TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (1983)

It's OK for a guy to watch a Romance/Chick flick/Women's picture month (Film 12 of 12)

Terms of Endearment

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Jack Nicholson plays an ex-astronaut. If he ever played a current astronaut, I guess that would be acceptable as well.

We hope you have enjoyed It’s OK for a guy to watch a Romance/Chick flick/ Women’s picture month. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to shoot an animal before consuming it, drink a beverage with an extremely high alcohol content, fix a mechanical maintance problem on my Harley Davidson, watch all the Die Hard movies in succession because, why? Because I am a man! I am Spartacus!...Spartacus? Yes, that's it! Forget Die Hard. It's Stanley Kubrick movies next month.

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OUT OF AFRICA (1985)

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Out of Africa

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It won the Best Picture Oscar for the year it came out and you’re trying to see all the movies on that list, too. Of course, that means I still have to sit through Broadway Melody of 1929 and Cimarron.

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A ROOM WITH A VIEW (1986, GREAT BRITAIN)

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(Film 10 of 12)

A Room With a View

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It's a Merchant Ivory film, so then people can say at cocktail parties things like "Have you seen the latest Merchant Ivory? I think Merchant Ivory films are exquisite! The nineteenth century comes alive whenever I see a Merchant Ivory!" or if they're really being honest they can say, "I watch Merchant Ivory films, so that makes me better than you!"

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THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)

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The Princess Bride

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To paraphrase Peter Falk, "if there’s lots of fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles" and I'll thrown that anything is OK if it has Wallace Shawn (pictured above) in it.

My knew favorite line from The Princess Bride is Wallace saying to Andre the Giant, “Do you want me to send you back to where your were? Unemployed…in GREENLAND!" (It doesn’t print funny, it’s all in how he says it.)

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THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (1964, FRANCE)

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Umbrellas of Cherbourg

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It’s all sung in French but isn’t actually a musical. I know that's a strange rule, but I can't think of another one right now!

This might be at the top of my list of films that I’m a bit embarrassed to liking as much as I do…and did I mention all the dialogue is sung in French?

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MY BRILLIANT CAREER (1979, AUSTRALIA)

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My Brilliant Career

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It’s Australian…no, I used that excuse for Muriel’s Wedding.

I got to come up with something else. Well, I remember the previews when this movie came out. “My brilliant movie.” Eleanor Ringel of the Atlanta Constitution raved. But I was just wasn’t inspired to see it.

So wny is it okay for a guy to see it? Let’s see…when I told my wife I was going to watch it I said it’s got to be better than Sarah, Plain and Tall.. Ok, that’s the rule.

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It’s better than Sarah, Plain and Tall…which this movie is.

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MURIEL'S WEDDING (1994, AUSTRALIA)

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Muriel’s Wedding

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It’s Australian

Note: I must have some affection this pictue as I took two different dates to see it. I married the second date.

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