Never mind all these polls about who's going to be President of the United States. Let's look at the really important one, the one that tells what you folks thought of the movie, Skidoo. Here are the final totals…
As you can see, almost half (47%) of those who voted did not watch the thing. A hair under 27% of you enjoyed the experience with 4.3% of you calling it a "fine motion picture." A slightly larger amount called it "one of the worst movies I've ever seen" and everyone else was kind of bewildered, which is where I came down on the issue. This poll has a margin of error of ±100% because the movie did, as well.
Since I wronged some of you by encouraging the viewing of this film, I'll suggest some good ones to watch on Turner Classic Movies. Tonight, they're running What's Up, Tiger Lily?, which was the very funny movie for which a team of clever actors redubbed a sixties Japanese spy flick with funny dialogue. Woody Allen was the front man but I hear the voice and wit of my pal (and a frequent patron of this blog), Frank Buxton.
Early Thursday morning, they're running the rarely-seen Taxi!, which was one of Jimmy Cagney's first movies. It's quite melodramatic but Cagney is, of course, electric in the lead. Matter of fact, they're running a number of rare Cagney movies that morning and more later this month.
Lastly, if you like Danny Kaye, you can view or record The Secret Life of Walter Mitty on Friday evening and The Court Jester early Saturday morning. Some or all of these should make up for causing you to watch Skidoo.