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#2726 Post by Thomas Dukenfield » Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:18 am

domino harvey wrote:It doesn't really fit anywhere else, but this is some CV!
Hire that man!

But seriously, he misspelled "Martin Score-scissors", one of the world's foremost music editors.

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#2727 Post by MichaelB » Thu Jan 17, 2013 6:27 am

Is American Ginger a Julianne Moore vehicle?

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#2728 Post by skuhn8 » Thu Jan 17, 2013 6:57 am

If you're making a tally of errors, don't forget 'Dr. Ridley Scott'...unless he's boasting a degree I don't know about.

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#2729 Post by PfR73 » Thu Jan 17, 2013 10:29 am

MichaelB wrote:Is American Ginger a Julianne Moore vehicle?
I would totally watch that film.

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#2730 Post by domino harvey » Thu Jan 17, 2013 10:38 am

My favorite is Enchanged, directed by Tim Burton, as despite my best efforts I have no earthly idea what that's supposed to be. Runner up: Law & Order, directed by Mike. I've looked at this thing a good half dozen times since posting and there's still so much to enjoy!

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#2731 Post by Mr Sausage » Thu Jan 17, 2013 10:44 am

domino harvey wrote:My favorite is Enchanged, directed by Tim Burton, as despite my best efforts I have no earthly idea what that's supposed to be. Runner up: Law & Order, directed by Mike. I've looked at this thing a good half dozen times since posting and there's still so much to enjoy!
Makes you wonder how Mike managed to fit in directing School for Schurnder in between directing all of Law and Order and fixing my kitchen sink.

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#2732 Post by MichaelB » Thu Jan 17, 2013 10:54 am

domino harvey wrote:My favorite is Enchanged, directed by Tim Burton, as despite my best efforts I have no earthly idea what that's supposed to be.
I'm guessing Enchanted (2007): the chronology fits, even if the Tim Burton reference doesn't.

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#2733 Post by matrixschmatrix » Thu Jan 17, 2013 1:25 pm

Hmm, I was assuming Sweeney Todd, wherein quite a lot of the cast is enchanged into meat pies.

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#2734 Post by Zot! » Thu Jan 17, 2013 1:31 pm

Whatever it is, you can be pretty sure that Johnny Depp is chewing the scenery and Danny Elfman is doing his usual doody-doody-doo. I wish I could enchange the 10 minutes I saw of that Alice in Wonderland atrocity.

Edit: I think we can add some weird disfigured version of Helena Bonham Carter to the formula at this stage.

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#2735 Post by warren oates » Thu Jan 17, 2013 1:35 pm

MichaelB wrote:
domino harvey wrote:My favorite is Enchanged, directed by Tim Burton, as despite my best efforts I have no earthly idea what that's supposed to be.
I'm guessing Enchanted (2007): the chronology fits, even if the Tim Burton reference doesn't.
No, no, no. Tim Burton is the director of Martin Scorscissorhands.

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#2736 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Jan 19, 2013 5:42 am

domino harvey wrote:My favorite is Enchanged, directed by Tim Burton, as despite my best efforts I have no earthly idea what that's supposed to be. Runner up: Law & Order, directed by Mike. I've looked at this thing a good half dozen times since posting and there's still so much to enjoy!
Presumably by "Eriz LaSalle", the writer means "Eriq La Salle"?

It does seem depressing that the important roles of hot dog worker, transit passenger or amusement park worker can be so easily lumped in with being a juror, street gosser and mental patient though!

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#2737 Post by HistoryProf » Tue Jan 22, 2013 1:23 am

perhaps he went method for his "crack addict" role for Dir. Martin Scoresissers?

Not sure why the other image is cropped, but it's missing his favorite hobby of "music cooking" too.

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#2738 Post by Steven H » Tue Jan 22, 2013 1:36 am

Little did I know all those years playing in parks I was developing an important and bankable film acting skill.

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#2739 Post by Gregory » Tue Jan 22, 2013 2:22 am

He doesn't play Skee-ball? Into the circular file.

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#2740 Post by matrixschmatrix » Sat Feb 09, 2013 12:34 am

A Netflix review:
REALLY GOOD MOVIE. ANOTHER GREAT FOR TOMMY LEE JONES. THIS MOVIE WAS A DIFFERENT TYPE OF MOVIE FOR TOMMY. HE DOES NOT DO MANY MOVIES ANYMORE. HOWEVER HE DOES HAVE A NEW MOVIE COMING OUT IN THEATERS THIS MONTH. KIND OF A LOVE STORY/COMEDY. I WILL BE SURE TOO SEE IT. I HAD NEVER EVEN HEARD OF THIS MOVIE ELECTRIC MIST. IT WAS DIFFERENT FOR HIM, BUT AS LIKE ALL OF HIS MOVIES, I DON'T EVER RECALL A BAD MOVIE THAT HE HAS EVER DONE. HOWEVER, HE NEVER GETS AWARD MOVIES EVEN THOUGH HE HAS NEVER DONE A BAD MOVIE. I HOPE TOMMY YOU KEEP MAKING MOVIES BECAUSE I AM A FAN AND WILL ALWAYS WATCH YOUR MOVIES. YOU ARE ONE OF A KIND AND THANKS FOR ALL THE GREAT MOVIES YOU HAVE MADE

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#2741 Post by Matt » Sat Feb 09, 2013 12:54 am

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#2742 Post by MichaelB » Sat Feb 09, 2013 6:41 am

matrixschmatrix wrote:HOWEVER, HE NEVER GETS AWARD MOVIES EVEN THOUGH HE HAS NEVER DONE A BAD MOVIE.
This is obviously a different Tommy Lee Jones to the one that notched up four Oscar nominations and one win. Still, it's not that unusual a name.

