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Carl Salonen's avatar

<<Although I’m excited to discover it’s actually possible to regift despair.>>

Apparently, you've never heard of fruitcake...

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Scott Clevenger's avatar

I don't know why I always think of fruitcake as being Scandinavian--maybe because the first time I saw it was in this Danish market my mom used to go to because they had the blandest hams. But the first time I saw The Seventh Seal I kept expecting Death to approach the Knight with a fruitcake wrapped in gaily colored cellophane. I mean the film's still good, I just think it was a missed opportunity.

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Alice's avatar

I calculate that I was probably struggling through Anatomy class when this film was released. It makes that experience look good by comparison! Sounds as if there were some gamma rays and man-in-the-moon marigolds mixed up in this thing somewhere...

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Scott Clevenger's avatar

I'm sorry you missed it when it came out, Alice (what am I SAYING??), but don't feel bad. Since so much of the film appears to take place in Katie Couric's colon, anatomy class probably offered a reasonable facsimile.

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Cheryl Bulbach's avatar

Reminds me of Christmas with my family when I was a child. Just beautiful.

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Scott Clevenger's avatar

I'm so sorry...!

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Cheryl Bulbach's avatar

That makes two of us!

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Carl Salonen's avatar

Two things:

1) Why has no one ever made the lesbian porn version of Babes? (hint there, screenwriter)

2) Are you *sure* this was put together from scraps of "Magical Mystery Tour" outtakes?

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Scott Clevenger's avatar

2) is above my pay grade, but I absolutely agree about 1). I wouldn't want to waste an idea that good on THIS piece of crap, so instead why don't we make it a biopic of Babes in Toyland, the band?

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