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High Diving Hare (1949)
Classic anvil-dropping Bugs/Yosemite Sam
This is a classic Bugs Bunny/Yosemite Sam cartoon and one of the all time greats of the Warner Brothers shorts collection. The plot is this: Yosemite Sam is eager to see the star of the high-diving act, Fearless Freep. When Freep fails to show, he forces the fast-talking usher, Bugs Bunny, to perform the act instead of Fearless Freep. Bugs is extremely reluctant, but Yosemite Sam leaves him with no choice.
He and Sam chase hilariously chase each other around stage, up and down the tall high-diving ladder, and through various classic, anvil-dropping, TNT-exploding Warner Brothers gags, Bugs eventually, as always, comes out on top.
The Break-Up (2006)
Vaughn is the only bright spot in this plodding comedy
THE BREAK-UP follows the newly-split Gary (Vince Vaughn) and Brooke (Jennifer Aniston) fighting over who should retain ownership of the condo they formerly shared. Both come to realize during this fight that neither truly wants to end their relationship with the other.
I expected a comedy when going to see Peyton Reed's THE BREAK-UP. In this regard, it was a huge disappointment, bringing forth a few forced chuckles and maybe two genuine laughs. One part of the film, however, which I was pleasantly surprised by was how sympathetic Vaughn was. In most of his previous roles, he was a caricature, but in THE BREAK-UP, he appears somewhat like a human being, though admittedly a rather poorly written one.
Bad sides to the picture are its lame "I give up!" ending, Brooke's friend (with the annoying voice), and the missed opportunity at making a clever, new, romantic comedy.
Match Point (2005)
Woody: an actor's dream come true
Over the years, Allen has shown himself as superlative as a director of actors. He gives them scope to explore the wide range of human frailty. This is true in his outright comedies(Annie Hall, Manhattan) his "problem plays" (Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors) and here, in his great, dark drama MATCH POINT. What scene would any of you like to choose for discussion? Is Allen's perception and keen ear for human weakness evident in almost all of them? Witness, to chose but one example in a hundred, the scene in which Nola bitterly reviews her miserable youth and her mother's alcoholism whilst downing far too much wine? Yes, part of it indeed is Johanssen's innate talent, but there is here -as before with Keaton, with Caine, with Farrow, with Wiest- the steady hand of a master who knows how to get the best performances out of his actors. Whew, what a tour de force.