You could even call it "British shit", (if you consider it shit) because it was totally rewritten for the London debut… but definitely not American.

Grease is basically a handful of catchy tunes that work well enough to cover up the stupid plot.

Either that or Elton John's "Aida".

A French movie I watched* at a special screening had a joke about JW's that the audience (all 10 of us) laughed at simultaneously.

What a terrible day not to own a record player with a stylish floral design!

Never heard of it - I had to look that one up.

Counterpoint:

Or Dark Shadows?

My personal theory is that some of the scorn for "Gladiator" is that although it's a decent film, Ridley Scott made some true masterpieces, and compared to those it looks bad.

I was saying they should go the similar route of hiring a lesser known actress for the roles, like they did with Lily James and Cinderella.

I only remember the movie. Didn't know there was a TV show until reading this thread.

Dragging this out (nb: not my video)

Don't remember "Dennis the Menace", but it definitely didn't happen in Home Alone. Although they might be mixing up the burning-hot doorknob with the nail in the foot…

Mine is red wine vinegar. That's it - I'm too lazy to mix anything in it a lot of the time.

That wouldn't have made sense, because of geography. (Good luck sneaking a sub through the Panama Canal!) But I wouldn't have raised much of an eyebrow if he said, say, "Caracas."

Dang, the girl on the right looks eerily like a relative of mine. I'll have to ask her if she's ever been to Italy.

Wait, what? Harrison Ford was seriously considered as Red? Now, I've heard people like Gene Hackman were considered for the role, and I can picture that…

Morgan Freeman wasn't the only choice for Red (and probably not the first choice, either). Other people like Gene Hackman were also in the running.

If a character is screaming at someone threatening to kill her, I buy it. It's when you get to scenes like a character screaming her head off because she chipped a fingernail (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom), that's when it gets into "misogynistic" territory, for me.

There are lots of times where the movie improves on the book. To give a couple examples where I liked the movie better than the book: