I'm urging JZ to go join you on Thursday as she hasn't seen it on the screen in 3-D yet.
Not that I need a whole lot of persuading.
IOMovieN, Matilda and I are watching
Lady and the Tramp
again and marveling again (okay, the marveling is mostly me) at the nuanced and witty and endlessly pleasurable performance of Larry Roberts. I still can't believe this is his only big-screen performance -- he spent almost all his life until this movie in LA (tons of stage experience, a tiny bit of television, and many many tours with the USO, but no other movies at all), and then back to Ohio where he was born.
Not that I need a whole lot of persuading.
Do eeet!
That way I can return my unwatched Netflix version and get new Oscar blitz titles.
watching Terminator: Salvation. Man, I'd forgotten all the myriad ways I hated that movie, but I will not apologize for rewinding all of the scenes with Marcus. I actually love that I read so much hate for Sam Worthington, because that's just more for me! (Avatar doesn't do it, because his character only really becomes alive/gets a semblance of a personality when he's CGI).
Oh god, speaking of CGI, I am currently speeding past the Guvanator scene.
JZ, Larry Roberts' mother was mr. flea's next door neighbor when he was growing up in Cleveland. She was very proud of him and devastated by his death (I think he was her only child). She and mr. flea were actually surprisingly close for a women in her 80s and an unrelated teenage boy.
IOMovieN, Matilda and I are watching Lady and the Tramp again and marveling again (okay, the marveling is mostly me) at the nuanced and witty and endlessly pleasurable performance of Larry Roberts.
You know, it never ocurred to me that the voice actor wasn't someone famous, but I never bothered to check who it was. It was just such an instantly iconic voice.
The worst movies ever, from a poll in Empire magazine: [link]
The top 10 bad movies: 1. Batman and Robin; 2. Battlefield Earth; 3. The Love Guru; 4. Raise The Titanic; 5. Epic Movie; 6. Heaven's Gate; 7. Sex Lives Of The Potato Men; 8. The Happening; 9. Highlander II: The Quickening; 10. The Room.
Awww, I kinda' liked
Sex Lives Of The Potato Men.
OK, I've never even heard of it....
Larry Roberts' mother was mr. flea's next door neighbor when he was growing up in Cleveland. She was very proud of him and devastated by his death (I think he was her only child). She and mr. flea were actually surprisingly close for a women in her 80s and an unrelated teenage boy.
Oh, that's wonderful! And sad. And astonishing.
Hec and I were trying to piece together the gaps in his life story...all those years of great success onstage and all those tours with the USO, but completely invisible to the larger public because none of it was on film. Until that one spectacular role, and then he went back to Cleveland almost immediately, and never returned. Whatever the reason, I'm glad he was going back to a proud, loving mother.
I linked to this on LJ already, but for those who haven't come across yet: [link] Manohla Dargis from New York Times talks to Jezebel about difficulties women face in Hollywood, while hilariously dropping F-bombs all over the place. Heee. I like pissed-off Dargis quite a bit.
