I think it depends on whether he likes the person making the comment or not, rather than if the comment itself is wrong.

marj -- I didn't remember that you wrote a review on War of the Worlds, too. I purposefully didn't read it because I don't usually read reviews of films I haven't seen.

You have a really hard time of letting things go.

ehle you are so right about the 4 movie marathon!! It was real fun. never Ms.Holliday was such a treat. Jack wasn't bad but I just couldn't stand it that they wrote his role so abrasively and narrowand asside from it being shot in the 50's there wasn't an excuse for him.

"Last Tango in Paris bored me more thoroughly and profoundly than any other film in memory."

That's too bad.

Last Tango is a brilliant film dealing with GRIEF. Marlon Brando, after his wife's suicide, is at a loss to find any reason to live.

Bertolucci is using Brando's sexuality as an expression of his anger at his wife and his desire to find love of his own life.

SPOILERS: By the end of the movie.........Brando wants to love this girl.....he wants to know her name. But Bertolucci doesn't do Hollywood endings (watch Besieged) and the girl thought this was just a sex thing and freaks out...........shooting him.

I left the theater after Hotel Rwanda with a woman in front of me crying and asking her companion why no one knew what was going on in 1994. That really, really pissed me off (well, I was already pretty pissed off after sitting through the movie) because I knew very well what was going on in 1994, I discussed it with a number of people in 1994, and the information was there - if she had bothered to look. (One big problem was that the Clinton Adminstration was afraid that if the situation was declared a genocide, there would be some legal obligation to do something - so they dragged their feet. Now things get declared genocides - with no clear legal obligation, so no one does anything. Nothing learned there.)

I haven't the foggiest idea what you are talking about. I thought Lemmon's performance (his debut film, btw) was one of the supreme comic performances of the 1950s, and that the chemistry he and Holliday demonstrated puts nearly all other movie couples in the shade. The only ones that compare IMO are Stewart and Kelly in Rear Window, Tracy and Hepburn in Adam's Rib, and Bogart and Bergman in Casablanca. The fact that Lemmon could be so superb first time out of the box was proof positive that he had a major movie career in store. And the evidence is happily there for all to see.