'Shells'
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.
I think my favorite Steve Martin performance was in Roxanne; it had enough of the standard Martin schtick but was offset by both his quiet moments, and the whackiness was dispersed amongst the other townfolk.
"Aliens, right here! And they want to have sex with older women because, and I quote, 'They really know what they're doing."
"Oh, we do!"
"It's been so long!"
"Girls, do you really believe that aliens are here just to have sex with old women?! ... Let's go check it out!"
Do we know about Shopgirl ?
We know about it in the bay area because apparently the book was inspired by Steve's relationship with an actual local shopgirl, and they revealed her name.
We know about it in the bay area because apparently the book was inspired by Steve's relationship with an actual local shopgirl, and they revealed her name.
Huh. That would explain a lot about what I disliked about that book.
Interesting--Howard Shore just got released from King Kong. Jackson says it was an amicably made mutual decision.
But, but, but... Golfing with gardening implements!
I liked it, but not enough to own it. I think golf is just too mainstream of a sport for it to hit all my sports comedy kinks.
You know, I'm totally the type who'd read OSQ on the sly, were OSQ a real thing.
Do we know about Shopgirl ?
Yep. I loved the book, and I'm not sure about the movie. There's a free preview I can go to next week, but I'm debating whether or not to go, since it's on Wednesday.
but Steve Martin, when he's being calm, is an interesting factor too.
Bite your tongue, Gris. Martin is no Jim Carrey. He's a fine actor, and (IMHO) one of the funniest men alive.
Damn fine banjo player, too.
I think I want to see that.
I didn't say he was anywhere close to Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler, Sean. But there are times he really bugs me. Those times happen to coincide with the times he's being super-schticky. Absolutely everything I saw (blessedly little) related to the Pink Panther remake comes to mind. And I've never seen a movie I totally loved him in, but that could just be because I haven't seen that many movies. Maybe Shopgirl will be that movie for me.
Just got back from Capote.
I had heard how great Hoffman was (and he totally was) but I was blown away by the guy who played perry Smith. His name is Clifton Collins and he was INCREDIBLE. Catherine Keener played Harper Lee and she was direct and poised and beautiful in a plain way. It was a pleasure to see a film which was about ideas and themes and never talked down to the audience or overexplained.