I thought I'd branch out a bit and do a movie review. This movie, though, isn't going to be around, in the form that we own, for much longer. There are quite a few variations of CleanFlicks around. We even went through this Canadian video editing company. All of them do a great job. Unfortunately, they are going out of business. ALL of them. We've amassed our collection due to their going-out-of-business sales. And really, at $6.97 a DVD, that's cheaper than renting it twice (which happens frequently b/c Mommy didn't finish) We received a new batch just after the New Year and so began our sojourn into "new movie" nights.
So far, we've only managed to see 3 in the last month. We watched "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" on Tuesday night. The main character is Jack Nicholson circa 1975 so he looks like a baby. Although, if we're going to start calling names, the rest of his groupies in the mental institution (Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd and Vincent Schiavelli to name a few) looked like newborn babes compared to him. I liked the story; it took a little figuring out though, which I kind of like. Is Jack Nicholson really crazy or is he pretending? Spence & I made bets early on whether or not he is or isn't. The premise is that R.P. McMurphy (Nicholson) is brought to the mental institution to be evaluated for mental instability. Up until 10 minutes earlier, he had been incarcerated.
I thought the whole movie was a hoot. Was it supposed to be a comedy? I don't think so. I don't know, there could have been A LOT more character development. It was easy enough to follow. I'm sure it wasn't intended as a complete comedy, but really, every time Danny DeVito walked into the scene, he only comes up to everyone elbows! This was definitely before he became a big ticket movie star and the camera was banned from doing full body shots. Oh my, and his character was this squinty eyed guy with the mental capacity of a 3 year old. If he wasn't slapping the monopoly hotels down wherever he wanted; he was shoving the dice in his mouth faster than Lifesavers.
(playing BlackJack)
Danny: "Hit me!"
Jack: "You don't need a card, you've got 20."
Danny: "Hit me! Hit me!"
My other favorite character was a huge bear of a guy that Nicholson called "Chief". Supposedly, he was a deaf/mute Indian. Jack treated him otherwise; teaching him how to play basketball, including him in "group activities", etc. Chief plays dumb, but I called it, he really can hear and talk. I still don't completely know why he was in there. Probably because I was too busy giggling at Christopher Lloyd egging on the paranoid, neurotic playing Monopoly with a drooling Danny DeVito! Chief is a loyal friend to Nicholson, staying by him through wild parties and double lobotomies. In the end, he does R.P. McMurphy a favor and puts him out of his misery. I'm sure the unedited version has much more language and filth; but from what I saw, it was an enjoyable, albeit at times, odd movie evening. Stay tuned for future reviews!
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So kind of off your topic, BUT James and I recently lost our DVD player to old age or whatever it is that cause DVD players to die so we actually found a DVD player called clearplay. You download filters off their website and put them in the player like it's a computer and they just go over your normal DVDs. So far, we've been very happy with it and you can set the filter as tight and strict or loose as your conscience demands. ;) The DVD player is $80 and I think it's $5 a month to get the filters, but we got a deal when we bought the player that the first year of filters was free. Anyway, just thought I'd mention it.
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