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BlogNosh 11/20/07

Under discussion:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
The Goonies (1985)
The Wiz (1978)
The Wizard (1989)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
What Dreams May Come (1998)
Amélie (2001)
Why We Fight [Film Series] (1943)
Junebug (2005)
Enchanted (2007)

Under discussion:

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

The Goonies (1985)

The Wiz (1978)

The Wizard (1989)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

What Dreams May Come (1998)

Amélie (2001)

Why We Fight [Film Series] (1943)

Junebug (2005)

Enchanted (2007)

Mick LaSalle asked us last week what movie we would like to be inside (instead of Beowulf, which we can sort of feel like we’re in). Personally, I think being inside The Wizard of Oz would be awful. I might even prefer The Wiz, and I’d hate to be in The Wiz. I’d even prefer to hang out with Fred Savage in The Wizard, and I don’t play video games. My answers: anything Capra (well, almost anything — no Why We Fight docs); anything Marx Brothers; anything Muppets; anything Miyazaki; Amelie; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; The Goonies (why not?); and What Dreams May Come (the movie was bad; the setting was beautiful).
In honor of me writing more about Enchanted than Karina ever would dream of, I present Rob’s review from his I don’t like Renee Zellweger blog, to show I’m not the only blogger addressing such mainstream fare. Like me, Rob found the movie to be “uninspired,” though he was apparently “disappointed” (I had a low expectation to begin with) and even notes that Amy Adams might have another chance at an Oscar (she’s cute, but ultimately annoying — though differently than she was in Junebug). Anyway, shockingly, the movie currently has a 100% approval on Rotten Tomatoes. We’ll see if that lasts. If only more of us bloggers were writing about it …
Apparently if you have a video clip of yourself negatively reviewing a 20th Century Fox release, the studio will have it removed, despite it being neither illegal nor their place to do so.
Are long movie titles bad for box office? Only when they’re abbreviated as diseases. “Cholera” = bad. “Pirates”; “Narnia”; “Harry Potter” = good.
I love t-shirts, and I love this design, but weren’t there movie adaptations before 1920?