Last movie you watched......

I may be wrong, but I believe "All the President's Men" was the only Woodward book told from the journalists' point of view. All of Woodward's future books — beginning with "The Final Days" — use his access to government sources to re-create an insider's account of what happened.

 

Steven Soderbergh's 'Unsane' Is a Paranoid Nightmare

Imagine telling someone 11-12 years ago Soderbergh would one day shoot an entire film on a cellphone.

 

Haven't seen either, but I seem to recall the sequel wasn't well-received. When our family got TV Guide every week, one week the sequel was playing and the listing actually described it as "mediocre," "weak" or some other negative term, and the TV Guide almost never said a bad word about a program/movie in its listings.

 

The Seven-Ups is a better "sequel" to The French Connection. Same producer, Roy Scheider plays a character very much like the one he played in FC and there is a pretty good car chase.

 

I suppose it might be worth watching, but TFC II is a poor follow-up to the original. Not to be a spoiler, but Charnier get Popeye hooked on heroin.

To me, it's a classic case of an original being so good, a sequel is almost destined to compare unfavorably. The only exception I can think of off the top of my head is the second Godfather flick.

 

In Dorothy's defense, as events unfold in the movie she never met the Wicked Witch of the East. Dorothy was inside the house when it landed on the witch.
Dorothy was unaware that the witch even existed until she exited the house and saw her feet sticking out from under the house.
Further, it would be hard to say Dorothy killed the Wicked Witch of the east. Both Dorothy and the witch were victims of a natural disaster - a tornado. Dorothy was just fortunate the tornado did not kill her; the witch was not as fortunate.

 

She still stole her shoes and wouldn't give them to the WW's sister. That's not cool.

I never wondered this before - what the hell is a Wicked Witch doing with ruby slippers. It ruins the whole look!

 

Long flight.

1. In Bruges (again). Has grown on me with each viewing, mostly because it's one of the few times I've really liked Colin Farrell in something. (I liked him in The Beguiled, too.) Has a couple of total bullshit turns that you have to look past, but entertaining.

2. Darkest Hour (first time). Exactly what I thought it would be. Doesn't mean it was bad. Just completely unsurprising.

3. Lucky. (First 20 minutes.) Should have probably given this more of a chance. Thought David Lynch was so hammy in it, I got turned off. So I turned it off.

4. The Hangover (again). This remains a pretty great buddy comedy. Soundtrack is killer. Has some underappreciated moments of real craft in it, like the Bellagio fountains in the opening credits. It's also really fun to watch Zach Galifianakis before he was a star.

 

So the Wicked Witch of the East was killed by the house, and we saw the Witches of the North and West.
Where was the Witch of the South?

 

Fun fact - in the original story - Glinda IS the good witch of the South.
In a musical Baum put together in 1902, the Good Witch of the North is named Locasta.