I nabbed the '35 version of Midsummer Night's Dream off TCM.
It's fun! I don't know why people rag on it. Sure it's very 1935, but that's the charm. Maybe it's Mickey Rooney as Puck, but I like him fine.
Now we're saving a vampire from vampires. I got two words for that -- Nuh and uh.
Gunn ,'Underneath'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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DavidS - May 19, 2007 8:39:24 am PDT #8617 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Kathy A - May 19, 2007 8:57:48 am PDT #8618 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Pre-pubescent Mickey Rooney could get away with the over-the-top acting style, but by the time he was in the Andy Rooney films, he had given himself over to it and it's almost painful to watch. (Seeing Boys Town, he almost ruins the film, even with Spencer Tracy to counter him.)
The most restrained I ever saw Rooney was in The Black Stallion.
DavidS - May 19, 2007 9:11:28 am PDT #8619 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The most restrained I ever saw Rooney was in The Black Stallion.
He was great in that role.
Hard to remember that he was Ava Gardner's first husband, huh?
Kathy A - May 19, 2007 9:17:10 am PDT #8620 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I have no idea what she saw in him. IIRC, he was a drunk in the '40s, as well as a real arrogant ass.
JZ - May 19, 2007 9:19:11 am PDT #8621 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.
I have no idea what she saw in him.
(sure to be a crosspost with Hec) Teh Sex. Arrogant and drinky, sure, but also apparently a great lay, and she credited him with showing her how much fun sex could be.
Kathy A - May 19, 2007 9:24:00 am PDT #8622 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The Black Stallion is a movie that's really grown on me over the years. When it first came out, I loved the cinematography, but thought the story really lacked (I was a big fan of the book, and hated the fact that they made Alec some seven years younger than he was in the book). Now, I love the interaction between Kelly Reno and Mickey Rooney, as well as the wonderful performance by Teri Garr. Reno was really a good actor--too bad he only did the two Stallion films.
ETA: Seriously?!? He was that good in the sack?
Matt the Bruins fan - May 19, 2007 10:16:44 am PDT #8623 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Eight marriages.
erikaj - May 19, 2007 10:37:23 am PDT #8624 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Guess you had to be there. Can't picture it now...
Matt the Bruins fan - May 20, 2007 2:17:41 am PDT #8625 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
That version of A Midsummer Night's Dream has one of my all-time favorite movie moments: Olivia de Havilland's Hermia going ballistic on Helena with the painted maypole speech and everyone else showing increasing fear as she got angrier and angrier.
Notice how no one was actually afraid of Anna Friel during her version of the tirade, even though a petulant toddler with a nerf bat could could snap Callista Flockhart in half?
Glamcookie - May 20, 2007 5:37:07 am PDT #8626 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Totally late to the party (and what a shame because I wish I'd seen it on the big screen), but I watched Pan's Labyrinth Friday night and just loved loved loved it. GF liked it a lot, but didn't love it, which was also interesting. What a gorgeous and terrible film. The girl who played Ofelia was incredible. I want to watch it again. I have questions about the second task, but I can't remember what they are. Will be back when I remember.