General Movie Thread

[Martin]

Signs that you're getting too old for this shit:



You're shooting a low-budget drama in Malmö, Sweden.

[masterofsparks]

Red Bears is on TCM this week, with no commercial interruption. 

Is that the Bad New Bears sequel set in Communist Russia? The one where Walter Matthau wakes up from an epic bender in the middle of the USSR with no knowledge of how he got there and promptly encounters a group of lovable urchins who just want to play little-league baseball but can't for fear of retribution from the KGB? SPOILER ALERT! By the movie's end, they two have helped each other - Matthau has helped the kids organize a team and they've pointed him to the only bar in Moscow where you can get Budweiser and pickled pigs' feet.

[JonFromMaplewood]

Rewatched "Road To Wellville" recently. I think that is a grossly underrated comedy. 

Or perhaps it is a mediocre comedy about a naturally hilarious true topic?  John Harvey Kellogg was a loon.

[Bryan]

Rewatched "Road To Wellville" recently. I think that is a grossly underrated comedy. 

Or perhaps it is a mediocre comedy about a naturally hilarious true topic?  John Harvey Kellogg was a loon.

That's good to hear. I'd always avoided it, but I enjoyed the book - mostly for the naturally hilarious subject matter (I always wanted to like T.C. Boyle more than I actually liked him) - and have always been curious about it.

[hugman]

Just watched the Townes Van Zandt doc "Be Here To Love Me."

I am sitting here with misty eyes.  Beautiful.

Hey crybaby, which song did they use during the hat scene again?

[buffcoat]

Red Bears is on TCM this week, with no commercial interruption. 

Is that the Bad New Bears sequel set in Communist Russia? The one where Walter Matthau wakes up from an epic bender in the middle of the USSR with no knowledge of how he got there and promptly encounters a group of lovable urchins who just want to play little-league baseball but can't for fear of retribution from the KGB? SPOILER ALERT! By the movie's end, they two have helped each other - Matthau has helped the kids organize a team and they've pointed him to the only bar in Moscow where you can get Budweiser and pickled pigs' feet.

I left the typo to see if any FOT would pick it up and run with it. I needn't had expended any energy worrying that wouldn't happen.

[JonFromMaplewood]

Just watched the Townes Van Zandt doc "Be Here To Love Me."

I am sitting here with misty eyes.  Beautiful.

Hey crybaby, which song did they use during the hat scene again?

I think it was called "Hugman's Insecurity Blues."

[JonFromMaplewood]

Rewatched "Road To Wellville" recently. I think that is a grossly underrated comedy. 

Or perhaps it is a mediocre comedy about a naturally hilarious true topic?  John Harvey Kellogg was a loon.

That's good to hear. I'd always avoided it, but I enjoyed the book - mostly for the naturally hilarious subject matter (I always wanted to like T.C. Boyle more than I actually liked him) - and have always been curious about it.

Bryan,

I have not read T.C. Boyle's book. If I had, I may have had a very different opinion of the film. In other words, take my review with a major grain of salt.

Also take into account that I thoroughly enjoyed "Paul Blart: Mall Cop."

[hugman]

Just watched the Townes Van Zandt doc "Be Here To Love Me."

I am sitting here with misty eyes.  Beautiful.

Hey crybaby, which song did they use during the hat scene again?

I think it was called "Hugman's Insecurity Blues."

aw, i was just funnin', Jon. It really has been eating at me trying to remember what song they used in that part, though. Do you remember? When he was puttin' on all nem hats?

[JonFromMaplewood]

Just watched the Townes Van Zandt doc "Be Here To Love Me."

I am sitting here with misty eyes.  Beautiful.

Hey crybaby, which song did they use during the hat scene again?

I think it was called "Hugman's Insecurity Blues."

aw, i was just funnin', Jon. It really has been eating at me trying to remember what song they used in that part, though. Do you remember? When he was puttin' on all nem hats?

Just funnin' back.  I can't recall what song it was and i cannot find the clip on YouTube (tried searching "townes van zandt hats" and "Be here to love me end credits").

[Matt]

Barnes & Noble has a "Buy 2, Get 1 Free" DVD sale going on right now. I got three Criterion DVDs for a little over sixty bucks - THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE, EMPIRE OF PASSION and CLASSE TOUS RISQUES.

Does this belong in the Criterion thread? I can't tell anymore.

[hugman]

Just watched the Townes Van Zandt doc "Be Here To Love Me."

I am sitting here with misty eyes.  Beautiful.

Hey crybaby, which song did they use during the hat scene again?

I think it was called "Hugman's Insecurity Blues."

aw, i was just funnin', Jon. It really has been eating at me trying to remember what song they used in that part, though. Do you remember? When he was puttin' on all nem hats?

Just funnin' back.  I can't recall what song it was and i cannot find the clip on YouTube (tried searching "townes van zandt hats" and "Be here to love me end credits").

Is it "You Are Not Needed Now"? That would fit. Guy Clark is awesome in that movie, by the way.  Per usual.

[Jack from Arkansas]

I am so mad the Wheelers in Revolutionary Road didn't just take a vacation to France.

[hugman]

I am so mad the Wheelers in Revolutionary Road didn't just take a vacation to France.

I thought that movie was so good (except for the ending which wasn't terrible but was so predictable. The very last scene is hilarious in how depressing it is, though) that I'm actually probably going to see Away We Go.

[Martin]

Russian poster for Little Hercules in 3D, starring Judd Nelson, Elliot Gould, Robin Givens, Richard "Little Hercules" Sandrak, and Hulk Hogan as Zeus: