Oh yea I definitely read it the opposite way.

Nice.

La Dolce Vita is like a modern movie to me. It’s so amazing in just about every way.

I keep hearing that ****ing Barry Manilow song.

I guess it depends on what you mean by bad.

I tried watching JW1 again and it was unsatisfying in almost every way.

I watched JW2 again and it was very easy entertainment. I think in part because they handed the directing duties to an accomplished horror filmmaker (eg The Orphanage, A Monster Calls, Penny Dreadful). Lots of excellent, even innovative shots or sequences.

It could be worse; Benny Hill may make a comeback-

lol I bought that as a 45 and played it a lot.

Blistering Rolling Stone review of Life Itself

a snippet:

How do you rate a cinematic black hole that doesn’t deserve a single star? Do you simply give it five eyerolls? Better question: How does a movie, with all the talent in the world going for it, become a such a blithering botch job? That’s Life Itself, which counts Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas and Mandy Patinkin in its starry cast. The writer-director is Dan Fogelman riding a wave of TV success with This Is Us (his debut feature Danny Collins, starring Al Pacino, also hit its fair share of sweet spots). And yet, the melodrama goes thunderously wrong from the very first scene, steadily getting worse before going up in a hellish blaze of gross incompetence, crass tear-jerking, unrelenting tragedy porn, unearned self-congratulation and leaden dialogue that hits you like a blunt force trauma.

Hey JC, I think I found the perfect movie for you:

Looks good, Dom.

I don't think there's a place in the world for Benny Hill.

lol I don't care what you guys, I enjoyed that Benny Hill clip.

Some friends saw it at TIFF and added that it also has terrible dramatic voice-overs which I know this thread despises

I liked Burgess Meredith in The Reivers.

I don't want to live in such a world

You already do.

No I don't. I have all his available shows

I passed the Knowledge today. I feel exalted.

"Brecknock Road will do. Ospringe Road shows that you're a genius."

Any Lounge or SMP reg may redeem this post at any time for a free tour, to your specifications. Left to me it would be the real London, and I'm talking Hawksmoor, Goldfinger and Stik.

Three-and-a-half years, 17 appearances. Not bad.

What's an appearance?

Congratulations, Charlie? And I hope to redeem some day.

Thanks, John Cole.

I wish I knew how to post a pdf file.

Congrats! This shows a well-tuned mind.

There comes a stage in life when a father must turn to his daughter for dating advice. Oh, that doesn't happen to all of us? Well, my daughter assures me that a fourteen (soon to be fifteen) year age difference is "NOTHING" (her caps). I'm not so sure about that.

Woman asked me to go with her to Boston to see a play, and I accepted because it's the gentlemanly thing to do. She had to drive since I'm still grounded for a couple more weeks. Fortunately, she's smart and witty, but far too young for me. Or at least I think so. And her youngest boy is almost the same age as my granddaughter!

However, I did ask her to dinner next week to make amends for all the driving she had to do. And because I wanted to.

My daughter now wants to know if there's teenage step-siblings in her future.

What was the play? Something by Harold Pinter?

John, the heart needs what the mind claims it doesn't.