tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.comments2024-03-11T16:51:36.636-04:00A<br> Mythical<br> Monkey<br> writes<br> about<br> the<br> moviesMythical Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comBlogger5426125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-88568993931061480992024-01-24T15:32:06.700-05:002024-01-24T15:32:06.700-05:00Again my votes are completely arbitrary and capric...Again my votes are completely arbitrary and capricious- never having seen most of the movies, actors I voted for. Oh well. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-43800770780481774402023-12-24T22:53:50.807-05:002023-12-24T22:53:50.807-05:00Thank you very much! And a very merry Christmas to...Thank you very much! And a very merry Christmas to you and yours!Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-7813197214944535132023-12-24T11:43:52.629-05:002023-12-24T11:43:52.629-05:00Merry Christmas to you and your family! Thanks fo...Merry Christmas to you and your family! Thanks for all the fun posts and alternate oscars this past year! And I agree, Die Hard is absolutely a Christmas movie. :-D<br /><br />Best wishes for the new year!DKorenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05819702518388146971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-53141988637284798172023-12-20T11:12:46.402-05:002023-12-20T11:12:46.402-05:00And here are 12 year old notes for another essay I...And here are 12 year old notes for another essay I intended to write about 1983:<br /><br /><i>Eddie Murphy (Trading Places)<br /><br />Trivia: ... way back in the early days of this blog, I wrote about silent movies ... One I saw but didn't write about was Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler, a 1922 ... There's a scene early on where Mabuse manipulates the stock market by creating a false report ... that then half an hour later, he himself debunks ... calmly standing in the middle of the frenzy of sellers saying "buy." ... don't know if ... ripped off Dr. Mabuse directly or they ripped off someone who ripped off Dr. Mabuse (or maybe this idea is so old, Lang ripped it off from someone else).<br /><br />Doesn't mean the scene doesn't work in Trading Places. If anything, it's better. I'm just throwing a little information your way.</i>Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-22358551490336630502023-12-20T10:55:40.239-05:002023-12-20T10:55:40.239-05:00I view it as “nothing matters, so who gives a shit...<i>I view it as “nothing matters, so who gives a shit?”</i><br /><br />The traditional "one must imagine Sisyphus miserable" approach ...<br /><br />I kid.Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-85105377027432340932023-12-20T09:58:52.059-05:002023-12-20T09:58:52.059-05:00I view it as “nothing matters, so who gives a shit...I view it as “nothing matters, so who gives a shit?”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-45158627336996115042023-12-20T08:55:01.757-05:002023-12-20T08:55:01.757-05:00I have a long novel's worth of essays I've...I have a long novel's worth of essays I've started for this blog and never finished. That's in addition to the five novels worth of essays I have posted.<br /><br />As of 2012, I was up to a half-million words devoted to this blog (580,179 to be exact). After that, I stopped counting.<br /><br />As I once noted, this blog is like chopping down an oak tree with a butter knife. A patently insane endeavor to be sure, but it's my oak tree and my butter knife. As Albert Camus put it, "One must imagine Sisyphus happy."Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-71589729004478301182023-12-20T08:47:44.756-05:002023-12-20T08:47:44.756-05:00I started to write an essay on movie-going but ran...I started to write an essay on movie-going but ran out of time ...<br /><br /><i>Between 1977, when I got my driver's license, and 1983, when I started law school, I went to the movies all the time. I'd watch anything, anytime, with no clue was I was about to see, the equivalent of channel surfing at the multiplex. I think a matinee in those days was about $2 and the student center at college was even cheaper. My favorites of 1983 were The Right Stuff, High Road to China, Trading Places and A Christmas Story. Terms of Endearment left me cold, Fanny and Alexander — Ingmar Bergman's last great film, released in America in 1983 — baffled me (and still does) in a way his other films never did. I still see a lot of movies (although not necessarily at the multiplex, and not without prior vetting).</i>Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-79605319060391724052023-12-20T07:12:48.836-05:002023-12-20T07:12:48.836-05:00Can’t. Ring yourself to even talk about this year,...Can’t. Ring yourself to even talk about this year, can ya.<br /><br />Simians know better . . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-44927791851936491052023-12-15T12:27:01.495-05:002023-12-15T12:27:01.495-05:00Ah, yes, the best actress award. Katharine Hepburn...Ah, yes, the best actress award. Katharine Hepburn won the Oscar for <i>On Golden Pond</i>. Now I love Katharine Hepburn -- I have her down for eight nominations and three wins, which is a lot in my universe -- but I think her win for <i>On Golden Pond</i> was more like her win in <i>Guess Who's Coming to Dinner</i>, when she stood around and looked on supportively while Spencer Tracy did all the heavy lifting, than <i>The Lion in Winter</i> where she was absolutely ferocious.<br /><br />So I gave the noms to the actresses who were doing the heavy lifting in 1981 ...Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-88981369897381011822023-12-15T12:18:23.565-05:002023-12-15T12:18:23.565-05:00wAS ThERE nO BesT ACtrEsS OF THIs yEAR ? nO CZECK...wAS ThERE nO BesT ACtrEsS OF THIs yEAR ? nO CZECK MARLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-36352754857770444342023-11-16T11:46:44.886-05:002023-11-16T11:46:44.886-05:00Great post! I liked your thoughtful analysis. Keep...Great post! I liked your thoughtful analysis. Keep writing—you have a talent for it!Fortunehttps://stargambling.net/casinos/review/ruby-fortune.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-26727883049538674842023-11-05T11:45:16.434-05:002023-11-05T11:45:16.434-05:00I didn’t see any if these or if I did I don’t reme...I didn’t see any if these or if I did I don’t remember them. So these were truly arbitrary choices, maybe based of whether or not I saw the actor in another movie, or equally as meaningless. Oh well. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-3422063829170287562023-10-16T15:27:05.471-04:002023-10-16T15:27:05.471-04:00My review of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three:
...My review of <i>The Taking of Pelham One Two Three</i>:<br /><br />https://mythicalmonkey.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three-1974.htmlMythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-38618115049307460462023-10-16T14:32:48.202-04:002023-10-16T14:32:48.202-04:00Pelham 1-2-3
Greatest Score of All Times™️ Pelham 1-2-3<br /><br /><br />Greatest Score of All Times™️ Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-62182546420134904842023-10-07T10:18:20.207-04:002023-10-07T10:18:20.207-04:00I agree with you regarding A Clockwork Orange. I ...I agree with you regarding A Clockwork Orange. I did not actually get around to watching the film start to end for some 20 years (clips of scenes filled the online video-verse & were enough to get the jist & the basis for the hype). At the end of the full viewing my feeling was “what a waste of time” & “”what a poor presentation of rationalizing a disturbing moral choice.” I’ve seen better treatments of the moral dilemma explored in Clockwork from 8 minute DUST videos on YouTube.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-52931477055490824532023-10-07T09:51:42.288-04:002023-10-07T09:51:42.288-04:00In addition to “string competititors,” there are “...In addition to “string competititors,” there are “strong” as well . . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-19636552375249565222023-10-07T09:50:58.941-04:002023-10-07T09:50:58.941-04:00Hmmmm. I’m now worrying, at least a little, on em...Hmmmm. I’m now worrying, at least a little, on emerging groupthink. Because my thinking is matching up closely with the Monkey’s — and by the charts, with others’ too. That might be the first time that I’ve matched the monkey on all six of the big six. And there are some string competitors in each. No runaways. <br />One odd [minor] divergence: the theme from Shaft appears prominently in my favourite playlist [“Dubster’s Funks”]. It never fails to deliver me delights untold. And it is, in the modern use of the word, iconic. But I didn’t think that I could overlook the car chase in the French Connection by voting for Isaac Hayes’s piece. <br />Yet the peanut gallery went with 🎶 “ the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks”🎵. Good. <br />Except<br />while Bullitt foreshadowed the French Connection’s chase, the visceral thrill of FC’s chase — the verisimilitude (the psychosis!), the speed, the cinematography, the danger—weren’t seen before and haven’t been since. If film is art, it’s moviemaking daVinchelangiVanGasso.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-77802895177270981962023-10-07T09:46:20.136-04:002023-10-07T09:46:20.136-04:00The best part is *always* a Mythical Monkey’s rant...The best part is *always* a Mythical Monkey’s rant!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-80898513694932620472023-10-07T09:36:15.981-04:002023-10-07T09:36:15.981-04:00Best part of this was the mythical monkeys rant ab...Best part of this was the mythical monkeys rant about boring movies. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-68403459969743850232023-10-03T12:01:06.658-04:002023-10-03T12:01:06.658-04:00I have so much greater clarity of view now that we...I have so much greater clarity of view now that we’re into the grainy SixtiesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-32519060780343481262023-09-30T22:19:53.645-04:002023-09-30T22:19:53.645-04:00I was wondering when the Belle de Jour comment wou...I was wondering when the <i>Belle de Jour</i> comment would show up! I've been on pin and needles.<br /><br />Tomorrow is a long post about meeting Keir Dullea. I expect -- nay, demand -- a "Keir Dullea, gone tomorrow" comment.Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-13030593025104862922023-09-30T22:16:44.629-04:002023-09-30T22:16:44.629-04:00Finally — a year where my picks had no doubt, I wa...Finally — a year where my picks had no doubt, I was pleased with most of the choices, and<br /><br />I can’t believe I did not select <br /><br />Belle de jjZhooooourAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-8322147024306591062023-09-25T10:03:06.464-04:002023-09-25T10:03:06.464-04:00Belle de jour !!Belle de jour !!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-80267498430853736362023-09-21T13:43:05.382-04:002023-09-21T13:43:05.382-04:00Meryl Streep -- "America's Sweetheart&quo...Meryl Streep -- "America's Sweetheart" ... that made me laugh.<br /><br />I do like her in <i>The Devil Wears Prada</i>, though. Brilliant.Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.com