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2!!!

You still got me. Course I ain't a young and pretty girl. I ain't even a girl, but I'll stick. I'll never leave you.
Swing Time (1936)
RKO Radio Pictures
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick
Director: George Stevens
103 minutes
1998 List: NR | 2007 List: #90
Academy Awards
Best Original Song - "The Way You Look Tonight"
Best Dance Direction - "Bojangles of Harlem" (nomination)

I actually liked this movie. It was better than I expected and the dance numbers were kept mostly on the down low and didn't turn into a major thirty minute number that bored me to tears (I'm looking at you, An American in Paris!). I liked the shadow dancers in the "Bojangles of Harlem" dance sequence. That was a really nice touch. And those guys who prevented Lucky from getting married? What a bunch of jerks, but it actually served the plot at the end of the movie. Speaking of the plot, it was that of the standard cookie cutter plot used in romantic comedies today but, of course, this was before Hollywood became stale and this movie had heart. I'm not that big of a fan of the old Hollywood musicals but I will definitely give this one a pass as it kept me entertained for its entire 103 minutes.

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IT'S DONE!!! IT'S FINALLY OVER!!! I'VE WATCHED ALL 123 MOVIES!!! And fittingly the last movie I see is called The Last Picture Show.

1!!!

One thing I know for sure. A person can't sneeze in this town without somebody offering them a handkerchief.
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Columbia Pictures
Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
118 minutes/126 minutes (director's cut)
1998 List: NR | 2007 List: #95
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actor - Ben Johnson
Best Supporting Actress - Cloris Leachman
Best Actor - Jeff Bridges (nomination)
Best Supporting Actress - Ellen Burstyn (nomination)
Best Cinematography (nomination)
Best Director - Peter Bogdanovich (nomination)
Best Picture (nomination)
Best Adapted Screenplay (nomination)

This was a pretty dull movie, but it was still pretty good, just... dull. I guess it fits the town it was set in and maybe that was the whole point. One of the most depressing towns I've ever witnessed in a movie, I don't even know why people live there or why the entire town hasn't committed suicide from boredom. It was pretty much a coming of age story focusing on a trio of seniors in high school essentially trying to get laid, but not in the sophomoric comedies of today. It was dramatic through and through and the deaths of two supporting characters was pretty hard hitting. Dull, but still decent, movie.