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).
OOOOH! Another Steve Martin favorite - ALL OF ME! Which is also another "can't switch away" movie.
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..."
L.A. Story
is great.
I'm anxious to see how
Shopgirl
turns out. I loved the book.
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...
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?!??!??!?!"
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.
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.
Incredibles
fans, take note:
Marking the fastest move from screen to DVD ever for a Disney/Pixar movie, The Incredibles will make its debut in video stores on March 15, Disney's Buena Vista Home Entertainment announced Wednesday. As of last weekend, it was still playing in more than 1,000 theaters (and has grossed more than $257 million domestically.) Among a slew of extras, the video will sport a five-minute clip called Jack-Jack Attack featuring the youngest member of the Incredibles family, and a 20-minute alternate opening. In a statement, Gordon Ho, head of marketing for BVHE, said, "Our hope is to make this the biggest DVD release of the year."
