Ok, so for 1936 we watched "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" and we were disappointed. (To sum things up for you, Adam now refers to this movie as "Mr. Stupid-head goes to Loserville" starring Hairy Loser)
Directed by Frank Capra, needless to say we had high hopes going in. We have really enjoyed several of his other films (You Can't Take it With You, It Happened One Night and Its a Wonderful Life) and this one let us down a little bit. It was a nice movie, a simple story and had a good moral, but we just couldn't... get into it. We felt absolutely no attachment to Gary Cooper, who plays the main character, Mr. Deeds. Even the supporting roles we felt were weakly portrayed and while this movie had potential to be good, it just couldn't win us over.
The best picture from this year, The Great Zigfeld, deserved the win over this one. Ziggy was much more entertaining, and it probably helped that going into it we didn't have very high expectations (which worked to this movies disadvantage)
That's really all I have to say, and all I think needs to be said. We have drawn the next year and our movies have been selected, so that will be coming soon. In the meantime, stay classy.
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