Picnic (1955)

a movie about when you're so horny that you say something silly or at worst a little stupid

Hari Nef

Just thinking about how much better this would have worked if William Holden didn't visibly look and sound forty five years old... Someone lied to him several times. Paul Newman could have reprised the role from Broadway, but unfortunately it would be several years till he…

sarah

basically 2 hours of the filmmakers coming up with creative ways for william holden to be shirtless, and i’m glad that this is the reputation this film has sustained for 65 years. i first heard about this film when reading an academic article titled “the age of the chest”…

nora

kim novak is RAVISHING! rosalind russell is COMPLAINING! william holden is VERY ELDERLY LOOKING!

eely

This is really, really hard to watch. Certainly part of the problem is simply that it’s aged poorly, but the much larger issues is William Holden. He’s so far from Hal Carter that he can’t even pretend well; the result is that every single line he reads is agony in how…

sakana1

Maybe my bar was so low going in that I’m just relieved this wasn’t gals ogling over Bill Holden 99% of the time (was more like 40%), & that it actually had some depth to it. Campy to the high heavens but a decent analysis on the politics of standard living in the 50’s that…

Adrian

It’s been unbelievably cold in Raleigh for close to a month now. Snow.  Ice.  Sleet.  Winter mixes.  I’ve seen it all and I’m ready for it to all go away. ASAP. And it can take asynchronous learning right along with it.  Needless to say, I’ve been dreaming about…

Dave Edwards

So weird. SO weird. Also, watching this with the knowledge that Paul Newman played the lead on Broadway…talk about unsatisfying.

Adam

Notes: • That was the most depressing picnic ever. • Millie is by far the most interesting character in this film, I mean: "When I graduate from college I'm going to New York and wrote novels that'll shock people right out of their senses. I'm never going to fall in love,…

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