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BayBuck said:
I also watched a pair of quirky 2011 comedies with fun ensemble casts, both of which included the lovely Rashida Jones: The Big Year (just came to Disney+) and Our Idiot Brother (on Netflix). Apparently the former (which I watched with my daughter who is really into birds) was Steve Martin's last live-action movie to date, and it also includes some of his banjo music on its really good soundtrack; and a hippie-ish Paul Rudd is likeable as always in the latter. Couple of nice feel-good flicks.
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Our Idiot Brother is one of those movies I always find myself stopping to watch when I channel surf.
 
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BayBuck said:
I also watched a pair of quirky 2011 comedies with fun ensemble casts, both of which included the lovely Rashida Jones: The Big Year (just came to Disney+) and Our Idiot Brother (on Netflix). Apparently the former (which I watched with my daughter who is really into birds) was Steve Martin's last live-action movie to date, and it also includes some of his banjo music on its really good soundtrack; and a hippie-ish Paul Rudd is likeable as always in the latter. Couple of nice feel-good flicks.
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The Big Year is a fun one, although it definitely makes birding far more fast-paced than it really is. :lol:
 
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Fungo Squiggly said:
The Big Year is a fun one, although it definitely makes birding far more fast-paced than it really is. :lol:
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Very true of course, and I was hoping you would weigh in... but then you go to wikipedia and see that those guys really hit those numbers in the late 90s, before fully modern social media and technology, and then look at the escalating records since then... obviously the most extreme birding today is super fast paced and meant only for insane m/billionaires.

On the other hand, it seems the critical knock on the film is that it’s a bit slow paced, but I think it’s just a fun meandering road movie/buddy comedy.
 
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BayBuck said:
Very true of course, and I was hoping you would weigh in... but then you go to wikipedia and see that those guys really hit those numbers in the late 90s, before fully modern social media and technology, and then look at the escalating records since then... obviously the most extreme birding today is super fast paced and meant only for insane m/billionaires.

On the other hand, it seems the critical knock on the film is that it’s a bit slow paced, but I think it’s just a fun meandering road movie/buddy comedy.
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It really is crazy the numbers some people get in a year. We are avid, spend every weekend out through the spring and most of the summer, plan our vacations around seeing new birds, and have been doing it for 10 years. And we are just over 500 species total. 900 in one year insane and expensive af. And honestly, for people that should be concerned about the impact on nature, it’s awfully irresponsible to the environment.
 
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Tomorrow, Turner Classic Movies is showing a comedy double feature: The Lady Eve at 8:00 PM, and The Ladykillers at 10:00 PM.
  • The Lady Eve (1941). Director: Preston Sturges. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck; Henry Fonda; Charles Coburn; Melville Cooper; Eugene Pallette; William Demarest; Eric Blore.
Jean Harrington (Stanwyck), her father "Colonel" Harrington (Coburn), and their trusty valet (Cooper) are a trio of grifters who travel around on luxury liners looking for easy marks with more money than brains. On a cruise from South America to New York, the trio encounter Charles Pike (Fonda), an unworldly ophiologist returning from a year in the Amazonian jungles who also happens to be the son of a brewery magnate (Pallette). Charles surely knows his snakes, but he's never met a serpent quite like Jean and he immediately falls for her feminine wiles. Everything goes swimmingly for the grifters until the inevitable happens – first, Jean actually falls in love with Charles (her little Hopsie) and wants to call off the sting, much to the chagrin of the cold-blooded Colonel; and then Hopsie's bodyguard Muggsy (Demarest) discovers that Jean and her crew are in fact notorious con artists trying to scam the millionaire naïf out of his inheritance. The romance is over, the relationship is beyond repair, and everyone goes away broken-hearted and/or empty-handed. Fade to black....​

If The Lady Eve were a French melodrama, then the movie would end at this point. But instead it's a Hollywood comedy, and in reality things are just getting started. Enter Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith (Blore), a fellow conman who's recently been swindling the social climbing country squires of southwest Connecticut with his fake Brit aristo routine. Sir Alfred happens to know the Pikes, and he grandly introduces the oh-so-posh Lady Eve Sidwich to the family at a dinner party. Of course, the Lady Eve is simply Jean sporting an evening gown and a phony accent, but the hapless Hopsie falls for her all over again despite Muggsy's warning that "she's the same dame". Now that the snake has charmed her master, what does she want from him – love or revenge? Both, if she can play her cards right.​