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#2743 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Feb 09, 2013 8:11 am

For some reason while reading that post I keep conjuring up the image of someone standing outside Tommy Lee Jones' house in the middle of the night shouting it whilst the actor frantically tries to call the police (trembling fingers slipping on the rotary dial) inside.

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#2744 Post by RossyG » Sun Feb 10, 2013 12:06 pm

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Nice to see that writing is one of his hobbies. He should try reading, as well.

Must admit, I'm still trying to work out what Music Cooking and Park Player actually mean.

He must have good connections, though, as he seems to be on first name terms with the director of Law and Order and School For Scurnder.

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#2745 Post by Kirkinson » Mon Feb 11, 2013 3:14 am

Lots of incredible gems at this One Star Netflix Reviews tumblr:
"One reviewer compared it to James Joyce’s Ulysses. Now I know why I hated this movie Ulysses was a very bad and hard book and movie to follow. If that is what “8 1/2” was trying to duplicate, it picked a poor model. It was also a black and white Italian foreign movie with yellow subtitles. Whoever heard of that? If you’re going to have yellow subtitles, make the rest of the movie in color. I haven’t seen that much of Marcello Mastroianni probably because he looks like he only does Italian movies. Please dub movies when you can because I really don’t like to read my movies."

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#2746 Post by MichaelB » Mon Feb 11, 2013 4:17 am

He's got a point about the yellow subtitles, though.

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#2747 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue Feb 12, 2013 12:50 am

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#2748 Post by McCrutchy » Wed Feb 13, 2013 1:54 am

I was looking up James Joyce's Women (1985) and wondering (again) why this has only been out of VHS, and I found this L.A. Times article on the video release from August 1986. As you can see, not only was Dennis Hunt brave enough to discuss the film (in spite of its apparent near-porn status) he also provided a proper counterbalance in his second review:
The Artful Eroticism of 'James Joyce's Women'; Care Bears Sequel Should Score With Kidvid Crowd

It's surprising that "James Joyce's Women" (MCA, $69.95), the videocassette of the film version of Fionnula Flanagan's play, hasn't been filed with the X-rated movies in video stores. One sequence is as steamy as anything you'll see in a porn movie.

Flanagan, who wrote the play and adapted it to the screen, is also the star. In the erotic episode, she portrays Molly Bloom, a character in Joyce's revolutionary novel, "Ulysses," that was labled obscene and banned from the United States for years.

With her husband asleep in bed next to her, Bloom--in various stages of undress--delivers a lusty monologue while in the throes of self-stimulation. Nothing is left to the imagination in this sequence, which critics have lauded extensively.

This is the only racy sequence in this episodic movie, in which Flanagan portrays three women who were important in Joyce's life as well as three of his fictional characters. Though obviously a serious, intelligent work, "James Joyce's Women," could easily be construed as obscene because of the Bloom monologue and banished to the X-rated sections.

So far that hasn't happened. According to MCA, no stores have refused to carry the cassette or put it with the adult videos.

Flanagan predicts that these problems won't surface. "This is art, not pornography," she insisted. "By no stretch of any one's imagination can this be classified with dirty movies. It would be a shame if people who wanted to rent it or buy it had to look for it in the porn departments. I can't believe that would ever happen."
You can almost sense that Mr. Hunt has stumbled on his private sexual goldmine here, as if he wouldn't dare head for the back room of the video store, but is nonetheless incredibly excited to find that this film will be out front with "proper" films. And this is L.A., in 1986.

And from here he jumps to:
KIDVID: "Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation," the sequel to "The Care Bears Movie," is out this week (RCA/Columbia, $79.95). Surprisingly, it's better than the original. It shows the origin of the unselfish Care Bear family from the Kingdom of Caring. This should be the most popular new kidvid rental until "Sleeping Beauty" debuts on Oct. 14.
I don't know what's funnier: Hunt's reaction, the bizarre association of the two films, or the fact that people would have actually paid $80 for The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation.

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#2749 Post by Ishmael » Wed Feb 13, 2013 12:22 pm

McCrutchy wrote:I don't know what's funnier: Hunt's reaction, the bizarre association of the two films, or the fact that people would have actually paid $80 for The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation.
Back in the days of videotape, people rarely bought movies when they were new. So studios priced everything in the $80-100 range because video stores had to buy popular movies for rental, and they had to pay whatever the studio wanted (though bigger rental chains, at least, got discounts on those prices). Anyway, after a year or so, most videotapes were repriced around $20 so people who wanted to own them could buy them at a decent price (and of course demand for rentals had died down considerably by that point anyway).

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#2750 Post by rspaight » Wed Feb 13, 2013 2:03 pm

Ishmael wrote:
McCrutchy wrote:I don't know what's funnier: Hunt's reaction, the bizarre association of the two films, or the fact that people would have actually paid $80 for The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation.
Back in the days of videotape, people rarely bought movies when they were new. So studios priced everything in the $80-100 range because video stores had to buy popular movies for rental, and they had to pay whatever the studio wanted (though bigger rental chains, at least, got discounts on those prices). Anyway, after a year or so, most videotapes were repriced around $20 so people who wanted to own them could buy them at a decent price (and of course demand for rentals had died down considerably by that point anyway).
The possibility of new release DVDs being "priced for rental" was a common boogeyman back in the format's early days.

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