08-25-2005

653) My Name is Nobody. Eh. I guess you can look at it as an allegory for Leone's career. The old gunfighter trying to escape the west, the young admirer that just won't let him, he's already a hero but the youngster wants him to be a legend, he's forced to take on "The Wild Bunch" (and Sam Peckinpah is buried in the graveyard) even though he doesn't care about it/them, etc. It was okay, but it seemed like an inside joke that you kind of get but you just don't know enough for it to be as funny as it should be.

654) Copper Sky. Kind of a drag through the middle, but the Apache raid at the beginning was awesome and it turned out all right.

655) The Lucky Texan. I've found something almost as annoying as colorization. This one was so old that it didn't actually have a score. Instead, the score was played by an organ or piano player at the movie house while the picture rolled so whoever has the distribution rights now decided to add one to it and it sounds like they got some geek teenager to do it with a really neat freeware midi sequencer he found at download.com. And there were a lot of weird whip-pans like in old kung fu pictures. And cross dressing. This one was really weird, I don't even know what to think.

656) Stage Fright. Creepiest thing ever in a Hitchcock picture? Marlene Dietrich's face. Seriously, the woman scares the bejesus out of me.

657) Get a Clue. You know times are tough when your life starts to resemble a Randy Travis song.

657 down, 343 to go.

I haven't been able to stop laughing about this all day long.