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I've always found it boring and not scary at all. I've never been able to watch it all the way through, just have seen parts over the years, including the ending with the picture.
Me, too. Uncle Rico!
Yeah, the part at the beginning where she absconds with the money takes way too long before she reaches the motel. And really, not sure that part was even necessary? Why can't the movie just start with a woman checking into a motel? But I know that's how a lot of movies before the 1990s were, too much lead-in.
Another sort of "goof" I noticed was when she was looking at the picture album. She is supposed to be in the 1840s, but the white dress worn by the woman in the second picture is definitely from the 1890s.
Where did you get the idea Perron never worked? Maybe the movie made it seem that way, but from all of the interviews I've seen with the real family members, he was gone constantly for work. The wife felt isolated and alone with the children.
I liked it okay for what it was, but from the write-up I thought the boyfriend was going to turn killer or stalker. I like to try and find a good suspense movie for Saturday evenings and I thought this would fit the bill. I didn't really get the point of the subplot about the missing girl. Okay, so Alice suspected Andrea was in the abandoned house and went in and called her name, but then....nothing? It went nowhere, really.
I actually liked "A Painted House", based on his own childhood, more than his usual lawyer fiction.
I've read many of his books, but I've always found that they are a bit boring to read but make good movies. I feel the same about Stephen King. I dislike King's writing style so I never finish the books. But they make great movies.
Seeing him in the Shrek suit made me chuckle out loud.
I like it, too. It reminds me of those Brady Bunch movies from the 1990s in that it is largely a spoof and makes a lot of clever references to the original series. I loved how in the Brady movies the family seemed oblivious to the fact that they still looked and acted like the 1970s while everyone around them was modern. It's sort of the same in Dark Shadows. Prior to the disco ball falling on him and setting him on fire, the Collins family makes no comment on or seems to take notice that Barnabus is pasty-white and has long claw-like fingernails.
Miss Trixie (Madeline Kahn) in Paper Moon.
"You know this old gal's got to Winky-Tink"
Johnny Ringo in Tombstone
The puppet show is also my favorite.
I've read the book twice and I'm not sure she actually did put poo in it. When she relates the story to Celia in the book, it reads as if she just TOLD Hilly it had poo in it to get back at her. I don't think there actually was any in the pie.
Even funnier that he was able to kick it apart so easily.
I think season 1 is the best and the funniest.
Then the last part of season 4 and all of season 5 is second best for me.
Seasons 2 and 3 have their moments, but not as good as 1 and 5.
I thought season 6 was a little unnecessary, the way season 5 ended was perfectly fine.
I'm 60 years old, I had the same experience. I went last Monday for a matinee. I read the book back in my teen years but didn't remember a thing about it before the movie. When I booked my ticket online only two people had already purchased tickets. When I got to the theater only about 5 more people came in, all of them older like me. Out of curiosity I just checked the seating chart for today, Saturday, and it looks to be selling out. So maybe they will do okay with weekend audiences.
I took it that Cassie booked the room because it was all part of the plan.
Myself, I really liked this version, I especially loved the Marilla in this one, but so many of my friends back home in the U.S. are stuck on the Megan Follows series and can't open their minds to any other adaptation. I have a feeling they weren't alone in that sentiment. I don't think enough people gave this one a chance.
I thought Bruce was brilliant in this and can't imagine anyone else in the role now. He mastered so many subtle facial expressions, for starters. My favorite is when they are ordering at the restaurant and he tells the waitress he wants the fried chicken but his wife overrides him and says "he'll have the flame-broiled". She snatches the menu out of his hands and his facial expression quickly goes from looking like he wants to smack her to tired resignation. He keeps his hands in the position in which he was holding the menu for a few seconds before turning back to staring down at the table and giving up.
Another example is when his wife is explaining to the sons that the Westendorfs are good people, Woody very subtly goes from seeming disinterested to looking over at her with the teeniest, tiniest hint of a smile in agreement and almost as if he's proud of her for saying something good for once. Brilliant.
Wow..cool! Thanks for sharing
If I'm not being too nosey, how was your experience getting the new car? The reason I ask is, I had read once about a young woman who won a new car on The Price Is Right but had to sell it just to be able to pay her income taxes the next year and the sales tax.