The Movie Thread

[RGMike]

Just watched Butch Cassidy, which I hadn't seen in many years. 2 points of interest: Casey Kasem had told a story some weeks ago about how BJ Thomas didn't really like "Raindrops Keep Falling..." and was sick the day he recorded the track for the film -- cold, sore throat -- and his vocal indeed sounds very rough, which I didn't remember at all.  And in the scene where they're at the brothel, the hooker with long blonde hair that Butch hooks up with was none other than a young Cloris Leachman!

[RGMike]

OMGWTF: totally unexpected, but Antichrist, the VERY controversial  Lars von Trier film from last year (in which Charlotte Gainsbourg cuts off Willem Dafoe's, er, little Willem) is showing on IFC in 5 minutes.

meant to mention that when I watched this the other nite, I kept noticing that Charlotte Gainsbourg looks a lot like Tim Lincecum



She'd also make a great Patti Smith, if someone wants to do a biopic.

[princessofcairo]

She'd also make a great Patti Smith, if someone wants to do a biopic.

And she sings, too.

[RGMike]

OMGWTF: totally unexpected, but Antichrist, the VERY controversial  Lars von Trier film from last year (in which Charlotte Gainsbourg cuts off Willem Dafoe's, er, little Willem) is showing on IFC in 5 minutes.

meant to mention that when I watched this the other nite, I kept noticing that Charlotte Gainsbourg looks a lot like Tim Lincecum



She'd also make a great Patti Smith, if someone wants to do a biopic.

Holy Flaming Mutha -- TANC-of-the-Month, unless Tinka Cat mentioned the above post to the Chron's Leah Garchik:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/08/DDUF1DONOE.DTL

[Tinka Cat]

OMGWTF: totally unexpected, but Antichrist, the VERY controversial  Lars von Trier film from last year (in which Charlotte Gainsbourg cuts off Willem Dafoe's, er, little Willem) is showing on IFC in 5 minutes.

meant to mention that when I watched this the other nite, I kept noticing that Charlotte Gainsbourg looks a lot like Tim Lincecum

She'd also make a great Patti Smith, if someone wants to do a biopic.

Holy Flaming Mutha -- TANC-of-the-Month, unless Tinka Cat mentioned the above post to the Chron's Leah Garchik:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/08/DDUF1DONOE.DTL

No, I didn't mention it to her, she must have come up  that herself-- for reals.   She would have sourced it properly if she heard it from somewhere else.

[RGMike]

OMGWTF: totally unexpected, but Antichrist, the VERY controversial  Lars von Trier film from last year (in which Charlotte Gainsbourg cuts off Willem Dafoe's, er, little Willem) is showing on IFC in 5 minutes.

meant to mention that when I watched this the other nite, I kept noticing that Charlotte Gainsbourg looks a lot like Tim Lincecum

She'd also make a great Patti Smith, if someone wants to do a biopic.

Holy Flaming Mutha -- TANC-of-the-Month, unless Tinka Cat mentioned the above post to the Chron's Leah Garchik:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/08/DDUF1DONOE.DTL

No, I didn't mention it to her, she must have come up  that herself-- for reals.   She would have sourced it properly if she heard it from somewhere else.

Wow. I'm thinking maybe she watched the same movie (Antichrist) that I did last week. Gainsbourg really looks like Timmy L in that flick; but I had to hunt for a pic in which the resemblance is strong because when she's glammed up (make-up, hair and all) it's less apparent.

[RGMike]

I've no desire to the the A-Team movie (and the reviews aren't helping either) but I just now noticed that they've got the guy from District 9 (Sharlto Copley) playing Murdock -- Good for him gettin' a big paycheck.

Oh and of course Liam Neeson plays George Peppard, er, Hannibal, and Bradley Cooper is Face (tho' from the trailer it looks like they shoulda re-named his character Chest ).

[ggould]

Just saw "Get Him to the Greek."  We laughed a great deal.  It was too crude for many old fogeys our age, or so we think.  I'm sure most of you young'uns will dig it!

[SFGuy]

I've no desire to the the A-Team movie (and the reviews aren't helping either) but I just now noticed that they've got the guy from District 9 (Sharlto Copley) playing Murdock -- Good for him gettin' a big paycheck.

Oh and of course Liam Neeson plays George Peppard, er, Hannibal, and Bradley Cooper is Face (tho' from the trailer it looks like they shoulda re-named his character Chest ).

Mick LaSalle liked it. He loved "Get Him to the Greek".

[Gazoo]

It was originally written in 1961 as a Tony Curtis vehicle: "Get Him a Greek."

[RGMike]

I've no desire to the the A-Team movie (and the reviews aren't helping either) but I just now noticed that they've got the guy from District 9 (Sharlto Copley) playing Murdock -- Good for him gettin' a big paycheck.

Oh and of course Liam Neeson plays George Peppard, er, Hannibal, and Bradley Cooper is Face (tho' from the trailer it looks like they shoulda re-named his character Chest ).

Mick LaSalle liked it. He loved "Get Him to the Greek".

I saw GHTTG and thought it was pretty funny, if at the lesser end of the Judd Apatow oeuvre.

[RGMike]

It's SF nite on Turner Classic Movies:

5:00 PM San Francisco (1936) 
7:00 PM Flower Drum Song (1961) 
9:30 PM Bullitt (1968) 
11:30 PM Foul Play (1978) 

[RGMike]

Saw a good little flick last nite, Solitary Man. Michael Douglas in Wonder Boys-ish mode, as a washed-up car dealer trying to get his life together.  Early in the film, Douglas' character accompanies his girlfriend's daughter on a weekend trip to Boston to visit his alma mater -- she's trying to get accepted there and he knows the dean. As they strolled around the campus of the fictional "Charles College" I suddenly realized it was *my* alma mater, Fordham U!  In da Bronx, far from Beantown.

[RGMike]

OMGWTF-of-the-Day: Dunno if you remember the actor Stephen Geoffreys, of '80s flicks like Heaven Help Us, 976-EVIL and the immortal Fright Night (which is being remade by Disney!).



turns out his career stalled after he turned down the Fright Night sequel and he ended up doing gay porn!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Geoffreys

[Wayback]

Vatican endorses "Blues Brothers" movie:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100617/people_nm/us_bluesbrothers_1
Why now?  I know they were on a mission from God, to get the band back together to raise funds for an orphanage, and there's that amazing gospel service segment, and they battle neo-Nazis and destroy a shopping mall, but why now?