The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) β¦ Member of the Month Winner: Full-Length Watchalong Reaction
Added 2024-07-26 22:45:01 +0000 UTCWellllll this warmed my heart in the best way and gave me a little jab of inspiration and motivation. Thank you to everyone who voted for this in the poll! And thank you Onno for making the poll in the first place. π
I'm looking forward to discussing this - thanks so much for watching! [Direct link here.]
β¦ KL
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Thanks so much for doing this reaction KL! I had a blast re-experiencing this movie with you. Your reactions of realizing that that one picture is of the piano, and at the end that negative 25 was in the wallet all along were especially fun, but I appreciated your perspective throughout. Like you said at the end, one of the points this movie tries to make is that you should, whenever possible, just go out and "do the thing". That really resonated with me from the first time I saw this movie. I occasionally rewatch it to search out that kick of inspiration/motivation to try something new.
Onno Smits
2024-07-27 05:23:09 +0000 UTChow many of us would just love to drop everything and just GO. God knows I would. This is a movie for dreamers and people with a desire to see and explore and change themselves. It's a gem of a movie that reminds us to stop, look around, and take things in. Enjoy things and appreciate them. Contrary to popular belief, work is NOT life. Life is living.
Nathan Jasper
2024-07-27 04:48:24 +0000 UTCI remember wanting to see this one when it came out and life got in the way. I appreciate the excuse to rent and watch it with the reaction tonight. This was such a good movie. First, KL your smile was met on my end too. My face hurts right now. This was kind of sentimental to me. I donβt know if I have a better way to describe it. Iβm not sentimental nor do I spend time looking back with regret so I donβt really think about the past all that much, but this gave me warm feels of my past. As a teenager, I was a skater with the Ollie impossible my as my biggest trick success. I was also on my high school gymnastics team, my events being floor, parallel bars, and vault. I was still able to entertain my daughters with basic handsprings and flips (front & back) into my 30βs, but nowβ¦that time is past. But seeing Walter on the skateboard just slapped a smile on my face for the rest of the movie. Also reminded me I need to get a passport. I have some plans in the next couple of years. Oh and KL, fun little fact, Patton Oswalt is married to Meredith Salenger, who played Natty Gann.
Bryan Dempsey
2024-07-27 04:01:18 +0000 UTCComing back to P.S. that I also really love Ben Stiller's first two efforts as a director, Reality Bites (1994) and The Cable Guy (1996). Before he became a big comedy star, he had a very interesting career as both an actor and a filmmaker through the '90s, including a bunch of unexpectedly dramatic stuff (although I won't say what genre these two are).
Tyler Foster
2024-07-26 23:07:57 +0000 UTCThis probably comes up in the reaction, but this is not only based on a book, but it's also the second adaptation of the story for the big screen, with the previous movie having been made in 1947, with famous comedian Danny Kaye in the lead role. (Normally I would avoid mentioning this, but I doubt you or most people today under 50 have any idea who Danny Kaye is.) What might be more of a surprise is that this version was in development for just under 20 years, starting in 1994 when Jim Carrey was initially attached in the lead role with Ron Howard directing. Ron Howard was then replaced with The Mask director Chuck Russell, then Steven Spielberg, then finally Mean Girls director Mark Waters, before Carrey left and was replaced with Owen Wilson, who almost co-starred with Scarlett Johansson. Instead, Wilson was replaced by Mike Myers. Waters left, and was replaced by The Ring/Pirates of the Caribbean's Gore Verbinski, and Myers was replaced by Sacha Baron Cohen, and then finally Cohen was replaced by Stiller. Verbinski ended up only producing the movie, and Stiller took over directing duties as well as starring. I saw this movie last year and I admit it wasn't quite for me -- I wished that Walter's flights of fancy were a bit more grounded, like the one he has right before jumping onto the helicopter, of Kristen Wiig singing to him on the stage. I also liked some of the parts after he gets off the boat and is skateboarding around in the mountains. Per my comment on Onno's poll, the one I love only managed two measly votes last I checked, and one of them was Onno! That said, I still appreciate that you liked it. As you know, when I put in my Reactr Request it was down to two movies, and I had been hoping to submit the second one right after the first but someone beat me to the slot. As of right now I will have to wait a bit because I don't have the money (and I assume both slots are still taken), but I do think this movie bears out my hypothesis as to a type of movie that seems to be up your alley...but I'll keep mum on exactly what I think that is until after I've gotten to request that second movie and see how you react to it. (I wonder if Onno likes the other movie I wanted to choose...)
Tyler Foster
2024-07-26 22:55:21 +0000 UTC
