OOOOH! Another Steve Martin favorite - ALL OF ME! Which is also another "can't switch away" movie.
Wash: Mal, your dead army buddy's on the bridge! Zoe: He ain't dead. Wash: Oh.
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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"
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.
Polter-Cow - Jan 20, 2005 6:45:46 pm PST #8255 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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."
Kate P. - Jan 20, 2005 7:09:42 pm PST #8256 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Man, Kate. You're lucky I didn't know that until now, cause I would have totally acted all resentful and bitter toward you in New York. And maybe sent you off on the wrong subway.
Pfft. Your resentment does not faze me. Besides, then you never would have met my Zambian arch-nemesis.
I've seen it a few times, and still hate Andie MacDowell too much to call the film great. It's entertaining, and Bill Murray is fantastic, but she's just...ugh.
Or, you know, What Jessica Said.