I thought for sure you were mentioning From Russia With Love.
Well, I really like the movie, but it has two of the biggest plot holes in the history of Cinema (Only challenged by The Eiger Sanction) that kinda take some shine off it with reviewing. But yeah, it’s always fun to watch.
“Is it Mary?”
No, that is what the wind cries.
I remember those days, too. My wife can still play a bit of it.
I didn’t know any better at the time, but I remember seeing the movie on TV when I was in my twenties, and realizing it was set in the '30s, not the ragtime era. The Joplin piano music seems out of place to me. They could have had very good soundtrack with Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Bing Crosby, Bennie Goodman, Fats Waller, and Louis Armstrong.
“She certainly drinks like one.”
“Get up, that’s no way to go into a speakeasy. That’s the way you come out.”
I’m still surprised, having seen it again recently, how the 1920s version of ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ is still amazing.
Oh wait…not 70’s or older, but 70s.
Hmmmmm…
May as well mention Casablanca at over 80.
Lonnerman.
Linnemin.
:: Belch ::
btwm
The Graduate (1967) is so good that when I saw it for the first time, I gave it a standing ovation in my living room.
That would have been around 2011. It’s held up.
“One word: Plastics.”
I’m not so sure. How is Ferris Bueller’s Day Off aging? How about the original Back to the Future?
The Princess Bride will hold up forever.
Based on the reaction of my then 15F and 13M kids who saw it during the COVID lockdown, pretty damn well.
My kids are in their 30s but when they were in their teens, it held up pretty well back then. It’s a winner.
“Do you have a kiss for daddy?”
My Cousin Vinny (1992) holds up pretty well too.
“Oh yeah, you blend.”
And it must be seen in the uncut version. F bombs must not be cut out. Especially for the prison scene.
“Oh excuse me but I think a modicum of gratitude would not be out of line here.”
Most definitely. Anybody want a peanut?
Kids in Mind has a rating for the movie but, being from 1992, it is not nearly detailed as much as currently done. For MCV the Language rating is 6 (of 10) with merely, * Four-letter words abound, in impeccable Brooklynese.*
For some movies, the swearing is simply swearing for swearing‘s sake. But in My Cousin Vinny it truly adds color, and humor that is lost without it.
You’re going to have to give us a clue there!