I'm gonna have pancakes!
As for "Which Chaplin," I watched
The Great Dictator. Good satire, and Chaplin never could be topped when it came to physical schtick. There were, to my more modern eye and ear, scripting problems. I felt that the character of Benzino Napaloni (Jack Oakie) should have been introduced earlier, and that the pacing could have been faster in the final third of the film. Also, the obvious character switch at the end was too abrupt. Still, there was a lot of good material in the film.
One surprise: the music was by the Music Man himself, Meredith Wilson! (Well, co-written by Wilson and Chaplin, but credited to Wilson.) This was an aspect of Wilson's career I wasn't aware of before.
I think I've also discovered the real flaw in watching films on DVD, or on tape for that matter. It's too easy to put them on pause, and step away to do something else, like go to the bathroom, get something to drink, write a thank-you note to Auntie Bella for the pralines she sent. And yes, I'm guilty of doing this.
But films aren't designed to be watched this way. I'm not sure what the solution is for this problem. Yeah, sure, it takes a kind of guts we weren't required to have a generation ago. Back then, the only guts required were a strong bladder. It's one of those willpower things, I guess.
