People Will Talk (1951)

20131201 0100 ET:
I love the characters in this movie. Moreover, I also liked the plot, maybe because it behaves a bit like a mystery. Overall, I plain enjoy the movie and would recommend People Will Talk to anybody who enjoys a good romance.

Dr. Noah Praetorius (Cary Grant) and Deborah Higgins (Jeanne Crain)

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Instant Comments:
Haha, "You overestimate both of us."
Haha. This movie has quite a deal of humor (at least within the first six minutes).
Ha. He's so casual about it. "You're pregnant."
Ha. "I can't speak with as much assurance as I usually do, because you just called me a pompous know it all."

Dr. Praetorius show the class the cadaver. Mr. Shunderson (Finlay Currie) stands nearby.

Heh, how convoluted and dramatic.
And it gets even more so! (boom!)
Mr. Shunderson, the man that accompanies Dr. Praetorious most everywhere.
"What a mess."
"Let's see it before its all written off."

Deborah tells Professor Rodney Elwell (Hume Cronyn) off.

"I can't give you symptoms. Its love, not measles."
Ludwig.
Hehe. She saw right through him.
Hahahaha. "Beep beep beep." "Beep beep." It was amazing that it took a while for the trains to crash. What grown children.
"[...] when you're really only nine years old."
"Love" in this movie is confusing, haha.

"Then why ask idiotic questions to which you already know the answers?"
Hahaha. "You be quiet!"
Fabulous movie.

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Watched 20131201 (Netflix, Instant)
People Will Talk (1951) Joseph L. Mankiewicz. 110 min

Relevant Links:
People Will Talk (IMDb.com)
People Will Talk (Wikipedia.org)
People Will Talk (RottenTomatoes.com)

Zoolander (2001)

20131128:
This movie isn't typically laughing out loud hilarious, but it's still funny and has a lot of great quotes.

Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller)

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20140330:
Many comedy films have a way of being hit or miss on a person to person basis and Zoolander is a real hit for me.

However, trying to put aside the fact that Zoolander is a personal favorite comedy, the movie as a whole is a decent, average comedy.

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Instant Comments:
5: "Wow, you're ridiculously good-looking."

Luke (Vince Vaughn), Larry (Jon Voight), and Scrappy Zoolander.

5: "Well I guess I'd have to answer your question with another question. How many aboriginals do you see modeling?"
4, 5: "That Hansel's so hot right now."
5: Haha. "I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that."

Mugatu (Will Ferrell)

5:

Meekus: Uh, earth to Brint, I was making a joke.
Brint: Uh, Earth to Meekus, duh, okay I knew that!
Meekus: Uh earth to Brint, I'm not so sure you did 'cause you were all 'Well I'm sure he's heard of styling gel' like you didn't know it was a joke.
Brint: I knew it was a joke Meekus, I just didn't get it right away!
Meekus: Earth to Brint...
Derek Zoolander: Would you guys stop it already?

Katinka Ingabogovinanana (Milla Jovovich)

4, 5: "Orange Mocha Frappuccino!"
5: At the funeral, the camera briefly switches over to a man watching from afar, a detail I probably missed from earlier viewings
5: "Or do you think I was too stupid to know what a u-goo-galy was?" (eulogy)
5: "We could call it... The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read... Good."
4, 5: "MerMAN!" ::cough:: ::cough, cough, cough:: "MerMAN!"

Hansel (Owen Wilson) and his posse.

4, 5:

Derek Zoolander: What is this? A center for ants?
Mugatu: What?
Derek Zoolander: How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read... if they can't even fit inside the building?
Mugatu: Derek, it's just a small...
Derek Zoolander: I don't wanna hear your excuses! The center has to be at least... three times bigger than this!

Maury Ballstein (Jerry Stiller)

4, 5:

Hansel: I guess you can dere-lick my balls capitán.
Derek Zoolander: I can Dere-lick my own balls, thank you very much.

5: "Where am I? Where am I?"
5: "Mugatu!" "Slaves, Derek."
5: Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter.
4, 5: "So why male models?" ... "But why male models?"

The walk-off between Derek and Hansel intensifies.

5: "Bulimic." "You can read minds?"
5: Oh my goodness. The makeup.
5: References 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
4, 5: "They're in the computer." "They're IN the computer!?!" Hahaha. [...] "In the computer, it's so simple."
5: "One look!?! One look!?! I don't think so!"

Hansel and Derek in (ridiculously good) make-up.

