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“I am here to chew bubblegum and kick @$$ and I am all out of bubblegum.” Cheesy as all get out, but still entertaining.John Carpenter's They live! (1988)
“I am here to chew bubblegum and kick @$$ and I am all out of bubblegum.” Cheesy as all get out, but still entertaining.John Carpenter's They live! (1988)
“I am here to chew bubblegum and kick @$$ and I am all out of bubblegum.” Cheesy as all get out, but still entertaining.
BOY!
And the old versions of the great tracks!
OLD SPA!!
ZANDVOORT!
BRANDS HATCH!
The cheesiness doesn’t bother me, it is a B or C movie and is still entertaining. It has Rowdy Roddy Piper so it would have to be cheesy and entertaining at the same time. I stop to watch it whenever I stumble across it.John Carpenter's They live! (1988)
MARRY AND REPRODUCE
But, in the german synchro it's far less cheesy!
He has the much more serious voice of Manfred Lehmann (voice of Bruce Willis).
^^^Thoreau's quip: men lead lives of quiet desperation came to mind reading this yet another
excellent review of a film never seen....features my kid fantasy girl, Carolyn Jones, exquisite rose
of my heart whose beauty strikes lightning in memory. What-a-woman.
But the busted flush bachelors out on the town bachelor party hearty strikes as too formulaic musing,
mooning, overall drag ass feel sorry for oneself Freudian slip Hollywood horseshit script job; all critique
spot on but personally nada zip zero stuff for this confirmed Irish bachelor.
Milton has definite application-the mind is its own place and can make a Heaven of Hell or a Hell of Heaven.
Or, as Holmes intoned, if a man sees life through Pancho Sanza's eyes, he sees that life.
A guy can meet the right gal at the wrong time-happened to me, and mistakes made in youth-happened
to me, and dumbass idiocy, happened to me; still the white collar insecure corporate denizen on the cusp
of bachelorhood-marriage regretful intoxication should hang one on and forget the bride.
A week long hangover with tomato soup is the way ta go.
Ms. Carolyn Jones in "The Bachelor Party." She was outstanding in her small role.
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The Truth about Cats and Dogs from 1996 with Janeane Garofalo, Uma Thurman and Ben Chaplin
This is either a terrible movie or a bad-but-okay movie as, at times, I couldn't stand it, but at other times, I found it mildly amusing. I think I liked it more when I first saw it twenty-plus years ago.
It's an awkward riff on the Cyrano de Bergerac story where Ben Chaplin mistakes ditzy model Uma Thurman for smart-but-plain-looking radio-talk-show-host Janeane Garofalo. He's attracted to Garofalo's brains and Thurman's looks - sigh.
The girls then allow the mistake to continue in a kinda-sorta plan to get Chaplin to fall in love with Garofalo, but of course, he falls in love with Thurman as that is whom he believes he's dating (plus, she's Uma freakin' Thurman). This, naturally, causes a rift between Garofalo and Thurman as, shocker, both girls now want Chaplin.
Yes, that's the story and it is as stupid as it sounds. Most movies ask you to suspend reality to some extent, but The Truth About Cats and Dogs, often, asks you to be an idiot. (I'm ignoring the syllogism about being an idiot and still watching the movie.)
Yet, darn it, just when I was fed up with The Truth About Cats and Dogs and about to shut it off, some cute scene or funny dialogue exchange would keep me watching, despite the movie being a series of cliches.
Thurman is only "dumb" because she's so beautiful she's never had to develop her mind - sigh. Garafalo is a vet because animals don't care what you look like and she's a radio host because your viewers can't see you - sigh again. Thurman's last boyfriend abused her because she has no self esteem. Garafalo lives with a cat and too many candles to avoid having a personal life that she believes will be filled with rejection.
It's ridiculous, but Garafalo, Chapman and Thurman are good in their roles and the movie has its fun parts wrapped inside all its stupidity. Thurman's sincere-but-clueless attempts to improve her mind - as when she struggles, with dictionary in hand, to read just one page of a philosophy book - is a hoot. I'd almost like to say I just hated the movie, but have to admit, irritated as I was at times, I did watch the entire nonsensical thing and chuckled occasionally while doing so.
“I am here to chew bubblegum and kick @$$ and I am all out of bubblegum.” Cheesy as all get out, but still entertaining.
I tried something I'd never done before: Indiana Jones marathon in black and white! I also watched them in chronological order instead of release order, another first for me. Indy looked amazing in black and white. Out of all of them, Raiders looked the best. I think it's the grainy film stock that sold it for me. It wouldn't be as good if it was super smooth film, or if the grain had been digitally removed for the 4K release.
Certain things about it still made it stick out as "80s movies" such as certain visual effects, clothing cuts, or hair styles (Willie's '80s frizzy hair, for example). All in all, though, it was very enjoyable and most of the movies would definitely work reimagined as being from the 1930s. I think the way Spielberg shot Raiders, and the low grain of the film stock, made it the most recognizably 1930s in style. I found that Crystal Skull worked the least well in black and white. The camera movements, film stock, lighting, etc were too "modern" to pass as a 1950s movie.