Dirty Dancing!!!

Just when I thought I couldn't possibly love you more, dearest Jon B... the Big Giant Emotionally Sweeping And Completely Anachronistic Theme Song of that movie drives me so bugfuck I literally can't sit through any of the rest of it. Even during the 99% of the movie that it's not playing, I know it's there, lurking, with its wrong wrong sound.

I have the same problem with Grease; some of the music is really really good fake '50s music, and some of it just makes you say, "Really, I beg your pardon, but what the fucking fuck?"

And here I thought he was just making a "Baby" joke.

If you're setting your movie in the '80s, your soundtrack shouldn't include "Baby Got Back."

I think that rule should apply to all movies no matter what decade they're set in.

I saw Down with Love in the company of several relatives who likewise work in publishing, and when Renee Zelwiger did the monologue with that line about writing a bestseller and waiting the 2 to 3 weeks it would take for it to be published and read by everyone in the world, we all fell out laughing. it was hysterical!

I wish I could remember the name of the film. But I would swear I saw film once where the hotel had a view of Mt. Ranier -- from Washington D.C.

I have the same problem with Grease;

Yes! Only the movie though. The original play was fine, music-wise. "Grease is the Word" on the other hand...

With Dirty Dancing, it's mostly the Big Giant Emotionally Sweeping And Completely Anachronistic Finale that has me rolling my eyes so far back that I end up looking forward again.

At least (as far as I remember), aside from the finale, all of the music in the movie (as opposed to soundtracked over) is OK.

I've never seen the play Grease. I will turn a blind eye to "There Are Worse Things I Could Do" because it isn't completely anachronistic (I could see, say, Judy Garland perform it), it's a hell of a song, and Stockard Channing presents the hell out of it (even if she does a worse job of passing for a high school student than Olivia Newton-John).

I saw Cloverfield! I really enjoyed it, but I tend to love those suspense thrillers where the characters are killed off one by one. I'd say Cloverfield was as good as, or maybe even better than Danny Boyle's Sunshine. Just enough time is spent introducing the characters so that you'll care about them when the attack begins. They do do some stupid things, but that's common in the genre and otherwise there wouldn't be much of a plot. You never really get a good look at the monster, but the design isn't disappointing (neither is it amazing).

For those concerned with the camera shakiness: If you can watch a chase sequence from The Shield without getting dizzy, you'll be fine.

aside from the finale,

For me, that made it worse. If the anachronicity had existed throughout the film, it would have been easier to just go with the flow. As it was, I was completely befuddled.

Oh, inconsistant movie geography! Say Anything, I'm looking at you. The Big Emotional Scene of the first time in the car? Will send people who grew up in the Seattle/Shoreline area into fits of laughter, because the cops did drive-bys of that spot every 15-20 minutes, specifically looking for hormonal teens in cars.