--to comment on. I watched these over the last 4 days and nights of 2010:
TCM:
The Bachelor & The Bobbie Soxer (1947) Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee, Ray Collins. Great cast in a film about a teen who goes bonkers about an 'older' man who speaks at the high school assembly. Mixups and chaos ensues. The big scene near the end as they all end up at the supper club where birthday cakes are being delivered and singing begins, as new people arrive to get into the brawl, is very funny. Great timing and you can't see the work being done by the whole cast. 9/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039169/
FMC:
All About Eve (1950) Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Celeste Holm, Thelma Ritter, George Sanders, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Marilyn Monroe, Gregory Ratoff, Barbara Bates. So many Stars. In many ways, it was their highest achievement, personal best, the one film of theirs that will be remembered. A great way to ring out the old year and begin the New. 10/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/
DVR'd off HBO:
Wargames (1983) Matthew Broderick, Allie Sheedy, Dabney Coleman, Barry Corbin. School kids, into computers back before it was cool, hack into a top secret military site that launches our nuclear missiles pointed at Russia. The Generals, scientists and top dogs at the launching site are not amused. Hauled in to the secret mountain stronghold to explain, David is not believed when he tries to explain he was just playing what he and his girlfriend, thought was a game. Still a lot of fun to watch and even though we are no longer in a cold war with Russia, gives a sense of what it was like in those paranoid times. Broderick was a charmer. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/
HBO:
The Hangover (2009) I sat through this stupid dickflick again just to be sure I wasn't too hard on it when I first watched it earlier this year. O! my! God! It is just as awful as I remembered. This time I didn't even think the dentist role was funny. They are all just so stupid - and we are supposed to think it's funny and endearing for guys to act this way? The same types that diss rom/coms, write reviews about how they laughed all the way through this lame brained film. Exxxxxxxcuse me! 4/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1119646/
He's Just Not That Into You (2009) Gennifer Goodwin, Ben Afleck, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly, Scarlett Johansson, Bradley Cooper, Drew Barrymore. And I'm just not as into these ensemble films where we get a dib of this and a dab of that. I especially did not care for the couple played by Jennifer Connelly and Bradley Cooper. What a cypher of a leading man! And Connelly's character as played, is a sullen, controlling, uptight, bitch! Nothing attractive to her at all. Cooper is totally without the personality to make his character the least bit interesting. He is a whiner. Aniston and Afleck are sweet together, and the dishwashing scene is heart warming and the best and most natural in the film. Gennifer Goodwin as Gigi is hyper and cute. Justine Long is a good guy under the bluster. Will love rear it's ugly head? Sure! 7/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1001508/
Eat Pray Love (2010) Julia Roberts, Billy Crudup, James Franco, Javier Bardem. A woman who is at a point where her life just isn't working for her, gets divorced, and to change her life, goes on a quest to 3 places on earth where she hopes to find meaning and hope. A very interesting film if you just let it happen. Julia, to me, is always worth watching and she is lovely here, whether in gorgeous settings of flowers, the sea, or the crowded streets of India. The film gives the idea that she has found what she is looking for at the end, so that's a plus. Bardem is sweet as the guy who gives her hope. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0879870/
Hope everyone had a safe, warm, New Years eve.
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