I do love the way you write up a review--and before I even get to the delight of the review, I have to say that this line:
I caught it on TCM in 2007 and taped a re-run a couple of years later, which does me so much good now that I have neither a television nor a VCR.
had me laughing sympathetically. We have a situation with viewing anything (in terms of devices capable of receiving and then showing films) that rivals the fox-goose-grain boat scenario.
Okay, but the review. "Too little budget and too many motorcycles" should become a phrase like "turn it up to eleven." Although some will surely ask if there can ever be too many motorcycles. What you say about Cuffy gradually becoming real is touching; indeed, everything you write about him and Jessica and the nature of the family curse and their relation to it and each other is touching. Then you had me laughing, too, with "intermittent but well-intended realism"--I feel like that could be a catchphrase for my life.
With the healing angel now an enthusiastic bronie, I have a hard time reading "Canterville" and not thinking of My Little Pony.
Thanks for taking the time to write this up. It's wonderful; I have the pleasure of watching a film just by reading your reviews.
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I caught it on TCM in 2007 and taped a re-run a couple of years later, which does me so much good now that I have neither a television nor a VCR.
had me laughing sympathetically. We have a situation with viewing anything (in terms of devices capable of receiving and then showing films) that rivals the fox-goose-grain boat scenario.
Okay, but the review. "Too little budget and too many motorcycles" should become a phrase like "turn it up to eleven." Although some will surely ask if there can ever be too many motorcycles. What you say about Cuffy gradually becoming real is touching; indeed, everything you write about him and Jessica and the nature of the family curse and their relation to it and each other is touching. Then you had me laughing, too, with "intermittent but well-intended realism"--I feel like that could be a catchphrase for my life.
With the healing angel now an enthusiastic bronie, I have a hard time reading "Canterville" and not thinking of My Little Pony.
Thanks for taking the time to write this up. It's wonderful; I have the pleasure of watching a film just by reading your reviews.