Monday, July 24, 2017

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958 - ★★★★★

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Sometimes you have no special effects. You have no extraordinaire sets. All you have is great actors. And sometimes, that's all you need.

So this is one of those "people sitting in a room/building for an hour and scream at each other" kind of movie. I generally like these movies because they are about dialogue and characters.

The whole dialogue in this movie is just so enjoyable. I couldn't keep my eyes from the movie, couldn't stop listening to what they had to say.

Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman were great in this. Especially for a 50s movie, they just felt real. I believe that they are a couple. That they went through things.

I also believe how they resolve their issues. It made sense. It felt real.

Every performance is great. And I like that the "sister woman", as they called her lovingly, was an actual shitty character that you love to hate, because with everyone else you really sympathize at one point.

I fully enjoyed this more than I would have expected. I enjoyed it so much that I'm actually rating it 5 out of 5 stars and a like. It's just great.

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