they don't make them like they used to

[rm]

Man, I just love love love the movie of Kiss Me Kate in all its cheestastic glory.

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[annablume.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was my favorite movie when I was a kid.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm.... Howard Keel and Carol Haney! *sigh*

[labellerose.livejournal.com]

Give my regards to Padua...;)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I've never seen that one.

[rm.livejournal.com]

!!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Heh. I fail at not having seen many, many old movies. I saw Casablanca for the first time within the last year.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Let me guess, you haven't seen Chinatown either?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Nope. Or It's A Wonderful Life, or Citizen Kane, or Sunset Boulevard, or pretty much any of those really famous ones.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I sort of loathe It's a Wonderful Life, so that one will be someone else's problem at least . Heh

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I went through a phase for a while were I was renting a bunch of them just so I could finally see them, which is when I saw Casablanca, plus Apocalypse Now, and The Godfather, and some others I forget, but then I sort of got bored of it, or busy, or whatever.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Well, it musn't be _homework_.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Right, of course. I think part of the problem was that I hadn't been finding any of the classics I picked to be all that interesting.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Citizen Kane is good, but I love Orson Welles. and Chinatown is seriously dark. Kiss me Kate is only fun if you like movie mosucials of the non-glittering kind, which you may not.

[baldanders.livejournal.com]

Me. Too.

Among everything else, it's one of the very few surviving records of Carol Haney dancing.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I, along with everyone ever, already know the secret of the ending of Citizen Kane, so I had wondered if it still worked being spoiled. I like dark. And I like musicals well enough, too; I don't particularly seek them out, but they don't annoy the way they do some people.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Ah, see Citizen Kane is not fabout hte twist. it's the composition. I am floored by practically every shot in it.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, I've heard that. Which is impressive, given how early it was made it the history of films.

[ladyjaida.livejournal.com]

Because Howard Keel in tights with a mustache (mustachio, really) and wearing a giant gold earring could not, in any way possible, go wrong.

I'm a bit passionate about that movie.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Seconded.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

The Technocolor in that movie is something else, like a new box of crayons.

[sdn.livejournal.com]

the fosse/haney sequence kills me every time.

[timelady.livejournal.com]

Oh, I totally second that! Howard Keel in tights being pompously arrogant while still being charmingly romantic... *drool* And you just can't go wrong with a song sung by two mafia hitmen on "Brush up your Shakespeare".

[beemerbike.livejournal.com]

woo hoo i'm not alone. I haven't managed any of those or the Wizard of Oz (i avoid it with a passion/challenge sorta thing now).

It just seems I never have time....

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee. Now, I have seen Wizard of Oz, and that many times. My dad adores the movie.