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"I saw Christmas decorations in a storefront Sunday, so I guess it’s already time to break out the holiday movies. And it’s evidently time for distributors to release holiday fare to theaters, even if Desplechin’s A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël), which hits theaters this Friday, isn’t exactly the latest crowd-pleasing installment of the Santa Clause franchise. In fact, with such ingredients as estrangement, mental illness, alcoholism and cancer, it doesn’t seem like a very happy holidays kind of film. Even if it is actually a comedy. But then how many holiday movies are completely void of depressing themes and scenes? I’m sure to have grown up thinking more about the homeless, suicide and family dysfunction from films set at Christmas and Thanksgiving than I did thinking about the happiness that comes with these holidays. One of the most tearjerking moments for me as a kid was certainly seeing Mickey Mouse crying over his dead son in
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10 Underrated College Movies
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"I never went to a normal college, never lived in a proper dorm or experienced fraternity hazing or even rush week from an inside viewpoint. I went to an urban art school and then a commuter school. And though I grew up in a college town and later worked on the campus of another college I didn’t attend, I feel like I don’t have the proper perspective with which to judge most college movies and college kid characters as being true to life. This probably explains why I enjoy so many bad movies set in colleges and/or involving college students. I bet I could even check out a double feature of The House Bunny and College and have a good time at the movies. Of course, I do have some semblance of good taste, and I also recognize that none of the following movies are anywhere near the quality of my favorite college movies (including Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman, the Marx Brothers’
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Just between me and Hughes
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"Perhaps it’s a certain soft spot for the navigator of my awkward adolescent journey, John Hughes; maybe it’s the affable charisma of lead Owen Wilson (who, even off his game as he is here, is just someone with whom you want to share a beer); or it could be the overall throwback tone of the film’s less-ironic, less-cynical high school setting.Whatever the reason, I quite enjoyed “Drillbit Taylor.Hughes, the arbiter of public school angst, originally scribbled the screenplay for the new comedy and allowed it to languish for the better part of two decades before it was dusted off by reigning comedic king Judd Apatow (“Knocked Up
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True Love and Dating Advice – L ...
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"Relationship on the rocks? Love life gone awry? Spending too many Saturday nights alone, washing your hair? Well, dear reader, you have not done your homework. Everything you need to know to have a successful love life you should have learned long ago, in the mid-1980’s. Examples you ask? But of course! The three most important lessons of the successful love affair can be learned, right here, from: The Breakfast Club, Desperately Seeking Susan, Crocodile DundeeLesson 1 - You CAN TOO Change Someone (The Breakfast Club) Stereotypes are very easy to overcome. High school cliques are only as powerful as the kids who believe in them, so let's break down these walls! All we need is a little pot to lose our inhibitions. Jocks aren't so bad! They feel as sensitively as the nerds do. The bad guy isn't really so "bad" either, in fact, he may even sacrifice himself for the good of everyone else! And people really care about each other! Even though all your actual high ... "
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Only the Lonely (1991)
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"There is nothing terribly original or inspiring about the plot in this Chris Columbus-helmed romantic comedy but that is not to say it is unenjoyable. Only the Lonely is the story of a grown man still living in the shadow of his dominant and prejudiced mother. When he meets Theresa Luna (played by the wonderful Ally Sheedy of Breakfast Club fame), things seem to be going well until his mother gets in the way. Danny, played by unlikely romcom lead John Candy, is torn between his love for Theresa and his mother's well-being. Unable to stand up to her, his relationship looks doomed to fail. The film is not tight, meandering towards its conclusion, but managed to keep my attention. Whilst I found it lacking in big laughs, it had buckets of charm courtesy of its three principle players who work together beautifully. Overall, I enjoyed this and found it happily diverting. Besides, any film with Jim Belushi in the buddy role is inherently worth a watch (cf. About Last Night - one of my fa ... "
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10 Movie Romances That Probably ...
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"It took me awhile, but last week I finally saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. And to agree with many others, I think it features a few too many ludicrous moments. Yet the most outlandish, in my opinion, is the scene in which Indy and Marion seem to reenact His Girl Friday in about four seconds while riding in the back of a truck. I know it’d been awhile, both for them and for us, but I prefer a little more bickering, a little more holding back in comedy of remarriage plots. Anyway, we knew a long time ago, thanks to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, that Indy and Marion didn’t last long together after the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. So, I didn’t really care if they ended up together at the end of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, either. It’s probable they still wouldn’t last. And I think the same often with other unlikely movie couples at the end of their respective films. Fortunately, a number of sequels tell us outright that the romance of the first film f ... "
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"Ah, The Breakfast Club...where to begin? Let's see: I have a self-imposed restriction on myself against watching this movie in the presence of other people because I have this obnoxious-yet-uncontrollable habit of reciting every line of this movie aloud, as if it were karaoke cinema. I love Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles (the other two movies in what I have dubbed "the Holy Trinity of Ringwald") as well, but this one was always my favorite and I seem to be the only person that I know that feels this way. I was in middle school when this film came out and I was a good kid - never had detention (it was much later before I learned firsthand that "being bad feels pretty good") - so it wasn't as if I really related to the characters. I can only sum it up thusly: 1) I love(d) the Brat Pack & every John Hughes movie that featured them, 2) for most of the 80s, I wanted to be Molly Ringwald (what girl didn't?) - in fact, Claire (her character in this film) is the whole reason that I ... "
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Re: Starring You
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"My childhood pretty much took place in The Apostle. Junior High was eerily reminiscent of Welcome to the Dollhouse. My ideal image of High School is The Breakfast Club, but the reality was more like Elephant (before the killing starts). I think my college years were reminiscent of All the Real Girls. I know, none of those guys were in college but—when you consider how much time I spent with my girlfriend—neither was I. I'd say I currently feel most at home in a film I just saw, The Talent Given Us.But what I'd really like to be is a companion white-guy to Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves. Not that I want to spend time with Costner, but I love how Kicking Bird describes his journey as "the path to be an authentic human." "
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