Steve Martin seemed to have a thing for modern adaptations: he turned Silas Marner into A Simple Twist of Fate. That was a nice movie.
Love isn't brains, children, it's blood, blood screaming inside you to work its will.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
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Polter-Cow - Jan 20, 2005 5:30:11 pm PST #8245 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Frankenbuddha - Jan 20, 2005 5:30:33 pm PST #8246 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I loved this bit! One of my favorite things about the film is his friendship with Shelley Duvall--it was one of more realistic man/woman best friend relationships I've ever seen in the movies. Oh, and also the really sweet romance that develops between the cocktail waitress (Sandy, right?) and the hot stud firefighter is great; they're very much suited for each other without being complete dimbulbs.
Yes and yes. Such a sweet movie. And Daryll Hannah in this was just lovable (as she was in Splash). Amazing considering how GODDAMN FUCKING SCARY she can be (Blade Runner, Kill Bill 1&2).
Frankenbuddha - Jan 20, 2005 5:31:34 pm PST #8247 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
OOOOH! Another Steve Martin favorite - ALL OF ME! Which is also another "can't switch away" movie.
victor infante - Jan 20, 2005 5:34:33 pm PST #8248 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
If we're talking Steve Martin, "Roxanne" is my favorite, but I have a place in my heart for "L.A. Story."
"Every where I go, things remind me of her..."
Polter-Cow - Jan 20, 2005 5:36:05 pm PST #8249 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
L.A. Story is great.
I'm anxious to see how Shopgirl turns out. I loved the book.
victor infante - Jan 20, 2005 5:37:27 pm PST #8250 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
I keep meaning to pick up the book, but then there's alwas things in front of it at the bookstore.
Bookstores are hard. I step in, and so many of the titles call to me...
Dana - Jan 20, 2005 5:42:44 pm PST #8251 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I love L.A. Story.
"Drive? In L.A.?!?"
Frankenbuddha - Jan 20, 2005 5:52:11 pm PST #8252 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Gah, yes! LA Story, with Patrick Stewart as the world's fiercest MatreD (sp?) at L'Idiot. One of the movies best jokes - if you blinked, you missed it.
Also, MAN WITH TWO BRAINS isn't remotely a good movie from beginning to end, but has a TON of good jokes.
"Your drunk driving tests are really hard!"
"Into the mud, scum queen!"
"Get that cat out of here!"
"MERV GRIFFIN?!??!??!?!"
Anne W. - Jan 20, 2005 5:59:52 pm PST #8253 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Speaking of Steve Martin, I also enjoyed "Housesitter" immensely. That sort of comedy is normally watch-from-the-hall material for me, but in that case I laughed so much I was in pain.
JZ - Jan 20, 2005 6:42:23 pm PST #8254 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Also the Ruprecht-the-idiot sequence from "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels." The movie itself is just okay, but that sequence is sick and dirty genius. And it makes absolutely NO SENSE AT ALL in terms of the plot (they're going to con rich women into hooking up with Michael Caine by siccing his terrifying idiot faux brother on them -- Um, whaaa?), but it doesn't matter because Steve Martin is so hideously perfect.
ION, it's not exactly a movie-movie, but I just, finally, saw "Something The Lord Made," and holy damn was it amazing. Alan Rickman at his Rickmannest (and also, oddly, least Rickman -- it takes all of two sentences to forget Snape and Metreon and Jamie and everyone else he's ever played and get lost in Dr. Taussig), and a massive crash course in American surgical history that's genuinely entertaining, and Mos Def being a fine actor and also the kind of person that cameras utterly love. There's no angle from which he looks bad or foolish; he just glows.