Comments on: Movies Seen Recently: Jack the Giant Slayer, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, Inside Out https://nathanshumate.com/movies-seen-recently-jack-the-giant-slayer-the-ghost-and-mr-chicken-inside-out/ I make things, and I make things up. Sat, 30 Jan 2016 22:26:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.1 By: misterfweem https://nathanshumate.com/movies-seen-recently-jack-the-giant-slayer-the-ghost-and-mr-chicken-inside-out/#comment-555 Sat, 30 Jan 2016 22:26:40 +0000 http://nathanshumate.com/?p=1279#comment-555 In reply to Jaleta Clegg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V641NxMSRNw

Shakiest Gun in the West — one of Knotts’ best.

]]> By: Take Cover https://nathanshumate.com/movies-seen-recently-jack-the-giant-slayer-the-ghost-and-mr-chicken-inside-out/#comment-554 Fri, 29 Jan 2016 02:34:23 +0000 http://nathanshumate.com/?p=1279#comment-554 In reply to Jaleta Clegg.

Re Inside Out: Ditto — glad to know it’s not just me!

I really like every other Pixar movie I’ve seen (which is all of them except for Cars I and II), but dang, I have a hard time understanding all the love for this one. Me and my better half both found the whole thing quite tedious: annoying characters in a flat story that played out in a landscape of ‘clever’ metaphors made concrete. Like the father’s emotions, I’d rather have been doing something else. The only part I enjoyed was when Joy and Sadness and the imaginary friend took a short cut and started to dissolve into abstractions; I thought that sequence was actually pretty smart and visually witty.

]]> By: Nathan https://nathanshumate.com/movies-seen-recently-jack-the-giant-slayer-the-ghost-and-mr-chicken-inside-out/#comment-553 Thu, 28 Jan 2016 23:58:21 +0000 http://nathanshumate.com/?p=1279#comment-553 In reply to Jaleta Clegg.

Yeah, Knotts and Conway were a match made in humor heaven. My wife loves Private Eyes, and hates when I point out that, um, they’re there as police detectives — NOT PRIVATE EYES.

]]> By: Jaleta Clegg https://nathanshumate.com/movies-seen-recently-jack-the-giant-slayer-the-ghost-and-mr-chicken-inside-out/#comment-552 Thu, 28 Jan 2016 23:43:25 +0000 http://nathanshumate.com/?p=1279#comment-552 Love Don Knotts, too. I think my favorite of his movies is Private Eyes. Can’t beat him and Tim Conway when they paired up. Apple Dumpling Gang was also pretty watchable. And so was the western one he did where he was a dentist and gets married to the spy so she can join the wagon train. The name escapes me right now.

Haven’t seen Jack the Giant Killer yet. Still on my to be watched list.

I thought the same thing about Inside Out. It was just bizarre and kind of stupid. It did have some fun one-liners, though. My kids love Anger and quote him all the time.

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