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Thursday, August 12, 2021

Movies I Don't Like

Older son lent us a couple of DVDs from the Criterion Collection. We watched them this weekend. Some people might enjoy them, but not us. In the interest of a fair evaluation we watched both through to the end. I found Good Morning to be extremely tedious. Bottle Rocket features brothers Luke & Owen Wilson, with Owen running his mouth endlessly. That seems to be his schtick. I've seen him in a couple of other movies, I don't need to see any more of him. 


Good Morning (1959) - Yasujirô Ozu - Trailer
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YouTube blurb, because I can't be bothered to write something of my own about this:
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.


Bottle Rocket (1996) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic Trailers
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Here's the intro from Wikipedia's page about Bottle Rocket:
Bottle Rocket is a 1996 American crime comedy film directed by Wes Anderson with a screenplay by Anderson and Owen Wilson based on Anderson's 1992 short film of the same name. In addition to being Wes Anderson's feature-length directorial debut, Bottle Rocket was the debut feature for brothers Owen and Luke Wilson, who co-starred with James Caan and Robert Musgrave.
The film was a commercial failure but launched Anderson's career by drawing attention from critics. Director Martin Scorsese later named Bottle Rocket one of his top-ten favorite movies of the 1990s

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