{"id":1589,"date":"2008-01-27T23:37:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T23:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2008-01-27T23:37:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T23:37:13","slug":"afi-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1589","title":{"rendered":"AFI Update."},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the last time I posted an update on this project, I’ve managed to watch A Clockwork Orange<\/a>, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<\/a>, Unforgiven<\/a>,<\/i> and Raging Bull<\/a><\/i>. If I weren’t still feeling relatively laid low by the bug I caught last weekend (this sucker’s a tenacious little SOB) I’d be writing up the kind of lengthy posts I’ve authored for some of the others. As it is, I just don’t have the energy for much more than a couple fleeting high points: Butch and Sundance<\/i> may be the best buddy movie I’ve ever seen, and I’m taking careful notes to improve the relationship between the two main characters in my novel; A Clockwork Orange<\/i> was deservedly awesome for about the first half hour and then veered off into predictability land; Raging Bull<\/i> is an interesting case study of violence but not as interesting as this year’s There Will Be Blood,<\/i> but it’s really interesting to see that hot on the heels of On the Waterfront<\/i>; and Unforgiven<\/i> was, as I think Jonathan Gray pointed out in an earlier comment, pretty much Clint Eastwood proving that he can still make Westerns, although it was a decent Western at that.
\nI think the next couple on my hit list are Rocky<\/i> and Network,<\/i> with maybe One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest<\/i> squeezing in there somewhere. Another thing I might do is lock myself in the house next Sunday while Laura’s at work, TiVo the Super Bowl so’s I can just watch the commercials, and watch nothing but war movies all day. I figure with enough tenacity, chips and beverages I could probably plow through Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Patton, The Bridge on the River Kwai, All Quiet on the Western Front<\/i> and maybe even MASH<\/i> by the end of the day. I’m dang near done with the Westerns after binging on those already – I think I only have Stagecoach<\/i> and The Wild Bunch<\/i> left to go there. I also need to do a comedy binge at some point, watching Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, The General, City Lights, The Gold Rush,<\/i> and Modern Times.<\/i> Ken, when’s the next time you’re going to be up this way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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