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Little Shop is a movie I didn't discover until I was already an adult, but it never ceases to please me. There are so many wonderful cameos, and Rick Moranis and Ellen Greene are phenomenal.

I watched both versions and that inexplicable two part episode of Head Of The Class where they performed the play. I really liked all versions of this. I really wish I could have been there when they came up with the idea of writing a musical based on an b movie. I can only imagine someone being really high like "what a great idea!" and escalating beyond their control until it was done.

I love the decision-making most of all. I mean, to make the voice of Audrey II a sassy soul singer? Genius. I don't know if that's the way it is in the Broadway version but wherever that choice was made, it's great. There's decisions like that all through the movie that maybe seem super crazy, but end up working.

I definitely knew Mother Brain before Audrey II. The first time I watched this, I definitely was wracking my brain trying to figure out where I knew the voice from. So, just to confirm, everyone watched the director's cut ending right? Even if you watched the theatrical cut, the directors cut ending is available on youtube and I recommend checking it out.

I love this movie. In fact it is one of a handful of movie I own multiple DVDs. The songs are all super catchy, all the performances are top notch and perfectly cast. It's a perfect movie and musical as far as I'm concerned. I will say as a child of the 80s and Saturday morning cartoons, I don't know what I think of first when I hear Levi Stubbs, Mother Brain or Audrey II. However, seeing this on stage a few times, nobody has ever been able to live up to Levi Stubbs.

I just found this on a different website.

You made me go searching. From an NYU Teacher's Guide I found this.

From the guys who brought you such innocent classics as The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, comes this?!? We watched

This is something I think about a lot. Honestly, it's probably why I'm attracted to things like HDTGM, MST3K and Rifftrax in the first place. I love to think that there's no such thing as a bad idea. That anything can work given the right circumstances or medium. Like a lot of people, I get frustrated with all the reboots in Hollywood of successful movies. I really wish they would take old B-Movies and reboot them to work.

I realized I forgot the tagline I was going to use for the thread: "Honey, I Blew Up the Plant". Oh well.

For sure on Levi Stubbs. I have never heard him speak and I want to believe it's his normal speaking voice. It wouldn't explain why he doesn't sound like that singing, but...I just need that to be his voice.

A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? Fonzie.

That's super rad (and I'm a teensy bit jealous).

Honestly, I think the original movie is a good idea and works quite well. It's not some huge feat pushing cinema forward or some grand take on the human condition. It's kind of badly acted. It doesn't look great. But I think it achieves everything it set out to do. I think it's genuinely funny in parts. It's creepy in parts. That said, I'd definitely watch a remake, not of the musical, but a horror movie. Less comedy. Lean into the psychology of this. The bones of a genuinely good, creepy story are here. A Twilight Zone/Alfred Hitchcock Presents feel. You could potentially tweak it to have Stanley be creepier mediocre instead of a loveable loser but that might make the whole thing fall apart. Does anyone know if the original was a well known movie before the musical? I've always thought it was a largely forgotten b movie revived by the musical and being an early Jack Nicholson movie.

I actually got a chance to work on this movie, shot in Ireland, and it was such a great experience. Loved meeting Will Forte, and everyone who worked on it was lovely. It turned out really well. Glad people are enjoying it!

I'm not expecting much out of life, just for all of my dreams to come true and my life to be perfect. As long as that happens I'll be happy.

If my theory was correct and we made it to the other side, the catchphrase should be wrapping up right abooout...wait for it. Waaait for it.

A wine expert is referred to as “a sommelier” while a vodka expert is called “an alcoholic”.

Posting this recent review of Money Plane because I love these Red Letter Media dopes: Every birthday cake should have fire crackers on them.

Hard to know which would be the more enjoyable movie for them to watch in honor of the late great Wilford Brimley, between this, Hard Target, and Cocoon there are plenty of solid options.

The Monticello website actually has a fact check about how Thomas Jefferson never shot anyone on the White House lawn and that the only source for that rumor is this movie! It's now called the Rodney Cox myth. https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/execution-white-house-lawn

This movie was a crime against style. No one looked good. Travolta has that landing strip on his face, side highlights, AND A BERET . He goes on about how "clothes make the man" while he's out here looking like a Men's Warehouse reject. High Jackman is playing golf in a bright orange loincloth and has the shittiest earring I ever did see. Poor Halle Berry looks like THAT (IS a goddess not of this world) and they put her in the most God awful fabrics known to man. That blue blousey number?! Did the costume designer just hate everyone on set? I'm not even going to touch on the daughter's clothes

About Hugh Jackman's towel. (Which was a formative moment for young Elektra). I believe it is a sarong or a longyi, kind of what surfers wear--which is super in character for a hacker nerd. This was only Hugh Jackman's third American film. So if they had an ending like the Prestige, then it would've been the Prestige that copied Swordfish, I guess. (Except Prestige was based on a book that was published before this so it would've been Prestige copied by Swordfish which was copied by the Prestige.) Very meta. I remember very little of this movie but I have some memories of the press tour. It was all about how Halle Berry got paid extra to show her boobs. And I remember and interview with Hugh Jackman where he was very impressed by John Travolta's knowledge of food. Here is a disturbing video that I never got out of my head: ETA: the other thing. To Jason’s point that Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman seemed to know each other. ... they do. They just did X-Men together! And it was such a traumatic experience (see link) so maybe they are just relieved to see the other one survived and forgot to act. Quote: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/bryan-singers-traumatic-x-men-set-movie-created-a-monster-1305081

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This movie isn't really good with money. When Ginger gives the hacker the cash, we can clearly see there is only 4 packs of bills each marker $10,000, yet Ginger says it's $100,000. At the other extreme, in order for $400 million to grow to $9.5 billion in 15 years, it would have to collect interest at an average annual rate of 23%. If it grew at the actual rate of inflation, it would have ended out around $650 million.