Cinco DeNio

I tried to watch the movie. I really don't understand what Tom Selleck and androids have to do with Joan Jett.

So sorry to hear that!

I'll be in and out for the next few days. (I know! Impressive!) Heading to Michigan for the funeral of a childhood-and-since friend who passed unexpectedly on Friday. Also keep my boss Rob in your thoughts. His dad passed away on August 24th and his mom yesterday. I don't know what from.

Take a really famous rocker, an actor known for being a somewhat nice guy, make him swear and them both clash with each other and their parents. We watched I'm glad Joan Jett was relegated to third billing. She hogged the spotlight, away from the real star.

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

It is available on DVD but that's about it. I couldn't resist making the joke.

It's not available. In other words, I can't get no Satisfaction.

I wanted to find an out-of-the way poster. The more common poster (or cover art) is below. I missed it in my original search but there is another poster that also mainly features Michael J. Fox.

I like watching game shows on the BUZZR channel. One thing they've been showing is the Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour. Recently Leonard Frey has been on there. I couldn't place the name, face, or voice, until Monday. He was Motel the Tailor in Fiddler on the Roof! Fiddler was in 1971 and the game show was in the early 80's. (Unfortunately he passed away in 1988 at age 49 from AIDS-related complications.

OK, this is quite the milestone! With great power comes great responsibility. SlidePocket, whatya got?

David Byrne's American Utopia Broadway show will be on HBO next month.

I forgot to mention some cameos and a notable appearance in another movie. 1) Danny John-Jules (Cat in Red Dwarf, Dwayne in Death in Paradise, a bartender in Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels) is a Doo-Wop Singer during "Da-Doo" (explaining where the plant came from). He's on the left of the group. 2) Miriam Margolyes (Professor Sprout, the groped landlady in The Apple) is the dentist's nurse who leaves when Bill Murray is waiting. 3) Two actors from the 1960 movie, Jackie Joseph (Audrey) and Dick Miller (the customer who eats flowers) are Mr. and Mrs. Futterman in Gremlins.

Speaking of Hamilton, I found out this weekend that Daveed Diggs (Lafayette/Jefferson) and Jasmine Cephas Jones (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds) are in Blindspotting. I bought the movie a year or more ago because the premise sort of interested me and it got decent reviews. I have never watched it but it is definitely on my list for this week.

OK, it's "Laugh at Cinco DeNio" day. I watched the movie The Crossing this weekend, about (duh) George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River on Christmas Day, 1776. (The "spot" is less than two hours away from me. They recreate the crossing every year.) During the movie there is a soldier named Alex that Washington dispatches at various points to communicate to other officers. At one point Alex and another soldier surprise and massacre four Hessian soldiers in a guardhouse to prevent them sounding the alarm about Washington's invasion. It wasn't until the cast list came up that I realized "Alex" was Alexander Hamilton!!! How stupid am I?! I've only watched Hamilton how many times and Alexander becomes Washington's secretary? Geez...

As for the director's cut ending, I'm wondering if that's more the style of the original musical. They didn't have Mean Green Mother from Outer Space so that "cinematic" ending would be more of a punch to an audience physically walking out of a theater. Adding it to the movie after the addition of Mean Green was too much. (Sorry for the spate of posts. I had a bad few days adjusting to a better way of eating so I'm catching up now.)

"Here he is folks, the Leader of the Plaque" tickles me every time and makes the show a winner. Howard Ashman certainly had a way with words.

Here's an article from The Decider talking about why the movie works well. Who would have thought Fozzie Bear could make a movie with such humor? Fozzie's jokes weren't "funny".

I completely agree about the practical effects. I would go so far as to say they look better in HD quality. I can't say that for most movies, even more modern ones. I admit to being tainted by HDTGM. I was so sure the movie makers pulled a Streets of Fire and draped an outside area so scenes could be shot irregardless of the sun. Later it was obvious it was a set, especially when it rains but the Doo-Wop Girls don't get wet until they step out into the street. Even then it doesn't seem like they get very wet. Very good compositing? (GIF from Tumblr)

I can't find anything other than it was a slow build. Roger Corman didn't even think it would be a success so he didn't copyright it. That's why it's in the public domain now and you can find various copies of it floating around. It was shown on TV here and there throughout the 60's and 70's and became a cult following. When home video took off the covers featured Jack Nicholson to gather interest since he was a known star. When I first discovered Death Race 2000, I read Roger Corman's claim that all his movies were profitable so I guess this did well enough.

THANK YOU! That's what I was trying to figure out how to say but couldn't so I didn't. Now that I saw it I like (love?) the idea of Audrey dying, Seymour feeding her and then dying himself. In the original movie Audrey doesn't die but Seymour does, climbing into Audrey Jr. with a hatchet (or axe) to kill Audrey Jr. from the inside. He's successful and the movie ends. If they had ended the movie musical after Seymour I would have been happy with that. I certainly understand buying multiple discs to have both endings and I would agree with doing that. Several streaming services (HBO Max, Vudu, Movies Anywhere, at least) allow both with one subscription, rental, or purchase but you don't physically own anything. I'm getting away from streaming and going back to physical discs. All you own with a streaming is a license. You're counting on them not pulling the movie because their license ran out, or them losing the data that you own the license (as happened with me with iTunes when I had to switch my AppleID to a new e-mail address). Physical is best again. Sorry, I didn't mean to rant. I'll wipe the spittle from my mouth and go back to work.

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