Movies that hold up vs. those that don't

[TRF Guy]

I needed a hockey fix so I watched Slap Shot for thee upteenth time. Drop the puck already

 

[Slim Tubby]

I needed a hockey fix so I watched Slap Shot for thee upteenth time. Drop the puck already

 

[Bob_Loblaw]

Watched The Goonies over the weekend with the kids. The kids liked it, but as a grown-up...oof... Did NOT hold up for me. It's like a 13 yo wrote it one afternoon, and Spielberg filmed it over the weekend. The acting is atrocious. The teenage romance stuff is forced and out of place. The adventuring is still fun and some of the gags still land. But overall, it was a rough watch, even for an 80s movie.

Watched it recently as well and felt the same thing. The writing was awful.

 

[short ornery norwegian]

I'm a big fan of classic movies, especially Film Noir.

Watched "This Gun for Hire" last night on TCM. first starring role for Alan Ladd and first teaming of Ladd and Veronica Lake. Ladd plays a hit man who gets double-crossed by his employer and sets out to even the score. Lake plays (I'm not making this up) a singing magician who gets mixed up in the plot. Robert Preston (long before the Music Man) is Lake's boyfriend, a police detective who is hunting for Ladd. based on a novel by Graham Greene.

if you only know Alan Ladd from "Shane," this is a much darker character. still a classic Film Noir.

 

[Xerxes_]

Annual viewing of Dazed and Confused was over the weekend.

It still holds.

Thoughts:

- Mitch and crew should have taken the deal offered by the seniors and just showed up after the bell rang. Of course that would eliminate a dramatic plot point.

- The girls had it much worse what they had to go through. Ick.

- Was Wooderson a senior with Pink's class were going through the same ritual?

By coincidence I am working my way through Rob Lowe's "Literally!" podcast which I find very entertaining. I just happened to listen to the McConaughey episode yesterday that was actually from 2021. Interesting tidbits:

- It was supposed to be a 1 day/3 line role but he gelled with the cast and they kept extending his part and it turned out to be 3 weeks. It was London/Pink that suggested that it be his car they rolled in to pick up the Aerosmith tickets.

- He talked about the Moon Tower party scene in which Linklater sought ideas from the cast as to what their characters would be doing at the event. One of the actors thought he should be just out in the corner playing songs to his girlfriend. Linklater thought that was ok, but because of the lighting said it would have be more where the action was. The actor stood firm and said it should be more on the periphery.

Essentially, he wrote himself out of the movie. Didn't call out his name specifically. Had to be Pickford. Not a wise career move. McConaughey said it was a lesson he took to heart.

I believe part of the reason that the Wooderson character got bigger during the shoot was because Jason London and Shawn Andrews didn't get along at all and their characters, Pink and Pickford, were supposed to be buddies and the original plan was for the 2 of them and their girlfriends to be smoking on the 50 yard line and then go get Aerosmith tickets to close the movie.

Many Pickford and Michelle (Milla Jovovich) scenes were cut out of the movie or changed all together due to that conflict.

 

[short ornery norwegian]

on movies that hold up - went down a little rabbit hole and wound up re-watching the 3 "Sinbad" movies that were made with special effects by Ray Harryhausen.

the 1st - "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" is clearly the best
the 2nd - "the Golden Voyage of Sinbad" is OK.
the 3rd - "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger" has some moments but is not as good as the first two.

the best things about each movie are the stop-motion animation creatures created by Harryhausen. in The 7th Voyage, Sinbad has a sword-fight with a skeleton - a preview of the great skeleton fight that Harryhausen later created for "Jason and the Argonauts."

for various reasons, a different actor plays Sinbad in each movie. Kerwin Matthews in the 1st - John Phillip Law in the 2nd and Patrick Wayne (son of the Duke) in the 3rd. The 2nd movie does has Tom Baker as an evil wizard (this was before he was the 4th doctor on Doctor Who).

 

[Ogee Ogilthorpe]

I needed a hockey fix so I watched Slap Shot for thee upteenth time. Drop the puck already

I went to the Rookie Faceoff VGK-Anaheim game last Friday night, just to get a hockey fix and see some of the young prospects play some hockey. One would think there are better things to do on a Friday night? But I deemed it a great use of my time.

 

[TRF Guy]

I went to the Rookie Faceoff VGK-Anaheim game last Friday night, just to get a hockey fix and see some of the young prospects play some hockey. One would think there are better things to do on a Friday night? But I deemed it a great use of my time.

I’m a certified hockey nut. I can watch mites up to the pros. I’ve been coaching the game for 30 years now and don’t plan on quitting anytime soon