The Movies

[Mark Rippetoe]

Casablanca was interesting, and certainly an important film for several reasons. Ingrid Bergman is the most beautiful woman who ever lived, and it is a pleasure to watch her. But ultimately, I find I can no longer watch people smoke with this volume and intensity, and it's more than a minor distraction to me.

[Pluripotent]

Casablanca was interesting, and certainly an important film for several reasons. Ingrid Bergman is the most beautiful woman who ever lived, and it is a pleasure to watch her. But ultimately, I find I can no longer watch people smoke with this volume and intensity, and it's more than a minor distraction to me.

It's possible that their smoking is a signal of their hopelessness (it's definitely not a "fire in the mind," like Rand apparently thought -- and the reason all her followers were required to be chainsmokers). Why bother protecting your lungs when you have no hope (or no intention) of being around when the consequences come due? It is a habit of the short timers who can't commit to the long term because they have no vision of a long term, no hope for the future. They are stuck in a Keynesian long term where everyone is already dead. Of course, just because you can't imagine yourself as an old person doesn't mean that you won't become one. But then it's too late. If they didn't die already like they expected, they can spend the rest of their senility wondering why they never thought not to smoke.

[Chad Mynhier]

Ingrid Bergman is the most beautiful woman who ever lived, and it is a pleasure to watch her.

I second that.

[Michael Mullany]

Ingrid Bergman is beautiful, but Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not is so damn sexy.

[Giri Kotte]

Ingrid Bergman is beautiful, but Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not is so damn sexy.

Never would have guessed that the annoying character in Murder on the Orient Express looked so in her youth!

[Dave Joksimovic]

What did you guys who have “Kong Skull Island” think of it?

Fun for a watch but ultimately stupid.

I am excited about the concept of a Monsterverse however...

[slhuckstead]

The Classic Movie Marathon continues. Started with Citizen Kane. I hadn't seen it in 40 years, and while I understand its importance from the standpoint of directing and cinematography, with the script predating modern non-sequential narration, the retold story of William Randolph Hearst is just not that compelling. In contrast, To Kill a Mockingbird is one I hadn't ever seen, for some strange reason. It really deserves its place in any Top 10 list of films. In black and white from 1962, Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch and his little daughter Scout, and this amazing story will make you cry if you're not a soulless beast.

Casablanca is playing now. Doctor Zhivago is next.

You should add The Maltese Falcon and maybe even The Thin Man to this list, IMO. (I watch Thin Man once a year, for some reason I find it one of the best movies--the improvisation and the acting of William Powell and Merna Loy are just fun to see). I also found, moving to perhaps a potential sleeper classic, that Joe vs. the Volcano is a film well worth the time. Panned when it came out, but after seeing it again, I think it deserves more than a second shot and a place on every film buff's shelf.

[Alex Ptacek]

Fun for a watch but ultimately stupid.

I am excited about the concept of a Monsterverse however...

I think the last thing we need right now is Disney's Marvel's Frankenstein 2.

[Kiril]

Serbian Film. Filthy piss of shit. Ugly, yes, but to claim that these scenes are 100% real, no editing, would be nonsense. Just a dirty play. If you want to see a horror movie, don't watch it'; if you love porno - don't watch it either; crime - the same. And generally, don't watch this shit. Better see the "Black Cat, White Cat". Even if it's your second or fourth time.

[Giri Kotte]

You should add The Maltese Falcon and maybe even The Thin Man to this list, IMO. (I watch Thin Man once a year, for some reason I find it one of the best movies--the improvisation and the acting of William Powell and Merna Loy are just fun to see). I also found, moving to perhaps a potential sleeper classic, that Joe vs. the Volcano is a film well worth the time. Panned when it came out, but after seeing it again, I think it deserves more than a second shot and a place on every film buff's shelf.

The Maltese Falcon is a good movie indeed.