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He should play Kim Fowley How perfect was Leslie Mann? Cameron Diaz at her best Fraulein Can we take a minute to appreciate '80s courtesy? View all posts >


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I know, right? Or 'Introducing Whoopi Goldberg' in The Color Purple. I see that. Before coming to this post, I decided to look up the guy who played Beni. I couldn't believe that he was white, and most likely - given his parents names of O'Connor and Connelly - of pure Irish descent. My mind is a little blown! It seems to me that the sinister elements of this movie only really disturbed me as an adult. I guess as a kid used to '90s movies, I was accustomed to seeing kids get kidnapped by malevolent forces and people dying in movies. Although the death of Ruffio still strikes me as an unconventional choice for such a movie. But in summary, I love Hook, and always have, and really don't understand people's criticisms of it. Sure, by Spielberg standards, it's no Jaws or Schindler's List, but it was never meant to be. It is a fun family movie with a couple of really brilliant performances - namely by Hoffman and Hoskins. -Either I still don't understand the 'Don't let your arms get tired' joke or it's just not a funny joke. - I did notice the Pan Am as a kid, but it wasn't until years later I realised it was a real airline :P - Although I understood Jack's picture, I only saw the real dark humour in it as an adult - I never noticed the Great Ormond Street thing, but know that Barrie left the rights of the story to them, and still consider that to be one of the most wonderful things I ever heard of a famous person doing. What I didn't realise as a kid was that the Boo Box pirate was played by Glenn Close! I would be far more general in my own approach. I love musicals but I feel that in the majority of shows, the best shows are clustered in the first act, and the second is a kind of tag-along. In the case of The Sound of Music, I would say that the songs of Act I are my favourite, and that in my taste, the songs take a nosedive in Act II. They were so great, every time I see the show live, I feel put out that the chorus girls are not some Supremes-style homage to the '60s. My Pop was about 9 when this movie came out, and he remembers his old man being in a rage coming back from this movie, saying how disgusting it was and how no son of his would ever see such a vulgar picture! So, yeah, I reckon it was fairly hard-hitting back in those days. Oh my God, he was divine! Wouldn't it just? I remember seeing Jim Henson say on a Labyrinth featurette that he had considered "Michael jackson, Sting, DAVID BOWIE!" having decided that Jareth would be played by a rock star. Although Michael had a "certain naive charm" that has made me think of him as sexy for many years, his level of sexy was different to Bowie's. It's like I would have seduced Michael, but David would have seduced me, and that's what made David perfect for the role. View all replies >