Stanwyck was never beautiful but she could really turn up the heat, and she does so with amazing effect in this movie. Her Jean/Eve character is a sort of comedic preview of Phyllis Dietrichson, her devastating femme fatale that would scorch the silver screen a few years later in Double Indemnity (1944). Fonda, then best known for serious dramatic roles such as Tom Joad (Grapes of Wrath, 1940), Gil Martin (Drums Along the Mohawk, 1939), and Abraham Lincoln (Young Mr. Lincoln, 1939), is equally excellent as the bumbling fool who is sometimes literally falling head over heels for the wrong woman. Coburn, Cooper, Demarest, Pallette, and especially Blore are as good a supporting cast as you're ever going to find. Combine all that with Sturges's witty writing and fast-paced direction and you've got perhaps the best screwball comedy of all time.​
  • The Ladykillers (1955). Director: Alexander Mackendrick. Cast: Alec Guinness; Peter Sellers; Herbert Lom; Cecil Parker; Danny Green; Katie Johnson.
A motley crew of criminals rent a room from Mrs. Wilberforce (Johnson), a little old lady living alone in a big old house on a dead-end street. The gang plan their next heist in their upstairs rooms while pretending to be a classical string quintet practicing for an upcoming recital. Guinness plays the semi-avuncular, semi-sinister mastermind; Sellers the East End Teddy Boy spiv; Lom the hot-headed Southern European; Parker the cowardly conman; and Green the hulking moronic thug (whose instrument, of course, is the cello). The heist goes off without a hitch thanks to some unwitting assistance from Mrs. Wilberforce, but the problems begin soon after she discovers the loot back at her house. The gang try to convince Mrs. Wilberforce to keep quiet and let them make a clean getaway, but her sense of Victorian propriety simply won't allow for that. So the gang has only one option left – eliminate the little old lady. Sounds like a lead-pipe cinch, right? Well not in Ealing, it ain't. Remade in 2004 by the Coen Brothers, starring Tom Hanks and Marlon Wayans.
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Tonight at 8:00 PM on TCM, Hairspray, arguably John Waters's best movie (although I slightly prefer the less polished, more edgy Polyester (1981))....
  • Hairspray (1988). Director: John Waters. Cast: Divine; Ricki Lake; Debbie Harry; Sonny Bono; Jerry Stiller; Vitamin C (billed as Colleen Fitzpatrick); Michael St. Gerard; Ruth Brown; Shawn Thompson; Mink Stole.
After more than two decades of guerilla filmmaking, John Waters and his muse Divine finally learned how to make a mainstream Hollywood movie. A loud, fat, teenaged hair hopper, Tracy Turnblad (Lake), wins a spot as a dancer on The Corny Collins Show, a local Baltimore bandstand television program, and sparks begin to fly (in both senses of that idiom). First, Tracy steals Link Larkin, the show's resident Elvis/Avalon (St. Gerard), from Amber von Tussle, the prissy blonde dancing queen (Vitamin C); then Tracy begins to push for desegregating the mostly all-white show (blacks have a special Negro Day once a month), something that wasn't going to go over very well in Baltimore circa 1962. Tracy's progressive ideas on race relations are supported by Link, her parents (Divine and Stiller), a local black celebrity named Motormouth Mabel (Brown), and eventually by Corny Collins (Thompson) and his on-air assistant (Stole). Resisting change are Amber, her demanding mother (Harry), her weaselly father (Bono), television station manager Arvin Hodgepile (Divine out of drag), and most of the rest of white Baltimore. Of course, there's plenty of music and dancing and a competition between Tracy and Amber for the coveted title of Miss Auto Show 1963. Pia Zadora and Ric Ocasek have amusing cameos as a beatnik couple, and Waters as a quack shrink. Divine (real name Glen Milstead) died at age 42 a week after Hairspray was released. Avoid the 2007 remake with John Travolta in drag.​
 
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This post-dinner repartee on the HMS Surprise is one of my very favorite film scenes, as Master & Commander has Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany at their absolute best as Aubrey and Maturin.



“There! I have you! You're completely dished. Do you not know that in the service one must always choose the lesser of two weevils?” :lol:
 
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Spiral Saw.. dayumm.. intense, graphic, violent... Jeffrey Dahmers probably jacks off to this movie
Hannibal Lector on steroids. You ain't gettin laid if you see this on a date

Chris Rock was pretty good
 
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