The Day I Wore My Pants.

Greetings, all! I decided to wear pants to watch movies, with the goal of posting reviews, based on pants, here, so I started that in the witching hour of April 18, 2025, when I couldn't sleep. And here... we... go!

I envision "The Day I Wore My Pants" being sung like SpongeBob's "The day I ripped my pants."

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I destroyed the dastardly dairy dame! I made mad milk maid mulch!

I hate insomnia. Oh yeah. Last year I had four cases of it, and each time it lasted three months.

The inaugural day I wore my pants, I watched Taking of Pelham One Two Three with Robert Shaw, Walter Mathau, and Martin Balsam, amongst many others, directed by Joseph Sargent. It's a tale of a few disgruntled people hijacking a train with passengers in order to hold it for a ransom of $1 million.

The plot is fairly basic, and works really well. From what I saw, the story is secondary to the characters and the suspense. I found the characters enjoyable, and I found the suspense pretty tense, so it succeeded on both counts. The ending almost got me, and then it didn't, and then it got me differently, and I grinned. Actually there was good humor throughout the film. It's mild and subtle, and worked great.

Overall I was entertained throughout. I thought everyone did a fine job with whatever task was handed him or her, whether it be cast or crew. Solid film.

Eight Pants out of Ten

I remember at the time of release it was considered a fresh plot twist. No one had ever come up with the idea of hijacking a subway car. Also: how quaint a $1 million dollar ransom seems now.

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Scarecrow: I haven't got a brain ... only straw. Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? Scarecrow: I don't know. But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they? Dorothy: Yes, I guess you're right.

Yeah nowadays it'd be $20 million or something. I wonder if the dollar amount was arbitrary and there as a MacGuffin? I forgot; hijacking a subway car was a pretty original idea. It worked too.