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Grandpa

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I hate to take this off of the beefcake tangent, I really do.....

But anyway, The Jungle Book, 1942. It did as good as it could, perhaps, with the resources of the time. Didn't much care for some parts where it really diverged from the story. But overall, not a bad attempt. Won't watch it again.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the one with Maureen O'Hara and Charles Laughton. O'Hara is breathtaking - I kinda felt about her like you guys did about this Charlie guy - and Laughton was superb with his performance. Parts of the movie were rushed or too pat or unexplained, but overall, a very engaging and enjoyable movie. I'll watch it again sometime.
 

Sigmund

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Mud (2012)
Watched on Netflix. Matthew McConaughey was excellent in this, as was the kid who played Ellis. Not a big Reese Witherspoon fan, though. This was a really good movie and I hope some of you with Netflix get a chance to see it!

I have been wanting to see Mud but... is it a wrist cutter movie? (Wrist cutter movie: a movie that's gonna bum me out and want to cut my wrists.)

Thank you!
 

Grandpa

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Come Back to Me. 3/5

Grandpa we loved The Jungle Book!!! Have you watched Rikki-Tikky-Tavi? Loved it!


Peace.

Oh, but wait, wait, wait. I'm not talking about Disney's The Jungle Book. I'm talking about the live-action movie in 1942 (more or less) starring people we've never heard of.

Disney's The Jungle Book was just fine, although I'll say somewhat arrogantly that I read Kipling's Just So Stories as a preteen, and I kinda sniffed at the Disney production for not following the book's storyline. Although in a Disney movie back then, you probably couldn't.
 

Grandpa

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Sorry. Color me embarrassed. (In bare assed. :laugh:)

Hugs!

Hey, you can do your late-night typing (and hugs) in any condition you want. You're an adult. Honestly, I think the Jungle Story movie I watched is pretty obscure. TCM was running a night of "Disney movies made another way" or something like that, which was kind of odd phrasing to me, since the movies I saw predated the Disney versions by a few decades. (Nor am i sure how thrilled Kipling and Hugo would be to have their works referred to as "Disney material.")
 

OldDarth

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Insidious - interesting concept of a child whose soul is trapped on another plane of existence during one of his astral projection excursions.

Unfortunately the execution of the premise is poorly handled. Not even Patrick Wilson - who was so much better in The Conjuring - can save this one.