Posts Tagged ‘1979’
POPFILTER VS. THE CLASSICS
POP FILTER VS. THE CLASSICS OF 1979 THE MUPPET MOVIE The Muppet Movie is classic because the Muppets and their sense of humor still hold up today. I’m gonna be up front about it; I love the Muppets, and it’s going to be hard to say anything bad about them. The Muppet Movie came out…
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POP FILTER VS. THE CLASSICS OF 1979 MANHATTAN For this installment of PopFilter versus the classics, we present 1979’s Manhattan, co-written, directed, and staring Woody Allen. It also stars Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep, and Muriel Hemmingway. Now, pretty much any film student or any pretentious butt-munch at the independent coffee house loves to…
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POP FILTER VS. THE CLASSICS OF 1979 THE BLACK STALLION Maybe I’m just traumatized from reading The Red Pony in elementary school, but horses in movies make me nervous. Film or otherwise, stories about horses so often bear a price tag of tragedy–if the quadruped isn’t abused or dying, someone else is, as in Black…
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POP FILTER VS. THE CLASSICS OF 1979 LIFE OF BRIAN How could you not be offended by Life of Brian? Well…I mean, I wasn’t, but that’s because I haven’t believed in a power higher than me since I was old enough to look in the mirror and whisper “Fuck that.†You weren’t, because you’re smarter…
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