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Post by Adam on Mar 11, 2005 10:53:22 GMT -5
There, I've modified it.
Thanks for pointing that out, Weeping. Can't believe I missed that...
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Post by Thorngrub on Mar 11, 2005 15:36:41 GMT -5
No heady lists for moi today. I’m going for total suck & I’ll be on my sofa watching the enhanced Bambi & bawling like a baby. Awwww the childhood flashbacks. Here I come. This is a movie I am almost too terrified to watch . . . for precisely the same reasons. I just remember this slinking wolf . . . scaaaary . . . (& of course the end, which the rational part of my mind has successfully blocked out of my memory ever since I was a kid). You'll have to report back how you liked it, rockkid. |
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Post by chrisfan on Mar 11, 2005 15:52:31 GMT -5
I had to quit watching a lot of those old Disney movies I remember from my childhood. Movies like Bambi, Lady and the Tramp, Cinderella, etc I loved as much as any child. But, I watch them now, and I'm bored to tears. I remember all the good stuff from the beginning and end. I'd forgotten just how painfully boring the filler in the middle is.
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Post by Ampage on Mar 12, 2005 10:15:38 GMT -5
I just watched "The Notebook". Rachel McAdams is gorgaous, I hope she continues to make good movies. This one is a tad too long and hokey at times, but it hit the right notes when it needed to. I am still confused by the whole time span thing. James Garner and Gena Rowlands should have been in their 80's? Overall, a decent rental. I teared up a few times, but it ceratinly wasn't the cathartic purge I was looking forward to.
3/5 Amps
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Post by rockkid on Mar 12, 2005 10:19:08 GMT -5
Not in this one hon……. I’m thinking you mean a version of “l’il Red” When I finally got to watch it (anyone ever buy an unrecorded before? Huge factory defect IMO) It was as remembered. Probably one of Disney’s better ones IMO. Still tear inducing. Unchanged story, just pic & sound quality diddled with as far as I can see. Perfect for a sucky day & limited to that use IMO. Actually struck by what was thought of as child friendly entertainment back then. Between that & all the fables……….  |
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Post by rockkid on Mar 12, 2005 10:38:36 GMT -5
Speaking of things quasi interrelated (Dodgeball/Anchorman genre)
Anyone remember this girl? I’m having a tough time even recalling the scene it’s been so long.
Actress dead at 31
LOS ANGELES -- Actress Nicole DeHuff, who memorably took a volleyball in the face from Ben Stiller in the 2000 hit movie Meet the Parents, died of complications from pneumonia. She was 31. DeHuff had twice visited a hospital shortly before her death Feb. 16 but was sent home both times, the E! Network's E! Online website reported yesterday.
Meet the Parents was DeHuff's first film. A bumbling Stiller, who is dating her sister, accidentally breaks her nose during a volleyball game on the eve of her wedding. The action is one of many that estrange Stiller from DeHuff's menacing father, played by Robert De Niro.
The actress also appeared in the films Suspect Zero and See Arnold Run and had a starring role in the recently completed movie Unbeatable Harold, which was directed by her husband, Ari Palitz. She had a regular role in the 2002 TV series The Court and appeared on such other shows as CSI: Miami, Without a Trace, Dragnet, The Practice and Monk.
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Post by Thorngrub on Mar 12, 2005 12:20:40 GMT -5
That is so sad . . . so young.
Well rockkid, the scene I remember (& I gotta figure out which Disney movie it was in) was something like this: 2 Disney characters (I thought it was Bambi and Flower, the skunk) were tra-la-la-ing along down the winding path through the woods we go, (but it wasn't Li'l Red Riding Hood - cuz in that one, she's alone, and the wolf stands on 2 legs), these 2 were suddenly confronted by this (now it may very well have been a big ol bad FOX) nasty ol' canine guy who slunk on all fours from behind this tree. (Sounds rather like that scene out of Pinnochio, with the Fox and his companion who charm our wooden hero into joining their circus side show run by the wicked Stromboli, but it was not that either.)
That's about all I remember: 2 (or maybe 3) Disney characters (and I could swear it's Bambi, Flower, and maybe Thumper) strolling up past this big Oak tree, and this mean ol' scary Fox/Wolf creature comes slinking on all fours, around from behind the tree, stomach low to the ground, revealing a huge, wide, wicked grin filled with rows of gleaming white teeth. I don't recall what happens next, but I think the bad ol Fox/Wolf character was suddenly scared off by one of their Bigger friends, who comes in and saves the scene.
