Two movies, quite unrelated

[skreidle]

While I was working on a speaker installation this afternoon, I got to watch a fair bit of The Quiet Man (1952), starring John Wayne. I liked what I saw, so it's a shame I only got to see the beginning. :)


After work and dinner, Jillian and Oscar biked over, and we went to Greater Union to see the 8:45pm showing of The Return of the King, which was really really good. Made me want to read the books again, though most you are aware how futile a notion this is for me. :)

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[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! I'll try to remember, perhaps adding it to my PDA. :)

[jduffy1535.livejournal.com]

I have that movie on DVD. You can borrow it if you ever come back to this country. The stereotypes are so great they make me want to put Guinness in with my Lucky Charms.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

w00t! I'll certainly be coming back, though I'm not sure exactly when or for how long. :)

[lanikei.livejournal.com]

i'm sure you know this by now, but i LOVE john wayne. quiet man is a great movie.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

I was not actually aware of this, and I'm not sure I've ever seen all of a John Wayne movie. Travesty, I know.

[lanikei.livejournal.com]

ohmyGOD!

i grew up on john wayne. well, the westerns, i haven't the taste for his war movies, though i'm sure they're good too. let's see... which ones are my favorites (in no particular order) rio bravo, el dorado, the shootist (better if you know how he died), the cowboys, rooster cogburn (and true grit)

i think those are my personal favorites... rio bravo is cool b/c it has dean martin and ricky nelson in it. el dorado has robert mitchum (beef! it's what's for dinner!) and is funny b/c its exactly like rio bravo. there are lots of famous leading ladies in his movies too. and the shootist has ron howard!

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

I'm entirely unfamiliar with just about every movie you just mentioned, possible exception being El Dorado, which I haven't seen.

[lanikei.livejournal.com]

go see them. i'm not entirely sure how good they are though... i feel like i'm probably a bit biased by sentimentality... but i think he won some awards (or at least was nominated) for true grit (possibly rooster cogburn, don't remember, same character). and the shootist is actually a really good movie (again, do a teensy bit of research into wayne's life/death). rio bravo and el dorado are pretty unabashedly fun silly not quite spaghetti westerns. they're not GOOD movies, but they're fun. the cowboys... i haven't seen it in awhile so i odn't remember if its fun, or what, i just liked it a lot. there's another movie i'm trying to remember that i like, and i can't think of what it was... maybe the man who shot liberty valance?

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Heard of True Grit, but not the other couple you mentioned. I'm sure I'll see some of them eventually, but not likely while I'm in Australia. :)

[sylvie.livejournal.com]

why is it futile for you to want to read the books again? books are good!

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

The key to this futility is -me-, who's read 130 pages in the last 5 weeks, one book in the month prior, and, on average, less than one book per month for the preceding several years.

Book are good, and I would certainly enjoy re-reading, but a) I have over 200 unread books in my possession, and b) unless I reprioritize reading (not on my screen) by a great degree, I'll die at a ripe old age with my current set of books unfinished. :P

[beracjade.livejournal.com]

you? read? an actual book?

[falls into hysterical laughter]

thanks. i needed that. ;-)

[idoru.livejournal.com]

ahhh, what he doesn't REALIZE is that one can give up time for reading words on the INTAR-WEB to read them on printed pages!

i like it when he's all IT ONLY TOOK ME THREE WEEKS TO READ THIS 250-PAGE BOOK!! I READ FIFTEEN WHOLE PAGES TODAY!!

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

I am -not- like that, I'm all "Damn, it took me long time to read that! I need to reprioritize reading of Printed Words!" and then I do nothing about it. :)

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Bah! (Crotch!) It's all Cornell's fault for giving me a) a lot to read for classes, and b) high-speed internet to suck up all my reading effort in online text. :)