Thursday Movie Picks: Television Edition: Game Shows

A weekly series hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves

There's something I started to appreciate more since I work as a bartender, game shows. Because one thing is showing off your knowledge to family members, which in my case in tops three people, and one thing is showing it off to many more, older and supposedly with more knowledge people who looks at you and think, "wow, not only she's good looking, she also knows stuff". Without any further bragging, here are my three picks but this week's Thursday Movie Picks. By the way, they all are Italians, or the Italian version, because I kinda watch game shows only when I'm forced. 

2020 Blind Spot Series: Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

I didn't know much about Bonnie and Clyde when I picked it for my Blind Spot Series. I knew it told the story of a couple of thieves, that it won a couple of Oscars while scoring tons of other nominations, and that it is widely loved among cinephiles. The latter two are the reason why I had very high expectations about it. Sadly, Arthur Penn's film didn't meet them as I found it a rather bland and repetitive lovers-on-the-run film.

The Truman Show (1998)

As I've said before in my Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond review, I have never been a Jim Carrey fan as he is the kind of actor whose only appeal lays in finding funny his overacting. I had to think again when I saw Charlie Kaufmann's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, where Carrey gives a terrific, emotionally deep performance that breaks me every time I watch the film. To be completely fair though, although I forgot, I had already seen his talent many years prior, when one of my high school teachers showed us Peter Weir's The Truman Show, a unique, emotional, entertaining as well as thought-provoking film.

Thursday Movie Picks: Verbal Altercations

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When it comes to fighting, I find words to be more effective than fists. Sure, a good old physical altercation can be fun and entertaining to watch and leave at least one of the people involved in more or less pain, but it doesn't even more close to the hurtfulness of words. For this week, I'm going with films whose verbal fights that hurt me.