Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
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I've already gone on record here on professing my Great Race love. More than once, I think. I know I definitely mentioned it when Tony Curtis passed away.
It's such a weirdly long movie.
I don't know if it got sucked into "bigger, more Spectacular, BIGGER" trend of it's day, or if it was meant to be a parody of that. It certainly works as one if you look at it that way.
I am such a Jack Lemmon fan, for all his fabulous roles in fabulous movies. But goodness I love Prince Frederick to itty bitty pieces. Helpless adoration, really.
But goodness I love Prince Frederick to itty bitty pieces. Helpless adoration, really.
I love that shot of him completely soused with all his little dogs all over him.
Hey, it's on Netflix instant. I'm watching it now for the first time. It's an Overture movie!
Aww Tony Curtis is so cute I can hardly stand it. And in bondage!
I watched Trapeze last weekend. Burt Lancaster and Curtis in the prime of their beefcake days! But, actually, the movie was so awful about women & their roles in life that it was hard work to enjoy.
I see where Marion Zimmer Bradley got the inspiration for The Catch Trap, though. Didn't realize it was practically a fanfic rewrite of the movie....
I can only see RZ and think of her as a "sweaty, puffy coke whore" courtesy of Kathy Griffin.
We saw Tangled this weekend. It was OK. I kind of wish they hadn't gone the "blonde hair is better than brown hair" route, but there you are.
Unlike The Princess and the Frog, I think all the scenes from other Disney movies were supposed to be recognized as loving homage, and a farewell to the "princess movie." (Rather than the cheap-out recycled animation from TPATF). And there may have been a Blade Runner reference in it.
I reeeally wanted to love Trapeze. But I'm with Theo. Actually I think it would have been a better movie with no women in it at all, because at least then one wouldn't be cringing so much and often and could just enjoy the, um, plot.
Guess the movie from one letter of the poster: [link]
I've got 16 so far...which is better than I thought I was doing.