Letterboxd — Your life in film

I admit upfront that I'm not very much of a Robert Altman fan. I like Nashville and M*A*S*H but I dislike how he takes me out of the movie by his sudden camera zooms and movement. But it really isn't as obvious to me in this film. In fact, his usual habit of having overlapping conversations kind of works for me in this film, because you have all the characters of the town of Sweethaven talking all the time, and…

I first saw this when it was released to the theaters in '77 and it's the grandaddy of all the "Smokey's after the little guy" movies so prevalent in the 70s and 80s. But this is THE one that begin the car chase with cops in pusuit comedies (usually with big stunts). Burt is Bo, who drives a souped-up Trans Am and runs interference for semi-truck driver Cletus aka "The Snowman"---his C.B. handle (played by Jerry Reed). This time around…

Excellent movie that obviously is connected to the first "Cloverfield" movie merely by the fact of its title. There's the "controversary" over the ending which I don't understand, given the logic of my first sentence. I think some fans might have been caught up in the drama that unfolds below in an underground bunker where an obvious conspiracy nut is holding two people captive because he claims that an "attack" has happened. Or is he a nut? Maybe some people…

The second cartoon where Bugs Bunny goes up against Cecil Turtle in a race. But first the sneaky Bugs puts on an "old man" costume and questions Cecil at his door as to what he owes his success to. In one of my favorite lines, Cecil replies, "Clean living friend. Clean living." 🙂

Bugs manages to type out all of Cecil's hints under his beard with a hidden typewriter. Cecil, of course is hip to what's going on and tells…

Funny, if somewhat lesser Buster Keaton vehicle where he breaks up with his fiancee and heads out to see in his boat, only to be picked up by a whaling ship with a mean captain who will throw any hand over deck for the slightest mistake. Buster manages to avoid his wrath for most of the trip...until he doesn't and the captain comes after him. There's a funny bit where Buster get a lifeboat into the sea, so he makes…

Funny Barney Bear cartoon where he's gone duck hunting and is thwarted at every turn by the hunting rule book, like "No hunting before sunrise," "No hunting after sundown." But it's when he finds a cute little duck sleeping that he meets his real match. The duck never opens its eyes but manages to show him the rule in the book that says, "No shooting of sleeping ducks." Barney does everything to get the duck awake but the duck always…

Good Tex Avery 'toon where a B-29 prop bomber is put out of work by the call for new-fangled jets. John Jet tries everywhere but he's outclassed by these new speed demons. Then his wife, Mary, shows that she's expecting. John is overjoyed but he still hates jets. Then, when his baby arrives, he's happy until he finds out it's a jet.

We are treated to scenes of John sitting at the table while baby Johnny zooms over his head,…

Pretty solid stuff with Christian Slater and Morgan Freeman leading the way as good guy and bad guy, respectively. But, as the movie goes on, Freeman becomes a lesser bad guy if you will and ends up helping Slater out.

Slater, along with his uncle, played by Ed Asner, are armored car drivers doing their rounds, when they pass through a town that's currently going through an epic rainfall. So bad, in fact, that the local dam has been filling…

A woman, Sarah, with her young son and husband, goes rafting with her friend Juno. We are made to see a hint of what kind of friend Juno really is. On the way home, Sarah and her family are involved in a car accident in which Sarah loses her family. One year later, she's contacted her friend Juno to go cave exploring to help her move past her tragedy. With a group of other females, they enter the cave system.…

Buster answers an ad at a local carnival to run the shooting gallery, which is really just a ruse to see how well he can shoot. He "hires" a dog to ring a bell outside the window (with a contraption he comes up with to make the dog lunge at a bone and set off a bell) so the boss will hear the bell ringing while he's conferring with his gang upstairs. Thinking he's a great shot they want him…