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Reunion at Fairborough (1985)
Mitchum and Kerr - Simply Divine - And I finally got a copy
Watching the two of them in this fine, nostalgic re-pairing is like visiting with an old married couple still much in love! I have always loved both of these actors' work individually, but Mitchum and Kerr together are something rare and special on screen. If you have ever seen Heaven Knows Mr. Allison or The Sundowners or The Grass Is Always Greener then you know what I'm talking about! You just don't find chemistry like this anymore in the actors today. I was fortunate enough to find a great DVD by searching Bing for the title and movie lead. It is a treasure my own husband and I watch again and again. I am so glad that these true screen icons were able to work together one last time before leaving us.
ABC Stage 67: A Christmas Memory (1966)
I love it and it's in color!
I was fortunate to find a good DVD of the original version in color searching Yahoo. This production is the one and only as far as I'm concerned. There's a little piece of all of us in Truman Capote's gentle holiday tale, and Geraldine Page has never been better. Capote's narration adds much to the overall experience, the language being so simple, so true, and yet so poignant. Did we not most of us feel like we were an "outsider" to some extent when we were growing up---or forever a child, like Sook? Yet, through Sook, Buddy (Capote's character) discovers the frugal, pure pleasures of the season and of the heart, along with the unmeasurable value of a true friend. I remember when this version used to air every Christmas, along with Capote's The Thanksgiving Visitor at Thanksgiving time. But no more it seems. This is a program and DVD my family treasures.
Walk the Line (2005)
Phoenix Ain't No Johnny Cash
He never once really captured Johnny Cash's essence. He seems like a lightweight where Johnny Cash was a heavyweight. His voice sounded phony, not nearly as deep, ragged, or stark as the real Johnny Cash. Phoenix's voice sounds like a whispery frat boy at times when he sings....a sound the real Johnny Cash was incapable of making. And he doesn't seem remotely country enough. He doesn't sound or act like a real hardscrabble country man. Very disappointing. It's interesting to me how easily fooled some folks are by the most half-baked attempt at a Southern or country accent. This is the kind of film that makes you realize how truly great COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER and RAY are. Those were films where--even if you had spent countless hours watching the original performer---the actor and performer merged in your mind on screen in the movie biography.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
A Masterpiece---for Trolls
Unbelievably dull and tedious. A movie for those who like watching trolls run around frantically for three hours. Only of interest if you possess the stunted sensibility of a troll or haven't developed beyond an infantile sensibility. Worst of all is how one feels like this has all been done before, endlessly, over and over in other movies; most of them not much better or worse than this drek. When that hack Lucas ripped off the Tolkein books in so many ways, he began this tired treadmill of effects-driven troll movies devouring themselves endlessly. When will it ever end. The fact that this empty-headed eye-candy is so popular speaks volumes about the stunted, easily-amused state of a vast cross-section of current society; forever in arrested development; sucking down whatever weak green media-hyped pablum is fed them.