Credits:
5: Oh my goodness. I've seen this movie several times now, but this is the first time that I found out (from the end credits) that the role of Katinka was played by Milla Jovovich.
5: What I did already know, however, is that Jerry Stiller (Maury Ballstein) is Ben Stiller's father and Christine Taylor (Matilda) is his wife. What I didn't already know is that his mother Anne Meara and sister Amy Stiller are also in the film.
4=20131128, 5=20140330

Matilda Jeffries (Christine Taylor)

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Released 20010928.
Watched 2001XXXX Theatre. Metro Pointe
Watched several other times. Probably two.
Watched 20131128 (Netflix, Instant)
Watched 20140330 (Netflix, Instant)
Zoolander (2001) Ben Stiller. 89 min

Relevant Links:
Zoolander (IMDb.com)
Zoolander (Wikipedia.org)
Zoolander (RottenTomatoes.com)

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)

It feels like I've seen this at least once before.
Watched 20131104 (Netflix, Instant, HD)
Watched first 67 minutes 20220723, remaining 7 minutes 20230530 (Disney+)
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman. 74 min

Pooh tries to remember what he has to remember.

Relevant Links:
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (IMDb.com)
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Wikipedia.org)
The Many Adventures of WInnie the Pooh (RottenTomatoes.com)

20131104:
I absolutely love the songs in this movie! Of course, the animation is fun to watch too.

Having eaten all of Rabbit's honey, Pooh gets stuck on his way out.
Making the best of the situation, Rabbit decorates Pooh's bottom.

If you're an adult and love to watch children's animation, then you'll love this movie. As for showing it to your kids, perhaps the only thing scary in the movie are the heffalumps and woozles.

Instant Comments:
B: I've probably seen this before, but I can't say for sure...
B: Intro is presumably Christopher Robin's room with all the toys.
B: Oh narrator says it is Christopher Robin's room.
B: Oh is this the first time this theme song for Winnie the Pooh?
B: Sanderz.
B: This up down all around song is classic, which I believe appears in a compilation...
A: "Oh bother."
A: Haha. Attached to it.
B: Oh as Eeyore swishes his tail I noticed the animals have stiching, perhaps not Pooh Bear though.

Piglet sweeps up the leaves in front of his house.

A, B: "I'm a little black rain cloud of course."
B: Oh Pooh knows how to spell. He spelled out "suspect"
A, B: "Tut tut, it looks like rain."
A, B: "There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said 'Nobody'"; B: hehe Pooh makes an inference
B: Haha. A small helping.
B: Oh no, how rude of Pooh to consume all of Rabbit's honey
B: Oh pooh has stitching on his bottom (seen in Rabbit's mirror)
B: Hehe Gopher tells Pooh he should fix his speech impediment (when to us, it is Gopher who has a speech impediment)
B: Don't feed the bear
B: Laid a seagull egg by mistake?
B: Oh wow, Pooh meets Tigger for the first time.
B: Hehe reflection
B: "You mean elephants and weasels". "Thats what I said, heffalumps and woozles" (Oh, I didnt realize this)
A: The tune to "Heffalumps and Woozles" plays on the organ
A: Pooh treats his mirror image and Tigger's mirror image as separate entities.
B: When Pooh turned (after directing his reflection to go a certain direction) his reflection turned the wrong way. That is Pooh turned counter-clockwise so his reflection should turn clockwise but it also turned counter-clockwise.

Pooh, holding on to Piglet's thread, gets pulled through a home Eeyore has built.

B: "Help! PppPiglet (me)"
B: Hehe. "Tell them it's your house Piglet"
A: Oh I see. Tigger tells Pooh about "Heffalumps and Woozles"
A: "I almost bounced clear out of the book."; B: Hehe I love all these moments where the fourth wall is broken, and this one is by far the best thus far ("clear out of the book")
B: I started falling asleep. Everybody came to help Tigger down. I'm not sure what happens next
C: Today I went to see the remaining part from my previous comment on 20220723. Everyone is helping at around the 67 minute mark with about 7 minutes left. The narrator helps Tigger down. He tilts Tigger onto the text and Tigger slides down the text to the ground.
C: Rabbit holds Tigger to the promise he made to not bounce if he were helped down. Tigger is sad, everyone shares the sadness, and Rabbit releases the promise.
A=20131104, B=20220723, C=20230530

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Nostalgia:
As a kid, I owned several books from Disney's Storyteller series and to accompany the books are read-along cassettes. In any case, among the books is Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (523B).

When I was older, I occasionally listened to the first verse of "Us Two," a poem by A.A. Milne, whenever using Encarta Encyclopedia ('95, '97) and it has since been lodged in my memory:

Wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's always Pooh and Me.
Whatever I do, he wants to do,
"Where are you going today?" says Pooh:
"Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too.
Let's go together," says Pooh, says he.
"Let's go together," says Pooh.

Finally, I remember watching The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh from time to time on ABC when I was older.

It's Tigger!

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