Stewie voice Blast! Another movie I thought I hadn’t seen before but have! I’m counting it anyway, lol. This was one of “the first movies I ever saw” (read: saw it in 1997 or thereabouts when I was for the first time watching movies for more than entertainment).

The first thing I noticed on this viewing is how great it looks over 15 years after it was made. Steven Spielberg really had the talent we now take for granted from him right from the start, even when, as here, tackling a genre fairly foreign to him. The visual effects, the photography, and score are first rate; and all this coupled with the fact that the three primary performers (John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Richard Dreyfuss) don’t look that different today could almost convince me the movie was made much more recently that it was. Add Audrey Hepburn as an angel surely anyone would want to welcome them to the afterlife, and this movie definitely has plenty to make it worth a look.

In the end, though, it’s all fairly forgetful. Other movies came to mind while watching, from A Matter of Life and Death (aka Stairway to Heaven) to Ghost, and these, along with any other in the Spielberg catalogue, are movies I’d ultimately watch much more willingly than this one.

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