Admittedly it could have been from The Jungle Book, Dumbo, Robin Hood . . .who knows which . . . maybe it wasn't even Disney. But it sure as hell is burned into my memory cells . . .
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Post by rockkid on Mar 13, 2005 10:50:05 GMT -5
Nope.
There is a part were Bambi's gf gets chased by hunting dogs though.
could that be a hazy memory?
I finally sat down to watch the Stepford Wives remake.
I’d been putting that off since I’m not a Kidman fan & I thought they’d never do it justice.
Was I wrong….. justice was actually added!!!
Seeing Glen Close in that role was worth all. Walken couldn’t have been a better choice for the Michael character either IMO.
What a deranged hoot. Especially the FOXifacation at the start.
Laugh out loud funny so for those who haven’t yet, highly recommended.
It did bring a thought to mind though. I couldn’t help thinking that on that review site Phil pointed out it would probably be rated as the perfect film for its depiction of the “good wife”. LMFAO.
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Post by Ampage on Mar 13, 2005 12:12:30 GMT -5
I love Nicole and tried, but could not watch that movie. It bugged.
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Post by rockkid on Mar 14, 2005 10:45:58 GMT -5
Bout Damn time!!
LONDON -- Quentin Tarantino, director of cult movies Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, was named Film Icon of the Decade at an awards ceremony in London yesterday. Tarantino was among a cast of Hollywood and British movie talent recognized during the Empire Awards, which were voted for by more than 12,000 readers of Empire Magazine.
Accepting his award, the 41-year-old announced plans to retire from movie directing in 15 years to become a movie theatre manager.
"The fact that England has embraced me as one of its own is really cool," Tarantino said. "I hope to give you at least 15 more years of movies. I'm not going to be this old guy that keeps cranking them out.
"My plan is to have a theatre by that time in some small town and I will be the manager - this crazy old movie guy. I've made enough money that nobody even needs to show up at the theatre. It's just having something to do."
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Post by Adam on Mar 14, 2005 11:19:09 GMT -5
15 more years? Damn, he better get busy...
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Post by pattentank24 on Mar 14, 2005 15:14:52 GMT -5
Watched "Cannibal The Musical" the other night (4TH time I have seen it)
It might be the funniest musical of all time espically with the drunken director's commenatry with Trey Parker and Matt Stone who did it 6 yrs later and don't remember the majority of making it, and preceed to bitch about X-girlfriends throughout(giving out their phone #''s WHICH IS EDITED OUT)
This Proves Why "Team Amercia World Police" was genuis but this might be even funnier
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Post by Adam on Mar 14, 2005 23:13:21 GMT -5
I've got a question for everyone.
I've recently watched The Last Picture Show; for those who haven't seen it, the doomed small-town theater in the film ends its run with Red River.
So here's my question: what last picture show would you like to see end a theater's run?
The question bugs me because, what you choose: a personal favorite, a popular favorite, or something you think would be the ideal last hurrah for a theater you attended regularly? Perhaps a film trilogy or staples of a certain genre, great works by a director or actor?
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Post by rockkid on Mar 15, 2005 11:14:57 GMT -5
Hmmmmm something in an end of days genre I’d think…… fitting? So I guess personal fav ……Omega Man. [  Movie to see boys & girls. MillionsFrom Trainspotting & 28 Days Later. (Danny Boyle) I’ve seen a few adverts & it looks simply stunning. |
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Post by Mary on Mar 15, 2005 19:44:33 GMT -5
So here's my question: what last picture show would you like to see end a theater's run? Heh - it's hard not to say The Last Picture Show itself!! Seems perfect, no? Or maybe Cinema Paradiso - another movie about nostalgia for the halcyon days of cinema... When the beautiful UC Theater in Berkeley closed because they couldn't afford earthquake retrofitting (a sad day!) their final showing was The Dark Crystal, which brought a great crowd... but hmmm. It's a tough question. There's also a case to be made for an old classic that everyone loves - Casablanca, perhaps. Whatever you choose, I think it's essential that it have a certain nostalgic quality, and that it seem to say something about the nature of cinema itself... Cheers, M |
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