The Flick Filosopher loved Julie & Julia!
Yeah. He's my hero.
Mal ,'The Train Job'
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Kathy A - Aug 06, 2009 6:36:46 am PDT #3367 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Amy - Aug 06, 2009 6:41:33 am PDT #3368 of 30000
Because books.
Rutger Hauer sort of frightens me.
He was terrifying creepy in The Hitcher.
(And I still thought he was hot.)
Frankenbuddha - Aug 06, 2009 6:44:00 am PDT #3369 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Hell, I watched ... Flesh and Bone, I think it was called, with Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh, about a dozen times. It was really awful, but I LOVE him.
Flesh and Blood. Verhoven's first English-language movie (and also the film that severed his and Hauer's working relationship).
evil jimi - Aug 06, 2009 6:50:48 am PDT #3370 of 30000
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Flesh+Blood had weird casting. I couldn't get into it because of Tom Burlinson and Jack Thompson
Connie Neil - Aug 06, 2009 6:59:05 am PDT #3371 of 30000
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Flesh and Blood creeps me out. I tell myself that the girl is playing up to Rutger's character to survive the situation, but there's too much of "I've fallen in love with my rapist" thing.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 06, 2009 6:59:07 am PDT #3372 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Flesh+Blood had weird casting. I couldn't get into it because of Tom Burlinson and Jack Thompson
It was Bruno Kirby who kept throwing me out of the movie. That's an actor that just doesn't belong in a medieval grunge movie.
beekaytee - Aug 06, 2009 6:59:11 am PDT #3373 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Flesh+Blood
Oh my. I'd sort of blotted that one from my memory. The movie was so, very, extraordinarily bad...but I could not take my eyes off of RH. The commentary track is worth the rental for its raw, how did they keep from actually killing each other? verite.
The most naked (pun intended), and a little hateful, representation of a film experience...next to Terry Gilliam's willingness to come across as precisely as genius-unhinged as he is in documentaries and commentaries.
Ech. I wish I weren't remembering it now.
beekaytee - Aug 06, 2009 6:59:55 am PDT #3374 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
It was Bruno Kirby who kept throwing me out of the movie. That's an actor that just doesn't belong in a medieval grunge movie.
And there's that.
Amy - Aug 06, 2009 7:01:42 am PDT #3375 of 30000
Because books.
That's what it was! And it was horrifyingly awful. But ... Rutger Hauer declaring himself as St. Martin or whatever was a really fascinating train wreck.
This was years and years ago, too. I wonder if I could sit through it now.
Ash - Aug 06, 2009 7:49:28 am PDT #3376 of 30000
I had forgotten about Flesh and Blood. That was such a difficult film. The commentary sounds interesting, but there's no way I'll be watching that again.