3 Wonderful Movies

I don't watch movies all that often, in all honesty. It's not that I don't like them.. it's just that I'm very picky about the ones I watch. Most modern comedies are just a waste of time, and the rest either focus on romance or rely on the heavy graphics of today to make it a "good" movie. That being said, I've watched a movie every night for the last three nights. But they were all 5 stars out of 5, at least. The first, I already commented on below, Seven Pounds. Again, I don't want to say much about it if you haven't seen it, but I highly recommend it. Last night was the new hit, Slumdog Millionaire. If you haven't heard of it, you're probably living under a rock, and wouldn't even be reading this right now. But I was a bit behind on the actual seeing of the film. I finally caught up with the rest of the world last night. It was a very good movie, don't get me wrong, but I don't think it deserved quite as many Oscars as it got. It was a simple but intriguing plot, great acting for the most part, and intensely realistic all throughout (except for the classic Bollywood musical number at the end... which was highly entertaining). Even the little kids they used were great actors. All in all a great, feel-goodish movie. (Sorry guys, I'm not much of a critic/reviewer). The last I saw was tonight... the 1963 classic It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. A few of my friends highly recommended it months ago, and I finally watched it over a plate of tater tot casserole tonight. Man, was it hilarious. Slapstick, with a ton of classic actors like Don Knotts, Spencer Tracy, and Mickey Rooney, to name a few. One of those Comedy of Errors type of comedy, with each turn becoming more and more preposterous and, well, funny. If you haven't seen it in the 55 years it's been in existence, please do. I'm not much one for comedies, usually. But this was a keeper. Here's the title sequence (which was entertaining to watch... I can imagine the animation was ahead of it's time).



There was also a hilarious (and very true) monologue by the British actor Terry-Thomas. Unforunately, I couldn't find a clip of it, but here's the text of it:

As far as I can see, American men have been totally emasculated- they're like slaves! They die like flies from coronary thrombosis while their women sit under hairdryers eating chocolates & arranging for every 2nd Tuesday to be some sort of Mother's Day! And this infantile preoccupation with bosoms. In all time in this Godforsaken country, the one thing that has appalled me most of all this this prepostrous preoccupation with bosoms. Don't you realize they have become the dominant theme in American culture: in literature, advertising and all fields of entertainment and everything. I'll wager you anything you like that if American women stopped wearing brassieres, your whole national economy would collapse overnight.