Friday, August 16, 2013

Profile: Rob Reiner

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1655

Suggestion by Kuhan from Chicago.

5 comments:

  1. Princess Bride, anyone? (OK, that was before, but that pretty much fits the bill of an awesome Romantic Comedy.)

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  2. I'd call it Adventure before Romantic Comedy...

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  3. I can swear I opened your blog the other day and saw a picture of Leona Helmsley with a dead link to the site.

    Are we about to get our second K score of "minus 1" in the near future? Because if anyone deserves it...

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  4. Yes, I accidentally published the Helmsley blog post on the wrong date. She is coming.

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  5. Has any director every fallen as far as Reiner? I mean that run he went on from '84-'93 was obviously unsustainable (Spinal Tap, Sure Thing, Stand by Me, Stand by Me, Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men), but man since then his movies have ranged from barely tolerable (American President way back in '95) to just plain awful (North).

    I know things probably got uglier for Coppola and Cimino, but FFC is really a guy who directed four of the best movies ever made all in a row and then a bunch of mediocre stuff and Cimino was a one hit wonder. Neither had the sustained success of Reiner.

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    On the romantic comedy question

    - City Lights
    - Annie Hall
    - Shakespeare in Love
    - Knocked Up
    - 40 Year Old Virgin
    - WALL-E

    Admittedly, only Annie Hall would be regarded as a conventional romantic comedy (at least in the modern sense) but they were all great.

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