View From the Bushes

In my continuing attempt to plug the holes in my pop culture knowledge, I watched The Godfather last night. IMDB has it as the #1 movie of all time. I don't agree with that, but it was an excellent movie. The scene with Al Pacino in the family resturant with the Turk and the police chief was so suspenseful that I could feel my heart rev up to about 150 beats a minute. Looking back, I'm not even sure why it was so gripping, but it undeniably was.

I'm wondering if, in the interest of completeness, I should watch the number #1 worst movie of all time on IMDB, Manos, the Hands of Fate. Though one imagines that a copy of the very worst movie of all time is more difficult to find than the very best movie. I think the very worst movie I ever saw was Short Cuts, though inexplicably that movie has a 7.6 ranking on IMDB. The lowest ranked movie I actually have seen is Leonard Part 6, and looking over the list that appears to be the only movie in the bottom 100 I have seen.

As long as we're on the subject of movies, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comes out tomorrow. As of this writing, it's just shy (59%) of a fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which generally means that those who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like (shamelessly stolen from President Lincoln.) Though I doubt I will make it this weekend.

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