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#MovieThread starts here.
Today's film, #1, 1984's "The Terminator," because they're showing T2 at the movie theatre this week and it probably works better if I've seen T1 recently.
Today's film, #2, "Promare." No idea what this one's about but the animation looks cool.
Tonight's film, #3! 1991's "Terminator 2: Judgment Day"! In the movie theatre, so: I'll be back?
Tonight's film, #4! A friend on the other website is making me watch "Christine," which I understand to be "what if Duel but it's demons or some shit."
This kind of thing works better for me on the TV, so see y'all in two hours.
Today's film! #5, 1932 Best Picture nominee "Smilin' Through."
I've deffo looked at the Wikipedia page, but no idea what this one's about.
The first few years of these I had a hard time finding good copies of a lot of them, but now I'm mostly watching good Blu-Ray rips.
🎥 "Smilin' Through" (1932)
This fellow's wife has died before the start of the film, and he's not too happy about it, which makes a change from romcoms about awful men being saddled with wifes they don't much like.
🎥 "Smilin' Through" (1932)
Uh-oh. The widower's friend and his five-year old daughter invited themselves to come live with him to help him deal with his loss and we've immediately cut to the daughter at, shall we say, marryin' age.
🎥 "Smilin' Through" (1932)
I was up for "sad old widower learns to love again, precocious child involved in some way" but I do not wish for who he learns to love to be the precocious child he has been raising like a daughter for fifteen years.
🎥 "Smilin' Through" (1932)
Oh, right, the War.
🎥 "Smilin' Through" (1932)
"That's my father."
Oh, I see, she's falling for Son of Widower, and, I assume, they'll be who Widower learns to Love Again through.
🎥 "Smilin' Through" (1932)
Hold on, it's not Son of Widower, it's Son of... Widower's Long-Dead Mortal Enemy.
🎥 "Smilin' Through" (1932)
It's a good thing this is a Blu-Ray rip and not some 480p shit I had to grab from a Russian site or I might get confused about these dual roles.
🎥 "Smilin' Through" (1932)
They make a whole thing of how much Daughter of Widower's Friend looks exactly like Dead Wife, but, I mean, well, yes, they're both played by Norma Shearer! It's not even identical cousins, they're not even related!
🎥 "Smilin' Through" (1932)
The Widower's Mortal Enemy is the Widower's mortal enemy because he's the fellow who shot Dead Wife -- on their wedding day.
To be fair, you can see why she doesn't want Friend's Daughter to have anything to do with Mortal Enemy's Son.
🎥 "Smilin' Through" (1932)
after a short shot of snow outside a window, during which the War happens, Son of Mortal Enemy does not appear to have come back from the War
🎥 "Smilin' Through" (1932)
oh, there he is, on the late train, paralysed below the hip
🎥 "Smilin' Through" (1932)
The Widower dies in the middle of a chess game basically immediately after letting go of the hate he still felt, or something like that, as the punchline to a running gag where he keeps falling asleep in the middle of chess games.
🎥 "Smilin' Through" (1932)
Obviously, 1933, but "oh no the boy has to go to the war" is just not something I find very relatable.