'Smile Time'
A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Look at that - Hello Down There is being released on DVD.
I only know about this because Jeff Barry (Archies main man) did the music for this. 1969, Tony Randall's family lives in a bubble under the sea. Teenage son Richard Dreyfuss writes pop songs and beats on a shark's snout with his guitar. Wacky fun, I guess.
Also, I recently bought (though haven't viewed) The American Astronaut by Cory Macabee of the Billy Nayer show. (Not a NASA documentary, incidentally.)
Getting back to WKW/CD, I think I've seen Chungking Express more than any other movie, maybe 20-25 times now. Just something to be savored. And I still own it on laserdisc.
Speaking of OTT Asian flicks, I've pimped this in this very thread before but I have to again pimp the Korean action piece Tube. It was gleefully, wonderfully, awesomely OTT, not to put too superlative a point on it. It was like the bastard love child of Speed, Die Hard and Heat, all hopped up on steroids and crystal meth, and having a grand old time doing it. It puts other OTT movies to shame. Even it's action movie/hero cliches were brilliantly over the top.
Getting back to WKW/CD, I think I've seen Chungking Express more than any other movie, maybe 20-25 times now. Just something to be savored. And I still own it on laserdisc.
It's even tempted me to pick up some of Faye Wong's albums.
Sounds potentially like THE UNINVITED with Ray Milland and , but they were brother and sister I believe, not husband and wife.
That's IT!!! Thanks Ken! (Can I still call you Ken? I've even seen the Ken Buddha sketch on MPFC now.) I should've specified it was a 40s movie.
Now I'm trying to remember the martial arts hero movie where the hero's best friend is a killer whale. (No, I'm not making that up.)
Now I'm trying to remember the martial arts hero movie where the hero's best friend is a killer whale. (No, I'm not making that up.)
The Free Willy Kid?
I'm pretty sure it had Moon in the title. But you could tell it was done because some HK exec got the high-concept idea off of Free Willy
(Can I still call you Ken? I've even seen the Ken Buddha sketch on MPFC now.)
You may, but Frank is my real name, so I've been transitioning since meeting buffistas in RL. That sketch is just such a throw away bit, but I've always loved Eric Idle's delivery on "Ken Buddha - a smile, two bangs, and a religion.".
Now I'm trying to remember the martial arts hero movie where the hero's best friend is a killer whale. (No, I'm not making that up.)
HOUSE OF FLYING ORCAS?