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5th Rewatch...Rob Reiner was robbed of an Oscar nomination for his meticulous direction of this lavish fairytale centered around the star-crossed romance between young lovers Westley and Buttercup. Reiner cand screenwriter William Goldman provide a clever hook for the film by setting it up as a book being read by an old Grandpa (Peter Falk) to his sick from school grandson (Fred Savage) who offer commentary throughout. No expense was spared brining this extraordinary fairy tale to the screen, including a super cast that includes Mandy Patinkin, Wallace Shawn (hysterically funny), Chris Sarandon, Christophr Guest (bone chilling), Billy Crystal, Carol Kane, and Andre the Giant. Cary Elwes and Robin Wright are enchanting as the lovers at the center of the story. Elwes, one of our most underratd actors, got the role of hiis career here and nailed it. First rate family entertainment with mad rewatch appeal. I heard rumors once about a sequel in the works, but I hope they wewre just that...this film doesn't need a sequel.

Umpteenth Rewatch...My personal favorite MGM musical., Fred Astaire plays a movie star who hasn't made a movie in three y ears and agrees to do a Broadway musical with a snooty ballerina named Gabrielle Girard (Cyd Charrise) directed by an eccentric Orson Welles-type director named Jeffrey Cordova (Jack Buchanan). It's the musical numbers that keep this film eternally watchable staged by director Vicnente Minnelli and choreographed Michael Kidd...that duet with Astaire and CHarisse to "Dancing in the Dark", th trio with Astaire, Buchanan, and Nanette Fabray, "Triplets', Fabray's "Louisiana Hayride", The Girl Hunt Ballet , and what would later become MGM's anthem, "That's Entertainment. This is Minnelli, Kidd, Astaire, and Cyd Charisse at their peak.

Thunderbolts* - Why the asterisk? That's only the first question I had. After that, most of them reduced to something like "why am I here?" We saw this last night, and I found it to be an unappealing, muddle. Someone, a critic quoted in the ad, says, "One of the best movies of all time". Maybe someone can do some 'splanin'. I didn't like the characters, the acting, the muddle of a plot line or much else. At least it was loud and I didn't go to sleep.

Umpteenth Rewatch Rewatch...it's not quite as good as Cabaret, but Bob Fosse's imaginative choreography and Roy Scheider's dazzling Oscar-nominated performance in the lead role anchor this semi-autobiographical look at Fosse's life that won four Oscars. Scheider plays Joe Gideon, a hard working, pill-popping, womanizing director choreographer who drives himself to a heart attack while trying to edit a movie and stage a new musical at the same time. The film is loosly based on the period in Fosse's life when he was trying to finish editing [i]Lenny[/I whil directing CHocago] for wife Gwen Verdon. Of course, Fosse''s choreography brings the movie to life. The "Take off With Us/Air-Rotica" number is extraordinary.