Pbbbst!Confucius say: Absorutely
Asphalt Jungle was on TCM today. Over the years, I must have seen it eight or ten times.
Wonderful film ...
Brannigan
Man, the mid-seventies sure were ugly.
It started in the sixties and continued through the seventies into the eighties. To some degree, we have never been able to fix what was broken.You are so right. For me, "Panic in Needle Park," says so much about the '70s - a lot broke in that decade. It is actually amazing that we were able to get things on a better track as the car was definitely driving in the ditch (to mix metaphors) in the '70s.
HG WELLS "The Time Machine"
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HG WELLS "The Time Machine"
An inventor in Victorian England at the Turn of the Century 1899 constructs a machine that enables him to travel into the distant future; once there, he discovers that mankind's descendants have divided into two species, the passive, child-like, and vegetarian Eloi and the underground-dwelling Morlocks, who feed on the Eloi.
Leap Year ONLY gets by on the enormous charm of Amy Adams and Matthew Goode. Apart from that, it's just endless rom-com cliches and embarrassing Irish stereotypes. (For a better version of practically the same story from the 1940s, check out Powell and Pressburger's I Know Where I'm Going!)...
Trying to watch Ronald Reagan as legendary baseball pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander in "The Winning Team."