May. 31, 2002 - 9:47 pm

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Top Hat (1935)

i'm not sure what made me decide i needed to see this. i guess i just felt like grabbing a musical. this is the first of my 5 movies for this weekend that i'm borrowing from the library. excellent. this movie is on the National Film Registry and was nominated for Best Picture. it lost to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).

anybody see The Green Mile (1999)? yeah, this is the movie that John Coffey watches. he also sings the song. the name of the song is "Cheek to Cheek," but you'll probably remember the line "heaven, i'm in heaven."

this has been called the best Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers film ever. i hadn't ever seen any of their films before this. wow, Ginger Rogers is gorgeous. i never realized that. and does anyone else believe that Fred Astaire is by far the ugliest leading man to ever grace the silver screen. yes, he's talented, but ugly.

this film was basically a screwball comedy and a musical at the same time. there was the whole danger of the couple not getting together the entire way through even though they were obviously interested in each other. it just wasn't funny enough though. i don't like the combo. either stick with just musical or just screwball comedy. this film gets 6/10.