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Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Yeah, it’s definitely dated, but, if anything, that makes the movie all the more charming, except for the perviness of the opening scene (-.5 stars, sorry). As someone who knew nothing about how the film was going to go when I began watching, everything was incredible from the second that Carrie walks into prom. Even in the moments of beautifully captured bliss, I couldn’t help but speculate on how everything could go wrong and who was responsible. The dubious guilt…
I wasn’t as much of a fan as I expected to be based on all of the hype that this movie has. It takes a little too long to get really interesting, but the ending is very satisfying and is likely the reason for The Godfather’s reverence among movie lovers. Acting was great and the deaths were well done. Still, not really my kind of movie (watched it for a class), but I can appreciate the artistry and I still enjoyed the watch.
First half was really losing me, especially when there wasn’t a cute animal on screen; the only gag I can remember from this section was Bill stealing the egg and then accidentally slapping it, which was pretty funny. Second half just gets better and better, as the slapstick keeps escalating (my favorite scenes were the entire horse debacle and the "nein" joke) and the plot becomes pretty compelling. While I enjoyed it, a shorter runtime without all the early fluff would have really helped this film.
Well, Barrymore is probably not as sexy as a Don Juan actor should be, but, by halfway through the film, it’s hard not to enjoy the absurdity of an average guy swooning over — and being swooned over by — practically every young woman he encounters. I was never really sure if I should have been rooting for him until the ending, and I think that actually made this iteration of Don Juan even better. That scene where Adriana is threatening to…