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I like a LOT about TOYS, but the climax didn't work for me. I thought it was filmed horribly, and you could only tell about half of what was going on. I think I understood what they were going for, but it was done so abstractly that it really threw me out of the movie.
I did love the final revelation about Joan Cusack's character, though.
Snipes was very restrained and quite good in Down in the Delta, too. Which wasn't as long ago (1998) as I was thinking.
The Thing Called Love
River Phoenix, Trisha Yearwood and Jimmie Dale Gilmore? How did I miss that one?
Maybe I ddin't...can't recall. Was it good?
It was ok. Mostly, I liked it for the Jimmie Dale Gilmore cameo. And wasn't Kevin Welch in the songwriter's circle scene?
Wasn't Ice Cube also in Boyz in the Hood?
I didn't include the breakout roles.
How are you defining "breakout" P-C? Because I've always thought Boyz n tha Hood was a breakout movie for everyone involved.
Because I've always thought Boyz n tha Hood was a breakout movie for everyone involved.
Even Laurence Fishburne? Because if you're saying Cowboy Curtis wasn't a breakout role, them's fighting words!
t throws down with Frank
The name confusion thing is really weirding me out now, because when I look back in my mind's eye it's Ice Cube that I'm seeing in that flooded kitchen with the sharks, not LL Cool J.
Even Laurence Fishburne? Because if you're saying Cowboy Curtis wasn't a breakout role, them's fighting words!
Wouldn't it be Apocalypse Now for Larry...I mean Laurence.
I think that Ice Cube, trapped in a kitchen flooded with seawater in which sharks were swimming -- would rassle the sharks into submission. Whereas, LL Cool J would do exactly what he did: say Whoa! and get outta dodge.
Now, of course, I am subbing in MC Hammer into that situation, or Young MC, or Tone Loc. It doesn't get really silly till you try it with Kid 'n' Play.
Wouldn't it be Apocalypse Now for Larry...I mean Laurence.
Well, I don't think breakout role equals first (or even first substantial) role. I'm just tickled by the fact that one of Fishburne's first claims to fame was the Pee-Wee Herman show, and dressed as a cowboy, no less.
It's like Morgan Freeman on the Electric Company.