"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

Young Frankenstein:

I just don't get it. It's not that funny, and there are long stretches that are completely unamusing. I just watched it with a couple friends who really liked it, and I really wanted to like it. But they didn't really laugh that much either. I don't understand why this is supposedly one of the greatest comedies ever made. It's not even one of the funniest spoofs I've seen. I don't really understand Mel Brooks; all his movies seem horribly dated. The Producers is pretty funny, but honestly, I probably enjoy the remake more...

That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

I intended to watch it the last time I saw it was playing on TCM, but then I forgot.

Night of the Iguana a top pick??? I saw it when it first came out. I'm not going to cheat and check IMDB but as I recall this was around the same time as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf" "'Whadda dump!' who said that? Was it Bette Davis?" also starring the couple of the moment - Liz and Dick. And very near the time of their big budget debacle Cleopatra. I'm going to check after I write this to see if I'm correct about the timing -- Cleopatra, then Virginia Wolf and then Night of the Iguana.

Having considered myself way avant garde as a high school student, I of course had admiration for Edward Albee and Tennessee Williams and saw both films. Truth be told, I don't think I really enjoyed either of them too much. Loved the couple but together as an acting team -- they cancelled one another out. Plus, as I recall from my mother's not carefully concealed tabloid papers of the era, they were both heavily boozing at this time.

Night of the Iguana? Hmmm. Smokey, you've had me reconsider previous films I thought I didn't like so maybe the same would be the case if I watched this one again. In my memory it's a black and white mess. This is bringing back many memories, real or imagined. I recall reading that the location filming also had its fair share of disaster. Weather? Natives? Hmmm...

And then there was that wonderful role after their one of their splits with Richard Burton in Candy! Liz's bestest ever husband.

Now I Google!

Susan

PS Hahaha, the perils of diminishing memory.  And Smokey, you said Ava Gardner, but I remembered Liz Taylor.  Here's the timing of those 3 films.

Cleopatra (1963)

The Night of the Iguana (1964)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

Candy was 1968. 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

Equus was amazing!  Haven't seen it since it first came out but it could be due for a rewatch.

Speaking of re-watching, I just added the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz "Long, Long Trailer" (1954) to my Netflix list!  You know, the subject came up (as long, long trailers do...) and I realized it was a classic I need to watch again in this century.  

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

Since I never know when to quit:

MTV: I see a lot of comedy in your films. "Fight Club" can be seen as a black comedy.

Fincher: I always saw it as a comedy. Then everybody would look at me like a leper.

Man, I've been sitting here for ten minutes trying to think of a film everyone likes except for me that hasn't been mentioned and I am drawing a blank. WAIT! I got one! I think...

 Garden State! It all felt very false and forced. The quirkiness, the scenes, the dialog, the points, the character motivations. And it seemed as if some shots were only there so they could put them in the trailer. Garden State made a better trailer and soundtrack than it did a whole picture. But apparently a lot of people found something really deep there. More power to them. I like my sentiment to come from a honest place. Don't even get me started on that piece of sh*t Best Picture winner, Crash...

 -Req

That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!