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Rachel Getting Married (2008)
The Only Movie where Hand Held is Justified
There appear to be a lot of comments about the hand held camera work. While I generally agree with these comments for other movies, this one is different and shows the director as a genius. It feels like a memory of watching a home movie of a wedding.It conveys a feeling of a real wedding from a real family with an unreal amount of history.
The feeling that a wedding is going on evidenced by the multi-day party of Sidney's friends celebrating in their own way, and what looks like the best way to me, contends with strife within the family. It is all jumbled within "home movie memories" It was a beautiful thing that was personally very tough to watch, and I can't stop thinking about it.
Checking Out (1988)
One of my most favorite movies
There are many many scenes in this movie that are just hilarious. The characters are just great. From this movie I became an Alex Havey fan, as well as the guy who sells him the medical equipment. Whenever I see him in a movie now I always think back to the great scene in this movie when father and son are bonding over hypochondria.
My favorite scene is right in the beginning when Melonie Mayron says "We won't do it again," to the security guards after they set off their house alarm. The movie is over the top, but it just keeps coming, The funny thing about the no punchlines comment mentioned above is that the whole movie the Jeff Daniels character is trying to find out the punchline of the joke his friend the Alex Havey character was telling when he dies. The movie is riddled with stupid punchlines.
You also may want to know that the backers of this movie include David Byrne and George Harrison.
I have to say that this is the first time I reviewed a movie here. This is the one that made me want to do it.