RE: What movies gets you every time?
Sandra Bullock relaxes me, which is very important. There's a lightness to her.
My favorite S.B. movie is The Lake House. It's so very well done, and the concept of time is interesting to me. Happy ending too. I liked Miss Congeniality (a quietly amusing cop mystery, though a basically comedic script in a police setting won't do it for me.). She made it look easy, but it's not.
I have tremendous respect for the acting craft, which partially comes from hearing the last minutes of a TV interview of Cate Blanchett, one of my favorite actresses. Another fav is Meryl Streep. Actually, one of Cate Blanchett's films, Heaven, is one of my tearjerkers, but not suggested for people here.
Carol Burnett can drive me into a giggle fest. Robin Williams, as well. John Goodman is a gifted comic and dramatic actor. Very few actors can. Most comedy is lost on me, though I find mild, spontaneous funnies just walking the streets of NYC.
The Carol Burnett Show was a work of art; Tim Conway could get to me. Jean Stapleton (All in the Family) had a gift for innocent comedy. Ah, and how could I forget Johnny Carson's interactions with animal guests on his late-night TV show.
Kathy Bates was a rip as a nun in Shirley MacLaine's Bruno (a sweet movie, though not a comedy). Come to think of it, you might like it. Plot summary in Wikipedia.
My funniest movie experience:
The kitchen scenes, when prospective in-laws are visiting, in The Bird Cage (Robin Williams version). Perfect, and the film editing makes it!
There's more about actors and movies that I've forgotten.
"Even the very emptiest of the emptiest
Has a false bottom, a false bottom."
(This post was last modified: 10-19-2013, 01:53 PM by tweeter.)
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