Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

That one and 'Citizen Kane'.

Citzen Kane is one of those that I might as well have seen. I've never sat and watched it beginning to end, but I've seen at least 80% of it over the years in various bits and chunks. It's on the queue because I do eventually have to view it in whole, but it none of it will really be news to me.

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

but what was more interesting was just the "wrongness" of it by contemporary standards.

Same with Philladelphia Story. The movie starts with a man threating to punch his wife, only to show amazing restraint by just shoving her to the ground by her face. It then proceeds to show respectable people getting hammered. Though there was a message of "drinking is bad", it still showed some binge drinking in a humorous light, something you most definitely wouldn't see today. Oh, and there was the humorous dirty old uncle who liked to pinch girl's asses.