"They're all about honor."
'Selfless'
Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
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.
BRIGADOON!
Jeff is one of my all-time favs for humorous sidekick, and Van Johnson is perfect for the part. The scene in the NY bar after they come back from Scotland is a stitch:
Bartender: Your tab, sir, is very high.
Jeff: So am I!!
Loved Van Johnson. Great actor.
I always felt sorry for poor Jeff, all left out when Brigadoon "closed"...
BRIGADOON!
Seconding the above, but for my money, "Almost Like Being in Love" will always be Gene Kelly's finest hour.
I realize this makes me a heretic.
Seconding the above, but for my money, "Almost Like Being in Love" will always be Gene Kelly's finest hour.
It really is fabulous.
We did "Brigadoon" in high school, lo these 16 years ago, and I think I still know a lot of words to most of the songs. The orch. conductor would routinely bastardize the song titles, so "Almost Like Being In Love" became "Almost Like Wearing A Glove," for instance, and he would then cue the orch. with those bastardized titles, as in "Coming up....'Wearing A Glove'...."
Good times.
Heh. That's kind of like our band director always calling "Rice's Honor" "Rice's Lobster."
Finally saw G2H2. Loved it. A gentle and caring homage to Adams and to his time. Really Python-like feel to it. Lots of Gilliam moments in it for me. Now back to read the whitefont at last.
Last time I was at Curves (i.e., yesterday) they played versions of songs from musicals with a disco beat underneath them.
It was weird.
We finally saw Hitchhiker's this weekend. One of the people in our group hadn't read the book so it was interesting to see what they thought was funny/odd/hard to follow vs what those of us who'd read the book thought. Overall the verdict was "darn fun". Plus we got the Serenity trailer -- damn does it look good on the big screen whee!
ETA: Oh and I can't get "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" outta my head!