Latitudes

I joined Letterboxd sometime last year, I think. The only thing that I have done with it was add the favorite movies of mine.

I wanted a site like Goodreads but for movies. I am actually a part of a different site like that. And I haven't done so well with keeping track of the movies I've watched lately (luckily I have the HoF's to refer back to when I finally get around to adding them onto my Watched List ). Anyway, I don't recall how I discovered Letterboxd, but I just haven't gotten around to doing anything else on there. You see, the main goal for me right now is to get all of the movies I've seen copied off of the other site and added to Letterboxd. But to do that, it will take me so long to accomplish it. Not only do I have the tedious act of having to look up each one, but I have to rate each one. Not too hard because the films are rated on the other site, too, but it is just that added step to getting all the info recorded.

I figure that I will get around to it sometime in the summer. Maybe on one of those days when it is too hot to do anything else.


One thing that is frustrating (for me, at least) is that I don't necessarily think of every movie that I have ever seen. What is worse is when it is an obvious movie. I did that kind of stuff with Goodreads. An obvious book that I'd read (twice, in fact) is Gone With The Wind. I didn't even realize that I hadn't had it to my bookshelf until about 3 years after I'd become a member of Goodreads. You see, I like things to be accurate. And if I am going to make Letterboxd as accurate as the other site, I have to really take my time with entering everything. That will take me a long time to do.

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I'm sorry I'm just getting around to reading this review, but I have to say that I think you might be being a little hard on the PL Travers character...Travers wanted the central character of the movie to be exactly the person who she grew up and wanted everything exactly the way she remembered it and did not understand that things had to be enhanced for entertainment value. She did not care about entertainment value, all she wanted was to see her childhood recreated onscreen and I can understand that to a point. I actually loved when she asked Disney how they were going to train the penguins to dance and when he explained they would be animated she would have none of it. What I thought strange was the fact that everything Travers fought against ended up on the screen anyway, a process which began during the fabulous scene where she is shown the "Let's Go Fly a Kite" number for the first time and finally realizes that Disney does understand that the story is about Mr. Banks, not the children. Any problems I might have had with the Travers character melted away during the scene where she is sitting in the dark theater at the premiere of the film, not really liking what she's saying but unable to deny that everyone around her was absolutely loving what they're seeing, a scene brilliantly executed by Emma Thompson, that scene alone should have gotten her an Oscar nomination.

George C. Scott was, hands down, my favorite Scrooge ever...brilliant performance.

You might want to check your facts, Citizen, but I remember reading a long time ago that people had problems with this film because IRL Elizabeth the 1st and Mary Queen of Scots never met.

I saw this movie at a drive-in when I was 7 years old and really don't remember anything about it, except for the fact that I think it was the only film in which Frank and Nancy Sinatra appeared together. Seeing this here has me seriously considering a re-watch.

She also did a biker movie with...I want to say Peter Fonda...I think it was called Hell's Angels on Wheels or something like that.

Marriage on the Rocks (1965) Of all the films you just commented on, Marriage on the Rocks (1965) is the one I would recommend. If for no other reason the mod beach house was a time capsule back to the mid 60s, right before hippie fashion set in. I think it's one of the most sophisticated eras for style. And if you seen it as a child last, it would be neat for you to see if you can remember any of it. You should check it out, I've seen it twice. It's great fun.