'Time Bomb'
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Hec, I was thinking a lot of "Hot Patootie" when I said that. It's the '70s idea of an '50s Elvis song, and if you have to put a '70s label to it, it's probably closer to punk than glam.
And of course, Brad and Janet in their early numbers are practically a parody of the '50s. Maybe Frankie Avalon and Connie Francis.
Gobs of movie reviews! Hot Tub Time Machine, Batman: Under the Red Hood, 13 Going on 30, Arachnophobia, The A-Team, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Predators, Mystery Men, Monsters vs. Aliens, Kissing Cousins, Noises Off..., Infernal Affairs, Goodfellas, Outsourced, The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn, Army of Darkness, and The Lost Boys.
Am I the only person who's ever thought Brad (without glasses, at least) was sexier than Rocky?
Nope.
I find Rocky about as sexy as a puppy.
I'm starting to make my way through the silent short films I dvr'd from TCM on Monday night. Almost finished with the Edison set, and there are some really interesting things there.
First, I'd never watched "The Great Train Robbery" all the way through, and it's a really interesting story to watch. Fun thing I noticed: when the tied-up railroad employee tries to call for help, the actor uses one of his "tied behind his back" hands to help himself sit up, then puts the hand back behind his back. Oops! There was a sequel (of sorts) made a few years later called "The Little Train Robbery," which remade the first film with child actors--very cute, and with much less shoooting involved.
Speaking of children's stories, there is a rather offputting adaptation of Goldilocks which features a cute stop-motion animation of Steiff teddy bears performing elaborate gymnastics, but then concludes with Goldilocks running away from Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear, finding a hunter who then proceeds to shoot both Mama Bear and Papa Bear, and then takes Baby Bear prisoner (the only reason he doesn't blow him away as well is because Goldilocks stops him) and leads him and Goldilocks back to the Bears' house where he retrieves all of the Steiff teddy bears and gives them all to Goldilocks, the greedy brat.
There's also a very surreal dream short called "Dream of a Rarebit Fiend," which has as its main actor a precursor of Mr. Creosote, who sloppily stuffs his face with rarebit and glasses of wine (spewing some of the wine back out), and then stumbles back home in a drunken haze, where he dreams he's flying/driving his bed over New York City.
There's also a very surreal dream short called "Dream of a Rarebit Fiend,"
Based on the classic comic strip by Winsor McCay. Who also did one the earliest masterpieces in comic strips, Little Nemo In Slumberland and was also a pioneer in animation (cf., Gertie the Dinosaur).
That's a Winsor McCay story? Cool! I'm very familiar with Gertie, a very sweetly drawn dinosaur.
I'm very familiar with Gertie, a very sweetly drawn dinosaur.
He hand drew every frame. Draftmanship: not what it used to be.
I wish I could have seen one of his presentations with Gertie, when he'd stand on stage, run a clip of the cartoon, and then interact with Gertie by asking her questions, have her "do tricks" on his command, and otherwise use her as a partner in his stage show.
Wow! Gertie