When you wake up early in the morning and can't manage to fall back to sleep, but are still too groggy to bother getting up, do you start flipping through the TV channels, hoping for an old Law and Order episode? I've had some luck finding those on in the middle of the night, but at 6:30am, pickins are slim.
So imagine my delight to find Help! on at that hour. I haven't seen this movie in years, decades even. I remember being not terribly impressed with it, having loved A Hard Day's Night, and in a straight comparison, Help! definitely loses. However, I enjoyed it a lot this time around. Aside from the great music, which still holds up after all this time, the Beatles were funny. The wry sense of humor, the sight gags, the puns, all the stuff I didn't get when I was a young kid made sense now. It's really a pretty good comedy.
Now I want to see A Hard Day's Night again.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
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Funny... now you have me thinking about renting them too! I do the same thing if I can't sleep.. finding something is really hard unless you are for starting a movie midway... or getting into one and trying to stay awake (which is the opposite of what you want) just to finish it! LOL... good luck!
ReplyDeleteQueenee and I both look for Law and Order episodes. They're perfect, since we've seen them all before, but they're so well done you don't mind seeing them again. And luckily, they seem to be on a lot.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in college, reading my chemistry books would usually knock me out, but that isn't useful anymore. These days I try to find a movie that will put me to sleep. I've found that Lost in Space is perfect for me, I start that one (it's an On-Demand movie now) and I'm lights-out in about ten minutes. I'll miss it when it's no longer available On-Demand. It's faster than sleeping pills. I may break down and buy the DVD ... when I find it in the $2 bin.