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posted 09.07.99
Jill Cozzi writes:
Looks like we're screaming in the darkness again, kiddo.

Why does everyone love Mickey Blue Eyes? Is it because fey, effete Hugh Grant looks like an idiot in front of Real Men like James Caan's mobster, and therefore allows the population of America's beer commercial-worshipping, The Man Show-watching males feel better about themselves?

I know you and I disagree about what you call "the typical romantic-comedy hero who's so asexual that you can't imagine that any woman would want him," but even for those of us with a soft spot for somewhat effeminate, nonthreatening romantic leads, Hugh Grant is so annoying I just want to smack him. His "World's Oldest Living Cute Boy Now That Paul McCartney Is Eligible For AARP Membership" bit is getting very old, very quickly.

But alas, I fear we are alone... for not only are our compatriots in OFCS waxing rhapsodic about this piece of dreck, but the audience around me appeared to be too.

The Flick Filosopher responds:
I loved your review of MBE [at Cozzi fan Tutti] -- you really captured a lot of what pissed me off about the movie: the ethnic stereotypes, the cheap humor, and how embarrassing it was to watch Hugh Grant in that awful, awful striptease scene. Oh, I haven't been embarrassed like that for an actor onscreen since Jeff Daniels in Dumb and Dumber.
As I've said before, men seem to be much more into the typical romantic comedy than women are. I could only get through a few effusive reviews at the OFCS before I wanted to puke -- if I'd been reading a book or magazine and not words on a screen, I'd have thrown the review across the room.
My audience loved it too. Guffaws of laughter. And when it was over, the people all around me were turning to their friends and saying, "Wow, that was great! That was really funny!"
People are way too easily amused.

posted 09.07.99
Christina writes:
Hi there -- just read (and as always, enjoyed) your review of Strange Justice. Being a literate chick yourself, I thought you might enjoy hearing something I came across a couple of years ago.
Anita Hill was being interviewed by Terri Gross on Fresh Air (PBS); it was the -- what? tenth? -- anniversary of the ruling, and Terri asked her what was her bottom line for the whole thing. Apart from the publicity and the actual outcome, what did she learn from it, herself?
Anita thought about it for a minute, and replied: "Race trumps gender. Everything trumps gender."
Ain't it the truth?

The Flick Filosopher responds:
Right on, sister.

posted 09.07.99
Dennis Alstrand writes:
Greetings Flick-chick,
I just spent a very enjoyable half-hour in your page. I happened upon it because a search to an answer to a question posed to me "What movie won the Academy Award for Best Movie in 1968" and your site turned up.
I don't spend a lot of time cruising web-pages, but yours kept me reading for a while. So, I've joined your Onelist and look forward to the messages.
From what I've uncovered, I get the clear idea that you have quite a store of movie knowledge at quite a young age (witness the "I was too young for Vietnam" comment). I'm impressed, and there is one thing I like very much about the reviews I read. You don't have the snobbish, standoffishness that I despise in movie, art, whatever reviewers. I also am guessing that you've watched every movie that won an academy award.
Impressive! Thank you for your time.

The Flick Filosopher responds:
Damn! I'm not snobbish and standoffish? I'll have to try harder to convey my misanthropy, then. :->
I watched every movie that won a Best Picture award, anyway. It would have been hard to review them without seeing them!
Thanks for all your nice comments. Hope you continue to enjoy the site.

posted 09.07.99
Dennis Alstrand replies:
Ahhh, I suspect that many a person has been paid good money to review things they didn't see or hear.

The Flick Filosopher responds:
Probably true. But since I'm doing this for love, and not money -- in fact, it's costing me money -- trying to review the movies without watching them would have defeated the entire purpose of the venture.

posted 09.07.99
Rick Ferguson (aka The Film Geek) writes:
I knew our strangely symbiotic relationship had to encounter a bump at some point-- disappointment in Rushmore? The best comedy of the past ten years?

"Nice nurse's uniform."
"They're O.R. scrubs."
"Oh, are they?"

Come on-- that's priceless. So many wonderful moments. Mason Gamble hawking a loogie on Bill Murray's car. The Blume swimming pool. The Max Fischer Players' production of Serpico. Good God, this film made up for ten of the crappy ones I saw this year. Do this favor for me-- wait six months, and watch it again. Preferably as a double-bill with Harold and Maude. I think you'll find that the two films are kindred spirits.

Of course, this little difference of opinion should only add spice to our friendship. :)

The Flick Filosopher responds:
I know -- I'm mystified myself as to why Rushmore just didn't do anything for me. Everything you mentioned sounds like exactly the kind of stuff I'd find hilarious. I don't understand my reaction at all. Maybe I have a brain tumor or something.

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