>>My 10 favorite movies
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>>It's a Wonderful Life
>>Christmas Story
>>White Christmas
>>Casablanca
>>To Kill a Mockingbird
>>Blues Brothers
>>League of Their Own
>>Glory Road
>>The Majestic
>>Dogma
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>>Honorable mention: Animal House and the original M*A*S*H movie
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>Okay, to play contrarian :
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>I find Xmas Story, Wonderful Life, White Christmas and Mockingbird cloying krap. <s>
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>Liked League of their Own and Dogma.
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>Blues Brothers was genius.
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>Casablanca always requires an asterisk for me as "compared to the other Hollywood dreck of its time" Never really bought Bogart as a tough guy. They should *never* have put him on camera in a wife-beater. (not Casablanca - maybe To have and to have not) Bacall on the other hand is hot in any time-frame ( whereas Marilyn Monroe today couldn't get a job in porn ) I just have trouble with pretty much the entire acting style that was predominant in studio movies prior to about 1967. Like 50s television it now just seems so dated I can't rewatch any of it.
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>Wonderful Life has me throwing things at the TV throughout the holiday season ( kind of tradition <s> Every time I hit the TV an angel gets his wings !)
I predominantly agree with you, although not about "Casablanca" or Bogie. A movie with that many great lines and scenes can't be dismissed. The one that is sometimes mentioned as an all time classic and makes me want to vomit is the one about the soldier who comes home wounded from the war. Please don't remind me of the title because I am happier not remembering it.
What changed in the late 60s was a new generation of directors emerged who respected the audience. They effectively broke the studio system.
The old ways have not completely died. I have read several reviews, all negative, of the new Disney release "Secretariat." It sounds completely phony and "uplifting." One of them mentioned there is a scene where Secretariat and a rival horse turn in the starting gates and glare at each other like boxers before the opening bell. Puh-leeze.
If I want to be uplifted by Secretariat this is all I need.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS4f6wiQJh4
