Love that movie. One of those that I could watch anytime.
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yes, one of my favorite movies. (maybe top 5? 
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I like it more than the book. The book is good, and there’s a few bits that were cut out from the movie that I like, but the movie softens a couple of the characters just enough.
Like, the whole point of the story is that Rob is kind of an a**hole (who is getting better), but book Rob is definitely worse, and I like that the edges were filed off a bit for the movie character. Barry too, though maybe it’s just that Jack Black is awesome enough to make the character better that way.
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Jack Black is brilliant in the movie. The scene near the end, when we finally see his band, is awesome. Love Cusack’s reaction.
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Speaking of actors with excellent annoyed/frustrated faces, John Cleese is certainly a master.
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I heard the great actress Maggie Smith passed away recently. I think it was yesterday. I know and appreciated her work mostly from her role in Harry Potter as Professor McGonagal and The Pride of Miss Jean Brodie.
Maggie Smith played the school teacher Jean Brodie at an all girls school, Marcia Blaine in Edinburgh. She is dismissed for straying from the curriculum and influencing her students with radical views & fascist politics. One of my favourite movie scenes with Maggie Smith, the confrontation between Jean Brodie and one of her students Sandy, also brilliantly played by Pamela Franklin.
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On this day 5th of October 2012, Tame Impala released their second album Lonerism. One my fav TI songs, “Keep On Lying” wasn’t a single from the album, but rather a hidden gem.
So I watched this again the other day and it occurred to me that it’s a perfect allegory/accompanying tale for We Are Hope Despite The Times (bear with me but I never understood why it was the movie that “ruined Kevin Costner’s career”- I loved it at the cinema in 1995).Dennis Hopper is great (and gets so many wonderful lines- “Lets not get ahead of ourselves” “Don’t just stand there kill something”) his boat which sinks is the Exxon Valdez (!) and Kevin Costner is all “actions speak louder than words”.
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Jonathon brought to my attention on facebook, released 50 years ago, 24th February 1975, Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti, one of my favourite records. I first bought this album on cassette, I had a radio with cassette player, didn’t own a record player until my late teens.
One of the tracks I really love. “Night Flight”
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Over the 3 day Easter weekend I spend with family & visiting or calling relatives I don’t get a chance or make enough time to catch up with otherwise. Not sure why this is, I don’t know, life gets busy. What I love about festive religious days is how it can bring people together, hopefully in a good way. The TV channels here usually screen the epic religious movies over Christmas & Easter. I really love this scene from the musical movie Godspell, indeed, God save the people. Happy Easter.
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R.I.P. Brian Wilson. A true musical visionary. Pet Sounds is an all time classic, and songs like Good Vibrations and God Only Knows will be spoken about a lot in the coming days. (And rightly so.) But this slice of pop perfection is my favourite of his. Thanks for music, Brian.
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I was saddened to hear Robert Redford had past away yesterday. I haven’t seen all his films, Those that I did, I really enjoyed, always kept me glued to the screen. One of my favourites, The Way We Were, there are many great moments I love in this movie. It’s really funny how he lets out his frustration with Katie (Barbra Striesand) in this particular scene.
R.I.P. Robert Redford. 
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RIP.
Hard to pick a favorite Redford movie.
“They could surrender to us, but I wouldn’t count on it.”
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This is the last Redford movie I saw. Not his last film but it’s among them. This was also back when I used to watch a lot more movies. It’s a difficult watch because he’s the only actor and there’s minimal dialogue. This only helps create the feeling of isolation of being stranded at sea.
I can’t remember a time where there was no Robert Redford. A few years ago when catching up on acclaimed films I’d never seen I watched Ordinary People. Dark but the praise for that film was most certainly warranted. I’m also a pretty big fan of A River Runs Through It, which I haven’t seen in years. That’s just scratching the surface. Plus, I know there’s plenty more of his movies I’ve never seen. R.I.P. to one of the masters of the craft.
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I have not seen All is Lost, but I’ve heard a lot of people mention that one in the past day. Will have to check it out.
A mid-career Redford film I love is Sneakers.
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I’m not sure if I’ve seen that one but I do remember watching Spy Game (from 2001 with Brad Pitt) and being so confused by all the many plot twists that the vast majority of the time I had no idea what was going on.
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Sneakers has an amazing cast – in addition to Redford, it’s got Sidney Poitier, Ben Kingsley, Dan Aykroyd, River Phoenix, Mary McDonnell, James Earl Jones. Also a great underrated soundtrack by James Horner.
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RIP indeed. I guess he had a good life and lived to a ripe old age (89). Back in the day he was my and my best friend’s pin-up (something he never wanted to be apparently- Sam Peckinpah had to really persuade him to do this movie apparently- he took ages to say yes as he just didn’t see himself as a pin up- unfortunately for him he ended up as one of mine!). We went to see most of his movies as schoolgirls- Butch Cassidy, The Sting, Out of Africa, The Great Waldo Pepper, All The Presidents Men, Three Days of the Condor, The Horse Whisperer, Brubaker, The Electric Horseman, A Bridge Too Far. In fact I went to see Butch Cassidy 3 times at the cinema including with Mum and Dad (and I have the DVD of it and the Sting- music is great in both). I’ve seen All Is Lost, Ordinary People, Barefoot in the Park, The Old Man and The Gun and of course ….Oh crikey the list is too long- I’m getting old and looking at the list on my phone, have missed quite a few out… sorry RR ( and I have some catching up to do!)
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“What’s matter with you?”
“I can’t swim!”
“What, are you crazy??! The fall’ll probably kill you!”
“Whoaaaa…..”
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Oooo- will have to check that one out…thanks 
I can’t remember this music video from the 2010s. It’s an animated story -the plot revolving about two brothers (or friends) collaborating to build a rocket to the moon. During a long process of testing and research, one of the brothers gets jealous of the other, resulting in a sabotage during a lab experiment where that brother dies. However, the jealous brother ends up with feelings of remorse and he arranges for another failed lab experiment where he too dies. At the end of the video the two brothers meet up in heaven, having acquired angel wings and no longer needing a propulsed rocket! It’s quite moving.
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