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Victor/Victoria » DVDs Worth Watching — Sun, 27 May 2012 00:49:58 +0000

[...] to DVD courtesy of the Warner Archive is Victor/Victoria. (I covered the other two, S.O.B. and Skin Deep, last month.) It’s also the best of the three, with its bizarre plot — a soprano who [...]

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:44:40 +0000

I started to talk about later-period Blake Edwards, starting with 10, and how similar his movies came to be, basically exaggerating and complaining about his life, but I thought I might get myself in trouble since I still haven’t seen 10. :) Thanks for bringing that out from a position of more knowledge.

By: Jim Kosmicki

Jim Kosmicki — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:35:02 +0000

eh – this was a disappointing movie when it came out. I can remember how little I cared about the character. Until you made the connection, I hadn’t even realized that the reason I didn’t watch past the first episode of Californication was probably the similarities to this movie.

I do, however, remember the duel with the glowing condoms. It was a bit of the Pink Panther slapstick Blake Edwards that many of us wished would come back.

I believe that at the time my response to this movie was that Edwards knew that “10″ was a hit, but chose to emphasize all the worst parts of that movie (the womanizing, the women as sex objects, etc) instead of the parts that people actually liked (sympathetic and fumbling Dudley Moore).

But yes, Ritter was good – probably incredibly good since he is still at least somewhat sympathetic in the role of a cad. i can’t remember if this was before, after or concurrent with “Hooperman” on ABC, but he always was a smarter, better actor than “Three’s Company” allowed him to be.