What is Best in Life

To start, I’ll say that I’ve never liked musicals. I really hadn’t seen any of the “classics” (aside from Westside story in junior high), but pretty much whenever anyone breaks into song and dance I start counting the minutes until it is over (except for a few exceptions…the song in Rio Bravo is just fine). Hell, I didn’t even much like Woody Allen’s “Everyone Says I Love You”, and I love Woody Allen.  And don’t get me started on Bollywood (something I loathe almost as much as ska music).So why did I like Swing Time so much? I will admit that the dancing is absolutely amazing, Fred and Ginger look like they were born dancing with each other, and the songs are fine too. But I don’t think that is what makes a good musical.
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Having recently seen Wages of Fear for the third time, I have to say it is just as intense as the first time I watched it. This is really one of the only movies that literally makes me breath a sigh of relief once it is over (a few seconds after the “FIN” is also the point where I realize just how tense my body is and begin to relax)

Without giving too much away, it is basically the story of people living in a destitute South American town. Some of them take a job driving trucks full of Nitroglycerin 300 miles to put out an oil fire. And the hilarity ensues.***
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