Why aren't Dina Merrill and Pam Dawber credited in this trailer? Recognize. And why haven't more people seen this movie?? Even more than Popeye or Prêt-à-Porter, this is, hands down, my favorite thing Robert Altman ever did.
Possibly the only Tom Cruise movie that doesn't totally make my ass hurt, and probably only because it's set in Meiji-Era Japan. Obviously this is one of my favorite scenes because it features the speech by Mutsuhito, the Meiji Emperor. Whose great-grandson I've met. Just so you know.
In Sweet Pickles' opinion, "Da Nang Hooker" is one of the greatest cinematic characters ever to hit the silver screen, and the best thing about Full Metal Jacket. I wish Da Nang Hooker was a real person and had her own reality show on TV that was on every single day. A 'heads-up': Our local film festival is planning a Halloween fundraiser this fall, with a cinematic costume competition.
Okay, I realize that 'The Worst People You'll Ever Meet' is the table to sit at, but that's the obvious choice. So, as much as I'd like to pull out a straw and share that one Diet Coke with 'The Girls Who Don't Eat Anything' (AWE. SOME.), I think I'd go for 'The Unfriendly Black Hotties'.
I'm supposed to meet L-Ant for lunch tomorrow (a Wednesday), and am thinking of proposing that we wear something pink, get our own table at the campus cafeteria, split a single Diet Coke, and invite some unfriendly black hotties to join us. 'Sexually-Active Band Geeks' and 'Asian Nerds' need not apply. B.Y.O.S.!
This movie did to me what the book The Kite Runner did to me. It is so beautiful it takes my breath away, and so painful it makes my chest hurt. This scene (only the first 2 minutes) between the blind boy and his new mentor (who is also blind) chokes me up every single time. The inexact subtitling only makes it more real to me somehow. When that kid says "So I search everywhere to touch God some day and tell him everything, all the things in my heart," I lose it. I have to remind myself that this is a movie. And Sweet Pickles is not the kind of guy who cries at movies.
Readers who are younger than Sweet Pickles (i.e, age 28 and lower) should go out and rent this one sometime, because I know you won't have seen it, and you should. All readers, look carefully at the JAL travel bags being clutched by the tourists in the backseat of the taxi. They're what I want for my birthday, so call Japan Air Lines or start searching eBay now... you've only got about 7 months left!
Inspired by Oxfordfilmfreak, a new recurring feature here at Sweet Pickles' blog will be "Great Moments in the History of Film." For readers who haven't seen these movies, this feature will serve as a more than a recommendation... consider it a list of required screenings (there will be an exam at midterm)!
To kick off "Great Moments in the History of Film," does everyone remember this classic:
AWESOMEST. MOVIE. EVER.
When is Inside the Actors' Studio going to interview him?!?!?
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