Non Photo-Blue

It's taken me a while to put up a post. What had happened was, I found a blog that played mp3's, and I was so impressed, I wanted it on mine. I want, I want, I want! So, it took me a couple of days of messing around, trying to get it set up. So no posts.

But it's done!

Ok, so over the last two months I've become addicted to double-bill revivals at the Film Forum. But apparently, the people who run that place don't always watch the movies before they show them. It was a comedy set: Monkey Business, a Marx brothers film, and a W.C. Fields flick called Million Dollar Legs.

Wow.

Ok, I like Groucho Marx. He's got that funny back-cranked walk. He's does the effeminate thing well, too. But the question is, did people really find this film funny in the 30's? Has it just gotten stale over time, or was it never that good?

Don't even start on the Fields movie. Maybe the unfunniest movie I've ever seen. I understood why they played them it the order they did: after Monkey Business, one wonders, "Can a movie can be any dumber?" and then you see Million Dollar Legs, and you think, "I guess so."

Here's what it says about Million Dollar Legs in the FF promo:
“One of the silliest and funniest pictures ever made.” – The New Yorker.

How does a magazine like The New Yorker maintain any semblance of credit when it endorses a movie like this? This goes double for the New York Times film review. I have seen at least a dozen movies in the last year that they have recommended that were deplorable.

So that was a wash. But look! There's music! I hope you play some! I take requests!