From: ahk@chinet.com
Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
>I finished out my Shout Factory "Blaxpoitation" box set.
>I won't go through everything. But I'll mention Sheba, Baby which was a
>1975 movie starring Pam Grier. I had seen "Coffy" and "Foxy Brown"
>before, but this was my first time watching this one. Grier stars as a
>private investigator who heads down South to save her father from some
>local gangsters. She of course winds up killing them all with extreme
>prejudice.
Haven't seen these in years, but I vaguely recall that this was one of
the better ones.
>The Notebook 2004 romantic drama starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel
>McAdams. I never saw this before now, although I was well aware of it
>being popular. I have (season) tickets to see the live stage musical
>version, so I figured I might as well watch the original. The movie was
>mind-numbingly boring! McAdams plays a rich girl who falls in love with
>a poor man (Gosling) but her parents disapprove. I could not care less
>about any of the stupid characters and their stupid problems. Please,
>please, please, let the live stage musical be better than this!
It's yet another Nicholas Sparks novel. His novels are mild. When people
are dying of chronic illness, they barely have adverse symptoms.
I watched it, in theater, for James Garner. He was very sweet with Gina
Rowlands, reading from the memoir. Rowlands' performance was praised by
critics, even though she just lies there. She's the mother of director
Nick Cassavetes.
Garner is Duke in the framing story, the older version of Noah. It's
supposed to be a surprise that he's playing the same character later in
life and therefore Rowlands is the older version of Allie, but it's
telegraphed. There's no reason for the surprise.
I agree with your comments about the backstory.
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