MORE ON FILM: Underseen

[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

I can honestly say I have seen it about 50 times, and everytime I watch it, I find another part that is funny.

I have not seen that movie enough times yet, probably only 3-4 times.
I'd like to see it many times for the reason you mentioned. i'd start mentioning lines or situations but its pointless because there are hundreds and they're all funny.

[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by Sightseek

I absolutely love Art and historical films so I couldn't wait to see this movie...which probably made me think it was a lot better than it was.

Anyone see Memoirs of a Geisha? Did you like it or hate it?

I like good movies whether its artsy/historical types or smashem up action movies. Which is why I took a chance on the Pearl Earring movie. It wasn't bad. I probably need to see it a few more times. One thing i think they did well is to capture the dreariness of the time.

Have not been able to catch Memoirs of a Geisha yet. I have been looking for it on cable. Looks like it could be a compelling story.

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

I like good movies whether its artsy/historical types or smashem up action movies. Which is why I took a chance on the Pearl Earring movie. It wasn't bad. I probably need to see it a few more times. One thing i think they did well is to capture the dreariness of the time.

Have not been able to catch Memoirs of a Geisha yet. I have been looking for it on cable. Looks like it could be a compelling story.

I read the book, which was right on target from what I learned in Asian History in college of their lives.

My favorite quote from the book, which immediately made me think of horse racing is; "Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of"

[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

Yeah i probably sound like a psycho or something, but I do love that movie. Some of my favorite scenes are the pool party when Dirk first comes to Jack's house. The exchanges between Dirk and Reid Rothchild are classic. I also love the stuff when they are making music. On the DVD there are scenes that were cut out, with Rothchild dancing, they are so funny.

oh god yes! when they went to cut their album? hysterical.

[Sightseek]

PRINCESS BRIDE!! LOVE that movie!

[blackthroatedwind]

Boogie Nights is great. The exchanges at the pool party between John C Reilly and Mark Wahlberg are classic.

Philip Seymour Hoffman's character, Scotty, is my favorite. He's hilarious.

[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Boogie Nights is great. The exchanges at the pool party between John C Reilly and Mark Wahlberg are classic.

Philip Seymour Hoffman's character, Scotty, is my favorite. He's hilarious.

Okay I can't resist one reference to one of my favorite lines in the movie.
How about when John C Reilly and Mark Wahlberg are at the studio trying to get the recording tapes without paying for them.

the producer gets fed up and says "Thats not an MP, thats a YP, your problem"

To which Reed Rothschild (John C Reilly) responds "Okay, now you're talking above my head. I don't know all of this industry jargon, MP, YP. All I know is that I can't get a record contract, we cannot get a record contract unless we take those tapes to the record company. And granted, the tapes themselves are a uh um oh, you own them, all right, but the magic that is on those tapes. That f**king heart and soul that we put onto those tapes, that is ours and you don't own that. Now I need to take that magic and get it over the record company. And they're waiting for us, we were supposed to be there a half hour ago. We look like a$$holes, man. "

[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

I'm laughing thinking of that scene, so funny. It really is a great movie. John C. Reilly played the hell out of that part. I love the pool party when Dirk does a jackknife, and after asks Reed how he did. "Not bad, lemme show you what you did wrong," he gets on the diving board, and sticks up his right hand, "full flip." He then does a backflop, and in the water you see him grimmacing.

i like their action movie screen names, Brock Landers and Chest Rockwell.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by Dixie Porter

Jim Toback asked me to look at the original script before he handed it in. I thought it was bad. Anyway we played poker many times together. The guy was the biggest degenerate gambler I have ever known. He did have a pretty good opinion though. (Baseball was about his best thing. Had a reasonably good opinion)

In the scene at the crap table three of NY's biggest bookmakers have cameos. Jim was trying to get a "little juice" with them.

You're the greatest Dix!

Let me guess....your nickname was Axel?

[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by Dixie Porter

Jim Toback asked me to look at the original script before he handed it in. I thought it was bad. Anyway we played poker many times together. The guy was the biggest degenerate gambler I have ever known. He did have a pretty good opinion though. (Baseball was about his best thing. Had a reasonably good opinion)

In the scene at the crap table three of NY's biggest bookmakers have cameos. Jim was trying to get a "little juice" with them.

the man, the myth, the legend.

i'm seeing a decent screenplay or two just from your memoirs. no?

