Why does a movie full of strong banter between the two leads grind to a stop to include a hokey singing kids number? And why does it do it twice?
Delmer Daves (1634 Vine Street) wrote this based on his script for Love Affair. I wonder if the singing kids are as distracting in that version of the story.
Today’s fake poster is based on one for a different movie about affairs and remembering.
The stick figure visible through the hole is another bread crust. Both crusts have been running for hours, so they’re very drained.
Not enough sleep + short lunch break = whatever this is.
An aggressively standard old school crime thriller (complimentary). Really fun to watch a movie from when they used to actually film in Los Angeles. I’m pretty sure part of this was shot at a motel that’s around the corner from my apartment.
Jane Greer (1634 Vine Street) only has one scene in this. I should have watched something else and saved this until I needed a Joe Don Baker movie.
Fake poster time!
I probably should have done something with pickles and cubes.
There’s a scene in the first Captain America movie that homages the first scene in this film. David Niven is a pilot who manages to contact a radio officer on the ground. He knows the plane is going to crash and is certain he will die. In the few minutes they have they manage to fall in love. It’s absurd and it works- just like the rest of this movie. Is it a war romance? A medical drama? A study of religion? A courtroom drama? An argument about American and British sensibilities?
Yes it is.
Is it about a crazed fan of a talk show? Nope, but somehow that’s the movie poster I copied.
The idea was that the couple’s portmanteau name is Lemuffir, not that Lemuffir was the muffin’s nickname. I’m not sure that that was clear, but it is the most important thing you will ever learn.
I was worried when the movie started with a wall of text, then more worried when the Obviously Symbolic Dinosaur appeared, but the movie won me over as it ratcheted up the tension.
Then it started over from a different viewpoint, and it mostly lost me.
The it started over again from yet another viewpoint, and it pulled me back in a bit, but not all the way.
Then it just… ended.
I get what Bigelow was doing with the repetition. The first version is the full bureaucracy angle, showing all of the agencies coordinating to deal with the attack. The second version focuses more on the smaller group of people doing everything they can to avoid escalating the situation, and the third narrows even further to one man deciding whether to start a nuclear war. We see tons of people worrying about the consequences of their decisions, but we never see any of those consequences (and sometimes we don’t even see the decisions).
…but maybe that’s my problem. Tons of people loved this movie. All I know is that I got one of my best/dumbest fake movie posters out of it.
Note to self: remember to draw these before 11 at night.
