Colin McEnroe Show: 90-Second-Movie Reviews With The Culture Dogs
Critics ramble about movies, but what about letting the audience review a few?
I'm never entirely satisfied with the way we in the press cover movies or any of the performing and broadcast arts. We review things. We interview the people who create and act in things. Much less often do we talk about the most important people. The audience.
The way we use art is so interesting and so varied. This is especially true for movies. Just about all of us have movies we watch over and over, for comfort, as ritual, as a way of cementing certain bonds. We have little rules we're not even aware of. One friend of mine resists buying DVDs of the movies she loves. Or even getting them as gifts. It's important that the movies just turn up, serendipiously, as little gifts from heaven or Comcast.
My son and I have about twenty movies we'll watch again and again for as long as we're together on this earth, including Three of the Four Die Hard movies. I don't two 2.
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Good movie
How about The Fifth Element. Best Christmas movie ever...
E-mail from T.J.
i don't care if people say it was a flop, Waterworld is the greatest movie of all time.
E-mail from Georg PART TWO
I will never forgive Henry Fonda for taking on the role of Pierre in the American version of War and Peace. Hepburn on the other hand was perfectly cast but when I hear Fonda's Texas twang as a Russian nobleman, it's like listening to fingernails on a chalkboard. He ruined this movie for me although I like him in most of his other roles.
E-mail from Kathy
I love watching "Second Hand Lions".over and over....and during the Christmas season, "Polar Express".
I thoroughly enjoyed Chion Wolf's introduction to today's show as well.
Kathy
E-mail from Sara
A few years ago it became clear that I could probably benefit from a little therapy. I found a great therapist and went right to work with the intention of seriously taking full advantage of my $130.00 an hour sessions. Sadly my earlier experience with the amazing film "What About Bob" made any serious work impossible as I couldn't see my Dr as anyone but Dr. Leo Marvin. When she would come up with a new approach to any issue I may have been having I would ask her if she thought I should take a vacation from my problems. Thankfully she was not as familiar with the movie and instead thougt I was either crazier than she had thought or just a very happy person since I spent most of our sessions talking in between spontaneous and seemingly random bouts of laughter. These days when I feel the need for therpay I take the much cheaper route of watching Richard Dreyfus and Bill Murray work their magic.
E-mail from Georg
Damn good flicks.
"On the Beach" the older one. Makes we wish the US had a tune to identfy with like Waltzing Matilda.
"The Third Man" Better than but not as romantic as Casblanca
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