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My Own Private Idaho (1991)

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#HomeStories ~ My Own Private Idaho (1991). When I saw this, as always I was sitting near the front row. I went with a crowd. After they were shocked to find that I had been crying throughout, quietly. They had not enjoyed it. I walked behind them as we left, contemplating my alienhood and that no one fits. We round the people around is up to The One who is friend, The One who is lover, as Dan always says. It's always been a 10 movie for me. This article is a 7min read. This person heard me.  My Own Private Idaho at 30: This Is Not/Is Another River Phoenix Essay By Roxana Hadadi https://crookedmarquee.com/my-own-private-idaho-at-30-this-is-not-is-another-river-phoenix-essay/?utm_source=pocket_saves

Moralistic bleeping

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#picksthattickleme  My search. Google only gets people who want to turn off cursing. Not people who want to turn off moralising totalitarianism of opinion-mongers who want to 'protect' their children. I'm a fucking adult!

Old movies, why people don't like them

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Night Must Fall (1964) Because clones, drones, and automobiles are missing. Everyone I know refuses to watch movies made before 2000. I've collected movies way back to the 40s. And I love them. You definitely can't watch them with a cell phone in front of your face. Don't get me wrong, I love new movies too. Many. I'm not too fond of the repetitive scores of many new movies. Do they pay musicians by the note! And the endless fight and chase scenes, they're all the same, just in one movie the guy hits up, in another movie he hits down. Snore. I do look down at my cellphone during these sorts of time-wasters. CGI makes up for it. If you look down at your cellphone while watching Albert Finney arrive at the mansion in Night Must Fall (1964) you'll miss the little over-excited jig he does at the gardner and all the increasing tell-tale signs of his intentions. And when would you see a post-2000 film where a young man so ominously wraps an old woman around...

Review: Glengarry Glenn Ross (1992)

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Classic movie moments

Life of Brian (1979) . When Brian loses his sandal is still one of the classic metascenes of all time. World According to Garp (1982) . When Roberta tells Garp he used to be Robert. Thanks for this character John Lithgow. Partners (1982) . When John Hurt comes into the police station to be told he has to come out from behind his desk and be part of an actual case. Thanks for these characters Ryan O'Neal and John Lithgow. The Book of Eli (2010) . Denzel Washington, alone in a ruin in a desert, takes out a wet wipe and bathes with it, while listening to a single song on an iPod whose battery is running out. How can you mend a broken heart? Stranger than Fiction (2006) .  Maggie Gyllenhaal refuses to pay 22% of her tax because she doesn’t want to fund the war machine. #Leadership Don’t like either Eric Roberts or Campbell Scott, but the Raggedy Man (1981) kiss and the Dying Young (1991) kiss are my favorites. Bizarre. Spanglish (2004) . Love scene, Paz Vega says to Adam Sand...