"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.
I admit that's not the way it usually goes! I grew up on The Blues Brothers (1980); I am a great fan of too many motor vehicles. But this movie could definitely use fewer.
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.
It's the core of the story for me, and the reason I keep thinking about the movie. Charles Laughton isn't irrelevant, but he's at an angle to them, I think. Their relationship would still interest me even without a ghost. (For starters, it's a randomly convincing portrayal of an adult who's good with children and a child whose best friends are grown-ups.)
"intermittent but well-intended realism"--I feel like that could be a catchphrase for my life.
Please feel free to take it!
With the healing angel now an enthusiastic bronie, I have a hard time reading "Canterville" and not thinking of My Little Pony.
. . . I hadn't even thought of that. Fair point.
It's wonderful; I have the pleasure of watching a film just by reading your reviews.
Thank you. Let me know what you think if you ever see it!
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I admit that's not the way it usually goes! I grew up on The Blues Brothers (1980); I am a great fan of too many motor vehicles. But this movie could definitely use fewer.
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.
It's the core of the story for me, and the reason I keep thinking about the movie. Charles Laughton isn't irrelevant, but he's at an angle to them, I think. Their relationship would still interest me even without a ghost. (For starters, it's a randomly convincing portrayal of an adult who's good with children and a child whose best friends are grown-ups.)
"intermittent but well-intended realism"--I feel like that could be a catchphrase for my life.
Please feel free to take it!
With the healing angel now an enthusiastic bronie, I have a hard time reading "Canterville" and not thinking of My Little Pony.
. . . I hadn't even thought of that. Fair point.
It's wonderful; I have the pleasure of watching a film just by reading your reviews.
Thank you. Let me know what you think if you ever see it!