-----Finally got to the theater to see my girlies and their clothes and silly problems. I also have watched these films:
Smilin' Through (1941) Jeanette MacDonald, Gene Raymond, Brian Aherne, Ian Hunter. I can't say I found this story at all interesting. I really don't remember much about it and I have seen it before. Lots of good music. Nice color, and Jeanette is always lovely in color. Only her fans will love it. 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034203/
I Married An Angel (1942) Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald. The last film the two stars made together. It is not one of their best. The scenery and costumes look cheap. They were getting stale at this type of nonsense and it showed. Neither look like they were having much fun, as they did in most of their films. Story of a playboy banker and a innocent secretary at the bank, and how she catches him. Long dream sequence. Music not up to their best. Title song and Spring Is Here, are all I think are worthy. 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034882/
The Stone Angel (2007) Ellen Burstyn, Christine Horne, Cole Hauser. Story of an old woman and her memories of her life as a rebel. Horne, as the young Hagar, is beautiful and when she returns from college, she doesn't want to conform to the life her strict father lays out for her. He is rich and has become a very important person in their little town. At a dance, she meets poor boy Bram and eventually marries him, as much to defy her father and convention. as lust for Bram. Her life spirals from bad to worse as she has two boys and Bram decends into drunkeness.
The film goes between the old lady and her memories of her young self. Her life never becomes what she had hoped and her trip back to the farm from the older sons home where she has been living, reminds me of Geraldine Pages' in The Trip To Bountiful. Back to a place and time in your mind when you were hopeful and happier. Fairly good film and both leads are very good. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0847897/
Sex & The City II (2010) (Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis. Boy, were the reviews and ratings wrong on this one. I get busy in spring and do my gardening thing so just made it to see SATC2. I'm sooo glad my daughters (baby-boomers) and I went to the theater to see the girls in their outrageous clothes, deal with their silly problems and get on that plane. What a plane - showing the individual 'pods' the upscale tickets gets you. What a dream!
Then we get to that great hotel, and are given a tour along with our girls. Great! And a one day desert outing. Oh yeah! Great locations. Cinematography is wonderful!
Story? Smart, rich women have the same kind of silly problems with their lives all the rest of us do. You can either make a movie and laugh; or make a tragedy and cry. We can cry just living our own lives. Carrie, Samantha et al, over the top, and making us laugh - is what this group of 'women' want. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1261945/
A Steam bath today outdoors, soooooo just movies and TV for me.
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