The Movie Thread

[RGMike]

And for those watching the Oscars tonite... I'll be doing my snarky thang on FB. (No more double-posting.) Join me -- and don't be afraid to be rude! Hey, it's working for Charlie Sheen...

[RGMike]

Hilarious post from a movie blog, re: the upcoming Pixar sequel to Cars:

I've never seen a frame of any Pixar movie, but the main thing I remember about CARS is that somehow it gave a second lease on life to that idiotic LIFE IS A HIGHWAY song by Tom Cochrane that was a massive unavoidable radio hit my first year of college. One of those one-hit wonders that's everywhere for six months, never to be heard from again. Then lo and behold, 14 years later with it blissfully out of mind for the entire planet, it's back in every TV spot for CARS, and I couldn't BELIEVE someone would subject us to that hideous racket again. Then I find out it wasn't even the original, but a 100% soundalike cover that became a MASSIVE hit (Rascal Flatts) anew, and has a whole generation of kids thinking it was an original.

So fingers crossed that Big and Rich can do a pitch-perfect cover of White Town's "Your Woman" or Shawn Mullins' "Rockabye" for the sequel.

[RGMike]

Nice piece in today's Chron, an interview with Phil Ochs' daughter. The docu about him plays at the Balboa starting next Friday (3/18).

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/11/MVDP1I6FA5.DTL

[RGMike]

a docu about the heyday of the legendary club The Troubador in LA -- currently playing in NYC but will turn up on PBS in March:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/movies/02troub.html?ref=movies

and lo, this docu is showing on KQED at this very moment.

[urth]

a docu about the heyday of the legendary club The Troubador in LA -- currently playing in NYC but will turn up on PBS in March:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/movies/02troub.html?ref=movies

and lo, this docu is showing on KQED at this very moment.

Crap. OPB showed this last week. Missed it, dammit.

[RGMike]

a docu about the heyday of the legendary club The Troubador in LA -- currently playing in NYC but will turn up on PBS in March:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/movies/02troub.html?ref=movies

and lo, this docu is showing on KQED at this very moment.

Crap. OPB showed this last week. Missed it, dammit.

It's pledge-drive season -- it'll be rerun ad infinitum.

[ggould]

Martha and I attended a free screening (facebook link) of The Music Never Stopped tonight. It was at times funny, tear-inducing, and quite touching.  I'm sure some of you would enjoy it, but I would hesitate to recommend it to the, er how you say, non-aligned among us.  You never know.  Part of the whole thing is that we all have our own personal memories connected to specific music.  I wonder how my kids would react.

IMDB link

[RGMike]

Martha and I attended a free screening (facebook link) of The Music Never Stopped tonight. It was at times funny, tear-inducing, and quite touching.  I'm sure some of you would enjoy it, but I would hesitate to recommend it to the, er how you say, non-aligned among us.  You never know.  Part of the whole thing is that we all have our own personal memories connected to specific music.  I wonder how my kids would react.

and don't forget the Phil Ochs docu at the Balboa starting tomorrow.

[Alicat]

Martha and I attended a free screening (facebook link) of The Music Never Stopped tonight. It was at times funny, tear-inducing, and quite touching.  I'm sure some of you would enjoy it, but I would hesitate to recommend it to the, er how you say, non-aligned among us.  You never know.  Part of the whole thing is that we all have our own personal memories connected to specific music.  I wonder how my kids would react.

IMDB link

OK. You said tear inducing. I welled up watching the preview. Memory loss is troubling me now. Not me yet but MIL with severe Alz/dementia and my Dad after having a brain tumor removed in December just had an episode of seizures two days ago and I took him home from the hospital yesterday. He is not back to his mentally sharp self yet. Troubling. I am seeing my Dad slip away slowly.

[ggould]

Martha and I attended a free screening (facebook link) of The Music Never Stopped tonight. It was at times funny, tear-inducing, and quite touching.  I'm sure some of you would enjoy it, but I would hesitate to recommend it to the, er how you say, non-aligned among us.  You never know.  Part of the whole thing is that we all have our own personal memories connected to specific music.  I wonder how my kids would react.

and don't forget the Phil Ochs docu at the Balboa starting tomorrow.

yes, I need to carve out some time for that too.

[ggould]

Martha and I attended a free screening (facebook link) of The Music Never Stopped tonight. It was at times funny, tear-inducing, and quite touching.  I'm sure some of you would enjoy it, but I would hesitate to recommend it to the, er how you say, non-aligned among us.  You never know.  Part of the whole thing is that we all have our own personal memories connected to specific music.  I wonder how my kids would react.

IMDB link

OK. You said tear inducing. I welled up watching the preview. Memory loss is troubling me now. Not me yet but MIL with severe Alz/dementia and my Dad after having a brain tumor removed in December just had an episode of seizures two days ago and I took him home from the hospital yesterday. He is not back to his mentally sharp self yet. Troubling. I am seeing my Dad slip away slowly.

Well, it continues to resonate for me a day after seeing it, and I'm torn between identifying with the father and the son.  Certainly, now that I'm 60, I relate to much of what the father character goes through, but at the same time, I'm the same age (born around the same time) as the son.  I am the deadhead, and my dad wasn't.

[Tinka Cat]

When movies ruin great songs

From "Forrest Gump" to "Garden State," the films (and one TV show) that mutilate the music we love

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/film_salon/2011/03/18/songs_ruined_by_movies/slideshow.html

[RGMike]

Bad reviews are so much more fun to read than raves. Case in point: AO Scott's pan of Sucker Punch. (No surprise, it looks godawful to me)

"You could go to see Sucker Punch this weekend — a lot of people probably will, and a few may even admit as much back at the office on Monday — or you could try to make it yourself, which might be more fun, though not necessarily cheaper. Here’s what you will need: a bunch of video-game platforms; DVDs of Shutter Island, Kill Bill, Burlesque and Shrek; some back issues of Maxim; a large bag of crystal meth; and around $100 million. Your imagination will take care of the rest."

[RGMike]

I don't see many trailers for comedies these days that actually make me want to see the movie, but this looks pretty funny to me. Damn, that Julianne Moore cheats in every movie lately!  Bonus: it's directed by the guys who did I Love You Phillip Morris, one of my favorite underseen flicks of the past year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiCibwSV1ts

[urth]

I don't see many trailers for comedies these days that actually make me want to see the movie, but this looks pretty funny to me. Damn, that Julianne Moore cheats in every movie lately!  Bonus: it's directed by the guys who did I Love You Phillip Morris, one of my favorite underseen flicks of the past year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiCibwSV1ts

That didn't last long--the clip has been pulled due to Warner's copyright claim. So what movie were you referring to? You didn't mention the title.