[Movies] Everyone Says I Love You (1996)

I love musicals.

I have mixed feelings about Woody Allen movies.

This movie put those elements together and the results were...interesting, to say the least. At least the elements of each movie "genre" of sorts didn't feel too distinct from one another. But it's hard to say how I felt the mix of everything worked out over all.

The movie featured quite a number of big name stars in an interesting casting selection. But in the long run you're also dealing with a Woody Allen screenplay, and thus all the characters end up sounding like Woody Allen as well. And this does end up being a somewhat weird juxtaposition of characterizations. Or just an odd mash-up of different actors and Woody Allen. Or whatever.

But I'm getting way ahead of myself. Let's start this review properly in order to get back into the normal groove of things.

[Movies] Annie Hall (1977)

I have a sort of love-hate relationship with Woody Allen movies. On the one hand, I have to acknowledge that he does make good movies and he's gotten a lot of acclaim from fans and critics alike. On the other hand, he can get rather annoying with his rather neurotic (or highly Jewish?) way of talking or writing narrative paths that can get tiring over time. I can handle Woody Allen movies one at a time but I don't think I will ever be ready to watch a marathon of his movies in succession.

But one thing or another led me to wanting to finally watch this movie. It's the classic case of knowing how many people rave about it, having seen snippets of it while channel surfing and yet never sitting down to watch the whole thing from start to finish. We add such movies to our never ending bucket list of movies that you'll want to eventually watch and yet they languish there for far too long.

One thing led to another and reading another article led me to wanting to finally get this movie off of my list. I will mark the beginning of a number of future Woody Allen movie reviews as I continue to work through my queue. Just don't except them on a weekly basis just yet despite his voluminous body of work.