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Movies Like Malkoff: Day 3

Today was Sunday. Sunday’s a work day for me. I don’t get home till after 1pm. Then it’s lunch, putting the kids down for a nap… and even I get a nap. Not wanting to disturb my normal routine, I watched movies when I could.

Today I watched:

  • One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
  • Harold and Maude
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest was a great movie. Again… no real plot. Seems to be the thing to do in the early 70’s. It really got me thinking… have movies gotten to formulated? I would say yes. The best part was seeing a lot of actors who went on to do a lot of great stuff. Dr. Emmit Brown never looked better. That nurse-lady Mrs. Cratchet, she needed to be hit in the head with a shovel or something. Had the movie been made
Harold and Maude: Dude makes a hearse out of a Jaguar. A man with one arm rigs his stump sleeve to salute. Harold breaks the third wall in a great scene. He scares away a treo of female suitors with faked suicide attempts. Hilarious.
Okay. I’ll admit something. I wrote all that about halfway in. Apparently Harold who is very young and Maude who is very old do the nasty. Which is nasty. Not that and 80 year old shouldn’t have a chance at love… it’s just obvious that neither of these characters are doing very well and what should have been a healthy relationship with boundaries becomes a twisted and confused relationship. Just read that this is supposed to be a dark-comedy. Not my favorite genre. But I get it. The product of WWII and the product of Vietnam. One driven to live life by war, the other feels meaningless because of it. Put these two together as concepts and a lesson can be learned. But I’m not that deep. To me it was a Frodo-looking spoiled rich boy trying to make babies with a suicidal, law-breaking old lady. Thank God that movie is over.
How am I doing compared to Mark Malkoff? Well, he’s watched another 7 movies today for a total  of 60. By his third day he’d seen 25 films. I’ve seen 7 total.