things that members of the US Armed forces can do. My daughter was stationed in Afghanistan, where it turns out the wifi is not very good. So, feeling dull, she wrote a novel.
Well, in the movie, the American space-techie is close enough to his Chinese space-techie uncle that he can just casually call him up and ask for assistance in rescuing the astronaut from Mars. Point taken, though, about space agencies being more easygoing than the military proper.
As for what members of the armed forces can do, I don't doubt that there are those among them who would read, or even write, highbrow fiction. But it does strike me as something that Ridley Scott is likely to portray, moreso than Stanley Kubrick(as per my Gunnery Sergeant Hartman reference).
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Cybernatural
Called "Unfriended" over here in Asia.
I never really jumped onto the "found footage horror" bandwagon, but this one had enough novelty to keep me sufficiently entetained for the duration.
A pretty cliched "slasher-revenge" story, templated by Friday The 13th, but set entirely on a computer screen, on which are shown the goings-on at various social networking sites.
Interesting appropriation of cyberbullying news stories as stand-in for the archetypal "Jason" narative. I suppose it might be in somewhat dubious taste to use current, real-life news items for plot inspiration, but it's not like those stories aren't already plastered all over the place to begin with. And, anyway, the film(like most of the genre) comes down pretty hard AGAINST bullying.
Worth a look for horror(especially found footage) fans, but don't expect breathtaking storyline innovation.
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I've seen that on On Demand here ( also "Unfriended" ). They kept playing the snippet of the blonde girl snapping,"the glitch just typed!" and her delivery was so on point I was afraid that would be the best moment in the movie. But I will check it out.
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%^&()$#!@#!!!
Bloody BBC or someone keeps changing the release date for the DVD of Mr Holmes.
I ordered it weeks ago, the date has been changed twice and I want it now!
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They kept playing the snippet of the blonde girl snapping,"the glitch just typed!" and her delivery was so on point I was afraid that would be the best moment in the movie.
There are better moments than that, I'd say, though it isn't really a "moment" based flick. The attraction is more the overall buildup, rather than any particular scene.
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I also watched The Martian, yesterday evening. Like others on this thread, I found its optimism a bit over the top ("Any problem can be solved by doing the maths!" "Never accept that you're going to die!" "Years of being alone has no effect on you at all!"), but I managed to block that out reasonably well. There was plenty to make this an enjoyable film.
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They kept playing the snippet of the blonde girl snapping,"the glitch just typed!" and her delivery was so on point I was afraid that would be the best moment in the movie.
There are better moments than that, I'd say, though it isn't really a "moment" based flick. The attraction is more the overall buildup, rather than any particular scene.
Good. A film should be more than a bunch of snappy one liners.
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I saw (and heard) something very cool this evening. At a local university they showed the 1924 production of "Peter Pan" aided by a very talented organist who is a top expert in silent movie accompaniment. The movie was very playful and well done, and the music was fabulous!
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I also watched The Martian, yesterday evening. Like others on this thread, I found its optimism a bit over the top ("Any problem can be solved by doing the maths!" "Never accept that you're going to die!" "Years of being alone has no effect on you at all!"), but I managed to block that out reasonably well. There was plenty to make this an enjoyable film.
I thought it was a great adaptation of the book, which I loved. I think it was quite deliberate on the author's part to create a character whose approach to being stranded alone, probably to die, on an alien planet, was so purely pragmatic. He has a few moments of angst in the movie (there are a few more in the book) but for the most part, he's just focused on doing what it takes to survive, and that fits with the type of person he is (a character I think Matt Damon portrays brilliantly). It's rare that I read a book, enjoy it, and then think they did a really great job with the movie, but The Martian definitely qualified.
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They kept playing the snippet of the blonde girl snapping,"the glitch just typed!" and her delivery was so on point I was afraid that would be the best moment in the movie.
There are better moments than that, I'd say, though it isn't really a "moment" based flick. The attraction is more the overall buildup, rather than any particular scene.
Good. A film should be more than a bunch of snappy one liners.
Something I've noticed the last little while is when certain lines from certain films get canonized as "snappy one liners", when in fact I'm pretty sure the line was never meant to be anything memorable.
For example, I've heard Godfather fans lovingly recite "Try the veal, it's the best in the city", as if it was up there with "Rosebud" or "Mrs. Robison, are you trying to seduce me?" for iconic movie quotes. But I don't think it's much more than filler dialogue, at most the standard respone that you'd expect the guy to give after being asked about the quality of food in the restautant.
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It was probably ad- lib, for that matter.
On the other hand, some movies ( "Total Recall" springs to mind) seem like the writer/ director/ whoever was so concerned about creating enough content for an impressive trailer that every other shot is a close up with some stand- alone punchline or portentous statement.
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Gentleman's Agreement, from 1946.
Rather long-winded "problem film" about anti-semitism, which makes what I think are probably today considered fairly obvious points about the inadequacy of superficial commitment in the battle against prejudice. "Don't just talk about how bad it is generally, speak out against in in your own social circles", that sort of thing.
Not exactly breathtaking social analysis for anyone raised on Norman Lear sitcoms, though it's always interesting to see how issues that are still current today were treated by earlier generations.
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^ The movie contains the following line, jokingly delivered by Gregory Peck after his son tells him that his(Peck's) mother made some disparaging comments about him...
"Well, I think I might have to slug your grandmother."
It occurs to me that many people today would consider this type of joke to be as objectionable as the anti-semitic humour that the film condemns.
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'Invictus' about newly elected Nelson mandela as president supporting the Spirngboks rugby team.
Good film, about an event not widely discussed outside of South Africa and rugby circles. Credible performances from Matt Damon and especially Morgan Freeman.
That said, South Africans of my acquaintance have told me that Damon's accent was not very accurate. And someone REALLY needs to tell Clint Eastwood that neither he nor anyone in his family is a composer. That one scene accompanied by his son singing some sentimental drivel was just awful. (This is a general complaint of mine about all Eastwood's films.)
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That one scene accompanied by his son singing some sentimental drivel was just awful. (This is a general complaint of mine about all Eastwood's films.)
I lioke sentimental - have just watched Prerty Woman about a business man who falls in love with a prostitute.
Also Stardust where a falling start turns out to be the woman of a young man's dreams.
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That one scene accompanied by his son singing some sentimental drivel was just awful. (This is a general complaint of mine about all Eastwood's films.)
I lioke sentimental - have just watched Prerty Woman about a business man who falls in love with a prostitute.
Also Stardust where a falling start turns out to be the woman of a young man's dreams.
I like sentimental too. Give me a good rom-com any day. But the type of sentimentality imparted by the music in that scene was really out of place for the movie.
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