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Born Yesterday (1950)
Irritating, nonsensical characters, not entertaining, moronic dialogue
Judy Holliday's lisping dumb blonde character was somewhat interesting at first but when she never improves her annoying as all hell way of talking (I thought she would and spare the audience) she quickly becomes grating. At least Lena Lamont was in a musical aware of its absurdity. She almost seems to be sort of a clownish stereotype lower class girl and quickly becomes even more annoying when she goes around spewing random facts about American history which just seems confusing and irritating. Her reporter is the horrible quixotic personality who is limitless in both his nobility and insuffersbility. Enough about him. The villain of the film might be the worst element. While the actor playing him seems to be a good performer and fits the role it has horrible implications- they seem to be mocking lower class success by having him be stupid and clownish- they pretty much deride the uneducated and imply any body from the working class who became wealthy must have done it through bullying and cheating. In every scene he's in he acts like a grotesque caricature and has a stupid commupence where the apple-cheeked little idealist reporter harangues him at length and makes fun of his ignorance. The whole ending is unbearably nonsensical and full of half baked ideas about reclaiming Ameircan democracy- not that I am against it- but the way they do it is so confused and melodramatic.
The Addams Family: Christmas with the Addams Family (1965)
One of the best
This manages to mix the Christmas spirit and vague Adam's 60s ghoulishness perfectly and makes for extremely enjoyable viewing
Alice in Wonderland (1988)
Favorite childhood movie if somewhat bland for adults
Perhaps it is true that an adult might notice the simplistic animation, overly loud soundtrack and somewhat muted voices. However children generally don't care about that and will absorb anything with bright colors and an upbeat storyline and I did like a sponge. This movie was wonderful to me and I would go through it probably once every two weeks on my video time cycle. It has a calm, dreamlike quality to it, but not an outlandish dream one always remembers like the book, but a regular every night dream. It doesn't do justice to the book- but it will capture a child.
The Waltons: The Caretakers (1975)
A pretty infuriating episode
Grandpa, annoying as always, takes the cake with his tantrums in this episode.His son suggests to him a 75 year old with heart problems should not be doing strenuous labor all the time. Grandpa takes this as an offense to his very being and throws a fit at his son and refuses to work at all, even when his work becomes necessary to fullfill an order, I guess just to spite his son for caring about him, Later he badgers John-boy who his clearly doing work and doesn't take the hint until John-Boy markedly tells him to please could he leave him alone so he doesn't lose the scholarship which allows his impoverished family to send him to school.After these reasonable requests which demonstrate genuine cocnern for Grandpa he storms off from the house inconvening the family, taking Esther with of him who was more understandably annoyed at her grandchildrens' bratty behavior. Grandpa still spites everyone and refuses to go home and apologize for hcildlike behavior which was clearly his fault- John doesn't budge either but in this case he really didn't do anything. Grandpa is a big baby and should have been reprimanded and hit by Esther. However I'd still watch it because it's the Waltons and you get to here Ike being reprimanded by his wife for calling her "Honey Babe."