Bernie is the funiest dead guy ever----

---and a weekend with him is perfect summer fun. Have a beer with a wedge of lime over ice and just laugh away! And Nelson and Jeanette singing, and Will Smith being a screwup super hero almost restored my good humor this week:


Naughty Marietta (1935) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026768/
Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald's first musical. Costumes and music first rate. Perfect for summer dreaming. 9/10

A Song To Remember (1945) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038104/
Biography of Chopin (Cornel Wilde in his debut and simply gorgeous in the period costumes) and his romance with George Sand (Merle Oberon, beautiful. She almost out does Wilde in the tight pants, high collars and top hats!) Film ruined by overacting of Paul Muni. Music devine. 7/10

Love With The Proper Stranger (1963) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057263/
Natalie Wood & Steve McQueen in a romantic film which starts out on the serious subject of unwanted pregnancy and abortion, and ends in comedy. Not easy to do, but stars make it a pleasure. 45 years ago this was pretty shocking, and the director and cast of last years Juno could have taken lessons by watching it before filming their mess of a film. 9/10

Weekend At Bernies (1989) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098627/
Bernie does more dead than I do alive! Very funny slapstick film of 2 smucks, taking their discovery of an error with the accounts, to the bosses beach house. But the boss has put out a contract on their heads and then dies before it is carried out. The two guys have a hilarious time taking the dead guy around with them on the shore, on the boat and the sunblinded and crazed beach boys and girls are too goofy to realize Bernie has gone to the great beach beyond. Terry Kiser is amazing as Bernie, alive and dead! 9/10

Pulp Fiction (1994) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/
Watched this on TV and they bleeped all the bad language. Still didn't help. Do not see the greatness of this one. UGH! 5/10

Looking For Richard (1996) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116913/
Al Pacino and his friends do Shakespeare and have fun. Interesting to hear such great actors struggling with getting this together. And the comments from the people on the street are sometimes funny, sometimes shocking. 6/10

Mrs. Brown (1997) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119280/
Dame Judi Dench in the title role. Billy Connelly is brilliant as John Brown from the Scottish Highlands. Gerard Butler, in his first film role, is Archie Brown, who is amused and concerned for his brother. Great film. 9/10

Hancock (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448157/ Will Smith as a different kind of superhero. He is foul mouthed, drunk most of the time, and causes a whole lot of collateral damage. Very funny concept. Jason Bateman and Charlize Theron are good as the married couple he gets involved with. Movie falls apart with about 30 minutes to go when it gets all serious and loses the concept it started with. 6/10

Looking forward to watching some more of my favorite summer movies this coming week. Laughing is always good in the summertime. Or anytime for that matter. So let's get to it.