I will always love Marilyn in the 7-year itch and will have Champagne & Potato Chips in her honor whenever I view it.

Hey Alex, I didn't post in your thread because you put a spoilers tag on it. Since I'm not a fan of spoilers of a film I intend to see, I didn't read your post until this evening. I made the leap and assumed that I wasn't alone in my spoilerphobia, so in an effort to get the word out that the movie might not be worth the price of admission, I posted here. I referenced your thread so that others might look it up.

As far as Marilyn is concerned - I also don't completely "get" her - I'm not mesmerized by her on-screen presence, but most Hollywood sex symbols leave me puzzled and questioning my taste as it relates to the mainstream. Having said that, I love "The Seven Year Itch", though it probably has more to do with Billy Wilder than Miss Monroe...

I don't think I would like The Seven Year Itch regardless of who was playing the Monroe character so I can't really say it is her fault I don't like that one.

It is just so contrived and feels like exactly what it is: a filmed stage production. But not in a good way.

Hence the unplanned brilliance of my starting the M. Night thread once discussion about his films in this thread was nearly done.


Surprisingly, the general political thread that I thought would reign forever in the Daily Grind has seen better days now that some very serious political events are afoot.

So, it all depends...

No problem, I have no problem with this type of thread and don't care if comments about Clerks II get posted in a half-dozen threads that aren't the one I started.

Perhaps, though you did seem to need to post about that ;)

I think Marilyn was an adorable caricature of an idealised woman, but I still think dying young was the best thing that could have happened for her career. Is that really bad of me? She really had NOOOOOOO talent, just looks, and haven't we been fed enough of that sort of crap over the past few decades? (Mentally going over roster of male posters....)

Never mind- don't answer that.

Don't get me wrong! She was very cute, and even married a smart guy! But, come on, really- she couldn't act her way out of a strip club. Well, okay, she did, but not very well.

I think it was her caricature that made her - she became an icon of the ideal of the times. In her roles she seems tohave fun playing that out. In her real life, well - no wonder she offed herself. But her movies are Campy, and I can still have a lot of fun with that even if it isn't Bergman.

But only to have it be a mild poke at the someone who occasionally complains about this type of thread.


Another movie musing. Today I watched Choose Me from 1984. Stars Keith Carradine, Genevieve Bujold, and Lesley Ann Warren. It's some kind of parable about love and repression and just taking advantage of the moment when it happens. There are a couple very well acted scenes but I was mostly bored with the whole thing. Patrick Bauchau plays something of a heavy which was amusing to me since I only know him as Sydney from The Pretender.

Which one's the one on a cruise ship? That's Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend, right? That one I watch for the other chick, who's way cool even if her name escapes me.