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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.
I've watched this movie both high and sobre, and it makes about as much sense to me in either scenario. As a Bowie fan, I have always wanted to love this movie more than I do, but I find it to be quite a mentally draining experience.
If I recall, in the novel her isolation is better detailed. She has a handful of friends - the ones at the dinner party - plus a brother, but between being out for the evening, out of town or living far away, there is no one within reaching distance who can help her. Of course, it being set in the mid-60s, there's a lot of unanswered collect calls and operators and messaging services involved.
In addition to this, as other posters have said, she is focused on having the baby delivered healthily in a hospital, and all other circumstances considered, Dr Hill is the most accessible source of aid.
She truly was stunning. It is sad that her looks faded rather quickly. I suppose her heavy smoking didn't help that, but what was so charmingly tomboyish on her at 20 looked full-on masculine by the time she was 30-odd.
Hahahahaha! Like it!
They are all amazing, but my few favourites include:
Malory: (to Ray) Oh, put another man's penis in it!
Barry: (in response to Archer asking him a question) Because, you giant flapping anus...
Those postscripts were on all the VHS copies of this movie I've ever owned, but when I watched it on DVD last night, I noticed they were gone. The film certainly didn't seem any less funny because of it.
He really was. Amusing fact: the actor's name is Gene Jones.
Also, how much must that cost? I never quite understood why you would have kids, only to ship them off to boarding school, sleepaway camp etc. Using The Addams Family Values for reference (as I have no further info to base my assumptions on), the Glicker parents say they spent 'twenty grand' on summer camp!!!! I know the US and UK are very different, but if you were willing to spend that much money on your kid over here, you may as well put it down as a deposit for a house. Twenty grand to get rid of your kid? Talk about more money than sense.
LOL! Good call.
Absolutely, I found the voice uncanny! As I watched COTC I felt like I knew that voice, and it suddenly struck me that it was Joffrey!