My favorite "I did a crap movie! So what!" actor is still Michael Caine.
In his autobiography he talks about how whichever Jaws paid for his swimming pool.
Giles, help! He's going to scold me!
Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'
Boxed Set, Vol. II: "It's a Cookbook...A Cookbook!!"
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.
Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.
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Trudy Booth - Nov 28, 2005 12:31:13 pm PST #5440 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Nutty - Nov 28, 2005 12:32:23 pm PST #5441 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Hey. The Poseidon Adventure is an awesome crap movie. Do not mock my middle-60s idiotic disaster flicks! Lynda Barry's family re-enacts the movie with hand gestures every Thanksgiving!!
Truly, I think The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno are the only good disaster epics out there -- for all values of good that encompass vast acreage of cheese, has-been guest-stars, and melodrama.
Dana - Nov 28, 2005 12:41:56 pm PST #5442 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
And then there's Samuel "Snakes on a Plane" L. Jackson.
I had no idea who Albert Finney was for at least another decade, because Daddy Warbucks isn't exactly a representative role.
...seriously? Albert Finney was Daddy Warbucks? I have to see this movie again.
Vortex - Nov 28, 2005 12:42:55 pm PST #5443 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
yeah, can you believe it? I was shocked when I found out that he was English.
Dana - Nov 28, 2005 12:46:14 pm PST #5444 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I mean, I probably last saw Annie when I was ten, so I can be forgiven for not making the connection. But that's really weird.
evil jimi - Nov 28, 2005 1:08:24 pm PST #5445 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Michael Caine .... a Steven Seagal movie.
On Deadly Ground is a pretty good movie, and certainly a lot better than Jaws 3D or The Hand. I think Caine is mostly over his do-any-movie-for-the-money-irrespective-of-the-quality period.
P.M. Marc - Nov 28, 2005 1:22:56 pm PST #5446 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
My introduction to Tim Curry (not to Carol Burnett) came via the movie Annie. I'm sure I would have run into him eventually in something else; but meeting him first as a smirking roué rather than as, I don't know, Satan, makes for a much more accurate impression of his body of work. By contrast, I had no idea who Albert Finney was for at least another decade, because Daddy Warbucks isn't exactly a representative role.
I managed to avoid Annie for years, so my introduction to Tim Curry was RHPS and my introduction to Albert Finney was Tom Jones.
Neither leads to especially accurate impressions of their bodies of work.
Betsy HP - Nov 28, 2005 1:30:08 pm PST #5447 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Actually, I think RHPS is a pretty accurate impression of TC's body of work: always willing to go over the top, and usually asked to do so.
DCJensen - Nov 28, 2005 1:34:06 pm PST #5448 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
My mom was introduced to Malcolm McDowell in Clockwork Orange when it came out in the theaters. Only movie she's ever walked out on.
Fast forward a decade later, she loved him as H.G. Wells in Time After Time. It was another decade until I told her it was the same actor.
She truely boggled.
P.M. Marc - Nov 28, 2005 1:36:38 pm PST #5449 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Actually, I think RHPS is a pretty accurate impression of TC's body of work: always willing to go over the top, and usually asked to do so.
Sadly, usually with less singing, dancing, and crossdressing.