Today, I speInt most of the morning putting together plans for my birthday movie marathon. I am holding the marathon in July this year since people keep backing out in December. As it stands, I will be missing friends like Alix and Catherine even having it over the summer. I almost put in the Fountain today because that is one of my favorite movies I have never shown at a marathon. However, it seems like a pretty divisive movie as well. I think everyone who was going to like it has already seen it. I second guessed one of my leftover movies from last year. I had the Pierce Brosnan Heist but the Gene Hackman movie is legit better so, going with that. I put in a dinner hour and moved the start time back to noon on Saturday. I also second guessed my midnight movie, Proxy. I remember a semi-raunchy lesbian sex scene towards the beginning that may not play for everyone. I'm not even counting the scene of a pregnant belly getting beaten with a brick in the first five minutes of the movie. Maybe I'll find a more gentle midnight movie.
Thinking about movies I want to show my friends and movies that will make me happy is tough to do. The movie Stretch is another I am worried about. It is Joe Carnahan, a notoriously divisive director, making a kind of action comedy movie that worked well for me. Of course, I love Smokin Aces where most people find it tedious. I'm afraid Stretch is where I might lose John (his opinion matters more than most to me). He has such solid taste in movies it always hurts a little when he comes out against something I find some joy in.
My other big issue is trying to figure out where I can find all these movies. Of all of them, only Heist is unavailable online (weird, huh?). Even Roller Town is on Youtube. I will, hopefully, be able to cobble a collection together before the marathon, even with my meager self-allowance of $12 a day.
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