[SentToStud]

Just saw this for the first time in a few years and it's still a great, highly underseen movie.

Late 1950's Kazan film starring Andy Griffith as Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes," a singing hobo who is "discovered" and rises meteorically to great fame and fortune as he becomes an icon during the early days of Television. But fortunes change and Lonesome's fall is as dramatic as his rise.

Also with PAtricia Neal, Walter Matthau, Tony Franciosa and Lee Remick.

This is one of those films that is critically acclaimed, yet was not popular at the box office. People just did not like seeing Andy Griffith playing a sociopath and also did not like a satirical movie about the power of early television.

[GenuineRisk]

Hooray for other people who liked "Punch Drunk Love!" I really liked that film. More so, I think, than a fellow in the theater when I saw it who obviously expected it to be a typical Adam Sandlers film. Listening to him at first laugh hysterically every time Sandlers opened his mouth, and then gradually fade out about halfway through the movie was almost as entertaining as the film.

And STS, props for "The Apartment!" One of my all-time favorite films.

I also really, really liked "Very Bad Things," which most of the country hated.

And, of course, "Ed Wood." To quote Martin Landau, the six people who saw it in the theater really liked it. Thank goodness for video.

Oh! And "Living in Oblivion!" Love that movie!

[blackthroatedwind]

" Living in Oblivion " is an all-time great. I love that movie.

I didn't realize people didn't like " Very Bad Things ". I thought it was terrfic. It's Steven Frears....isn't it?

Larry Clark (dir. of Bully & Kids)
"Wassup Rockers" was a very tender story
of poor latino kids who skateboard in LA
excellent!

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

" Living in Oblivion " is an all-time great. I love that movie.

I didn't realize people didn't like " Very Bad Things ". I thought it was terrfic. It's Steven Frears....isn't it?

I remember I went to see "Smoke" and before the movie they ran a preview for "Living in Oblivion" and I laughed so hard I came back two days later to see it. Much better than "Smoke," though "Smoke" wasn't awful.

"Very Bad Things" got some very bad reviews, and two of my friends with whom I saw it, who are quite hip in all things entertainment, thought it was the worst movie they'd ever seen. Peter Berg directed it; Frears directed "Dirty Pretty Things."

(I'm not a movie savant; I had to google that.)

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

I remember I went to see "Smoke" and before the movie they ran a preview for "Living in Oblivion" and I laughed so hard I came back two days later to see it. Much better than "Smoke," though "Smoke" wasn't awful.

"Very Bad Things" got some very bad reviews, and two of my friends with whom I saw it, who are quite hip in all things entertainment, thought it was the worst movie they'd ever seen. Peter Berg directed it; Frears directed "Dirty Pretty Things."

(I'm not a movie savant; I had to google that.)

I liked " Dirty Pretty Things "....right and hated the movie you mentioned. I thought it was poor Bret Easton Ellis inspired crap. Whatever.

I liked " Smoke " quite a bit. But, I also love Paul Auster's books and Tom Waits music.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

I liked " Dirty Pretty Things "....right and hated the movie you mentioned. I thought it was poor Bret Easton Ellis inspired crap. Whatever.

I liked " Smoke " quite a bit. But, I also love Paul Auster's books and Tom Waits music.

I haven't seen "Dirty Pretty Things" but I like Audrey Tatou (probably why I've avoided "The Da Vinci Code"-- I don't want to change my opinion). I'll have to rent "DPT."

"Very Bad Things" made me laugh hysterically because every time I thought they couldn't top what just happened, they topped it. I also thought "Happiness" was really funny in a completely offensive way.

I hadn't even thought about a Bret Easton Ellis comparison, but I could see where one might make that (though BEE not so funny). I was so-so on the movie from "American Psycho" but as soon as it was over I turned to my husband and said, "That's the guy who should play Batman when they redo the franchise." Once again, a fearsome display of my trivially useless psychic powers...

[Seattleallstar]

Originally Posted by Dixie Porter

Jim Toback asked me to look at the original script before he handed it in. I thought it was bad. Anyway we played poker many times together. The guy was the biggest degenerate gambler I have ever known. He did have a pretty good opinion though. (Baseball was about his best thing. Had a reasonably good opinion)

In the scene at the crap table three of NY's biggest bookmakers have cameos. Jim was trying to get a "little juice" with them.

sometimes I feel liek this guy, sans the desperation and a hott girl in the form of a young Lauren Hutton