Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

[JWBear]

I love Mildred Pierce! Eve has some great lines. "When men get around me, they get allergic to wedding rings."

My favorite hedonistic quote comes from that movie (but it's not one of Eve's). "I loaf, in a decorative and highly charming manner..."

[Gemini Cricket]

New Toy Story 3 trailer

"Nice ascot."
lol

I really want to see this one now.

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by JWBear

I love Mildred Pierce! Eve has some great lines. "When men get around me, they get allergic to wedding rings."

My favorite hedonistic quote comes from that movie (but it's not one of Eve's). "I loaf, in a decorative and highly charming manner..."

Zachary Scott was hot and had a way with dialogue, too. Mildred Pierce is a great movie, and not merely for Joan (who is too soapy for me, until she she slaps the vicious Veda). It's the satellites that surround her, the many parts that sum up this movie. Jack Carson is always wonderful, too and tosses off a few great lines.

Eve Arden flirting with the mousy accountant, bwahahaha, rowr.

[flippyshark]

By now, you may have run across the rumor thatUniversal is considering a remake of JAWS in 3D, with Tracey Morgan in the role of Matt Hooper. That sounds absurd, and my gut feeling is that it's just as untrue as the direct-to-video JAWS 5 rumor of a couple of years ago.

That said, I really, really, really, really want them to do a spectacular shark movie in high quality 3D - not a lame ass comedy (so please, no Tracey Morgan - who is wearing thin with me, as is 30 Rock, sadly) - I want to see a balls-to-the-wall, scary as hell 3D shark movie. Sequel, remake, not part of the Jaws franchise at all, whatever - heck, I'm first in line to buy a ticket if they do Steve Alten's MEG. But please, not a comedy.

[CoasterMatt]

Jaws 3 was a fine piece of comedy

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

Jaws 3 was a fine piece of comedy

Jaws 3 puts me to sleep. Even the shark scenes move at a snail's pace. And the would-be 3D optical effects are just atrocious. Even the monumentally stupid Jaws: The Revenge has more entertainment value, even if only as WTF fodder.

There are plenty of cheap-ass shark movies to go around, and I watch most of 'em. They mostly rehash the basic plot of Jaws, or they follow the MEG formula. (There's a giant research facility - someone finds a megalodon tooth that isn't a fossil and hypothesizes about the presence of a surviving meg, invariably, this person brings up the coelecanth - 'We thought IT was extinct, but then we found one!" - someone mentions that sharks don't get cancer, so maybe they are the key to a cure - the meg attacks various big boats, submarines and, of course, the big high tech facility, hero fights shark in a mini-sub. I've seen this story many times now.) These elements are trotted out with clockwork predictability in most of the silly Scyfy (yeesh) Channel movies and direct to DVD extravaganzas.

As it happens, I am writing three (count 'em three) shark stories - none of them takes place at a small town beach resort or a high tech facility. I challenged myself to come up with at least three shark concepts that avoid the cliches. I'm thinking of vanity-publishing them if I get them done. (They take a backseat to the Christmas-themed piece I've been hacking away at for four years now.)

Ah, sharks.

[Alex]

I've never cared for Tracey Morgan (even on 30 Rock) but I saw the red band trailer for his new movie with Bruce Willis and not only did it make the movie look more appealing (the green band trailer was awful) but actually made me like him a little bit more.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex

I've never cared for Tracey Morgan (even on 30 Rock) but I saw the red band trailer for his new movie with Bruce Willis and not only did it make the movie look more appealing (the green band trailer was awful) but actually made me like him a little bit more.

Dang, you're right. I've been really excited about this movie as I've been hearing Kevin Smith talk about it through its production, but was totally disappointed by the ads I've seen. Just watched the red band and yeah, much much better.

[flippyshark]

Oof! Put me down as having the opposite response to the red band Cop Out trailer. I'm pretty hot and cold with Kevin Smith, but one thing I just don't get (and I realize this makes me unhip) is his obsession with dick jokes. (And I realize that if I say anything further about that, I'll be setting up a dick joke.)

Between this and the red band trailer for Kick Ass, it looks like children saying over-the-top obscenities and behaving violently is the edgy comedy-trope-du-jour. It's Paper Moon and Bad News Bears all over again, except much more harsh. (And in the case of Kick Ass, I have to admit, pretty damn funny.) Oh, I'm sounding like such an old man.

[Gemini Cricket]

I had a lot of computer work to do today as I make up hours at my old job. So, being the only one in the office, I decided to play Gone with the Wind on one of the computers near me just for noise. I noticed a couple of things that I find interesting:

Rhett proposes to Scarlett in the same room where her husband's funeral just occurred, possibly on the same day. That's so awful and in character for both of them. Love it.

The "David Copperfield" reading scene is one of my favorites. The editing in that scene is great for back then.

It totally makes sense why Rhett loves Bonnie so much. She's the one person in the movie (besides Belle) that loves him. And yet even that is in question as she's always talking about her pony and a doll in a couple of scenes.

Interesting that Scarlett and Ashley are caught together but only Scarlett gets blamed for what happened.

I seem to remember in the book that Scarlett gets married a day before Melanie... I could be wrong...

In the scene where Scarlett's sisters are picking cotton, Scarlett enters the shot and we hear "Too bad about that!" but her lips aren't moving.